Best Villain Western Or Non Western

Has to be Bruce Dern in The Cowboys or Yul Brynner in Westworld both roles gave both actors a major boost in their careers.

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Has to be Bruce Dern in The Cowboys or Yul Brynner in Westworld both roles gave both actors a major boost in their careers.

I'm not so sure that gave Dern a major boost. I've read several times that he received all kinds of death threats after "killing" the Duke.

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I'm not so sure that gave Dern a major boost. I've read several times that he received all kinds of death threats after "killing" the Duke.

As a role, although unpopular with JW fans it certainly got Dern noticed by the wide film making community.

Prior to The Cowboys he played very small supporting roles virtually being an extra with dialogue. After The Cowboys he landed two leading roles in Silent Running & Family Plot amazing when you look at his career before these films. He was unable to build on his raised profile and could not escape the psycho / nut roles that The Cowboys & Black Sunday typecast with as an actor.

Jigsaw!!

Heath Ledger as the "Joker" in "The Dark Knight."

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Has to be Bruce Dern in The Cowboys or Yul Brynner in Westworld both roles gave both actors a major boost in their careers.

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Nice topic!Well that's my list:

Westerns:
Richard Boone as ''Cicero Grimes'' in Hombre
Bruce Dern as ''Asa Watts'' in Cowboys
Henry Fonda as ''Frank'' in Once Upon a Time in the West
Lee Van Cleef as ''Angel Eyes'' in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Klaus Kinski as ''Loco'' in The Great Silence
Lee Marvin as ''Liberty Valance'' in The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance

Non Westerns:
Tom Lister Jr. as ''Zeus'' in No Holds Barred
Kurtwood Smith as ''Clarence Boddicker'' in RoboCop
Clancy Brown as ''Kurgan/Victor Kruger'' in Highlander
Michael Ironside as ''General Katana'' in Highlander 2
Arnold Schwarzenegger as ''Terminator T-800 Model 101'' in Terminator
James Earl Jones as ''Thulsa Doom'' in Conan the Barbarian