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the following actors are from AFI's list of 50 greatest "American screen legends"

there are 25 women and 25 men (each of "whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death marked a completed body of work")

the selected sampling of the starring roles that best defines the actor was created by filmsite

starred (*) films are considered to be the actor's "definitive screen role"

#1: Humphrey Bogart   05/27

    no Baby Face Martin in Dead End (1937)
    no David Graham in Marked Woman (1937)
    no James Frazier in Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)
    no George Hally in The Roaring Twenties (1939)
    no Whip McCord in The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
    no Paul Fabrini in They Drive By Night (1940)
    no Roy "Mad Dog" Earle in High Sierra (1941)
    yes *Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941)
    yes *Richard "Rick" Blaine in Casablanca (1942)
    no Richard Lomas Leland in Across the Pacific (1942)
    no Lt. Joe Rossi in Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
    no Sgt. Joe Gunn in Sahara (1943)
    no Harry Morgan in To Have and Have Not (1944)
    no Jean Matrac in Passage to Marseille (1944)
    yes Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1946)
    no Capt. Warren 'Rip' Murdock/Narrator in Dead Reckoning (1947)
    no Vincent Parry in Dark Passage (1947)
    yes Fred C. Dobbs in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
    no Dixon Steele in In a Lonely Place (1950)
    no Charlie Allnut in The African Queen (1952)
    no Billy Dannreuther in Beat the Devil (1953)
    no Harry Dawes in The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
    yes Linus Larrabee in Sabrina (1954)
    no Captain Philip Francis Queeg in The Caine Mutiny (1954)
    no Glenn Griffin in The Desperate Hours (1955)
    no Joseph in We're No Angels (1955)
    no Eddie Willis in The Harder They Fall (1956)

#1: Katharine Hepburn   04/16

    no Jo March in Little Women (1933)
    no Eva Lovelace in Morning Glory (1933)
    no Alice Adams in Alice Adams (1935)
    no Terry Randall in Stage Door (1937)
    no Susan Vance in Bringing Up Baby (1938)
    no Linda Seton in Holiday (1938)
    yes *Tracy Lord in The Philadelphia Story (1940)
    no Tess Harding in Woman of the Year (1942)
    yes Amanda Bonner in Adam's Rib (1949)
    no *Rose Sayer in The African Queen (1951)
    no Jane Hudson in Summertime (1955)
    no Mary Tyrone in Long Day's Journey into Night (1962)
    yes Christina Drayton in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
    yes Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter (1968)
    no Mrs. Violet Venable in Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
    no Ethel Thayer in On Golden Pond (1981)

#2: Bette Davis   06/17

    no Mildred Rogers in Of Human Bondage (1934)
    yes Joyce Heath in Dangerous (1935)
    no Gabrielle Maple in The Petrified Forest (1936)
    yes Julie Morrison in Jezebel (1938)
    yes Judith Traherne in Dark Victory (1939)
    no Charlotte Lovell in The Old Maid (1939)
    no Leslie Crosbie in The Letter (1940)
    no Henriette Deluzy-Desportes in All This and Heaven Too (1940)
    yes Regina Hubbard Giddens in The Little Foxes (1941)
    yes Charlotte Vale in Now, Voyager (1942)
    no Maggie Cutler in The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
    no Sara Muller in Watch on the Rhine (1943)
    no Fanny Trellis Skeffington in Mr. Skeffington (1944)
    no Rosa Moline in Beyond the Forest (1949)
    yes *Margo Channing in All About Eve (1950)
    no Jane Hudson in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
    no Charlotte Hollis in Hush Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

#2: Cary Grant   09/20

    no Jimmy Monkley in Sylvia Scarlett (1936)
    yes *Jerry Warriner in The Awful Truth (1937)
    no George Kerby in Topper (1937)
    no David Huxley in Bringing Up Baby (1938)
    no Johnny Case in Holiday (1938)
    no Sgt. Cutter in Gunga Din (1939)
    no Geoff Carter in Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
    yes Dexter Haven in The Philadelphia Story (1940)
    no Walter Burns in His Girl Friday (1940)
    no Nick Arden in My Favorite Wife (1940)
    yes Johnnie Aysgarth in Suspicion (1941)
    no Leopold Dilg in The Talk of the Town (1942)
    no Ernie Mott in None But the Lonely Heart (1944)
    yes Mortimer Brewster in Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
    yes Devlin in Notorious (1946)
    no Dudley in The Bishop's Wife (1947)
    yes John Robie in To Catch a Thief (1955)
    yes Nickie Ferrante in An Affair to Remember (1957)
    yes *Roger Thornhill in North by Northwest (1959)
    yes Peter Joshua in Charade (1963)

#3: Audrey Hepburn   06/12

    yes *Princess Ann in Roman Holiday (1953)
    yes Sabrina Fairchild in Sabrina (1954)
    no Jo Stockton in Funny Face (1957)
    no Ariane Chavasse in Love in the Afternoon (1957)
    no Sister Luke/Gabrielle Van Der Mal in The Nun's Story (1959)
    no Karen Wright in The Children's Hour (1961)
    yes Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
    yes Regina Lampert in Charade (1963)
    yes Eliza Doolittle in My Fair Lady (1964)
    no Joanna Wallace in Two for the Road (1967)
    yes Susy Hendrix in Wait Until Dark (1967)
    no Lady Marian in Robin and Marian (1976)

#3: James Stewart   07/22

    no Tony Kirby in You Can't Take It With You (1938)
    no *Jefferson Smith in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
    no Tom Destry in Destry Rides Again (1939)
    no Alfred Kralik in The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
    yes Mike Connor in The Philadelphia Story (1940)
    yes *George Bailey in It's A Wonderful Life (1946)
    yes Rupert Cadell in Rope (1948)
    no P.J. McNeal in Call Northside 777 (1948)
    no Lin McAdam in Winchester '73 (1950)
    yes Elwood P. Dowd in Harvey (1950)
    no Glyn McLyntock in Bend of the River (1952)
    no Howard Kemp in The Naked Spur (1953)
    no Glenn Miller in The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
    yes L. B. "Jeff" Jeffries in Rear Window (1954)
    no Will Lockhart in The Man From Laramie (1955)
    yes Dr. Ben McKenna in The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
    no Charles Lindbergh in The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
    yes John "Scottie" Ferguson in Vertigo (1958)
    no Paul Biegler in Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
    no Ransom Stoddard in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
    no Frank Towns in The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)
    no Dr. Hostetler in The Shootist (1976)

#4: Ingrid Bergman   04/18

    no Anita Hoffman in Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)
    no Ivy Peterson in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
    yes *Ilsa Lund in Casablanca (1942)
    no Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
    no Paula Alquist in Gaslight (1944)
    no Clio Dulaine in Saratoga Trunk (1945)
    yes Dr. Constance Peterson in Spellbound (1945)
    no Sister Benedict in The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
    yes Alicia Huberman in Notorious (1946)
    no Joan of Arc in Joan of Arc (1948)
    no Karin in Stromboli (1949)
    no Lady Henrietta Flusky in Under Capricorn (1949)
    no Katherine Joyce in Voyage in Italy (1953)
    no Anastasia in Anastasia (1956)
    no Anna Kalman in Indiscreet (1958)
    no Gladys Aylward in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
    yes Greta Ohlsson in Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
    no Charlotte in Autumn Sonata (1978)

#4: Marlon Brando   06/20

    no Ken in The Men (1950)
    no *Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
    no Emiliano Zapata in Viva Zapata! (1952)
    no Marc Antony in Julius Caesar (1953)
    yes Johnny in The Wild One (1954)
    yes Terry Malloy in On the Waterfront (1954)
    no Sky Masterson in Guys and Dolls (1955)
    no Sakima in The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
    no Maj. Lloyd Gruver in Sayonara (1957)
    no Christian Diesti in The Young Lions (1958)
    no Rio in One-Eyed Jacks (1961)
    no Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
    no Sheriff Calder in The Chase (1966)
    yes Don Vito Corleone in The Godfather (1972)
    yes Paul in Last Tango in Paris (1973)
    no Robert E. Lee Clayton in The Missouri Breaks (1976)
    yes Jor-El in Superman: The Movie (1978)
    yes Col. Walter E. Kurtz in Apocalpyse Now (1979)
    no Ian McKenzie in A Dry White Season (1989)
    yes Carmine Sabatini in The Freshman (1990)

#5: Fred Astaire   00/15 & 00/10

    no Jerry Halliday in A Damsel in Distress (1937)
    no Johnny Brett in Broadway Melody of 1940 (1940)
    no Bob Curtis in You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
    no Robert Davis in You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
    no Ted Hanover in Holiday Inn (1942)
    no Fred Astaire/Raffles/Tai Long in Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
    no Don Hewes in Easter Parade (1948)
    no Bert Kalmer in Three Little Words (1950)
    no Tom Bowen in Royal Wedding (1951)
    no *Tony Hunter in The Band Wagon (1953)
    no Dick Avery in Funny Face (1957)
    no Steve Canfield in Silk Stockings (1957)
    no Julian Osborne in On the Beach (1959)
    no Finian McLonergan in Finian's Rainbow (1968)
    no Harlee Claiborne in The Towering Inferno (1974)

and with Ginger Rogers (#14):

    no Fred Ayres and Honey Hale in Flying Down to Rio (1933)
    no Guy Holden and Mimi in The Gay Divorcee (1934)
    no *Jerry Travers and Dale Tremont in Top Hat (1935)
    no Huckleberry 'Huck' Haines and Scharwenka (aka Lizzie Gatz) in Roberta (1935)
    no *John (Lucky) Garnett and Penelope (Penny) Carroll in Swing Time (1936)
    no Bake Baker and Sherry Martin in Follow the Fleet (1936)
    no Petrov (Thompson) and Linda Keene in Shall We Dance? (1937)
    no Dr. Tony Flagg and Amanda Cooper in Carefree (1938)
    no Vernon Castle and Irene Castle in The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle (1939)
    no Josh Barkley and Dinah Barkley in The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)

#5: Greta Garbo   3/7

    no Felicitas von Kletzingk in Flesh and the Devil (1927)
    no Diana Merrick in A Woman of Affairs (1928)
    no Grusinskaya in Grand Hotel (1932)
    yes *Queen Christina in Queen Christina (1933)
    yes Anna Karenina in Anna Karenina (1935)
    yes *Marguerite in Camille (1936)
    no Ninotchka (Lena Yakushova) in Ninotchka (1939)

#6: Henry Fonda   03/15

    yes Preston Dillard in Jezebel (1938)
    no Abraham Lincoln in Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
    no Gilbert Jones in Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
    no *Tom Joad in The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
    no Charles Pike in The Lady Eve (1941)
    no Gil Carter in The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
    no Wyatt Earp in My Darling Clementine (1946)
    no Lieut. Col. Owen Thursday in Fort Apache (1948)
    no Lieutenant Doug Roberts in Mister Roberts (1955)
    yes Manny Balestrero in The Wrong Man (1956)
    yes Juror #8 in 12 Angry Men (1957)
    no Robert A. Leffingwell in Advise and Consent (1962)
    no The President in Fail-Safe (1964)
    no Frank in Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
    no Norman Thayer, Jr. in On Golden Pond (1981)

#6: Marilyn Monroe   07/14

    yes Miss Casswell in All About Eve (1950)
    yes Angela Phinlay in The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
    no Peggy in Clash By Night (1952)
    no Lois Laurel in Monkey Business (1952)
    yes Lorelei in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
    yes Pola Debevoise in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
    yes Rose Loomis in Niagara (1953)
    no Kay Weston in River of No Return (1954)
    yes The Girl in The Seven Year Itch (1955)
    no Cherie in Bus Stop (1956)
    no Elsie Marina in The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
    yes *Sugar Kane (Kumulchek) in Some Like It Hot (1959)
    no Amanda Dell in Let's Make Love (1960)
    no Roslyn Taber in The Misfits (1961)

#7: Clark Gable   02/11

    no Jerry "Babe" Stewart in No Man of Her Own (1932)
    no Dennis Carson in Red Dust (1932)
    yes Peter Warne in It Happened One Night (1934)
    no Blackie Gallagher in Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
    no Fletcher Christian in Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
    no Blackie Norton in San Francisco (1936)
    yes *Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind (1939)
    no Big John McMasters in Boom Town (1940)
    no Victor Marswell in Mogambo (1953)
    no Comm. Richardson in Run Silent, Run Deep (1958)
    no Gay Langland in The Misfits (1961)

#7: Elizabeth Taylor   03/10

    yes Velvet Brown (as young girl) in National Velvet (1944)
    no Kay Banks in Father of the Bride (1950)
    no Angela Vickers in A Place in the Sun (1951)
    no Leslie Lynnton Benedict in Giant (1956)
    no Susanna Drake in Raintree County (1957)
    no Maggie Pollitt in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
    no Catherine Holly in Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
    no Gloria Wandrous in Butterfield 8 (1960)
    yes Cleopatra in Cleopatra (1963)
    yes *Martha in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

#8: James Cagney   02/21

    no *Tom Powers in The Public Enemy (1931)
    no Bert Harris in Blonde Crazy (1931)
    no Chester Kent in Footlight Parade (1933)
    no Dan Quigley in Lady Killer (1933)
    no James 'Brick' Davis in G-Men (1935)
    no Dizzy Davis in Ceiling Zero (1935)
    no Bottom in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
    no Rocky Sullivan in Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
    no Eddie Bartlett in The Roaring Twenties (1939)
    no Frank Ross in Each Dawn I Die (1939)
    no The Oklahoma Kid (Jim Kincaid) in The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
    no Danny Kenny in City For Conquest (1940)
    no T. L. "Biff" Grimes in The Strawberry Blonde (1941)
    no George M. Cohan in Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
    yes *Cody Jarrett in White Heat (1949)
    no Ralph Cotter in Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
    no The Captain in Mister Roberts (1955)
    no Martin (Marty the Gimp) Snyder in Love Me or Leave Me (1955)
    no Lon Chaney in Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
    no C. R. MacNamara in One, Two, Three (1961)
    yes Rheinlander Waldo in Ragtime (1981)

#8: Judy Garland   04/13

    no Betty Clayton in Broadway Melody of 1938 (1937)
    no Betsy Booth in Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
    yes *Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939)
    no Patsy Barton in Babes in Arms (1939)
    no Susan Gallagher in Ziegfeld Girl (1941)
    no Jo Hayden in For Me and My Gal (1942)
    yes Esther Smith in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
    no Alice Mayberry in The Clock (1945)
    no Susan Harvey in The Harvey Girls (1946)
    no Hannah Brown in Easter Parade (1948)
    no Manuela in The Pirate (1948)
    yes Esther Blodgett (Vicki Lester) in A Star is Born (1954)
    yes Irene Hoffman in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

#9: Marlene Dietrich   06/11

    yes *Lola Frohlich in The Blue Angel (1930)
    no Amy Jolly in Morocco (1930)
    no *Helen Faraday in Blonde Venus (1932)
    yes Shanghai Lily (Madeline) in Shanghai Express (1932)
    yes Catherine II/Sophia Frederica in The Scarlet Empress (1934)
    no Frenchy in Destry Rides Again (1939)
    no Erika von Schluetow in A Foreign Affair (1948)
    no Altar Keane in Rancho Notorious (1952)
    yes Christine Helm/Vole in Witness for the Prosecution (1958)
    yes Tanya in Touch of Evil (1958)
    yes Madame Bertholt in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

#9: Spencer Tracy   02/20

    no Joe Wilson in Fury (1936)
    no Warren Haggerty in Libeled Lady (1936)
    no Father Tim Mullin in San Francisco (1936)
    no Manuel in Captains Courageous (1937)
    no Father Edward Flanagan in Boys Town (1938)
    no Gunner Sloane in Test Pilot (1938)
    no Square John Sand in Boom Town (1940)
    no Maj. Robert Rogers in Northwest Passage (1940)
    no Dr. Henry Jekyll/Mr. Hyde in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
    no Pilon in Tortilla Flat (1942)
    no Pete Sandridge in A Guy Named Joe (1943)
    no Lieut. Col. James "Jimmy" Doolittle in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
    no Stanley T. Banks in Father of the Bride (1950)
    no Stanley T. Banks in Father's Little Dividend (1951)
    no Matt Devereaux in Broken Lance (1954)
    no John J. MacReedy in Bad Day At Black Rock (1955)
    no The Old Man in The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
    no Frank Skeffington in The Last Hurrah (1958)
    yes *Henry Drummond in Inherit the Wind (1960)
    yes Judge Dan Haywood in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)

#10: Charles Chaplin   03/13

    no Charlie in Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
    no The Immigrant in The Immigrant (1917)
    no The Derelict in Easy Street (1917)
    no The Tramp in A Dog's Life (1918)
    yes The Tramp in The Kid (1921)
    no The Tramp (Lone Prospector) in The Gold Rush (1925)
    no The Tramp in The Circus (1928)
    no *The Tramp in City Lights (1931)
    yes The Tramp (Factory Worker) in Modern Times (1936)
    yes Hynkel (Dictator of Tomania)/A Jewish Barber in The Great Dictator (1940)
    no Henri Verdoux/Varney/Bonheur/Floray/Narrator in Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
    no Calvero in Limelight (1952)
    no King Shahdov in A King in New York (1957)

#10: Joan Crawford   01/19

    no Diana Medford in Our Dancing Daughters (1928)
    no Alice 'Bingo' Dowling in Untamed (1929)
    no Flaemmchen in Grand Hotel (1932)
    no Sadie Thompson in Rain (1932)
    no Janie Barlow in Dancing Lady (1933)
    no Sadie McKee Brennan in Sadie McKee (1934)
    no Diane (Dinah) Lovering in Chained (1934)
    no Margaret 'Peggy' O'Neal Eaton in The Gorgeous Hussy (1936)
    no Anni Pavlovitch (aka Anne Vivaldi) in The Bride Wore Red (1937)
    no Crystal Allen in The Women (1939)
    no Julie in Strange Cargo (1940)
    yes *Mildred Pierce in Mildred Pierce (1945)
    no Helen Wright in Humoresque (1946)
    no Louise Howell in Possessed (1947)
    no Lane Bellamy in Flamingo Road (1949)
    no Myra Hudson in Sudden Fear (1952)
    no Jenny Stewart in Torch Song (1953)
    no Vienna in Johnny Guitar (1954)
    no Blanche Hudson in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)

#11: Gary Cooper   01/22

    no Cadet White in Wings (1927)
    no Tom Brown in Morocco (1930)
    no Lieut. Frederick Henry in A Farewell to Arms (1932)
    no Lt. Alan McGregor in The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
    no Longfellow Deeds in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
    no Wild Bill Hickok in The Plainsman (1936)
    no Michael "Beau" Geste in Beau Geste (1939)
    no Cole Hardin in The Westerner (1940)
    no Long John Willoughby or "John Doe" in Meet John Doe (1941)
    no Sergeant Alvin C. York in Sergeant York (1941)
    no Prof. Bertram Potts in Ball of Fire (1941)
    no Lou Gehrig in The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
    no Robert Jordan in For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
    no Melody Jones in Along Came Jones (1945)
    no Prof. Alvah Jesper in Cloak and Dagger (1946)
    no Capt. Christopher Holden in Unconquered (1947)
    no Howard Roark in The Fountainhead (1949)
    yes *Will Kane in High Noon (1952)
    no Benjamin Trane in Vera Cruz (1954)
    no Jess Birdwell in Friendly Persuasion (1956)
    no Frank Flannagan in Love in the Afternoon (1957)
    no Link Jones in Man of the West (1958)

#11: Barbara Stanwyck   02/16

    no Florence 'Faith' Fallon in The Miracle Woman (1931)
    no Lily Powers in Baby Face (1933)
    no Megan Davis in The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1933)
    no Stella Martin Dallas in Stella Dallas (1937)
    no Mollie Monahan in Union Pacific (1939)
    no Lee Leander in Remember the Night (1940)
    no Jean Harrington in The Lady Eve (1941)
    no Ann Mitchell in Meet John Doe (1941)
    no Sugarpuss O'Shea in Ball of Fire (1941)
    yes *Phyllis Dietrichson in Double Indemnity (1944)
    no Elizabeth Lane in Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
    yes Martha Ivers in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
    yes Leona Stevenson in Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
    no Regina Forbes in To Please a Lady (1950)
    no Mae Doyle in Clash by Night (1952)
    no Julia Sturges in Titanic (1953)

#12: Claudette Colbert   01/15

    no Poppaea in The Sign of the Cross (1932)
    yes *Ellie Andrews in It Happened One Night (1934)
    no Beatrice "Bea" Pullman in Imitation of Life (1934)
    no Cleopatra in Cleopatra (1934)
    no Dr. Jane Everest in Private Worlds (1935)
    no Nicole de Loiselle in Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
    no Eve Peabody in Midnight (1939)
    no Lana Borst Martin in Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
    no Augusta Nash in Arise, My Love (1940)
    no Gerry Jeffers in The Palm Beach Story (1942)
    no Lieutenant Janet Davidson in So Proudly We Hail! (1943)
    no Anne Hilton in Since You Went Away (1944)
    no Christopher 'Kit' Madden in Without Reservations (1946)
    no Betty MacDonald in The Egg and I (1947)
    no Agnes Keith in Three Came Home (1950)

#12: Gregory Peck   05/17

    yes John Ballantine in Spellbound (1945)
    yes Pa Baxter in The Yearling (1946)
    no Lewt McCanles in Duel in the Sun (1946)
    no Phil Green in Gentleman's Agreement (1947)
    no Gen. Frank Savage in Twelve O'Clock High (1949)
    no Jimmy Ringo in The Gunfighter (1950)
    no Capt. Horatio Hornblower in Captain Horatio Hornblower (1951)
    yes Joe Bradley in Roman Holiday (1953)
    no Captain Ahab in Moby Dick (1956)
    no James McKay in The Big Country (1958)
    no Dwight Towers in On the Beach (1959)
    no Lieut. Joe Clemons in Pork Chop Hill (1959)
    no Capt. Keith Mallory in The Guns of Navarone (1961)
    yes *Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
    yes Sam Bowden in Cape Fear (1962)
    no Robert Thorn in The Omen (1976)
    no Dr. Josef Mengele in The Boys from Brazil (1978)

#13: Grace Kelly   4/9

    yes Amy Kane in High Noon (1952)
    no Linda Nordley in Mogambo (1953)
    yes *Lisa Fremont in Rear Window (1954)
    yes Margot Wendice in Dial M For Murder (1954)
    no Nancy Brubaker in The Bridges of Toko-Ri (1954)
    no Georgie Elgin in The Country Girl (1954)
    yes Frances Stevens in To Catch a Thief (1955)
    no Tracy Lord in High Society (1956)
    no Princess Alexandra in The Swan (1956)

#13: John Wayne   03/21

    no The Ringo Kid in Stagecoach (1939)
    no Jim Gordon in The Flying Tigers (1942)
    no Col. Joe Madden in Back to Bataan (1945)
    no Lt. J.G. "Rusty" Ryan in They Were Expendable (1945)
    no Tom Dunson in Red River (1948)
    no Capt. Kirby York in Fort Apache (1948)
    no Capt. Nathan Cutting Brittles in She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
    no Sgt. John M. Stryker in The Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
    no Lt. Col. Kirby Yorke in Rio Grande (1950)
    yes Sean Thornton in The Quiet Man (1952)
    no Dan Roman in The High and the Mighty (1954)
    yes *Ethan Edwards in The Searchers (1956)
    yes John T. Chance in Rio Bravo (1959)
    no Col. Davy Crockett in The Alamo (1960)
    no Tom Doniphon in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962)
    no Lieut. Col. Benjamin Vandervoort in The Longest Day (1962)
    no Sean Mercer in Hatari! (1962)
    no Cole Thornton in El Dorado (1967)
    no Col. Mike Kirby in The Green Berets (1968)
    no Reuben J. 'Rooster' Cogburn in True Grit (1969)
    no John Bernard Books in The Shootist (1976)

#14: Laurence Olivier   01/10

    no Heathcliff in Wuthering Heights (1939)
    yes Maxim de Winter in Rebecca (1940)
    no Mr. Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (1940)
    no King Henry V in Henry V (1944)
    no Hamlet in Hamlet (1948)
    no *King Richard III in Richard III (1955)
    no Archie Rice in The Entertainer (1960)
    no Marcus Licinius Crassus in Spartacus (1960)
    no Andrew Wyke in Sleuth (1972)
    no Szell in Marathon Man (1976)

#14: Ginger Rogers   1/8

    no Fay Fortune in Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
    yes Ann Lowell (Anytime Annie) in 42nd Street (1933)
    no Jean Maitland in Stage Door (1937)
    no Polly Parrish in Bachelor Mother (1939)
    no *Kitty Foyle in Kitty Foyle (1940)
    no Roxie Hart in Roxie Hart (1942)
    no Susan Applegate in The Major and the Minor (1942)
    no Edwina Fulton in Monkey Business (1952)

#15: Gene Kelly   02/10

    no Joseph Brady in Anchors Aweigh (1945)
    no Serafin in The Pirate (1948)
    no D'Artagnan in The Three Musketeers (1948)
    no Gabey in On The Town (1949)
    no Joe D. Ross in Summer Stock (1950)
    no Jerry Mulligan in An American in Paris (1951)
    yes *Don Lockwood in Singin' in the Rain (1952)
    no Tommy Albright in Brigadoon (1954)
    no Ted Riley in It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
    yes E.K. Hornbeck in Inherit the Wind (1960)

#15: Mae West   1/5

    yes *Lady Lou in She Done Him Wrong (1933)
    no *Tira in I'm No Angel (1933)
    no Ruby Carter in Belle of the Nineties (1934)
    no Flower Belle Lee in My Little Chickadee (1940)
    no Leticia in Myra Breckinridge (1970)

#16: Vivien Leigh   1/8

    yes *Scarlett O'Hara in Gone With the Wind (1939)
    no Myra Lester in Waterloo Bridge (1940)
    no Emma Hart Hamilton in That Hamilton Woman (1941)
    no Cleopatra in Caesar and Cleopatra (1946)
    no Anna Karenina in Anna Karenina (1948)
    no Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
    no Karen Stone in The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
    no Mary Treadwell in Ship of Fools (1965)

#16: Orson Welles   05/12

    yes *Charles Foster Kane in Citizen Kane (1941)
    yes Narrator in The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
    no Edward Rochester in Jane Eyre (1944)
    no Charles Rankin/Franz Kindler in The Stranger (1946)
    no Macbeth in Macbeth (1948)
    yes Michael O'Hara in The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
    yes Harry Lime in The Third Man (1949)
    no Father Mapple in Moby Dick (1956)
    yes Hank Quinlan in Touch of Evil (1958)
    no Jonathan Wilk in Compulsion (1959)
    no Cardinal Wolsey in A Man For All Seasons (1966)
    no Sir John (Jack) Falstaff in Chimes at Midnight (1967)

#17: Kirk Douglas   00/10

    no Whit Sterling in Out of the Past (1947)
    no Midge Kelly in Champion (1949)
    no Jonathan Shields in The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
    no Vincent Van Gogh in Lust for Life (1956)
    no Dr. John 'Doc' Holliday in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
    no Colonel Dax in Paths of Glory (1957)
    no Einar in The Vikings (1958)
    no *Spartacus in Spartacus (1960)
    no Jack Burns in Lonely Are the Brave (1962)
    no Col. Martin 'Jiggs' Casey in Seven Days in May (1964)

#17: Lillian Gish   02/10

    yes Elsie Stoneman in The Birth of a Nation (1915)
    no The Woman Who Rocks the Cradle in Intolerance (1916)
    no *Lucy Burrows in Broken Blossoms (1919)
    no Anna Moore in Way Down East (1920)
    no Henriette Girard in Orphans of the Storm (1921-2)
    no Hester Prynne in The Scarlet Letter (1926)
    no *Letty Mason in The Wind (1928)
    no Laura Belle McCanles in Duel in the Sun (1946)
    yes Rachel in The Night of the Hunter (1955)
    no Sarah Webber in The Whales of August (1987)

#18: James Dean   1/3

    yes *Jim in Rebel Without A Cause (1955)
    no Cal Trask in East of Eden (1955)
    no Jett Rink in Giant (1956)

#18: Shirley Temple   00/17

    no Shirley Blake in Bright Eyes (1934)
    no Miss Marker in Little Miss Marker (1934)
    no Betsy Blair in Curly Top (1935)
    no Lloyd Sherman in The Little Colonel (1935)
    no Virgie Cary in The Littlest Rebel (1935)
    no Star in Captain January (1936)
    no Barbara Barry in Poor Little Rich Girl (1936)
    no Sylvia Dolores in Dimples (1936)
    no Heidi in Heidi (1937)
    no Priscilla Williams in Wee Willie Winkie (1937)
    no Betsy Brown in Little Miss Broadway (1938)
    no Rebecca Winstead in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
    no *Sara Crewe in The Little Princess (1939)
    no Bridget (Brig) Hilton in Since You Went Away (1944)
    no Susan in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
    no Philadelphia Thursday in Fort Apache (1948)
    no Ellen Baker in Mr. Belvedere Goes to College (1949)

#19: Rita Hayworth   2/7

    no Judy MacPherson in Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
    no Sheila Winthrop in You'll Never Get Rich (1941)
    no Maria Acuna in You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
    no Rusty Parker/Maribelle Hicks in Cover Girl (1944)
    yes *Gilda in Gilda (1946)
    yes Elsa Barrister in The Lady From Shanghai (1948)
    no Ann Shankland in Separate Tables (1958)

#19: Burt Lancaster   03/15

    no Ole Andersen/Pete Lunn/the 'Swede' in The Killers (1946)
    no Steve Thompson in Criss Cross (1949)
    no Dardo in The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
    yes *Sgt. Milton Warden in From Here to Eternity (1953)
    no J. J. Hunsecker in Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
    no Wyatt Earp in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
    no *Elmer Gantry in Elmer Gantry (1960)
    yes Ernst Janning in Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
    no Robert Stroud in Bird Man of Alcatraz (1962)
    no Gen. James Mattoon Scott in Seven Days in May (1964)
    no Labiche in The Train (1964)
    no Bill Dolworth in The Professionals (1966)
    no Lou in Atlantic City (1980)
    no Felix Happer in Local Hero (1983)
    yes Dr. Graham in Field of Dreams (1989)

#20: Lauren Bacall   03/11

    no *"Slim" Marie Browning in To Have and Have Not (1944)
    yes Vivian Sternwood Rutledge in The Big Sleep (1946)
    no Irene Jansen in Dark Passage (1947)
    no Nora Temple in Key Largo (1948)
    no Amy North in Young Man With a Horn (1950)
    yes Schatze Page in How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
    no Lucy Moore Hadley in Written on the Wind (1956)
    no Marilla Hagen in Designing Woman (1957)
    no Elaine Sampson in Harper (1966)
    no Bond Rogers in The Shootist (1976)
    yes Hannah Morgan in The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996)

#20: The Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico, Zeppo)   3/7

    no Hammer, Harpo, Chico, and Jamison in The Cocoanuts (1929)
    yes Captain Jeffrey T. Spaulding, The Professor, Signor Emanuel Ravelli and Horatio Jamison in Animal Crackers (1930)
    no as themselves in Monkey Business (1931)
    no Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff, Pinky, Baravelli and Frank Wagstaff in Horse Feathers (1932)
    yes *Rufus T. Firefly, Pinky, Chicolini, and Bob Rolland in Duck Soup (1933)
    yes Otis B. Driftwood, Tomasso, and Fiorello in A Night at the Opera (1935)
    no Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush, Stuffy and Tony in A Day at the Races (1937)

#21: Buster Keaton   2/7

    no Willie McKay in Our Hospitality (1923)
    no Rollo Treadway in The Navigator (1924)
    no The Operator in Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
    yes *Johnnie Gray in The General (1927)
    no William Canfield, Jr. in Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
    no Luke Shannon in The Cameraman (1928)
    yes as himself in Sunset Boulevard (1950)

#21: Sophia Loren   00/10

    no Cinzia Zaccardi in Houseboat (1958)
    no *Cesira in Two Women (1960)
    no Angela Rossini in Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
    no Chimene in El Cid (1961)
    no Adelina in Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow (1963)
    no Lucilla in The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
    no Yasmin Azir in Arabesque (1966)
    no Countess Natasha Alexandroff in A Countess From Hong Kong (1967)
    no Aldonzaq/Dulcinea in Man of La Mancha (1972)
    no Jennifer Rispoli Chamberlain in The Cassandra Crossing (1976)

#22: Jean Harlow   00/10

    no Helen in Hell's Angels (1930)
    no Ann Schuyler in Platinum Blonde (1931)
    no Gwen Allen in The Public Enemy (1931)
    no *Vantine in Red Dust (1932)
    no Lillian Andrews Legendre in Red-Headed Woman (1932)
    no Lola Burns in Bombshell (1933)
    no Kitty Packard in Dinner at Eight (1934)
    no Dolly Portland in China Seas (1935)
    no Gladys Benton in Libeled Lady (1936)
    no Carol Clayton in Saratoga (1937)

#22: Sidney Poitier   03/14

    no Gregory W. Miller in The Blackboard Jungle (1955)
    no Noah Cullen in The Defiant Ones (1958)
    no Porgy in Porgy and Bess (1959)
    yes Walter Lee Younger in A Raisin in the Sun (1961)
    no Homer Smith in Lilies of the Field (1963)
    no Aly Mansuh in The Long Ships (1965)
    no Ben Munceford in The Bedford Incident (1965)
    no Gordon Ralfe in A Patch of Blue (1965)
    no *Virgil Tibbs in In the Heat of the Night (1967)
    yes John Prentice in Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
    no Mark Thackeray in To Sir, With Love (1967)
    no Lieut. Virgil Tibbs in They Call Me MISTER Tibbs! (1970)
    no Warren Stantin in Shoot to Kill (1988)
    yes Carter Preston in The Jackal (1997)

#23: Carole Lombard   1/9

    no Connie Randall in No Man of Her Own (1932)
    no Mildred Plotka/Lily Garland in Twentieth Century (1934)
    no Irene Bullock in My Man Godfrey (1936)
    no *Hazel Flagg in Nothing Sacred (1937)
    no Maggie King in Swing High, Swing Low (1937)
    no Jane Mason in Made for Each Other (1939)
    no Julie Eden in In Name Only (1939)
    no Ann Krausheimer Smith in Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
    yes Maria Tura in To Be or Not To Be (1942)

#23: Robert Mitchum   02/18

    no Lieut. Bob Gray in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
    no *Jeff Bailey in Out of the Past (1947)
    no Sgt. Peter Kelley in Crossfire (1947)
    no Jeb Rand in Pursued (1947)
    no Jeff McCloud in The Lusty Men (1952)
    no Matt Calder in River of No Return (1954)
    yes Harry Powell in The Night of the Hunter (1955)
    no Mr. Allison in Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
    no Capt. Murrell in The Enemy Below (1957)
    no Paddy Carmody in The Sundowners (1960)
    yes Max Cady in Cape Fear (1962)
    no Brigadier Gen. Norman Cota in The Longest Day (1962)
    no Jerry Ryan in Two for the Seesaw (1962)
    no Sheriff J.P. Harrah in El Dorado (1967)
    no Charles Shaughnessy in Ryan's Daughter (1970)
    no Harry Kilmer in The Yakuza (1975)
    no Philip Marlowe in Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
    no Philip Marlowe in The Big Sleep (1978)

#24: Mary Pickford   00/12

    no Tessibel Skinner in Tess of the Storm Country (1914, 1922)
    no Rebecca Randall in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917)
    no Gwendolyn in The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917)
    no Stella Maris/Unity Blake in Stella Maris (1918)
    no Judy Abbott in Daddy Long Legs (1919)
    no Pollyanna in Pollyanna (1920)
    no Little Lord Fauntleroy/Dearest in Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921)
    no Annie Rooney in Little Annie Rooney (1925)
    no *Mama Mollie in Sparrows (1926)
    no Maggie Johnson in My Best Girl (1927)
    no Katharina in The Taming of the Shrew (1929)
    no Norma Besant in Coquette (1929)

#24: Edward G. Robinson   02/12

    no *Caesar Enrico Bandello in Little Caesar (1930)
    no Arthur Ferguson Jones/Killer Mannion in The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
    no 'Wolf' Larsen in The Sea Wolf (1941)
    yes Barton Keyes in Double Indemnity (1944)
    no Prof. Richard Wanley in The Woman in the Window (1945)
    no Martinius Jacobson in Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
    no Christopher Cross in Scarlet Street (1945)
    no Wilson in The Stranger (1946)
    no *Johnny Rocco in Key Largo (1948)
    no Dathan in The Ten Commandments (1956)
    no Lancey Howard in The Cincinnati Kid (1965)
    yes Sol Roth in Soylent Green (1973)

#25: Ava Gardner   0/9

    no *Kitty Collins in The Killers (1946)
    no Venus in One Touch of Venus (1948)
    no Julie LaVerne in Show Boat (1951)
    no Eloise Y. Kelly in Mogambo (1953)
    no Marie Vargas in The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
    no Lady Brett Ashley in The Sun Also Rises (1957)
    no Moira Davidson in On The Beach (1959)
    no Maxine Faulk in The Night of the Iguana (1964)
    no Eleanor "Ellie" Holbrook in Seven Days in May (1964)

#25: William Holden   04/10

    no Joe Bonaparte in Golden Boy (1939)
    yes *Joe Gillis in Sunset Boulevard (1950)
    no Paul Verrall in Born Yesterday (1950)
    no Sefton in Stalag 17 (1953)
    yes David Larrabee in Sabrina (1954)
    no Hal Carter in Picnic (1955)
    yes Shears in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
    no Hal Carter in Picnic (1956)
    no Pike Bishop in The Wild Bunch (1969)
    yes Max Schumacher in Network (1976)

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