Best Character Name Ever?
Best Character Name Ever?
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#1Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 3:14pmI think my own personal choice is "Flipper Purify" from Spike Lee's JUNGLE FEVER. Damn that is an awesome name, as is Flipper's brother in that film, who is named "Gator Purify".
#2re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 3:39pmI like Chastity Pariah, as played by the divine Edie McClurg in Elvira: Mistress of the Dark.
#2re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 4:07pm
Kam Fong as Chin Ho
"In Oz, the verb is douchifizzation." PRS
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#3re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 4:11pmThere's a character in a film I'm working on called "Sergeant Cuddles". I think that's a pretty cool name.
#4re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 4:12pmAmber Waves (Boogie Nights)
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#6re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 4:30pmBlanche DuBois
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
Borstalboy
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/9/04
#7re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 4:33pm
Holly Body--BODY DOUBLE
Just about any of the names from BUCKAROO BANZAI, but I particularly like Penny Priddy.
#8re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 4:37pmKimmy Gibler
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#9re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 4:40pm
Just about every character from DO THE RIGHT THING...
Buggin' Out...
Radio Raheem...
Mookie...
Mother Sister...
Sweet Dick Willie...
and my personal favorite...
DA MAYOR!
#10re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 4:46pm
Uriah Heap
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#11re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 4:47pmWilly Wonka
#12re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 4:53pm
Kimmy Gibler
Hahaha. Memories.
It was awesome. - theaterkid1015
vmlinnie
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/19/06
#13re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 5:01pm
Not a character name, but my dad knew someone called Ivor Ashe.
There used to be a girl near where my mom lived called Annette Curtin.
deep-delving, dark, deliberate you would say
browsing on spire and bogland; but today
our sky-blue slates are steaming in the sun,
our yachts tinkling and dancing in the bay
like racehorses. We contemplate at last
shining windows, a future forbidden to no one.
Derek Mahon
"Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets."
Arthur Miller
#14re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 8:46pmPussy Galore! I'm sure there are many more Bond Girl names and Austin Powers girls- just can't remember them all- but I'm sure there are plenty of posters here who can.
#15re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 9:15pmAppassionata Von Climax from "Lil Abner"
erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#16re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 9:31pm
Mrs. Malaprop (The Rivals)
Ebenezer Scrooge (A Christmas Carol)
Voldemort, Snape, Sirius Black, etc. (Harry Potter)
#17re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 9:56pmPussy Galore just reminded me of Alotta Fagina.
Cruel_Sandwich
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/05
#18re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 9:58pm
Steve Zissou - THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU
Sailor Ripley - WILD AT HEART
Johnny Farragut - WILD AT HEART
Haven Hamilton - NASHVILLE
H.I. McDonnough - RAISING ARIZONA
Jerry Lundegaard - FARGO
John Horatio Malkovich - BEING JOHN MALKOVICH
#19re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 10:05pmAnastasia Beaverhausen aka Karen Walker.
#20re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 10:06pm
Alsatia Zevo from Toys
Cruella DeVille
Jamesir Bensonmum, from Murder By Death
Sister Mary Amnesia, from Nunsense
From High Anxiety:
Nurse Charlotte Diesel
Professor Lilloman
Braces
Bianca de Passe, from Bell, Book, and Candle
Pyewacket, from Bell, Book, and Candle
Evillene, from The Wiz
Mildred Pierce, from Mildred Pierce
#21re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 10:11pmVeronica Mars is just a kick-ass name.
"Shut up! It's been 29 years!!!" --the incomparable Patti LuPone in her MUCH DESERVED Tony acceptance speech for Gypsy.
Kitzy's Avatar du Jour: Kitzy as Little Red Ridinghood in her college's production of "Into the Woods"
jam_man
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/25/05
#22re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 10:24pmI've always thought that Coalhouse Walker, Jr was about the coolest name anyone could possibly have! Any agreements?
"The man who wishes he had written Phantom of the Opera!" - SueleenGay
GO CARDINALS!!!
americanboy99
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/27/06
#23re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 10:28pm
Fosse.
Not a character, but come on. WOW!
Bal
Leading Actor Joined: 10/19/04
#24re: Best Character Name Ever?
Posted: 6/18/07 at 11:04pm
Appassionata Von Climax from "Lil Abner"
I came in here to post that!
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