Actors that were great playing the Bad Guy

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  1. Pizza

    Pizza With extra pepperoni Thread Starter

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    We recently lost David Warner and I reflected on his movies. He was always great as the villain and made a decent career by it for awhile.

    One of my favorite movie baddies is Alan Rickman in Die Hard as Hans Gruber. So memorable.

    Who else do you feel is terrific as the evildoer? Your answer can be for any gender.
     
  2. Wildest cat from montana

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    Christoph Waltz performance as Hans Landa made him one of the great movie villains.
     
  3. peteham

    peteham Senior Member

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    Kurtwood Smith as Clarence Boddicker in Robocop - what a detestable but unforgettable character

    David Provol as Richie Aprile in The Sopranos
    Joe Pantoliano as Ralph Cifaretto in The Sopranos

    John Malkovitch as Mitch Leary in In The Line Of Fire

    Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth in Blue Velvet
     
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  4. Khorn

    Khorn Dynagrunt Obversarian

    Lee Van Cleef, Leo Gordon, Jack Elam among many.
     
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  5. Monosterio

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    Gregg Allman as the heavy in the 1991 movie Rush. IIRC, the Robin Trower classic "Bridge of Sighs" played during his final scene.
     
  6. Phil147

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    Andy Robinson in Dirty Harry. A really nice guy in real life from what I’ve read but a great performance and a truly disturbing villain.
     
  7. Phil147

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    Sir Christopher Lee, take your pick from many a memorable performance. For me it would be a more understated ‘villain’ in The Wicker Man, which makes it even more disturbing and unforgettable…
     
  8. R. Totale

    R. Totale The Voice of Reason

    Danny Trejo would come off as a bad guy even if he was playing a good one.
     
  9. Monosterio

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    I could never get past that performance and see him as anything else afterward. When he went from a good guy to a baddie in Hellraiser, I thought: Of course... :D

    Someone here told me he was in Deep Space Nine, but I never saw that.
     
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  10. Wildest cat from montana

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    He was Dracula.
     
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    Vincent Price - sure, he appeared in some rather lousy films, and often played his roles a bit camp/tongue-in-cheek, but he was certainly always fun to watch. :thumbsup:
     
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  12. Monosterio

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    Ray Liotta in Something Wild

    Edward Norton in Primal Fear--even though he was pretending to stutter in his film debut, I kept expecting him to do it in later roles. :D
     
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  13. ralphb

    ralphb "First they came for..."

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    William Conrad
    Raymond Burr
    Charles McGraw
    Dan Duryea
    Claire Trevor
    Gene Tierney
    Anne Savage
     
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    Ralph Fiennes was brilliant as the vile SS officer in "Schindler's List".
     
  15. Siegmund

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    Roger Delgado.

    Perfect as the Master - probably the first acting performance that ever impressed me (I was about three).

    Everyone know knew him seemed to love him.
     
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  16. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    David Warner he was great as Jack The Ripper!
    Time After Time (1979) - IMDb
     
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    Made for a nasty Tooth Fairy in 'Red Dragon' too.
     
  18. Michael

    Michael I LOVE WIDE S-T-E-R-E-O!

    my fav? Anthony Hopkins!
     
  19. Monosterio

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    Robert Mitchum
     
  20. SPF2001

    SPF2001 a must to avoid

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    Lee Marvin,in so many movies,even his
    Academy Award winning dual role in the
    comedy "Cat Ballou" as Kid Shelleen and
    his brother Tim Strawn.
     
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    He was equally nasty in a 1992 sci-fi film called Fortress. Both left a mark on my childhood.
     
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  22. Axefiend

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    Yes! He was awesome on DS9! Not a villain per se, but complex and potentially very dangerous:

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    Funny thing too, When I first saw the show, I immediately knew it was Andy Robinson, Even under all that make-up, Those eyes!
     
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  23. EddieMann

    EddieMann I used to be a king...

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    Gene Hackman…The Unforgiven.
     
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  24. Rob P S

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    JT Walsh
    Clancy Brown
    Pablo Schreiber (on SVU)
     
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  25. peteham

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    How could I forget JT Walsh in Breakdown? Fantastic. Brilliant actor still missed.
     
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