Best Movie Villians Of All Time

[Califan007]

Thought of this after seeing a post in my "coolest movie characters" thread. I thought Denzel's character in Training Day was VERY cool, but since he was a villian I didn't really consider him lol...hence this thread.

Who are the best movie villians of all time in your eyes?

Mine:


Alonzo Harris, "Training Day"

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/071101/trainingday_l.jpg



Frank Booth, "Blue Velvet" (he scared the **** out of me!)

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q192/grade_k/FrankBooth2.jpg



Scar, "The Lion King"

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080324/Villains/Lion-King-Scar_l.jpg

[jweisk1]

I thought of Alonzo Harris when I read your thread title...it doesnt get much better than that!

[buenosdiaz]

joker the dark knight

[GibbsFactor]

Obviously Darth Vader is always #1 on these lists.

http://goatmilk.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/darth-vader-face1.jpg

[BigMike619]

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080122/heath-ledger-joker_l.jpg

http://theland.antgear.com/patrick_mcgoohan.jpg

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/imgs/080324/Villains/Kevin-Spacey-Seven_l.jpg

http://www.spiralpocus.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/the-terminator.jpg

[buenosdiaz]

Obviously Darth Vader is always #1 on these lists.


who?















lol

[MattFancy]

joker from tdk
darth vader

[buenosdiaz]

bigmike good call on the dude from Seven, that mother****er was crazy!

[Burgundy Burner]

http://lastrow.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/jaws.jpg

[MattFancy]

also who can forget hannibal lector!

[Califan007]

The 2nd guy...
Who is the second guy?

[Kosher Ham]

Gotta add John Lithgow and Anthony Hopkins to the list.

[BigMike619]

Who is the second guy?

edward longshanks from braveheart. dude was downright evil.

[BigMike619]

bigmike good call on the dude from Seven, that mother****er was crazy!

I envy you bueno...

do you hear me?

i said i envy you.

[GibbsFactor]

Who is the second guy?

The King from Braveheart.

Man card please.

[buenosdiaz]

2pac juice...dude was nuts!

[Califan007]

Cruella De Vil

http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i49/blondeheroine/Cruella-De-Vil-B-web.jpg

She kills puppies and her last name is "Devil"..come on now!

[Kosher Ham]

Kevin Spacey in Usual Suspects > Kevin Spacey in Seven.

Although both were great roles.

[Califan007]

The King from Braveheart.

Man card please.
LoL...never seen the movie, always wanted to, though. Not sure why I haven't yet...

[rincewind]

edward longshanks from braveheart. dude was downright evil.

He threw that gay dude out the window.


:ols:

[renaissance]

Edward Norton - Primal Fear

http://cdn-www.cracked.com/articleimages/wong/nortonjuice1.jpg

Christian Bale - American Psycho

http://blogs.e-rockford.com/movieman/files/2008/09/americanpsycho460.jpg

[SKINS@THEGOALLINE]

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b299/SKINS7/Witch_468x359.jpg

[Bang]

http://www.mysteriousworld.com/Content/Images/Journal/2003/Summer/Giants/TheKurgan.jpg

Kurgan

http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh166/el_fridlo/20076721264_kurgan.jpg
"I am in ... disguise.."

http://blog.archenemy.org/wp-content/uploads/old/xerxes.jpg
Xerxes

http://www.filmesmm.blogger.com.br/The%20Outlaw%20Josey%20Wales.jpg
Well, technically Josey Wales is an outlaw.

~Bang

[USS Redskins]

Hans Gruber

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v301/mandiphany/harry%20potter%20and%20brits/hansgruber.jpg

[BigMike619]

Kurgan!!

wicked witch!!

great calls!!

[ECU-ALUM]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/19/Khan1.jpg

Gotta go with Kahn

[Bliz]

Online Film Critics Society (who knew there was such a thing? lol) top 100. I wouldn't go so far as to call some of them "villains". Was Alex in Clockwork Orange really a villain? Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket? Col. Kurtz.? They're complex characters. Not necessarily out and out villains like Lecter, Vader, etc.

And what the eff is catwoman doing on this list?!?

http://ofcs.rottentomatoes.com/pages/pr/top100villains

THE OFCS TOP 100 VILLAINS OF ALL TIME
1 Star Wars etc. - Darth Vader - David Prowse/James Earl Jones
2 Silence of the Lambs, The etc. - Hannibal Lecter - Anthony Hopkins
3 Psycho etc. - Norman Bates - Anthony Perkins
4 Die Hard - Hans Gruber - Alan Rickman
5 Blue Velvet - Frank Booth - Dennis Hopper
6 Night of the Hunter - Rev. Harry Powell - Robert Mitchum
7 2001: A Space Odyssey - HAL 9000 - Douglas Rain (voice)
8 Wizard of Oz, The - The Wicked Witch of the West - Margaret Hamilton
9 Nosferatu - Graf Orlock - Max Schreck
10 Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - Khan Noonien Singh - Ricardo Montalban
11 Clockwork Orange, A - Alex - Malcolm McDowell
12 Usual Suspects, The - Keyzer Soze - (mystery/actor's name withheld)
13 Third Man, The - Harry Lime - Orson Welles
14 Schindler's List - Amon Goeth - Ralph Fiennes
15 Halloween - Michael Myers (aka The Shape) - Nick Castle
16 Batman (1989) - The Joker - Jack Nicholson
17 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Nurse Ratched - Louise Fletcher
18 Manchurian Candidate, The - Mrs. Iselin - Angela Lansbury
19 Jaws - The shark - himself
20 Se7en - John Doe - Kevin Spacey
21 Terminator, The etc. - T-800 - Arnold Schwarzenegger
22 Misery - Annie Wilkes - Kathy Bates
23 Shining, The - John 'Jack' Daniel Torrance - Jack Nicholson
24 Once Upon a Time in the West - Frank - Henry Fonda
25 Amadeus - Salieri - F. Murray Abraham
26 M - Hans Beckert - Peter Lorre
27 In the Company of Men - Chad - Aaron Eckhart
28 Alien etc. - The alien - himself
29 Shadow of a Doubt - Uncle Charlie - Joseph Cotten
30 Nightmare On Elm Street, A etc. - Freddy Kreuger - Robert Englund
31 Apocalypse Now - Col. Walter E. Kurtz - Marlon Brando
32 Chinatown - Noah Cross - John Huston
33 Fatal Attraction - Alex Forrest - Glenn Close
34 Full Metal Jacket - Gunnery Sergeant Hartman - R. Lee Ermey
35 Blade Runner - Roy Batty - Rutger Hauer
36 Matrix, The - Mr. Smith - Hugo Weaving
37 Dracula (1931) - Dracula etc. - Bela Lugosi
38 Marathon Man - Christian Szell - Laurence Olivier
39 Terminator 2: Judgment Day, The - T-1000 - Robert Patrick
40 It's a Wonderful Life - Mr. Potter - Lionel Barrymore
41 Exorcist, The - Pazuzu - Mercedes McCambridge (voice)
42 Touch of Evil - Captain Hank Quinlan - Orson Welles
43 Leon (The Professional) - Norman Stansfield - Gary Oldman
44 Cape Fear (1991) - Max Cady - Robert De Niro
45 Goldfinger - Auric Goldfinger - Gert Frobe
46 Richard III - King Richard III - Ian McKellan
47 Strangers On a Train - Bruno Antony - Robert Walker
48 Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, The - Albert Spica - Michael Gambon
49 Double Indemnity - Phyllis Dietrichson - Barbara Stanwyck
50 American Psycho - Patrick Bateman - Christian Bale
51 Hitcher, The - John Ryder - Rutger Hauer
52 Goodfellas - Tommy DeVito - Joe Pesci
53 All About Eve - Eve Harrington - Anne Baxter
54 Bad Seed, The - Rhoda - Patty McCormack
55 Kiss of Death - Tommy Udo - Richard Widmark
56 White Heat - Arthur "Cody" Jarrett - James Cagney
57 Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - The queen - Lucille La Verne (voice)
58 Rebecca - Mrs. Danvers - Judith Anderson
59 Cape Fear (1962) - Max Cady - Robert Mitchum
60 Dr. Strangelove - Jack D. Ripper - Sterling Hayden
61 Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery etc. - Dr. Evil - Mike Myers
62 Taxi Driver - Travis Bickle - Robert DeNiro
63 Basic Instinct - Catherine Trammell - Sharon Stone
64 Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The - Leatherface - Gunnar Hansen
65 Wall Street - Gordon Gekko - Michael Douglas
66 Rosemary's Baby - Minnie Castevet - Ruth Gordon
67 Deliverance - Mountain men - Bill McKinney and Herbert "Cowboy" Coward
68 Training Day - Alonzo Harris - Denzel Washington
69 What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? - Jane Hudson - Bette Davis
70 101 Dalmatians - Cruella De Vil - Betty Lou Gerson (voice)
71 Metropolis - The evil Maria - Brigitte Helm
72 Duel - The truck driver - Carey Loftin
73 In the Line of Fire - Booth - John Malkovich
74 Phantom of the Opera, The (1925) - Erik - Lon Chaney
75 Last Seduction, The - Wendy Kroy - Linda Fiorentino
76 Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer - Henry - Michael Rooker
77 Sexy Beast - Don Logan - Ben Kingsley
78 Wait Until Dark - Roat - Alan Arkin
79 Reservoir Dogs - Mr. Blonde - Michael Madsen
80 Aguirre, the Wrath of God - Aguirre - Klaus Kinski
81 Fight Club - Tyler Durden - Brad Pitt
82 Batman Returns - Catwoman - Michelle Pfieffer
83 Rob Roy - Archibald Cunningham - Tim Roth
84 Graduate, The - Mrs. Robinson - Anne Bancroft
85 Casablanca - Major Heinrich Strasser - Conrad Veidt
86 Back to the Future etc. - Biff Tannen - Thomas F. Wilson
87 Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Ed Rooney - Jeffrey Jones
88 Roger & Me - Roger Smith - himself
89 Unforgiven - Little Bill Daggett - Gene Hackman
90 Frankenstein etc. - The monster - Boris Karloff
91 Flash Gordon (1980) - Ming the Merciless - Max Von Sydow
92 Stepfather, The - Henry Morrison/Jerry Blake/Bill Hodgkins - Terry O'Quinn
93 Primal Fear - Mystery Villain - actor's name withheld
94 Shane - Jack Wilson - Jack Palance
95 Peeping Tom - Mark Lewis - Carl Boehm
96 Mutiny On the Bounty (1935) - Captain William Bligh - Charles Laughton
97 Legend - The Lord of Darkness - Tim Curry
98 Last House On the Left, The - Krug - David Hess
99 Lolita - Clare Quilty - Peter Sellers
100 Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The - Dr. Caligari - Werner Krauss

[BigMike619]

why would you put that up?

everyone was having fun coming up with stuff. now you just came out and posted a list and that kills all imagination!! :(

[Bliz]

why would you put that up?

everyone was having fun coming up with stuff. now you just came out and posted a list and that kills all imagination!! :(

Fair point. Ninja'd, for the curious.

[BigMike619]

Fair point. Ninja'd, for the curious.

HAHAHA!! well played. :cheers:

[rincewind]

I always thought Vader was overrated as a bad guy. He became more and more of a ***** as the series wore on and all the most evil things done by the Empire were orchestrated by his superiors. If anything Tarkin was the evil guy in that movie, he ordered a whole planet blown up.

[STBonecrusher21]

HELLO?!?!

Dr. Evil hands down.

[KevinthePRF]

Not my personal pick, but one villian is strangely absent from the above list.

http://www.reelmovienews.com/images/gallery/jason-voorhees.jpg

[Midnight Judges]

Magneto
........

[mcsluggo]

http://www.stevecake.com/Other%20stuff/Night%20of%20the%20hunter.jpg

this was one scary preacher dude...

[Larry]

"Hello, Clarice."

[China]

Who makes a better villain than satan himself.

http://img5.allocine.fr/acmedia/rsz/434/x/x/x/medias/nmedia/18/36/11/55/18453740.jpg

[KevinthePRF]

Some of my personal favorites not yet mentioned:

The Operative, Serenity
http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/article/701/701650/serenity-2-20060413021803366-000.jpg

Vincent, Collateral
http://img300.imageshack.us/img300/2015/collateral02in5.jpg

Lex Luthor, Superman the Movie
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2004/10/11/movies/11REEVE2.2.jpg

Satan, The Devil's Advocate/ edit: (just mentioned above)
http://videodetective.com/photos/170/00718034_.jpg

Mr. Glass, Unbreakable
http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/gallery/1102967/photo_06_hires.jpg

Adam Meiks, Frailty
http://www.cinemablend.com/moviereviews/images/frailty/frailty6.jpg

[China]

How about the warden in The Shawshank Redemption.

http://www.scene-stealers.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/09/shawshank38.jpeg

[Mufumonk]

http://walterwoods.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/anton1.jpg

[MLSKINS]

http://walterwoods.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/anton1.jpg

Ooooooh ****!!!! Dude looks mean as hell, I didn't see that movie yet.

http://i241.photobucket.com/albums/ff273/Enigmaixi/shonuff.jpg

http://i258.photobucket.com/albums/hh263/bjolliff/jafar.jpg

Two dudes I would not **** wit!!!

[Dan T.]

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p30/DanTompkins/deniroincapefear.jpg

Robert DeNiro as Max Cady in the "Cape Fear" remake.

"Counselor?! Counselor?! Come out come out wherever you are."

[rincewind]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v722/jefe15/BillMurrayInKingpinJpg.jpg

[Dan T.]

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p30/DanTompkins/cheneyarethahat.jpg

Dick Cheney in the remake of "Driving Miss Daisy."

[MLSKINS]

http://i124.photobucket.com/albums/p30/DanTompkins/cheneyarethahat.jpg

Dick Cheney in the remake of "Driving Miss Daisy."

Oh no he has on the hat, lolol

[Goaldeje]

Three of my favorites:
Curly Bill, Doyle Lonnegan and Phillip Vandamm

[JimmyConway]

Alladin - Jafar
Jaws - Jaws
Gangs of New York - The Butcher

[MLSKINS]

FINSIH HIM!!!

http://www.geocities.com/EnchantedForest/Cottage/1233/shaokahn.jpg

[techboy]

Gotta go with Kahn

I'm pretty sure that's actually spelled Khaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan. Just FYI. :)

[Bliz]

Gollum - how did we go 4 pages without him

The Lone Biker of the Apocalypse - Raising Arizona http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxCR5KA47kU

Dark Helmet - Spaceballs

[BayouBrave86]

1. Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men
2. Max Cady from Cape Fear
3. Woo-jin Lee from Oldboy
4. Commodus from Gladiator

[HogNose]

Some that comes to mind........




Bill the Butcher

http://img348.imageshack.us/img348/5861/billthebutcher3wj.jpg





Nurse Ratched

http://bookology.files.wordpress.com/2007/09/oneflewratched2.jpg


Annie Wilkes

http://i26.tinypic.com/72g0up.jpg

[stanleys]

Some of my favorites that haven't been mentioned.

Jack Palance as Jack Wilson in Shane.

Lee Marvin as Liberty Valance.

Rip Torn as the general in Canadian Bacon.

[Predicto]

http://werewaiting.ytmnd.com/

[Mooka]

Norman Stansfield (The Professional)
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_YFyd-34oB4k/RgFjaXwTJUI/AAAAAAAAAEc/e2qtVKA3qHc/s320/oldman-leon1_1142987344.jpg

Captain Vidal (Pan's Labyrinth)
http://homepage.mac.com/merussell/iblog/B835531044/C1592678312/E20070120121827/Media/panvidalmedicine.gif

[NattyLight]

This dude from the Patriot was suck an *******. Some of these posts, however, aren't really "villains" in the classical sense.

http://isaacs.pale-spring.net/gallery/albums/patriot/normal_THE_PATRIOT-91.jpg

[Predicto]

http://buellerline2.ytmnd.com/

http://wormerfoot.ytmnd.com/

[MattGeorge85]

http://www.filmcatcher.com/uploads/img/product/large_thumb/280_feature_350x180.jpg

Tatsuya Nakadai as Ryunosuke Tsukue from "The Sword of Doom"

Trust me this is one of the best samurai films ever. Nakadai's portrayal of amorality is acted to perfection.

[nonniey]

I'd have to go with Jack Nicholson's Joker over Heath Ledgers version.

[LLandryistheshiz]

http://extremeskins.com/showpost.php?p=6110449&postcount=38

lololol Satan is looking at Lex Luther's junk.

[China]

joker the dark knight

Did you know that the original inspiration for the joker was German actor Conrad Veidt - specifically his portrayal of the character Gwynplaine in the film The Man Who Laughs?

http://s.buzzfeed.com/static/imagebuzz/web02/2009/3/25/14/original-inspiration-for-the-joker-13144-1238004464-72.jpg

[Stew]

Gene Hackman's charactor in "Unforgiven". I forget his name in the movie, however it is a great portrayal of a villian.

[BigMike619]

Gene Hackman's charactor in "Unforgiven". I forget his name in the movie, however it is a great portrayal of a villian.

how can you forget little bill?

"aah, the duck of death"
"umm its duke"
"duck i says"

[Stew]

how can you forget little bill?

"aah, the duck of death"
"umm its duke"
"duck i says"


:hysterical:

Thank you!

I just keep thinking to when he is bull whipping Morgan Freeman to death. That whole movie builds towards the last fight scene in the bar. It was great to see, for Clint Eastwoods last real Western.

[kuraitengai]

joker the dark knight
first one i thought of too.

[BigMike619]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_M22rILFafzk/SPVpTm74yZI/AAAAAAAAA-U/fLDJL_pLBsk/s400/P1040314.JPG

this is my mother...she didnt like wire hangers either.

[DieselPwr44]

I give you...Bruce Dern

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYEvd0TYdUA&feature=related

[mhd24]

De Niro in Heat:


http://tbn3.google.com/images?q=tbn:F2aTcNlPq3n3IM:http://images.art.com/images/-/Robert-DeNiro---Heat--C10104000.jpeg


Cruise in Collateral:
http://tbn1.google.com/images?q=tbn:_L6dsIu70_Y4QM:http://www.mtv.com/news/moviehouse/photos/collateral_040720/flip-a.jpg

[redskins0756]

http://lastrow.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/jaws.jpg

:applause::applause::applause::applause::applause: :applause::applause::applause::applause:

[Peeping Wizard]

Did you know that the original inspiration for the joker was German actor Conrad Veidt - specifically his portrayal of the character Gwynplaine in the film The Man Who Laughs?

http://s.buzzfeed.com/static/imagebuzz/web02/2009/3/25/14/original-inspiration-for-the-joker-13144-1238004464-72.jpg


That is creepy as hell.

[MEANDWARF]

http://valuablebook.files.wordpress.com/2008/03/goldfinger2.jpg
Oddjob and his boss Goldfinger
http://www.solarnavigator.net/mythology/mythology_images/Count_Dracula_Christopher_Lee.jpg
http://www.elvish.org/gwaith/graphics/sarumaninwoods.jpg

Christopher Lee as Dracula or Sauromon

[egtuna]

Some classic villians from the 80s
- Kathy Bates as Annie from "Misery"
- Jack Palance as Cattle Ranch Baron Murphy in "Young Guns"
- Prince Humperdink from "The Princess Bride"
- The Principal from "The Breakfast Club"
- James Spader's character from "Pretty in Pink"
- Hardy Jens from "Some Kind of Wonderful" (virtually identical to Jame's Spader's character above)
- John Heard's character from "Big"
- Jimmy Cerrano from "Midnight Run"

And the number 1 villian from the 80s: Johnny of the Kobra Kai from "The Karate Kid".

[RammsteinSkins]

Robert DeNiro as Max Cady in the "Cape Fear" remake.

"Counselor?! Counselor?! Come out come out wherever you are."Ooooh, my favorite suspense movie. I was gonna post this but one from my other favorite movie that intimidated me and still does.

John Stark (The Cowboy Way)

I can't find pics or video of him but it's Dylan McDermott's character.

[Burgold]

Liam Niesen

Schindler's List.

[PiLfan]

Toht from Raiders was a wicked bad ass...

http://mikesblog.typepad.com/photos/uncategorized/majortoht.jpg

[kevin11]

Liam Niesen

Schindler's List.
huh?

He was the hero.

[Larry]

Toht from Raiders was a wicked bad ass...

Yeah, I really "liked" him.

"Now. What shall we talk about?"

[81artmonk]

My top would have to be in order of importance

#1 darth vader

#2 The Dark Knight's joker (heath ledger)

#3 Hannibal lechter

[skinsgirl26]

My top would have to be in order of importance

#1 darth vader

#2 The Dark Knight's joker (heath ledger)

#3 Hannibal lechter

Hannibal!!!! Red Dragon was on tonight...it was pretty good. Sir Anthony had a few good lines in it too :D

[Califan007]

my old threads keep coming back to life lol :D

[skinsgirl26]

This is a phenomenal thread. I'll put some in here when it's not 4am :D

[PokerPacker]

Christopher Lee as Dracula or Sauromon
may as well add Scaramanga, the man with the golden gun, while you're at it.
http://moviesmedia.ign.com/movies/image/article/746/746573/james-bonds-top-20-20061117010146749-000.jpg

[PokerPacker]

Liam Niesen

Schindler's List.

:wtf:

[HogNose]

Liam Niesen

Schindler's List.
:wtf: lol

You mean Ralph Fiennes.

[HogNose]

Henry Fonda- Once Upon A Time in the West



http://img.timeinc.net/time/2007/villains/images/fonda_henry.jpg




Alan Arkin- Wait Until Dark

http://www.motorcitycomic.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/waituntildark2.jpg

[Califan007]

Alan Arkin- Wait Until Dark

Good one :applause:

[grego]

#3 Hannibal lechter

wow. 6 pages to get lechter?! he was the best ever.