| Mr Brightside | 22 Sep 2009 8:47 p.m. PST |
After seeing a few good threads on the subject I thought a poll on this would be interesting. |
| John the OFM | 22 Sep 2009 8:57 p.m. PST |
Alan Rickman in … just about anything.
Great in Die Hard. He's this age's Basil Rathbone. |
| John the OFM | 22 Sep 2009 8:58 p.m. PST |
Oh, and Basil Rathbone in Robin Hood. He is the Alan Rickman of the 1930s. |
| DeanMoto | 22 Sep 2009 9:15 p.m. PST |
General Tanz – Night of the Generals Maynard & Zed in the basement – Pulp Fiction Gabriel Feraud – The Duelists Baby Jane Hudson – Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Anton Chigurh – No Country for Old Men Nicky Santoro or Tommy DeVito – Casino or Goodfellas (essentially the same character – no?) Pooh-Bear – Salton Sea Annie Wilkes – Misery Mikhail Rostov – Invasion USA (basically because of the ultimate cool way he dispatches the drug dealers in the beginning of the movie) Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill – Sharpe's series; well not actually a movie, but he's quite the villain. Well, there's 10 – although I'm sure I'll change my mind later – I left off characters based on real people – save those for another poll. |
 Parzival  | 22 Sep 2009 9:24 p.m. PST |
Darth Vader
Goldfinger
Ming the Merciless
The Evil Queen (Snow White)
Maleficent
Saruman This list is gonna get really long… |
| willthepiper | 22 Sep 2009 9:40 p.m. PST |
Another vote for Alan Rickman. "But why a spoon?" "Because it's DULL, you twit. It will hurt more!" |
| Cyrus the Great | 22 Sep 2009 10:45 p.m. PST |
"Sting" as Martin Taylor in Brimstone & Treacle. |
| Cerdic | 22 Sep 2009 11:51 p.m. PST |
Daniel Day-Lewis "Bill The Butcher" in Gangs Of New York. A very believable, real character. Which makes him all the more scary! |
| Martin Rapier | 23 Sep 2009 1:17 a.m. PST |
Alan Rickman sometimes plays heroes too.
Gary Oldmans character in 'The Firm', a thoroughly reprehensible type.
Ernst Stavro Blofeld
Keyser Soze
Gollum
Big Brother
Orson Welles in 'A Touch of Evil'
Servilan from Blakes 7
Adolf Hitler in either Downfall or Max the king of them all really has to be Darth Vader though. |
| kreoseus2 | 23 Sep 2009 3:05 a.m. PST |
the head baddy from conan the barbarian , he sounds like darth vader too…. |
| mrwigglesworth | 23 Sep 2009 3:27 a.m. PST |
Sho'nuff, The Shogun of Harlem |
| Palewarrior | 23 Sep 2009 4:09 a.m. PST |
Clancy Brown as the Kurgan
Luke Goss as Prince Nuada
Christopher walken as the Angel Gabriel |
| Pictors Studio | 23 Sep 2009 4:32 a.m. PST |
Now if only there was a movie where Darth Vader fought Sho nuff |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 23 Sep 2009 5:24 a.m. PST |
Gary Oldman as Zorg in the 5th Element
Henry Fonda as Frank in Once upon a Time in the Old West. |
| RavenscraftCybernetics | 23 Sep 2009 5:26 a.m. PST |
OOO I almost forgot; David Warner as Ultimate Evil in the Time Bandits! |
| Balin Shortstuff | 23 Sep 2009 6:09 a.m. PST |
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| brevior est vita | 23 Sep 2009 6:26 a.m. PST |
Another enthusiastic vote for Henry Fonda as "Frank" in the Sergio Leone classic, Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). Fonda usually played kindly characters during his long career, and he seemed to really enjoy playing against type in this role. And his smile is eerily similar to that of the Grinch in Chuck Jones' TV version of How the Grinch Stole Christmas (another all-time great villain, by the way)! In the interest of further discussion, I have listed some more of my favorite movie villains, in chronological order: Peter Lorre as "Hans Beckert" in M (1931);
Béla Lugosi as the title character in Dracula (1931);
Boris Karloff as "The Monster" in Frankenstein (1933);
Margaret Hamilton as "Miss Almira Gulch/The Wicked Witch of the West" in The Wizard of Oz (1939);
Orson Wells as "Harry Lime" in The Third Man (1949);
Jack Palance as "Jack Wilson" in Shane (1953);
Robert Mitchum as "Reverend Harry Powell" in The Night of the Hunter (1955);
Christopher Lee as the title character in Dracula a.k.a. Horror of Dracula (1958);
James Mason as "Phillip Vandamm" in North by Northwest (1959);
Eli Wallach as "Calvera" in The Magnificent Seven (1960);
Anthony Perkins as "Norman Bates" in Psycho (1960);
Kirk Douglas as "George Brougham/Vicar Atlee/Mr. Pythian/Arthur Henderson" in The List of Adrian Messenger (1963);
Robert Shaw as "Red Grant" in From Russia with Love (1963);
Lotte Lenya as "Rosa Klebb" in From Russia with Love (1963);
Gert Fröbe as "Auric Goldfinger" in Goldfinger (1964);
Eli Wallach (again!) as "Tuco" in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966);
Douglas Rain as the voice of "HAL 9000" in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968);
Max von Sydow as "G. Joubert" in Three Days of the Condor (1975);
James Earl Jones as "Thulsa Doom" in Conan the Barbarian (1982);
Tim Curry as "Lord of Darkness" in Legend (1985);
Joe Pesci as "Tommy DeVito" in GoodFellas (1991);
Anthony Hopkins as "Hannibal Lecter" in The Silence of the Lambs (1991);
Gene Hackman as "Little Bill Daggett" in Unforgiven (1992);
Sean Bean as "Alec Trevelyan/006" in GoldenEye (1995);
Famke Jannssen as "Xenia Onatopp" in GoldenEye (1995);
Stellan Skarsgĺrd as "Cerdic" in King Arthur (2004);
Heath Ledger as "The Joker" in The Dark Knight (2008). |
| mad monkey 1 | 23 Sep 2009 6:26 a.m. PST |
Oliver Reed as Otto von Bismark.
Bruce Dern's character from The Cowboys.
Faye Dunaway as the Lady de Winter.
Christopher Plummer as Rochefort. |
 ColCampbell | 23 Sep 2009 6:37 a.m. PST |
Kirk Douglas as "Cactus Jack" in The Villain (1979), which also starred Arnold Schwarzenegger as "Handsome Stranger" (named after his father) and Anne-Margret as "Charming Jones." imdb.com/title/tt0080097 Douglas was the real-life Wiley Coyote!  Jim |
| John the OFM | 23 Sep 2009 7:03 a.m. PST |
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| brevior est vita | 23 Sep 2009 7:07 a.m. PST |
Hedley Lamarr.  Harvey Korman… also great as "Count de Monet"!
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| ComradeCommissar | 23 Sep 2009 7:15 a.m. PST |
Malcom McDowell as Alex in "A Clockwork Orange". Pure evil. Another vote for Anton Chigurh from "No Country for Old Men." |
| leidang | 23 Sep 2009 7:16 a.m. PST |
David Lo Pan from BTILC. "Are you crazy Dave, is that your problem?" |
| richarDISNEY | 23 Sep 2009 7:29 a.m. PST |
Yup… Rickman, Rathbone, Vader. Not in that order. What about Michael Moore & Kim jong Ill in "Team America"? Or
Belloq from Raiders of the Lost Ark?
or
Darth Sidious from Star Wars 1-3?
or
The Thing – from The Thing?
or
Michael Meyers from the ORIGINAL Halloween movie ( not the lame re-makes…)
or
Carter Burke (Paul Reiser) from Aliens
or
David Lo Pan from Big Trouble in Little China? 
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| Steve Hazuka | 23 Sep 2009 8:19 a.m. PST |
Is it the best actor that plays a villian or the best villian charecter? All Sheriffs of Nottingham are bad
Professor James Moriarty is always a baddy, even in Star Trek
Iago from Othello, never cross that guy.
Richard III villian/king villianious king? |
| kreoseus2 | 23 Sep 2009 8:56 a.m. PST |
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Rogzombie  | 23 Sep 2009 8:58 a.m. PST |
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 enfant perdus | 23 Sep 2009 10:44 a.m. PST |
Virna Lisi as Catherine de Medici in La Reine Margot Ralph Fiennes as Amon Göth in Schindler's List |
| Old Slow Trot | 23 Sep 2009 12:14 p.m. PST |
Al Pacino comes to mind in "Scarface",Kenneth Branagh as Iago in "Othello",Brian Donlevy as Sgt. Markov in "Beau Geste",Malcolm McDowell as "Caligula",Joaquin Phoenix in "Gladiator",Yul Brynner as Ramses II(and Edward G. Robinson as Dathan) in "The Ten Commandments", Clifton Webb in "Laura",George Sanders in nearly all his bad guy parts;Orson Welles as Quinlan in "Touch Of Evil";Richard Widmark,James Cagney,Lionel Barrymore,Jack Nicholson, and so many more,and we shouldn't forget the ladies either. They had some talent too playing heavies. |
| John the OFM | 23 Sep 2009 1:19 p.m. PST |
Kathleen Tuener as Maddie in Body Heat. You can't get any more noire villainess than that, although it's in color. |
| Shagnasty | 23 Sep 2009 1:28 p.m. PST |
There can only be one, HAL. |
| JackWhite | 23 Sep 2009 2:20 p.m. PST |
Robert Di Nero and Robert Mitchum Cape Fear
Alan Arkin and Richard Crenna Wait Until Dar
Anthony Hopkins Silence of the Lambs
Patty Mc Cormick The Demon Seed
Gregory Peck The Boys From Brazil
Ian McKellen Richard III Bad guys have the meatiest rolls. JW |
| Cyrus the Great | 23 Sep 2009 2:33 p.m. PST |
Wings Hauser as Ramrod in Vice Squad |
| Minondas | 23 Sep 2009 3:07 p.m. PST |
Rookie of the year nomination goes to Christoph Waltz as colonel Landa in 'Inglorious Basterds'. The truely memorable performance in otherwise mediocre movie. |
| La Long Carabine | 23 Sep 2009 4:24 p.m. PST |
The Lord Humongous! (From the Road Warrior!)
The Warrior of the Wasteland!
The Ayatollah of Rock and Roller! I have asked The Lord Humongous on how you should vote, his response, "Just vote for me and I'll spare your lives. Just vote for me. I will give you safe passage in the Wasteland. Just vote for me and there will be an end to the horror. I await your answer."
Sounds reasonable to me. ;-)
LLC aka Ron |
| HardRock | 23 Sep 2009 4:29 p.m. PST |
Billy Drago in "Delta Force 2". Tim Curry (again) in the disney "Three Musketeers". Both left slime trails in their scenes. |
| Top Gun Ace | 23 Sep 2009 5:34 p.m. PST |
I was always rather fond of catwoman – the Julie Newmar variant, although the others were good too. Jane Fonda ranks right up there too….. |
| Russian Bear | 23 Sep 2009 6:05 p.m. PST |
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| Mr Brightside | 23 Sep 2009 8:36 p.m. PST |
I would add
El Indio from For a Few Dollars More
Of course Darth Vader
Jaws (the shark and the Bond Villain)
Robert Carlyle as the Shade in Eragon And I will probably think of more.. ALV |
| Spartan | 23 Sep 2009 9:57 p.m. PST |
Clarence Bodiker (Robocop) |
| John the OFM | 24 Sep 2009 7:28 a.m. PST |
Wes Studi's Magua in Last of the Mohicans. |
| John the OFM | 24 Sep 2009 7:29 a.m. PST |
Tim Roth's Cunningham in Rob Roy. |
| richarDISNEY | 24 Sep 2009 7:38 a.m. PST |
Tim Roth as Febre the Man in Black in the 2001 Musketeer. Paris Hilton in …well… everything?
Can I add Britney Spears in Crossroads. That was a villinous movie just to watch…
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| willthepiper | 24 Sep 2009 10:04 a.m. PST |
If you are going to vote for Tim Curry, you must include Dr Frank N. Furter YouTube link |
| Old Slow Trot | 24 Sep 2009 10:32 a.m. PST |
Jack;Patty McCormack was in "The Bad Seed" "Demon Seed" baddie was a computer. |
| JackWhite | 24 Sep 2009 2:55 p.m. PST |
Old Slow Trot Right. The Demon Seed is so evil, it planted the thought between the time I looked up the actress's name and the time I posted. JW |
| Scorpio | 26 Sep 2009 7:14 a.m. PST |
Most of my selections have already been listed, but in case it becomes a volume issue: Heath Ledger as the Joker
Clancy Brown as the Kurgan
James Earl Jones as Darth Vader
Ian McKellen as Magneto
Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith in the Matrix
Tony Randall as the Brain Gremlin from Gremlins 2 |
