1. Peter Warne, an unemployed reporter who escorts a flighty runaway socialite for a scoop and, instead, falls in love with her

    Red Buttons

    Kevin Costner

    Clark Gable

    Wallace Beery

2. The title character, a backwoods sharpshooter with a conscience who becomes a reluctant hero in World War One

    Gary Cooper

    George Arliss

    James Stewart

    Paul Muni

3. A dual role, as Tim Strawn, a disfigured hired killer, and his brother Kid Sheleen, a dime store gunfighter turned drunk

    Ernest Borgnine

    Walter Brennan

    Gary Cooper

    Lee Marvin

4. 'Popeye' Doyle, a New York detective in search of an overseas shipment of illegal drugs

    Clint Eastwood

    Gene Hackman

    Ed Asner

    Christopher George

5. The title character, a severely mentally challenged man who becomes a supergenius through the miracle of science

    Cliff Robertson

    Sydney Poitier

    AL Pacino

    Robert Redford

6. Another title character, he was a prince-turned-slave who rose back to prominence in ancient Rome during the time of Christ

    Peter Ustinov

    Victor Mature

    Michael Redgrave

    Charlton Heston

7. Antonio Salieri, a musical contemporary and jealous rival of Wolfgang Mozart

    F. Murray Abraham

    Geoffrey Rush

    Ben Kingsley

    Ralph Richardson

8. 'Rooster' Cogburn, a 'one-eyed fat man', a U.S. marshall hired by a teenage girl to hunt down a killer

    Spencer Tracy

    Anthony Quinn

    Jon Voight

    John Wayne

9. Claus Von Bulow, a socialite accused of attempting to murder his wife

    Peter Fonda

    Jeremy Irons

    John Malkovich

    Daniel Day Lewis

10. Raymond Babbitt, an 'idiot savant' who is taken underwing by his brother

    Robert Redford

    Al Pacino

    Arthur Kennedy

    Dustin Hoffman

11. Atticus Finch, a Southern lawyer and single parent hired to defend a black man accused of bad behaviour with a woman

    Robert Mitchum

    Gregory Peck

    Tony Curtis

    Robert Alda

12. Colonel Nicholson, a W.W.II British P.O.W. ordered by his Japanese captors to build a structure, unaware of it's impending demolition

    Ralph Richardson

    Richard Harris

    Peter O'Toole

    Alec Guiness

13. Willie Stark, an honest, homespun politician caught up and engulfed in the dirty side of politics

    Broderick Crawford

    Humphrey Bogart

    Ernest Borgnine

    Alan Jones

14. uido Orefice, a happy-go-lucky optimist trying to survive in Fascist Italy

    Peter Sellers

    Anthony Quinn

    Roberto Benigni

    Max Von Sydow

15. Christy Brown, a severely handicapped man who learns how to express himself as an artist and author using a single appendage

    Geoffrey Rush

    Daniel Day Lewis

    Michael Douglas

    Nicholas Cage

16. Andrew Beckett, an ex-attorney suffering from AIDS, attempting to sue his former law office

    Rob Lowe

    Tom Cruise

    Tom Hanks

    Denzel Washington

17. Elliot Garfield, a struggling actor forced to share an apartment with an actor-hating single mother

    Robin Williams

    Elliot Gould

    Robert De Niro

    Richard Dreyfus

18. Norman Thayer Jr., a retired 'old poop' attempting to bond with his daughter on a summer retreat

    Van Johnson

    Paul Newman

    Henry Fonda

    Spencer Tracy

19. Don Birnam, an alchoholic experiencing cause-and-effect of a four-day binge

    Nicholas Cage

    Dudley Moore

    Lee Marvin

    Ray Milland

20. Mr. Chipping, an ageing teacher and former headmaster of a British school looking back on his career

    Leslie Howard

    Alec Guinness

    Robert Donat

    John Gielgud