Our Favorite Movie Character Names

 

  • August Nickelnurser - portrayed by Buster Keaton - The 'High Times' (dir. Edward F. Cline & Buster Keaton, 1921; USA)

  • Rufus T. Firefly - portrayed by Groucho Marx - Duck Soup (dir. Leo McCarey, 1933; USA)

  • Otis B. Driftwood - portrayed by Groucho Marx - A Night at the Opera (dir. Sam Wood, 1935; USA)

  • Egbert Sousé ("accent grave") - portrayed by W.C. Fields - The Bank Dick (dir. Edward F. Cline, 1940; USA)

  • Cuthbert J. Twillie - portrayed by W.C. Fields - My Little Chickadee (dir. Edward F. Cline, 1940; USA)

  • Sugar Smallhouse - portrayed by Jack Lambert - Kiss Me Deadly (dir. Robert Aldrich, 1955; USA)

  • Mrs. Wilberforce - portrayed by Katie Johnson - The Ladykillers (dir. Alexander Mackendrick, 1955; UK)

  • Holly Golightly - portrayed by Audrey Hepburn - Breakfast at Tiffany's (dir. Blake Edwards, 1961; USA)

  • Dr. Strangelove - portrayed by Peter Sellers - Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (dir. Stanley Kubrick, 1964; USA/UK)

  • Putney Swope - portrayed by Arnold Johnson - Putney Swope (dir. Robert Downey, Sr., A Prince, 1969; USA)

  • Maj. Margaret 'Hot Lips' O'Houlihan - portrayed by Sally Kellerman - MASH (dir. Robert Altman, 1970; USA)

  • Maj. Major Major - portrayed by Bob Newhart - Catch-22 (dir. Mike Nichols, 1970; USA)

  • Professor Lilloman - portrayed by Howard Morris - High Anxiety (dir. Mel Brooks, 1977; USA)

  • Snake Plissken - portrayed by Kurt Russell - Escape From New York (dir. John Carpenter, 1981; UK/USA)

  • Rupert Pupkin - portrayed by Robert De Niro - The King of Comedy (dir. Martin Scorsese, 1982; USA)

  • Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr - portrayed by Steve Martin - The Man With Two Brains (dir. Carl Reiner, 1983; USA)

  • Anne Uumellmahaye - portrayed by Sissy Spacek (uncredited) - The Man With Two Brains (dir. Carl Reiner, 1983; USA)

  • Scut Farkus - portrayed by Zack Ward - A Christmas Story (dir. Bob Clark, 1983; USA/Canada)

  • Buckaroo Bonzai - portrayed by Peter Weller - The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (dir. W.D. Richter, 1984; USA)

  • Johnny Utah - portrayed by Keanu Reeves - Point Break (dir. Kathryn Bigelow, 1991; Japan/USA)

  • Oswald Cobblepot - portrayed by Danny DeVito - Batman Returns (dir. Tim Burton, 1992; USA/UK)

  • Vincent Vega - portrayed by John Travolta - Pulp Fiction (dir. Quentin Tarantino, 1994; USA)

  • Ace Ventura - portrayed by Jim Carrey - Ace Venture: When Nature Calls (dir. Steve Oedekerk, 1995; USA)

  • Dirk Diggler - portrayed by Mark Wahlberg - Boogie Nights (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 1997; USA)

  • Mr. Littlejeans - portrayed by Kumar Pallana - Rushmore (dir. Wes Anderson, 1998; USA)

  • Vernon T. Waldrip - portrayed by Ray McKinnon - O Brother, Where Art Thou? (dir. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen, 2000; UK/France/USA)

  • Pootie Tang - portrayed by Lance Crouther - Pootie Tang (dir. Louis C.K., 2001; USA)

  • Morvern Callar - portrayed by Samantha Morton - Morvern Callar (dir. Lynne Ramsay, 2002; UK/Canada)

  • Beatrix Kiddo - portrayed by Uma Thurman - Kill Bill: Vol. 2 (dir. Quentin Tarantino, 2004; USA)

  • McLovin - portrayed by Christopher Mintz-Plasse - Superbad (dir. Greg Mottola, 2007; USA)

  • Lancaster Dodd - portrayed by Philip Semour Hoffman - The Master (dir. Paul Thomas Anderson, 2012; USA)

  • Marty Jackitansky - portrayed by Joshua Burge - Buzzard (dir. Joel Potrykus, 2014; USA)

    ...James Bond movies excluded...

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