Well, you know, I have always had a thing for the bad guys. Even before I knew what sexy was, lol. And he was, yes. :)

But in a delicious, drooling sort of way.

Mr Bumble from Oliver Twist.

Judge Turpin of Sweeney Todd

ngdawg: you know, Steve Buscemi has played several villians, all very well, and all very differently too. Despite qualifying as a "charictor actor," he has an amazing body of work and alwyas delivers a great performance.

Wait, what? Did we see the same movie? With the same ending? I don't consider some of the things he did to further his military cause to be evil, per se, call of duty and all that sort of thing, but his final treatment of his step daughter? I believe that crosses from 'despicable' into genuine evil territory.

Back to Disney:
Jeremy Irons as Scar, the evil lion who kills his brother, the Lion King, Mustapha and tries to kill Simba.

Good one ngdawg, but I beat you to the punch, post #69... I would say that Scar is perhaps the most truly "evil" of the Disney villians.

Oops...read thru and still missed it. Sorry...
We'll say Cruella DeVille, then...she wanted to skin puppies!!

Come to think of it, Disney probably holds the record for the most despicable evil characters in filmdom!

For the heck of it, I googled 'most evil characters in film' and a forum came up with the same question-someone said 'Jack Valenti' :D Cracked me up!(RIP, Jack, but it was funny!)