Actors and Actresses who never played a villian.

[Alex]

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

[Trevor]

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.

He was the bad guy in Dreamcatcher.

[Alex]

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

[RCMerchant]

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

I didn't know he made more then one movie!
I looked on his IMDB page- he's been in all sorsta sh!t! 

[Alex]

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

[RCMerchant]

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

Yeah- I forgot about that one! Made in Michigan, too!  

I have Donald Jackson's first movie-the DEVIL MASTER (1976) on a clambox vhs! I treasure it!

[zelmo73]

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

Morgan Freeman also ended up being the bad guy in Now You See Me (2013) and Wanted (2008).

[Allhallowsday]

SHIRLEY TEMPLE

[zelmo73]

SHIRLEY TEMPLE

Although not quite a villain, prostitution is a profession of ill repute. Shirley Temple played a prostitute in her first Hollywood role:

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.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/shirley-temple-baby-burlesks






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[zombie no.one]

hard to imagine Leslie Nielsen as a bad guy unless you've seen DAY OF THE ANIMALS where he plays possibly the most unpleasant douchebag I've ever witnessed in any movie!

not sure if he plays a bad guy anywhere else?

[Alex]

Creepshow, where he murders his (ex?) wife and Ted Danson.

[zombie no.one]

ah yeah of course...

that segment is really weird.

[Jim H]

Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee.

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.

Chan is also more-or-less the main villain in the Killer Meteors. 

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.

[RCMerchant]

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

[Jim H]

^ 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 did think of another one though - I've seen almost all of Stephen Chows 60ish films, and I don't believe he ever played a villain.