Who do you think is the most memorable movie character ever and why?

He's so young in that picture, he doesn't even look like Clint Eastwood.

He don't look like no ruthless killer there. He looks like a ruthful killer. That just ain't right.

I'm not sure I can pick just one....

These are some that come immediately to mind because they are such iconic performances by these actors--these characters they brought to life on the screen are indelible and memorable.

Peter Sellers as Inspector Jacques Clouseau in the Pink Panther series of films.



Kathy Bates as Annie Wilkes in Misery.



Peter O'Toole in Lawrence of Arabia.



Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's.

Two of my favorite characters...from one of my favorite movies.

Perhaps you could tell us informed who they are?

Gary Oldman and Chris Tucker...playing characters from the entertaining, The Fifth Element.

Here are some other Gary Oldman characters I loved. He is a very versatile actor.

Dracula:



True Romance:



Hannibal:



Dawn of the Planet of the Apes:

Don't forget this one.

Cannot forget it, because I never saw it.

I don't know that it every had an American incarnation. Wasn't it strictly an English series?

Christ...he looks so young there.

It's what brought him to the public's attention.

Yup. I've read that.

In my opinion...best actor living would be between Oldman and Anthony Hopkins.

I understand they are good friends.

For me the most memorable character on a film was that pf Raisouli, played by Sean Connery in "The Wind and the Lion" The film wasa basaed on a factual event in the early 20th century when an American Man named Pedercaris was captured and held for ransom by a dissident Moroccan chieftan named Raisiouli, any our then President, Teddy Roosevelt (played in the film by actor Brian Keith) famously declared "American wants Pederkaris alive or Raisouli dead. The film portrayed Pedercaris as a woman (Candice Bergin) which added some interesting sexual tension to the story. Connery did a great job playing a Moroccan with a brogue and the (much underrated) film presented the story with appropriate irony and humor.

That's it !! Connery had some great throwaway lines in the film, like

After an ally rode up hastily to Raisouli's camp to give an intelligence report to him and threw something in the sand;

Pedercaris "What is that?)
Raisouli "a tongue"
Pedercaris " My god how could you !"
Raisouli "Perhaps its former owner had nothing good to say with it"
Pedercarus "That's barbarous !"
Raisouli "How can you talk to me like that? You're not even one of my wives"

And the last lines in the film (approximately)

"Ah Raisouli, we've lost everything, all we had is floating on the wind"

"Yes sheikh but isn't there anything in your life that you would risk everything for?"

The film was made in the mid 1970s and in many ways it was quite prescient.

I liked Morgan Freeman in the Shawshank Redemption. There was a quiet steadiness to him, which spoke volumes.

I don't think the ladies have been adequately represented here.

I was going to name Scarlet.
And Tuco, in the Good the Bad and the Ugly.
The kids in Lord of the Flies.
And the big guy in The Green Mile.

Here's looking at you kid, Casablanca.

Definitely a memorable character...


Bette Davis in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

Its impossible to pick just one. I loved Kathryn Hepburn in 'Lion in Winter'. Andy Griffin was chilling as Dusty Rhoads in 'Face in the Croud'. Every character in 'Its a Mad Mad Mad Mad World', it was chock full of great actors and entertainers, I laugh every time I see it. Another old movie that is even funnier today than when it was made in the 60's, 'Dr. Strangelove: or how I learned to stop worrying and love the bomb'.

There have been so many good movies and excellent actors, its impossible for me to even pick the best actor or movie in the last three years.