Actors that play terrific bad guys
I don't know if this topic is a repost, I did use the search engine on this part of the forum and I couldn't find any.
There are some actors that I like that play awesome bad guys, they play mostly good guys though in movies, but in my opinion they make great evil characters. Here are some that I like: 1) Robin Willaims - I find when he plays a bad guy very scary, sick, demented just creepy. It's amazing how good of a bad guy he can play. Pulls in one easy which his charm and jokes. 2) Van Damme - Movies like Double Impact (the brother with the slick back hair) and Black Eagle there is another one that I forgot where he hunts down his clone or brother...I think it's Replicant? |
Alan Rickman, Tim Curry and Gary Oldman spring to mind.
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Gary Oldman
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Originally Posted by Sonic
(Post 9153056)
2) Van Damme - Movies like Double Impact (the brother with the slick back hair) and Black Eagle there is another one that I forgot where he hunts down his clone or brother...I think it's Replicant?
Yeah, that's Replicant. He was very good in a villain role in that one. |
Speaking of replicants, Rutger Hauer, also great in The Hitcher, Nighthawks. Robert Shaw too, great Bond baddy, Taking of Pelham 1 2 3, The sting, Robin and Marian, etc.
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Anthony Hopkins
Lee Marvin Gene Hackman |
Powers Boothe
Sean Bean |
Michael Wincott, Billy Drago, Michael Madsen, Lawrence Tierney
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Tobin Bell
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Willem Dafoe
Kevin Spacey |
Ralph Fiennes
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Tom Cruise in Collateral was pretty good.
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Wish people would use Ray Winstone as a villain more.
Go see the Proposition. And the definition of an actor ONLY known for super good, white bread All-American good guy roles, but then goes and creates IMO the greatest villain ever is Henry Fonda. Also two of my all-time favorites that get zero love here. Robert Mitchum & Richard Widmark. |
Peter Lorre
Michael Wincott Henry Silva Michael Ironside Orson Welles |
John Malkovich
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Originally Posted by superdeluxe
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Tom Cruise in Collateral was pretty good.
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Kurtwood Smith
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Originally Posted by Sessa17
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And the definition of an actor ONLY known for super good, white bread All-American good guy roles, but then goes and creates IMO the greatest villain ever is Henry Fonda.
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Another good actor I forgot to mention that plays an awesome scary bad guy...Harry Connick Jr (movie Copycat).
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Originally Posted by Sessa17
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And the definition of an actor ONLY known for super good, white bread All-American good guy roles, but then goes and creates IMO the greatest villain ever is Henry Fonda.
I opened this thread to post Fonda. James Cromwell damn near matched Fonda. He is so good. Klaus Kinski. Heath Ledger did a fantastic job. Sir Laurence Olivier. Guy Pierce. Peter Lorre. There's a few. |
I second Ralph Fiennes. He's soo good as the bad guy.
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Sean Bean is such a convincing bad guy that even when he isn't, you think he's going to turn bad anyway.
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Tim Roth.
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Everett McGill, although he was awesome in Twin Peaks as one of the few normal and good people of the town.
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Kevin Spacey (Se7en)
Keifer Sutherland (Eye For An Eye) Edward Norton (Primal Fear) And my favorite: Doug Hutchison (The Green Mile, CSI: Las Vegas, X Files, John Doe, Bait) |
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