The Baddest Bad Guys

Some actors have made such a career out of stone-cold villainy, you just don’t trust them even at those rare times they’re actually being nice. But which actor—not counting those whose career is solely in the horror genre—has had the most evil-soaked movie resume of all?

By: Eric Alt
07/08/2009 03:41 pm

NOT ALL BAD

Denzel Washington

Major Acts of Villainy: 2

At His Baddest:Training Day
Also Evil in...American Gangster

Russell Crowe

Major Acts of Villainy: 3

At His Baddest:Romper Stomper
Also Evil in... Virtuosity, 3:10 To Yuma

Neal McDonough

Major Acts of Villainy: 3

At His Baddest: Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li
Also Evil in... Walking Tall, 88 Minutes

Ben Foster

Major Acts of Villainy: 4

At His Baddest:3:10 To Yuma
Also Evil in...Hostage, Alpha Dog, 30 Days of Night

Jack Nicholson

Major Acts of Villainy: 5

At His Baddest: The Departed
Also Evil in...The Shining, The Witches of Eastwick, Batman, A Few Good Men

Alan Rickman

Major Acts of Villainy: 5

At His Baddest: Die Hard
Also Evil in...Quigley Down Under, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Bob Roberts, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Kurtwood Smith

Major Acts of Villainy: 5

At His Baddest: Robocop
Also Evil in...Dead Poet’s Society, True Believer, Quick Change, A Time To Kill

Kevin Spacey

Major Acts of Villainy: 6

At His Baddest: Se7en
Also Evil in...Swimming With Sharks, A Time To Kill, The Usual Suspects, Superman Returns, 21

GETTING WORSE

Max Von Sydow

Major Acts of Villainy: 7

At His Baddest:Three Days of the Condor
Also Evil in...Flash Gordon, Victory, Strange Brew, Never Say Never Again, Minority Report, Rush Hour 3

Michael Madsen

Major Acts of Villainy: 7

At His Baddest: Reservoir Dogs
Also Evil in...Kill Me Again, Red Line, Donnie Brasco, Kill Bill Vol. 1, Kill Bill Vol. 2, House

John Travolta

Major Acts of Villainy: 7

At His Baddest: Face/Off
Also Evil in...Carrie, Battlefield Earth, Broken Arrow, Swordfish, The Punisher, The Taking of Pelham 123

Jeremy Irons

Major Acts of Villainy: 7

At His Baddest: Dead Ringers
Also Evil in...Reversal of Fortune, The Lion King, Die Hard: With a Vengeance, Dungeons & Dragons, The Time Machine, Appaloosa

Anthony Hopkins

Major Acts of Villainy: 8

At His Baddest: The Silence of the Lambs
Also Evil in...The Bounty, Freejack, Titus, Hannibal, Red Dragon, Fracture, Nixon

David Patrick Kelly

Major Acts of Villainy: 8

At His Baddest:The Warriors
Also Evil in...48 Hrs., Dreamscape, Commando, The Adventures of Ford Fairlane, The Crow, Last Man Standing, The Longest Yard

Sean Bean

Major Acts of Villainy: 8

At His Baddest:Patriot Games
Also Evil in...Goldeneye, Ronin, Don’t Say A Word, National Treasure, The Island, Flightplan, The Hitcher

THE BADDEST

Robert DeNiro

Major Acts of Villainy: 10

At His Baddest: Cape Fear
Also Evil in...Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Angel Heart, The Untouchables, The Boy’s Life, Heat, The Fan, The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle, Wag the Dog

John Malkovich

Major Acts of Villainy: 10

At His Baddest: In The Line of Fire
Also Evil in...Dangerous Liaisons, Jennifer Eight, Mulholland Falls, Mary Reilly, Con Air, Rounders, Knockaround Guys, Art School Confidential, Eragon

Rutger Hauer

Major Acts of Villainy: 10

At His Baddest:Sin City
Also Evil in...Nighthawks, Blade Runner, The Hitcher, Past Midnight, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Arctic Blue, Surviving the Game, Lying in Wait, Flying Virus

Lance Henriksen

Major Acts of Villainy: 11

At His Baddest:Near Dark
Also Evil in...Johnny Handsome, Stone Cold, The Outfit, Hard Target, The Nature of the Beast, Profile for Murder, Aliens 3, The Invitation, Madhouse, Appaloosa

Gary Oldman

Major Acts of Villainy: 11

At His Baddest: The Professional
Also Evil in...The Firm, State of Grace, JFK, Dracula, True Romance, Murder in the First, The Fifth Element, Lost in Space, The Contender, Air Force One

Gene Hackman

Major Acts of Villainy: 11

At His Baddest: Absolute Power
Also Evil in...Superman, Superman II, Superman IV: The Quest For Peace, No Way Out, Unforgiven, The Quick and the Dead, Crimson Tide, Extreme Measures, The Chamber, Runaway Jury

Willem Dafoe

Major Acts of Villainy: 12

At His Baddest:To Live and Die in L.A.
Also Evil in...Streets of Fire, Cry Baby, Wild at Heart, Speed 2: Cruise Control, Shadow of the Vampire, Spider-Man, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Spider-Man 2, XXX: State of the Union, Spider-Man 3, Auto Focus

Christopher Walken

Major Acts of Villainy: 14

At His Baddest: King of New York
Also Evil in... A View To A Kill, Batman Returns, True Romance, Things to do in Denver When You’re Dead, The Prophecy, Nick of Time, Suicide Kings, The Prophecy II, Antz, Sleepy Hollow, Kangaroo Jack, The Rundown, Balls of Fury

Dennis Hopper

Major Acts of Villainy: 15

At His Baddest: Blue Velvet
Also Evil in... Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, Catchfire, Paris Trout, Sunset Heat, Red Rock West, Speed, Waterworld, Meet the Deedles, Ticker, Boiling Point, The Crow: Wicked Prayer, Land of the Dead, Super Mario Bros.

Christopher Lee

Major Acts of Villainy: 28 (and that's being kind)

At His Baddest:Dracula
Also Evil in...The Mummy, The Hands of Orlac, The Terror of the Tongs, The Face of Fu Manchu, Dracula: Prince of Darkness, Rasputin: The Mad Monk, The Brides of Fu Manchu, The Vengeance of Fu Manchu, The Blood of Fu Manchu, Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, The Castle of Fu Manchu, Taste the Blood of Dracula, Scars of Dracula, I Monster, Dracula A.D. 1972, The Satanic Rites of Dracula, The Three Musketeers, The Wicker Man, The Man With the Golden Gun, To the Devil a Daughter, Return from Witch Mountain, The Return of Captain Invincible, The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones, Star Wars Episode III: The Revenge of the Sith

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on July 21, 2009
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on July 18, 2009
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Why do you always pick us Brits to play your bad guys ? Scared of the accent :) ?
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Why isn't Taxi Driver listed under De Niro? Is it because so many idiots have idolized Travis Bickle lately?
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Willem Dafoe can hardly be counted for Spiderman 2 and absolutely not 3. Dennis Hopper was not the villain in Texas Chainsaw 2, he saves the girl and everything. What about Kurtwood Smith in Fortress, where he was the villain to Christopher Lambert? And Sean Bean wasn't a villain in Ronin, he played a moron who sided with the good guys until they kicked him out. Rutger Hauer was way more evil in The Hitcher than in Sin City, in fact he's only in SC for a few minutes. Who wrote this article? Do you watch movies at all?
Sean Bean in Ronin
on July 17, 2009
?? only a wannabe bad guy
Dennis Hopper
on July 17, 2009
I thought he was a good guy getting revenge on Leatherface in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Yeah, he was going after the family for killing that guy in the wheelchair and traumatizing his sister in the first movie. Kind of funny when you think about it.
Sean Bean, Flightplan?
on July 17, 2009
Sean wasn't the bad guy, he was pilot doing what was best for the safety of his passengers. Oh well . .
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on July 17, 2009
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on July 17, 2009
No Man On Fire for Denzel Washington.
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on July 17, 2009
Sean Bean wasn't evil in Flightplan. And if you're gonna include Jeremy Irons' performance as Scar in The Lion King, then you have to include Kevin Spacey's performance as Hopper in A Bug's Life.
What about Tim Curry?
on July 16, 2009
I'm trying to think of a movie where he was good....
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on July 16, 2009
sean actually wasn't the bad guy in flightplan. given the roles he usually plays in american movies it was almost a plot twist that he wasn't the villain.
You missed Frank N Furter
on July 16, 2009
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on July 16, 2009
Rutger Hauer only 10 Major Acts of Villainy? Get your facts straight, he's up there with Christopher Lee (well, he hasn't played quite as much villains as Lee perhaps, but who has?)
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on July 16, 2009
Sean Bean wasn't the villain in Flightplan.
Walken
on July 16, 2009
Hey you forgot about walken's bad guys in King of NEw York and at Close Range. Both characters were Psychos... Especially when he blow O'l Horatio Cane's(David Caruso) head open?! I still can't take him seriously in CSI:Miami because of that!
Responding to ummm
on July 16, 2009
willem Dafoe was in the sequels and in the end of two he is the one having the psychotic talk with his son that turns him into the goblin for Spiderman 3... Watch your movies dumbass
John Travolta...
on July 16, 2009
Is he listed for being in Battlefield Earth or for making Battlefield Earth? I think a case of villainy could be made for both...
Christopher Walken
on July 16, 2009
Pure evil in At Close Range. Can't believe that one's been overlooked here. His "coyotes" scene with Christopher Penn? Scary as hell.
no Tim Roth!!!
on July 16, 2009
Tim Roth has been a villain in SOOO many movies! Rob Roy, The Incredible Hulk, The Musketeer, Invincible, Hoodlum, The Cook the Thief His Wife and Her Lover, The Hit, Made in Britain, Planet of the Apes, The Beautiful Country, Killing Emmet Young, Vatel, Pulp Fiction (yeah I know, pretty much everyone's a villain in that one), Murder in the Heartland! That's 14 films! And he doesn't get a mention? What the HEY!
John Travolta
on July 16, 2009
John Travolta was totally a badguy in Pulp Fiction.
Kurtwood Smith in Dead Poets Society
on July 16, 2009
It is not evil to not want your son to become an actor. Some would find that quite rational. He was beyond overbearing, but hardly evil.
You got one wrong!
on July 16, 2009
Sean bean wasn't evil in Flightplan! He even tried to help Jodie Foster in the beginning.
Missed one for Max Von Sidow
on July 16, 2009
I came here to mention that you missed "Needful Things" for Max Von Sidow, but someone already mentioned it.
I don't get it?!?!?! Al Pacino?!?!
on July 16, 2009
How come You credit dafoe for three parts of spiderman and there is no Al Pacino?? 1,2,3. The Godfather series 4. Scarface 5. The Recruit 6. The Devil's advocate 7. Righteous Kill 8. The Merchant of Venice 9. Ocean's Thirteen 10. Gigli 11. City Hall 12. Donnie Brasco (draws sympathy, but still) 13. Dogday Afternoon (same thing) 14. Carlito's way (same thing) 15. Dick Tracy As You see, Pacino should be high on that list...why isn't he?
Missing
on July 16, 2009
How is Pacino not on this list?
Rutger Hauer
on July 16, 2009
Rutger hauer, I mean.. he wasn't in Buffy was he? Also, he was at his baddest in The Hitcher, that movie is fantastic. Main character goes from whiny little dude to a complete stone cold killer/badass all thanks to the menace that is Rutger Hauer.
De Niro
on July 16, 2009
What about Godfather 2, he is turning in to the best mafia don ever. Also Hopkins wasn't really "evil" in Bounty or Nixon.
To be fair
on July 16, 2009
I don't think it's biased to call Anthony Hopkins' role in Nixon evil. Whatever your opinion of the actual President, the way he was portrayed by Oliver Stone in the movie he was evil. Conflicted and human, but still doing very bad things. And I'll spot you Oliver Stone's bias. But since we're counting slimy as evil in this list apparently, how about James Woods? The Getaway (Michael Madsen's evil in that one too), Nixon, Ghosts of Mississipi, Any Given Sunday, that HBO movie where he played Roy Cohn...
Antz
on July 16, 2009
You have Christopher Walken as evil in Antz, he wasn't, Gene Hackman was evil in Antz, but you don't have that listed. Curious... and nitpicky I know, but still.
Christopher Walken + 1
on July 16, 2009
Last Man Standing, a truly under-appreciated film...
Alan Rickman
on July 16, 2009
....Do they forget about all the Harry Potter movies?....oki know, Snape isn't evil "per say"...but...he could have been there...
Kevin Spacey
on July 16, 2009
In addition to playing the villian in "A Bugs Life", he also was the villian in the thriller "Consenting Adults," although that one probably deserves to be forgotten.
DeNiro.....
on July 16, 2009
What about DeNiro in The Godfather II and Taxi Driver? Ok, so maybe in Taxi Driver he was just messed up.
Titus
on July 16, 2009
He's not really a villain... That is more Tamora and her sons. Titus just exacts brutal and bloody revenge, a tragic anti-hero.
Lance
on July 16, 2009
Lance Henriksen was evil in "Aliens 3"?
ralph fiennes!!
on July 16, 2009
schindler's list,red dragon
and Bale?
on July 16, 2009
american psycho,swing kid,shaft,public enemies,hash times:very bad guy
Lance Henrickson
on July 16, 2009
you missed 2 other movies he was bad in. Dead Man and A History Of Violence.
bull
on July 16, 2009
Kevin Spacey was not evil in A Time to Kill. He was the prosector, doing HIS JOB. I could see calling him evil if he had deliberately tampered with evidence or something, but he didn't.
Micheal Madsen is higher than 7 c'mon
on July 16, 2009
One example is the character Blood in Beyond the Law.... That was a bad mother right there.
john travolta
on July 16, 2009
he didnt play the villain in face/off, nicholas cage did. cage switches bodies with travolta who was originally the good guy
about Bean
on July 16, 2009
He was not a villain in Flight Plan
Ralph Fiennes
on July 16, 2009
Schindler's List, The English Patient, In Bruges, I mean, he's goddamn Voldemort.
Lance Henriksen
on July 16, 2009
Is so deliciously evil. I could watch him all night.
Sean Bean
on July 16, 2009
Sean Bean wasn't evil in Flightplan! WTF? He just thought she was crazy and he had every reason to but he was the villain in that film. It was Peter Saarsgard. And besides, he realized his mistake in the end and in my opinion, had the hots for Jodie. LOL
some errors...
on July 16, 2009
Sean Bean is not a bad guy in Flightplan... Also, how can you leave out At Close Range for Christopher Walken? He's far more evil in that than in King of New York.
What about..?
on July 16, 2009
J.T. Walsh? I mean, just that look he gives...ice cold evil. That speech he gives in "Outbreak" still rings in my ears. The secretive sneer he sports in "The Negotiator" is completely distrusting. Even the standard bad guy role from "Breakdown" is amped up by his cold delivery. To paraphrase another publication, the only positive thing stemming from Walsh's untimely 1998 death is that the movies are safe again.
easy sleazy
on July 16, 2009
The list is the amount of times the actor has portrayed a villain even if it was only for a minute. It also picks their most villainous roll. Take it easy with the opinions
No he wasn't...
on July 16, 2009
I'm probably not the first person to post this, but Chgristopher Lee wasn't in LOTR: The Return of the King. Gandalf casually mentions that he's no longer a threat. He may have been in the extended edition, which I haven't yet seen, but that shouldn't count as being in the movie as he wasn't seen in the finished product.
bad old guys
on July 16, 2009
Edward G. Robinson, Boris Karloff
Minor quibble...
on July 16, 2009
Von Sydow wasn't really a baddie in 'Victory'. A Nazi, yes, but a remarkably sympathetic one. Call me a pedant, but that one's got to go. (And I'd move Ming in 'Flash Gordon' up to his scariest, personally, but that's as may be.)
Willem Dafoe...
on July 16, 2009
Yes, he did die in Spider-Man, but if you actually watched the sequels, then you would know he does appear in them as a figment of his son's imagination.
Um..., con't
on July 16, 2009
Willem Dafoe died at the end of the first Spider-Man movie, but he made a posthumous appearance in Spider-Man 2, and may have made one in Spider-Man 3 as well, although I've blocked most of that movie out in my mind so I can't remember for sure.
Hopper
on July 16, 2009
Correction: Dennis Hopper wasn't evil in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, just kinda nutty.
Dennis Hopper...
on July 16, 2009
was also the bad guy in Speed.
Check the facts Jack!
on July 16, 2009
Lance H was a bad guy in Aliens 3 as he teased Ripley on his (2nd) death bed. William Def's voice was in the other spiderman movies tempting his "son", so he was the bad guy. I think you'll find Gary Oldman wasn't in "The Firm" but Gary Busey was, he however wasn't a bad guy in it. But he was a bad guy in Hannibal.
Hardee Frickin Har
on July 16, 2009
Sean Bean was not evil - or any of evil's incarnates - in Ronin. In this film, he was nothing more than a loud-mouth faker who puked after a gunfight.
Max Von Sydow and Anthony Hopkins
on July 16, 2009
You forgot Max Von Sydows turn as the devil in "Needful Things". Also, calling Anthony Hopkins evil in "The Bounty" is really reaching and including "Nixon" just shows the incredibly bias slant of the writer of this piece.
TCM2 and Blade Runner
on July 16, 2009
Dennis Hopper fought the bad guys in Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2, he was not a bad guy himself. Sorry, but had to point that out. I would also contest Rutger Hauer as being "evil" in Blade Runner. The whole point of the film is that he wasn't a rouge android gone crazy, but a sentient being fighting for his life.
Lee van Cleef
on July 16, 2009
He should definitely been on this list, just for the Good the Bad and the Ugly! That was one bad man!
Kevin spacey
on July 16, 2009
What about A Bug's Life? Wasn't he the baddest of all?
Daniel Day-Lewis
on July 16, 2009
How about Bill the Butcher and Daniel Plainview?
William Smith
on July 16, 2009
William Smith easily competes with Christopher Lee as one of the badest bad guys around. He almost always plays a bad guy and has been doing it for decades. And even when he plays a good guy, he's still a major bad ass. Failing to mention William Smith is a huge omission.
jeremy irons
on July 16, 2009
you missed his baddest role scar in Lion King
Hell yeah Gary Oldman!
on July 14, 2009
I'm a huge fan of pretty much all of the actors listed, but none of them have an artistic impact onscreen quite like Gary Oldman. He simply gets overlooked all too often. In Bram Stoker's Dracula, just listen to his reading of the invitation to Keanu Reeves' character. That alone is beyond badass.
Kurtwood Smith...
on July 14, 2009
...should be bumped up a notch if we count television. Though surly, he wasn't quite a villian on That 70's Show, but he WAS a villian for a two-part Star Trek: Voyager episiode.
Um...
on July 14, 2009
Willem Defoe played the Green Goblin in the first Spiderman. If you will recall, he had his jet board rammed down his gut at the end of the film, which would make it very difficult for him to reappear in both of the sequels.
The best batman villain
on July 13, 2009
Jack Nicholson was also the (best) joker in batman. You forgot about that.
Baddest guy on film is . . .
on July 13, 2009
Clint Eastwood Not the villain, but certainly the "baddest!"
Bad guy list
on July 13, 2009
Freddy Kruger is coming for you! Nightmare on Elm st 2010 ya baby. Cant wait to see that movie
Forgot one for Max Von Sydow
on July 13, 2009
He was very sinister in Needful Things. Should bump him up a bit.
Alan Rickman
on July 13, 2009
He also played Rasputin... who was somewhat of both the hero and villain of that movie.
Simply awesome
on July 13, 2009
I feel like there is more left out like the nightmare on elm street guy or something. but at the same time I am satisfied with this list.
Max Von Sydow
on July 13, 2009
Max Von Sydow was also in a little movie called Needful Things where he played the goddamned devil, I think that should be credited to him.
Max Von Sydow
on July 13, 2009
what about needful things? he played the devil!
Lance Henriksen
on July 13, 2009
Lance Henriksen wasn't a bad guy in Aliens 3....or Aliens for that matter.
Robin Williams as a Villain
on July 13, 2009
What about Robin Williams? Okay, ignore the Genie and Patch Adams (*shudder*). He has only had about 5 villain/antagonist credits, but each one of them have been truly remarkable in my eyes. What about his terrifying role in Dead Again? The first time I saw him as a serious actor, it was in this bizarre past-life thriller. And while Derek Jacobi was the central villain, Robin Williams stole the show, playing a disturbed ex-psychiatrist, who'd had his license revoked after sleeping with his patients. He was so bizzarly frightening, in fact, that he asked NOT to be credited at the end of the film.
One you missed...
on July 13, 2009
Ted Levine???
alan rickman
on July 13, 2009
alan rickman also plays a bad guy in the new harry potter film being released this week, though i suppose it only counts as half
Baddest Bad Guys
on July 13, 2009
is this list based on quantity or quality? Jigsaw Javier Barden- Anton Chigurh John Lithgow- Blake Christian Bale- Patrick Bateman Woody Harrelson- Mickey Knox just to name a few
Terrence Howard!!
on July 13, 2009
he's played a villain in almost all his movies

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