Godfather star is top film crim

10 April 2012

The Godfather's Michael Corleone has been voted the king of movie criminals.

Alan Rickman is the only British name on the list - he came fourth for his role as Hans Gruber in the Bruce Willis action movie Die Hard.

Goodfellas' character Tommy DeVito, the part taken by fellow Italian-American Joe Pesci in the 1990 Martin Scorsese movie, came second.

Robert De Niro's Max Cady, the character he played in the thriller Cape Fear, was third followed by Rickman's Hans Gruber.

Jack Nicholson's Joker in Tim Burton's Batman took fifth place, and Eddie Bartlett, played by James Cagney in the 1939 movie Roaring Twenties, came
sixth.

The survey of 1,400 people on skymovies.com was carried out to mark Sky Movies
2 Crime Spree Weekend.

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