Can you name the 100 Greatest Movie Characters according to Empire Online?

Played By	Character	Movie
Brad Pitt		Fight Club
James Earl Jones (voice)		Star Wars
Heath Ledger		The Dark Knight
Harrison Ford		Star Wars
Anthony Hopkins		Silence of the Lambs
Harrison Ford		Raiders of the Lost Ark
Jeff Bridges		The Big Lebowski
Johnny Depp		Pirates of the Caribbean
Sigourney Weaver		Alien
Marlon Brando		The Godfather
Sean Connery		Goldfinger
Bruce Willis		Die Hard
Andy Serkis		Lord of the Rings
Arnold Schwarzenegger		The Terminator
Matthew Broderick		Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Keanu Reeves		The Matrix
Alan Rickman		Die Hard
Robert De Niro		Taxi Driver
Samuel L. Jackson		Pulp Fiction
Tom Hanks		Forrest Gump
Al Pacino		The Godfather Part II
Morgan Freeman		The Shawshank Redemption
Clint Eastwood		Dirty Harry
Bruce Campbell		Evil Dead I
Frank Oz		The Empire Strikes Back
Will Ferrell		Anchorman
Al Pacino		Scarface
Sir Ian McKellen		The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Daniel Day-Lewis		There Will Be Blood
Tobin Bell		Saw
Viggo Mortensen		The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Matt Damon		The Bourne Identity
Chow Yun-Fat		Hard Boiled
Sylvester Stallone		Rocky

Played By	Character	Movie
Russell Crowe		Gladiator
Daniel Radcliffe		Harry Potter
Johnny Depp		Edward Scissorhands
Jake Gyllenhaal		Donnie Darko
Michael J. Fox		Back to the Future
Christian Bale		American Psycho
Julie Andrews		Mary Poppins
Malcolm McDowell		A Clockwork Orange
Clint Eastwood		The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
Bill Murray		Ghostbusters
Audrey Tautou		Amelie
Javier Bardem		No Country For Old Men
Wesley Snipes		Blade
Robert Downey Jr.		Iron Man
John Goodman		The Big Lebowski
Robert Shaw		Jaws
Nathan Fillion		Serenity
James Stewart		It's A Wonderful Life
Paul Newman		Cool Hand Luke
Mark Hamill		The Empire Strikes Back
Leslie Nielsen		The Naked Gun
Ellen Page		Juno
Steve Carell		Anchorman
Humphrey Bogart		Casablanca
Joe Pesci		Goodfellas
Jim Carrey		Ace Ventura: Pet Detective
Jack Nicholson		One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Natalie Portman		Leon
Ben Burtt (voice)		Wall-E
Richard E. Grant		Withnail & I
Ben Stiller		Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
Uma Thurman		Kill Bill Vol. 1 & 2
Dennis Hopper		Blue Velvet
Jon Heder		Napoleon Dynamite

Played By	Character	Movie
Kevin Spacey		The Usual Suspects
Gregory Peck		To Kill A Mockingbird
Kurt Russell		Escape From New York
Hugo Weaving		V for Vendetta
Jack Nicholson		The Shining
Debra Winger (voice)		E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
Frances McDormand		Fargo
Christopher Lloyd		Back To The Future
Nick Frost		Shaun Of The Dead
Eddie Murphy		Beverly Hills Cop
Jeremy Bulloch		The Empire Strikes Back
Anthony Perkins		Psycho
Hugh Jackman		X-Men
Mickey Rourke		Sin City
Michael Madsen		Reservoir Dogs
Hugo Weaving		The Matrix
Christopher Walken		True Romance
Rutger Hauer		Blade Runner
Christopher Lee		Dracula
Kathleen Turner (voice)		Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Carrie Fisher		Star Wars Episode IV-VI
Margaret Hamilton		The Wizard Of Oz
Vivien Leigh		Gone With The Wind
Jeff Anderson		Clerks
John Cusack		Grosse Pointe Blank
Tim Allen (voice)		Toy Story
Robert Englund		A Nightmare On Elm Street
John Wayne		The Searchers
Jodie Foster		The Silence Of The Lambs
Orson Welles		Citizen Kane
Douglas Rain (voice)		2001: A Space Odyssey
Mel Gibson		Lethal Weapon

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100 Greatest Movie Characters Quiz

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Created by: Ben -
Published: January 5th, 2009
Category: Movies
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Tags: Role Quizzes, played, greatest, online, 100 Greatest, Movie Characters, Empire Online, character, 100

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	MovieDynamic:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 04:39 GMT	10 points
	Bizarre list, but it was fun.

	Hackzor:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 04:43 GMT	7 points
	Don't agree with many, but best Sporcle quiz in a while.

	foleym2:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 04:51 GMT	28 points
	Shouldn't Beatrix Kiddo be acceptable for The Bride? And maybe Victor Vega for Mr. Blonde? Still, great quiz.

	Antithesys:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 04:58 GMT	11 points
	Not that any of these "best of" magazine lists are any good, but this one takes the cake as the worst of all time. At any rate, "Bea Kiddo" should count for Uma, "Verbal Kint" for Kevin Spacey (in fact the answer we have here is a spoiler), and just plain "Amelie" should count...in fact there are many on the list that would be okay with just the first names. But an excellent quiz.

	Bailey:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 05:06 GMT	15 points
	Eastwood is Blondie in TGTB&TU- that should count.

	DLJessup:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 05:08 GMT	11 points
	This was an odd quiz. You could get many of the names from the titles of the films. What blows me away is that 10% of people didn't get WALL-E (when any name starting with "E" would get you that one by accident) and over 32% missed "V" (ditto).

	Cheeseknight:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 05:09 GMT	6 points
	BTW: This was done by vote over on Empire's site, the only thing the site did was assemble it. I guess that explains Napolean Dynamite and Harry Potter.

	Esteban:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 05:30 GMT	9 points
	I very much enjoyed it, but I agree that more names should be accepted - seems strange that "The Dude" is right, but "Jeffrey Lebowski" isn't, while at the same time you need "Winnfield," and not "Jules," to get the Pulp Fiction one.

	AdmiralMaxtreme:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 05:34 GMT	5 points
	Unless I'm VERY much mistaken, "Napoleon" is spelled wrong in both the movie title and the answer.

	tobinw:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 05:37 GMT	29 points
	Might try to say "Title Character" for ones like Napoleon Dynamite, Forest Gump, Harry Potter, etc.

	Edge:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 05:41 GMT	29 points
	I got three other answers before I could finally type in "Edward Scissorhands"

	Edge:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 05:43 GMT	9 points
	Also, "John Kramer" should be acceptable for "Jigsaw"

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	alexielrieth:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 05:56 GMT	11 points
	...I cannot believe I missed James Bond... I'm an idiot.

	Biggtone23:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 06:10 GMT	11 points
	Just gonna echo what has already been said. Good quiz bad list. But this is what happens when you let fans vote.

	EHankinson:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 06:10 GMT	7 points
	aww Charles Kane isn't acceptable?? I had a complete brain fart and couldn't remember "Foster" weird list.....fun anyways

	Jaspers:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 06:19 GMT	51 points
	@Esteban: He is not "Mr. Lebowski". The old guy in the wheelchair is Mr. Lebowski. He is the Dude. So that's what you call him. You know, that or, uh, His Dudeness, or uh, Duder, or El Duderino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.

	danzam:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 06:49 GMT	24 points
	The Dude abides.

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	Billston:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 07:05 GMT	5 points
	Napoleon Dynamite is spelt wrong, and because of that I didn't get it. Also, yes, all the ones like that should be 'Title Character' or something.

	joshua:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 07:27 GMT	13 points
	how about HAL? is that too familiar for the computer?

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	animebear:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 07:52 GMT	6 points
	I wasted sooo much time trying to spell Keyser Soze... ugh lol

	davidr:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 08:29 GMT	12 points
	@littlegoldwoman: You were typing non-stop for fifteen minutes and only managed to type fifty-three answers? Are you sure? Breaking this down into separate quizzes would be really annoying: `Name the fifty-first- to one-hundredth-greatest movie characters' would be a really awful quiz. These lists are arbitrary at best but trying to guess only those characters that Empire's readers thought were kinda great but not too great would be really annoying.

	davidr:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 08:52 GMT	6 points
	@EHankinson: As it says at the top of the quiz, `last names acceptable'. You could have just typed `Kane'.

	truth in advertising:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 09:02 GMT	11 points
	For several of these selections, the first name should be acceptable as a full answer. For example, in Casablanca, I know it has been a while since I saw it, but everyone called him Rick rather than by his last name. The computer in 2001 was also addressed by his first name (if computers have such things)- HAL open the door!

	dayecarter:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 09:26 GMT	5 points
	49/100. Fairly happy as I don't really watch films. It helped that quite a few had the same name as the movie title. And I took me a second to realise why it didn't accept Elphaba for the Wizard of Oz.

	Lilybert:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 10:26 GMT	4 points
	NapoleOn.

	Vernon Gonsalves:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 11:00 GMT	3 points
	I agreee that HAL and Jules should be acceptable answers. I got 78 and of the 22 missed, I only knew HAL and Travis Bickle.

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	whatchucare:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 12:38 GMT	4 points
	Agree with most. Great quiz. Mediocre execution. Far too often I knew the first name but couldn't for the life of me remember the last. Names like "Rick," "Hans," "Jules," "Walter," etc., in my opinion, are specific enough to gauge whether or not someone possesses the kind of knowledge of the film being tested here.

	debbiedoesnothin:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 12:38 GMT	5 points
	Usually, movie quizzes are my favorite but I didn't care for this one. Too many giveaways when title contains the character's name. To me, the quiz would be more fun if it was a total guessing game, like the AFI Top 100 (my all-time favorite quiz here). It was fun to keep doing that one over and over until I memorized them all.

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	osu99:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 13:18 GMT	5 points
	good quiz

	Peter:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 13:21 GMT	7 points
	considering it says voice after tim allen for toy story, shouldn't it say voice after James Earl Jones? David Prowse would be almost as upset as when he originally found out his voice would'nt be used i am sure, also typing in edward scissorhands - one of the answers given gives you 3 or 4 more answers on the way.... just thought i'd mention it

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	Hal_10000:	Jan 5th, 2009 at 15:14 GMT	5 points
	I agree with what someone said earlier that "title character" or somesuch should be used as a number of movies have the same name as the character. Maybe "title character (year)" The quiz is great but the list stinks. No "On the Waterfront"? No Virginia Woolf? What the heck? This reads like a list composed by arrest adolescent fanboys.