Favourite movie or television show villains - Page 13

**MaxJoker** · 02-14-2010, 12:39 PM

T-1000 , a class villain even if he was only programmed that way

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I was actually pretty upset in the cinema during his melting death scene

Especially as that meant for certain he wasn`t going to properly rip Arnie apart , and then beat that annoying squeaky voiced kid to death with the heavier pieces

**scoundrel** · 02-15-2010, 03:12 PM

I have just finished watching Bad Day At Black Rock again on Channel 4 and it struck me that Robert Ryan is a glaring ommission on this thread. With his imposing physical presence and quietly dominant personality, he was tailor made to play villains. His career broke through in 1947 when he played Montgomery, the main villain in the influential film noir, Crossfire. Ironically, in real life Robert Ryan was a Hollywood liberal who opposed the McCarthy witchhunts and racial discrimination at no small risk to his own career. In Crossfire he portrays a vicious and murderous anti-semitic murderer and thug, breathing convincing life into a character who epitomises everything Ryan most bitterly despised. This part earned him his only Oscar nomination.

He appeared with distinction in several other noirs, notably opposite Ida Lupino in Beware My Lovely and On Dangerous Ground. GreenSkull has provided a very worthwhile synopsis of Beware My Lovely on my film noire thread; On Dangerous Ground shows another side of Ryan, where he play a dangerous and troubled, but sympathetic character. He is a detective cracking under the stress of the job, who has lost his professional detachment and taken to savagely beating bad guys who annoy him...

Later, he showed his versatility in portraying a very different type of villain, pompous, vain and stupid Colonel Breed in The Dirty Dozen. However, in Bad Day At Black Rock we see the classic Ryan villain. Reno Smith is superficially poised and self possessed, a confident character who is the undisputed Alpha Male in his tiny desert backwater home, enjoys the favours of the only pretty girl there (Ann Francis as Liz Wirth) as a matter of course and tells everyone what to do, including the old and alcoholic sherriff and the station master. He has silently overthrown the United States of America and made himself the law in Black Rock. But below the surface there lurks an unstable brute, capable of committing a hate crime against a victim who is conveniently Japanese, but whose real offence is that he prospered on land which Smith failed to farm effectively. Smith intended to cheat the man when he leased the land, and to discover that his victim is a better farmer than he is becomes steadily more and more intolerable. It gradually emerges that Smith's crime wasn't a random act of drunken rage, but expressed the man's true colours. Smith is the real deal, a card-carrying psychopath willing to kill and kill again, caring for nothing and no-one and only concerned with pragmatic problems such as witnesses, alibis and avoiding detection. Ryan's performance is excellent, showing how this appalling man ticks.

Robert Ryan has to rate an honourable mention on this thread.

**Jeff Vader** · 02-15-2010, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by smallblock

The one the only Hannibal Lecter.Maybe streching the villain part a bit with this one, more of a hero to some I'm sure.

I thought that Brian Cox in Manhunter was a lot more disturbing. He just climbed inside your head and ran around.

For me the best had to be Henry Fonda as Frank in Once Upon a Time in the West, probably as he was cast so against type, but there are many other memorable villains mentioned here.

Charles Laughton in The Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)

**nevermind** · 02-15-2010, 08:45 PM

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Originally Posted by tabler

The kiddy catcher in 'Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'.........Ooooh nasty man!

Good one..

i was about 8 years old when i saw this creepy crawler
for the first time...

I did not sleep for about 3 nights...

.

**alexboy** · 02-15-2010, 11:51 PM

Well, Heath Ledger's Joker is probably the most chilling villian ever for me, but somebody beat me to it. Another good one I haven't seen mentioned is Alan Ford's portrayal of Bricktop in Snatch...menacing and funny at the same time.

rick1780 · 02-16-2010, 06:54 AM

Andy robinson -dirty harry, robert patrick- T2

**Mal Hombre** · 02-16-2010, 07:50 PM

On the subject of TDK,I also liked Eric Roberts as Sal Maroni.

**alexboy** · 02-17-2010, 02:21 AM

Crap, how could I forget about this guy? Most underrated villian ever.

SwedishEroticaFan · 02-18-2010, 07:43 PM

Two that haven't appeared here:

Conrad Veidt - Major Strasser in "Casablanca"

Al Pacino - Michael Corleone in "The Godfather"

gordian_knot · 02-18-2010, 10:01 PM

Another vote for Alan Rickman's Sherrif of Nottingham.

How about Fu Manchu, as played by Christopher Lee?

02-14-2010, 12:39 PM	#121
MaxJoker I Beg To Differ Sir ..... Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Cemetery Gardens_Arterial Blood Lane_Rampton Secure Unit_Extra Violent F Wing_Cell 19 Posts: 12,724 Thanks: 85,072 Thanked 173,252 Times in 13,806 Posts	T-1000 , a class villain even if he was only programmed that way [IMG]http://i49.*****.com/1hqm93.gif[/IMG] I was actually pretty upset in the cinema during his melting death scene Especially as that meant for certain he wasn`t going to properly rip Arnie apart , and then beat that annoying squeaky voiced kid to death with the heavier pieces __________________ My hypocrisy only goes so far**

02-15-2010, 03:12 PM	#122
scoundrel Moderator Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: England Posts: 6,057 Thanks: 65,848 Thanked 61,293 Times in 7,093 Posts	Robert Ryan I have just finished watching Bad Day At Black Rock again on Channel 4 and it struck me that Robert Ryan is a glaring ommission on this thread. With his imposing physical presence and quietly dominant personality, he was tailor made to play villains. His career broke through in 1947 when he played Montgomery, the main villain in the influential film noir, Crossfire. Ironically, in real life Robert Ryan was a Hollywood liberal who opposed the McCarthy witchhunts and racial discrimination at no small risk to his own career. In Crossfire he portrays a vicious and murderous anti-semitic murderer and thug, breathing convincing life into a character who epitomises everything Ryan most bitterly despised. This part earned him his only Oscar nomination. He appeared with distinction in several other noirs, notably opposite Ida Lupino in Beware My Lovely and On Dangerous Ground. GreenSkull has provided a very worthwhile synopsis of Beware My Lovely on my film noire thread; On Dangerous Ground shows another side of Ryan, where he play a dangerous and troubled, but sympathetic character. He is a detective cracking under the stress of the job, who has lost his professional detachment and taken to savagely beating bad guys who annoy him... Later, he showed his versatility in portraying a very different type of villain, pompous, vain and stupid Colonel Breed in The Dirty Dozen. However, in Bad Day At Black Rock we see the classic Ryan villain. Reno Smith is superficially poised and self possessed, a confident character who is the undisputed Alpha Male in his tiny desert backwater home, enjoys the favours of the only pretty girl there (Ann Francis as Liz Wirth) as a matter of course and tells everyone what to do, including the old and alcoholic sherriff and the station master. He has silently overthrown the United States of America and made himself the law in Black Rock. But below the surface there lurks an unstable brute, capable of committing a hate crime against a victim who is conveniently Japanese, but whose real offence is that he prospered on land which Smith failed to farm effectively. Smith intended to cheat the man when he leased the land, and to discover that his victim is a better farmer than he is becomes steadily more and more intolerable. It gradually emerges that Smith's crime wasn't a random act of drunken rage, but expressed the man's true colours. Smith is the real deal, a card-carrying psychopath willing to kill and kill again, caring for nothing and no-one and only concerned with pragmatic problems such as witnesses, alibis and avoiding detection. Ryan's performance is excellent, showing how this appalling man ticks. Robert Ryan has to rate an honourable mention on this thread. __________________ A ship in harbour is perfectly safe. But that's not what ships are for.

02-16-2010, 07:50 PM	#127
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02-15-2010, 11:51 PM	#125
alexboy Vintage Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 877 Thanks: 7,595 Thanked 25,002 Times in 923 Posts	Well, Heath Ledger's Joker is probably the most chilling villian ever for me, but somebody beat me to it. Another good one I haven't seen mentioned is Alan Ford's portrayal of Bricktop in Snatch...menacing and funny at the same time.

02-16-2010, 06:54 AM	#126
rick1780 Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Posts: 2 Thanks: 9 Thanked 7 Times in 2 Posts	Andy robinson -dirty harry, robert patrick- T2

02-17-2010, 02:21 AM	#128
alexboy Vintage Member Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 877 Thanks: 7,595 Thanked 25,002 Times in 923 Posts	Crap, how could I forget about this guy? Most underrated villian ever.

02-18-2010, 07:43 PM	#129
SwedishEroticaFan Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2008 Posts: 119 Thanks: 647 Thanked 468 Times in 115 Posts	Two that haven't appeared here: Conrad Veidt - Major Strasser in "Casablanca" Al Pacino - Michael Corleone in "The Godfather"

02-18-2010, 10:01 PM	#130
gordian_knot Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2007 Posts: 121 Thanks: 298 Thanked 2,021 Times in 135 Posts	Another vote for Alan Rickman's Sherrif of Nottingham. How about Fu Manchu, as played by Christopher Lee?