Best Villains of all time in a film

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Who would you rate as the very best villains in a movie

Archibald Cunningham | Tim Roth, Rob Roy

Cyrus Grissom | John Malkovich, Con Air

Jack Torrance | Jack Nicholson, The Shining

Robert Mitchum.. Night of the Hunter.
 
John Cassavetes as "Childress" in Brian De Palma's The Fury, purely because his 'grand exit' ranks as one of the most satisfying of a 'villain' ever put on a cinema screen.
 
Lee Marvin in the Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance
Lee Van Cleef in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Alan Rickman in Die Hard
Robert Mitchum in Night of the Hunter and Cape Fear
 
Darth Sidious/Palpatine - Kept the clockwork for his galaxy wide takeover ticking with perfection in the prequels whilst tempting Anakin over to the dark side and building his idea of the perfect Empire. All right under the noses of the Jedi and before they realised, it was much too late to stop Palpatine for the time being and they were all nearly wiped out when Sidious finally stepped out of the shadows as the puppet master of everything that had transpired in the prequels which led to him becoming Chancellor and the corruption of Anakin

Heath Ledger's Joker, no remorse in the things that he did and came very close to making Batman do the very thing he did not stand for and that is crossing certain boundaries which the Dark knight would not venture into
 
These are two of my favourites as well. I've not seen Rob Roy or Con Air before.

Uncle Charlie - Joseph Cotten, in Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of Doubt is another favourite of mine.
 
Brett ~ Eden Lake.

The most evil little shit that I have ever seen on-screen. Made even more terrifying when you think his character isn't really all that far removed from reality.
 
Sauron/The Ring in Lord of The Rings

Particularly impressive, for me, because I don't think he/it has a single line of dialogue across the nine hour (+) duration of the trilogy, yet still carries an air of menace that hangs over the fellowship for the whole of their quest, and his entrance onto the battlefield in the opening sequence of "Fellowship" is just class (always turn the home cinema right up for thhat sequence).
 
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