# Who are the best sleasball actors? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 15, 2002, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-best-sleasball-actors/142838 "2002-12-15T03:11:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Master\_Wang-Ka](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/master_wang-ka/32/3325_2.png) [@Master\_Wang-Ka](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Master_Wang-Ka)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-best-sleasball-actors/142838/41 "2002-12-17T19:39:35Z")
Brad Dourif. NOBODY does creepy little men like Brad Dourif. David Patrick Kelly was good, but what happened to him? Haven’t seen him in anything since the early eighties. Steve Buscemi is weird, sure, but if I was trapped in an elevator with him, I wouldn’t worry about him going for my throat or yammering about his weird sex fantasies or trying to eat my hat or whatever. Not like Brad Dourif… ---
**Author:** ![jlsmith57](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/4bbf92/32.png) [@jlsmith57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jlsmith57)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-best-sleasball-actors/142838/42 "2002-12-17T22:47:15Z")
I second James Woods. Also Christopher Walken plays some real weirdos. ---
**Author:** ![handsomeharry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9c0ed/32.png) [@handsomeharry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/handsomeharry)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-best-sleasball-actors/142838/43 "2002-12-18T02:11:47Z")
isn’t guy pierce the swine from the count of monte cristo? he gets my vote for #1, just because he play such a weaselly little slime. jow pesci doesn’t strike me as a sleazeball, just a punk. (great, of course, but not the sleaze-type. i.e., he wouldn’t fondle me if we went on a camping trip together while i was asleep-kill me, but not fondle me). christian slater would probably get my number 2 vote. ---
**Author:** ![Manduck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/manduck/32/256_2.png) [@Manduck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Manduck)\ **Post date:** [December 18, 2002, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-best-sleasball-actors/142838/44 "2002-12-18T03:53:36Z")
I also vote for Jack Cassidy. I mean, [just look at him](http://www.tvtome.com/tvtome/servlet/PersonDetail/personid-8899/). ---
**Author:** ![Scruff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Scruff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scruff)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-best-sleasball-actors/142838/45 "2002-12-19T00:08:40Z")
Harry Dean Stanton, especially in _Repo Man_ or _Escape from New York_. ---
**Author:** ![Scupper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Scupper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scupper)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-best-sleasball-actors/142838/46 "2002-12-19T00:44:55Z")
Michael Wincott - you’d know him if you saw him. Long-haired, WAY too many cigarettes. Among many, many sleazy roles: The warden of the prison in The Count of Monte Cristo The villain in Along Came a Spider Philo in Strange Days Top Dollar in The Crow ---
**Author:** ![ceyjen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/3bc359/32.png) [@ceyjen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ceyjen)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-best-sleasball-actors/142838/47 "2002-12-19T02:14:41Z")
Jason Alexander in Pretty Woman (lawyer) ---
**Author:** ![Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/6bbea6/32.png) [@Laughing\_Lagomorph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laughing_Lagomorph)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-best-sleasball-actors/142838/48 "2002-12-19T04:14:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PunditLisa \* > \*\*Joe Pantiolano – the dude that played **Ralphie Cifaretti** on the Soprano’s. He was so good at playing sleazy that I was gleeful to read about what fate befell him. Heh Heh. \*\* Damn, I wish I’d thought of him. ---
**Author:** ![broccoli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a183cd/32.png) [@broccoli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/broccoli)\ **Post date:** [December 19, 2002, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-best-sleasball-actors/142838/49 "2002-12-19T18:27:25Z")
you guys are missing Chris Penn and Michael Madson (Madsen?) Tarantino sleeze at it’s finest. Also, Courtney Love. ---
**Author:** ![Daylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@Daylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylon)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 3:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-best-sleasball-actors/142838/50 "2002-12-24T03:04:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > \*\ ***Daylon** , Watto was voiced by Andy Secombe, who’s the son of Sir Harry “Neddie Seagoon” Seacombe, RIP. > > He wasn’t in _Gladiator_. \*\* Yes he was…he was in the beginning, before Proximo buys the slaves…(and right after he grabs him by the meat and potatos saying that he sold him queer giraffes) Some are good for fighting, some are good for dying…you need both I think. Whoever that guy was…super sleazy. ---
**Author:** ![Daylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/45deac/32.png) [@Daylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Daylon)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2002, 3:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-best-sleasball-actors/142838/51 "2002-12-24T03:08:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Poysyn \* > \*\*I think the actor that Daylon was referring to is Omid Djalli, who was also in The Mummy > > [http://us.imdb.com/Name?Djalili,%20Omid](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Djalili,%20Omid) \*\* Yup…that’s the guy. Sorry for the confusion…but his voice sounds exactly like Watto… ---
**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-best-sleasball-actors/142838/52 "2003-01-10T05:27:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wang-Ka \* > \*\*David Patrick Kelly was good, but what happened to him? Haven’t seen him in anything since the early eighties. \*\* He’s been on stage a lot: small roles on Broadway and lead roles in avant-garde stuff. As far as movies, recently he was the OCD guy in **K-PAX**. He’s also in a movie called **Personal Velocity** , which I haven’t gotten to see yet, but apparently it’s three stories about women who overcome the horrible treatment they get from their men. So he must be someone’s abusive husband or father. Anyway, [here’s](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Kelly,+David+Patrick) a run-down of all his movies. (Oops, forgot to mention that he was in **The Crow**!) ---
**Author:** ![Lure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ba8739/32.png) [@Lure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lure)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-best-sleasball-actors/142838/53 "2003-01-10T07:31:33Z")
The best I ever saw was \*\* Timothy Carey \*\* The only guy who could shoot a horse so matter of factly-until Dern came along and wigged out on his dart gun in \*\* Black Sunday \*\*.He was doing those roles on Hitchkock earlier,tho. Today’s crop Buscemi does it for me.Weird is this guy’s middle name.Dresses up a movie. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 9:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-best-sleasball-actors/142838/54 "2003-01-10T09:20:20Z")
Michael did a truly awe-inspiring job of playing a sleazebag in _Blood & Wine_. Awesome. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2003, 9:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-best-sleasball-actors/142838/55 "2003-01-10T09:24:27Z")
Er, Michael _Caine_, that is. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/who-are-the-best-sleasball-actors/142838.md?page=2)