Actors that were great playing the Bad Guy

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  1. GregM

    GregM The expanding man

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    Christopher Plummer has made a great bad guy in several films as an older actor, e.g., Inside Man.

    Gene Hackman was great as the bad-guy sheriff in Unforgiven.

    The 007 villain Le Chiffre showcases three great bad guys: Peter Lorre (1954), Orson Welles (1967) and Mads Mikkelsen (2006).
     
  2. Randall DeBouvre

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    Alan Alda was like Andy Grifith, He occasionally did a 180 from his good guy image by playing heavies.
     
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  3. Wildest cat from montana

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    He was great as the murderous, bank robbing Santa in 'Silent Partner'.
     
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  4. neo123

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    Yul Brynner - The Ten Commandments, Westworld
     
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  5. Randall DeBouvre

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    Even though he is known for his likeable roles, Morgan Freeman played one scary mother..... in STREET SMART.
     
  6. Randall DeBouvre

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    So far you are the only who mentioned ladies. Angela Landsbury as the Machiavellian mother in THE MANCHURIAN CANIDATE.
     
  7. Randall DeBouvre

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    kevin spacey, early in his career particularly se7en.
     
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  8. sound chaser

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    David Thewlis, V. M. Varga, ‘Fargo’.
     
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  9. skisdlimit

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    Ned Beatty - absolutely chilling (and believable!) as Sheriff J.C. Connors in White Lightning (1973).
     
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  10. Jack Elam made a career out of being the bad guy in westerns....then he turns up as this guy and my appreciation for him grew even more.
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  11. mr. steak

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    David Thewlis - Fargo
    Billy Bob Thornton - Fargo
    Ben Kingsley - Sexy Beast
     
  12. I don't know if Kathy Bates role in Misery counts...it could be more psychotic than bad guy...but she certainly left an impression.
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  13. Bolo Yeung seemed to cause trouble in most roles.
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  14. Peter Greene
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  15. Peter Stormare.
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  16. Steve Buscemi...who is always good.
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  17. Helena Bonham Carter
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  18. Vinnie Jones
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  19. Pizza

    Pizza With extra pepperoni Thread Starter

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    I love that movie.
     
  20. ralphb

    ralphb "First they came for..."

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    Oh yeah, for sure. A true monster. She's also not exactly sweet in Gaslight.
    Barbara Stanwyck, if only for Double Indemnity and The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers.
     
  21. rockerreds

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    David Clennon as Miles Drentell in thirty something and Once & Again.
     
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  22. Randall DeBouvre

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  23. Nodrog96

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    Anthony Zerbe. Not only did he give Charlton Heston a hard time in The Omega Man
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    but he also gave The Red Hand Gang some trouble a few years later.
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    PS Already mentioned but Richard Lynch was a good baddie. Check out The Ninth Configuration for a meditation on faith and bikers wearing mascara.
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    (Actually, he wouldn't have looked out of place alongside Al Pacino in Cruising..)
     
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  24. MichaelH

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    Robert Englund
    Kane Hodder
     
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  25. davidb1

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    Harvey Keitel in Bad Lieutenant.
     
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