best movie villains? ???

[nagantguy]

I could use a brake from the right left hook of life at the moment...so who's your favorite movie villains. ..I'll see where this goes and post my list later. ..book villains are okay as well, since it's my post and read may more books than see movies.....no cable or tv for 8 years, just got a TV this year still no cable

[Hickok]

Heath Ledger playing the Joker. Wow. I would not let a little kid view that movie.

[shooter93]

Hannibal Lector has to rate right up there and also the horse thieves and man burner in Lonesome Dove and I'll toss in Nurse Ratchet from Cuckoo's Nest. It's always a bummer too if one of your favorite actors takes on a bad guy role.

[jonp]

Heath Ledger playing the Joker. Wow. I would not let a little kid view that movie.

That's no lie. He was downright spooky in that role. Actually, pretty disturbing and an Oscar winner for sure. The best movie villains are the ones that make you hate them from the git-go. It's a hard thing to pull off.

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[jonp]

Chris Penn in Reservoir Dogs was pretty good although I really liked Joe Pesci in Goodfellas

[Naphtali]

√Andy Robinson in "Dirty Harry" no additional Dirty Harry movies without this villain

Patrick Stewart in "Conspiracy Theory"

Alan Rickman in "Die Hard"

Dean Martin in "Rough Night in Jericho"

Arthur Kennedy in "The Man from Laramie" and "Bend of the River"

Walter Matthau in "Charade"

Robert Shaw in "The Sting"

John Vernon in "Animal House"

Jason Robards, Jr. in "The Saint Valentines Day Massacre"

Basil Rathbone in "The Adventures of Robin Hood"

√Burt Lancaster in "Vera Cruz" far and away the best. He steals the movie being hilarious and evil

√John Wayne in "The Searchers" an incredibly complex character being both hero and villain. Just behind Burt.

If these are insufficient, I got a million of 'em, a million.

[Markbo]

Alien, Predator, Terminator.

[OS OK]

BRUCE DERN maggot little SOB…you know who he shot!

[Bent Ramrod]

Richard Boone as Cicero Grimes in Hombre. Also Robert Mitchum as the Reverend Harry Powell in Night of the Hunter.

Heath Ledger was great as the Joker. He turned the character into the Richard III of comic book supervillains.

[Taylor]

I have been mad at him ever since.The gall...to shoot John Wayne! He always did play a dirtbag.

[Blammer]

Allen Rickman as Professor Snape in Harry Potter. You just KNEW he was up to no good until...

[richhodg66]

Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter ranks way up there, that movie still gives me the creeps.

Lately, I have to vote The Governor in The Walking Dead.

[jcren]

Hans Landa in "Inglorious ********". Creepily likable.

[dilly]

There were two bad guys in the Green Mile. The one that stands out to me is the prisoner played by Sam Rockwell. Though I just can't peg what it is about him, Sam Rockwell is an excellent actor, good or bad.

[rondog]

I always thought Wes Studi made the most badazz Indian. He was in Last of the Mohicans and Dances With Wolves, who knows how many others.

[Powder Burn]

Snoopys arch enemy....the Red Baron

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[AK Caster]

Have to agree about Ledger. He was absolutely brilliant as the Joker.

[nagantguy]

Bill the butcher in gangs of new York
Darth Vader
Dr. Lecter in silence of the lambs
Brick top in Snatch
David Karidean in kill bill

[Col4570]

Ernest Borgnine, as Fatso in "From Here To Eternity".Jack Palance in "Shane".Lee Marvin in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.There where lots like Victor Jury,Robert Ryan,George Sanders,Christopher Lee,all baddies who could also play goodies.

[Hickok]

Can some of you remember back when "Dallas" was a hit show? Wife used to watch it some, and I would catch bits and pieces of it. I couldn't take it for too long, as "J.R." was the type of guy that I would have liked to walk up to and bust right in chops!

I think we have all run into "J.R. Ewings" in our life time. Those that are scheming, conniving, lying, stepping on good working people for their own amusement.