When NPR eulogized the ever-kind Henry Fonda, the commentator noted his bad-guy role as Frank in Once Upon a Time in the West. Commenting that Frank killed a kid in cold blood, he quipped: "It was Henry Fonda! The kid probably had it coming." 😂
Lee Van Cleef, though a good actor, always had difficulty getting parts until For A Few Dollar More and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. After that his career took off. I was surprised that Jack Elam didn't make the list. And for that matter Strother Martin. Both very good actors who could play villains as well as other roles. Maybe your next Top 10 list could be comedy westerns including Elam and Martin. Lee Marvin would have to be in that one with Cat Ballou.
Great list Santee. I would have to throw in El Indio in For a Few Dollars More. There was always something about his brutal, calm demeanor that made him a villain I couldn't stand.
You know an actor is doing a great job when you start thinking "will someone please kill him?" Russell Crowe got to me in 3:10 to Yuma. Thanks for keeping the west alive.
The guy who played Johnny Ringo, Michael Biehn, should've won an Oscar. Really, all the main actors could've. But he played a guy you could tell was 1/3rd psycho, 1/3 bad ass, and 1/3 yellow bellied coward all at once. He contrasted well with Kurt Russell's Wyatt Earp, who was 100% bad ass and Val Kilmer's Doc, who's devil may care attitude reflected a GAF meter pegged below -10.
Good intro Santee - that's taking one for the team! But, Angel Eyes - a.k.a. Lee Van Clief has always been my favorite Western movie villain. He could play the consummate sociopath; just pure evil intent with no wasted extravagance.
Bruce Dern played his part so well, I wanted to shoot HIM!!! Henry Fonda actually has some emotional problems after his character had to kill the kid. I always enjoyed playing the bad guy in our shows. It let me release my aggression.
This is a crazy coincidence as a friend of mine was excited this week because Bruce Dern liked his post on social media. And I was saying how I loved him as the bad guy in The Cowboys. And that John Wayne told him the world will hate him for shooting him in the back and Bruce quipped yeah but they will love me in Berkley.
Santee, A really good top 10 but you left one off that Low Down Rotten Dirty Dan that's always mean to Santee. You and your family have a beautiful and blessed weekend.
The thing about Frank is he feigns disappointment in having killing the child, but that smile tells you he's a cold blooded killer that enjoys it. That is in spite of him wanting Mr. Choo Choo's power. The whole movie is a masterpiece and Fonda's acting is some of the best.
Glad you included one of my favorites, Bruce Dern. You know your a good actor when the movie goers HATE you. Also an honorable mention two "Jacks"... Jack Palance and Jack Elam. Elam played some humorous parts but some serious ones too. Keep up the good work and "pew pew pew"
Nice! I lost my original comment, but I certainly agree about “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.” I’d also add the original “The Magnificent Seven” and “The Big Country” to the list. Keep it going, bro!!!!
I'm not familiar with all of those movies, but from your ON TARGET video, and audio clips, they sure suggest they deserved to be in that *top 10. Thanks, and this, too, was top notch, as always, Santee.👏🏻🤠👏🏻😱
I find it interesting that im aware of and or have seen most of these movies, but could not have named a single one of these villains before hand, except for maybe Johnny Ringo. I tend to focus on / care more about the good guy than the bad guy. One of my favorites is Quigley down under, and I can never remember the nsme of the bad guy played by Alan Rickman.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Bogue in the magnificent seven was pretty bad too. One thing they both have in common is that they hired killers a lot more than actually getting their hands dirty which in some ways makes them worse.
Great list. Johnny Ringo, Ben Wade and Angel Eyes have to be my top 3. I gotta throw in an honorable mention though, Graff, Mickey Rourke's character from The Last Outlaw.
This may just be my imagination, but in the realm of cap/ball revolvers, isn't it unusually common for heroes to have Colts, while the villains are equipped with Remingtons?
@seymourwrasse3321 kind of jokingly but not I always approach the mindset a SAA is more of a defensive gun when it comes to loading and unloading. You can replace spent rounds as need be. The Schofield I see as more of a offensive firearm in that it's all or nothing. It's kind of hard doing partial reloads in a top break. But for quick full reloads the Schofield can't be beat (between the two). Especially with a speed loader.
Like your list, although I would have Jack Palance’s Wilson from Shane at the top of the list. Also, I would have Richard Boone’s character from Hombre on the list.
None of these can match the lexicon, the shooting skill, and the excellent dancing of the infamous El Guapo. I've always loved Marshall Stockburn as a villain, he's like Dan Troop gotten old, corrupt, and disillusioned with the world.
Well you nailed this time Santee. Some really bad dudes here. One of my favorites is Luke Plummer in John Ford's Stagecoach but he's not on screen much. I like the way his girl friend throws him a rifle. And, I think it was the first time anyone did this but it got copied a thousand times afterwards. After the shootout that you don't see, Luke comes walking back into the bar. You think he's killed the Ringo Kid but then he collapses on the floor shot to death.
Captain Terrill (Bill McKinney) in the ruthless and unrelenting pursuit of outlaw Josey Wales was great in convincing me of his bloody conviction of never doing enough good by Killing those he deemed evil. And Bruce Dern, Walter Brennan or any of the Danbys in "Support your local Sheriff" need to be mentioned. They played bad Guys too. How about bad guys that were hiding as good guys. Always a good plot.
Alan Rickman in Quigley Down Under, Emillio Estevez in Young Guns and Val Kilmer as Doc in Tombstone. We see Doc Holiday as on the side of the "good guys" yet we see his killer side too. Even Ringo is leery of taking on Doc.
Awesome video Santee or the BIG BOSS. HAHAHA. Great video. There is no real Western Movie without a really awesome villain or two or three. HAHAHA. 👍👍👍
I'd have put Calvin Candy (Leonardo DiCaprio) from Django Unchained (2012) high on the list. It's a very dramatic character with an excellent performance, especially the famous scene with the broken glass. Major Jackson (Eduardo Fajardo) from the original Django (1966) would also make my list. For a more obscure character, I liked Luke Darcy (Jeff Chandler) from The Jayhawkers (1959), as a complicated villain with some good features.
I'd like to mention Samuel L. Jackson as Stephen in Django Unchained. An elderly slave who pretended to be disabled to enjoy the benefits of being a house slave while using his unique position to manipulate his own master and fellow slaves.
Thank you Santee: I agree with you on these picks. I watched a movie yesterday called: Live by the Gun. ( I think that was the name ) and I thought it was you playing the star role at first. Have a great weekend. Don't forget about the solar eclipse that is starting shortly, maybe now for you. You should be able to view what is called "the ring of fire" Florida is only getting a partial eclipse.
I always thought (Gian Maria Volonte) who played the outlaw Indio in “for a few dollars more makes Frank look like a choir boy not only does he kill a kid but a mother a father and hosts of others
i wish that i could offer better additions but the only good ones that I can recall are Gene Hackman as John Herod in The Quick and the Dead and Blair Underwood as Sheriff Carver in Posse
Lee Van Cleef was also in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance". Although he did not play a significant role in the movie, you can see him sitting at the table on the left when Lee Marvin (Liberty Valance) trips the pilgrim in the cantina.
My favorite "western" villain was the killer in the original Dirty Harry movie. I wanted to shoot him. And before anyone says otherwise, the last time I checked, San Francisco was still in the west. 🙂
I don’t think it would be counted but in the movie Once Upon a Time In Hollywood. Leo Decaprio (or however I’m supposed to spell it) played a character actor in a western in a movie in the movie. And the one scene we see of him shows him threatening a child he took hostage to threaten the hero. He did good a western bad guy in that one scene we saw…oh also as the bad guy in Django Unchained. I forgot he was also in that.
Gene Hackman was also the stellar villain in _The Quick and the Dead._ In many ways it's one of the most epically dumb westerns ever. But still quite enjoyable if you just understand it as what a western would look like if made by an anime writer. He chews through the scenery like a champ as a well to do outlaw, petty tyrant, and ace gunslinger. A former Marine (voted least likely to succeed in his acting class), nobody does angry like Gene Hackman.
Nice list, especially "Frank" from _Once Upon a Time in the West._ But I'm partial to Colonel Ticonderoga (Andy Griffith), Blackie (Jim Carter) and Bob Barber (Patrick Wayne) from _Rustler's Rhapsody._
You need another big fat honorable mention for Broncho Billy Anderson (credited as "the last train wrecker", character name unknown) in _The Train Wreckers_ (1905, available in UA-cam): *THE* first villain in the West in a movie to leave a girl on a railway track to be killed (the trope had been used previously on stage plays), *_AND_* the last time the trope was not played for laughs. Which makes him _the only _*_real_*_ villain who did that!_ Also, If you consider it a "noir western" (many do; it takens place in the 1930s, the last days of the West, in rural West Virginia, and features as many Western tropes (like the horse-stealing villain and the lynching mobs) as it does Noir ones), "Night of the Hunter" (with Robert Mitchum as "preacher" Harry Powell, THE worst villain of cinema history) would qualify for an honorable mention (not for number 1 because it's not quite a western).
I got drafted as "The Bad Guy" in our reenactment group. The hard part is being bad, but not being overly scary to the little buckaroos who come to watch us.
@@kieranadamson3224 I have a ball with it. When we do our "train robbery" I enlist the kids to slow down the good guys. I once made the mistake of telling one little girl to kick one of my pursuers in the shin. That little gal kicked the crap out of him! It's good to be bad!🤠
@@ArizonaGhostriders I'm always doing stuff like stealing candy from the kids. The look of disbelief on their faces is pretty funny. (Yes, I give the candy back. I'm not entirely heartless!)
@@hacksaw434 We would work well together. I harrass girl scouts for their cookies and make them laugh. It's especially funny when they are out of cookie season but I pretend that they are hiding them from me.
Out of all the villains my favorite is angel eyes he was an absolute menace in the good the bad and the ugly movies, the way he just smiles as he's killing and torturing tuco for the location of the gold made me hate him as a character but love him as a person.
John Fain and Cicero Grimes, both played by Richard Boone, were outlaws who outgeniused themselves by taking on anti-heros. You've almost convinced me to subscribe.😉
One of my favorites is John Brown in the 1940 western movie Santa Fe Trail played by Raymond Massey. Plays the perfect Brown as a cold and often raging psychopath that cloaks his ways in religious rantings while leading his army of jayhawkers from Bleeding Kansas to Harpers Ferry, Virginia and is pursued and countered by Lt. Jeb Stuart (Errol Flynn) and Lt. Geo. A. Custer played by Ronald Reagan.
There's also pretty much anything Dan Duryea played;). Also Alfonso Bedoya as the bandit leader (unnamed in the movie but usually called Gold Hat) in the Treasure of the Sierra Madre. And, while he was more of an antagonist than a villain, Burl Ives in Big Country. But the all time greatest villain was Harvey Korman as Hedley Lemarr in Blazing Saddles (do not chew gum in front of that man;).
When NPR eulogized the ever-kind Henry Fonda, the commentator noted his bad-guy role as Frank in Once Upon a Time in the West. Commenting that Frank killed a kid in cold blood, he quipped: "It was Henry Fonda! The kid probably had it coming." 😂
HAHAH!
Lee Van Cleef, though a good actor, always had difficulty getting parts until For A Few Dollar More and The Good, The Bad and The Ugly. After that his career took off.
I was surprised that Jack Elam didn't make the list. And for that matter Strother Martin. Both very good actors who could play villains as well as other roles. Maybe your next Top 10 list could be comedy westerns including Elam and Martin. Lee Marvin would have to be in that one with Cat Ballou.
Your list may vary! Thank You.
Jack Elam could pretty much work in anything. "You may now kiss the bride even if'n you already have". Forgot the movie.🤣
@@grahamhorne6956Jack was great in the comedy westerns with James Garner Support Your Local Gunfighter & Support Your Local Sherrif.
Great list Santee. I would have to throw in El Indio in For a Few Dollars More. There was always something about his brutal, calm demeanor that made him a villain I couldn't stand.
Yes!
I really like your bad guy list Santee! Very well thought out!😃👍
I try
You know an actor is doing a great job when you start thinking "will someone please kill him?" Russell Crowe got to me in 3:10 to Yuma. Thanks for keeping the west alive.
Cool!
Irony, I considered Peter Fonda in 3:10 to Yuma more detestable than Russel Crowe…
Couple more fer ya, Santee.........
Preacher Quint (Donald Pleasance) in 'Will Penny' (1967)
Provo (James Coburn) in 'The Last Hard Men' (1976)
Yep, good ones.
I always loved Gian Maria Volonte as El Indio from a few dollars more. He had the most manic insane looking expressions, but also very subtle too.
Yeah, he was a genuine psycho in that
So hard to break down to ten villains out of so many Western movies. That said, you did a good job on picking some of the bad guys.
Thank You!
Johnny Ringo was my favorite.
He was cold calculating and a real interesting character thanks again Santee 🤠
My pleasure!
The guy who played Johnny Ringo, Michael Biehn, should've won an Oscar. Really, all the main actors could've. But he played a guy you could tell was 1/3rd psycho, 1/3 bad ass, and 1/3 yellow bellied coward all at once. He contrasted well with Kurt Russell's Wyatt Earp, who was 100% bad ass and Val Kilmer's Doc, who's devil may care attitude reflected a GAF meter pegged below -10.
Along with Cactus Jack you could add Evil Roy Slade.
Awww, he ain't bad. Just misunderstood!
I was gonna add Evil Roy, but ya beat me to th draw, pardner!
I thought you was dead, was my favorite line by Richard Boone as he was bleeding out. 😮 He found out not hardly. Great Episode 👍🏻 😊.
Yep!
Halloween is coming up. Is the ghost of Bill Brazelton going as the zombie of Elmer McCurdy?
Very possible!
Good intro Santee - that's taking one for the team! But, Angel Eyes - a.k.a. Lee Van Clief has always been my favorite Western movie villain. He could play the consummate sociopath; just pure evil intent with no wasted extravagance.
Yes...truly believable.
Bruce Dern played his part so well, I wanted to shoot HIM!!! Henry Fonda actually has some emotional problems after his character had to kill the kid. I always enjoyed playing the bad guy in our shows. It let me release my aggression.
Yeah!!
This is a crazy coincidence as a friend of mine was excited this week because Bruce Dern liked his post on social media. And I was saying how I loved him as the bad guy in The Cowboys. And that John Wayne told him the world will hate him for shooting him in the back and Bruce quipped yeah but they will love me in Berkley.
HAHA!
Santee, A really good top 10 but you left one off that Low Down Rotten Dirty Dan that's always mean to Santee. You and your family have a beautiful and blessed weekend.
LOL! Thanks.
Very good list. I would add jack Palance in shane
He was up there, and maybe was worse than Marshal Stockburn. I'm on the fence about it!
@@ArizonaGhostriders I was, indeed, about to sugesting him myself. Good to see you thought of him.
I would ad Loco from the movie (The Great Silence) played by Klaus Kinski!
The Great Silence
Reason the Ending !
I mean the original ending!
Great list! I immediately thought of Richard Boone from Big Jake when I saw the title.
Yes!
"You're a low down yankee liar." Shane
"Prove it." Jack Palance
Yep, and you're list can vary!
Santee, you DO realize that if a ghost can hit you then you should be able to smack him back, right? Bill Brazelton's ghost deserves a good smack!
I tried...it goes right through him. I don't understand the afterlife.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Get yourself some silver knuckledusters, or even just a silver ring. 😉
The thing about Frank is he feigns disappointment in having killing the child, but that smile tells you he's a cold blooded killer that enjoys it. That is in spite of him wanting Mr. Choo Choo's power. The whole movie is a masterpiece and Fonda's acting is some of the best.
Yep, pure evil.
I knew Angel Eyes would be on this list, even though.... he literally killed less people than the other two guys in the film.
True. But it's the way he killed them. Even killed a kid.
@@ArizonaGhostriders
Excellent point, Santee.
@@NGMonocrom I didn't realize until you said it, but you're right. they all killed a lotta folks!!
Lee van cleef / angel eyes is one of my favorite actors. I shaped my hat to resemble his in some of my triple shot videos and spin cocking videos.
Yep!
Cock Spinning? You spin Roosters? Wow! Guess I missed that video .........
So Bill considers himself a western movie star?
Well, he's featured in a video that won at the Wild Bunch Film Festival...so yes.
Glad you included one of my favorites, Bruce Dern. You know your a good actor when the movie goers HATE you. Also an honorable mention two "Jacks"... Jack Palance and Jack Elam. Elam played some humorous parts but some serious ones too.
Keep up the good work and "pew pew pew"
Thank You!
Forgot Sheriff Lefors in Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid, the most menacing antagonist who was never even shown.
Your list may vary!
@@ArizonaGhostriders Great videos as always
Thank You! @@WesternBowdrie
John Russell was a very underrated actor. Rip
Agreed
I wish Elliott Marston had made the list, but your list is awesome.
Thanks.
Blue Duck .. guess it was a mini series not a movie but he was a good villain
Yes
Nice! I lost my original comment, but I certainly agree about “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.” I’d also add the original “The Magnificent Seven” and “The Big Country” to the list. Keep it going, bro!!!!
Thank You!
My choice was Willie Nelson in Barbarossa, no reason, no rhyme, just think it's Willie's Time.
ok.
Also in "The Red Headed Stranger"
I'm not familiar with all of those movies, but from your ON TARGET video, and audio clips, they sure suggest they deserved to be in that *top 10. Thanks, and this, too, was top notch, as always, Santee.👏🏻🤠👏🏻😱
Wow, thank you!
I find it interesting that im aware of and or have seen most of these movies, but could not have named a single one of these villains before hand, except for maybe Johnny Ringo.
I tend to focus on / care more about the good guy than the bad guy.
One of my favorites is Quigley down under, and I can never remember the nsme of the bad guy played by Alan Rickman.
He's a bad one, alright! RIP Alan Rickman
@@ArizonaGhostriders Bogue in the magnificent seven was pretty bad too.
One thing they both have in common is that they hired killers a lot more than actually getting their hands dirty which in some ways makes them worse.
I've seen a few of them, I need to catch up on a few too. Excellent video Santee.
Thank You!
Great list. Johnny Ringo, Ben Wade and Angel Eyes have to be my top 3. I gotta throw in an honorable mention though, Graff, Mickey Rourke's character from The Last Outlaw.
Cool!! Like the Last Outlaw.
Danny Huston in the Proposition & Jeffrey Dean Morgan in the Salvation. 100% agree w/ Henry Fonda in OUATITW.
OK!
This may just be my imagination, but in the realm of cap/ball revolvers, isn't it unusually common for heroes to have Colts, while the villains are equipped with Remingtons?
Not in Pale Rider.
don't forget S&W top break revolvers. if they had speed loaders for them back in the day, they would have out sold anything
@seymourwrasse3321 kind of jokingly but not I always approach the mindset a SAA is more of a defensive gun when it comes to loading and unloading. You can replace spent rounds as need be. The Schofield I see as more of a offensive firearm in that it's all or nothing. It's kind of hard doing partial reloads in a top break. But for quick full reloads the Schofield can't be beat (between the two). Especially with a speed loader.
@@Mirokuofnite I prefer an offensive defense
I'm glad Jeff Daniels and Richard Boone made the list. Dennehy as Cobb would be near the top of my list, though. 👍
OK!
Like your list, although I would have Jack Palance’s Wilson from Shane at the top of the list. Also, I would have Richard Boone’s character from Hombre on the list.
Your list can vary!
Boone Elam Lambert Gordon Akins Marvin Jolley Lyden King Bettger
ok!
Lee Marvin as Tully Crow in the comancheros, him and John Wayne playing off eachother is great.
Marvin was a great actor
Yo Santee keep up the great work 🍺🍻🥃🫗👊🤠
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Thank You!
None of these can match the lexicon, the shooting skill, and the excellent dancing of the infamous El Guapo.
I've always loved Marshall Stockburn as a villain, he's like Dan Troop gotten old, corrupt, and disillusioned with the world.
El Guapo!
Well you nailed this time Santee. Some really bad dudes here. One of my favorites is Luke Plummer in John Ford's Stagecoach but he's not on screen much. I like the way his girl friend throws him a rifle. And, I think it was the first time anyone did this but it got copied a thousand times afterwards. After the shootout that you don't see, Luke comes walking back into the bar. You think he's killed the Ringo Kid but then he collapses on the floor shot to death.
Great movie! Remade like 3 times!
Captain Terrill (Bill McKinney) in the ruthless and unrelenting pursuit of outlaw Josey Wales was great in convincing me of his bloody conviction of never doing enough good by Killing those he deemed evil. And Bruce Dern, Walter Brennan or any of the Danbys in "Support your local Sheriff" need to be mentioned. They played bad Guys too. How about bad guys that were hiding as good guys. Always a good plot.
Ahhh, yest. Your list has some good ones, too.
Great list...but no Jack Palance???
Can't get 'em all. Your list may vary!
James Coburn in ‘Avenging Angel’. There was a lot of suppressed evil in his Porter Rockwell.
Also Coburn in Last of The Hard Men
Good call!
Another good call.
Figured Frank would be number one. Maybe an honorable for El Indio, though. He was pretty despicable.
He was! I'm on the fence with him.
Alan Rickman in Quigley Down Under, Emillio Estevez in Young Guns and Val Kilmer as Doc in Tombstone. We see Doc Holiday as on the side of the "good guys" yet we see his killer side too. Even Ringo is leery of taking on Doc.
Yep, and you're list can vary!
Awesome video Santee or the BIG BOSS. HAHAHA. Great video. There is no real Western Movie without a really awesome villain or two or three. HAHAHA. 👍👍👍
LOL!
Hard to pick just 10 but Bill Dagget is very real because he sincerely believed he was in the right. GOOD LIST
HA!
I'd have put Calvin Candy (Leonardo DiCaprio) from Django Unchained (2012) high on the list. It's a very dramatic character with an excellent performance, especially the famous scene with the broken glass. Major Jackson (Eduardo Fajardo) from the original Django (1966) would also make my list.
For a more obscure character, I liked Luke Darcy (Jeff Chandler) from The Jayhawkers (1959), as a complicated villain with some good features.
Good choices as well
Great episode, Santee! I'm disappointed though that you didn't include The Swede from Hell on Wheels.
I feel like the Swede was just off his rocker crazy. Might have been a narcissist, and a psychopath. Just a weird character.
I'd like to mention Samuel L. Jackson as Stephen in Django Unchained. An elderly slave who pretended to be disabled to enjoy the benefits of being a house slave while using his unique position to manipulate his own master and fellow slaves.
Yeah, he was pretty bad.
Thank you Santee: I agree with you on these picks. I watched a movie yesterday called: Live by the Gun. ( I think that was the name ) and I thought it was you playing the star role at first. Have a great weekend. Don't forget about the solar eclipse that is starting shortly, maybe now for you. You should be able to view what is called "the ring of fire" Florida is only getting a partial eclipse.
Saw the eclipse....still seeing spots because I stared (I know, I know).
Gene Hackman was very good in The Quick and The Dead
He was!
@@ArizonaGhostriders😁
I always thought (Gian Maria Volonte) who played the outlaw Indio in “for a few dollars more makes Frank look like a choir boy not only does he kill a kid but a mother a father and hosts of others
Yeah, he was kinda crazy
Great list but agree that Henry Fonda as Frank is number 1. I would put Eli Wallach as Calvera in the Magnificent Seven on my top ten list.
Thanks for sharing!! Your list may vary.
i wish that i could offer better additions but the only good ones that I can recall are Gene Hackman as John Herod in The Quick and the Dead and Blair Underwood as Sheriff Carver in Posse
Good ones.
Lee Van Cleef was also in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance". Although he did not play a significant role in the movie, you can see him sitting at the table on the left when Lee Marvin (Liberty Valance) trips the pilgrim in the cantina.
Yep, he played his share. Gunfight at the OK Corral, High Noon, etc.
Let us not forget Evil Roy Slade.The rotteness,double crossing varmit of ill repute.
Yeah....kinda just silly. LOL!
I truly enjoyed the video as always. So hard for me to pick my favorite baddy. I always enjoy the gentleman bad guy.
Good choice!
Compared to some of those characters, Angel Eyes isn't that bad. I actually like him.
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My favorite "western" villain was the killer in the original Dirty Harry movie. I wanted to shoot him. And before anyone says otherwise, the last time I checked, San Francisco was still in the west. 🙂
HA! Technically, yes. Just not the OLD west.
Fun ! ha ha ha... I was always impressed with how Brian Dennehy could be convincing as both a good guy and bad... who didn't love him in Cocoon ? 🙂
Yeah, he was good at both!
I guess “Mongo” from Blazing Saddles wasn’t bad enough.
He became a good guy!
A little early for the period, more of an "Eastern" than a western, Wes Studi as Magua, in The Last Of The Mohicans
Great movie
I don’t think it would be counted but in the movie Once Upon a Time In Hollywood. Leo Decaprio (or however I’m supposed to spell it) played a character actor in a western in a movie in the movie. And the one scene we see of him shows him threatening a child he took hostage to threaten the hero. He did good a western bad guy in that one scene we saw…oh also as the bad guy in Django Unchained. I forgot he was also in that.
What a great film that was!
What? You didn't include Rex? No wonder he walked off the set. 😀 All told, a great trip down memory lane.
Thank You!
You forgot Evil Roy Slade, (John Astin)
True, true. He was a bad 'un!
Some great picks. I'd have to agree with all of them. Thanks for starting my weekend off right.
Be safe out there, and take it easy man,
Thanks, you too!
Gene Hackman was also the stellar villain in _The Quick and the Dead._ In many ways it's one of the most epically dumb westerns ever. But still quite enjoyable if you just understand it as what a western would look like if made by an anime writer. He chews through the scenery like a champ as a well to do outlaw, petty tyrant, and ace gunslinger. A former Marine (voted least likely to succeed in his acting class), nobody does angry like Gene Hackman.
Gene Hackman is amazing and I would dearly love to meet him one day.
Thanks for your service, Marine. My dad and brother share that service.
Charles Bronson has a mean look without even trying.. pex
You think so? Hmmm...I think he just looked determined and tough.
My pick is Johnny Ringo played by Michael Bein who I think did an excellent job playing him.
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In the movie Tombstone, the guy in the red shirt was absolutely evil! He was the absolute worst.
Your list can vary!
Lee J. Cobb as "Dock Tobin". in "Man of the West" deserves an honorable mention.
Hmmm, ok!
Jack Palance in Shane, but all you picks were good.
CooL!
Excellent list of villains Santee but I’m a little surprised that Dirty Dan didn’t get an honorable mention.
LOL!
Nice list, especially "Frank" from _Once Upon a Time in the West._ But I'm partial to Colonel Ticonderoga (Andy Griffith), Blackie (Jim Carter) and Bob Barber (Patrick Wayne) from _Rustler's Rhapsody._
HA! Yes! I just worked with Mr. Berenger.
@@ArizonaGhostriders Well, that's supercool.
Absolutely! Blackie was hilarious!
Boy, Santee, Bill is being rough on you today. Great list and dead on. Have a great weekend! Cheers!
He was.
I would have out Bruce Derb in the Cowboys at the top. A great list though
That works.
You need another big fat honorable mention for Broncho Billy Anderson (credited as "the last train wrecker", character name unknown) in _The Train Wreckers_ (1905, available in UA-cam): *THE* first villain in the West in a movie to leave a girl on a railway track to be killed (the trope had been used previously on stage plays), *_AND_* the last time the trope was not played for laughs. Which makes him _the only _*_real_*_ villain who did that!_
Also, If you consider it a "noir western" (many do; it takens place in the 1930s, the last days of the West, in rural West Virginia, and features as many Western tropes (like the horse-stealing villain and the lynching mobs) as it does Noir ones), "Night of the Hunter" (with Robert Mitchum as "preacher" Harry Powell, THE worst villain of cinema history) would qualify for an honorable mention (not for number 1 because it's not quite a western).
Great and your list can vary!
Very good start for my weekend, and agree with your list. Thanks.
You're welcome. Have a great weekend
I got drafted as "The Bad Guy" in our reenactment group. The hard part is being bad, but not being overly scary to the little buckaroos who come to watch us.
It is a fun role to play
Hey, from what I've seen the bad guy often seems to be the most fun character to play.
@@kieranadamson3224 I have a ball with it. When we do our "train robbery" I enlist the kids to slow down the good guys. I once made the mistake of telling one little girl to kick one of my pursuers in the shin. That little gal kicked the crap out of him! It's good to be bad!🤠
@@ArizonaGhostriders I'm always doing stuff like stealing candy from the kids. The look of disbelief on their faces is pretty funny. (Yes, I give the candy back. I'm not entirely heartless!)
@@hacksaw434 We would work well together. I harrass girl scouts for their cookies and make them laugh. It's especially funny when they are out of cookie season but I pretend that they are hiding them from me.
Where's Hedley Lamarr?
Sadly, dead.
Fonda just gave me chills. He could have been death itself...
Right??
Angel Eyes in the Dollars trilogy will forever be my favorite. Lee Van Cleef perfectly captured what he was asked to do!
yes!
Really expected to see Mark Harmon in Crossfire Trail
Yeah.....I thought about it, but he just seemed like a big child that didn't get what he wanted. So...bad, but not bad enough.
Out of all the villains my favorite is angel eyes he was an absolute menace in the good the bad and the ugly movies, the way he just smiles as he's killing and torturing tuco for the location of the gold made me hate him as a character but love him as a person.
Yes!
Id love to see a Top 10 Hats in Westerns. The Man with No Name's and Hondo's hat would be a my top two
EXCELLENT idea!!! Love it.
That’s a pretty solid list Santee! All bad dudes!.. ✌🏻😎
Thank You!
Frank Miller in High Noon could make the top 15.
We didn't see enough of him for me to make that judgement.
I'm going to have to catch up on some of these. Thank you for the list my friend.
You’re so welcome
John Fain and Cicero Grimes, both played by Richard Boone, were outlaws who outgeniused themselves by taking on anti-heros.
You've almost convinced me to subscribe.😉
Richard Boone early on played a few good guys, and never impressed me. His bad guy is just terrific.
@@ArizonaGhostriders He was one of the actors referred to as "He's so ugly, he's handsome."
One of my favorites is John Brown in the 1940 western movie Santa Fe Trail played by Raymond Massey. Plays the perfect Brown as a cold and often raging psychopath that cloaks his ways in religious rantings while leading his army of jayhawkers from Bleeding Kansas to Harpers Ferry, Virginia and is pursued and countered by Lt. Jeb Stuart (Errol Flynn) and Lt. Geo. A. Custer played by Ronald Reagan.
The psychopaths are the best of 'em.
There's also pretty much anything Dan Duryea played;). Also Alfonso Bedoya as the bandit leader (unnamed in the movie but usually called Gold Hat) in the Treasure of the Sierra Madre. And, while he was more of an antagonist than a villain, Burl Ives in Big Country. But the all time greatest villain was Harvey Korman as Hedley Lemarr in Blazing Saddles (do not chew gum in front of that man;).
HAHAH! Yeah, Dan Duryea, laughing and joking the whole time he's sneaking a gun to shoot you with.
The ACTUAL villain in The Big Country, at least in MY opinion, was Major Terrill!
Aww. Come on. Not even a mention of old silver nose Tim Strawn? LOL
Yeah, he was a bad'un
I'd have to give Calvera in The Magnificent Seven an honorable mention.
OK!
Top tier list! ...not that I'm biased or anything!
Thanks!
Great way to start out my Saturday
Thank You!