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100 Most Memorable Film Characters Of All Time: Nominations 61 thru 80

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So 20 down ... now it's time to continue my list of the 100 Most Memorable Characters in all of motion picture history! Just as a reminder, my criteria for selecting what makes a memorable film character for this list is typically a character who is remembered long after the film is over, or is a character so unique that they exist beyond the machinations of the story. I also selected characters who usually had some incredible depth to them, were written and performed with such skill ... characters who became perfect embodiments of the type of people they were portraying. Or they could have been characters who were simply larger than life, clear icons of cinema history. Memorable characters don't always have to be likable ... sometimes the most evil of people can make for memorable film characters. So there will be characters of all types in my top 100 ... heroes, villains, anti-heroes, and just plain regular people.

And there's quite an array of characters in the next block of the countdown, as I reveal numbers 80 through 61. From a woman carrying Satan's child to a man trying to expel Satan from a little girl ... to a futuristic android killer to a conflicted nun trying to save a killer's soul ... from a gay man dying of AIDS to a man suffering from the disease of alcoholism, here are the next group of my choices for the most memorable film characters of all time, numbers 80 through 61.

80) Rosemary Woodhouse in ROSEMARY'S BABY (Mia Farrow) The truly best horror films have always been ones that deal with psychological horror than plain old blood and gore and knife-wielding slashers. One of the best was Roman Polanski's stunning tale of an innocent young woman being caught up in a conspiracy as she soon discovers that she is pregnant with Satan's baby. Just to watch her as she finds the walls of her world slowly crumble down is horrifying, and is there anything more horrifying than seeing this woman embrace the child of the devil at the film's end? A memorable performance indeed.

79) Antonius Block in THE SEVENTH SEAL (Max Von Sydow) One of the most thought-provoking pieces of film art ever made, this film still remains a powerful play on the trials of life and death, all told through the conversations and experiences that Antonius Block has with Death, as he returns from fighting the Crusades. No matter what time period it takes place in, or how old the film gets, Block represents every man's struggle for the meaning and struggle of life facing our own deaths.