[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Lee Van Cleef was always “bad” and always good at being bad.

As for women, the mother of Raymond Shaw (Angela Lansbury) and Livia (Poison is Queen)from I CLAUDIUS take the cake.

[nopardons]

Female villians:

Alida Valli in THE PARADINE CASE.

Katherine Hepburn in SUDDENLY LAST SUMMER.

Bette Davis in WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE?.

Ruth Gordon in ROSEMARY'S BABY.

Judith Anderson in Medea.