Who is your favourite baddie in a film?

Me ^ | March 13, 2017 | beaversmom

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Not in the 1933 Flash Gordon—Charles Middleton played Ming with evil gusto.

[Yaelle]

John Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons... he was such an amusing snake.

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Omg that was one of the best movies. I haven’t seen it in years. He wants the older woman, she promises she will be with him if he seduced the young virgin girl. He is excellent at slow grooming and seduction, but he finds himself falling in love with the young beauty. And is still forced to ruin her life or whatever, while he is in love with her. And the older woman apparently really does love him but when she then is available to him he doesn’t really want her any more because he is totally broken hearted over the young one. Oh my gosh. What an amazing love and broken heart triangle and how well acted. I’d like to see that again.

[Yaelle]

I fell in love with James Woods in Against All Odds.

[Yaelle]

Billy Drago as Frank Nitti in The Untouchables.

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That was a great little performance. Until he became the hood ornament.

[A_perfect_lady]

It’s amazing how well that movie has held up in terms of production quality. It’s from 1988 but it’s really beautiful. It’s based on a play, and Alan Rickman played Valmont on stage. What a thought, eh?

[bruin66]

Things I remember from Flash Gordon

1)Their "space ships" taking off in a slow, upward spiral
2) Parachuting from one spaceship to another in Outer Space

[Albion Wilde]

You like sympathetic bad guys Wallach and Rutger

Wallach played a very likeable crook, Don Altobello, in Godfather III, also. He was a first-generation American, Polish Jew; yet his command of Sicilian Italian dialect was amazing, just as he was quite believable in Westerns. Great actor and U.S. Army veteran. RIP

[RinaseaofDs]

I have to agree. Eli Wallach is likely the best bad guy. However, Lee Van Cleef deserves an honorable mention. I’m watching most of his lesser known movies now - even the bad ones are great because he’s in them.

Totally loving the old Van Cleef movies.

[wardaddy]

I never thought of him as Jewish to be honest even though he obviously is

He mastered Tuco.

Boy was he dastardly in GFIII

I have friends like Tuco

Even when they act their helpless selfish nature you can’t help but like them

[Albion Wilde]

Bill the Butcher. Awesome performance. Daniel Day-Lewis, imho, is the world's greatest character actor other than Robert Duvall.

[Albion Wilde]

If there's a sub-category for best bad guy in a comedy, I'd say O Brother Where Art Thou had multiple contenders:

Daniel von Bargen as Sheriff Cooley

Michael Badalucco as George Nelson, the manic-depressive bank robber

John Goodman as Big Dan Teague

[RinaseaofDs]

I like Coehn Brothers movies. They’re all good.

[Political Junkie Too]

And for something completely different...

-PJ

[Albion Wilde]

I wasn’t a great fan of Burn After Reading, but find most of the Coen’s films highly entertaining and also great evocations of a locale or a time in American life, as in Fargo, O Brother, Ladykillers or No Country for Old Men. Their partnership with T Bone Burnett, who curates American folk music so lovingly, has been genius.

[Albion Wilde]

I never thought of him as Jewish to be honest even though he obviously is

I never thought "it" was all that obvious, to be honest, and I grew up in a largely Jewish area. He was a great chameleon.

[Yaelle]

I bet he was equally good in that role. It’s what I loved about James Woods in Against All Odds. It was just the fast talking bad guy part, but he made SO much more out of it by his obvious love for her. Same thing in Liasons.

[Klemper]

The Princess Bride - Count Tyrone Rugen, the notorious six-fingered man (Christopher Guest)

Mommy Dearest - Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway)

Phineas & Ferb - Heinz Doofenshmirtz (Daniel Kingsley Povenmire)

Misery - Annie Wilkes (Kathy Bates)

*posted by Mrs Klemper