Brando Godfather voted greatest film character

MARLON Brando’s Mafia boss Vito Corleone has been voted the greatest movie character of all time.

Brando's Oscar-winning turn in 1972 classic The Godfather topped a poll by US film experts.

Humphrey Bogart as Fred C Dobbs in the 1948 film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre came second, while his most famous role as Rick Blaine in Casablanca was only 19th.

Gone With The Wind heroine Scarlett O'Hara, played by Vivien Leigh, was third, ahead of Anthony Perkins as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.

Sean Connery's 007, in his first James Bond role in Dr No, was fifth.

Other characters to make the top 20 included Harrison Ford's Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark, Sigourney Weaver's Ripley in Alien, and Sir Anthony Hopkins's cannibal killer Hannibal Lecter in The Silence of the Lambs.

Computer-generated character Gollum from The Lord of the Rings, voiced by British actor Andy Serkis, is in ninth place.

The poll was carried out by US movie magazine Premiere.

Top 20:

1 Vito Corleone - The Godfather.

2 Fred C Dobbs - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

3 Scarlett O'Hara - Gone With The Wind.

4 Norman Bates - Psycho.

5 James Bond - Dr No.

6 Annie Hall - Annie Hall.

7 Indiana Jones - Raiders of the Lost Ark.

8 Ellen Ripley - Alien.

9 Jeff Spicoli - Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

10 Gollum - The Lord of the Rings.

11 Margo Channing - All About Eve.

12 Charles Foster Kane - Citizen Kane.

13 Atticus Finch - To Kill A Mockingbird.

14 Randle McMurphy - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest.

15 Hannibal Lecter - The Silence of the Lambs.

16 Robin Hood - The Adventures of Robin Hood

17 Dorothy Gale - The Wizard of Oz.

18 Carl Spackler - Caddyshack.

19 Rick Blaine - Casablanca.

20 Virgil Tibbs - In The Heat of the Night.