Who are the best sleasball actors?

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jack cassidy

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Whoever that guy is that played the voice of the flying bird thing that young Anakin Skywalker was sold to as a slave…he also played the slave trader in Gladiator…he just drips sleaze…

D.

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Are you talking about Oliver Reed? http://homepage.tinet.ie/~tommix/reed1.htm

Proximo the ex-gladiator / slave trader…he died during the making of the movie Gladiator. It was his last of 53 films.

and yeah he did make a good villian! (May he rest in peace)

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J.T. Walsh

Also Oliver Reed was really sleazy in OLIVER and The Devils.

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Dan Hedaya, a.k.a. Nick Tortelli of Cheers.

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Ron Jeremy.

I’ve never seen one of his pornos but I’ve seen him as a bad guy in The Boondock Saints and Orgazmo.

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Daylon, Watto was voiced by Andy Secombe, who’s the son of Sir Harry “Neddie Seagoon” Seacombe, RIP.

He wasn’t in Gladiator.

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Eric Roberts scares me.

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Judging from the previews, Daniel Day Lewis in GANGS OF NEW YORK may redefine this archetype.

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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

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For my money you can’t get any sleazier than Dennis Hopper was in Blue Velvet

Dis-Honorable Mention:
Rutger Hauer
Christopher Walken

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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.

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Dennis Hopper in Paris Trout
Harvey Keitel in The Bad Lieutenant

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mallen, you’re right. Hopper, in Paris Trout, is even sleezier than he was in Blue Velvet.

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James Spader. Does that guy ever play a normal person? He seems to be somewhat icky in many of his films.

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<hijack> according to idmb, Lorre had a stroke, I thought he killed himself.

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Steve Buscemi was the one I thought of immediately upon reading the thread title.

Gary Oldman has also been known to play some excellent sleazeballs (Leon, True Romance, Sid and Nancy).

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Harvey Kietel in The Bad Lieutenant. shudder

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Rob Lowe

" ‘Purchase feeble public access show and exploit it.’ Boy, I sure feel sorry for whoever that is."

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“Warriors… come out and play-ay!”

You took my first suggestion. For those of you who don’t know him, Kelly is the weaselly little guy that Arnold Schwarzenegger drops off a cliff in Commando.