You have to go back to Dracula, also known for feeding off others, to find so consistently hissable a screen villain.

Not that that mattered: I had felt the stealthy, seductive touch of screen villains already.

The re-emergence of Russians and Chinese as screen villains is also a measure of Hollywood's anxiety about offending one group or another.

He was an imposing, powerfully built figure noted for his flashy portrayals of screen villains.

For screen villains, the black-and-white, "us versus them" era is over.

The screen villain of the fifties, P.S. Veerappa's portrayal of the heartless Abu Hussain was memorable".

Every great screen villain deserves a great death scene.

In 2003, the Alien was voted as the 14th most memorable screen villain by the American Film Institute.

Certainly, Mr. Baldwin, who has been a brilliant screen villain, has it in him to find Ed's murkier depths.

After briefly heading his own production company, Frontier Features, Inc., Randolf settled into a career as one of Hollywood's best screen villains.