What are some good movies with actors usually known as good guys playing bad guys?

[Polux]

No competition there...

Polux

 

[cerealkiller182]

Most people know Arnold as the Terminator. The fact is Dolph has spent 99% of his career as the good guy.

Arnolds movies are successful, big budget blockbusters that have created a public persona of good guy, and most prefer the good Terminator to the bad I think.

Dolph's career has been spent mostly on the video store shelves except Rocky V and Universal Soldier.

I would say Dolph is more known as a bad guy than a good guy. Its the difference of reality vs perception.

 

[Evil Twin]

I'm glad Once Upon a Time in the West was mentioned. That's the standard bearer.

Another of the all time greats, Angela Lansbury in The Manchurian Candidate.

 

[Mr.Webs]

Jimmy Stewart in Hitchcock's "Rope". While not the villain of the tale, our beloved George Bailey is turned into a professor who champions murder and most forms of violence in order to thin out the herd of the population. So I'll count it, because he is frighteningly believable.

 

[BatMatt]

But if they're aware of the character they know he's been a bad guy twice out of 4 times.

Ha yea, if you want to count Terminator Salvation. I wasn't disagreeing with you per say, just making a point

 

[Figs]

The Jackal - Bruce Willis

 

[Watchman]

Gregory Peck in the Boys from Brazil

Atticus Finch as Dr. ****ing Mengele

 

[CWP]

Jeff Bridges as Obadiah Stane/Iron Monger in Iron Man.

 

[AVEITWITHJAMON]

Gary Oldman playing a GOOD GUY in the Batman movies after playing so many awesome bad-guys!

 

[gwynplaine]

Jeff Bridges as Obadiah Stane/Iron Monger in Iron Man.

He played a great villain before in The Vanishing, but you're right he mostly played good guys before IM.

 

[gwynplaine]

Mathieu Amalric in Quantum of Solace.

 

[Evil Twin]

James Cromwell was best known for BABE before L.A. CONFIDENTIAL.

 

[That-Guy]

Nicholas Cage in Face-Off (though to be fair, he also played the hero for half the movie too)

Keanu Reeves - The Gift and The Watcher (the latter was a mediocre movie, but Keanu was good)

Tom Berenger - Platoon (which also features Willem Defoe as a good guy, for a change)

Kurt Russell - Death Proof (he was the only good thing about that movie, IMO)

Brad Pitt - Kalifornia

 

[Sarge 2.0]

Would Eric Bana in Star Trek count?

 

[Christmas]

One of the greatest films of all time...Upon A Time In The West.

Arguably the best example possible.

Henry Fonda

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I heard the reveal of his character was hugely shocking to audiences who saw this for the first time and knew Fonda to play upstanding and heroic characters.

 

[Doctor Jones]

Yeah Dafoe in Platoon played a nice guy for a change. I watched some of major League and Berenger was actually the nice guy. He looks like he could eat you.

 

[luke1234]

Yeah Dafoe in Platoon played a nice guy for a change. I watched some of major League and Berenger was actually the nice guy. He looks like he could eat you.

yeah he does ha, especially in Platoon

 

[That-Guy]

Yeah Dafoe in Platoon played a nice guy for a change. I watched some of major League and Berenger was actually the nice guy. He looks like he could eat you.

Yeah, Berenger tends to play a hardass, but he's usually a "good" hardass, like in Sniper or Shoot to Kill. Platoon was an exception though... so was Sliver, but that movie sucked.

 

[Humphrey Bogart]

Jimmy Stewart - After the Thin Man

 

[gwynplaine]

_ In chronological order : John Barrymore, Fredric March and Spencer Tracy as Dr Jeckyll, but mostly as the villainous Mr Hyde in, you guessed it, "Dr Jeckyll and Mr Hyde".

_ Richard Widmark in "Kiss of Death."

_ Louis Jourdan, one of the quintessential french lover, in "Octopussy".

_ Adolphe Menjou, another suave french actor, in Kubrick's "Paths of Glory."

_ Orson Welles in "The 3rd Man." And later in "Touch of Evil."

_ Jet Li in "Lethal Weapon 4".

 

[Bob ROARman!]

Edward Norton for about half of the film in American History X.

 

[gwynplaine]

Christian Bale in American Psycho.

 

[Nightmare]

Can't believe I forgot this one...

Kevin Bacon - Sean Nokes in Sleepers.

Spoiler

I don't think I ever enjoyed seeing a villain get shot up as much as I did with this character lol

Havent seen this movie yet. But It reminded me of Kevin Bacon in Hallow Man.

 

[gwynplaine]

Danny De Vito in Batman Returns.

Christopher Loyd in Roger Rabbit.

Angelina Jolie in Beowulf.

Also, before Collateral, Cruise played Lestat, not really a good guy, in "Interview with a vampire."

 

[xwolverine2]

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