# Which actors have played more than one GREAT villain. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 4, 2005, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actors-have-played-more-than-one-great-villain/315592 "2005-08-04T17:39:07Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![WilhelmGefallen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/9f8e36/32.png) [@WilhelmGefallen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WilhelmGefallen)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actors-have-played-more-than-one-great-villain/315592/61 "2005-08-05T04:29:30Z")
> [@](#): > > **Originally Posted by Dooku** > Jeez, have I been wearing an invisibility cloak recently? I think I must’ve borrowed it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Hometownboy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5e9695/32.png) [@Hometownboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hometownboy)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actors-have-played-more-than-one-great-villain/315592/62 "2005-08-05T06:17:45Z")
Ah, not to forget **Sir Ian McKellen** as Magneto in X-Men and X-2 (X-3 is not in production, says the IMDB). And, memorably, as Richard III, in a stunning 1995 production that set Shakespeare’s tale in the 1930s, with the hunchback king becoming a sort of a fascist English king. Well worth your time to track down. Sir Ian’s performance is both believable and totally stunning. Highly recommended. ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actors-have-played-more-than-one-great-villain/315592/63 "2005-08-05T12:28:26Z")
Ralph Fiennes. Wasn’t he the Nazi in **Schindler’s List**? And he makes a kick-ass Lord Voldemort in the upcoming **Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire**. I’m sure he’s played other bad guys but I haven’t seen all his movies. ---
**Author:** ![GraceTX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c4cdca/32.png) [@GraceTX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GraceTX)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 1:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actors-have-played-more-than-one-great-villain/315592/64 "2005-08-05T13:06:30Z")
Ralph Fiennes was Francis Dolarhyde in _Red Dragon_. ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actors-have-played-more-than-one-great-villain/315592/65 "2005-08-05T15:59:16Z")
> [@jrfranchi](#): > > A few actors come to mind that were **great** villains repeatedly. > [Alan Rickman](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000614/) as Hans Gruber in Die Hard was the best part of the movie and he did this again as the Sheriff of Nottingham in **Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991).** > _bolding mine_ I submit that while he played the villian in Robin Hood, nothing about that movie was great. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actors-have-played-more-than-one-great-villain/315592/66 "2005-08-05T16:15:23Z")
Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched in _One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest_ and DS9’s Kai Winn. ---
**Author:** ![archmichael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@archmichael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/archmichael)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actors-have-played-more-than-one-great-villain/315592/67 "2005-08-05T16:55:27Z")
No one has mentioned **F. Murry Abraham**??? You guys are slippin’. He played Omar Suarez in Scarface and Antonio Salieri in Amadeus. He also played a guy who supposedly killed a guy named Moe Zart in “Last Action Hero”. More of a character actor, but I love seeing Danny Trejo in movies. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actors-have-played-more-than-one-great-villain/315592/68 "2005-08-05T21:42:51Z")
> [@BMalion](#): > > I submit that while he played the villian in Robin Hood, nothing about that movie was great. IMHO Movie was bad, he was good. ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Rieux](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@Dr.Rieux](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Rieux)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actors-have-played-more-than-one-great-villain/315592/69 "2005-08-05T23:30:41Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Oh come on- his Ygor in the Frankenstein films (SON OF and GHOST OF) was great, and even tho it was for Ed Wood, his heart really was into the mad scientist in BRIDE OF THE ATOM/MONSTER - “Home? I heff no home…” > > RE Chris Lee- > > Wendell Wonka wasn’t a villian- just very overprotective. > > However- > the Frankenstein Monster (no sympathetic creature here- HE MURDERS THE > OLD BLIND MAN!) > the Mummy > > and Lord Summerisle in THE WICKER MAN! No–The Monster accidentally drowned little Maria==the blind man was rescued. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2005, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actors-have-played-more-than-one-great-villain/315592/70 "2005-08-05T23:39:04Z")
> [@Miss Mapp](#): > > Louise Fletcher as Nurse Ratched in _One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest_ and DS9’s Kai Winn. Good one! ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actors-have-played-more-than-one-great-villain/315592/71 "2005-08-06T00:07:44Z")
> [@Nic2004](#): > > And what of _Quigley Down Under_ with Tom Selleck. He was the rancher hunting aboriginies with a delusion of cowboy-ism I have to add one more for Alan Rickman - he was just chilling as the Interrogator in Closet Land (a flim no-one seems to have seen or to remember). ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actors-have-played-more-than-one-great-villain/315592/72 "2005-08-06T00:14:53Z")
> [@Dooku](#): > > Tim Curry. Dr. Frank N Further in **Rocky Horror** , the Dark Lord in **Legend** , and the evil voice of too many cartoons to even list. I didn’t know about his VA work, or Legend. But you forgot him as Pennywise the Dancing Clown in _It_. And there is an argument to be made for his Long John Silver in _Muppet Treasure Island_. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 12:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actors-have-played-more-than-one-great-villain/315592/73 "2005-08-06T00:19:22Z")
Looking at Tim Curry’s iMDB listing, I see he did the voice of God in “Animated Stories from the Bible: Music Video”. There is just something deeply and terribly wrong about that. Also, he does a lot of work as a pirate. ---
**Author:** ![Coil](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bb73d2/32.png) [@Coil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coil)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 9:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actors-have-played-more-than-one-great-villain/315592/74 "2005-08-06T09:30:51Z")
> [@kidchameleon](#): > > It was a shock seeing him look like himself in _Batman Begins_. 🙂 Uhm, that was Liam Neeson. ---
**Author:** ![kidchameleon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/898d66/32.png) [@kidchameleon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidchameleon)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actors-have-played-more-than-one-great-villain/315592/75 "2005-08-06T14:34:37Z")
> [@Coil](#): > > Uhm, that was Liam Neeson. No, Detective Gordon was played by Gary Oldman, looking like himself. Are there any women that have played 2 great villians? ---
**Author:** ![Papermache\_Prince](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f05b48/32.png) [@Papermache\_Prince](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Papermache_Prince)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actors-have-played-more-than-one-great-villain/315592/76 "2005-08-06T14:41:46Z")
Glenn Close in **Fatal Attraction** and **101 Dalmatians**? Above **Miss Mapp** mentioned Louise Fletcher in **One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest** and **Deep Space 9**. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actors-have-played-more-than-one-great-villain/315592/77 "2005-08-06T14:53:21Z")
Amrish Puri played the bad guy **Mola Ram** in _Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom_ as well as playing the bad guy in most of the 228 other movies he made in India. ---
**Author:** ![easy\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/eb8c5e/32.png) [@easy\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/easy_e)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2005, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actors-have-played-more-than-one-great-villain/315592/78 "2005-08-06T16:14:59Z")
> [@lhovis73](#): > > Terence Stamp has played at least two (very different) great villains: > – the creepy young man who kidnaps women in The Collector > – General Zod in Superman 2 He was also excellent in **The Limey**. Although he was the protagonist in that movie, one could regard him as being a sympathetic villian _a la_ Kathy Bates as Delores Claiborne or Billy Bob Thornton in **Sling Blade**. ---
**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2005, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actors-have-played-more-than-one-great-villain/315592/79 "2005-08-09T20:27:28Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Anthony Hopkins- > Hannibal Lecter > Hitler > > and to some Dopers, St. Paul! again 😉 You forgot Richard Nixon. 😉 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-actors-have-played-more-than-one-great-villain/315592.md?page=3)