Actors
Bruce Willis and
Harrison Ford have been voted the greatest ever action heroes. Around a quarter of the 3,000 people polled remembered Ford fondly as
Han Solo in
Star Wars and swashbuckling archaeologist
Indiana Jones, a role he takes up again later on this year – for the fourth time.
Willis also set the standard in the 1980s, as
John McClane in
Die Hard, a role he reprised for the fourth time last year.
Third place was taken by Last Action Hero star
Arnold Schwarzenegger, with 15 per cent of the vote.
Newer breeds of action hero
Matt Damon as
Jason Bourne, and
Daniel Craig as
James Bond, achieved fourth and fifth-equal places in the poll.
Craig tied with
Sylvester Stallone,
Steven Seagal and
Mel Gibson in joint fifth place with 5 per cent each.
