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I can't recall Harrison Ford ever being a bad guy.

Tom Hanks, maybe?

Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee.

Jackie Chan as one of Han's guards in Enter The Dragon and Lee was a hired thug in Marlowe.

Clint Eastwood was always somehow a 'good' guy.

Even if he was doing bad s**t (think the rape scene in HIGH PLAINS DRIFTER).

Can you list anybody who never played the villain?

I think Clint Eastwood played bad guy in escape from alcatraz 1979
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I think I may have found two... ??

John Candy and Bill Pullman

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I think I may have found two... ??

John Candy and Bill Pullman

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Timothy Dalton was the big bad in The Rocketeer & Hot Fuzz.

What about Sylvester Stallone?

Death Race 2000 & Oscar.

If you are Russian, he might be one of the biggest villains on the planet though.

Ok... I think I finally got 1 - I was gonna say Michael Landon

I don't think he was a good guy in FIRST BLOOD. He was a psycho. Of course the other movies turned him into the Great American Hero.

Rambo was definitely not the bad guy in First Blood. He had mental health problems, but it can be easily said that he was provoked at every turn.

Rambo was definitely not the bad guy in First Blood. He had mental health problems, but it can be easily said that he was provoked at every turn.

I was going to suggest Sir Michael Caine and Sir Sean Connery but they've both played villains.

Michael Caine in the ridiculously awful NOW YOU SEE ME and its sequel. Not even his greatness could save that stinker.

But, since I mention that one, what about Morgan Freeman? I'm sure he did played some bad guy but I can't recall any right now. Perhaps DREAMCATCHER? Although that movie is so terrible that basically everyone is a bad guy just for showing up and making it.

Despite his heel status in wrestling, I don't think I've seen 'Rowdy' Ronnie Piper play a bad guy on screen.

Yeah. I can recommend 'Hell Comes To Frogtown' as his second-best movie.

He (Morgan Freeman) was indeed a bad guy in Dreamcatchers and also in Hard Rain.

Inside The Baby Burlesks

The eight short films saw toddler stars dressed in hyper-sexualized adult clothing. Beneath that, they donned oversized diapers clasped with a safety pin. The costuming alone in these films are enough to raise eyebrows. When viewed through the lens of a modern movie-goer, it seems nearly impossible to glean where the comedy in these shorts actually is.

However, in an era where audiences were still easily pleased by the novelty of film, the Baby Burlesks likely seemed charming.

In the short “Polly Tix in Washington,” a four-year-old Shirley Temple is seen playing what is insinuated as a prostitute. Sent to “entertain” a senator (played by a fellow child-actor), Temple can be seen wearing a small bra while filing her nails in a manner meant to mimic the actions of a self-assured and perhaps world-weary mistress lounging in her boudoir.

Temple later enters the office of the senator draped in pearls, sashaying into the room with her hands resting firmly on her hips in a disturbing display of mock adult sexuality.

Temple then wraps her arms around the senator’s neck and plants two clumsy kisses on his lips. Of course, the sexual implications are lost on the children who appear in the film, children who were simply following the direction of the adults controlling them, namely, the film’s director and he who discovered Shirley Temple, Charles Lamont.

Lamont also directed another one of the total eight burlesques, entitled “War Babies,” which served as a spoof of the World War I era silent film, What Price Glory?.

The short once again featured Shirley Temple in the role of a prostitute, this time vying for the affections of army men, played of course by 3 – 5-year-old boys. Within the first minute of the film, Temple is seen in a purposely loose-fitting top that slips and falls down revealing her shoulders as she performs a caricature of a seductive dance.

She later trades kisses for lollipops, is repeatedly called “baby,” refers to an army man as mon cher Capitan, and even refers to herself as “expensive.”

The humor of the piece is once again intended to be derived from watching toddler-aged children unknowingly copy the behavior of fully grown adults, but it was perhaps also all to the detriment of the children themselves whose innocence was taken advantage of.

Unfortunately, the overtly sexual overtones that Shirley Temple and her fellow child-stars were forced to mimic over the course of Baby Burlesk wasn’t even the worst of it. Without regulations regarding on-set safety for actors, directors were able to employ various means of cruel and unusual punishment to maintain order on set during filming.

Jackie Chan played a leader of a street gang that gangraped a young lady in Young Dragon (1973). Bruce Lee, technically was a murderous psychopath bent on revenge in Fists Of Fury (1972). Though I guess the guys he killed were technically in self-defense, it just seemed a bit overkill in that movie; like say if the younglings had attacked Anakin Skywalker before he slaughtered the Jedi children with his lightsaber in Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) or something.

^ John Wayne as Genghis Khan in the CONQUEROR (1956).

While Khan was clearly a monster in real life, isn't he essentially the hero of the film?  I have to admit, never seen the whole thing. 

I have't either. I just assumed, I mean it's Genghis Khan!  :question:

My own contribution - I don't think John Wayne ever played a villain in his hundreds of roles did he?  Maybe when he was a stuntman/extra, but never as the lead.

Doesn't he kind of go "racist psychopath" in The Searchers?