Greatest film villain of all time

[Billy Rocket]

I can't remember the character name, but Jack Nicholson in The Shining. Or A Few Good Men. Or Wolf. Or Batman. Or pretty much anything.

He is a grade A proper horrible cunt.
Good shout.

Which reminds me, @muggboots

 

[Kid Galahad]

It would help to know what 'greatest' means - is it meant to be the most entertaining or most evil? Alan Rickman as Hans Gruber or the Sheriff of Nottingham are brilliant, memorable performances - they're meant to be evil but there's something comical and endearing about them - same with Hans Landa.

Anyone mentioned Warden Samuel Norton (Bob Gunton) yet?

Good shout, i like Bardem in Skyfall and LeSchiffre (sp?) in Casino Royale, good camp comic baddies.

 

[Stubbs ftm]

Lotso from toy story

 

[Macho]

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f***ing evil cow

 

[riffraff]

Tom (Tom and Jerry).
The Big Bad Wolf.

Just been reading an Empire article with a countdown of all time film villain greats. It's a bit heavy on recent films to my mind.
Top 5:
1. Darth Vader
2. The Joker
3. Loki (Loki??)
4. Hans Gruber
5. Hannibal Lecter
The Greatest Villains Of All Time

For me - Bruno Antony, Strangers on a Train and The Rev Harry Powell in Night of the Hunter. Female villain - Nurse Ratched, of course.

Any others?

That was Mitchums worst role. Scenery chewing of epic proportions and as for his fall in the chase.

 

[Hardyman's Yugo]

Sheriff Little Bill Daggett (Gene Hackman) in Unforgiven
The Lee Marvin character in Point Blank

 

[Motor City Cobra]

That twat from Schindler’s list...fiennes character.

 

[PinzaC55]

Nobody can top this one.

 

[The Archer]

The child catcher

Him for me too.

Proper hide behind the settee stuff when you were a kid. He still gives me the creeps now just thinking about it.

 

[Kitch]

Fu Manchu.

 

[Lord Potts]

Jack Palance as Jack Wilson in Shane. He played a mean baddy did Palnce

I couldn't agree more Alan Lad was doing the world and Wilson a favour when he shot him down like the dirty son of a gun he was. Jack Palance was magnificent in the role his character had a Satanic quality - even the hound dog gets up an leaves the saloon when Palance makes his first appearance.

In one scene Wilson goes out with his boss to confront Shane at the homesteader's ranch. I was always fascinated how Palance sort of slowly slides off his horse like a snake. I used to point it out for years as evidence of what an amazing actor Palance was. Much later I saw him in an interview and the scene was mentioned. "Oh" says Jack " I had hardly ridden before and I was terrified of the darn horse."

A great great baddie

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[Son of Stan]

Michael Corleone in the first Godfather.

Edit: bugger just thought of Lecter in Manhunter. Cox was brilliantly evil and normal.

Same film also a good shout for scariest baddie in Francis Dolarhyde.

Brian Cox was superior to Antony Hopkins as Lecter, definitely. Rewatched it recently and the music was doing my head in by the end.

 

[007Iron]

Jaws off James bond
Jaws the shark
Jaws the shark 3 where he headbutts his way into seaworlds at Whitley bay

 

[Binxy]

or

 

[Pancho]

Brian Cox was superior to Antony Hopkins as Lecter, definitely. Rewatched it recently and the music was doing my head in by the end.

I thought both films and performances were good. Hopkins was reptilian evil personified but Cox drew you in with his normality.

The scene where he taps the phone for an outside line to get Will Graham's home address is just chilling. "Just pop open that rolodex"

Mind the scene where Dolarhyde reveals his back tattoo is genuinely piss-your-pants scary.

 

[yorkyexile]

A good question. It depends upon your perspective, but for me a mafia don is always a villian.

But he was trying to stay out of it, marry Kay and be a teacher...more in the book than the film granted, he just got dragged into revenge. In which case you have to also include

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Different film again but Kevin Bacon is a good villian as the peado bullying guard in Sleepers

 

[Son of Stan]

I thought both films and performances were good. Hopkins was reptilian evil personified but Cox drew you in with his normality.

The scene where he taps the phone for an outside line to get Will Graham's home address is just chilling. "Just pop open that rolodex"

Mind the scene where Dolarhyde reveals his back tattoo is genuinely piss-your-pants scary.

It's Cox's normality that does it for me. I I love that telephone scene - 'I'd be immensely appreciative if you'd pull it out of her Rolodex for me.'

 

[THE CLOCKSTAND CLOCK]

The Captain

 

[Junior Birdman]

To be fair to Empire, it was the readers that vote

I feel that Empire is rather dumbed down these days. I'm more bemused by Loki at no. 3.

To be fair to Empire, it was the readers that voted. Anyway, I'll add these:

Joe Pesci as Tommy DeVito, Goodfellas.
Kevin Spacey as John Doe, Seven.
Dennis Hopper as Frank Booth, Blue Velvet.
Michael Myers and Freddie Kruger also scared me shitless when I was younger.

 

[Pancho]

But he was trying to stay out of it, marry Kay and be a teacher...more in the book than the film granted, he just got dragged into revenge. In which case you have to also include

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Different film again but Kevin Bacon is a good villian as the peado bullying guard in Sleepers

Haven't read the book so I've only the film to go off and his treatment of Kay is ice cold. Then there's the church scene juxtaposed with the night of the long knives.

It may be morally wrong but I've a degree of sympathy for the Michael Douglas character in Falling Down.

I haven't seen Sleepers.