# Top 5 Movie Villains of all Time **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 27, 2014, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-movie-villains-of-all-time/708291 "2014-12-27T19:45:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Dendarii\_Dame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bbce88/32.png) [@Dendarii\_Dame](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dendarii_Dame)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-movie-villains-of-all-time/708291/61 "2014-12-31T19:14:52Z")
The Warden in **Holes** , although I think she was nastier in the book. ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-movie-villains-of-all-time/708291/62 "2014-12-31T19:41:29Z")
Definitely a little off topic, as he’s certainly not one of the top 5 villains, but I truly enjoyed Gary Oldman as Egor Korshunov in Air Force One. This isn’t his highest-rated role (that would be his role in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), but he’s one of my favorite actors and he takes this villainous role and makes it sing. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-movie-villains-of-all-time/708291/63 "2014-12-31T20:27:24Z")
Frank Langella as the White House chief of staff in _Dave_ Magua from _The Last of the Mohicans_ Darth Vader from the _Star Wars_ movies Maj. Strasser from _Casablanca_ Dolores Umbridge from the _Harry Potter_ movies ---
**Author:** ![Alex\_from\_CB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/278dde/32.png) [@Alex\_from\_CB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alex_from_CB)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 3:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-movie-villains-of-all-time/708291/64 "2015-01-01T03:42:07Z")
Come on, boys and girls 2 pages and still no Richard Boone for Hombre? ---
**Author:** ![dream-scraper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@dream-scraper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dream-scraper)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-movie-villains-of-all-time/708291/65 "2015-01-01T04:18:51Z")
Dr. Evil (Austin Powers) 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-movie-villains-of-all-time/708291/66 "2015-01-01T12:09:20Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > 5)Eli Wallach as Tuco in The Good The Bad and the Ugly…he stole that film. He’s not the villain though, Angel Eyes is. Tuco’s the closest thing the flick has to a hero (Blondie being a complete jerk) I’ll second Hans Landa. That character was so \*cheerfully \*terrifying. That first scene, where he politely interrogates the farmer, knowing \*exactly \*what’s up but delighting in the poor guy’s terror was simply chilling. Honorable mention for Jeremy Irons as Damodar in _Dungeons & Dragons_. A shit role in a truly abysmal movie, saddled with exclusively eye-roll worthy lines… and he just delights in chewing the scenery regardless. You can really tell he’s having a ball playing the Evilest Lord of Evil that Ever Eviled. ---
**Author:** ![SykoSkotty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@SykoSkotty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SykoSkotty)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-movie-villains-of-all-time/708291/67 "2015-01-01T14:16:49Z")
- The doctor from “The Human Centipede” - The raping Hillbillies from “Deliverance” ---
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-movie-villains-of-all-time/708291/68 "2015-01-01T19:46:31Z")
> [@Plumpudding](#): > > Rutger Hauer as Roy Batty in blade runner… Good one. Although…BR is a film I never get tired of watching, and there are times when I think Roy is in fact the “Tragic Hero” of BR. More human than human, and ultimately more _humane_ than human. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-movie-villains-of-all-time/708291/69 "2015-01-01T23:25:10Z")
> [@Kobal2](#): > > Honorable mention for Jeremy Irons as Damodar in _Dungeons & Dragons_. A shit role in a truly abysmal movie, saddled with exclusively eye-roll worthy lines… and he just delights in chewing the scenery regardless. You can really tell he’s having a ball playing the Evilest Lord of Evil that Ever Eviled. He was also great as the Über-Morlock in the 2002 version of _ **The Time Machine** _. Scared the crap out of me! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-movie-villains-of-all-time/708291/70 "2015-01-01T23:33:58Z")
> [@Slithy\_Tove](#): > > Cyril Cusack (Day of The Jackal, 1984, Fahrenheit 451, 1984) was a favorite. The opposite of manical mustache-twirling, he underplayed it as a utterly corrupt old man, bored with the people he made it his duty to harm. It’s even in his George Smiley in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold. According to Wiki, Cusack never played George Smiley: > **[George Smiley](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Smiley)** > > George Smiley OBE is a fictional character created by John le Carré. Smiley is a career intelligence officer with "The Circus", the British overseas intelligence agency. He is a central character in the novels Call for the Dead, A Murder of Quality, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Honourable Schoolboy, Smiley's People and Karla's Choice, and a supporting character in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, The Looking Glass War, The Secret Pilgrim and A Legacy of Spies. The character has also appear... ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-movie-villains-of-all-time/708291/71 "2015-01-02T01:09:25Z")
> [@Mosier](#): > > My other choices have already been mentioned. I nominate Leonard from Memento. It’s a strange movie where a good argument can be made for the protagonist also being the villain. Ooo, good one. Similarly, but not exactly, Ozymandias in _Watchmen_. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-movie-villains-of-all-time/708291/72 "2015-01-02T01:56:42Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > According to Wiki, Cusack never played George Smiley: > > [George Smiley - Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Smiley) You are right: he played Control. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/top-5-movie-villains-of-all-time/708291.md?page=3)