# Which actor has the greatest 'bad guy' ratio? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 15, 2020, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-has-the-greatest-bad-guy-ratio/849548 "2020-03-15T22:45:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 6
**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:** [March 19, 2020, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-has-the-greatest-bad-guy-ratio/849548/101 "2020-03-19T21:01:09Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > The director of _Angel Heart_ joked in a later interview that Mickey Rourke could make the most elegant suit look like a potato sack. Kim Basinger said that kissing him was like kissing an ashtray. Yeccch! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-has-the-greatest-bad-guy-ratio/849548/102 "2020-03-19T21:39:03Z")
I assume over his long career, Gary Busey must have played a good guy in at least one movie. But I’ve never seen that movie. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-has-the-greatest-bad-guy-ratio/849548/103 "2020-03-19T22:49:23Z")
… What did Buddy Holly do? ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-has-the-greatest-bad-guy-ratio/849548/104 "2020-03-19T23:29:05Z")
No one mentioned [Tor Johnson](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tor_Johnson?wprov=sfla1) yet? ---
**Author:** ![eunoia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eunoia/32/97_2.png) [@eunoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eunoia)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 2:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-has-the-greatest-bad-guy-ratio/849548/105 "2020-03-20T02:10:55Z")
Esposito in The Usual Suspects is like the only good guy. Robert Carlyle’s been said, so let’s see…Ian McDiarmid. McDiarmid plays the worst bad guy in the history of TV, Movies, or TV Movies as Doctor Popper, Coroner in Hillsborough (1992.) Apparently his character is also a bad guy in the Star Wars movies. ---
**Author:** ![cromulent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b4bc9f/32.png) [@cromulent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cromulent)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-has-the-greatest-bad-guy-ratio/849548/106 "2020-03-20T02:23:03Z")
Shocked this thread made it to page 3 with no mention of Jason Isaacs (the scary elder Malfoy, ya’ll?) ---
**Author:** ![jerez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-has-the-greatest-bad-guy-ratio/849548/107 "2020-03-20T07:02:04Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > I assume over his long career, Gary Busey must have played a good guy in at least one movie. But I’ve never seen that movie. I’ll bet you have: [Point Break](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102685/) ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-has-the-greatest-bad-guy-ratio/849548/108 "2020-03-20T10:58:38Z")
> [@Unpronounceable](#): > > [Al Leong](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4393410/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0)? > The closest thing to a “good guy” I can remember him playing was Genghis Khan… Likewise [Professor Tanaka](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0849048/). Lots of great martial artists made careers playing villains in martial arts movies. ---
**Author:** ![jerez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/c68b51/32.png) [@jerez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jerez)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2020, 12:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-has-the-greatest-bad-guy-ratio/849548/109 "2020-03-20T12:37:35Z")
How about [Bolo Yeung](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001866/)? His first film was in 1970, so that’s a 50-year career. I’ve only seen two or three of his films and am assuming he plays a (or the) bad guy in most of them. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-has-the-greatest-bad-guy-ratio/849548/110 "2020-03-26T20:26:42Z")
Neal McDonough is a character actor, who is very prolific over the past 30 years. While has has played a few good guys, more early in his career, he is mostly known for the bad guy roles in movies and television series. > **[Neal McDonough - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0568180/?ref_=tt_cl_t7)** > > Neal McDonough. Actor: Minority Report. Multi-talented and award-winning actor Neal McDonough can be seen in a multitude of stellar productions in 2019. In addition to just wrapping his second season on "Project Blue Book", he also gave a lightning... He is well known as a male actor that will not do sex scenes, because of his relationship with his wife and as a devout catholic. ---
**Author:** ![Omar\_Little](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omar_little/32/269_2.png) [@Omar\_Little](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omar_Little)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-has-the-greatest-bad-guy-ratio/849548/111 "2020-03-26T20:29:57Z")
> [@TroutMan](#): > > I assume over his long career, Gary Busey must have played a good guy in at least one movie. But I’ve never seen that movie. You must have missed Busey’s most famous role of the evil Buddy Holly. ---
**Author:** ![TroutMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/troutman/32/6721_2.png) [@TroutMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroutMan)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-has-the-greatest-bad-guy-ratio/849548/112 "2020-03-26T21:05:38Z")
> [@Omar\_Little](#): > > You must have missed Busey’s most famous role of the evil Buddy Holly. Yeah, I knew I’d catch grief for ignoring that movie when I posted. But in my defense, I’ve never personally seen it! Still, in terms of ratio, he has to be way up there. For every Buddy Holly or _Point Break_, there’s a dozen Mr. Joshuas and Commander Krills. Even his son [Jake](https://www.popsugar.com/entertainment/Who-Plays-Bruce-Stranger-Things-45946342) is usually a villain. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actor-has-the-greatest-bad-guy-ratio/849548.md?page=5)