AFI's 100 YEARS...100 HEROES & VILLAINS
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The American Film Institute proudly curates lists to celebrate excellence in the art form. We believe their greatest impact is to inspire personal, passionate discussions about what makes a great film and why and, also, to chart the evolution of the art form. Since its inception, American film has marginalized the diversity of voices that make our nation and its stories strong – and these lists reflect that intolerable truth. AFI acknowledges its responsibility in curating these lists that has reinforced this marginality and looks forward to releasing new lists that will embrace our modern day and drive culture forward.
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Heroes
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Cast: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton
Directors: Robert Mulligan
Producer: Alan J. Pakula
Writer: Horton Foote
Editor: Aaron Stell, J. Terry Williams
Cinematographer: Russell Harlan
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Pakula-Mulligan Productions, Inc., Brentwood Productions, Inc.
Composer: Elmer Bernstein
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Frank Marshall, George Lucas, Howard Kazanjian
Writer: Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, Philip Kaufman
Editor: Michael Kahn
Cinematographer: Douglas Slocombe
Genre: Adventure
Production Company: Lucasfilm, Ltd.
Composer: John Williams [composer]
Dr. No (1963)
Cast: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman
Directors: Terence Young
Producer: Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli
Writer: Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, Berkely Mather
Editor: Peter Hunt
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Eon Productions, Ltd.
Composer: Monty Norman
Casablanca (1942)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Directors: Michael Curtiz
Producer: Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis
Writer: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch
Editor: Owen Marks
Cinematographer: Arthur Edeson
Genre: Romance
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Composer: Max Steiner
High Noon (1952)
Cast: Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges
Directors: Fred Zinnemann
Writer: Carl Foreman
Editor: Harry Gerstad, Elmo Williams
Cinematographer: Floyd Crosby
Genre: Western
Production Company: Stanley Kramer Productions, Inc.
Composer: Dimitri Tiomkin
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
Directors: Jonathan Demme
Producer: Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman, Gary Goetzman
Writer: Ted Tally
Editor: Craig McKay
Cinematographer: Tak Fujimoto
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Strong Heart Productions
Composer: Howard Shore
Rocky (1976)
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young
Directors: John G. Avildsen
Producer: Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff, Gene Kirkwood
Writer: Sylvester Stallone
Editor: Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad
Cinematographer: James Crabe
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Chartoff-Winkler Productions, Inc.
Composer: Bill Conti
Aliens (1986)
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser
Directors: James Cameron
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd, Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill
Writer: James Cameron, James Cameron, David Giler, Walter Hill
Editor: Ray Lovejoy
Cinematographer: Adrian Biddle
Genre: Science fiction
Production Company: Brandywine, Twentieth Century Fox Productions Ltd
Composer: James Horner
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Directors: Frank Capra
Producer: Frank Capra
Writer: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra
Editor: William Hornbeck
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker, Joseph Biroc, Victor Milner
Genre: Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Production Company: Liberty Films, Inc.
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Directors: David Lean
Producer: Sam Spiegel, David Lean
Writer: Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson
Editor: Anne V. Coates
Cinematographer: F. A. Young
Genre: Adventure, Biography
Production Company: Horizon Pictures (G.B.), Ltd.
Composer: Maurice Jarre
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Cast: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains
Directors: Frank Capra
Producer: Frank Capra
Writer: Sidney Buchman, Lewis R. Foster
Editor: Gene Havlick, Al Clark
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker
Genre: Comedy-drama
Production Company: Columbia Pictures Corp.
Composer: Dimitri Tiomkin
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine
Directors: John Ford
Writer: Nunnally Johnson
Editor: Robert Simpson
Cinematographer: Gregg Toland
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
Composer: Alfred Newman
Schindler's List (1993)
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig, Kathleen Kennedy
Writer: Steve Zaillian
Editor: Michael Kahn
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Amblin Entertainment
Composer: John Williams [composer]
Star Wars (1977)
Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Directors: George Lucas
Producer: Gary Kurtz, George Lucas
Writer: George Lucas
Editor: Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew, John Jympson
Cinematographer: Gilbert Taylor
Genre: Adventure, Science fiction
Production Company: Lucasfilm, Ltd.
Composer: John Williams [composer]
Norma Rae (1979)
Cast: Sally Field, Ron Leibman, Beau Bridges
Directors: Martin Ritt
Producer: Tamara Asseyev, Alex Rose
Writer: Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr.
Editor: Sidney Levin
Cinematographer: John Alonzo
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
Composer: David Shire
Shane (1953)
Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin
Directors: George Stevens
Producer: George Stevens
Writer: A. B. Guthrie Jr.
Editor: William Hornbeck, Tom McAdoo
Cinematographer: Loyal Griggs
Genre: Western
Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp.
Composer: Victor Young
Dirty Harry (1971)
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni
Directors: Don Siegel
Producer: Robert Daley, Clint Eastwood, Don Siegel
Writer: Harry Julian Fink, R. M. Fink, Dean Reisner, Harry Julian Fink, R. M. Fink
Editor: Carl Pingitore
Cinematographer: Bruce Surtees
Genre: Drama
Production Company: The Malpaso Company
Composer: Lalo Schifrin
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone
Directors: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Producer: Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis
Writer: Norman Reilly Raine, Seton I. Miller
Editor: Ralph Dawson
Cinematographer: Tony Gaudio, Sol Polito
Genre: Adventure
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Composer: Erich Wolfgang Korngold
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
Directors: Norman Jewison
Producer: Walter Mirisch
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
Editor: Hal Ashby
Cinematographer: Haskell Wexler
Genre: Drama
Production Company: The Mirisch Corp.
Composer: Quincy Jones
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
Directors: George Roy Hill
Producer: John Foreman, Paul Newman, Paul Monash
Writer: William Goldman
Editor: John C. Howard, Richard C. Meyer
Cinematographer: Conrad L. Hall
Genre: Comedy-drama, Western
Production Company: Campanile Productions, Inc.
Composer: Burt Bacharach
Gandhi (1982)
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Rohini Hattangadi, Roshan Seth
Directors: Richard Attenborough
Producer: Richard Attenborough
Writer: John Briley
Editor: John Bloom
Cinematographer: Ron Taylor, Billy Williams
Genre: Biography
Production Company: Goldcrest Films, International Film Investors, National Film Development Corporation of India, Indo-British Films
Composer: Ravi Shankar
Spartacus (1960)
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Directors: Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Mann
Producer: Kirk Douglas, Edward Muhl, Edward Lewis
Writer: Dalton Trumbo
Editor: Robert Lawrence
Cinematographer: Russell Metty
Genre: Epic
Production Company: Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc., Bryna Productions, Inc.
Composer: Alex North
On the Waterfront (1954)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Directors: Elia Kazan
Producer: Sam Spiegel
Writer: Budd Schulberg
Editor: Gene Milford
Cinematographer: Boris Kaufman
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Horizon-American Pictures, Inc..
Composer: Leonard Bernstein
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Cast: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel
Directors: Ridley Scott, Bobby Bass
Producer: Ridley Scott, Mimi Polk
Writer: Callie Khouri
Editor: Thom Noble
Cinematographer: Adrian Biddle
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Production Company: Pathe Entertainment
Composer: Hans Zimmer
The Pride of the Yankees (1943)
Cast: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth
Directors: Sam Wood
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Writer: Jo Swerling, Herman J. Mankiewicz
Editor: Daniel Mandell
Cinematographer: Rudolph Maté
Genre: Biography
Production Company: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc.
Composer: Leigh Harline
Superman (1978)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve
Directors: Richard Donner
Producer: Pierre Spengler, Ilya Salkind
Writer: Mario Puzo, David Newman, Leslie Newman, Robert Benton, Mario Puzo
Editor: Stuart Baird, Michael Ellis
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth
Genre: Adventure
Production Company: Dovemead, Ltd., International Film Production Inc.
Composer: John Williams [composer]
All the President's Men (1976)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden
Directors: Alan J. Pakula
Producer: Walter Coblenz
Writer: William Goldman
Editor: Robert L. Wolfe
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Wildwood Enterprises, Inc.
Composer: David Shire
12 Angry Men (1957)
Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
Directors: Sidney Lumet
Producer: Henry Fonda, Reginald Rose
Writer: Reginald Rose
Editor: Carl Lerner
Cinematographer: Boris Kaufman
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Orion-Nova Productions
Composer: Kenyon Hopkins
Patton (1970)
Cast: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates
Directors: Franklin J. Schaffner
Producer: Frank McCarthy
Writer: Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North
Editor: Hugh S. Fowler
Cinematographer: Fred Koenekamp
Genre: Biography
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J. D. Cannon
Directors: Stuart Rosenberg
Producer: Gordon Carroll
Writer: Donn Pearce, Frank Pierson
Editor: Sam O'Steen
Cinematographer: Conrad L. Hall
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Jalem Productions, Inc.
Composer: Lalo Schifrin
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Cast: Julia Roberts, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick
Directors: Steven Soderbergh
Producer: Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, John Hardy, Carla Santos Shamberg
Writer: Susannah Grant
Editor: Anne V. Coates
Cinematographer: Ed Lachman
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Universal Pictures , Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Jersey Films
Composer: Thomas Newman
The Big Sleep (1946)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
Directors: Howard Hawks
Producer: Jack L. Warner
Writer: William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman
Editor: Christian Nyby
Cinematographer: Sid Hickox
Genre: Film noir
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Composer: Max Steiner
Fargo (1996)
Cast: Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare
Directors: Joel Coen
Producer: Ethan Coen
Writer: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Editor: Roderick Jaynes
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
Genre: Comedy-drama, Mystery
Production Company: Working Title Films
Composer: Carter Burwell
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Cast: Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith, Maureen O'Sullivan
Directors: W. S. Van Dyke
Writer: Cyril Hume
Editor: Ben Lewis, Tom Held
Cinematographer: Harold Rosson, Clyde De Vinna
Genre: Adventure
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Sergeant York (1941)
Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie
Directors: Howard Hawks
Producer: Jesse L. Lasky, Hal B. Wallis
Writer: Abem Finkel, Harry Chandlee, Howard Koch, John Huston
Editor: William Holmes
Cinematographer: Sol Polito
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Composer: Max Steiner
True Grit (1969)
Cast: John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby
Directors: Henry Hathaway
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Writer: Marguerite Roberts
Editor: Warren Low
Cinematographer: Lucien Ballard
Genre: Western
Production Company: Hal Wallis Productions , Paramount Pictures Corp.
Composer: Elmer Bernstein
Star Wars (1977)
Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Directors: George Lucas
Producer: Gary Kurtz, George Lucas
Writer: George Lucas
Editor: Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew, John Jympson
Cinematographer: Gilbert Taylor
Genre: Adventure, Science fiction
Production Company: Lucasfilm, Ltd.
Composer: John Williams [composer]
City Lights (1931)
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee
Directors: Charles Chaplin
Writer: Charles Chaplin
Editor: Charles Chaplin
Cinematographer: Rollie Totheroh, Gordon Pollock, Mark Marklatt
Genre: Comedy-drama
Production Company: Charles Chaplin Productions
Composer: Charles Chaplin
Lassie Come Home (1943)
Cast: Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Dame May Whitty
Directors: Fred M. Wilcox
Producer: Samuel Marx, Harry Rapf
Writer: Hugo Butler
Editor: Ben Lewis
Cinematographer: Leonard Smith, Charles P. Boyle
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Composer: Daniele Amfitheatrof
Serpico (1973)
Cast: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe
Directors: Sidney Lumet
Producer: Martin Bregman
Writer: Waldo Salt, Norman Wexler
Editor: Dede Allen
Cinematographer: Arthur J. Ornitz
Genre: Drama
Production Company: De Laurentiis International Manufacturing Company S.p.A., Artists Entertainments Complex, Inc.
Composer: Mikis Theodorakis
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Cast: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn
Directors: Sam Wood
Producer: Victor Saville
Writer: R. C. Sherriff, Claudine West, Eric Maschwitz
Editor: Charles Frend
Cinematographer: F. A. Young
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Composer: Louis Levy
Boys Town (1938)
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull
Directors: Norman Taurog
Producer: John W. Considine Jr., Orville O. Dull
Writer: John Meehan, Dore Schary
Editor: Elmo Veron
Cinematographer: Sidney Wagner
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
Composer: Edward Ward
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Cast: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter
Directors: Cecil B. DeMille
Producer: Cecil B. DeMille
Writer: Aeneas MacKenzie, Jesse Lasky Jr., Jack Gariss, Fredric M. Frank
Editor: Anne Bauchens
Cinematographer: Loyal Griggs
Genre: Epic
Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp.
Composer: Elmer Bernstein
The French Connection (1971)
Cast: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider
Directors: William Friedkin
Producer: G. David Schine, Philip D'Antoni
Writer: Ernest Tidyman
Editor: Jerry Greenberg
Cinematographer: Owen Roizman
Genre: Drama
Production Company: D'Antoni Productions, Inc.
Composer: Don Ellis
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Cast: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone
Directors: Rouben Mamoulian
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Writer: John Taintor Foote, Garrett Fort, Bess Meredyth
Editor: Robert Bischoff
Cinematographer: Arthur Miller
Genre: Adventure
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
Composer: Alfred Newman
Batman (1989)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger
Directors: Tim Burton
Producer: Jon Peters, Peter Guber, Benjamin Melniker, Michael E. Uslan
Writer: Sam Hamm, Warren Skaaren, Sam Hamm
Editor: Ray Lovejoy
Cinematographer: Roger Pratt
Genre: Adventure
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures , Guber-Peters Company, PolyGram Pictures
Composer: Danny Elfman
Silkwood (1983)
Cast: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher
Directors: Mike Nichols
Producer: Mike Nichols, Michael Hausman, Buzz Hirsch, Larry Cano
Writer: Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen
Editor: Sam O'Steen
Cinematographer: Miroslav Ondricek
Genre: Drama
Production Company: ABC Motion Pictures
Composer: Georges Delerue
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick
Directors: James Cameron
Producer: James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd
Writer: James Cameron, William Wisher
Editor: Conrad Buff, Mark Goldblatt, Richard A. Harris
Cinematographer: Adam Greenberg, Mike Benson
Genre: Adventure, Science fiction
Production Company: Carolco, Pacific Western , Lightstorm Entertainment
Composer: Brad Fiedel
Philadelphia (1993)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards
Directors: Jonathan Demme
Producer: Edward Saxon, Jonathan Demme, Gary Goetzman, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman
Writer: Ron Nyswaner
Editor: Craig McKay
Cinematographer: Tak Fujimoto
Genre: Drama
Production Company: TriStar Pictures , Clinica Estetico
Composer: Howard Shore
Gladiator (2000)
Cast: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen
Directors: Ridley Scott
Producer: Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, Branko Lustig, Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald
Writer: David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson, David Franzoni
Editor: Pietro Scalia
Cinematographer: John Mathieson
Genre: Epic
Production Company: Scott Free Productions
Composer: Hans Zimmer
Villains
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
Directors: Jonathan Demme
Producer: Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman, Gary Goetzman
Writer: Ted Tally
Editor: Craig McKay
Cinematographer: Tak Fujimoto
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Strong Heart Productions
Composer: Howard Shore
Psycho (1960)
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Directors: Alfred Hitchco*ck
Producer: Alfred Hitchco*ck
Writer: Joseph Stefano
Editor: George Tomasini
Cinematographer: John L. Russell
Genre: Horror
Production Company: Shamley Productions, Inc.
Composer: Bernard Herrmann
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Directors: Irvin Kershner, Harley co*kliss, John Barry, Peter MacDonald
Producer: Gary Kurtz, George Lucas
Writer: Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas
Editor: Paul Hirsch
Cinematographer: Peter Suschitzky, Chris Menges, Geoff Glover
Genre: Science fiction
Production Company: Chapter II Company (Star Wars Corp.), Lucasfilm Limited
Composer: John Williams [composer]
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
Directors: Victor Fleming, King Vidor
Producer: Mervyn LeRoy
Writer: Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, Noel Langley
Editor: Blanche Sewell
Cinematographer: Harold Rosson
Genre: Fantasy, Musical
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Cast: Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco, Dean R. Brooks
Directors: Milos Forman
Producer: Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas
Writer: Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman
Editor: Lynzee Klingman, Sheldon Kahn
Cinematographer: Haskell Wexler
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Fantasy Films
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Directors: Frank Capra
Producer: Frank Capra
Writer: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra
Editor: William Hornbeck
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker, Joseph Biroc, Victor Milner
Genre: Comedy-drama, Fantasy
Production Company: Liberty Films, Inc.
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Cast: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer
Directors: Adrian Lyne
Producer: Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing
Writer: James Dearden
Editor: Michael Kahn, Peter E. Berger
Cinematographer: Howard Atherton
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Jaffe/Lansing Productions
Composer: Maurice Jarre
Double Indemnity (1944)
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Directors: Billy Wilder
Producer: B. G. DeSylva, Joseph Sistrom
Writer: Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler
Editor: Doane Harrison
Cinematographer: John F. Seitz
Genre: Film noir
Production Company: Paramount Pictures, Inc.
Composer: Miklos Rozsa
The Exorcist (1973)
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb
Directors: William Friedkin
Producer: William Peter Blatty, Noel Marshall
Writer: William Peter Blatty
Editor: Bud Smith, Evan Lottman, Norman Gay
Cinematographer: Owen Roizman, Billy Williams
Genre: Horror
Production Company: Hoya Productions, Inc.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Cast: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille LaVerne
Producer: Walt Disney
Writer: Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Rickard, Earl Hurd, Merrill De Maris, Dorothy Ann Blank, Webb Smith
Genre: Musical
Production Company: Walt Disney Productions, Ltd.
Composer: Frank Churchill
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Cast: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Robert Evans, Francis Ford Coppola
Writer: Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo
Editor: Richard Marks
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
Genre: Drama
Production Company: The Coppola Company
Composer: Nino Rota
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: Stanley Kubrick, Max L. Raab, Si Litvinoff
Writer: Stanley Kubrick
Editor: Bill Butler
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Production Company: Hawks Films Limited, Polaris Productions, Inc.
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke
Editor: Ray Lovejoy
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth
Genre: Science fiction
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.
Alien (1979)
Cast: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright
Directors: Ridley Scott
Producer: Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill, Ronald Shusett
Writer: Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett
Editor: Terry Rawlings, Peter Weatherley
Cinematographer: Derek Vanlint
Genre: Science fiction
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
Schindler's List (1993)
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig, Kathleen Kennedy
Writer: Steve Zaillian
Editor: Michael Kahn
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Amblin Entertainment
Composer: John Williams [composer]
Chinatown (1974)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
Directors: Roman Polanski
Producer: Robert Evans
Writer: Robert Towne
Editor: Sam O'Steen
Cinematographer: John Alonzo, Stanley Cortez
Genre: Mystery, Romance
Production Company: Long Road Productions, Inc.
Composer: Jerry Goldsmith
Misery (1990)
Cast: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Frances Sternhagen
Directors: Rob Reiner
Producer: Andrew Scheinman, Rob Reiner
Writer: William Goldman
Editor: Robert Leighton
Cinematographer: Barry Sonnenfeld
Genre: Horror
Production Company: Castle Rock Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment
Composer: Marc Shaiman
Jaws (1975)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown, William S. Gilmore Jr.
Writer: Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb
Editor: Verna Fields
Cinematographer: Bill Butler
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Universal Pictures , Zanuck/Brown Company
Composer: John Williams [composer]
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris
Directors: Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed
Producer: Aaron Rosenberg
Writer: Charles Lederer, Eric Ambler, William L. Driscoll, Borden Chase, John Gay, Ben Hecht
Editor: John McSweeney Jr.
Cinematographer: Robert Surtees
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Arcola Pictures Corp.
Composer: Bronislau Kaper
Bambi (1942)
Cast: Peter Behn, Hardie Albright, Ann Gillis
Writer: Larry Morey, George Stallings, Melvin Shaw, Carl Fallberg, Chuck Couch, Ralph Wright
Genre: Children's works
Production Company: Walt Disney Productions
Composer: Frank Churchill
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh
Directors: John Frankenheimer
Producer: George Axelrod, John Frankenheimer, Howard W. Koch
Writer: George Axelrod
Editor: Ferris Webster, Carl Mahakian
Cinematographer: Lionel Lindon
Genre: Drama
Production Company: M. C. Productions
The Terminator (1984)
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton
Directors: James Cameron
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd, John Daly, Derek Gibson
Writer: James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd
Editor: Mark Goldblatt
Cinematographer: Adam Greenberg, Chuck Colwell
Genre: Science fiction
Production Company: Hemdale Productions
Composer: Brad Fiedel
All About Eve (1950)
Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
Directors: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Writer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Editor: Barbara McLean
Cinematographer: Milton Krasner
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
Composer: Alfred Newman
Wall Street (1987)
Cast: Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah
Directors: Oliver Stone
Producer: Edward R. Pressman
Writer: Stanley Weiser, Oliver Stone
Editor: Claire Simpson
Cinematographer: Robert Richardson
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, American Entertainment Partners L.P.
The Shining (1980)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: Stanley Kubrick, Jan Harlan
Writer: Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson
Editor: Ray Lovejoy
Cinematographer: John Alcott
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Hawk Films Ltd.
White Heat (1949)
Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
Directors: Raoul Walsh
Producer: Louis F. Edelman
Writer: Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts
Editor: Owen Marks
Cinematographer: Sid Hickox
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
Composer: Max Steiner
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Cast: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne
Directors: Byron Haskin
Producer: George Pal
Writer: Barré Lyndon
Editor: Everett Douglas
Cinematographer: George Barnes
Genre: Science fiction
Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp.
Composer: Leith Stevens
Cape Fear (1962)
Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
Directors: J. Lee Thompson
Producer: Sy Bartlett
Writer: James R. Webb
Editor: George Tomasini
Cinematographer: Sam Leavitt
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Melville-Talbot Productions
Composer: Bernard Herrmann
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Directors: Charles Laughton
Producer: Paul Gregory
Writer: James Agee, Charles Laughton
Editor: Robert A. Golden
Cinematographer: Stanley Cortez
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Paul Gregory Productions
Composer: Walter Schumann
Taxi Driver (1976)
Cast: Robert DeNiro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks
Directors: Martin Scorsese
Producer: Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips
Writer: Paul Schrader
Editor: Tom Rolf, Melvin Shapiro
Cinematographer: Michael Chapman
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Bill/Phillips Productions, Italo-Judeo
Composer: Bernard Herrmann
Rebecca (1940)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Directors: Alfred Hitchco*ck
Producer: David O. Selznick
Writer: Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison, Barbara Keon, Philip MacDonald, Michael Hogan
Editor: Hal C. Kern
Cinematographer: George Barnes
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Selznick International Pictures, Inc.
Composer: Franz Waxman
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
Directors: Arthur Penn
Producer: Warren Beatty
Writer: David Newman, Robert Benton
Editor: Dede Allen
Cinematographer: Burnett Guffey
Genre: Biography, Drama
Production Company: Tatira-Hiller Productions
Composer: Charles Strouse
Dracula (1931)
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners
Directors: Tod Browning
Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr.
Editor: Milton Carruth
Cinematographer: Karl Freund
Genre: Horror
Production Company: Universal Pictures Corp.
Marathon Man (1976)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider
Directors: John Schlesinger
Producer: Robert Evans, Sidney Beckerman
Writer: William Goldman
Editor: Jim Clark
Cinematographer: Conrad L. Hall
Genre: Drama
Composer: Michael Small
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison
Directors: Alexander Mackendrick
Producer: James Hill, Harold Hecht, Burt Lancaster, James Hill, Tony Curtis
Writer: Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman
Editor: Alan Crosland Jr.
Cinematographer: James Wong Howe
Genre: Film noir
Production Company: Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, Norma-Curtleigh Productions
Blue Velvet (1986)
Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper
Directors: David Lynch
Producer: Fred Caruso, Richard Roth
Writer: David Lynch
Editor: Duwayne Dunham
Cinematographer: Frederick Elmes
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Blue Velvet Productions
Composer: Angelo Badalamenti
The Third Man (1949)
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Valli, Orson Welles
Directors: Carol Reed
Producer: Carol Reed
Writer: Graham Greene
Editor: Oswald Hafenrichter
Cinematographer: Robert Krasker
Genre: Adventure
Production Company: London Film Productions, Ltd.
Little Caesar (1931)
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell
Directors: Mervyn LeRoy
Writer: Francis Edwards Faragoh
Editor: Ray Curtiss
Cinematographer: Tony Gaudio
Genre: Drama
Production Company: First National Pictures, Inc.
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
Cast: Rod Taylor, J. Pat O'Malley, Betty Lou Gerson
Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton S. Luske, Clyde Geronimi
Writer: William Peed
Editor: Donald Halliday, Roy M. Brewer Jr.
Genre: Comedy
Production Company: Walt Disney Productions
Composer: George Bruns
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Cast: John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp
Directors: Wes Craven
Producer: Robert Shaye, Stanley Dudelson, Joseph Wolf
Writer: Wes Craven
Editor: Rick Shaine
Cinematographer: Jacques Haitkin
Genre: Horror
Production Company: New Line Cinema , Media Home Entertainment, Inc., Smart Egg Pictures
Composer: Charles Bernstein
Mommie Dearest (1981)
Cast: Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Steve Forrest
Directors: Frank Perry
Producer: Frank Yablans, David Koontz, Terence O'Neill
Writer: Frank Yablans, Frank Perry, Tracy Hotchner, Robert Getchell
Editor: Peter E. Berger
Cinematographer: Paul Lohmann
Genre: Biography, Melodrama
Production Company: Frank Yablans Presentation, Inc., Dunaway/O'Neill Associates, Inc.
Composer: Henry Mancini
The Public Enemy (1931)
Cast: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods
Directors: William A. Wellman
Writer: Kubec Glasmon, John Bright, Harvey Thew
Editor: Edward M. McDermott
Cinematographer: Dev Jennings
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
The Little Foxes (1941)
Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright
Directors: William Wyler
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Writer: Lillian Hellman
Editor: Daniel Mandell
Cinematographer: Gregg Toland
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc.
Composer: Meredith Willson
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
Directors: Robert Aldrich
Producer: Robert Aldrich, Kenneth Hyman
Writer: Lukas Heller
Editor: Michael Luciano
Cinematographer: Ernest Haller
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Associates & Aldrich Co., Inc.
Composer: Frank De Vol
Batman (1989)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger
Directors: Tim Burton
Producer: Jon Peters, Peter Guber, Benjamin Melniker, Michael E. Uslan
Writer: Sam Hamm, Warren Skaaren, Sam Hamm
Editor: Ray Lovejoy
Cinematographer: Roger Pratt
Genre: Adventure
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures , Guber-Peters Company, PolyGram Pictures
Composer: Danny Elfman
Die Hard (1988)
Cast: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov
Directors: John McTiernan
Producer: Lawrence Gordon, Joel Silver, Charles Gordon
Writer: Jeb Stuart, Steven E. de Souza
Editor: Frank J. Urioste, John F. Link
Cinematographer: Jan de Bont
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Gordon Company , Silver Pictures
Composer: Michael Kamen
Scarface (1932)
Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley
Directors: Howard Hawks
Writer: Ben Hecht, Fred Pasley
Editor: Edward Curtiss
Cinematographer: Lee Garmes, L. W. O'Connell
Genre: Drama
Production Company: The Caddo Co., Inc.
Composer: Adolph Tandler
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Cast: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro
Directors: Bryan Singer
Producer: Bryan Singer, Michael McDonnell
Writer: Christopher McQuarrie
Editor: John Ottman
Cinematographer: Newton Thomas Sigel
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Blue Parrot
Composer: John Ottman
Goldfinger (1964)
Cast: Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman
Directors: Guy Hamilton
Producer: Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli
Writer: Richard Maibaum, Paul Dehn
Editor: Peter Hunt
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Production Company: Danjaq, S. A., Eon Productions, Ltd.
Composer: John Barry
Training Day (2001)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn
Directors: Antoine Fuqua
Producer: Jeffrey Silver, Bobby Newmyer
Writer: David Ayer
Editor: Conrad Buff
Cinematographer: Mauro Fiore
Genre: Drama
Production Company: Training Day Productions
Composer: Mark Mancina
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Heroes
1. Atticus Finch
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Cast: Gregory Peck, John Megna, Frank Overton
Directors: Robert Mulligan
Producer: Alan J. Pakula
Writer: Horton Foote
Editor: Aaron Stell, J. Terry Williams
Cinematographer: Russell Harlan
Production Company: Pakula-Mulligan Productions, Inc., Brentwood Productions, Inc.
2. Indiana Jones
Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Cast: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Frank Marshall, George Lucas, Howard Kazanjian
Writer: Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas, Philip Kaufman
Editor: Michael Kahn
Cinematographer: Douglas Slocombe
Production Company: Lucasfilm, Ltd.
3. James Bond
Dr. No (1963)
Cast: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman
Directors: Terence Young
Producer: Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli
Writer: Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, Berkely Mather
Editor: Peter Hunt
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
Production Company: Eon Productions, Ltd.
4. Rick Blaine
Casablanca (1942)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid
Directors: Michael Curtiz
Producer: Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis
Writer: Julius J. Epstein, Philip G. Epstein, Howard Koch
Editor: Owen Marks
Cinematographer: Arthur Edeson
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
5. Will Kane
High Noon (1952)
Cast: Gary Cooper, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges
Directors: Fred Zinnemann
Writer: Carl Foreman
Editor: Harry Gerstad, Elmo Williams
Cinematographer: Floyd Crosby
Production Company: Stanley Kramer Productions, Inc.
6. Clarice Starling
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
Directors: Jonathan Demme
Producer: Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman, Gary Goetzman
Writer: Ted Tally
Editor: Craig McKay
Cinematographer: Tak Fujimoto
Production Company: Strong Heart Productions
7. Rocky Balboa
Rocky (1976)
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young
Directors: John G. Avildsen
Producer: Irwin Winkler, Robert Chartoff, Gene Kirkwood
Writer: Sylvester Stallone
Editor: Richard Halsey, Scott Conrad
Cinematographer: James Crabe
Production Company: Chartoff-Winkler Productions, Inc.
8. Ellen Ripley
Aliens (1986)
Cast: Sigourney Weaver, Michael Biehn, Paul Reiser
Directors: James Cameron
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd, Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill
Writer: James Cameron, James Cameron, David Giler, Walter Hill
Editor: Ray Lovejoy
Cinematographer: Adrian Biddle
Production Company: Brandywine, Twentieth Century Fox Productions Ltd
9. George Bailey
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Directors: Frank Capra
Producer: Frank Capra
Writer: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra
Editor: William Hornbeck
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker, Joseph Biroc, Victor Milner
Production Company: Liberty Films, Inc.
10. T. E. Lawrence
Lawrence of Arabia (1962)
Cast: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn
Directors: David Lean
Producer: Sam Spiegel, David Lean
Writer: Robert Bolt, Michael Wilson
Editor: Anne V. Coates
Cinematographer: F. A. Young
Production Company: Horizon Pictures (G.B.), Ltd.
11. Jefferson Smith
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Cast: Jean Arthur, James Stewart, Claude Rains
Directors: Frank Capra
Producer: Frank Capra
Writer: Sidney Buchman, Lewis R. Foster
Editor: Gene Havlick, Al Clark
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker
Production Company: Columbia Pictures Corp.
12. Tom Joad
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine
Directors: John Ford
Writer: Nunnally Johnson
Editor: Robert Simpson
Cinematographer: Gregg Toland
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
13. Oskar Schindler
Schindler's List (1993)
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig, Kathleen Kennedy
Writer: Steve Zaillian
Editor: Michael Kahn
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
Production Company: Amblin Entertainment
14. Han Solo
Star Wars (1977)
Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Directors: George Lucas
Producer: Gary Kurtz, George Lucas
Writer: George Lucas
Editor: Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew, John Jympson
Cinematographer: Gilbert Taylor
Production Company: Lucasfilm, Ltd.
15. Norma Rae Webster
Norma Rae (1979)
Cast: Sally Field, Ron Leibman, Beau Bridges
Directors: Martin Ritt
Producer: Tamara Asseyev, Alex Rose
Writer: Irving Ravetch, Harriet Frank Jr.
Editor: Sidney Levin
Cinematographer: John Alonzo
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
16. Shane
Shane (1953)
Cast: Alan Ladd, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin
Directors: George Stevens
Producer: George Stevens
Writer: A. B. Guthrie Jr.
Editor: William Hornbeck, Tom McAdoo
Cinematographer: Loyal Griggs
Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp.
17. Harry Callahan
Dirty Harry (1971)
Cast: Clint Eastwood, Harry Guardino, Reni Santoni
Directors: Don Siegel
Producer: Robert Daley, Clint Eastwood, Don Siegel
Writer: Harry Julian Fink, R. M. Fink, Dean Reisner, Harry Julian Fink, R. M. Fink
Editor: Carl Pingitore
Cinematographer: Bruce Surtees
Production Company: The Malpaso Company
18. Robin Hood
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Cast: Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone
Directors: Michael Curtiz, William Keighley
Producer: Jack L. Warner, Hal B. Wallis
Writer: Norman Reilly Raine, Seton I. Miller
Editor: Ralph Dawson
Cinematographer: Tony Gaudio, Sol Polito
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
19. Virgil Tibbs
In the Heat of the Night (1967)
Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
Directors: Norman Jewison
Producer: Walter Mirisch
Writer: Stirling Silliphant
Editor: Hal Ashby
Cinematographer: Haskell Wexler
Production Company: The Mirisch Corp.
20. Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Cast: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Katharine Ross
Directors: George Roy Hill
Producer: John Foreman, Paul Newman, Paul Monash
Writer: William Goldman
Editor: John C. Howard, Richard C. Meyer
Cinematographer: Conrad L. Hall
Production Company: Campanile Productions, Inc.
21. Gandhi
Gandhi (1982)
Cast: Ben Kingsley, Rohini Hattangadi, Roshan Seth
Directors: Richard Attenborough
Producer: Richard Attenborough
Writer: John Briley
Editor: John Bloom
Cinematographer: Ron Taylor, Billy Williams
Production Company: Goldcrest Films, International Film Investors, National Film Development Corporation of India, Indo-British Films
22. Spartacus
Spartacus (1960)
Cast: Kirk Douglas, Laurence Olivier, Jean Simmons
Directors: Stanley Kubrick, Anthony Mann
Producer: Kirk Douglas, Edward Muhl, Edward Lewis
Writer: Dalton Trumbo
Editor: Robert Lawrence
Cinematographer: Russell Metty
Production Company: Universal-International Pictures Co., Inc., Bryna Productions, Inc.
23. Terry Malloy
On the Waterfront (1954)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Karl Malden, Lee J. Cobb
Directors: Elia Kazan
Producer: Sam Spiegel
Writer: Budd Schulberg
Editor: Gene Milford
Cinematographer: Boris Kaufman
Production Company: Horizon-American Pictures, Inc..
24. Thelma Dickerson & Louise Sawyer
Thelma & Louise (1991)
Cast: Susan Sarandon, Geena Davis, Harvey Keitel
Directors: Ridley Scott, Bobby Bass
Producer: Ridley Scott, Mimi Polk
Writer: Callie Khouri
Editor: Thom Noble
Cinematographer: Adrian Biddle
Production Company: Pathe Entertainment
25. Lou Gehrig
The Pride of the Yankees (1943)
Cast: Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Babe Ruth
Directors: Sam Wood
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Writer: Jo Swerling, Herman J. Mankiewicz
Editor: Daniel Mandell
Cinematographer: Rudolph Maté
Production Company: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc.
26. Superman
Superman (1978)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Gene Hackman, Christopher Reeve
Directors: Richard Donner
Producer: Pierre Spengler, Ilya Salkind
Writer: Mario Puzo, David Newman, Leslie Newman, Robert Benton, Mario Puzo
Editor: Stuart Baird, Michael Ellis
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth
Production Company: Dovemead, Ltd., International Film Production Inc.
27. Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
All the President's Men (1976)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden
Directors: Alan J. Pakula
Producer: Walter Coblenz
Writer: William Goldman
Editor: Robert L. Wolfe
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
Production Company: Wildwood Enterprises, Inc.
28. Juror #8
12 Angry Men (1957)
Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
Directors: Sidney Lumet
Producer: Henry Fonda, Reginald Rose
Writer: Reginald Rose
Editor: Carl Lerner
Cinematographer: Boris Kaufman
Production Company: Orion-Nova Productions
29. General George Patton
Patton (1970)
Cast: George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Michael Bates
Directors: Franklin J. Schaffner
Producer: Frank McCarthy
Writer: Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North
Editor: Hugh S. Fowler
Cinematographer: Fred Koenekamp
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
30. Luke Jackson
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
Cast: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, J. D. Cannon
Directors: Stuart Rosenberg
Producer: Gordon Carroll
Writer: Donn Pearce, Frank Pierson
Editor: Sam O'Steen
Cinematographer: Conrad L. Hall
Production Company: Jalem Productions, Inc.
31. Erin Brockovich
Erin Brockovich (2000)
Cast: Julia Roberts, David Brisbin, Dawn Didawick
Directors: Steven Soderbergh
Producer: Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, John Hardy, Carla Santos Shamberg
Writer: Susannah Grant
Editor: Anne V. Coates
Cinematographer: Ed Lachman
Production Company: Universal Pictures , Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc., Jersey Films
32. Philip Marlowe
The Big Sleep (1946)
Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
Directors: Howard Hawks
Producer: Jack L. Warner
Writer: William Faulkner, Leigh Brackett, Jules Furthman
Editor: Christian Nyby
Cinematographer: Sid Hickox
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
33. Marge Gunderson
Fargo (1996)
Cast: Frances McDormand, Steve Buscemi, Peter Stormare
Directors: Joel Coen
Producer: Ethan Coen
Writer: Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Editor: Roderick Jaynes
Cinematographer: Roger Deakins
Production Company: Working Title Films
34. Tarzan
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932)
Cast: Neil Hamilton, C. Aubrey Smith, Maureen O'Sullivan
Directors: W. S. Van Dyke
Writer: Cyril Hume
Editor: Ben Lewis, Tom Held
Cinematographer: Harold Rosson, Clyde De Vinna
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
35. Alvin York
Sergeant York (1941)
Cast: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie
Directors: Howard Hawks
Producer: Jesse L. Lasky, Hal B. Wallis
Writer: Abem Finkel, Harry Chandlee, Howard Koch, John Huston
Editor: William Holmes
Cinematographer: Sol Polito
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
36. Rooster Cogburn
True Grit (1969)
Cast: John Wayne, Glen Campbell, Kim Darby
Directors: Henry Hathaway
Producer: Hal B. Wallis
Writer: Marguerite Roberts
Editor: Warren Low
Cinematographer: Lucien Ballard
Production Company: Hal Wallis Productions , Paramount Pictures Corp.
37. Obi-Wan Kenobi
Star Wars (1977)
Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Directors: George Lucas
Producer: Gary Kurtz, George Lucas
Writer: George Lucas
Editor: Paul Hirsch, Marcia Lucas, Richard Chew, John Jympson
Cinematographer: Gilbert Taylor
Production Company: Lucasfilm, Ltd.
38. The Tramp
City Lights (1931)
Cast: Charlie Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee
Directors: Charles Chaplin
Writer: Charles Chaplin
Editor: Charles Chaplin
Cinematographer: Rollie Totheroh, Gordon Pollock, Mark Marklatt
Production Company: Charles Chaplin Productions
39. Lassie
Lassie Come Home (1943)
Cast: Roddy McDowall, Donald Crisp, Dame May Whitty
Directors: Fred M. Wilcox
Producer: Samuel Marx, Harry Rapf
Writer: Hugo Butler
Editor: Ben Lewis
Cinematographer: Leonard Smith, Charles P. Boyle
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
40. Frank Serpico
Serpico (1973)
Cast: Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe
Directors: Sidney Lumet
Producer: Martin Bregman
Writer: Waldo Salt, Norman Wexler
Editor: Dede Allen
Cinematographer: Arthur J. Ornitz
Production Company: De Laurentiis International Manufacturing Company S.p.A., Artists Entertainments Complex, Inc.
41. Charles Edward Chipping
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Cast: Robert Donat, Greer Garson, Terry Kilburn
Directors: Sam Wood
Producer: Victor Saville
Writer: R. C. Sherriff, Claudine West, Eric Maschwitz
Editor: Charles Frend
Cinematographer: F. A. Young
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
42. Father Edward
Boys Town (1938)
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull
Directors: Norman Taurog
Producer: John W. Considine Jr., Orville O. Dull
Writer: John Meehan, Dore Schary
Editor: Elmo Veron
Cinematographer: Sidney Wagner
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
43. Moses
The Ten Commandments (1956)
Cast: Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter
Directors: Cecil B. DeMille
Producer: Cecil B. DeMille
Writer: Aeneas MacKenzie, Jesse Lasky Jr., Jack Gariss, Fredric M. Frank
Editor: Anne Bauchens
Cinematographer: Loyal Griggs
Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp.
44. Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle
The French Connection (1971)
Cast: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider
Directors: William Friedkin
Producer: G. David Schine, Philip D'Antoni
Writer: Ernest Tidyman
Editor: Jerry Greenberg
Cinematographer: Owen Roizman
Production Company: D'Antoni Productions, Inc.
45. Zorro
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
Cast: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone
Directors: Rouben Mamoulian
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Writer: John Taintor Foote, Garrett Fort, Bess Meredyth
Editor: Robert Bischoff
Cinematographer: Arthur Miller
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
46. Batman
Batman (1989)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger
Directors: Tim Burton
Producer: Jon Peters, Peter Guber, Benjamin Melniker, Michael E. Uslan
Writer: Sam Hamm, Warren Skaaren, Sam Hamm
Editor: Ray Lovejoy
Cinematographer: Roger Pratt
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures , Guber-Peters Company, PolyGram Pictures
47. Karen Silkwood
Silkwood (1983)
Cast: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher
Directors: Mike Nichols
Producer: Mike Nichols, Michael Hausman, Buzz Hirsch, Larry Cano
Writer: Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen
Editor: Sam O'Steen
Cinematographer: Miroslav Ondricek
Production Company: ABC Motion Pictures
48. Terminator
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Linda Hamilton, Robert Patrick
Directors: James Cameron
Producer: James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd
Writer: James Cameron, William Wisher
Editor: Conrad Buff, Mark Goldblatt, Richard A. Harris
Cinematographer: Adam Greenberg, Mike Benson
Production Company: Carolco, Pacific Western , Lightstorm Entertainment
49. Andrew Beckett
Philadelphia (1993)
Cast: Tom Hanks, Denzel Washington, Jason Robards
Directors: Jonathan Demme
Producer: Edward Saxon, Jonathan Demme, Gary Goetzman, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman
Writer: Ron Nyswaner
Editor: Craig McKay
Cinematographer: Tak Fujimoto
Production Company: TriStar Pictures , Clinica Estetico
50. General Maximus Decimus Meridus
Gladiator (2000)
Cast: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen
Directors: Ridley Scott
Producer: Douglas Wick, David Franzoni, Branko Lustig, Walter F. Parkes, Laurie MacDonald
Writer: David Franzoni, John Logan, William Nicholson, David Franzoni
Editor: Pietro Scalia
Cinematographer: John Mathieson
Production Company: Scott Free Productions
Villains
1. Dr. Hannibal Lecter
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Cast: Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins, Scott Glenn
Directors: Jonathan Demme
Producer: Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman, Gary Goetzman
Writer: Ted Tally
Editor: Craig McKay
Cinematographer: Tak Fujimoto
Production Company: Strong Heart Productions
2. Norman Bates
Psycho (1960)
Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Directors: Alfred Hitchco*ck
Producer: Alfred Hitchco*ck
Writer: Joseph Stefano
Editor: George Tomasini
Cinematographer: John L. Russell
Production Company: Shamley Productions, Inc.
3. Darth Vader
The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Cast: Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher
Directors: Irvin Kershner, Harley co*kliss, John Barry, Peter MacDonald
Producer: Gary Kurtz, George Lucas
Writer: Leigh Brackett, Lawrence Kasdan, George Lucas
Editor: Paul Hirsch
Cinematographer: Peter Suschitzky, Chris Menges, Geoff Glover
Production Company: Chapter II Company (Star Wars Corp.), Lucasfilm Limited
4. The Wicked Witch of the West
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
Cast: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger
Directors: Victor Fleming, King Vidor
Producer: Mervyn LeRoy
Writer: Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, Edgar Allan Woolf, Noel Langley
Editor: Blanche Sewell
Cinematographer: Harold Rosson
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Corp.
5. Nurse Ratched
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)
Cast: Michael Berryman, Peter Brocco, Dean R. Brooks
Directors: Milos Forman
Producer: Saul Zaentz, Michael Douglas
Writer: Lawrence Hauben, Bo Goldman
Editor: Lynzee Klingman, Sheldon Kahn
Cinematographer: Haskell Wexler
Production Company: Fantasy Films
6. Mr. Potter
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
Directors: Frank Capra
Producer: Frank Capra
Writer: Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett, Frank Capra
Editor: William Hornbeck
Cinematographer: Joseph Walker, Joseph Biroc, Victor Milner
Production Company: Liberty Films, Inc.
7. Alex Forrest
Fatal Attraction (1987)
Cast: Michael Douglas, Glenn Close, Anne Archer
Directors: Adrian Lyne
Producer: Stanley R. Jaffe, Sherry Lansing
Writer: James Dearden
Editor: Michael Kahn, Peter E. Berger
Cinematographer: Howard Atherton
Production Company: Jaffe/Lansing Productions
8. Phyllis Dietrichson
Double Indemnity (1944)
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
Directors: Billy Wilder
Producer: B. G. DeSylva, Joseph Sistrom
Writer: Billy Wilder, Raymond Chandler
Editor: Doane Harrison
Cinematographer: John F. Seitz
Production Company: Paramount Pictures, Inc.
9. Regan MacNeil
The Exorcist (1973)
Cast: Ellen Burstyn, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb
Directors: William Friedkin
Producer: William Peter Blatty, Noel Marshall
Writer: William Peter Blatty
Editor: Bud Smith, Evan Lottman, Norman Gay
Cinematographer: Owen Roizman, Billy Williams
Production Company: Hoya Productions, Inc.
10. The Queen
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Cast: Adriana Caselotti, Harry Stockwell, Lucille LaVerne
Producer: Walt Disney
Writer: Ted Sears, Richard Creedon, Otto Englander, Dick Rickard, Earl Hurd, Merrill De Maris, Dorothy Ann Blank, Webb Smith
Production Company: Walt Disney Productions, Ltd.
11. Michael Corleone
The Godfather Part II (1974)
Cast: Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton
Directors: Francis Ford Coppola
Producer: Robert Evans, Francis Ford Coppola
Writer: Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo
Editor: Richard Marks
Cinematographer: Gordon Willis
Production Company: The Coppola Company
12. Alex De Large
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: Stanley Kubrick, Max L. Raab, Si Litvinoff
Writer: Stanley Kubrick
Editor: Bill Butler
Production Company: Hawks Films Limited, Polaris Productions, Inc.
13. HAL 9000
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Cast: Keir Dullea, Gary Lockwood, William Sylvester
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: Stanley Kubrick
Writer: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke
Editor: Ray Lovejoy
Cinematographer: Geoffrey Unsworth
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Inc.
14. The Alien
Alien (1979)
Cast: Tom Skerritt, Sigourney Weaver, Veronica Cartwright
Directors: Ridley Scott
Producer: Gordon Carroll, David Giler, Walter Hill, Ronald Shusett
Writer: Dan O'Bannon, Ronald Shusett
Editor: Terry Rawlings, Peter Weatherley
Cinematographer: Derek Vanlint
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
15. Amon Goeth
Schindler's List (1993)
Cast: Liam Neeson, Ben Kingsley, Ralph Fiennes
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, Branko Lustig, Kathleen Kennedy
Writer: Steve Zaillian
Editor: Michael Kahn
Cinematographer: Janusz Kaminski
Production Company: Amblin Entertainment
16. Noah Cross
Chinatown (1974)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, John Huston
Directors: Roman Polanski
Producer: Robert Evans
Writer: Robert Towne
Editor: Sam O'Steen
Cinematographer: John Alonzo, Stanley Cortez
Production Company: Long Road Productions, Inc.
17. Annie Wilkes
Misery (1990)
Cast: James Caan, Kathy Bates, Frances Sternhagen
Directors: Rob Reiner
Producer: Andrew Scheinman, Rob Reiner
Writer: William Goldman
Editor: Robert Leighton
Cinematographer: Barry Sonnenfeld
Production Company: Castle Rock Entertainment, Nelson Entertainment
18. The Shark
Jaws (1975)
Cast: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
Directors: Steven Spielberg
Producer: Richard D. Zanuck, David Brown, William S. Gilmore Jr.
Writer: Peter Benchley, Carl Gottlieb
Editor: Verna Fields
Cinematographer: Bill Butler
Production Company: Universal Pictures , Zanuck/Brown Company
19. Captain Bligh
Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
Cast: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris
Directors: Lewis Milestone, Carol Reed
Producer: Aaron Rosenberg
Writer: Charles Lederer, Eric Ambler, William L. Driscoll, Borden Chase, John Gay, Ben Hecht
Editor: John McSweeney Jr.
Cinematographer: Robert Surtees
Production Company: Arcola Pictures Corp.
20. Man
Bambi (1942)
Cast: Peter Behn, Hardie Albright, Ann Gillis
Writer: Larry Morey, George Stallings, Melvin Shaw, Carl Fallberg, Chuck Couch, Ralph Wright
Production Company: Walt Disney Productions
21. Mrs. John Iselin
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh
Directors: John Frankenheimer
Producer: George Axelrod, John Frankenheimer, Howard W. Koch
Writer: George Axelrod
Editor: Ferris Webster, Carl Mahakian
Cinematographer: Lionel Lindon
Production Company: M. C. Productions
22. Terminator
The Terminator (1984)
Cast: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn, Linda Hamilton
Directors: James Cameron
Producer: Gale Anne Hurd, John Daly, Derek Gibson
Writer: James Cameron, Gale Anne Hurd
Editor: Mark Goldblatt
Cinematographer: Adam Greenberg, Chuck Colwell
Production Company: Hemdale Productions
23. Eve Harrington
All About Eve (1950)
Cast: Bette Davis, Anne Baxter, George Sanders
Directors: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Producer: Darryl F. Zanuck
Writer: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Editor: Barbara McLean
Cinematographer: Milton Krasner
Production Company: Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp.
24. Gordon Gekko
Wall Street (1987)
Cast: Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen, Daryl Hannah
Directors: Oliver Stone
Producer: Edward R. Pressman
Writer: Stanley Weiser, Oliver Stone
Editor: Claire Simpson
Cinematographer: Robert Richardson
Production Company: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, American Entertainment Partners L.P.
25. Jack Torrance
The Shining (1980)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Shelley Duvall, Danny Lloyd
Directors: Stanley Kubrick
Producer: Stanley Kubrick, Jan Harlan
Writer: Stanley Kubrick, Diane Johnson
Editor: Ray Lovejoy
Cinematographer: John Alcott
Production Company: Hawk Films Ltd.
26. Cody Jarrett
White Heat (1949)
Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O'Brien
Directors: Raoul Walsh
Producer: Louis F. Edelman
Writer: Ivan Goff, Ben Roberts
Editor: Owen Marks
Cinematographer: Sid Hickox
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
27. Martians
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Cast: Gene Barry, Ann Robinson, Les Tremayne
Directors: Byron Haskin
Producer: George Pal
Writer: Barré Lyndon
Editor: Everett Douglas
Cinematographer: George Barnes
Production Company: Paramount Pictures Corp.
28. Max Cady
Cape Fear (1962)
Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
Directors: J. Lee Thompson
Producer: Sy Bartlett
Writer: James R. Webb
Editor: George Tomasini
Cinematographer: Sam Leavitt
Production Company: Melville-Talbot Productions
29. Reverend Harry Powell
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
Directors: Charles Laughton
Producer: Paul Gregory
Writer: James Agee, Charles Laughton
Editor: Robert A. Golden
Cinematographer: Stanley Cortez
Production Company: Paul Gregory Productions
30. Travis Bickle
Taxi Driver (1976)
Cast: Robert DeNiro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks
Directors: Martin Scorsese
Producer: Michael Phillips, Julia Phillips
Writer: Paul Schrader
Editor: Tom Rolf, Melvin Shapiro
Cinematographer: Michael Chapman
Production Company: Bill/Phillips Productions, Italo-Judeo
31. Mrs. Danvers
Rebecca (1940)
Cast: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders
Directors: Alfred Hitchco*ck
Producer: David O. Selznick
Writer: Robert E. Sherwood, Joan Harrison, Barbara Keon, Philip MacDonald, Michael Hogan
Editor: Hal C. Kern
Cinematographer: George Barnes
Production Company: Selznick International Pictures, Inc.
32. Clyde Barrow & Bonnie Parker
Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
Directors: Arthur Penn
Producer: Warren Beatty
Writer: David Newman, Robert Benton
Editor: Dede Allen
Cinematographer: Burnett Guffey
Production Company: Tatira-Hiller Productions
33. Count Dracula
Dracula (1931)
Cast: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners
Directors: Tod Browning
Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr.
Editor: Milton Carruth
Cinematographer: Karl Freund
Production Company: Universal Pictures Corp.
34. Dr. Szell
Marathon Man (1976)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider
Directors: John Schlesinger
Producer: Robert Evans, Sidney Beckerman
Writer: William Goldman
Editor: Jim Clark
Cinematographer: Conrad L. Hall
35. J.J. Hunsecker
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
Cast: Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis, Susan Harrison
Directors: Alexander Mackendrick
Producer: James Hill, Harold Hecht, Burt Lancaster, James Hill, Tony Curtis
Writer: Clifford Odets, Ernest Lehman
Editor: Alan Crosland Jr.
Cinematographer: James Wong Howe
Production Company: Hecht-Hill-Lancaster, Norma-Curtleigh Productions
36. Frank Booth
Blue Velvet (1986)
Cast: Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper
Directors: David Lynch
Producer: Fred Caruso, Richard Roth
Writer: David Lynch
Editor: Duwayne Dunham
Cinematographer: Frederick Elmes
Production Company: Blue Velvet Productions
37. Harry Lime
The Third Man (1949)
Cast: Joseph Cotten, Valli, Orson Welles
Directors: Carol Reed
Producer: Carol Reed
Writer: Graham Greene
Editor: Oswald Hafenrichter
Cinematographer: Robert Krasker
Production Company: London Film Productions, Ltd.
38. Caesar Enrico Bandello
Little Caesar (1931)
Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell
Directors: Mervyn LeRoy
Writer: Francis Edwards Faragoh
Editor: Ray Curtiss
Cinematographer: Tony Gaudio
Production Company: First National Pictures, Inc.
39. Cruella De Vil
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)
Cast: Rod Taylor, J. Pat O'Malley, Betty Lou Gerson
Directors: Wolfgang Reitherman, Hamilton S. Luske, Clyde Geronimi
Writer: William Peed
Editor: Donald Halliday, Roy M. Brewer Jr.
Production Company: Walt Disney Productions
40. Freddy Krueger
A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984)
Cast: John Saxon, Ronee Blakley, Heather Langenkamp
Directors: Wes Craven
Producer: Robert Shaye, Stanley Dudelson, Joseph Wolf
Writer: Wes Craven
Editor: Rick Shaine
Cinematographer: Jacques Haitkin
Production Company: New Line Cinema , Media Home Entertainment, Inc., Smart Egg Pictures
41. Joan Crawford
Mommie Dearest (1981)
Cast: Faye Dunaway, Diana Scarwid, Steve Forrest
Directors: Frank Perry
Producer: Frank Yablans, David Koontz, Terence O'Neill
Writer: Frank Yablans, Frank Perry, Tracy Hotchner, Robert Getchell
Editor: Peter E. Berger
Cinematographer: Paul Lohmann
Production Company: Frank Yablans Presentation, Inc., Dunaway/O'Neill Associates, Inc.
42. Tom Powers
The Public Enemy (1931)
Cast: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods
Directors: William A. Wellman
Writer: Kubec Glasmon, John Bright, Harvey Thew
Editor: Edward M. McDermott
Cinematographer: Dev Jennings
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc.
43. Regina Giddens
The Little Foxes (1941)
Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright
Directors: William Wyler
Producer: Samuel Goldwyn
Writer: Lillian Hellman
Editor: Daniel Mandell
Cinematographer: Gregg Toland
Production Company: Samuel Goldwyn Productions, Inc.
44. Baby Jane Hudson
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
Directors: Robert Aldrich
Producer: Robert Aldrich, Kenneth Hyman
Writer: Lukas Heller
Editor: Michael Luciano
Cinematographer: Ernest Haller
Production Company: Associates & Aldrich Co., Inc.
45. The Joker
Batman (1989)
Cast: Jack Nicholson, Michael Keaton, Kim Basinger
Directors: Tim Burton
Producer: Jon Peters, Peter Guber, Benjamin Melniker, Michael E. Uslan
Writer: Sam Hamm, Warren Skaaren, Sam Hamm
Editor: Ray Lovejoy
Cinematographer: Roger Pratt
Production Company: Warner Bros. Pictures , Guber-Peters Company, PolyGram Pictures
46. Hans Gruber
Die Hard (1988)
Cast: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov
Directors: John McTiernan
Producer: Lawrence Gordon, Joel Silver, Charles Gordon
Writer: Jeb Stuart, Steven E. de Souza
Editor: Frank J. Urioste, John F. Link
Cinematographer: Jan de Bont
Production Company: Gordon Company , Silver Pictures
47. Tony Camonte
Scarface (1932)
Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley
Directors: Howard Hawks
Writer: Ben Hecht, Fred Pasley
Editor: Edward Curtiss
Cinematographer: Lee Garmes, L. W. O'Connell
Production Company: The Caddo Co., Inc.
48. Verbal Kint
The Usual Suspects (1995)
Cast: Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio Del Toro
Directors: Bryan Singer
Producer: Bryan Singer, Michael McDonnell
Writer: Christopher McQuarrie
Editor: John Ottman
Cinematographer: Newton Thomas Sigel
Production Company: Blue Parrot
49. Auric Goldfinger
Goldfinger (1964)
Cast: Sean Connery, Gert Fröbe, Honor Blackman
Directors: Guy Hamilton
Producer: Harry Saltzman, Albert R. Broccoli
Writer: Richard Maibaum, Paul Dehn
Editor: Peter Hunt
Cinematographer: Ted Moore
Production Company: Danjaq, S. A., Eon Productions, Ltd.
50. Alonzo Harris
Training Day (2001)
Cast: Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke, Scott Glenn
Directors: Antoine Fuqua
Producer: Jeffrey Silver, Bobby Newmyer
Writer: David Ayer
Editor: Conrad Buff
Cinematographer: Mauro Fiore
Production Company: Training Day Productions
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