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Greatest Film Characters |
(alphabetical, by character name) Intro | A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q-R | S | T | U-V | W | X-Z |
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 Magnolia (1999) |
 Frank T.J. Mackey (Tom Cruise) |
 The Exorcist (1973) |
 Regan MacNeil (Pazuzu) (Linda Blair (voice of Mercedes McCambridge)) |
 Kick-Ass (2010) |
 Mindy Macready ("Hit Girl") (Chloe Moretz) |
 Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) |
 John J. Macreedy (Spencer Tracy) |
 Splash (1984) |
 Madison - the Mermaid (Daryl Hannah) |
 Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) |
 Maggie (Margaret) "The Cat" (Pollitt) (Elizabeth Taylor) |
 The X-Men films |
 Erik Lehnsherr/Magneto (Ian McKellen) |
 Malcolm X (1992) |
 Malcolm X (Denzel Washington) |
 Sleeping Beauty (1959) |
 Maleficent (voice of Eleanor Audley) |
 Being John Malkovich (1999) |
 John Malkovich (John Malkovich) |
 On the Waterfront (1954) |
 Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) |
 I Remember Mama (1948) |
 Mama (Irene Dunne) |
 A Fistful of Dollars (1964, It.) (aka Per un Pugno di Dollari) |
 Joe (Clint Eastwood) |
 For a Few Dollars More (1965, It.) (aka Per Qualche Dollaro in Più) |
 Monco (Clint Eastwood) |
 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966, It./Sp.) (aka Il Buono, Il Brutto, Il Cattivo) |
 Blondie (Clint Eastwood) |
 Saturday Night Fever (1977) |
 Tony Manero (John Travolta) |
 Dead Ringers (1988) |
 Elliot and Beverly Mantle (Jeremy Irons) |
 La Dolce Vita (1960, It./Fr.) (aka The Sweet Life) |
 Marcello Rubini (Marcello Mastroianni) |
 Metropolis (1927, Germ.) |
 Maria ("Fake") (Brigitte Helm) |
 The Sound of Music (1965) |
 Maria (Von Trapp) (Julie Andrews) |
 Rose-Marie (1936) and other pairings |
 Marie de Flor (Jeanette MacDonald)  Sgt. Bruce (Nelson Eddy) |
 Beau Geste (1939) |
 Sgt. Markoff (Brian Donlevy) |
 The Big Sleep (1946) |
 Philip Marlowe (Humphrey Bogart) |
 Marnie (1964) |
 'Marnie' Edgar (Tippi Hedren) |
 The Big Heat (1953) |
 Debby Marsh (Gloria Grahame) |
 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966) |
 Martha (Elizabeth Taylor) |
 The War of the Worlds (1953) |
 Martians |
 Coming Home (1978) |
 Luke Martin (Jon Voight) |
 Marty (1955) |
 Marty (Piletti) (Ernest Borgnine) |
 Sin City (2005) |
 Marv (Mickey Rourke) |
 Animal Crackers (1930) and others |
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 Horse Feathers (1932) and others |
 Capt. Jeffrey T. Spaulding, Prof. Quincy Adams Wagstaff, Rufus T. Firefly, Otis P. Driftwood, Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush, etc. often with foil Margaret Dumont (Groucho Marx) |
 Duck Soup (1933) and others |
 Harpo, the Professor, A Stowaway, Pinky, Tomasso, Stuffy, etc. (Harpo Marx) |
 Leon (1994, Fr.) (aka The Professional) |
 Mathilda (Natalie Portman) |
 Harold and Maude (1971) |
 Maude (Ruth Gordon) |
 Mad Max (1979, Australia) |
 "Mad" Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson) |
 Gladiator (2000) |
 Gen. 'Maximus' Decimus Meridius (Russell Crowe) |
 Die Hard (1988) and other films in the franchise |
 Detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) |
 the Back to the Future series franchise |
 Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox) |
 The Piano (1993, NZ/Australia/Fr.) |
 Ada McGrath (Holly Hunter) |
 Love Affair (1939) |
 Terry McKay (Irene Dunne) |
 Superbad (2007) |
 McLovin/Fogell (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) |
 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) |
 Randle Patrick McMurphy (Jack Nicholson) |
 Breaking the Waves (1996, Den.-Swed.-Neth.-Fr.-Norway) |
 Bess McNeill (Emily Watson) |
 The Elephant Man (1980) |
 John Merrick (John Hurt) |
 Cruel Intentions (1999) |
 Kathryn Merteuil (Sarah Michelle Gellar) |
 Dangerous Liaisons (1988) |
 Marquise de Merteuil (Glenn Close) |
 Tootsie (1982) |
 Michael Dorsey/Dorothy Michaels (Dustin Hoffman) |
 Breathless (1960, Fr.) (aka A Bout De Souffle) |
 Michel (Poiccard) (Jean-Paul Belmondo) |
 Monsters, Inc. (2001) |
 'Mike' Wazowski (voice of Billy Crystal)  Sulley (James P. Sullivan) (voice of John Goodman) |
 Saving Private Ryan (1998) |
 Captain John H. Miller (Tom Hanks) |
 Flash Gordon (1980) |
 Emperor Ming the Merciless (Max von Sydow) |
 Despicable Me (2010) films  Minions (2015) |
 The Minions (Sergio Pablos (creator)) |
 Top Gun (1986) |
 Lt. Pete "Maverick" Mitchell (Tom Cruise) |
 The Karate Kid films |
 Mr. Miyagi (Noriyuki "Pat" Morita) |
 Frankenstein (1931) |
 The Monster (Boris Karloff) |
 Scarface (1983) |
 Tony Montana (Al Pacino) |
 The Princess Bride (1987) |
 Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin) |
 The Matrix trilogy |
 Morpheus (Laurence Fishburne) |
 The Ten Commandments (1956) |
 Moses (Charlton Heston) |
 Chinatown (1974) |
 Evelyn Cross Mulwray (Faye Dunaway) |
 The Mummy (1932) |
 The Mummy (Imhotep) (Boris Karloff) |
 The Muppet Movie (1979) and more |
 Kermit the Frog (voice of Jim Henson)  Miss Piggy (voice of Frank Oz) |
 Monster's Ball (2001) |
 Leticia Musgrove (Halle Berry) |
 The Three Musketeers (1948) |
 (The Three) Musketeers (Van Heflin, Gig Young, Robert Coote) |
 the Halloween series of films |
 Michael Myers (Nick Castle, Tony Moran, and others) |
the X-Men series of films |
 Mystique (aka Raven Darkholme) (Rebecca Romijin-Stamos)   Mystique (aka Raven Darkholme) (Jennifer Lawrence) |
