[Closed] He's a wrong 'un

Glenn Close

John Malkovich
Gary Oldman

Milla Jovovich - Resident Evil

EDIT

I don't know how to play this game, do I?

Mark Strong - Great at playing a classic villain in action films. Facial scar or disturbed past optional.

Yule Brynner - Award for best evil cyborg.

Kathy Bates - Just for her performance in Misery

Alan Rickman

Rickman.

Obviously.

Edit - Great minds, Tom...!

Jack Nicholson surely?

Donald Sutherland too - he could do jovial evil.

Javier Bardem in No Country for Old Men - menacing evil

Ben Kingsley although he did play a rather nice chap from India.

William B Davis

Jeffrey Combs

Ben Kingsley although he did play a rather nice chap from India.

Surely the most terrifying film depiction of a complete psychopath ever?

No! No! No! No! No! No! No! No!

David Thewlis in Naked, for scarily destructive nihilism and the most unhinged ranting ever

Gary Oldman, obvs.

James Earl Jones is amazing in Conan The Barbarian plus he's Darth Vader, so....

Joe Pesci...

Vincent Price

Daniel and Luis Moncada. The Salamanca crawling brothers in Breaking Bad.

Laurence Olivier in Marathon man

Mads Mikkleson in Hannibal.

Wes Chatham in The Expanse.

Remi Malek in The Pacific.

Mike Myres: Dr Evil

Remi Malek in The Pacific.

Didn’t see him as a villain at all. Just a man who had seen too much shit and his mind had snapped. Severe PTSD and no help available. Was he meant to be a villain?

Simon Russell Beale as Beria in "The Death of Stalin".

he's definitely a wrong un and played a few...

Laurence Olivier as the Nazi dentist in Marathon Man!

slowoldman

+1000.

cold

Zelda from Terrahawks.

Genuinely still gives me the willies even now....

Didn’t see him as a villain at all. Just a man who had seen too much shit and his mind had snapped. Severe PTSD and no help available. Was he meant to be a villain?

Maybe not a villain, but he was definitely the wrong un' of the platoon. Even if it was PTSD, it was a strikingly off kilter portrayal.

Pure distilled evil

Really, really want to see Tom Hanks doing a wrong ‘un

David Thewlis in Naked

A good wrong-un in Fargo too

How have we not mentioned...

Klunk,

Yup, Henry Fonda in Once upon a time in America is the coldest.

The answer is Donald Pleasance: Dr Crippen, Blofeld, Himmler...

Really, really want to see Tom Hanks doing a wrong ‘un

Road to Perdition?

James Earl Jones is amazing in Conan The Barbarian plus he’s Darth Vader, so….

and even more terrifyingly:

Thewliss was a proper wrong 'un in Wonder Woman too

It makes you think

Evil personified

Franco Begbie

Javier Bardem

Richard Dormer as Dan in Fortitude, some properly unhinged moments.

Robert Newton as Bill Sykes

Good call for Mr Bronson up there ^^

Richard Dormer as Dan in Fortitude, some properly unhinged moments.

In a similar vein, Mr Hickey from the recent Arctic horror The Terror (excellent, by the way).

Good shout on Buxton, the blue cat @maccruiskeen

The embodiment of evil!

And another vote for Mr Hickey. Just finished the Terror last night and he’s a proper malevolent bastard

Anton Diffring played his fair share of stereotypical German baddies (turns out he had a Jewish parent). Not particularly scary though.

Jason Isaacs in the patriot and Joachim Phoenix in Gladiator are both in the disconcertingly unhinged category of wrong’un, surely?

Woody Harrelson.

Who would have guessed it after so long in the role of harmless, witless, Woody...

Psychopath evil

Ape-hating evil

Racist, misogynistic, corrupt evil

Micheal Wincott has played some really likeable baduns.

This guy is often typecasted

Good call on Phoenix.

I like Ian McDirmaid as Palpatine in the Phantom Menace -> Revenge of the Sith. While the films and a number of the characters were, shall we say, mostly a bit lacking in subtlety his role was much better played.

Forest Whittaker for The Last King of Scotland.

Begbie is a good call, but I reckon Robert Carlisle actually topped that in Ravenous:

Heath Ledger was very good...

Javier Bardem is the best film villain of recent times IMO, especially in No Country for old men

Alan Rickman obviously...

Cristoph Waltz was brilliant as Hans Landa in Inglorious Basterds

Tom Hardy does well, especially as Charles Bronson I thought

Ben Kingsley was superb in Sexy Beast! Pretty menacing in Shutter Island too.

Kathy Bates in Misery... Scary stuff!

Cristopher Lee, possibly the all time great bad guy...? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Al Pacino is arguably the master of playing the bad guy when trying to seduce the audience into believing that he is the good guy.

Joe Pesci was properly deranged in Goodfellas!

Gary Oldman in Leon

Samuel L Jackson in Django Unchained (FAR more menacing than Di Caprio!)

Probably loads more worthy of a mention, but those are the ones that come to my mind straight away...

Dennis Hopper

Laurence Fox

Brian Cox in Manhunter
De Niro in Cape Fear

Philip Seymour Hoffman. A talent for playing wrong ‘uns.

Forest Whittaker for The Last King of Scotland.

Absolutely, great shout!

I'm gonna have to give Terror a viewing too now, cheers 👍🏻

jason isaacs in the patriot

Gripper from Grange Hill.

Closely followed by Gary Oldman and Tom Hardy

jason isaacs in the patriot

Haven't seen that, but he was an excellent wrong 'un in The OA as well.

Has anybody mentioned this fella?

Stephen Graham as Combo gets a shout too.

Philip Seymour Hoffman

He certainly did the creepy guy on the phone as well as anyone.

Another proper wrong'un!

And she's a wrong 'un too:

Seem to remember Ben Mendelsohn as 'Pope' Cody in Animal Kingdom as being pretty chilling

Hung-over or psychotic killer, enquiring minds want to know...

So in a fight between

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it's clear who can carry the most beers

Chunky, persistent evil:

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Subtle malevolence:

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