Most Well Played Real Life Villains for TV
emmy and golden globe nominees and winners for playing the most evil people ever to have lived
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- StarsFarrah FawcettRyan O'NealGordon ClappA peculiar and disturbing case catches the attention of the police when a young mother and her children, all severely injured, show up in a hospital's emergency room.Diane Downs (Farrah Fawcett)
-Best Actress Golden Globe Nominee - StarsBrian DennehyMichael RileyMargot KidderGood friend and neighbour John Wayne Gacy entertained children and ran a business. However, he hid a dark secret as a violent serial killer who raped and murdered over 30 young boys.John Wayne Gacy (Brian Dennehy)
-Best Actor Emmy Award Nominee - DirectorFrank PiersonStarsJames WoodsJoe Don BakerJoseph BolognaAs ruthless lawyer and power broker Roy M. Cohn lies dying of AIDS in a private hospital room, ghosts from his past visit him as he reflects on his life and loves.Roy Cohn (James Woods)
-Best Actor Golden Globe Nominee - StarsAl PacinoMeryl StreepEmma ThompsonIn 1985, Prior is diagnosed with AIDS and his lover Louis deserts him. Powerful lawyer Roy Cohn tempts Mormon and closeted gay Joe Pitt to the dark side. Joe and Louis get it on while Joe's wife Harper hallucinates an imaginary friend.Roy Cohn (Al Pacino)
-Best Actor Golden Globe Winner - StarsMark HarmonFrederic ForrestGeorge GrizzardThe story of serial killer, Ted Bundy.Ted Bundy (Mark Harmon)
-Best Actor Golden Globe Nominee - DirectorGeorge SchaeferStarsAnthony HopkinsRichard JordanCliff GormanDramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's (Sir Anthony Hopkins) last weeks in and around his underground bunker in Berlin before and during the battle for the city.Adolf Hitler (Anthony Hopkins)
-Best Actor Emmy Award Winner - DirectorChris GerolmoStarsStephen ReaDonald SutherlandMax von SydowDuring the 1980s, Soviet authorities hunt for a serial killer who picks his victims in railway stations and commuter trains and lures them into the woods.Andrei Chikatilo (Jeffrey DeMunn)
-Best Supporting Actor Emmy Award Nominee - DirectorDaniel PetrieStarsRon SilverBeau BridgesRon WhiteTold mainly from Henry Kissinger's point of view, this movie explores the sad betrayal of South Vietnam to the Communists by Kissinger while working in the Nixon administration. It shows his attempts to negotiate with Communist North Vietnam at the expense of the South in order to achieve a U.S. withdrawing at any price. These efforts led up to the 1973 Paris Peace Accords which in turn led to 1975 total Communist takeover of South Vietnam.Richard Nixon (Beau Bridges)
-Best Actor Emmy Award Nominee - DirectorRichard PearceStarsLane SmithRichard KileyDavid Ogden StiersChronicle of Nixon's last months in the White House. A paranoid power-abuser, all too human - a confused, narcissistic individual who cannot fully comprehend how, in less than one year, he lost everything he has worked for in a lifetime.Richard Nixon (Lane Smith)
-Best Actor Golden Globe Nominee - DirectorIvan PasserStarsRobert DuvallJulia OrmondMaximilian SchellThe life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Joseph Stalin.Joseph Stalin (Robert Duvall)
-Best Actor Golden Globe Winner - DirectorWilliam A. GrahamStarsRobert DuvallArliss HowardJeffrey TamborThe story of the 1960 hostile extraction of the Nazi war criminal, Adolf Eichmann, by the Mossad to Israeli justice.Adolf Eichmann (Robert Duvall)
-Best Actor Emmy Award Nominee - DirectorFrank PiersonStarsClare BullusStanley TucciSimon MarkeyAt the Wannsee Conference on January 20, 1942, senior Nazi officials meet to determine the manner in which the so-called "Final Solution to the Jewish Question" can be best implemented.Reinhard Heydrich (Kenneth Branaugh)
-Best Actor Emmy Award Winner
Adolf Eichmann (Stanley Tucci)
-Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe Winnner - DirectorLawrence SchillerStarsTommy Lee JonesChristine LahtiRosanna ArquetteThe story of Gary Gilmore, a convicted murderer who lobbied for his own execution.Gary Gillmore (Tommy Lee Jones)
-Best Actor Emmy Award Winner - StarsJoseph BottomsTovah FeldshuhRosemary HarrisThe saga of a Jewish family's struggle to survive the horror of Nazi Germany's systematic marginalization and extermination of their community.Erik Dorf (Michael Moriarty)
-Best Actor Golden Globe Winner - StarsAlec BaldwinBrian CoxChristopher PlummerThe dramatized account of the war crime trials following the defeat of Nazi Germany in World War II.Reichsmarschall Hermann Goring (Brian Cox)
-Best Actor Emmy Award Winner - DirectorThomas SchlammeStarsJohn GoodmanMatt CravenAnne HecheA look at the life and career of controversial Louisiana governor Huey Long, whose nickname was "The Kingfish."Huey P. Long (John Goodman)
-Best Actor Emmy Award Nominee - DirectorRobert HarmonStarsArmand AssanteAnthony QuinnWilliam ForsytheJohn Gotti rises to head the powerful Gambino crime family before being convicted in 1992 of racketeering and murder.John Gotti (Armand Assante)
-Best Actor Emmy Award Winner - DirectorUli EdelStarsAlan RickmanGreta ScacchiIan McKellenHBO biopic about the infamous "mad monk" Rasputin from the court of Czar Nicholas II in Russia.Grigori Rasputin (Alan Rickman)
-Best Actor Golden Globe Winner - DirectorTom HooperStarsLee BoardmanJim BroadbentTam Dean BurnA portrait of Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict.Myra Hindley (Samantha Morton)
-Best Supporting Actress Golden Globe Winner
Ian Brady (Andy Serkis)
-Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe Nominee - DirectorBruce BeresfordStarsAntonio BanderasEion BaileyAlan ArkinHollywood makes a deal with Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa to film his war and recreate his life.Pancho Villa (Antonio Banderas)
-Best Actor Golden Globe Nominee - DirectorJud TaylorStarsPeter BoyleJohn ForsytheHeather Menzies-UrichA dramatization of the life of Joe McCarthy, the alcoholic senator from Wisconsin whose tactics of accusing prominent people of Communist sympathies were initially designed to give him a national power base when he later planned to run for President.Joseph McCarthy (Peter Boyle)
-Best Actor Emmy Award Nominee - DirectorIrvin KershnerStarsPeter FinchCharles BronsonYaphet KottoTrue story of a daring Israeli commando assault on the Entebbe Airport in Uganda to free hostages of a terrorist hijacking.Idi Amin Dada (Yaphet Kotto)
Best Supporting Actor Emmy Award Nominee - DirectorBenjamin RossStarsLiev SchreiberJames CromwellMelanie GriffithOrson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane (1941), despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.William Randolph Hearst (James Cromwell)
-Best Supporting Actor Emmy Nominee