Fairuza Balk always looks like she’s up to no good.
And *The Waterboy *doesn’t count because Mama says that women are the devil.
She’s scary-lookin’, I agree, but she actually played quite a nice person in Almost Famous.
Joan Collins, on the other hand . . .
Yeah, but she started out as Dorothy in Return to Oz. That cancels out almost anything evil she does.
Best part of the movie. He’s great – really magnetic.
In Twin Peaks, he started out that way and subverted it.
J. T. Walsh? Even his ostensible good guys seemed to ooze slime, corruption or cowardice.
How about James Rebhorn?
Wow, thanks! I went from that to watching other musical scenes from the film. God I love YouTube. I really do need to watch this again.
Ha, beat me to it. She’s Dorothy to me, always and forever. That grown-up woman doing other things is another Fairuza Balk (who btw, was a very very nice person in the film Gas Food Lodging).
On Danny Trejo (Machete!): Take a look at his bio. He looks like a bad mofo because he’s been one for much of his life (not that being a violent street thug is cool or anything, I’m just sayin’). I love that guy so much. I almost want to watch SpyKids just because somebody upthread mentioned that he was in it.
He was wonderfully sweet in Truly Madly Deeply.
And a couple of years ago I would have said Sean Bean, but then he was wonderful in North Country.
I just thought of one-- Jeffrey Jones. Did he ever play an actor who didn’t sneer?
His Emperor Joseph II in Amadeus was a decent enough sort.
He plays a James Bond parody character in Jackie Chan vehicle The Tuxedo. Definitely one of the good guys, though his role is minor.
Personally, I thought he was good enough to be considered a worthy replacement for Pierce Brosnan but… oh, well…
As was his newspaperman A.W. Merrick on Deadwood. Frequently pompously long-winded, but decent and principled and only occasional ( provoked ) sneering.
His portrayal of Criswell in Ed Wood was understandably kind of flakey, but I seem to recall he was all right. Definitely not like Ed Rooney.
Cristina Ricci has played a lot of pure blooded evil girls. The director of Legend of Sleepy Hollow used that fact when he cast her as the good girl we can’t get ourselves to trust, untill the very end.
He played a romantic comedy lead opposite Suzanne Pleshette in a film from 1969 called If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium.
He was the romantic lead in The French Lieutenant’s Woman.
He played Aramis, one of the good guys, in The Man in the Iron Mask.
I haven’t seen all of Harvey Keitel’s work, but in most of what I have seen, he plays a bad guy.
ISTM that a fair percentage of the supporting casts of The Sopranos and the Godfather films were made up of guys who have spent most of their careers typecast as mafiosi:
Sopranos:
Tony Sirico (Paulie Gualtieri)
Frank Vincent (Phil Leotardo)
Vincent Pastore (Big Pussy)
David Proval (Richie Aprile)
And of course, the main guy, James Gandolfini. IIRC, he has had a few somewhat sympathetic roles: in The Mexican he’s gay, and in Get Shorty he was a henchman with a heart of gold (and a young daughter).
Godfather:
Lenny Montana (Luca Brasi)
Al Lettieri (Virgil ‘The Turk’ Sollozzo)
Alex Rocco (Moe Greene)
In the same category:
Joe Viterelli (Analyze This)