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Actors who are the best at being the worst:
Charles Dance - Upper Class Evil
Aidan Gillan - Scheming Evil
Anna Chancellor - Intelligent Evil
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
