* Peter Warne, an unemployed reporter who escorts a flighty runaway socialite for a scoop and, instead, falls in love with her:
* The title character, a backwoods sharpshooter with a conscience who becomes a reluctant hero in World War One:
* A dual role, as Tim Strawn, a disfigured hired killer, and his brother Kid Sheleen, a dime store gunfighter turned drunk:
* 'Popeye' Doyle, a New York detective in search of an overseas shipment of illegal drugs:
* The title character, a severely mentally challenged man who becomes a supergenius through the miracle of science:
* Another title character, he was a former slave who rose to prominence in ancient Rome during the time of Christ:
* Antonio Salieri, a musical contemporary and jealous rival of Wolfgang Mozart:
* 'Rooster' Cogburn, a 'one-eyed fat man', a U.S. marshall hired by a teenage girl to hunt down a killer:
* Claus Von Bulow, a socialite accused of attempting to murder his wife:
* Raymond Babbitt, an 'idiot savant' who is taken underwing by his brother:
* Atticus Finch, a Southern lawyer and single parent hired to defend a black man accused of rape:
* 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:
* Willie Stark, an honest, homespun politician caught up and engulfed in the dirty side of politics:
* Guido Orefice, a happy-go-lucky optimist trying to survive in Fascist Italy:
* Christy Brown, a severely handicapped man who learns how to express himself as an artist and author using a single appendage:
* Andrew Beckett, an ex-attorney suffering from AIDS, attempting to sue his former law office:
* Elliot Garfield, a struggling actor forced to share an apartment with an actor-hating single mother:
* Norman Thayer Jr., a retired 'old poop' attempting to bond with his daughter on a summer retreat:
* Don Birnam, an alchoholic experiencing cause-and-effect of a four-day binge:
* Mr. Chipping, an ageing teacher and former headmaster of a British school looking back on his career: