He’s a wrong ‘un

John Lithgow in Dextor

Paddy Considine in Dead Mans Shoes, a good wrong un

How about the delightful Darlene from Ozark?

Jesus, don’t start with Game of Thrones. That deserves a separate category all to itself.

Boyd Crowder (Walton goggins) from Justified. Charismatic, likable, silver tongued evil

Has noone done Marlo yet:

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Has anyone seen Winter’s Bone? Some proper wrong ‘uns in that

Has noone done Marlo yet:

Pretty stiff competition between these three.

The perfect balance of psycho and dimwit. Alec Baldwin in Miami Blues

Marlo Stanfield – great shout

John Lithgow in Cliffhanger

Not sure we’ve had Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet?

Richard Gere in Internal Affairs

Tim McInnerny does a good Behind The Scenes Government Agency Evil.

Not sure we’ve had Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet?

I think that was covered by birky posting the pic of Dennis Hopper in Blue Velvet 😛

Backslapping evil

What about cartman in ‘scott tenorman must die” when he arranges to have Scott’s parents killed in a hunting accident, grinds them into a chilli, then gets his enemy Scott to eat his parents, waiting to tell him after he’s ate the whole bowl. And then licks his tears off his face? And gets his favourite band, Radiohead, to slag him off in front of the while town.

Don’t get more evil than that

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One on the left

Apologies Birky, here’s another Lynch baddie to make up for it:

One on the left

Ciro?

Glenn Close

Friendly next door neighbour

Ciro?

Killed his own wife!

Struggle to watch Stephen Graham now in other roles….

I think it’s because Combo is no pantomime villain… there really are people out in the world like him.

Tom Hollander – Isaacs – Hanna
Daniel Day Lewis – Daniel Planinview – There Will be Blood
Paddy Considine – Richard – Dead Mans Shoes
Stephen Graham – Anything!

Some good ones there. I’m suprised no-one’s mentioned Malcolm McDowell in A Clockwork Orange, Aces High and the one about the public school.

David Tennant, Denis Nilsen.

Paddy Considine – Richard – Dead Mans Shoes

Not really the villain though, surely that role was Gary Stretch

Come to think of it, you never see Nasty Nick and Bad Coop together, do you?

As I wrap up my lunch break may I nominate Cillian Murphy for Scarecrow in the Batman reboots and of course creepy guy on a plane in Red Eye.

Great in other stuff too. 👍

Has anybody mentioned this fella?

Giancarlo Esposito – He’s in danger of over exposure as the latest go to TV villain bit oh so good at quiet, calculated evil. Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, The Mandolorian and The Boys.

Sergi López in Pan’s Labyrinth

Another one, almost too realistic to be entertaining – Jack O’Connell in Eden LAke
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Dicky Attenborough as Pinky Brown….

the original peaky blinder

Sam Rockwell and Doug Hutchison in The Green Mile, Michael Landau in North By Northwest and Anthony Perkins in anything….

Basil Rathbone such a rotter!

I’m glad Christophe Walz got a nod for inglorious basterds, my favourite movie baddie ever. Stupidly charming and horribly cold.

Jimmy smitz in dexter was good too, proper wrong un. Though not super obvious like Joe Pesci, Casino made me really uncomfortable, I’ve only watched it the once

Isn’t it a shame there are so few well written female baddies, there always seems to be the cop out that it is men that caused them to behave like that rather than just lean into being an evil bitch because that is who they are.

even

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I agree. There should be more lady baddies. Jenny Agutter was a Machiavellian wrong ‘un in Spooks, as was Anna Chancellor in a later series.