Yea thumbs up to the above. Also liked (1) Sydney Greenstreet as Kasper Gutman in The Maltese Falcon. (2) Charles Grey's incarnation of Ernst Stavro Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever.
Hannibal Lector rocks! Also, Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects (Kevin Spacey) is awesome because he gets away with EVERYTHING.
Nurse Ratchet, in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest was fucking evil.... Mr. Blonde from Reservoir Dogs... and those children from village of the damned.... and Baby from House of 1000 corpses.....
I have to be relly unoriginal and say senator Palpetine/the Emperor from all Star Wars movies (although its debatable whether one can call the prequels classsics). It would be Darth but the new movies just made me feel for him so he just ain't that figure of evil doominess he once was, plus he redeemed himself and brought balance to the force with self sacrifice so he isn't really a bad guy. But the new films did give an all new dimension to Palpetines caniving calculated evil and he just makes me shudder everytime he's on screen.
Go Hannibal, Go Wile E. Coyote, Go Palpatine. I don't know why, but I really liked Ed Harris in The Rock.
El Guape in The Three Amigos. Seriously. I can't think of another bad guy i liked. Was Michael Corleone {The Godfather} a good guy or a bady guy? Liked him.
Lee Van Cleef From The Good The Bad and The Ugly, Ian McDiarmid as Palpatine, and of course Darth Vader (old, not new)
Palpatine is the obvious choice, but my sleep would be "The Butcher".....Bill Cutter from Gangs of New York....Daniel Day lewis' best role i think....
that lee van cleef character(the bad)was a cold hearted s.o.b. wasn't he?and he always finished the job too.yikes!
OHH THERE ARE WAY TOO MANY TO NAME: One of my favorite bad guys and I think he did SUPERB in the movie, was Bill Cunning, Gangs of New York
I like Palpatine because he relates so well to today's politicians. But come on you guys...Gary from pokemon!