Favorite................

[Bob Wright]

O.K. We've had favorite singers etc. Now, how about the most villainous villain, confining it only in western movies?

Examples: Bruce Dern in The Cowboys or Richard Boone in Big Jake.

Let 'em fly!


Bob Wright

 

[Fox Mike]

Bruce Dern also tops my list followed by Jack Elam.
Was listening to an interview with Bruce Dern and he said that when he was approached to work with John Wayne in The Cowboys he was thrilled, then he was told he had to shoot Wayne...in the back. He said he figured he would never get another job.

 

[gunzo]

I'll have to give Richard Boone another point for his part in Hombre.

 

[tracker 6]

Lee Marvin as Liberty Valance

 

[Bob Wright]

Lee Marvin as Liberty Valance

Good one!

Bob Wright

 

[caryc]

Although he did portray a villain I don't know how bad he was. But I loved the episode of "Big Valley" when Bruce Dern and his idiot buddy kidnapped Victoria and Audra at a way station and tried so hard to open that safe.

 

[sfhogman]

There was a character actor named Albert Salmi who great at playing bad guys you loved to hate. If you look up the name, you'll recognize him. Lots of movies, lots of TV westerns.

 

[Fox Mike]

Then there was Gene Hackman in The Unforgiven. He did a great job of being a 'badie'.

 

[kramden]

I'd also say Bruce Dern.

 

[ProfessorWes]

Eli "Tuco" Wallach. "If you're gonna shoot, shoot don't talk."

For a more modern Western villain: Alan Rickman in Quigley Down Under. Because Rickman was always so good when he was the bad guy, and not just in Westerns. :mrgreen:

 

[Bob Wright]

If I may splash into my own post: Jack Palance in Shane.


Bob Wright

 

[Jimbo357mag]

An oldie but a goody.

Alfonso Bedoya as Gold Hat : Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges.

 

[gunzo]

Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West.

 

[Rick Courtright]

Hi,

Lee Van Cleef in any of the spaghetti westerns he was in.

Rick C

 

[Rick Courtright]

If I may splash into my own post: Jack Palance in Shane.

Hi,

Bob, is City Slickers western enough to add a second vote for Jack Palance--as the inimitable Curly--to the list?

Rick C

 

[paboxcall]

Richard Boone as Fain, but Goodfellow with the machete was a close second. Favorite John Wayne movie.

 

[Thumbcocker]

I'll have to give Richard Boone another point for his part in Hombre.

Excellent bad guy performance. That movie is under appreciated imho.

 

[LDM]

Then there was Gene Hackman in The Unforgiven. He did a great job of being a 'badie'.

Also for his work in "The Quick and the Dead."