Hollywood star Gene Hackman, known for The French Connection, Mississippi Burning and The Poseidon Adventure, was a character actor who often played tough guys before finding his comedic stride in ...

the original Cobra Kai sensei played by the Jewish Brooklynite Kove, was one of the most well-known 1980s bad guys. Michael’s father, the legendary actor and two-time bar mitzvah boy Kirk ...

Having risen through the ranks as a leading man, he played bad guys in a trio of successful movies, but Atherton was never concerned about being pigeonholed as an actor. Atherton was the arrogant ...

we tried to avoid using comedies, as funny films often attempt to place notoriously serious actors in comedic roles just for laughs. Here are 25 brilliant times actors played against the type.