Then there was Ron Glass as the devil to Sherman Hemsley’s faust in the Twilight Zone episode “I of Newton”.
Another favorite.
I literally was coming back to mention the Ron Glass portrayal.
I love how his T-shirt keeps changing.
Vincent Price as Mr. Scratch in The Story of Mankind
Walter Huston as Mr. Scratch in The Devil and Daniel Webster?
Burgess Meredith as Mr. Smith in the Twilight Zone episode “Printer’s Devil”?
Ray Walston as Mr. Applegate in Damn Yankees?
I liked The Ninth Gate, as a gestalt, anyway. Lucifer was portrayed by Emmanuelle Seigner (Polanski’s wife).
Ernest Borgnine in ‘The Devil’s Rain’. Scary even now, but scared the piss out of me back in the 70s when I first saw it.
Remember when Shatner shrieked like a little girl?
My personal favorite.
I’m the Devil, I love metal!
He was one of my two runners up.
So funny! And this guy nails it. The Devil is Such A Dick!
Hugo Weaving as Old Georgie in Cloud Atlas. When he’s crawling down the side of Mauna Kea to tempt Tom Hanks’s Zachry to cut Meronym’s rope.
Walter Huston. His devil seemed to be having fun.
I was going to say Ray Wise. He’s just so affable but the menace is there just below the surface.
I love Mark Pellegrino as Lucifer in Supernatural. Particularly in later seasons when he had all the best lines.
It’s not really fair to compare Tom Ellis to these other devils. The whole point of his character is that he’s not evil just a little wicked but he gets a bad wrap in the Bible.
Reminded me of Julie Newmar as Miss Devlin in “Of Late I Think of Cliffordville.” She’s not my favorite - I think I might like the above mentioned Peter Stormare and Viggo Mortenson portrayals the best. But she did have some savoir faire.
I remember seeing The Prophecy and thinking, “This feels like they were making this up as they went along”…turns out they were. Viggo wrote most of his dialogue.
Robert Judd as “Scratch” in Crossroads (the Ralph Macchio one, not the Britney Spears one) did a great line in infernal menace but he didn’t get much screentime, alas.
Between Citizen Kane and The Godfather on the list of greatest movies ever made.
And he did a pretty good job. Paraphrasing, “Gabriel would turn Heaven into a new Hell, and two Hells is one Hell too many…” It explains why Satan is helping the humans, he doesn’t want Gabe horning in on his racket.