doctorxx Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Who would you pick? Someone rotten to the core? I always liked Rathbone's villains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willbefree25 Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 The guy in Frenzy. The guys in In Cold Blood. I cannot rewatch either movie. Rathbone was Winnie The Poo compared to those soandso's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyM108 Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Way too much villainy to choose among, but here are three that jump to mind immediately: Richard Widmark's Tommy Udo in Kiss of Death Robert Ryan's Reno Smith in Bad Day at Black Rock And of course Lionel Barrymore's Mr. Potter in It's a Wonderful Life Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Faiola Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Edward Arnold's understated D.B. Norton in MEET JOHN DOE Charles Laughton in THE BIG CLOCK (Rita Johnson: "You'd be pathetic if you weren't so despicable!") Claude Rains as the Devil himself in ANGEL ON MY SHOULDER Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 How about Burt Lanchaster in *Sweet Smell Of Success*. Or Oilcan Harry in the *Mighty Mouse* cartoons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fredbaetz Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 For your consideration: Hannibal Lecter "Bruce" the Shark Mrs Iselin { Angela Lansbury} Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanceroten Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Robert Ryan in Bad Day at Black Rock. Great villain there. Good screen presence. Really believed he would kill if he had to. Lee Marvin, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Joseph Cotton, Shadow of a Doubt Laird Cregar, The Lodger George Sanders in Son of Fury and Rathbone's Villains in various movies are kinda similar to me. Not really the scary villains, but, more like comic book villains. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomasterryjr Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Javier Bardem's character, Anton Chigurg, in the film "No Country For Old Men". If you came in contact with this character, spoke to him, or saw him you would be killed. His character was human death and just plain deadly. Chilling and disturbing film villan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dargo Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Ralph Fiennes as Amon Goeth in *Schinder's List* . And... Kevin Spacey as John Doe in *Se7en* . (...and yeah yeah folks, I know these aren't from way back in "Hollywood's Golden Era", but once you witness the sheer depravity of these two characters, they have a way stickin' in one's mind as exemplifyin' the ultimate sociopathic villain!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sprocket_Man Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 Angela Lansbury's Eleanor Shaw Iselin in THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE; nobody else even comes close. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lanceroten Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 > {quote:title=thomasterryjr wrote:}{quote} > Javier Bardem's character, Anton Chigurg, in the film "No Country For Old Men". If you came in contact with this character, spoke to him, or saw him you would be killed. His character was human death and just plain deadly. Chilling and disturbing film villan. Yes. Now he was chilling. Great newer film also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted February 15, 2012 Share Posted February 15, 2012 *Vincent Price* as Matthew Hopkins in *Witchfinder General* (aka The Conquerer Worm ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eugenia_H Posted February 16, 2012 Share Posted February 16, 2012 Ah, which reminds me of another good villain: Vincent Price as Henry Jarrod in *House of Wax* (after the fire, that is). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LonesomePolecat Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 I was just having this conversation with a friend of mine and we decided the best film villain ever is Maleficent in SLEEPING BEAUTY. She's so powerful she can turn into a freaky dragon. She always seems to have everything under control. She traps the prince and plans to let him wake up his princess when he's a frail old man (just horrible enough for a little kid to understand). And then there's that terrifying sequence when she appears in the fireplace and hypnotizes Aurora. She even said the word "hell" in a Disney movie-- gasp!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineramaRick Posted February 17, 2012 Share Posted February 17, 2012 John Cassavetes' Guy Woodhouse in *Rosemary's Baby* (1968) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cee Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 rick, cassavetes is a great answer! how about louise fletcher's nurse ratched in ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
willbefree25 Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 Good choice. Willing to offer up your wife's hoo hah to Satan for a part in a play. Phew. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineramaRick Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 Boy, you said it!!! LOL!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineramaRick Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 Nurse Ratched is a fantastic choice, cee!! How I hated her!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CineramaRick Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 And oh my God, we cannot forget Kathy Bates' Annie Wilkes in *Misery* (1990) !!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FloydDBarber Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 Dan Duryea is one of my favorite heavies. George Kennedy is another great bad guy. It's nice to see them play against type as good guys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arnie13 Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 I like Charles Middleton as Ming the Merciless in the Flash Gordon serials. A very bad guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NormaShearerGirl Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 Lowell Sherman in Way Down East (1920). I don't think there was ever a character I wanted to punch in the face more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sepiatone Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 Cassavette's Woodhouse wasn't a villian per se, just a self centered JERK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swithin Posted February 18, 2012 Share Posted February 18, 2012 Thayer David as Count Saknussem in Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959), for what he did to that duck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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