Which actor makes the best movie villian?

Gene Hackman was one sadistic SOB in Unforgiven, and Karl Malden was no slouch in One-Eyed Jacks and they were both playing bad-guy sheriffs in those films.
 
Cant forget Spacey in the movie Seven. He played one really messed up dude.

I cant believe no one has added Al Pacino for Heat/Devil's Advocate/Scarface. Id also have to add Deniro for Taxi Driver. Ed Norton in American History X was one hell of a character. Id have to agree that Robin Williams was quite creepy in both One Hour Photo and Insomnia.
 
AcesAndEights said:
Cant forget Spacey in the movie Seven. He played one really messed up dude.

I cant believe no one has added Al Pacino for Heat/Devil's Advocate/Scarface. Id also have to add Deniro for Taxi Driver. Ed Norton in American History X was one hell of a character. Id have to agree that Robin Williams was quite creepy in both One Hour Photo and Insomnia.
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Al Pacino was the good guy in Heat. But Scarface/Tony Montana is a great villain.
 
Two very good candidates for bad guy here. Tim Roth was such a convincing azzhole bad guy in Rob Roy, that I REALLY enjoyed seeing the end of the movie(not telling, just in case others haven't seen the flic). In fact, he was SO convincing as this bad guy, that I can't watch him in other movies, without seeing him as a bad guy. My Brother brough home some funny movie called, Four Rooms, in which Roth plays some bumbling bellboy and my Brother just cracked up. I couldn't watch it. The dude was creeping me out.

Jason Isaacs was really, really an azzhole bad guy in the Patriot. Same happy ending, IMO.
 
stjames said:
Michael Madsen as Mr. Blonde in Resivour Dogs.
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Michael Madsen in almost every role he ever played.

Lee Van Cleef, "The Bad"
Eli Wallach, "The Ugly"

Definitely Tim Roth for Rob Roy. Incidently, IMNSOHO the best movie about the Scottish/English conflicts.
 
Rat Finkenstein said:
Al Pacino was the good guy in Heat. But Scarface/Tony Montana is a great villain.
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Depends on who you look at as the main characters. I thought he was the 'bad' guy, because I viewed the crew as the 'good' guys.
 
don' forget Christopher Walken role in one James Bond (the one with Grace Jones); He was playing a creazy viliain laughting while shooting workers with a Uzi...
 
freddy1 said:
robert Mitchum, in "the night of the Hunter" 1955

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I forgot about "Night of the Hunter" The movie that scared people in Hollywood so much that they never let Charles Laughton direct another movie. Many famous bad guys list Robert Michum's performance as a major influence.
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yep, really impressing movie !
It was probably the first time a viliain was arrassing children that were defenceless, that might explain it was such a chock at the time..:confused:
 
My vote is for Gary Oldman, it's amazing the way he portraits so many different bad guys (from the evil cop in "the professional" to the fancy villian in "the fifth element" to that creepy guy in "Hannibal"... and don't forget "Dracula").

Jack Nicholson was very scary in "The shining".
 
Alan Ford playing the local gangster, "Brick Top Polford", in "Snatch" (with Brad Pitt, Dennis Farina, and Jason Statham :thumbup: )

"Brick Top" gets rid of his victims by cutting them up into small pieces and feeding them to the pigs on his farm.

Oh, and I can't forget Glenn Close in "Fatal Attraction" :eek:
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John Lithgow has excellent range as an actor and played some interesting villains. He was a fairly ruthless dick as Eric Qualen in Cliffhanger and just a prissy dick as the voice of Lord Farquaad in Shrek. I like him best as the villain Lord John Whorfin/Dr. Emilio Lizardo in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension .

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Laugh while you can monkey boys!!



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what about a combo - david[or richard?]prowse,james earl jones the baddest of the bad - darth vader
 
java said:
John Lithgow has excellent range as an actor and played some interesting villains. He was a fairly ruthless dick as Eric Qualen in Cliffhanger and just a prissy dick as the voice of Lord Farquaad in Shrek. I like him best as the villain Lord John Whorfin/Dr. Emilio Lizardo in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension .

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Laugh while you can monkey boys!!



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He was pretty good in the film "Ricochet" with Denzel Washington as well.

Teli Salvalis was a convincing psycho in "The Dirty Dozen".
 
James Earl Jones in Conan the Barbarian. McDowell as Alex in A Clockwork Orange. The cop with the shotgun in Cool Hand Luke, the warden was pretty cool too. Ray Liota (Sp?) is good in that movie with Madeline Stowe as a cop/stalker.
 
I think Bill Clinton would make a great villain......only his wife would be really awesome.
 
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