Actors that were great playing the Bad Guy

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  1. Al Kuenster

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    Denzel Washington in Training Day
     
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    Morgan Woodward

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    "I'm shaking it , boss!"
     
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  4. Grand_Ennui

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    James Coburn could be pretty bad-a**.
     
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    Patrick McGoohan. The archetypal sinister Columbo baddie, and great in films too.
     
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    Jack Palance
     
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    Ted frickin Levine

    Played Jame Gumb so incredibly he’s been typecast ever since
     
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  8. TheNightfly1982

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    Richard Lynch. He was highly effective at playing various bad guy roles, but was apparently a super nice guy in real life. Passed in 2012.
     
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  9. midniteinsanjuan

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    Joe Don Baker-Charley Varrick
    Albert Brooks- Drive
    Marlon Brando - The Missouri Breaks
     
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  10. Rich-n-Roll

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    This guy Gary Oldman....

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  11. Rich-n-Roll

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    Paul Sorvino (RIP) always plays a convincing Mafia heavy

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  13. Hadean75

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    My first thought lol :agree::

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  14. Captain Groovy

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    Excellent choices - I too was going to include "Molly", but you nailed the other two, also (BTW, Missouri Breaks has an excellent score by John Williams, one of my faves)

    Other performances I thought were great:

    Werner Herzog - Jack Reacher
    Rodney Dangerfield - Natural Born Killers
    Dennis Farina - Midnight Run
    Orson Welles - Touch of Evil
    Joe Pesci - Casino
     
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  15. jjh1959

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    Mentioned earlier.....Bruce Dern.

    Longhair
     
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  16. Jack D

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    Classic... in so many episodes of Gun Smoke too
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    With Harrison Ford... Stone Cold Crazy
     
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  17. a customer

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    Kelsey grammar. In Boss

    Great series
     
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  18. midniteinsanjuan

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    Thanks! Right back at ya
     
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  19. DonNylon

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    The great mentions on this thread I agree with are Alan Rickman, Cristopher Lee, Chrisoph Waltz, and Gary Oldman. My own mention will be Mads Mikkelsen in Casino Royale (stars in Hannibal too). He has the perfect, brooding demeanor!
     
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  20. The Panda

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    Robert Ryan. But near the end, he was a more sympathetic bad guy, like in The Wild Bunch (a bad good guy) and Iceman (the nasty drunken former idealist)
     
    The Panda, Aug 1, 2022
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  21. The Panda

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    Brando's turn as George Rockwell in Roots was brief, but also very nasty
     
    The Panda, Aug 1, 2022
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  22. The Panda

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    Try The Young Lions, he's an anti-semitic scumbag
     
    The Panda, Aug 1, 2022
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  23. keefer1970

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    Ronny Cox, who played the evil corporate big wig Dick Jones (Clarence's "boss" at OCP) was equally despicable.
     
    keefer1970, Aug 1, 2022
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  24. Bob Casner

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    William Smith - a physically imposing guy who played the “heavy” in countless films. I had a brief encounter with him while delivering mail decades ago having him sign for a delivery, he couldn’t have been nicer.

    Actors who could play BOTH good and bad guys:
    Andy Griffith
    Henry Fonda (absolutely chilling in “Once Upon a Time in the West”).
     
    Bob Casner, Aug 1, 2022
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  25. clayton

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    Robert De Niro - Cape Fear
    Robert Mitchum - Cape Fear, Night of the Hunter
    Brian Cox - Manhunter
     
    clayton, Aug 1, 2022
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