Lists and Recommendations : Movies where a “Good guy” actor plays a villain

Movies where a “Good guy” actor plays a villain

Best example: Tom Cruise in Collateral

Lesser known examples:

Ben Affleck in Runner Runner

Keifer Sutherland in Phone Booth

"You had me at Elk Tartare"
-Erin Wotherspoon

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Robin Williams - One Hour Photo, Insomnia

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Matt Damon - The Departed

He also was somewhat a villain in Interstellar, depending on how you look at it

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Holy shit I forgot about that and that’s one of my favorite movies.

"You had me at Elk Tartare"
-Erin Wotherspoon

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Keanu Reeves in The Gift and The Neon Demon

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Gregory Peck in Boys From Brazil

Peter Fonda in Once Upon a Time in the West

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Tony Curtis in The Boston Strangler

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Leslie Nielsen in Creepshow.

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John Lithgow in Cliffhanger (1993)

Ian Holm in From Hell (2001)

Hey, it's a kind of magic!

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John Lithgow in Raising Cain, too.

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Ah, yes!

Hey, it's a kind of magic!

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Billy Campbell in Enough

If we take the time to see with the heart and not with the mind, we shall see that we are surrounded completely by angels ~ Carlos Santana

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Kevin Costner in Mr. Brooks. I don't consider his character in A Perfect World to be a baddie.

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Laurence Fishburne. Ike Turner, What's Love Got To Do With It? Scary thing is, as AWFUL and SCARY as Laurence Fishburne's Ike Turner was, it was reported that the real Ike Turner was like 10 times worse! O.O

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Casey Affleck in The Killer Inside Me. I don't really count The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford as he was mostly a shifty pathetic dude rather than out and out bad. Same as in To Die For.

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Mick Jagger as Victor Vacendak in the 1992 film: Freejack.



"That's a dumb question, Miss Glenn’s Organ."

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Michael Keaton in Desperate Measures

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Christopher Plummer in The Silent Partner

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Robert De Niro in cape fear
Al Pacino in Devils advocate
Leonardo DiCaprio in django unchained
Steve carrell in foxcatcher

I live. I die. I live again.

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Jeff Bridges in The Vanishing

VOTE BIDEN

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Gregory Peck in The Boys from Brazil

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Kevin Costner in Mr Brooks

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Patrick Stewart in Conspiracy Theory
Harrison Ford in What Lies beneath

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Patrick Stewart was also a bad guy in The Green Room.

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I don't think I ever saw that. Sounds interesting

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I liked it. It's a bit on the violent side. Thought I'd mentioned that in case you don't like that sort of thing.

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The original Terminator. Arnie was BAD.

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Yeah, I find it hard to watch again because of that.

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Yeah. Quite a bizarre death, too.

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How steep was his driveway? That was a crazy death.

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Like something out of Final Destination.

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Paul Rudd in Wet Hot American Summer

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Paul Rudd in Mute.

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😺 Schrodinger's Cat walks into a bar, and doesn't. 🤨 Let's go, Brandon! 🤨 Try that in a small town.

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Christian Bale in American Psycho

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Cillian Murphy in Red Eye and Batman Begins.
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