AFI's 50 Greatest Movie Villains

Entertainment: Movies Awards: AFI

The actors listed are those who portrayed the screen villains. In some case the actor portrayed two villain roles that made the top 50. Ranked #43 is the character of Bette Davis. Missing: Man in Bambi (#20) * Martians (War Of The Worlds) (#27)

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2

0

AFI (American Film Institute)

Organization

100% (1 of 1 votes)

38

1

Anthony Hopkins

Actor

0% (0 of 2 votes)

9

2

Anthony Perkins (Actor)

Actor

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

5

3

David Prowse

Actor

66.67% (2 of 3 votes)

28

3

James Earl Jones

Voice Actor

29.17% (77 of 264 votes)

52

4

Margaret Hamilton

Actress

0% (0 of 2 votes)

55

5

Louise Fletcher

Actress

0% (0 of 0 votes)

15

6

Lionel Barrymore

Actor

42.01% (113 of 269 votes)

35

7

Glenn Close

Actress

0% (0 of 0 votes)

33

8

Barbara Stanwyck

Actress

11.11% (1 of 9 votes)

29

9

Mercedes McCambridge

Actress

27.27% (3 of 11 votes)

30

9

Linda Blair

Actress

14.29% (1 of 7 votes)

48

10

Lucille La Verne

Actress

0% (0 of 0 votes)

39

11

Al Pacino

Actor

0% (0 of 1 votes)

44

12

Malcolm McDowell

Actor

0% (0 of 1 votes)

49

13

Douglas Rain

Voice Actor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

50

14

Bolaji Badejo

Daredevil

0% (0 of 1 votes)

37

15

Ralph Fiennes

Actor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

23

16

John Huston

Filmmaker

32.00% (32 of 100 votes)

20

17

Kathy Bates

Actress

33.33% (2 of 6 votes)

1

18

Bruce the Shark

Animal

100% (1 of 1 votes)

45

19

Charles Laughton

Actor

0% (0 of 1 votes)

7

20

Men

Vibrator Replacement

59.05% (62 of 105 votes)

12

21

Angela Lansbury

Actress

46.46% (164 of 353 votes)

24

22

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Actor

32.00% (80 of 250 votes)

21

23

Anne Baxter

Actress

33.33% (1 of 3 votes)

36

24

Michael Douglas

Actor

0% (0 of 4 votes)

4

25

Jack Nicholson

Actor

79.52% (66 of 83 votes)

31

26

James Cagney

Actor

14.29% (1 of 7 votes)

46

27

Mars

Astronomical Object

0% (0 of 3 votes)

43

28

Robert Mitchum

Actor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

42

29

Robert Mitchum

Actor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

19

30

Robert De Niro

Actor

34.78% (56 of 161 votes)

10

31

Judith Anderson

Actress

50.0% (2 of 4 votes)

26

32

Faye Dunaway

Actress

31.36% (127 of 405 votes)

34

32

Warren Beatty

Actor

8.33% (3 of 36 votes)

54

33

Bela Lugosi

Actor

0% (0 of 3 votes)

27

34

Laurence Olivier

Actor

31.18% (29 of 93 votes)

11

35

Burt Lancaster

Actor

50.0% (1 of 2 votes)

13

36

Dennis Hopper

Actor

42.86% (3 of 7 votes)

22

37

Orson Welles

Actor

32.31% (21 of 65 votes)

6

38

Edward G. Robinson

Actor

66.67% (2 of 3 votes)

51

39

Betty Lou Gerson

Voice Actress

0% (0 of 0 votes)

53

40

Robert Englund

Actor

0% (0 of 11 votes)

25

41

Faye Dunaway

Actress

31.36% (127 of 405 votes)

32

42

James Cagney

Actor

14.29% (1 of 7 votes)

17

43

Bette Davis

Actress

41.94% (281 of 670 votes)

16

44

Bette Davis

Actress

41.94% (281 of 670 votes)

3

45

Jack Nicholson

Actor

79.52% (66 of 83 votes)

14

46

Alan Rickman

Actor

42.48% (48 of 113 votes)

40

47

Al Pacino

Actor

0% (0 of 1 votes)

41

47

Paul Muni

Actor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

18

48

Kevin Spacey

Actor

37.67% (55 of 146 votes)

47

49

Gert Frobe

Actor

0% (0 of 0 votes)

8

50

Denzel Washington

Actor

58.18% (32 of 55 votes)