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| Who supplied the voice for the villainous Scar in 'The Lion King'? | Movie Villains
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Jeremy Irons. Irons won a Best Actor Oscar as real life convicted criminal Claus Von Bulow in 'Reversal of Fortune'.
| What former leading man won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar and revived his career as the sadistic sheriff who menaces Clint Eastwood in 'Unforgiven'? | Movie Villains
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Gene Hackman. Hackman won an earlier Best Actor Oscar in 'The French Connection'.
| Who played the mad Roman emperor Commodus in 'Gladiator'? | Movie Villains
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Joaquin Phoenix. Phoenix is the brother of the late River Phoenix.
| Dougray Scott, who menaces Tom Cruise in 'Mission Impossible 2', played the romantic lead opposite Drew Barrymore in what film? | Movie Villains
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Ever After. Scott played Prince Charming to Barrymore's Cinderella.
| What European actor's first major role in an American film was as a terrorist who is pursued by cop Sylvester Stallone in 'Nighthawks'? | Movie Villains
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Rutger Hauer. Hauer had appeared in a number of European movies, including the award winning 'Soldier of Orange', prior to his American debut.
| What television sitcom star played a mercenary killer on the trail of John Travolta in 'Blow Out'? | Movie Villains
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John Lithgow. Lithgow also played the villain in Sylvester Stallone's 'Cliffhanger'.
| Gregory Peck's only villainous performance was as what real life Nazi in 'The Boys from Brazil'? | Movie Villains
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Josef Mengele. Peck's costar in the film, Laurence Olivier, played a Nazi villain himself in 'Marathon Man'.
| Who played the mad Roman emperor Commodus in 'The Fall of the Roman Empire'? | Movie Villains
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Christopher Plummer. 'The Fall of the Roman Empire' shares some remarkable plot similarities with 'Gladiator', including a number of the same historical characters and a fictitious general (Stephen Boyd and Russell Crowe) who is the hero.
| What actor, who later played the lead in a popular television series, played a mobster who wants to switch identities with Robert Mitchum to return to the United States in 'His Kind of Woman'? | Movie Villains
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Raymond Burr. Burr also played the killer in 'Rear Window'.
| What television celebrity played a mob boss who tries to kill Jim Brown in 'Slaughter's Big Ripoff'? | Movie Villains
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Ed McMahon. Sometimes, truth is stranger than fiction.
| In what movie did Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and the rest of the Rat Pack plan to rob five Las Vegas casinos in one night? | Movie Villains 2
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Ocean's 11. George Clooney starred in a new version of the film, directed by Steven Soderbergh.
| Who played the international assassin in the 1997 movie The Jackal? | Movie Villains 2
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| In the 1973 thriller The Day of the Jackal (the movie upon which The Jackal is based), what real life famous person is the target of the Jackal? | Movie Villains 2
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Charles de Gaulle. This movie was based upon a real plot to assassinate de Gaulle. Another thriller, The Eagle Has Landed, involved a plot to kill Churchill, while a movie currently in production, The Eighth Man, involves an assassination plot against Roosevelt.
| What famous person was Tommy Lee Jones trying to assassinate in The Package? | Movie Villains 2
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Soviet Premier. This sleeper thriller was directed by Andrew Davis, who would later direct Jones to a Supporting Actor Oscar in The Fugitive.
| Who played the brutal pimp who threatened a very young Jodie Foster in Taxi Driver? | Movie Villains 2
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Harvey Keitel. Keitel and star Robert de Niro had also worked with director Martin Scorsese in Mean Streets.
| What actor, currently playing a far more respectable role on a network television series, played a would be child molester who menaced a slightly older Jodie Foster in The Little Girl Who Lived Down the Lane? | Movie Villains 2
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| Who played Major Strasser, the German officer killed by Humphrey Bogart at the end of Casablanca? | Movie Villains 2
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Conrad Veidt. Although policeman Claude Raines witnesses the killing, he ignores it, issuing the famous line to his officers to 'round up the usual suspects.'
| What was the nickname given to Lee Van Cleef's character in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly? | Movie Villains 2
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Angel Eyes. Van Cleef was 'the Bad' to Clint Eastwood's 'Good' and Eli Wallach's 'Ugly.'
| What basketball star fought Arnold Schwarzenegger in Conan the Destroyer? | Movie Villains 2
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Wilt Chamberlain. The seven foot tall Chamberlain was one of the few Scharzenegger adversaries who was a physical match for Arnold, but the two had a sword fight, not hand to hand combat.
| Who played a depression era bank robber in the Roger Corman cult classic Big Bad Mama? | Movie Villains 2
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Angie Dickinson. Winters played a far less attractive Depression era bank robber, Ma Barker, in another Corman cult classic, Bloody Mama.
| What actor, currently starring in a popular network television series, ran an illegal New York City sweatshop until Woody Harrelson and Kiefer Sutherland stopped him in The Cowboy Way? | Movie Villains 2
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| What actor, who was later the hero of a popular televsion series, forced Gary Cooper's girl friend to strip in front of him in Man of the West? | Movie Villains 2
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| Whose first major screen role earned him a Best Supporting Actor nomination as a sadistic pimp who supplied information about his life to reporter Christopher Reeve in Street Smart? | Movie Villains 2
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| In the classic detective film The Maltese Falcon, who actually killed Humphrey Bogart's partner? | Movie Villains 2
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| What famous British writer played a criminal mastermind who helped Michael Caine pull off an intricate robbery in The Italian Job? | Movie Villains 2
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| Not often do villainous film roles translate into Oscars, but such was the case for Michael Douglas, who played which slithering bad guy in the 1987 film 'Wall Street'? | Evil, Evil, Evil: Great Movie Villains
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Gordon Gekko. Who can forget the immortal line of Gordon Gekko, who said 'Greed is good'? Gekko applies the rules of the Chinese political philosopher Sun-Tzu to his work. There are winners and losers, business is a zero-sum game, and 'Every battle is won before it is ever fought.'
| One of the most frightening film images of all time comes from the movie 'The Shining' when Jack Nicholson peers evilly through a cracked and tattered door and shouts 'Here's Johnny!' What is the name of the psychotic character, played by the brilliant Nicholson, in this film? | Evil, Evil, Evil: Great Movie Villains
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Jack Torrance. 'All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.'
Seemingly a normal guy at the beginning of the film, the vision of Jack Torrance slowly breaking down and becoming a demented madman is haunting indeed. Jack seems like the big bad wolf when he shouts for his son to 'Come out, come out, where ever you are.'
| One of my favorite movie villains is Ramses II, son of Seti and inheritor of the throne in the 1956 film 'The Ten Commandments'. Which film actor played the jealous and colossally arrogant Ramses in this movie? | Evil, Evil, Evil: Great Movie Villains
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Yul Brynner. Yul Brynner plays the pharaoh Ramses II to perfection in this film: he's over-the-top wicked. One of his memorable lines: 'The city that he builds shall bear my name, the woman that he loves shall bear my child. So let it be written, so let it be done.'
The performance of Anne Baxter as the bitter Nefretiri also deserves mention here.
| Several good (or evil) performances were submitted by actors and actresses in the two 'Kill Bill' films. Who played the role of the heartless Bill in this two-part epic? | Evil, Evil, Evil: Great Movie Villains
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David Carradine. Carradine was great as the nefarious Bill, but he is not the only bad guy to appear in the films. Daryl Hannah is surprisingly enjoyable as Elle Driver and Michael Madsen submits his usual brutish performance as Budd. Also very creepy is the performance of Chiaki Kuriyama as the killer schoolgirl ninja Gogo Yubari.
North by Northwest. Alfred Hitchcock was well-known for letting his 'bad guys' shine, and the performances of Mason and Landau are no exception in 'North by Northwest'. The film follows the story of Roger Thornhill (Cary Grant), a man who has had his identity mistaken for that of a government agent. He is pursued relentlessly by Mason and Landau, resulting in some spectacularly exciting scenes (for example, an attack from a killer airplane).
Dr. Strangelove. Though 'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' is supposed to be a comedy, the premise of the film, that a single army general could somehow manipulate protocols and the bureaucracy in order to set in motion World War III, is simply frightening.
As Ripper memorably says, 'War is too important to be left to politicians.'
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