Most Well Played Real Life Villains for TV
by stewiec85 | created - 03 Jun 2011 | updated - 03 Nov 2011 | Publicemmy and golden globe nominees and winners for playing the most evil people ever to have lived
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1. Small Sacrifices (1989)
159 min | Crime, Drama, History
A peculiar and disturbing case catches the attention of the police when a young mother and her children, all severely injured, show up in a hospital's emergency room.
Stars: Farrah Fawcett, Ryan O'Neal, Gordon Clapp, John Shea
Votes: 1,393
Diane Downs (Farrah Fawcett) -Best Actress Golden Globe Nominee
2. To Catch a Killer (1992)
Unrated | 89 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
"To Catch a Killer" tells the true gruesome story of John Wayne Gacy - a good friend and helpful neighbour, a great child entertainer, a respectful businessman, and a violent serial killer ... See full summary »
Stars: Brian Dennehy, Michael Riley, Margot Kidder, Meg Foster
Votes: 2,913
John Wayne Gacy (Brian Dennehy) -Best Actor Emmy Award Nominee
3. Citizen Cohn (1992 TV Movie)
R | 111 min | Biography, Drama
As lawyer and power broker Roy Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves.
Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: James Woods, Joe Don Baker, Joseph Bologna, Ed Flanders
Votes: 1,517
Roy Cohn (James Woods) -Best Actor Golden Globe Nominee
4. Angels in America (2003)
TV-MA | 59 min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Several disparate but connected individuals go through the AIDS crisis in the mid-1980s.
Stars: Al Pacino, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Mary-Louise Parker
Votes: 29,812
Roy Cohn (Al Pacino) -Best Actor Golden Globe Winner
5. The Deliberate Stranger (1986)
Not Rated | 93 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The story of serial killer, Ted Bundy.
Stars: Mark Harmon, Frederic Forrest, George Grizzard, Ben Masters
Votes: 2,678
Ted Bundy (Mark Harmon) -Best Actor Golden Globe Nominee
6. The Bunker (1981 TV Movie)
150 min | Drama, History, War
Dramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's (Sir Anthony Hopkins) last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.
Director: George Schaefer | Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Richard Jordan, Cliff Gorman, James Naughton
Votes: 2,543
Adolf Hitler (Anthony Hopkins) -Best Actor Emmy Award Winner
7. Citizen X (1995 TV Movie)
R | 105 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
During the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods.
Director: Chris Gerolmo | Stars: Stephen Rea, Donald Sutherland, Max von Sydow, Jeffrey DeMunn
Votes: 22,328
Andrei Chikatilo (Jeffrey DeMunn) -Best Supporting Actor Emmy Award Nominee
8. Kissinger and Nixon (1995 TV Movie)
97 min | Drama
Told mainly from Henry Kissinger's point of view, this movie explores the sad betrayal of South Vietnam to the Communists by Kissinger while working in the Nixon administration. It shows ... See full summary »
Director: Daniel Petrie | Stars: Ron Silver, Beau Bridges, Ron White, George Takei
Votes: 139
Richard Nixon (Beau Bridges) -Best Actor Emmy Award Nominee
9. The Final Days (1989 TV Movie)
PG | 150 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
Chronicle of Nixon's last months in the White House. A paranoid power-abuser, all too human - a confused, narcissistic individual who cannot fully comprehend how, in less than one year, he lost everything he has worked for in a lifetime.
Director: Richard Pearce | Stars: Lane Smith, Richard Kiley, David Ogden Stiers, Ed Flanders
Votes: 443
Richard Nixon (Lane Smith) -Best Actor Golden Globe Nominee
10. Stalin (1992 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 172 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin.
Director: Ivan Passer | Stars: Robert Duvall, Julia Ormond, Maximilian Schell, Jeroen Krabbé
Votes: 2,785
Joseph Stalin (Robert Duvall) -Best Actor Golden Globe Winner
11. The Man Who Captured Eichmann (1996 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 96 min | Drama, History, War
The story of the 1960 hostile extraction of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, by the Mossad to Israeli justice.
Director: William A. Graham | Stars: Robert Duvall, Arliss Howard, Jeffrey Tambor, Jack Laufer
Votes: 802
Adolf Eichmann (Robert Duvall) -Best Actor Emmy Award Nominee
12. Conspiracy (2001 TV Movie)
R | 96 min | Biography, Drama, History
At the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.
Director: Frank Pierson | Stars: Clare Bullus, Stanley Tucci, Simon Markey, David Glover
Votes: 24,852
Reinhard Heydrich (Kenneth Branaugh)
-Best Actor Emmy Award Winner
Adolf Eichmann (Stanley Tucci)
-Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe Winnner
13. The Executioner's Song (1982 TV Movie)
Unrated | 135 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
The story of Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer who lobbied for his own execution.
Director: Lawrence Schiller | Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Christine Lahti, Rosanna Arquette, Eli Wallach
Votes: 2,080
Gary Gillmore (Tommy Lee Jones) -Best Actor Emmy Award Winner
14. Holocaust (1978)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama, History, Romance
The saga of a Jewish family's struggle to survive the horror of Nazi Germany's systematic marginalization and extermination of their community.
Stars: Joseph Bottoms, Tovah Feldshuh, Rosemary Harris, Tony Haygarth
Votes: 5,507
Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty) -Best Actor Golden Globe Winner
15. Nuremberg (2000)
TV-14 | 90 min | Drama, History, War
The dramatized account of the war crime trials following the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.
Stars: Alec Baldwin, Brian Cox, Christopher Plummer, Jill Hennessy
Votes: 6,964
Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring (Brian Cox) -Best Actor Emmy Award Winner
16. Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (1995 TV Movie)
100 min | Biography, Drama, History
A look at the life and career of controversial Louisiana governor Huey Long, whose nickname was "The Kingfish."
Director: Thomas Schlamme | Stars: John Goodman, Matt Craven, Anne Heche, Ann Dowd
Votes: 523
Huey P. Long (John Goodman) -Best Actor Emmy Award Nominee
17. Gotti (1996 TV Movie)
R | 117 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
John Gotti rises to head the powerful Gambino crime family before being convicted in 1992 of racketeering and murder.
Director: Robert Harmon | Stars: Armand Assante, Anthony Quinn, William Forsythe, Richard C. Sarafian
Votes: 8,679
John Gotti (Armand Assante) -Best Actor Emmy Award Winner
18. Rasputin (1996 TV Movie)
R | 135 min | Biography, Drama, History
HBO biopic about the infamous "mad monk" Rasputin from the court of Czar Nicholas II in Russia.
Director: Uli Edel | Stars: Alan Rickman, Greta Scacchi, Ian McKellen, David Warner
Votes: 3,982
Grigori Rasputin (Alan Rickman) -Best Actor Golden Globe Winner
19. Longford (2006 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 93 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
A portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.
Director: Tom Hooper | Stars: Lee Boardman, Jim Broadbent, Tam Dean Burn, Lindsay Duncan
Votes: 3,291
Myra Hindley (Samantha Morton) -Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Winner Ian Brady (Andy Serkis) -Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe Nominee
20. And Starring Pancho Villa as Himself (2003 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 112 min | Biography, Drama, History
Hollywood makes a deal with Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to film his war and recreate his life.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Antonio Banderas, Eion Bailey, Alan Arkin, Jim Broadbent
Votes: 3,624
Pancho Villa (Antonio Banderas) -Best Actor Golden Globe Nominee
21. Tail Gunner Joe (1977 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 145 min | Biography, Drama, History
A dramatization of the life of Joe McCarthy, the alcoholic senator from Wisconsin whose tactics of accusing prominent people of Communist sympathies were initially designed to give him a ... See full summary »
Director: Jud Taylor | Stars: Peter Boyle, John Forsythe, Heather Menzies-Urich, Burgess Meredith
Votes: 199
Joseph McCarthy (Peter Boyle) -Best Actor Emmy Award Nominee
22. Raid on Entebbe (1976)
Not Rated | 145 min | Action, Drama, History
True story of a daring Israeli commando assault on the Entebbe Airport in Uganda to free hostages of a terrorist hijacking.
Director: Irvin Kershner | Stars: Peter Finch, Charles Bronson, Yaphet Kotto, Martin Balsam
Votes: 3,808
Idi Amin Dada (Yaphet Kotto) Best Supporting Actor Emmy Award Nominee
23. RKO 281 (1999 TV Movie)
R | 86 min | Biography, Drama
Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane (1941), despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.
Director: Benjamin Ross | Stars: Liev Schreiber, James Cromwell, Melanie Griffith, John Malkovich
Votes: 6,504
William Randolph Hearst (James Cromwell) -Best Supporting Actor Emmy Nominee
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