Creepiest actor ever?

[Bossy Monkey]

Poll question: Creepiest actor ever?

In honor of Mr. Vaughn's appearance on Letterman (and every other talk show on North American tv and radio), a silly poll. Figuring Walken will walk away with it, I'm throwing in names from yesteryear to give him some competition. I'd rather avoid horror movie guys, though, but I'll probably break down and put some on.

Creepiest actor makes for a delightful Google search, by the way.

[DenverDem]

1. Come on, you missed the obvious.

ronnie raygun

[Hepburn]

16. Yep, that is my "Other" vote, too. Ronnie Raygun. eom

[Kadie]

2. I had to go with Walken

Now if you were to ask about the actor that just plain gave me the creeps, that I couldn't even stand to watch, I would have to say Charlton Heston. Yuck!

[libhill]

26. I don`t agree with his politics, but

he has made some great movies over the years. Heston, that is.

[SarahB]

3. Jeff Goldblum

I don't know what it is, but he's one irritating f*ck. No appeal of any kind. He just seems creepy to me.

[Spider Jerusalem]

20. Swarthy? That would be...his complexion?

Or did you mean something else?

[SarahB]

22. Bad word choice on my part.

:dunce: Really bad. Stupid. Changed it.

[Bombtrack]

29. Swarthy is not an inacurate or derroggatorry description of Goldblum

The official definition I believe is dark comlplection but it's become to mean basically the meditteranian/semitic branch of caucusoids, which comprises many or most people who look typical of semitic jewish(which Goldblum is), as well as southern italian, greek, turkish, and arabic blood.

As far as Goldblum being creepy, I disagree, I'm straigt but I'll admit he's a pretty good looking charismatic guy.

[stanwyck]

71. Disagree, I think he's hot.

and according to a friend who sat behind him at a Broadway play, a very personable, charming guy. He talked to everyone and was very sweet and funny.

[SmokingJacket]

78. He was in The Fly... that's why!!!

In my nightmares I see those fly-hairs growing out of his back...

[Zomby Woof]

4. John Malkovich

That guy is just too creepy, even for my croutons.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

5. Eric Roberts

"Just Say NO"

[welshTerrier2]

6. Rod Steiger

the guy was a great actor with a real eerie quality ...

[Miss Marmelstein]

7. Christopher Walken is creepy.....

but Jon Voight is beginning to really creep me out these days.

[doc03]

8. Willem Defoe

While channel surfing the other day ran across him playing Dracula,
creepiest looking Dracula I ever saw.

[skjpm]

10. tony perkins

"A boy's best friend is his mother"

[St. Jarvitude]

30. Shadow of the Vampire!

A fine horror flick, one of the best vampire films of all time. The director character is hilarious, and brilliantly portrayed by John Malkovich (who, incidentally, is extremely creepy).

Unfortunately, I've never seen the movie that Shadow is about the filming of, Nosferatu, a German movie classic.

edit: screwed up the subject. erk.

[phillybri]

66. Bingo! Defoe is a damn weirdo...

:scared:

[ironflange]

9. Max Schreck

Nosferatu. Scary guy, seemed to get a little too into his role.

[tcfrogs]

11. What happened with Vaughn on Letterman?

Other than him just showing up.

[Bossy Monkey]

15. I imagine eventually he hyped the Dodgeball movie

as he's been doing all week, but while I was watching he just told fairly pointless anecdotes about high school, so I bailed.

[Ann Arbor Dem]

12. Gary Oldman is creepy onscreen and off.....

....being a dyed-in-the-wool RWer doesn't help.

[patriotvoice]

35. "

EOM

[delete_bush]

13. How about a couple of Brits...

Terrence Stamp and Alan Rickman

[Lavender Brown]

45. Alan Rickman is rarely cast as a non-creep.

He was pretty good in some roles where he didn't have to be all slimy.

[Bossy Monkey]

52. Rickman's my hero, but when he's playing bad guys

he goes right past creepy and straight to menacing. The best, or if not the best, damn good enough.

After Priscilla, Queen of the Desert I can't much regard Stamp as creepy in the usual sense. I dunno, I generally regard him more as quirkily charming than creepy. I remember a foolish anthology series that Tony and Ridley Scott inflicted on Showtime for which he served as host and was certainly trying to be creepy, but I just went, "Aww, that's just Bernadette."

[jus_the_facts]

14. Walken in...'Things To Do In Denver When You're Dead'......

"...he's just a fuckin' HEAD...I say FUCK the HEAD!" :scared: :D

[Catshrink]

17. Check out this Christopher Walken video

It's Fat Boy Slim's Weapon of Choice and very cool.

http://www.astralwerks.com/fbs/woc/

[Dogmudgeon]

18. Rutger Hauer

He was more popular 15 years ago, but he played some really creepy parts, including the Hitcher.

--bkl

[Kahuna]

19. John Barrymore as he got older was very creepy...

Plus, he shot and killed Nelson Eddy in Maytime. :grr:

[blueraven95]

21. I voted for Christopher Walken, but

if anyone gets the chance, they should check out his film from the early 1980s called "Who Am I This Time". John Demme directs, and Susan Sarandon co-stars. It is one of my all time favorite films, and he is definately not scary.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

54. Freaky time!

Yesterday I was just hunting to see if that PBS movie was available on video!

I saw it twice back when it was first released (1988?) and loved, loved, loved it, but have never seen it since.

I did find out it is available on VHS. I just may pick up a copy.

Christopher is amazing in that. :)

[devilgrrl]

23. Those guys are dorks! The creepiest actor is Brad Dourif!

[EstimatedProphet]

41. He did steal LOTR scenes with Grima Wormtongue, didn't he?

I think no one else could've done that role justice.

[Sabriel]

58. Very creepy in X-Files episode

He played a death-row inmate who was channeling Scully's father. X-tra creepy.

[chenGOD]

24. Crispin Glover

EOM!!!

[chelsea0011]

43. Without a doubt!!

River's Edge, Back to the Future, Willard and name some of his other strange roles?

[catzies]

76. Crispin Glover in "Rubin & Ed" (costarring Howard Hesseman)

ch-ch-ch-check it out.

[Beaker]

81. how about when he got tossed off Letterman?

for nearly "karate"-kicking dave in the head.

[Bossy Monkey]

62. Rats! n/t

[Dukkha]

25. Crispin Glover?

Hello? McFly?

[CanuckAmok]

27. "I'm making MY LUNCH!!"

Best flashback ever!

[sus]

70. YES! oh man he's creepy.

[Bridget Burke]

28. "Shadow of the Vampire"--creepiness supreme!

The "true" story of the making of Nosferatu. What if the director hired an actor who was a real vampire? Featuring John Malkovich as director F W Murnau, Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck. Sort of a horror film, funny in a very dark way.

(edited to remove non-working picture link)

[St. Jarvitude]

34. Shadow is one of my favorite movies

The ending sequence especially has some of the best dark humor in a movie that I've seen.

I'm not going to spoil anything, you'll have to watch it for yourself.

[libhill]

31. I voted Walken, but

I noticed that no one has cast a vote for Anthony Hopkins. Hopkins is not really creepy, but if you ever saw him in "Nixon", he really made Tricky Dick look creepy. If that movie was based on fact, and not just Oliver Stones interpretation, then Nixon must really have been bonkers.

[Bombtrack]

32. Frankie Munez- Somebody has been giving him Webster/Coleman juice

He just disturbs me. I want him to go away and stop talking about his cars. I want him to start a drug habit and have his cars reposessed

[specimenfred1984]

33. Bert Convey

The guy was so plain and mainstream he always made me sick!

[NoPasaran]

36. James Woods

Just plain creepy

[stanwyck]

73. I'll second you

creepy on film. creepy in life. creepy guy.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

37. A new actor who redefines creepy.... the guy who plays

Patsy on the Sopranos...

and, for that matter, Steven VanZant is pretty creepy too.

[terrya]

38. Tom Cruise.

I don't know what it is, but the man just creeps me out to no end. Weird.

[July]

51. Yes!

I don't get the notion that anyone thinks this guy is sexy.

[joeybee12]

57. Double Yes! Brain-dead, closeted homosexuals really creep me out!

[AngryAmish]

39. Michael Ironsides

maby not creepy, but evil-looking.

[SmileyBoy]

40. I voted for Walken, but I realised you had Steve Buscemi on there.

If I could vote over again, I'd say it's him...

[stavka]

42. Grammy award winning Angus Crimm

Star of the Phantasm series....

[MrsMatt]

44. David Hasselhoff

or Dennis Hopper

[Kellanved]

84. we're talking "creepy" here

Hasselhoff isn't creepy; he is terror incarnate (if he tries to sing that is).

[LincolnMcGrath]

46. TONY Banderas

[Garage Queen]

47. Nicholas Cage

n/t

[stanwyck]

74. Yep. Very creepy.

he was somewhat endearing in Raising Arizona. Lately, he's high on the ick factor.

[TX-RAT]

48. Peter Lorre

He gave me the creeps, Damn beady little eyes.

[trogdor]

49. Dudes, Jeremy Irons is WAY creepier than Walken.

How about The Time Machine, where he plays the head Morlock?

Or the flick about this guy who collects antique OB/Gyn equipment where he play a junkie?

[Screaming Lord Byron]

50. This begins and ends with Donald Pleasance

[King Of Paperboys]

53. Robert Blake

How could such a cute kid grow up to be so creepy?

[arbusto_baboso]

55. Gotta be Peter Cushing.

Watch some of his old horror flicks and you'll see. far creepier than Vincent Price on his creepiest day.

[m-jean03]

56. Christopher Walken seems a real charmer

He can play creepy, but his real-life kindness is too obvious for him to really creep me out.

Now Crispin Glover, there's creepy!!! :scared: What a weirdo.

[bif]

59. Someone tole me I look like Christopher Walken

And immediately followed it with: "Don't take it the wrong way, it's a compliment."

[Bake]

60. Jack Palance!

Now there's one creepy dude!

Bake

[GreenPartyVoter]

63. Ick.. Yeah, he gets to me too.

[Misunderestimator]

61. Ronald Reagan!

[lumpy]

64. Micheal Douglas

There is something about M.Douglas that creeps me out.

[ohiosmith]

65. Anyone remember Richard Lynch?

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

67. For me it's Bruce Dern

and mention should be made of Bette Davis and Agnes Moorehead. "Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte" is a film that creeped me out more than any mainstream horror movie.

[Beaker]

82. i'm surprised it took this long for Bruce to get a mention...

He traumatized my childhood when he killed John Wayne in "The Cowboys".

[annonymous]

68. I chose Walken, but Gary Oldman is pretty creepy too.

Another creepy actor from an earlier generation is Peter Lorre.

[Beaverhausen]

69. Gary Sinese is NOT Creepy

Good god!!!

[Bossy Monkey]

79. I don't think you saw his George Wallace n/t

[BigMcLargehuge]

72. Dwight Frye

Igor in Frankenstein and Renfield in Dracula

[Feanorcurufinwe]

75. John Malkovich nt

[kaiden]

77. Chrispin Glover.

Arm-hair-standing-on-end creepy.

[Beaker]

80. Crispin Glover. no contest.

[Snow]

83. Max Schreck...haven't any of you seen "Nosferatu"

if you haven't, you're missing extreme creepiness. Yes, it's old, but holy crap! that is creepy. Here's Roger Ebert on it:
http://www.suntimes.com/ebert/greatmovies/nosferatu.html

[Beaker]

85. Stephen Baldwin is pretty creepy too...

especially in the movie "Zebra Lounge".

[doubleplusgood]

86. Rondo Hatton, "The Creeper"

appeared in horror movies in the 40's

[bigwillq]

87. I went with Walken

But he can also be very very funny in certain roles