Indicative of their time and place, movies of the 1970s had some of the most memorable characters of all time. While many - and we mean many - of them were violent antiheroes who made a mockery of authority, they weren’t all like that. Sometimes they were just people; they were athletes, cops, scorned lovers, kung fu masters, possessed teenagers, and mad scientists.
New Hollywood was in full swing in the ‘70s, with some of the all-time greatest movies ever made that ran the gamut from the violent to the dramatic, from the comedic to the action-packed. And in those movies are some deeply unforgettable characters. Here are 32 of the greatest ‘70s movie characters.
