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Who are some of your favorite fictional detectives in a film or show?

posted a year ago by M1sterDoct0r (4423)
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I'm watching Columbo for the first time & I'm having an absolute blast. He's already one of my all time favorite characters.

Next up is to watch the "old" Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) films/show. Been on my list for ages.

Here are just some of my favorite sleuths)

1. Adrian Monk (Monk, tv show)

2. DCI John Luther (Luther, tv show)

3. Veronica Mars (Veronica Mars, tv show)

4. Detective Goren (L&R: Criminal Intent, tv show)

5. Theo Kojak (Kojak, tv show)

6. Shawn & Gus (Psych, tv show)

7. Benoit Blanc (Knives Out, films)

8. Jake Gittes (Chinatown, film)

9. DCI Jane Tennison (Prime Suspect, tv show)

10. Clarice Sterling (Silence of the lambs, film)

11. Mills & Somerset (Se7en, film)

12. Harry Callahan (Dirty Harry, films)

13. Jessica Fletcher (Muder, She Wrote tv show)

14. John Shaft (Shaft, 70s films)

[–] nyctc7 (43648) a year ago

Shaft had the best theme
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pFlsufZj9Fg

[–] db20db (17254) a year ago

Absolutely! I have posted this same video here several times now because it's a favorite. Also, I like Richard Roundtree as Shaft much more than Samuel L. Jackson.

[–] nyctc7 (43648) a year ago

damn right

[–] db20db (17254) a year ago

😄👍

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4423) a year ago

Same! Sam Jackson is great but his Shaft has got nothing on Richard Roundtree.

He was fantastic! He's one of the main reasons the role is so iconic for me. The theme as dope af as well.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21511) a year ago

If you like Isaac Hayes, you’ll love Truck Turner. 😀

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=lQyV3Kzt5zs&pp=ygUMVHJ1Y2sgdHVybmVy

[–] db20db (17254) a year ago

I do, and I think I might have seen this, or parts of it. Some might not know it but Shaft was the brainchild of multi-talented director, Gordon Parks and it's the film that spawned the Blaxploitation genre. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DEZy5ZEQTU Btw, one of the better acceptance speeches, imo.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21511) a year ago

Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song (1971) and Cotton Comes to Harlem (1970), although earlier, weren’t as big as Shaft for sure.

I’ve never thought to look into Gordon Parks filmography, but I will now. 👍

[–] db20db (17254) a year ago

I'm familiar with both of those movies.

I discovered him through this movie https://moviechat.org/tt0064579/The-Learning-Tree. I was a teenager working as an usher in a movie theater when I saw it and it really impacted me because I had several black friends in that community that I had grown up with since grade school.

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21511) a year ago

Very cool. I’ll look it up.

[–] db20db (17254) a year ago

Unsurprisingly, this just showed up in my YouTube recommendations. As a drummer and old codger myself, I couldn't help but relate since I've always loved the high hat cymbal work in this particular cut of music and it's perfectly displayed in the video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yn_1pIPbFA

[–] Kowalski (75736) a year ago

JOHN GRAIL AND THE BOYS.

https://moviechat.org/tt0090498/Outlaws

[–] tcrum (31543) a year ago

1. Miss Marple
2. Jessica Fletcher
3. Hercules Peroit
4. Sherlock Holmes
5. Monk
6. Shawn Spencer - Psych
7. Detective William Murdoch
8. Jake Peralta - Brooklyn Nine Nine
9. Nick Burkhardt - Grimm
10. Veronica Mars

[–] M1sterDoct0r (4423) a year ago

Ha, nice to see a Grimm shout out. The show is super underappreciated.

[–] [deleted] a year ago

jim rockford
paul drake

[–] ClementinaSpur (1207) a year ago

Adrian Monk (Monk)
Dr. Lucien Blake (The Doctor Blake Mysteries)
Jimmy Perez (Shetland)
John River (River)
Cormoran Strike (Strike)
Christopher Foyle (Foyle's War)
Sylvia Fox (Signora Volpe)

[–] Chewie4 (24) a year ago

Laura Holt and Remington Steele
Veronica Mars

[–] Quasimodo (16388) a year ago

Miss Marple - Joan Hickson
Hercules Poirot - David Suchet
Inspector Morse - John Thaw
Foyle's War - Michael Kitchen

[–] Mrmojo4700 (21511) a year ago

I’m a big fan of the Italian Poliziotteschi genre and when I read this topic the first character to come to mind was Commissario Betti played by Maurizio Merli. He played this detective in Violent Rome (1975), The Tough Ones (1976) and Violent Naples (1976) which were all strong entries in the genre. He was in many other films in this genre as other detectives but they were all the same no nonsense, tough guy detective roles he’s known for.

So many cool actors starred in these Eurocrime films, but Maurizio Merli was in a lot of these and almost always in the detective role.