Billy Bob Thornton

Clint Howard gets my vote!

What about Tom Waits? He played Renfield in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
Straight Jacket + Eating Flies + Grimy Ass Jailcell=creeptacular.
http://www.keeslau.com/TomWaitsSuppl...ld-Dracula.jpg

Malcolm McDowwel

Anthony Hopkins and Kevin Spacey top my list.

Jack Elam used to play creepy characters.

Anthony Perkins was a total creepout, even before Psycho.

Bud Cort is creepy.

Peter Lorre was a good creepy part actor.


/is creeped-out now

I'll tell you what's creepy - how you are all reading my mind! I went through the thread and every time I came up with somebody original it was right there. Some nice obscure references as well.

I think you have to give credit to DeNiro (Taxi Driver) and Hopper (Blue Velvet) for being sort of the fathers of invention with this genre. I don't think I saw Tim Roth for his character in Rob Roy - um, unsettling to say the least. Also props to Malkovich for his Claus Von Bulow and of course Nicholson for The Shining.

Oh yeah, and that dude in the movie "Misery" who kept breaking James Caan's legs. That guy was scary. ;)

christopher walken is the man
*king of the new york*

About time someone mentioned Jack. ;)

only potential candidate I can think of off the top of my head that I don't think has been mentioned is Harvey Keitel

Some good ones in here. I'm a huge Walken fan myself. Fist movie I saw of his was The Dead Zone when I was a kid, and I was hooked. Man is creepy. But it surprises me no one has said Keaten yet. He can be really fucking creepy when he wants to.

Peter Stormare, who played the creepy 'eye doctor' in Minority Report, so freakin' scary.

...

Which reminds me, also in Minority Report, Max Von Sydow, who played the bad guy. He's always been cast in creepy parts.

Mickey Rourke
Lon Chaney
Robert Englund
Boris Karloff
Bela Lugosi
Christopher Lee

james spader and jeremy irons usually play some type of weirdo

Michael Ironside?

-Mikey

Jeff Goldblum always plays some wierd character as well (The Fly, The Big Chill, Jurassic Park, etc...)...and he is a damn fine at it, imho. He is usually both beguiling and disturbing at the same time.

-bear

Oh yes. He did the scariest Satan I have ever seen in Mr Frost. Fucking creepy.

Clancy Brown
Career Sgt. Zim in Starship Troopers, Lex Luthor's voice in the Superman animated series, Capt. Byron Hadley in The Shawshank Redemption, and of course The Kurgan
in the original (re:good) Highlander.

[QUOTE=mystmarimatt]Peter Stormare, who played the creepy 'eye doctor' in Minority Report, so freakin' scary.QUOTE]

That is a monster pick. This guy has turned playing sick psycopathic f*cks into a science. He has played deranged characters in so many movies, that to see him try and play a normal character, like in Windtalkers, even that character seems a little "off", because you are just waiting for him to flip out and start eating the guy next to him, or something just as sadisitic. His role in 8MM alone should seal the deal for him.

They only other guy I can think of to fit this category is Patrick Kilpatrick. Some of you are saying "who!?!?!", but trust me, I don't think I have ever seen this guy play anything but wackos in his long career. I originally saw him in the VanDamme crapfest Death Warrant, where he played the Sandman. After that performance, he started popping up in bigger films, usually as the #2 bad guy, the one who did all the main antagonist's dirty work, because he is just that sick. These roles were in movies like Under Siege 2, Last Man Standing, Eraser, etc... Even when he plays characters on the right side of the law, like in Minority Report, he is always the guy who would rather mutilate everybody and let god sort them out, than try to distinguish who is right or wrong. Besides, just look at the dude, he even looks like he belongs in a padded cell.

He scared the crap out of me in the big chill....

I'm not sure if anyone's mentioned Robert Davi yet. That guy plays psycho to a T.

DeNiro was mentioned for Taxi Driver but how about the remake of Cape Fear. He is just so believable as the southern cracker who won't quit. Or as Satan in Angel Heart.

Christopher Lee

Jeremy Irons

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Thought I would do a bump on this since the first time you tube wasnt around- so if you find a good scene with one of the celeb sick fu%%%s in it please post. This scene just happens to have two.. **However it does have racial slurss so if that offends please pass- I only enjoy it for demented acting these two do best.

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of course this guy . . . .

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My new fav bad guy.... Jason Isaacs

Frank Langhella

For me, his was one of the creepiest performances ever in Blue Velvet.

Christopher Walken's a classic creep, too.

Walken, classic.
Agreeing with Dafoe... /shudders/

Dennis Hooper - did you guys watch Blue Velvet? "Pretty. Pretty. Pretty."
Michael Ironside - name says it all.
Daniel von Bargen [picture] - Clive Barker did a great job putting him in a picture
Jürgen Prochnow - coolest voice ever. ever.

How can Gary Busey be left off this list - If you don't agree, just watch the original Lethal Weapon again...

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000997/

Gary Busey doesn't exactly scare me... he's just [insert any verb in past tense here] out of his brain. But I can see how he deserves to be on this list.

Willem Defoe.

bunnies jump fast

nuff said.

Willem Defoe played Jesus.

Yeah, but then along came Bobby Peru. :oogle:

Daniel Day Lewis? Ummm... hello? Daniel Day Lewis! The guy's a frakking shoemaker in real life. How creepy is that?

I'm thinking his recent There Will Be Blood will be yet another testament to this.

That's a good one. He scared the shit out of me in Gangs of New York. Not to mention he was the only element that made that film worth watching.

I'll have to toss a vote in for Ralph Fiennes, ala "Red Dragon."

Hopkins and Walken top my list by a longshot, though.

Christian Bale in American Psycho and The Machinist... he's working on his potential despite Batman


Edward Norton deserves an honorable mention. Primal Fear, American History X...

The little kid from Joshua scared the crap out of me and no matter what movies he ever makes, he'll still be the weirdo kid.

And, my votes go to Nicholson, Spacey, Hopkins and Walken, too.

Can you guess who the candidate is in this scene? Bad movie, but memorable scene.

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I don’t know why but I always thought that Ed Harris played an incredibly convincing bad guy. He just has that look; you know the kind that appears so outwardly calm and primp which just leads you to believe he must be a sick fucker.

Notable bad guy roles:

the rock

http://www.cinema24horas.com/filmes/rocha/rocha02.jpg

enemy at the gates

http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/img/daily/587/ed_l.jpg

a history of violence

http://g.takas.lt/gpi/filmai/Ed_Harris.jpg

and of course the coach from radio

http://www.sptimes.com/2003/10/27/ph...171949_102.jpg

Well it looks like Christopher Walken is winning the majority of these, and he is the one who I would nominate.

And yea Ed Harris was creepy in Radio. *shudder*