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Favorite Characters - Nominees
Topic Started: Aug 15 2015, 02:53 AM (3,513 Views)
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That's it! Ten submitters, 177 nominees. Now comes the hard part.

Posted below is the list of 177. Out of this list you will choose your 20 favorite characters. And you will rank them. I sincerely hope that everyone's ranked list will be different, even if only slightly, from their nominee list. For me, the really interesting thing to see is who all you will rank 1, 2, 3 (all of whom should have a decent shot of making the final consensus list. I expect a few ties also. Lists will be due by Monday, September 6.

Here is your final list of nominees:

Addison DeWitt (George Sanders) – All About Eve (Mr. Jiggy)
Alex DeLarge (Malcolm McDowell) – A Clockwork Orange (Dirt)
Anaοs Pingot (Anaοs Reboux) – Fat Girl (Maxime)
Andy Dufresne (Tim Robbins) – The Shawshank Redemption (Karim)
Antoine Doinel (Jean-Pierre Lιaud) – The 400 Blows (Aaron, Maxime)
Anton Chigurh (Javier Bardem) – No Country for Old Men (Conty)
Apu (Subir Banerjee, Smaran Ghosal, Soumitra Chatterjee) – The Apu Trilogy (Aaron)
Arthur Jensen (Ned Beatty) – Network (Conty)
Atticus Finch (Gregory Peck) – To Kill A Mockingbird (Dirt)
Audrey II (voiced by Levi Stubbs) – Little Shop of Horrors (Russ)
Balthazar (various donkeys) – Au Hasard Balthazar (Yancy)
Barry (Eric Bogosian) – Talk Radio (Conty)
The Beast (Jean Marais) – Beauty and the Beast (both versions) (Aaron)
Ben (Duane Jones) – Night of the Living Dead (Conty)
Bill Roberts (George Bancroft) – The Docks of New York (Maxime)
Blake (Alec Baldwin) – Glengarry Glenn Ross (Conty)
Brigid O’Shaughnessy (Mary Astor) – The Maltese Falcon (Guy)
Bugs Bunny (voiced by Mel Blanc) – What’s Opera, Doc? (Guy)
Can of mixed vegetables (voice of Jon Benjamin) – Wet Hot American Summer (Yancy)
Capt. Henri Rochard (Cary Grant) – I Was a Male War Bride (Maxime)
Captain Louis Renault (Claude Rains), Casablanca (Kid C)
Carol (Catherine Deneuve) – Repulsion (Aaron)
Cat (Wang Qizan) – A Brighter Summer Day (Russ)
Catherine the Great (Tallulah Bankhead) – A Royal Scandal (Russ)
Celine and Julie (Juliet Berto, Dominique Labourier) – Celine and Julie Go Boating (Kid C)
Chernabog (Chernabog) – Fantasia (Dirt)
Charles Plumpick (Alan Bates) – King of Hearts (Karim)
Clive Candy/Colonel Blimp (Roger Livesey) – The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (Aaron)
Coffin Joe (Josι Mojica Marins) – At Midnight I’ll Take Your Soul (Kid C)
Cody Jarrett (James Cagney) – White Heat (Mr. Jiggy)
Cosmo Brown (Donald O’Conner) – Singin’ in the Rain (Kid C)
Cyrus (Roger Hill) – The Warriors (Conty)
Daffy Duck (voice of Mel Blanc) – Duck Amuck, Duck Dogers in the 24 1/2 Century (Yancy, Dirt)
Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) – There Will Be Blood (Guy, Kid C)
Delbert Grady (Philip Stone) – The Shining (Conty)
D'Hubert and Fιraud (Keith Carradine, Harvey Keitel Fιraud) – The Duellists (Maxime)
Dixon Steele (Humphrey Bogart) – In a Lonely Place (Guy)
Dolemite (Rudy Ray Moore) – The Human Tornado (Russ)
Don Lope de Aguirre (Klaus Kinski) – Aguirre, the Wrath Of God (Kid C)
Dr. Frankenstein (Gene Wilder) – Young Frankenstein (Conty)
Dr. Sam Loomis (Donald Pleasance) – Halloween (Conty)
Dr. Strangelove (Peter Sellers) – Dr. Strangelove (Dirt)
The Dude (Jeff Bridges) – The Big Lebowski (Guy)
Duff Anderson (Ivan Dixon) – Nothing But a Man (Russ)
Ed Bloom - Senior (Albert Finney) – Big Fish (Karim)
Egbert Floud (Charles Ruggles) – Ruggles of Red Gap (Yancy)
Elisabet Vogler (Liv Ullmann) – Persona (Aaron)
Ellen Berent Harland (Gene Tierney) – Leave Her to Heaven (Conty)
Emily (Geraldine Chaplin) – Remember My Name (Maxime)
Emily Prime (voiced by Winona Mae) – World of Tomorrow (Russ)
Esther Kahn (Summer Phoenix) – Esther Kahn (Maxime)
Fanny Minafer (Agnes Moorehead) – The Magnificent Ambersons (Guy)
Farmer Arthur H. Hoggett – Babe (Conty)
Fletcher (J.K. Simmons) – Whiplash (Karim)
Frances (Greta Gerwig) – Frances Ha (Conty)
Frank Booth (Dennis Hopper) – Blue Velvet (Mr. Jiggy)
Fred C. Dobbs Humphrey Bogart) – The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (Mr. Jiggy
Frederick J. Frenger Jr. (Alec Baldwin) – Miami Blues (Maxime)
Frιdιrick Lemaξtre (Pierre Brasseur) – Children of Paradise (Aaron)
Gandalf (Ian McKellen) – The Lord of the Rings (Dirt)
George Grisby (Glenn Anders) – The Lady from Shanghai (Yancy)
Gerd Wiesler (Ulrich Mόhe) – The Lives of Others (Karim)
Glenn Holland (Richard Dreyfuss) – Mr. Holland's Opus (Karim)
Grand Duke Peter (Sam Jaffe) – The Scarlet Empress (Yancy)
Groovin’ Gary/Groovin’ Larry (Gary/Sean Penn/Crispin Glover) – The Beaver Trilogy (Russ)
Guido (Roberto Benigni) – Life is Beautiful (Karim)
Gwendolen Chelm (Jennifer Jones) – Beat the Devil (Guy)
HAL 9000 (voice of Douglas Rain) – 2001: A Space Odyssey (Yancy)
Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman) – Die Hard (Kid C)
Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) – Inglourious Basterds (Yancy)
Harold Bissonette (W.C. Fields) – It’s A Gift (Russ, Dirt, Guy)
Harold ‘Speedy’ Swift (Harold Lloyd) – Speedy (Aaron)
Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) – The Conversation (Karim)
Harry Fabioan (Richard Widmark0 – Night and the City (Mr. Jiggy)
Harry Lime (Orson Welles as Harry Lime) – The Third Man (Yancy)
Harry Powell (Robert Mitchum) – The Night of the Hunter (Mr. Jiggy)
Henry Chinaski (Mickey Rourke) – Barfly (Conty)
Henry Drummond (Spencer Tracy) – Inherit the Wind (Russ)
Henry Graham (Walter Matthau) – A New Leaf (Mr. Jiggy)
Henry Spencer (Jack Nance) – Eraserhead (Dirt)
Horace Femm (Ernest Thesiger) – The Old Dark House (Yancy)
Hilts 'The Cooler King' (Steve McQueen) – The Great Escape (Dirt)
Hud Bannon (Paul Newman) – Hud (Mr. Jiggy)
Hussar Biswambhar Roy (Chhabi Biswas) – The Music Room (Guy)
Insurance Salesman (guy looking for Carl La Fong) (T. Roy Barnes) – It’s a Gift (Yancy)
J.J. Hunsecker (Burt Lancaster) – Sweet Smell of Success (Conty, Guy, Mr. Jiggy)
Jackie Brown (Pam Grier) – Jackie Brown (Maxime)
Jim Wilson (Robert Ryan) – On Dangerous Ground (Mr. Jiggy)
Jean/Eve (Barbara Stanwyck) – The Lady Eve (Mr. Jiggy, Guy)
Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (Karim)
Jerry Mitchell (Casey Siemaszko) – Three O'Clock High (Karim)
Jesminder Bhamra (Parminder Nagra) – Bend It Like Beckham (Karim)
Jesse and Celine (Ethan Hawke, Julie Delp) – “Before” Trilogy (Aaron)
Jesus Quintana (John Turturro) – The Big Lebowski (Russ)
Joel Cairo (Peter Lorre) – The Maltese Falcon (Guy)
John Smith (Norman Rose) – The Telephone Book (Yancy)
Johnny (David Thewlis) – Naked (Maxime)
The Joker (Heath Ledger) – The Dark Knight (Kid C, Russ)
Jon Savage (Philip Seymour Hoffman) – The Savages (Karim)
Large Marge (Alice Nunn) – Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure (Russ)
Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore (Robert Duval) – Apocalypse Now (Russ)
Lili Von Shtupp (Madeline Kahn) – Blazing Saddles (Russ)
Linda (linda Manz) – Days of Heaven (Maxime)
Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman) – Unforgiven (Mr. Jiggy)
Long John Silver (Wallace Beery) – Treasure Island (Dirt)
Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) – Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Guy)
Loulou (Gιrard Depardieu) – Loulou (Maxime)
Lucia Harper and Martin Donnelly (Joan Bennett, James Mason) – The Reckless Moment (Maxime)
Lucien Lacombe )Pierre Blaise) – Lacombe, Lucien (Aaron)
Lulu (Louise Brooks) – Pandora's Box (Maxime)
M. Gustave (Ralph Fiennes) – The Grand Budapest Hotel (Guy)
Maj. Calloway (Trevor Howard) – The Third Man (Kid C)
Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroiaani) – La Dolce Vita (Aaron)
Margo Channing (Bette Davis) – All About Eve (Guy)
Maria ‘Cabiria’ Ceccarelli (Giulieta Masina) – Nights of Cabiria (Guy, Mr. Jiggy)
Marge Gunderson (Frances McDormand), Fargo (Kid C)
Mary Poppins (Julie Andrews) – Mary Poppins (Dirt)
Mason (Tilda Swinton) – Snowpiercer (Yancy)
Maurice Legrand (Michel Simon) – La chienne (Maxime)
Max (Mel Gibson) – Mad Max (Dirt)
Max (Jean Gabin) – Touchez pas au Grisbi (Maxime)
Max Cherry (Robert Forster) – Jackie Brown (Conty, Mr. Jiggy)
Max Fischer (Jason Schwartman) – Rushmore (Conty, Guy, Mr. Jiggy)
Melanie Daniels (Tippi Hedren) – The Birds (Maxime)
Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) – As Good As It Gets (Karim)
Michael Sullivan Jr. (Tyler Hoechlin) – Road to Perdition (Karim)
Mike Schank (self) – An American Movie (Russ)
Minnie Castavet (Ruth Gordon) – Rosemary’s Baby (Mr. Jiggy)
Mr. Chips (Robert Donat) – Goodbye Mr. Chips (Dirt)
Mr. Creosote (Terry Jones) – Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life (Russ)
Mr. Matuschek (Frank Morgan) – The Shop Around the Corner (Guy)
Mr. T (Robert Hooks) – Trouble Man (Yancy)
Monsieur Hulot Jacques Tati) – Play Time, Mon Uncle (Russ, Aaron)
The Monster (Boris Karloff) – Frankenstein (Yancy)
Musashi Miyamoto (Toshirτ Mifune) – Samurai Trilogy (Aaron)
Musidora (Irma Vep) – Les Vampires (Kid C)
Nick Charles (William Powell) – The Thin Man (Dirt)
Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) – Sunset Blvd. (Russ)
Novalyne Price (Renee Zellweger) – The Whole Wide World (Karim)
Nurse Ratched (Louise Fletcher) – One Flew Over the Cockoo’s Nest (Russ)
Old Lodge Skins (Chief Dan George) – Little Big Man (Russ)
Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore) – Twentieth Century (Maxime)
Peachy Carnehan (Michael Cain) – The Man Who Would Be King (Dirt)
Pee-wee Herman (Paul Reubens) – Pee-wee's big adventure (Dirt, Karim)
Petra von Kant (Margit Carstensen) – The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant (Aaron)
Phil (Bill Murray) – Groundhog Day (Conty)
Poppy (Sally Hawkins) – Happy-Go-Lucky (Mr. Jiggy)
Quasimodo (Charles Laughton) – The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Dirt)
Queeqqueg (Friedrich von Ledebur) – Moby Dick (Dirt)
Qui Ju (Gong Li) – The Story of Qui Ju (Yancy)
Reed Rothchild (John C. Reilly) – Boogie Nights (Mr. Jiggy)
Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) – Alien (Conty)
Robert Cole (Albert Brooks) – Modern Romance (Yancy)
Roy Batty – (Rutger Hauer) – Blade Runner (Dirt)
Sanjuro Kuwabatake / The Samurai (Toshiro Mifune) – Yojimbo and Sanjuro (Mr. Jiggy, Aaron)
Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathborne) – Hound of the Baskervilles (Dirt)
Shinji Ikari (Mgumi Ogata) – Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion (Kid C)
Simon Grim (James Urbaniak) – Henry Fool (Karim)
Sitterson and Hadley (Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford) – The Cabin In The Woods (Kid C)
Stalker (Aleksandr Kaydanovskly) – Stalker (Kid C)
Stephen Blume (George Segal) – Blume in Love (Maxime)
Tracy Flick (Reese Witherspoon) – Election (Guy)
Sylvia Scarlett (Katherine Hepburn) Sylvia Scarlett (Maxime)
A Tramp (Charlie Chaplin) – City Lights (Yancy, Aaron)
Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) – Taxi Driver (Conty)
Travis Henderson (Harry Dean Stanton) – Paris Texas (Aaron)
Umberto Domenico Ferrari (Carlo Battisti) – Umberto D (Aaron, Conty)
Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotton) – Shadow of a Doubt (Mr. Jiggy)
Valentine (Irθne Jacob) – Three Colors: Red (Aaron)
Wade ‘Cry-Baby’ Walker (Johnny Depp) – Cry-Baby (Kid C)
Walter (Richard Jenkins) – The Visitor (Karim)
Walter Burns (Cary Grant) – His Girl Friday (Guy)
Whip Whitaker (Denzel Washington) – Flight (Karim)
Yancy Skibo (Mickey Rooney) – Operation Mad Ball (Yancy)
Youth (Daniel Breaker) – Passing Strange (Karim)
Yukie Yagihara (Setsuko Hara) – No Regrets for Our Youth (Yancy)
Zatoichi (Shintarτ Katsu)– “All the Zatoichi movies” (Aaron)
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Fun fact: Care to guess which director's films provided the highest number of nominees? (and it wasn't even close)
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I'm going to say Kubrick, though Tarantino jumps to mind as well...
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Kubrick was tied with one other at four. Two behind the leader. (see Karim, I'm using golfspeak!)
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After all.....
Ooo Oooo....I know this one....gimme a second. Let's see...he's a male right? And Caucasian, right? Oh dang it...it's right on the tip of my tongue. Gimme a minute....
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Oh, you're so close.
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John Huston. 3 of the nominees were mine.
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Russ
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That's a bingo!

Surprised me a bit. Doesn't seem like he's held in quite as high a regard as some of his more illustrious contemporaries (Hitchcock, Hawks, Wilder), but boy, do we sure love his characters.

I was also surprised a little by the relatively low count of characters from classic Westerns, especially given the fans of the genre that I know we have on this forum.
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I know it's my own fault for not contributing, but the two most grievous omissions are Ethan Edwards (The Searchers) and H.I. McDunnough (Raising Arizona). I will participate in the ranking round!
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Russ,Aug 21 2015
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I was also surprised a little by the relatively low count of characters from classic Westerns, especially given the fans of the genre that I know we have on this forum.

I thought about either Stumpy or Dude from Rio Bravo, but I guess they canceled each other out.

But if I'd thought of him, I would have included Walter Brennan's Judge Roy Bean from The Westerner.
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Nick Charles (Dick Powell) – The Thin Man (Dirt)

William Powell, of course. Although I'm sure Dick would've given it his best shot.
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Oops. Heh heh. Thanks for the correction. And thanks for the ranked list! VERY interesting. I can't wait to see how it all shakes out.
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After all.....
Sorry about the Powell thing...that was my slip up.

Another major slip up, from me, is not including Frank in my list. I'm not sure if he would get a ton of support but damn...

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A Ryan Seacrest type.
Was kind of surprised this guy wasn't nominated: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1012434/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1
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After all.....
and this guy

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