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Role	Actor	Movie Title
Bugsy Siegel		Bugsy
Maurice		Venus
Eddie Felson		The Color of Money
Will Hunting		Good Will Hunting
Inman		Cold Mountain
Dr. Hannibal Lecter		The Silence of the Lambs
Michael Corleone		The Godfather Part II
Danny Archer		Blood Diamond
Elliot Garfield		The Goodbye Girl
J.J. Gittes		Chinatown
Oscar 'Manny' Manheim		Runaway Train
Muhammad Ali		Ali
Alvin Straight		The Straight Story
George		Mona Lisa
Ezra Lieberman		The Boys From Brazil
Tom Grunick		Broadcast News
Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels		Tootsie
Sweeney Todd
Captain Miller		Saving Private Ryan
Sonny Wortzik		Dog Day Afternoon
Benjamin Button		The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Bob Harris		Lost in Translation
Eli Cross		The Stunt Man
Dr. Daniel Hirsh		Sunday Bloody Sunday
Gordon Gekko		Wall Street
Melvin Udall		As Good as It Gets
King George III		The Madness of King George
Dan Dunne		Half Nelson
Gowan McGland		Reuben, Reuben
Lt. Col. Frank Slade		Scent of a Woman
Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding		The Shawshank Redemption
Jaime Escalante		Stand and Deliver
Warren Schmidt		About Schmidt
James Leeds		Children of a Lesser God
Bad Blake		Crazy Heart
Jack Godell		The China Syndrome
Wade Whitehouse		Afflcition
Gerry Conlon		In the Name of The Father
Gabriele		A Special Day
Richard Nixon (2008)		Frost/Nixon
Bill Munny		Unforgiven
Romano		Dark Eyes
Idi Amin		The Last King of Scotland
Mario Ruoppolo		The Postman
Wladyslaw Szpilman		The Pianist
Dale Turner		'Round Midnight
Starman		Starman
Richard Nixon (1995)		Nixon
Fergus		The Crying Game
General George S. Patton, Jr.		Patton
Lieutenant John Dunbar		Dances With Wolves
Ted Kramer		Kramer vs. Kramer
Sam Dawson		I Am Sam
Glen Holland		Mr. Holland's Opus
Daniel Plainview		There Will Be Blood
Mr. Stevens		The Remains of the Day
Cyrano de Bergerac		Cyrano de Bergerac
Hank Deerfield		In the Valley of Elah
Rocky Balboa		Rocky
Tony Manero		Saturday Night Fever
Jimmy 'Popeye' Doyle		The French Connection
Frankie Dunn		Million Dollar Baby
Alonzo Harris		Training Day
David Helfgott		Shine
Oliver Barrett IV		Love Story
Hoke Colburn		Driving Miss Daisy
Johnny Hooker		The Sting

Role	Actor	Movie Title
Nathan Lee Morgan		Sounder
Maximus Decimus Meridius		Gladiator
Adrian Cronauer		Good Morning, Vietnam
Alvy Singer		Annie Hall
Bull McCabe		The Field
Edward R. Murrow		Good Night and Good Luck
Pasqualino Frafuso		Seven Beauties
Rubin Carter		The Hurricane
Richard Boyle		Salvador
George		A Single Man
Nelson Mandela		Invictus
John Reed		Reds
Buddy Holly		The Buddy Holly Story
Truman Capote		Capote
Michael Clayton		Michael Clayton
Jerry Maguire		Jerry Maguire
Harry Stoner		Save The Tiger
Bill 'The Butcher' Cutting		Gangs of New York
Howard Beale		Network
Arthur Goldman		Man in the Glass Booth
Robert Eroica Dupea		Five Easy Pieces
Frank Serpico		Serpico
Leonard Lowe		Awakenings
Ray Charles		Ray
Claus Von Bulow		Reversal of Fortune
Emmet Ray		Sweet and Lowdown
Sir James Matthew Barrie		Finding Neverland
Sydney Schanberg		The Killing Fields
The Marquis de Sade		Quills
Geoffrey Firmin		Under the Volcano
Jack Jefferson		The Great White Hope
Ennis Del Mar		Brokeback Mountain
Dr. Frank Bryant		Educating Rita
James Whale		Gods & Monsters
Reinaldo Arenas		Before Night Falls
Norman		The Dresser
Ron Kovic		Born on the Fourth Of July
Ryan Bingham		Up in the Air
Johnny Cash		Walk The Line
Vincent Vega		Pulp Fiction
Ben Sanderson		Leaving Las Vegas
Frank Galvin		The Verdict
Charley Partanna		Prizzi's Honor
Harvey Milk		Milk
Jake LaMotta		Raging Bull
Joe Gideon		All That Jazz
Lester Burnham		American Beauty
Dr. Martin Dysart		Equus
Joseph P. Kotcher		Kotch
Andrew Beckett		Philadelphia
Luis Molina		Kiss of the Spider Woman
Christy Brown		My Left Foot
Stanley Motss		Wag the Dog
Tom Wingo		The Prince of Tides
Howard Hughes		The Aviator
Matt Fowler		In the Bedroom
Thomas Fowler		The Quiet American
Jeffrey Wigand		The Insider
Travis Bickle		Taxi Driver
Jimmy Markum		Mystic River
Michael Vronsky		The Deer Hunter
Randall Patrick McMurphy		One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Milo Tindale		Sleuth
Mac Sledge		Tender Mercies
Henry V		Henry V
Derek Vinyard		American History X
Dr. Herbert Bock		The Hospital

Role	Actor	Movie Title
Harry Coombes		Harry and Tonto
Walter Vale		The Visitor
Arthur Bach		Arthur
Harry S. Truman		Give 'Em Hell, Harry
Parry		The Fisher King
Edmund Horman		Missing
László de Almásy		The English Patient
Arthur Kirkland		...And Justice For All
Norman Thayer		On Golden Pond
Donald 'Sully' Sullivan		Nobody's Fool
Jackson Pollock		Pollock
Max Cady		Cape Fear
Staff Sergeant William James		The Hurt Locker
Alan Swann		My Favorite Year
Matthew Poncelot		Dead Man Walking
Willy Clark		The Sunshine Boys
Nikolai Luzhin		Eastern Promises
The Apostle E.F.		The Apostle
Luke Martin		Coming Home
Charlie Chaplin		Chaplin
Charlie Kaufman/Donald Kaufman		Adaptation
Scottie Templeton		Tribute
Ike Turner		What's Love Got to do With It?
Malcolm X		Malcolm X
Max Schumacher		Network
Jack, 14th Earl of Gurney		The Ruling Class
Andrew Wyke		Sleuth
Raymond Babbitt		Rain Man
Joe Pendleton		Heaven Can Wait
Antonio Salieri		Amadeus
Paul		Last Tango in Paris
Paul Rusesabagina		Hotel Rwanda
Guido Orefice		Life Is Beautiful
Larry Flynt		The People vs. Larry Flynt
Don Vito Corleone		The Godfather
Agent Rupert Anderson		Mississippi Burning
Lasse Karlsson		Pelle the Conqueror
John Book		Witness
Randy 'The Ram' Robinson		The Wrestler
Chuck Noland		Cast Away
Oskar Schindler		Schindler's List
Tom Garrison		I Never Sang for My Father
Francis Phelan		Ironweed
Josh Baskin		Big
Chris Gardener		The Pursuit of Happyness
Ulee Jackson		Ulee's Gold
Hercule Poirot		Murder on the Orient Express
Captain Jack Sparrow
Tevye		Fiddler on the Roof
Lenny Bruce		Lenny
DJay		Hustle & Flow
John Merrick		The Elephant Man
Chauncey Gardiner		Being There
Mahatma Gandhi		Gandhi
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart		Amadeus
Forrest Gump		Forrest Gump
Massoud Amir Behrani		House of Sand and Fog
John Nash		A Beautiful Mind
Signalman First Class Buddusky		The Last Detail
Bull Meechum		The Great Santini
Lou Pascal		Atlantic City
Sir		The Dresser
Karl Childers		Sling Blade
John Keating		Dead Poets Society
Murphy Jones		Murphy's Romance
Michael Gallagher		Absence of Malice

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