Indiana Jones: "professor of archaeology, expert on the occult, and… obtainer of rare antiquities." Translation: This guy would have gotten all of the hot tamales on Rate My Professor.There aren'...

Marion Ravenwood and her Amazing Titanium Liver. That should be a comic book title, or at least a really killer act at the local three-ring circus. Sadly, Marion has to perform that trick in her Hi...

According to the novelization, his first name is René, but we never hear it in the movie. He's just Belloq, snooty Frenchman extraordinaire and serious pain in Indiana Jones's side. We first see h...

Speaking of buddies, Indy has one at home, too. Marcus Brody lies somewhere between stalwart companion and father-figure. Indy's had a shortage of those since his mentor, Abner Ravenwood, disowned...

If we cheat and look at the novelization, we know that his first name is "Arnold," but the movie credits list him as Toht. No one actually asks for his name in the movie because when a cackling Ges...

Toht does the sinister close-enough-to-whisper stuff. Dietrich (Wolf Kahler), Wehrmacht Colonel and owner of a snappy set of desert khakis, doles out the big stuff. He runs the German dig in Cairo,...

Satipo (and his short-lived partner Barranca, who gets exactly one line before scampering off to be murdered by cranky natives) joins Indy on his first quest to claim the golden idol from its displ...

Katanga (George Harris) is the captain of the Bantu Wind, the ship that takes Indy and Marion out of Cairo. We're not sure about him initially, but he eventually proves to be another good friend to...