Which actor makes the best movie villian?

Fixer, thank you for that. I had forgotten that the "Gunny" from "Mail Call" was the screwed up D.I. in "Full Metal Jacket". He was great in that role! Just as Christopher Walken was wonderful in spoofing his signature roles in "Mousetrap".
 
Some of the "villains" named were closer to an anti-hero than a villain. Ledger and Hardy did amazing jobs in the most recent Batman films. One of-if not the greatest- villain role and portrayal of all time has to be Christoph Waltz in Inglorious Basterds. Say what you want of the film-love or hate-Waltz was simply amazing. Kevin Spacey is also excellent, a la Se7en. Daniel Day-Lewis is amazing in everything, so he is as good an antagonist as he is a protagonist. When mentioning Gary Oldman I am surprised I didn't see mention of this-I may have glossed over it-but Drexl Spivey may be one of the greatest villains in movie history.
 
You sure did wake up an old thread, Over Kill, but I will add Lousie Fletcher as Nurse Ratched in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
 
alan rickman-----robin hood
tim curry-------legend
heath ledger------dark knight
kevin bacon------river wild


bowie-------labyrinth..........................cough cough.
 
Sergi Lopez did a good job in Pan's Labyrinth (so did Doug Jones who played the faun and Pale Man).

As far as Tarantino films my favorite was Kurt Russell.
 
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My vote goes to Alan Richman. He is a likeable prick. The others mentioned, not so much.

I will add that Kevin Bacon has potential, but it's never really been fully realized. I liked him as a villain in X-men First Class. A stupid and boring movie, it would have been far worse without him. He was alright in that movie where he turns invisible and cannot reverse it. But he really shined in X-men. He is a villain, but one that you can root for. I also root for David Bowie as a villain, another man who had and still has great potential for villainy. Maybe even more so. His villains are more mysterious and romantic. As in the Labyrinth, The Time Machine, and even Into the Night.
 
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I don't think this one was mentioned before in this long thread, as it was recently resuscitated from early 2006. Javier Bardem in No Country For Old Men (which came out later in 2006 iirc).
 
Anthony Hopkins and Robert Carlyle are my favorites that I can think of at the moment. I like Kevin Bacon in The River Wild as well.

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Menacing much? :D

I think I'll have to cast a vote for Ed Harris as well... more and more names keep popping up the more I think about it :D

I'm surprised that there haven't been more mentions of Wes Studi from Last of the Mohicans - awesome movie!
 
I know Robert Mitchum has been mentioned for Night Of the Hunter, but what about the one and only original Cape Fear?

Mitchum puts Denero to shame for menace. Denero was too over the top, as was the whole movie. Just not as good a production as the original. Mitchum knew how to very subtly turn up the menace just a little bit at a time, and the look in his eyes was scary. And the scene where he has the young girl cornered by the ping pong table, yikes, a fathers worst nightmare.
 
I think Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight.
And maybe Gary Sinese in Reindeer Games. (Awesome Movie)
 
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