Favorite movie characters!

Insomnia = lists.

I started compiling a list of favorite movie characters tonight. I tried really hard to think about specific characters, not movies I like--that'd be a different list, but they do overlap. This list is still fairly random and incomplete, otherwise it'd be huge; also, if there was more than one favorite character in a movie I tried to focus on just a couple, except for the section at the top. Plus...favorite characters are often ones you like, so there are characters I really love in films that I don't really like. I mean, who can say they like Robert Mitchum in Cape Fear, or Danny Auteuil in Un couer en hiver, as great as those characters are...

Goes without saying
About every character in The Women, Mildred Pierce, All About Eve, Now, Voyager, The Sweet Smell of Success, Brief Encounter and Diner, but especially--respectively--the Countess (Mary Boland); Ida (Eve Arden); Margo (Bette Davis) and Karen (Celeste Holm); Charlotte (Bette Davis); Sidney Falco (Tony Curtis) and Rita (Barbara Nichols); Alec (Trevor Howard); and Eddie/Eddie's mother (Steve Guttenberg/Jessica James)

Chronic favorites, or would pay to read the phonebook
These actors I love so much that I tend to love most of the characters they play, but especially

• Maggie (Bette Davis--again) in The Man Who Came to Dinner; also Judith in Dark Victory
• Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) [and John Brown (Billy Connolly)] in Mrs. Brown; also Mistress Quickly in Henry V
• Stella (Thelma Ritter) in Rear Window; also Mae Swasey in The Model and the Marriage Broker
• Madge (Agnes Moorehead) in Dark Passage; also Fanny in Magnificent Ambersons

More

• Jack Lipnick (Michael Lerner) in Barton Fink
• Lina Lamont (Jean Hagen) in Singin in the Rain
• Jack (Jerry Orbach) and Lester (Alan Alda) in Crimes and Misdemeanors
• Stella (Kim Hunter) in A Streetcar Named Desire
• The dad (Darren McGaven) in A Christmas Story
• Teddy (Mickey Rourke) in Body Heat
• Etta (Diane Ladd) in Black Widow
• Pops (Robin Harris) in House Party
• Salieri (F. Murray Abraham) in Amadeus
• Paul (Paul Sorvino) in Goodfellas
  
• Julien (Gaspard Manesse) in Au Revoir, les enfants
• Mrs. Croft (Fiona Shaw) and Mary Musgrove (Sophie Thompson) in Persuasion
• Babette (Stephane Audran) in Babette's Feast
• Nick and Nora (William Powell and Myrna Loy) in The Thin Man
• Richard (Billy Bob Thornton) and Libby (Kathy Bates) in Primary Colors
• Anna (Ingrid Bergman) in Indiscreet
• Walter (Cary Grant) in His Girl Friday
• Ella (Judy Holliday) in Bells Are Ringing
• Margaret Schlegel (Emma Thompson) in Howard's End
• Uncle Charlie (Joseph Cotten) in Shadow of a Doubt...yungh
• Sheila (Catherine O'Hara) in Waiting for Guffman

etc !