Who are the best sleasball actors?

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…

I second James Woods.

Also Christopher Walken plays some real weirdos.

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.

I also vote for Jack Cassidy. I mean, just look at him.

Harry Dean Stanton, especially in Repo Man or Escape from New York.

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

Jason Alexander in Pretty Woman (lawyer)

Damn, I wish I’d thought of him.

you guys are missing Chris Penn and Michael Madson (Madsen?)

Tarantino sleeze at it’s finest.

Also, Courtney Love.

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.

Yup…that’s the guy. Sorry for the confusion…but his voice sounds exactly like Watto…

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 a run-down of all his movies. (Oops, forgot to mention that he was in The Crow!)

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. :slight_smile:

Michael did a truly awe-inspiring job of playing a sleazebag in Blood & Wine. Awesome.

Er, Michael Caine, that is.