# Best Movie character name

**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-character-name/412586
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 20, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-character-name/412586 "2007-07-20T20:55:02Z")
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### Author: ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2007, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-character-name/412586/1 "2007-07-20T20:55:02Z")

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Like the Tv characters, but in the movies…where things can be more…ah…explicit.

Dr. No - Pussy Galore  
The adventers of Bucaroo Bonzai across the 8th dimension - John Smallberries

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### Author: ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)
#### Post date: [July 20, 2007, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-movie-character-name/412586/2 "2007-07-20T21:11:20Z")

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From _Dr. Strangelove_: President Merkin Muffley, Lionel Mandrake, General Buck Turgidosn, General Jack D. Ripper, Major T. J. “King” Kong, Col. Bat Guano, and the title character (of course).

And then there are the assorted characters played by Groucho Marx (Rufus T. Firefly, Otis B. Driftwood, Dr. Hugo Z. Hackenbush, Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff) and W.C. Fields (Professor Eustace P. McGargle, Augustus Q. Winterbottom, Larson E. Whipsnade, Egbert Sousé)