Lets get some classic roles in here:

Rick Blaine in Casablanca is one of those perfect movie heroes. Hard to pick a single Bogart role but it was either this or Maltese Falcon.



Captain von Rauffenstein in Grand Illusion. Eric von Stroheim was billed in Hollywood as 'the man you love to hate', but in a few films the director gave him a chance to play a complex tortured character rather than a cardboard villain. His best role, up there with his work in Sunset Boulevard.



BTW, if you haven't seen these films, go rent them. You'll thank me later.