The Role: Greg Stillson

Why It’s The Best: We’ll admit, we’re including this one largely because of the parallels with Sheen’s other political performance as Bartlet in The West Wing. Because whilst President Bartlet is a wise, benevolent statesman, Sheen’s character in The Dead Zone is a power-hungry maniac who can’t wait to get his hands on the nukes. OTT it may be, but there’s no doubting his performance is bloody good fun!

Iconic Moment: When Christopher Walken has a premonition of Stillson’s presidency, in which America’s new leader kicks off a nuclear war whilst practically foaming at the mouth. “You’re not the voice of the people,” he barks at a cowering general, “I am the voice of the people! They speak through me, not you! It came to me in the middle of the night… I must get up now, right now and fulfil my destiny! Now you put your goddamn hand on that scanning screen, or I’ll hack it off and put it on for you!”

Sheen Says: “I had a pretty in-depth knowledge of what went on with the characters behind the scenes at Watergate. I mean the whole world got a pretty good picture of what some desperate men in a desperate situation are willing to do, not dissimilar to the character I play in Dead Zone. But I don’t think any of those men were really as hideous or as sleazy as Greg Stillson who would stop literally at nothing to get to the White House."