Movies Which Actor Plays the Best Jerk/AHole In Movies?

[Woldog]

Steve Carell in "The Way Way Back"

 

[Badger67]

Rickman. Great range of pos in his acting.

 

[BB in Crazy!!!!]

I’m going with Atherton. Die Hard, Ghostbusters, Real Genius, Bio Dome. Him being a dickhead is literally my only memories of him.

 

[cheesus]

Paul Dano should be on that list..

 

[Highway99]

Michael Ironside:

Brion James:

Klaus Kinski:

Jack Elam:

Billy Drago:

Al Leong:

 

[ufcfan4]

Paul Dano should be on that list..

Eli alone puts him near the top of the list. The other roles definitely cement it.

the funny thing is Plainview is such a p.o.s. too yet I imagine majority of people watch that final scene and see DDL as the face and Dano as the heel.

Yes he does-uhhh.

 

[Goodfella86]

Atherton

 

[Peteyandjia]

Good choice, but in Die Hard alone he is outdone by these two slimy motherfuckers....

I’ll give you William Atherton. He’s in the running for GOAT dickhead as well, also great in all-around criminally underrated 80s flick Real Genius

I draw the line at Harry Ellis though. He’s not slimy, he just has some coke dust on him. He’s actually the 3rd hero in the movie, right after Bruce and Officer Twinkies. Harry tried to save the day! He’s your white knight.

 

[Batjester]

David Spade.

 

[Peteyandjia]

Also love when he blames Ellis’ death on McClane. “Nahh he let him die, man. That’s cold.”

Lol

‘That’s cold’ cracks me up every time

Gleason was hilarious

 

[Pizza Werewolf]

John Vernon is worth mentioning

 

[Night Owl]

RIP

 

[Fedorgasm]

 

[Thrawn33]

Al Leong:

Da fuck are you smoking...this guy's the classic minion. When has he even had a role where he was an annoying asshole?

 

[Bacco]

Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus

 

[BisexualMMA]

Would William Atherton be his 80s dickhead tag team partner?

Paul Gleason, Hart Bochner, William Atherton, Bill Paxton, James Spader, John Heard and James Tolkan would be the 1980s Battle Royale.

 

[ajccoming]

Steve Carell in "The Way Way Back"

I would say him in foxcatcher as well

 

[Peteyandjia]

Paul Gleason, Hart Bochner, William Atherton, Bill Paxton, James Spader, John Heard and James Tolkan would be the 1980s Battle Royale.

 

[BisexualMMA]

He had an amazing career as an asshole before people actually knew his name because of that show. Point Break, Any Given Sunday, Platoon, Wall Street, the Highlander movie that doesn't exist, Surviving the Game, On Deadly Ground. Jerk after jerk after jerk after jerk.

 

[Highway99]

Da fuck are you smoking...this guy's the classic minion. When has he even had a role where he was an annoying asshole?

Read the title again boyo...when he was electrocuting Mel Gibson in that warehouse, I thought to myself...".Boy, this guy is a real jerk!"