Villains from other Franchises that would make good Bond Villains?
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My choice would be Hans Gruber from Die Hard 
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Or his Brother, Simon Gruber
Odd little fact, In the film Our Man Flint ( James Coburn, 1966), Flint
is attacked in a Bathroom By an enemy agent Called,....................
.............. Hans Gruber (Michael St. Clair ).
http://youtu.be/99WghQY51-w Flint Fights, (1:50 Is the Gruber fight )
And it just occurred to me that Silvio Berlusconi might be the closest thing to a real-life Bond villain...
Laurence Olivier as Dr. Christian Szell in film 'Marathon Man' was truly a great, Bondian villain, and the infamous "Is it safe?" torture scene was worthy of Fleming. Olivier would also have made a good Blofeld.
Here's an odd one for you: Rutger Hauer as the terrorist Wulfgar in the underrated, underseen Sly Stallone flick 'Nighthawks.' I think Hauer would have been an ideal foe for Dalton's Bond.
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from Last Action Hero.
The Kingpin, from Daredevil
Hanibal Lecter, The silence of the lambs
with regards also to agent charmed and dangerous suggestion for Bane
another great choice ,but he did remind me of that bloke in MAD MAX 2 the Humungus?
Silva from Skyfall is very similar to Ledgers Joker.
Haha, yes agent always shaken - I hadn't thought of that but you're right!
Great choice Wulfgar from Nighthawks as a villain for Dalton Bond's...Wulfgar vs Pam Bouvier is my dream
Well, Dafoe technicly was a Bond villian once in the James Bond video game: Everything or Nothing. They used his voice and likeness in the game.
A villian that comes to my mind is Alessandro Gassman playing Gianni Chellini in The Transporter 2.
He was a very Franz Sanchez-like Villian with a Dario like appearance. I'm very font of the drug baron/ business typed villians. They seem realistic cold hearted criminals that you can inmagine excisting in the real world. His henchwomen, the femme fatale from the same movie was very Bond inspired as well.
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Just saw the movie "Léon", great movie and good god was Gary Oldman a good villian in that one! He needed to be mentioned in this thread!
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1 - Moore, 2 - Dalton, 3 - Craig, 4 - Connery, 5 - Brosnan, 6 - Lazenby
Good point!
1 - Moore, 2 - Dalton, 3 - Craig, 4 - Connery, 5 - Brosnan, 6 - Lazenby
As the OP said- Alan Rickman. That voice was born to caress Bond villain lines ("No doubt you have realized the splendour of my conception") rather than tell Harry Potter off for forgetting his homework.
I've always wanted Ben Kingsley as a bond villain, his range as an actor is mesmerising!
He was featured as the leading Bond villain in the Everything Or Nothing video game! He'd make quite a good villain on screen
1. GoldenEye 2. Goldfinger 3. Skyfall 4. OHMSS 5. TWINE
Nominations:
Tony Beckley (1929-1980) - a Bond villain that never was
John Challis (1942-2021) - a heavy in the villain's employ
I just watched the omnibus edition of Robert Banks Stewart's six-part Doctor Who serial 'The Seeds of Doom', starring Tom Baker and directed by Douglas Camfield (1976). The omnibus is on Disc 8 of the new BluRay box-set of DW Season 13. This serial belongs to the highly regarded period of DW when Philip Hinchcliffe was producer and Robert Holmes script editor, and when the show was referencing staple texts of the gothic genre. In 'The Seeds of Doom', it was the turn of 'The Day Of The Triffids'.
Tony Beckley plays Harrison Chase, a man of means and mad botanist residing in a gothic manor house. Chase supports a species of blobby alien plants, the Krynoids, at the inception of their drive to consume all animal life on the planet, including humans. Ridley Scott's 'Alien' (1979) may owe something to 'The Seeds of Doom', as the Krynoids infect human hosts by erupting out of pods, bringing about 'body horror' transformations. Doctor Who intervenes to stop the Krynoid invasion, assisted by companion Sarah (Elisabeth Sladen) and by UNIT, the United Nations Intelligence Taskforce - but not, this time, by Nicholas Courtney and John Levene, who were stepping back from their popular, semi-regular roles as the Brigadier and Sergeant Major Benton.
Tony Beckley, memorable as Peter the Dutchman in 'Get Carter' (1971), plays Harrison Chase as if he were a Bond villain, even if the hybrid of fantasy in this DW serial is closer in style to 'The Avengers' than to Bond. (Douglas Camfield was a noted director of action-oriented drama for television, favouring runarounds, shoot-outs and military manoeuvres, all of which we get here.)
During the story Chase puts a huge compost-shredding machine to gruesome use, reinforcing our sense of his evil villainy. Indeed, UNIT's Sergeant Henderson (Roy Barron) meets his end in the shredder, a fate which is all the more disturbing given that this one-off character is essentially a proxy for the absent Benton. By way of a Bond connection, Chase's machine prefigures the shredders which dispatch Dario and Carver in LTK and TND respectively. And when the Doctor, trapped on the machine's conveyor, desperately calls out to Sarah to press "the other" switch - the one that stops the shredder, not the one that accelerates it! - this both harks back to the imperiled Roger Moore yelling at Mary Goodnight to press "every damn button!" in TMWTGG, and foreshadows Timothy Dalton in LTK yelling at Pam Bouvier to "turn the bloody machine off!" Finally, Chase is shredded in his own contraption. The shot of his hands, garbed in black leather gloves, slipping free of the Doctor's grip is pretty much a nod to Doctor No's black metallic hands failing to save him as he slides into his reactor pool.
Beckley proves superb at playing a villain who is as creepy and psychopathic as he is cultured and mannered; so much so, he could indeed have excelled in such a role in a Bond film. Beckley's scenes with Tom Baker and Sylvia Coleridge, who plays an elderly, wily artist, are a delight to watch. Sadly, Beckley passed away at age 50, in 1980, his death cutting short a thriving career. This is just fantasy casting but, had he survived, he might have made an excellent Kristatos (FYEO, 1981), a part that went to another DW alumni, Julian Glover. (Glover portrayed Richard the Lionheart in the 1965 DW serial 'The Crusaders', starring William Hartnell. More to the point, he also played Scaroth/Count Scarlioni in Douglas Adam's 1979 DW story, 'City of Death' - in the same vein as Harrison Chase and pitched against a now self-spoofing Tom Baker.)
'The Seeds of Doom' is notable, too, for a compelling performance by John Challis as Scorby, a ruthless mercenary in the employ of Chase. Challis, of course, is best known for his later part as Boycie in the sitcom, 'Only Fools And Horses' (1981 ff). If Beckley might have made a great Kristatos, Challis's performance as Scorby demonstrates that he, Challlis, would have been perfect as a heavy, perhaps in Kristatos' service or as one of Columbo's men.
Interestingly, Graeme Harper, production manager on 'The Seeds of Doom' - later a feted DW director - remembers fondly working with Martin Campbell (GE, CR06) as well as Douglas Camfield: Campbell had also made his mark as an action-oriented TV director, which is how Harper knew him. (Harper is interviewed in an Extra for the DW Season 13 boxset, on the same disc.)