Actors that usually play good guys but can play an awesome bad guy

[acedrake]

Obviously Heath Ledger is right there. But I am sure there are quite others.

 

[Deserana]

Tom Cruise in Collateral
Robin Williams in Insomnia

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West

 

[the last son]

DiCaprio in django.
Jude law road to perdition
Vince Vaughn in disturbance or whatever it was called

 

[Kahran Ramsus]

Jude law road to perdition

Daniel Craig and Paul Newman too.

 

[Quasimod0]

Tom Hiddleston

 

[Schlosser85]

Matt Damon was pretty good in The Talented Mr. Ripley.

Elijah Wood in Sin City and Maniac.

 

[the last son]

Arnold as Mr freeze

 

[Loki882]

Tom Cruise in Collateral
Nicolas Cage in Face Off
Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West
Michael Keaton in Pacific Heights
Robin Williams in Insomnia and One Hour Photo
Kevin Costner in Mr. Brooks

 

[Schlosser85]

Tom Cruise in Collateral
Robin Williams in Insomnia

Williams was also excellent in One Hour Photo.

 

[batman44]

Christian Bale in American Psycho and Shaft.

 

[the last son]

Washington training day
Depp secret window/public enemies
mclovin in kick a 2
Cavill Tristan and Isolde
Butler law abiding citizen

 

[the last son]

Bale in prestige as well
Pitt as Jesse James
elba in office

 

[kvz5]

Bale is the first one that came to mind. I need for this guy to play a villain again.

 

[Donnie Darko]

Tom Cruise in Collateral
Nicolas Cage in Face Off
Henry Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West
Michael Keaton in Pacific Heights
Robin Williams in Insomnia and One Hour Photo
Kevin Costner in Mr. Brooks

Cage is who I came to say as well. Not just in Face/Off, but in Kiss of Death, as well. That was the first time I saw him as a bad guy, an he was jacked and badass in that one from what I remember.

 

[Schlosser85]

John Travolta in Broken Arrow

 

[James]

After watching The Iceman, I'd like to throw Chris Evans into the ring. After seeing him as a goofy vegan villain, Captain America, a cop, a teen jock parody, The Human Torch and so on, Evans is barely recognizable as 'Mr. Freezy'.

 

[Duke]

Denzel Washington in Training Day was just plain awesome.

 

[Donnie Darko]

Ryan Gosling in Murder By Numbers

Rachel McAdams in Mean Girls

 

[warhorse78]

Wesley Snipes-Demolition Man
Charlize Theron-Snow White and the Huntsman
Michael Caine-On Deadly Ground
John Lithgow-Cliffhanger
Kate Beckinsale-Total Recall remake
Kevin Bacon-Sleepers
Nick Cage-Face/Off
Sharlto Copley-Elysium

 

[Bat-Mite]

Liam Neeson as Ra's al Ghul

Bette Davis in What Ever Happened To Baby Jane?

John Hurt as Sutler in V for Vendetta

Patrick Swayze as that child molesting motivational speaker in Donnie Darko (it was a small role, but he sure did make a convincing creep!)

 

[Schlosser85]

Wesley Snipes-Demolition Man
Charlize Theron-Snow White and the Huntsman
Michael Caine-On Deadly Ground
John Lithgow-Cliffhanger
Kate Beckinsale-Total Recall remake
Kevin Bacon-Sleepers
Nick Cage-Face/Off
Sharlto Copley-Elysium

Charlize Theron was also bad in Monster, Michael Caine in Quills and the Stallone remake of Get Carter, John Lithgow on Season 4 of Dexter, and Kevin Bacon in X-Men: First Class.

 

[Schlosser85]

Surprised nobody's mentioned Liam Neeson in Batman Begins yet.

 

[:eek:]

Surprised nobody's mentioned Liam Neeson in Batman Begins yet.

Look at post number 21.

 

[warhorse78]

Charlize Theron was also bad in Monster, Michael Caine in Quills and the Stallone remake of Get Carter, John Lithgow on Season 4 of Dexter, and Kevin Bacon in X-Men: First Class.

Never seen any of those movies except First Class, and I didn't think he was particularly awesome as a bad guy in that. In the end though, my favorite Kevin Bacon performance was in Stir of Echos.