Best bad guys

[South Florida]

Posted: 7/17/15 at 8:41am

I was making a list of my favorite movies yesterday and realized they're almost all based on true stories.  In some of these the bad guys were played brilliantly, Ralph Fiennes in "Schindlers List" was amazing, and it's hard to think of a bigger ****than Alan Alda as Dr. Robert Gallo in "And The Band Played On."  Who are some of your favorite despicable characters?

[madbrian]

Posted: 7/17/15 at 9:20am

Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Iselin in The Manchurian Candidate

[beilis32]

Posted: 7/17/15 at 11:55am

Iago, from Othello. I've never hated a fictional character so much!

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 7/17/15 at 12:18pm

Robert Mitchum  CAPE FEAR and THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER
Barbara Hershey PORTRAIT OF A LADY
Laura Linney  THE HOUSE OF MIRTH
Helena Bonham Carter THE WINGS OF THE DOVE
Robin Wright and Kevin Spacey  HOUSE OF CARDS
Carice van Houten  GAME OF THRONES
Margaret Hamilton  THE WIZARD OF OZ
Lionel Barrymore  IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Louise Fletcher  ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST
John Huston  CHINATOWN
Laurence Olivier  MARATHON MAN
Gregory Peck  THE BOYS FROM BRAZIL
Claude Raines  NOTORIOUS
Christoph Waltz  INGLORIOUS BASTERDS
Leonardo di Caprio  DJANGO UNCHAINED
Imelda Staunton  HARRY POTTER AND THE ORDER OF THE PHOENIX and HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HOLLOWS
Kathy Bates  MISERY
Sergi Lopez  PAN'S LABYRINTH
Gary Oldman  THE CONTENDER
Ruth Gordon, Sydney Blackmer, Ralph Bellamy et al  ROSEMARY'S BABY
Glenn Close  DANGEROUS LIAISONS and FATAL ATTRACTION
Matthew McConaughey  KILLER JOE
Judith Anderson  REBECCA
Gene Tierney  THE RAZOR'S EDGE and LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN
Dennis Hopper  BLUE VELVET and SPEED
Angela Lansbury  THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE
Charles Laughton  LES MISERABLES
Basil Rathbone  THE SCARLET PIMPERNEL
Meryl Streep  THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
Denzel Washington  TRAINING DAY
Sharon Stone  BASIC INSTINCT (or is she?)
Toshiro Mifune  RASHOMON
Klaus Kinski   AGUIRRE and as himself in MY BEST FIEND!
Kenneth McMillan  DUNE
Malcolm McDowell  A CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Rutger Hauer  BLADE RUNNER
Anne Baxter and George Sanders ALL ABOUT EVE
Linda Fiorentino THE LAST SEDUCTION
James Mason  THE VERDICT and NORTH BY NORTHWEST
Milo O'Shea  THE VERDICT
Jacki Weaver  THE ANIMAL KINGDOM
Shelley Winters  A PATCH OF BLUE
Patty McCormick  THE BAD SEED
Heath Ledger  THE DARK KNIGHT
Al Pacino  THE DEVIL'S DISCIPLE
Orson Welles  TOUCH OF EVIL and THE THIRD MAN
Bette Davis  THE LETTER, THE LITTLE FOXES, OF HUMAN BONDAGE and WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?
Pat Hingle  THE GRIFTERS
Christopher Lee  THE LORD OF THE RINGS
Bob Gunton  THE SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION
Barbara Stanwyck  DOUBLE INDEMNITY

Updated On: 7/20/15 at 12:18 PM

[South Florida]

Posted: 7/17/15 at 5:16pm

Great list I've seen most of them.  I had forgotten Laughton played Javert.  I also watched a 70's movie Les Miz, it was the worst of the lot and there are a lot.  Love when the warden goes into the hole and says to Dufresne, "or am I just being obtuse".

[LaurenB]

Posted: 7/18/15 at 3:05am

Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber in Die Hard.

[The Glenbuck Laird]

Posted: 7/18/15 at 4:00am

Is Louise Fletcher a baddie in OFOTCN?

I was going to add Darth Vadar in Star Wars

[Fantod]

Posted: 7/18/15 at 4:35am

Peter and Paul from Funny Games.

[jasonf]

Posted: 7/18/15 at 11:07am

GAME OF THRONES SPOILERS

 

I have to question Carice van Houten (Melisandre) from Game of Thrones as being a bad guy. I'm not so sure she's bad. She has her own motivations, and yes, she's done some bad things, but who in GoT hasn't (well, who's still alive)?  I guarantee you, if she's the one who save Jon, she will not be looked on as a bad guy. Joffrey and Ramsay? THOSE are bad guys.  I think it's too early still to call Melisandre either way.

 

I would also seriously question Javert as a bad guy. Antagonist, yes. Bad guy? Hardly - in fact, he's as on the side of the law as anyone, which makes it impossible for him to be a "bad guy".

[The Glenbuck Laird]

Posted: 7/18/15 at 12:05pm

Oooh good shout regarding Mel1sandre jasonf. She might be the hero of the hour?

 

[South Florida]

Posted: 7/19/15 at 6:27am

Richard Widmark in "Kiss of Death"'

[singtopher]

Posted: 7/19/15 at 7:09pm

I'd add J.K. Simmons in Whiplash  to the list above.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 7/20/15 at 1:04pm

Sure, some on my list are a lot worse than others, but Melisandre.... sure, if you don't consider demanding the burning of a little girl bad, then she's a perfect angel.

As far as having her reasons, all baddies have them (if they don't, the actor has failed at finding them).

Updated On: 7/20/15 at 01:04 PM

[South Florida]

Posted: 7/21/15 at 5:17am

Kevin Dillon as Bunny played an evil dumb ass, but real bad guys need to be smart.  Amon Goeth, Robert Gallo, real people who weren't morons.  Berenguer was great as a bad guy in a few movies if I remember.