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AFI's 100 Years... 100 Heroes & Villains is a list of the one hundred greatest screen characters (fifty each in the hero and villain categories) as chosen by the American Film Institute in June 2003. It is part of the AFI 100 Years... series. The list was first presented in a CBS special hosted by Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Alfredo Lettieri (February 24, 1928 – October 18, 1975) was an American actor. Active during the 1960s and 1970s, he commonly portrayed villainous characters. He achieved recognition for his performance as mobster Virgil Sollozzo in the crime film The Godfather (1972) and appeared in several other productions alongside Hollywood's biggest screen stars.
AFI defines an "American screen legend" as "an actor or a team of actors with a significant screen presence in American feature-length films (films of 40 minutes or more) whose screen debut occurred in or before 1950, or whose screen debut occurred after 1950 but whose death has marked a completed body of work."
Roy Barcroft (born Howard Harold Ravenscroft; [2] September 7, 1902 – November 28, 1969) was an American character actor famous for playing villains in B-Westerns and other genres. From 1937 to 1957, he appeared in more than 300 films for Republic Pictures . [ 3 ]
William Emmett Smith (March 24, 1933 – July 5, 2021) was an American actor. In a Hollywood career spanning more than 79 years, he appeared in almost three hundred feature films and television productions in a wide variety of character roles, often villainous or brutal, accumulating over 980 total credits, [2] with his best known role being the menacing Anthony Falconetti in the 1970s ...
In the 1960s and early 1970s, despite being in his 40s, he continued to play pivotal roles as a character in the age range of 25 to 30 in films with Shammi Kapoor, Joy Mukherjee, Rajendra Kumar and Dharmendra as the lead heroes. [21] From the early 1950s to the early 1970s, Pran gained particular notoriety due to his frequent roles as a villain ...
Gabrielle Anwar (born 1970) (naturalised American citizen) Lucy Akhurst (born 1970) Richard Armitage (born 1971) Alexander Armstrong (born 1970) Joe Armstrong (born 1978) Kate Ashfield (born 1972) Richard Ayoade (born 1977) Kate Baines (born 1978) Christian Bale (born 1974) (naturalised American citizen) Jamie Bamber (born 1973) (dual British ...
Villain: Michael Tuchner: Richard Burton, Ian McShane, Nigel Davenport: United Kingdom: Gangster film [36] 1972: 1931: Once Upon a Time in New York: Luigi Vanzi: Richard Conte, Adolfo Celi: Italy [37] Across 110th Street: Barry Shear: Anthony Quinn, Yaphet Kotto, Anthony Franciosa: United States [38] The Big Bird Cage: Jack Hill: Teda Bracci ...