5 Favourite Movie Villains

[vandermolen]

First that come to mind:

Harry Lime from The Third Man

Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont from Dangerous Liaisons

Liberty Walance

Don't know the Marquise but Liberty and Harry Lime are great choices.

[Jaakko Keskinen]

I like Liberty too but my favorite scene of the movie is actually after he is shot. The doctor orders whisky as if it were a medical order. And then he drinks it!   

Great choices from everyone!

[motoboy]

David Lo Pan
Inspector Frank Butterman
Commander Kruge
General Jack D. Ripper
And Harry Gibson's character from The Blues Brother

[kishnevi]

I like the 'Dr Evil' choice. I'm not so familiar with the Batman films and so 'my Joker' is Cesar Romero from the Adam West TV series whom I don't think would count as one of the great screen villains. However, Frank Gorshin's 'Riddler' is another matter. 

Nicholson as the Joker is among the best performances in movies.   The script gives enough backstory to make him a sympathetic character, and in some ways he's more the central figure of the film than Batman himself.

Batman 2 was not quite at that level.  But  Danny DiVito probably did better as the Penguin than Burgess Meredith did in the TV series.  (I was a kid when the TV series aired, but from what I remember, Gorshin as the Riddler was indeed the best of the best.)

[Sergeant Rock]

Vicomte de Valmont from Dangerous Liaisons

General Jack D. Ripper
And Harry Gibson's character from The Blues Brother

Great choices, guys. Villains from three of my favorite films.

Sarge

[Sergeant Rock]

I'm not so familiar with the Batman films and so 'my Joker' is Cesar Romero from the Adam West TV series whom I don't think would count as one of the great screen villains. However, Frank Gorshin's 'Riddler' is another matter. 

Which reminds me of another great Batman villain: Julie Newmar's Catwoman 

Sarge

[Spineur]

For me Villain = Vincent Price

Some of his most famous performance

house of wax
house of Usher
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Raven
The Masque of the Red Death
The abominable Dr. Phibes

plus all the Dracula movies he did.

[Ken B]

None of my villains is all bad.

HAL Really no-one can top HAL. The rest are also-fans.

Sydney Greenstreer as Casper Gutman in the Maltese Falcon

Adolph Menjou in Paths Of Glory

Tony Perkins in Psycho

Olson Welles as Charles Foster Kane

[Jaakko Keskinen]

For me Villain = Vincent Price

Some of his most famous performance

house of wax
house of Usher
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Raven
The Masque of the Red Death
The abominable Dr. Phibes

plus all the Dracula movies he did.

What about Ratigan? That was evidently Price's favorite role.

[vandermolen]

For me Villain = Vincent Price

Some of his most famous performance

house of wax
house of Usher
The Pit and the Pendulum
The Raven
The Masque of the Red Death
The abominable Dr. Phibes

plus all the Dracula movies he did.

Not forgetting the 'Tomb of Ligeia' where, unless I've confused it with the House of Usher, the Vincent Price character has 'a morbid aversion to sunlight' great stuff!

A vote from me for the TV Catwoman as well.

[drogulus]

     My favorite Vincent Price role was Reavis in The Baron of Arizona. This was one of those late show movies people my age in NY would happen upon after midnight. There was also a late late show and even a late late late show. Yeah, it was channel 2, the CBS station.

     https://www.youtube.com/v/CISqPsA80fU

[Karl Henning]

Fred C. Dobbs (The Treasure of Sierra Madre), played by Humphrey Bogart

Does this count as a spoiler? 

[Karl Henning]

Gen. Garcia played by Richard Libertini in The In-Laws

My doctor told me to stay away from all marinated bird.

[Karl Henning]

Which reminds me of another great Batman villain: Julie Newmar's Catwoman 

Sarge

She is also the evil bargainer in the Twilight Zone episode, "Of Late I Think of Cliffordville."  I mean, what a cast there:  ALbert Salmi, Julie Newmar, & John Anderson.

[Karl Henning]

Khan (Ricardo Montalban), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Phillip van Damm (Jas Mason), North by Northwest
Jean-Pierre Thibodoux (David Suchet), The In-Laws (2003)
Jeffrey Lebowski (David Huddleston), The Big Lebowski
Nurse Diesel (Cloris Leachman), High Anxiety

[Sergeant Rock]

My doctor told me to stay away from all marinated bird.

We have no blindfolds senor, we are a poor country!

[Ken B]

Which reminds me of another great Batman villain: Julie Newmar's Catwoman 

Sarge

Lee Meriwether!

Meow.

[LKB]

My list may prove to be provocative, so fire away. 

Severus Snape

Khan

Darth Vader

The Wicked Witch of the West

The Terminator ( original )

I'll be back,

LKB

[LKB]

I thought of including Hal on my list but I really don't see him as a true villain - he's a victim of a program error.

Precisely. Frank Poole was, ultimately, killed by coders in Urbana, Illinois.

And now l have the opportunity to remind readers that my favorite film is back in theaters on May 18th, in 70mm. If you've never seen 2001, or haven't seen it as it was originally presented, try to take advantage of this exquisite opportunity.

C G C,

LKB

[vandermolen]

Precisely. Frank Poole was, ultimately, killed by coders in Urbana, Illinois.

And now l have the opportunity to remind readers that my favorite film is back in theaters on May 18th, in 70mm. If you've never seen 2001, or haven't seen it as it was originally presented, try to take advantage of this exquisite opportunity.

C G C,

LKB

I agree - you have to see it in the cinema.