He has this weirdly manic manner and inappropriately intense stare that makes it hard to imagine him playing any character that’s not a controlling jackass.
I’m sure he’s a fine person in real life who is just being typecast into such roles because he plays them so well.
He is very convincing as the Devil in Reaper. He is probably the best part of the show.
tdn, on Christopher Walken: When he does play a nice, mostly normal guy, it is always a good surprise. He did a good job of it in Blast from the Past
I know he has done it, but I cannot think of Alan Rickman as an innocent hero.
Jim
Danny Trejo, although he makes an excellent antihero.
I think that’s a tribute to his amazing acting abilities. I’m sure it has little to do with his beady eyes.
Peter Sarsgaard will always be a villian. I can’t even think of a movie where he’s played the good guy.
Miguel Ferrer. Though he did do a hamfisted out-of-the-blue heel face turn in Twin Peaks.
Galaxy Quest, perhaps?
Even there he seemed rather snarky and not the Hero. A nice enough guy, but not a ingenues.
No mention of Steve Buscemi yet?
Shattered Glass.
And while he was an ass hole for the first 80% of Garden State, he redeemed himself at the end.
Alan Rickman is wonderful in Sense and Sensibility as Colonel Brandon.
Christopher Walken is very good in Hairspray as Mr. Turnblad.
Neither do you feel their “mark of evil” radiating through the screen.
The word “perhaps” is not necessary in the quoted material.
He’s never really a villian though. His looks can be frightening I suppose.
Hmmm…to me, he’ll always be “that sweet man on *Titanic *who told Rose to get to a lifeboat.” And he’s sweet, under a thin veneer of intimidating, on Eli Stone, too. He’s kind of like the Ideal Dad to me.
Willem Defoe, on the other hand, scares me. I know he’s a Serious Actor and all, but I would not cast him unless the role involved raping puppies.
Ditto Jeff Kober (who played the magic-as-drug-metaphor dealer Rack on Buffy), who’s sort of a Defoe Jr.
Michael Emerson (Ben on Lost) gives me the creeps. Can’t imagine him in a cuddly part.
If you could convince her to wait until the end, it would almost be worth it.
Timing is everything.
To me he’ll always be Hippie Jesus, only now with a weird haircut pretending to be someone else. He has to use a heavy makeup base to cover the vertical clown eyelines he was born with.
Heh. I think it’s a generational thing. I bet Jerry Orbach wasn’t “Baby’s dad in Dirty Dancing” to you, either! 
(I finally watched *Godspell *for the first time about 4 months ago. I was filled with meh. I’m a *JCS *kinda gal.)
Hell, yes! 
(From Weird Al’s Ode To A Superhero)
Christopher Walken was also sympathetic (if eccentric) as the kooky father in Blast From the Past
Jason Isaacs is another who seems more in his element playing villains (and looks like the sort of hard lad who’d do his own dirty work), although he has played a wide range of characters.
Steve Buscemi plays a sympathetic Bukowski-esque loser in Trees Lounge.
Christopher Walken portrayed a very nice, kind young man in The Dead Zone. There was nothing sinister about his character at all, despite his disturbing powers, he was simply a normal guy who was trying to cope with them.
