The 32 greatest '70s movie characters

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Indicative of their time and place, movies of the 1970s had some of the most memorable characters of all time. While many - and we meanmany- of them were violent antiheroes who made a mockery of authority, they weren’t all like that. Sometimes they were just people; they were athletes, cops, scorned lovers, kung fu masters, possessed teenagers, and mad scientists.

New Hollywood was in full swing in the ‘70s, with some of the all-time greatest movies ever made that ran the gamut from the violent to the dramatic, from the comedic to the action-packed. And in those movies are some deeply unforgettable characters. Here are 32 of the greatest ‘70s movie characters.

32. Nurse Ratched (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest)

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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Sometimes, a name is all you need to know about a character. Originating from Ken Kesey’s 1962 novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Louise Fletcher memorably brought this heartless tyrant of a psychiatric hospital nurse to the screen in the celebrated 1975 film version (with Jack Nicholson opposing her as the protagonist, Randle McMurphy, a new rebellious patient). A living, breathing metaphor for the corrupting influence of institutional power, Nurse Ratched is an all-time movie villain. It’s not simply because she’s innately evil, but because she comfortably operates in a system that is totally fine with someone like her.

31. Paul Kersey (Death Wish)

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Death Wish

30. Reggie Dunlop and the Hanson Brothers (Slap Shot)

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Slap Shot

29. Det. Jimmy Doyle (The French Connection)

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The French Connection

The 1970s were when the lines between heroes and villains blurred, and there’s no one better to illustrate those confusing times than Gene Hackman’s NYPD detective Jimmy Doyle in The French Connection. Loosely based on real-life police detective (and later an actor himself) Eddie Egan, Hackman’s Jimmy Doyle is a case of good cop, bad man. A racist and a womanizer with a serious alcohol problem, Doyle is nevertheless a hard boiled policeman who relentlessly pursues justice in his own way. There’s simply no one better to embody 1970s individualism as a survival mechanism than Jimmy Doyle.

28. Wanda (Wanda)

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Wanda

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27. Deep Throat (All the President’s Men)

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All the President’s Men

Even when he’s cloaked in shadows, Hal Holbrook shines through in Alan J. Pakula’s towering conspiracy thriller All the President’s Men, a fictionalized telling of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein’s investigation into the Watergate scandal of ‘72 for the Washington Post. Based on the real-life informant, so named after the infamous pornographic film (also a 1970s gem), “Deep Throat” brings a fantastical flair of film noir to the ultra-realistic world of Pakula’s movie. It’s an impressive feat of acting to be an expressive character even when audiences can’t see your face. But Holbrook was one of a kind, teaching us all how to follow the money.

26. Chief Martin Brody (Jaws)

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Jaws

25. Dr. Frank-N-Furter (The Rocky Horror Picture Show)

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show

You were waiting for antici…pation, weren’t you? While its depiction of trans and genderqueer people may not always be the most sensitive, The Rocky Horror Picture Show is an indisputable landmark of midnight cinema celebrated for its funk rock show tunes, unbridled pastiche of B movies, and high-energy performances. That includes Tim Curry as Dr. Frank-N-Furter, the movie’s central mad scientist and outer space transvestite who takes in a young couple one dark and stormy night. Dr. Frank-N-Furter is remembered because of Tim Curry, who rocks the corset and fishnet stockings like no one else.

24. Mad Max (Mad Max)

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Mad Max

He’s a man of very few words, but that doesn’t mean he doesn’t make an impression. Mel Gibson’s first appearance as Mad Max in George Miller’s dystopian action classic is a foundational one, giving moviegoers a modern flavor of genre anti-heroes alongside Charles Bronson and Clint Eastood. Mad Max wasn’t the first character to fail at driving within the lines of “good” and “bad” guys. But he looked exceptionally good doing it, with Gibson rocking the heck out of Mad Max’s signature leather jacket with armored shoulder pads. His motivations might be simple, but that only means that Max is consistent no matter how much the world around him devolves.

23. Preach (Cooley High)

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Cooley High

22. Kimberly Wells (The China Syndrome)

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The China Syndrome

21. Lee (Enter the Dragon)

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Enter the Dragon

20. Tony Manero (Saturday Night Fever)

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Saturday Night Fever

Women want to dance with him, and men want to dance like him. He’s Tony Manero, John Travolta’s disco hero from the 1977 classic Saturday Night Fever. Though Tony puts up with a lot of nonsense in his regular life, including an overbearing father who berates him every day, he’s someone else entirely when he’s on the dance floor of 2001 Odyssey. Inside, he’s both king and sorcerer, ruling his domain and lighting up the joint with his spirit from deep within. ‘70s cinema is full of lost souls, but even in his own search for meaning, Tony knows exactly where he belongs.

19. Don Corleone (The Godfather)

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The Godfather

When The Godfather entered production in the early 1970s, Marlon Brando was in a career slump who was also notorious throughout Hollywood for being difficult to work with. But even when other actors were considered for the part of Don Corleone, like Ernest Borgnine and Laurence Olivier, there was only one man that The Godfather’s author Mario Puzo imagined to play him. That was Brando. Through Brando, Corleone exudes both intimidation and fatigue, as an aging mafia don who is all too eager to let one of his sons take his reins. He may not be the hero of Francis Ford Coppola’s saga, but he is the reason why the acclaimed trilogy is even titled “The Godfather.”

18. Evelyn Draper (Play Misty for Me)

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Play Misty for Me

17. Cyrus (The Warriors)

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The Warriors

16. Superman (Superman: The Movie)

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Superman: The Movie

15. Laurie Strode and Michael Myers (Halloween)

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Halloween

14. Bluto (Animal House)

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Animal House

13. Ellen Ripley (Alien)

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Alien

Just as modern horror movies were taking shape after Halloween, Ridley Scott took audiences up to space for a real scream with Alien, featuring Sigourney Weaver in a star-making performance. Weaver stars as Ellen Ripley, a cautious warrant officer riding aboard theNostromowhen its crew comes across - and unknowingly brings along - a dangerous alien parasite. In the end, it’s Ellen Ripley who uses her wits to outsmart and outmaneuver the eerie Xenomorph. In doing so, Ellen showed that action movie heroism isn’t exclusively the business of men.

12. Alex (A Clockwork Orange)

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A Clockwork Orange

11. Father Karras (The Exorcist)

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The Exorcist

10. Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Princess Leia (Star Wars)

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Star Wars

Let’s be upfront: Almost every major character in George Lucas’ original Star Wars deserves singular recognition. Even the droids. But what’s unusual about Star Wars is how its characters have deeply specific interpersonal dynamics anyone can project themselves onto. While Luke and Vader illuminate the never ending battle between fathers and sons, there’s Han Solo, Chewbacca, and Princess Leia, who are a far away galaxy’s version of a couple with a third wheel. (Sorry, Chewie.) While the dashing rogue Han Solo is a personality archetype any man aspires to - and ditto Princess Leia for women, for her resilience, bravery, leadership, and wit - together, they’re a pair who prove that “I love you” doesn’t have to have a reciprocal answer.

9. Carrie White (Carrie)

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Carrie

8. John Shaft (Shaft)

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Shaft

The ultimate blaxploitation action hero, the late Richard Roundtree gave flesh and blood to Ernest Tidyman’s novel character in the 1971 film Shaft, from director Gordon Parks. A smooth-talking, hard-hitting private investigator from New York, Shaft rivals the likes of James Bond and Han Solo with his own unique brand of cool. He wears turtlenecks and leather trench coats like they’re a superhero costume, but he’s no boy scout. Even in a decade teeming with gunslinging anti-heroes, Shaft stands out, and single-handedly defines his genre.

7. Annie Hall (Annie Hall)

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Annie Hall

Only Diane Keaton could make awkwardness sexy. In Woody Allen’s landmark rom-com Annie Hall, from 1977, Keaton co-stars as the beautiful eponymous character, a lively New Yorker who vibes with Allen’s neurotic male protagonist Alvy Singer. Ultimately, Annie and Alvy are just exes, notches on each other’s bed posts as they keep on seeking happiness in the wilds of Manhattan. But that doesn’t make what they once had any less special. And there’s just something about the way that Diane Keaton wears a men’s necktie and suit vest that works so well for her.

6. “Dirty” Harry Callahan (Dirty Harry)

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Dirty Harry

5. Child “Coffy” Coffin (Coffy)

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Coffy

Actress Pam Grier rose to prominence in the 1970s starring in gritty blaxploitation movies in action-oriented roles usually reserved for men. In 1973, Grier was the lead of Coffy, playing a city nurse who embarks on a violent quest for revenge against the dealers who got her sister addicted. While Shaft is arguably more emblematic of blaxploitation, and another similar Grier-led movie Foxy Brown being a bigger box office success, Grier is on a totally different level in Coffy. Here, Grier carries more serrated edges than in any of her other movies. Coffy isn’t just overall better than Foxy Brown, but indicative of a movie that starts a wave instead of riding it.

4. Howard Beale (Network)

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Network

He’s mad as hell, and he can’t take it anymore! In Sidney Lumet’s searing satire of the television news industry, Peter Finch’s Howard Beale is both champion of the people and literal victim of his own success, as an unhinged TV news anchor who enters “retirement” kicking and screaming about the sorry state of the modern world. While Howard Beale types in the 21st century would just start aYouTubechannel only fringe outcasts subscribe to, in Network, it was scary yet believable that millions would tune in to see a man rant, live and unscripted, because it breached the unwritten code of decorum of his profession.

3. Rocky Balboa and Apollo Creed (Rocky)

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Rocky

2. Luke Skywalker and Darth Vader (Star Wars)

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Darth Vader

1. Travis Bickle (Taxi Driver)

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Taxi Driver

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1Nemesis review: “A magical sense of tension”

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2Arcs review: “A whole lot of game in a small package”

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3Kraven the Hunter review: “The insistence on an R-rating helps save this, with a decent helping of bloodthirsty action”

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4The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim review – “An uninspired expansion of the most iconic screen take on Tolkien”

4The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim review – “An uninspired expansion of the most iconic screen take on Tolkien”

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5Nightbitch review: “Amy Adams' disappointing dark comedy is all bark and no bite”

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4Skeleton Crew review: “Perfectly captures the vibes of classic Star Wars with a swashbuckling twist”

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