Jim Carrey?
I didn’t see Number 23 but that looks like he might.
Do his other films come close? Cable guy?
Does The Grinch count?
No, Carrey was the Riddler in a Batman.
Also Pacific Heights
- The Dead Pool*
Gah I watch too many movies.
I think George Lindsey (the guy who played Goober Pyle), played a bigoted deputy sheriff on an episode of The Twilight Zone.
James Van Der Beek just played a villain on Criminal Minds. Has he done that before/since?
Sandra Bullock in Crash?
Ryan Gosling in Murder by Numbers?
Harry Connick Jr in Copycat?
Has Alan Alda been a villain in anything other than The Aviator?
Wasn’t he also the villain in “Murder at 1600 Pennsilvania Avenue?”
Murder at 1600, though since it’s a murder mystery it isn’t revealed until the end.
ISTR another murder mystery where he gets killed with a pickaxe on the beach at the end, but imdb isn’t helping me out.
Found it - Whispers in the Dark, another murder mystery where we don’t find out Alda’s the killer until the end.
Here’s a description (straight from Alda) of the beach & pickaxe scene.
My contribution for people who played a villain only once in a movie is Ronald Reagan in “The Killers.”
Aside from being a bad guy extra in Enter the Dragon, looking through the dozens of movies I’ve seen I can’t find any villain roles.
He was also the laziest COLUMBO villain ever.
If you want an episode where the killer sets up an alibi before making it look like a heart attack or a suicide or whatever, that’s fine; if you want the body hidden so well that no one can prove the guy is even dead, hey, that’s fine too. And if you want a guy who makes sure no one’s around while he’s framing someone else, maybe try the one where Robert Culp untraceably screws with camera footage after hiding the murder weapon and lining up a room full of witnesses who’ll swear he was nowhere near the crime scene.
This guy, though, simply shot his victim in broad daylight; anyone could’ve seen 'em, and somebody did; she promptly called the police. Eddie admittedly does a half-assed job of hiding the body, but the cops find it without our hero’s help; I’m not sure they need a murder weapon to get a conviction at that point, but Columbo finds it anyway: it’s right there in plain sight, after all, since, hey, why bother hiding it when you can just start telling people it’s a toy replica of a real gun, right?
And speaking of Eddie Murphy, he plays a villian in Vampire in Brooklyn…I don’t think he’s ever done that before or since.
Sorry, saw the first part, but did not catch the second.
Didn’t Chuck Norris play a bad guy in Enter the Dragon?
Jet Li was the “villain” in hero, if you consider “guy opposed to a murderous tyrant” to be a bad thing.
Almost- he was the bad guy in Way of the Dragon, which was released in the U.S. as Return of the Dragon.
Jim carrey in the cable guy
Matt Damon as the The Talented Mr. Ripley