Top 10 TV Villians of All Time (1 Viewer)

[Frank Soyke]

I chosen to use mostly reoccuring villians/nemisis instead of one time visitors to Gilligan's Island or the usual suspects from Batman. In no particular order:


1) Major Hochstetter (Howard Caine) - Hogan's Heroes


2) Siegfried (Bernie Kopell) - Get Smart


3) Captain Hans Dietrich (Hans Gudegast) - Rat Patrol


4) Ben - (Michael Emerson) - Lost


5) Captain Wallace Binghamton (Joe Flynn) - Mchale's Navy


6) T-Bag (Robert Knepper) - Prison Break


7) The Reaper (C. Thomas Howell) - Criminal Minds


8) Sergeant Vince Carter (Frank Sutton) - Gomer Pyle - Not really a villian per se, but defintiely a nemesis. Great character though.


9) Major Regina Mills/Wicked Queen Regina (Lana Parrilla) - Once Upon A Time


10) JR Ewing - (Larry Hagman) - Dallas


Dis-Honorable mentions: Col. Wilhelm Klink, Hamilton Burger, Wo Fat, Officer Kirk, Dr. Alfred Bellows, Alexsis Carrington Colby.

 

[Frank Soyke]

I'm embarassed I forgot Lt. Gerard...Isn't that group for banishment from the board. LOL

 

[Oliver Ravencrest]

Baltar and the Cylons were great recurring Villains on the original Battlestar Galactica


Jeannie's sister on I Dream of Jeannie was good too

 

[smithbrad]

I'd say Scorpius from "Farscape". He'd give Darth Vader a run for his money.


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[Richard V]

In no order:


Syler - Heroes

Cigarette Smoking Man - The X-Files

The One Armed Man - The Fugitive

Lex Luthor - Smallville

The Joker - Batman (60's Version)

Falconetti - Rich Man, Poor Man

Alex Krychek - The X-Files

Tuco Salamanca - Breaking Bad

Al Swearengen - Deadwood

Wo Fat - Hawaii 5-O (original)

 

[Peter M Fitzgerald]

In no particular order:


Dr. Miguelito Loveless (Michael Dunn) - The Wild, Wild West


Wo Fat (Khigh Dhiegh) - Hawaii Five-0 (original)


Arthur Mitchell (John Lithgow) - Dexter


The Riddler (Frank Gorshin) - Batman


Mags Bennett (Margo Martindale) - Justified


Inspector Kobick (Kevin Hagen) - Land of the Giants


Dr. Clayton Forrester (Trace Beaulieu) - Mystery Science Theater 3000


Charles Montgomery Burns (Harry Shearer) - The Simpsons


Frank Nitti (Bruce Gordon) - The Untouchables (original)


Number Two (Leo McKern, various other actors) - The Prisoner (original)

 

[Walter Kittel]

Joffrey Baratheon - Game of Thrones


The Governor - The Walking Dead


T-Bag - Prison Break


Benjamin Linus - Lost


Number One (a.k.a. Brother John Cavil) - Battlestar Galactica (2004)


- Walter.

 

[Craig S]

Up until a couple of years ago, my opinion was that the greatest villain in TV history (by a large margin) was J.R. Ewing, a larger-than-life role played with appropriate gusto by the late great Larry Hagman.


I no longer believe that to be true. The man who bumped J.R. to second place is none other than Walter White. And if you don't think he was a villain, think about it some more.

 

[Dave Lawrence]

Ryan Seacrest - He developed and produces all of the Kardashian shows on the E! network. There can be no greater television villain than this.

 

[bretmaverick2]

Stefano DiMera - Days of Our Lives

Vashon family - original H5 O

Nicole Wallace - Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Greg Sumner - Knot.s Landing

All these are just off the top of my head.

 

[Ron Lee Green]

Fembots - Bionic Woman


Bigfoot - Six Million Dollar Man


Angelique - Dark Shadows


Homer Bedloe - Petticoat Junction


Nellie Olsen - Little House on the Prairie

 

[Regulus]

Nellie Olsen - Little House on the Prairie



Having visited the real Walnut Grove, Minnesota (During their Laura Ingalls Wilder Festival in 2009) I can't help but wonder was the REAL Nellie Owens (Yup! her last name was really Owens) that PATHETIC!?


BTW the REAL Pa Ingalls did not look at all like the late Micheal Landon (They missed that by a mile)! To quote an old scrub pad commercial "Those guys didn't even draw me right!"

 

[Hasslein]

Louie DePalma

Frank Burns

Dwight Schrute

Witchiepoo

Stanley Roper

Callisto

Newman

Mama Carlson

Roscoe P Coletrain

Will Weaton

General Urko

 

[Mr. Handley]

1. J.R. Ewing - Dallas

2. Joffrey Baratheon - Game Of Thrones

3. C. Montgomery Burns - Simpsons

4. Gus Fring - Breaking Bad

5. Angelique - Dark Shadows

6. Wo Fat - Hawaii Five-O

7. Mrs. Olsen - Little House

8. Homer Bedloe - Petticoat Junction

9. Boss Hogg - Dukes of Hazzard

10. Frank Burns - MASH

 

[Gary OS]

In no order:


Lex Luthor - Smallville

Lex, but no Lionel?!!! In my opinion he was the villain of Smallville. Much more evil than his son. In fact Lex performed the greatest act of a hero when he pushed Lionel out of the window.



Gary " " O.

 

[Ron Lee Green]

I forgot to add Dr. Smith from Lost in Space. Smith was what I would call a loveable villain. He was more sinister the first season before they made him a buffoon, but he was always putting the Robinson family in jeopardy in his quest to get rich or return to earth.

 

[Rick Thompson]

I'm embarassed I forgot Lt. Gerard...Isn't that group for banishment from the board. LOL

Lt. Gerard wasn't the villain. He was the threat of capture that was always hanging over Richard Kimble, but he was a cop doing his job i.e. bringing a convicted murderer back to justice. If you want a villain, a better candidate is Fred Johnson aka The One-Armed Man. He did the murder for which Kimble was convicted. Lt. Gerard was driven to recapture Kimble, but that doesn't make him a villain.

 

[Frank Soyke]

Lt. Gerard wasn't the villain. He was the threat of capture that was always hanging over Richard Kimble, but he was a cop doing his job i.e. bringing a convicted murderer back to justice. If you want a villain, a better candidate is Fred Johnson aka The One-Armed Man. He did the murder for which Kimble was convicted. Lt. Gerard was driven to recapture Kimble, but that doesn't make him a villain.

Rick, you have a good point but my original post wasn't simply confined to the term villian in it's strictist sense. I included the word nemesis in the original post, a term which definitely applies to Lt. Gerard on The Fugitive. ALthpugh Gerard wasn't a villian per se, he clearly was Kimble's nemesis as he spent the series hampering Richard's efforts to clear his name. Gerard has good motives as he was simply doing his job to the bes tof his ability, but he was a nemesis to Kimble none the less.

Many of the folks on my OP (as well as some other poster's lists) one can argue aren't really villians but simply have a different (perhaps admirable) agenda than our heroes. Of my original list, only a handful (Regina, T-Bag, JR) can be labeled villians in the strictist sense. Only out for themselves (Bedloe, Mr. Burns), not trying to represent a duty, job, or other team. The remainder are simply folks with a different agenda (like Gerard). I mean characters Dr. Bellows, Captain Binghampton and Hamilton Burger are not really villians, just men trying to do their job and get to the truth as they saw it. Even the Nazi characters I named and Ben Linius believed in their own misguided cause and felt they had a duty to do. Some other posters brought up Frank Burns. Despite Frank's personality failings, he believed in what he was doing and had respect for our country and the uniform he wore (at least till he went AWOL).

Point being, I guess I should have made a distinction between a villian and a nemesis, but I think we can all agree that whatever you call them, they made life very hard sometimes for our heroes. The point of the post was to pinpoint the ones who were very good at at.

 

[Richard V]

I'm a little surprised no one else has mentioned Alex Krycheck, who was IMHO one of the WORST villians ever. He wasn't nick-named Rat Boy for nothing.

 

[Neil Brock]

Anthony Falconetti (Rich Man Poor Man)

Fletcher (The Immortal)

Fred Johnson (The Fugitive)

Wo Fat (Hawaii Five-0)

Nicole Wallace (L&O CI)

Homer Bedloe (Petticoat Junction)

Dr. Loveless (Wild Wild West)

Frank Nitti (The Untouchables)

Siegfried (Get Smart)

Dominick (Person of Interest)