100 Greatest Movie Heroes

Character (Actor) - Movie Title (Year)

1. Atticus Finch
(Gregory Peck) - To Kill A Mockingbird (1962)

2. James Bond
(Sean Connery) - Dr. No (1962)

3. Indiana Jones
(Harrison Ford) - Raiders Of The Lost Ark (1981)

4. Rick Blaine
(Humphrey Bogart) - Casablanca (1942)

5. Oskar Schindler
(Liam Neeson) - Schindler's List (1993)

6. T.E. Lawrence
(Peter O'Toole) - Lawrence Of Arabia (1962)

7. Will Kane
(Gary Cooper) - High Noon (1952)

8. George Bailey
(James Stewart) - It's A Wonderful Life (1946)

9. Moses
(Charlton Heston) - The Ten Commandments (1956)

10. Mahatma Gandhi
(Ben Kingsley) - Gandhi (1982)

11. Jefferson Smith
(James Stewart) - Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (1939)

12. Terry Malloy
(Marlon Brando) - On The Waterfront (1954)

13. Shane
(Alan Ladd) - Shane (1953)

14. Rocky Balboa
(Sylvester Stallone) - Rocky (1976)

15. Juror #8 / Mr. Davis
(Henry Fonda) - 12 Angry Men (1957)

16. Ellen Ripley
(Sigourney Weaver) - Aliens (1986)

17. Tom Joad
(Henry Fonda) - The Grapes Of Wrath (1940)

18. Han Solo
(Harrison Ford) - Star Wars (1977)

19. Norma Rae Webster
(Sally Field) - Norma Rae (1979)

20. Spartacus
(Kirk Douglas) - Spartacus (1960)

21. Robin Hood
(Errol Flynn) - The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938)

22. Alvin C. York
(Gary Cooper) - Sergeant York (1941)

23. Virgil Tibbs
(Sidney Poitier) - In The Heat Of The Night (1967)

24. Joan of Arc
(Ingrid Bergman) - Joan of Arc (1948)

25. Detective Harry Callahan
(Clint Eastwood) - Dirty Harry (1971)

26. Clarice Starling
(Jodie Foster) - The Silence Of The Lambs (1991)

27. William Wallace
(Mel Gibson) - Braveheart (1995)

28. Superman / Clark Kent
(Christopher Reeve) - Superman (1978)

29. Erin Brockovich
(Julia Roberts) - Erin Brockovich (2000)

30. Detective John McClane
(Bruce Willis) - Die Hard (1988)

31. Annie Sullivan
(Anne Bancroft) - The Miracle Worker (1962)

32. Henry "Lou" Gehrig
(Gary Cooper) - The Pride Of The Yankees (1942)

33. Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
(Robert Redford / Dustin Hoffman) - All The President's Men (1976)

34. Lucas "Luke" Jackson
(Paul Newman) - Cool Hand Luke (1967)

35. Philip Marlowe
(Humphrey Bogart) - The Big Sleep (1946)

36. Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn
(John Wayne) - True Grit (1969)

37. Ben "Obi-Wan" Kenobi
(Alec Guinness) - Star Wars (1977)

38. Father Edward J. Flanagan
(Spencer Tracy) - Boys Town (1938)

39. The Tramp
(Charlie Chaplin) - City Lights (1931)

40. Lassie
(Pal) - Lassie Come Home (1943)

41. General George Patton
(George C. Scott) - Patton (1970)

42. Mr. Chips
(Arthur Chipping) (Robert Donat) - Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)

43. Karen Silkwood
(Meryl Streep) - Silkwood (1983)

44. Frank Serpico
(Al Pacino) - Serpico (1973)

45. Zorro
(Don Diego De Vega) (Tyrone Power) - The Mark Of Zorro (1940)

46. Ben-Hur
(Charlton Heston) - Ben-Hur (1959)

47. Batman / Bruce Wayne
(Michael Keaton) - Batman (1989)

48. Tarzan
(Johnny Weissmuller) - Tarzan The Ape Man (1932)

49. Emiliano Zapata
(Marlon Brando) - Viva Zapata! (1952)

50. T-800
(Arnold Schwarzenegger) - Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)

51. Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle
(Gene Hackman) - The French Connection (1971)

52. Marge Gunderson
(Frances McDormand) - Fargo (1996)

53. Billy Costigan
(Leonardo DiCaprio) - The Departed (2006)

54. Roy Hobbs
(Robert Redford) - The Natural (1984)

55. Captain John H. Miller
(Tom Hanks) - Saving Private Ryan (1998)

56. Sister Helen Prejean
(Susan Sarandon) - Dead Man Walking (1995)

57. Luke Skywalker
(Mark Hamill) - Star Wars (1977)

58. Forrest Gump
(Tom Hanks) - Forrest Gump (1994)

59. Stanley Kowalsky
(Marlon Brando) - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

60. Abraham Lincoln
(Henry Fonda) - Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)

61. Lt. John W. Dunbar
(Kevin Costner) - Dances With Wolves (1990)

62. Private Witt
(James Caviezel) - The Thin Red Line (1998)

63. Paul Rusesabagina
(Don Cheadle) - Hotel Rwanda (2004)

64. Joe Miller
(Denzel Washington) - Philadelphia (1993)

65. Wilm Hosenfeld
(Thomas Kretschmann) - The Pianist (2002)

66. Malcom X / Malcom Little
(Denzel Washington) - Malcolm X (1992)

67. Steve Biko
(Denzel Washington) - Cry Freedom (1987)

68. Hawkeye
(Daniel Day-Lewis) - The Last Of The Mohicans (1992)

69. John Book
(Harrison Ford) - Witness (1985)

70. Eliot Ness
(Kevin Costner) - The Untouchables (1987)

71. General Maximus Decimus Meridus
(Russell Crowe) - Gladiator (2000)

72. Ethan Hunt
(Tom Cruise) - Mission: Impossible (1996)

73. Randle McMurphy
(Jack Nicholson) - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

74. Daniel Lai Iijsso
(Ralph Macchio) - The Karate Kid (1984)

75. Jim Lovell
(Tom Hanks) - Apollo 13 (1995)

76. Col. Davy Crockett
(John Wayne) - The Alamo (1960)

77. Coach Don Haskins
(Josh Lucas) - Glory Road (2006)

78. Ron Kovic
(Tom Cruise) - Born On The Fourth Of July (1989)

79. Captain James T. Kirk
(William Shatner) - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982)

80. Jack Traven
(Keanu Reeves) - Speed (1994)

81. Dr. Richard Kimbel
(Harrison Ford) - The Fugitive (1993)

82. Jeffrey Wigand
(Russell Crowe) - The Insider (1999)

83. Sanjuro Kuwabatake
(Toshiro Mifune) - Yojimbo (1961)

84. Trip
(Denzel Washington) - Glory (1989)

85. Jim Garrison
(Kevin Costner) - JFK (1991)

86. Neo
(Keanu Reeves) - The Matrix (1999)

87. Tony Stark
(Robert Downey, Jr.) - Iron Man (2008) / Iron Man 2 (2010)

88. Rudy Ruettiger
(Sean Astin) - Rudy (1993)

89. Captain Davenport
(Howard E. Rollins, Jr.) - A Soldiers's Story (1984)

90. Andy Dufresne
(Tim Robbins) - The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

91. Andrew Beckett
(Tom Hanks) - Philadelphia (1993)

92. John Shaft
(Richard Roundtree) - Shaft (1971)

93. Chesley Sullenberger
(Tom Hanks) - Sully (2016)

94. William Munny
(Clint Eastwood) - Unforgiven (1992)

95. Liu Jian
(Jet Li) - Kiss of the Dragon (2001)

96. Celie
(Whoopi Goldberg) - The Color Purple (1985)

97. Aragorn
(Viggo Mortensen) - The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (2001)

98. Rebecca Morgan
(Cicely Tyson) - Sounder (1972)

99. Spider-Man
(Toby Maguire) - Spider-Man 2 (2004)

100. John J. Rambo
(Sylvester Stallone) - Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)