Actors that exude skeeviness

[maczero]

Christopher Walken
Jack Nicholson
Steve Buscemi
Crispin Glover


They're great actors and probably nice people in real life but for some reason these guys just squick me out. No matter what role they're in, they just give off a creepy vibe. Anybody else get the same feeling from these guys and what would you say is the reason for it?

[MaxofSteel]

Guys like that have had their careers defined by playing the bad guys. Which might explain why they always they give off that spooky vibe. But yea I definitely agree with you.

Other creep-os for me have to be Vincent Schiavelli and Jeffrey Jones.

(Jones especially, what with the fairly recent headlines about his sexual deviency. Plus he was in Ravenous. That movie creeped me out to no end.)

[maczero]

Guys like that have had their careers defined by playing the bad guys. Which might explain why they always they give off that spooky vibe. But yea I definitely agree with you.

Other creep-os for me have to be Vincent Schiavelli and Jeffrey Jones.

(Jones especially, what with the fairly recent headlines about his sexual deviency. Plus he was in Ravenous. That movie creeped me out to no end.)Definitely in agreement with Vincent. I didn't recognize the name until I saw his photo on IMDB. Also, was surprised to find out he died just over a year ago.

[Ontir]

Udo Kier! I'm sure he's a fine man, filled to the brim with the milk of human kindness; but he's been one creepy-ass guy, at least since Andy Warhol made him a star!

[KenK]

Udo Kier! I'm sure he's a fine man, filled to the brim with the milk of human kindness; but he's been one creepy-ass guy, at least since Andy Warhol made him a star!

No one does "Eurotrash Vampire" better than Udo Kier. Shit, no one does Eurotrash period, better than Udo Kier!

[kalorama]

Ethan Hawke. Whenever i see him the word "greasy" comes to mind.

[Julusnc]

Mickey Rourke
Tom Seizmore

[the film freak]

No love for Brad Douriff?

I don't think anyone can top Peter Lorre though.

[kalorama]

Christopher Walken
Jack Nicholson
Steve Buscemi
Crispin Glover


They're great actors and probably nice people in real life but for some reason these guys just squick me out. No matter what role they're in, they just give off a creepy vibe. Anybody else get the same feeling from these guys and what would you say is the reason for it?

Depends on the actor. In Walken's case it's because he's great at playing such characters and, as a result, has been typecast into such roles (which is fine because he always manages to liven up even the worst movie with his quirky presence). In Glover's case it's because, by all accounts, he's kind of creepy and scary in real life.

There's a distinction that needs to be made between actors that excel at playing slimy characters and actors who themselves come off as slimy.

[brundlefly]

Ethan Hawke. Whenever i see him the word "greasy" comes to mind.

That's what I thought was meant by "skeevy," too. Sleazy, date-rapist dirtbag type, as opposed to "villainous.' A list to which I would add Skeet Ulrich, Eric Balfour, and Ben Affleck. :D

As far as excelling in 'creepy bad guy' skeeviness goes, ditto on Walken, Dourif, Kier, Glover, Jones, etc. I'll toss in:

Richard Lynch
Billy Drago
Rutger Hauer
Michael Emerson
Tobin Bell
Brian Cox
David Patrick Kelly

[kalorama]

A list to which I would add Skeet Ulrich...

Or, as I've long referred to him, Ethan Hawke-lite.

[maczero]

Depends on the actor. In Walken's case it's because he's great at playing such characters and, as a result, has been typecast into such roles (which is fine because he always manages to liven up even the worst movie with his quirky presence). In Glover's case it's because, by all accounts, he's kind of creepy and scary in real life.

There's a distinction that needs to be made between actors that excel at playing slimy characters and actors who themselves come off as slimy.That's what I'm getting at. Guys like Walken give off creepy vibes during interviews and even in family friendly movie roles.

[kalorama]

That's what I'm getting at. Guys like Walken give off creepy vibes during interviews and even in family friendly movie roles.

I never got a creepy vibe off Walken in interviews. Just the opposite, really. He's clearly odd and quirky, but in a funny goofball way. And a lot of times he seems to be very intentionally making fun of his standard film image.

[HomerJay]

Creeps
- Richard Lynch
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0528433/
- Billy Drago
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0236711/
- Robert Z'Dar
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0120494/

Douchebags
- Peter Sarsgaard
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0765597/
- Bradley Cooper
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0177896/

[brundlefly]

Creeps
Douchebags

Ah; good to draw a distinction between the two groups. Douchebags is the place to put Hawke, Affleck, et al, then.

Nice to see someone else appreciates the inherent creepiness of Drago and Lynch, too.

[Haunt]

Timothy Olyphant always looked like a date rapist to me. it's the reason that i didn't enjoy Scream 2, among other things. be any more obvious?

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0395495/Ss/0395495/03407_r.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Olyphant,%20Timothy

[KameTen]

Billy Bob Thornton is the first thing on my mind when I think of skeevy people, with Benicio Del Toro in a close second. Ben Afleck just comes across as a bum mooching for a beer from his friends, but not skeevy.

[Corrina]

Rutget Hauer is not skeevy.

Skeets Ulrich, though, he's skeevy.

[Haunt]

Rutget Hauer is not skeevy.

Skeets Ulrich, though, he's skeevy.

Rutger Hauer is downright sinister-looking. i think he could have easily played Hannibal Lector.

or how about Chris Meloni?
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/5076/Events/5076/Christophe_Grani_10084787_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Meloni,%20Christopher

[brundlefly]

or how about Chris Meloni?
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/5076/Events/5076/Christophe_Grani_10084787_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Meloni,%20Christopher

Meloni is great; he should get to cut loose and play villains more often. He often seems stifled in his Law and Order role on TV, imo. Meloni was who I thought should have played Bullseye in the DD movie.

[marshal99]

There's always the sinister musclehead villains and B-actor extraordinares Brian Thompson & Danny Trejo. ;)
http://www.terminatorium.narod.ru/Images/Cast/brian_thompson.jpghttp://www.dragoval.com/images/homage/danny_trejo.jpg

[Sandoz]

I think Colin Farrel is pretty skeevy, especially in Miami Vice. Just look at that greasy mullet and moustache.

[enigmatic1]

Peter Stormare

[Corrina]

Rutger Hauer is downright sinister-looking. i think he could have easily played Hannibal Lector.



Yeah, but sinister isn't skeevy. Skeevy is, well, greasy and icky. Even when Rutger's a villain, he's not skeevy.

[brundlefly]

Yeah, but sinister isn't skeevy. Skeevy is, well, greasy and icky. Even when Rutger's a villain, he's not skeevy.

True. That's why I was glad the distinction was drawn previously between villainous/sinister and skeevy/douchebag. Hauer belongs in the former category, Ulrich the latter.

[NYRUNAWAY]

Jack Black - There is something about that guy that screams multiple sex offender
Paul (Pee Wee Herman)Ruebens-obvious reasons but remember his look in Independence Day


* send my kids to Pee Wee's Playhouse or Jack Black's School of Rock...I think not!

[Legato]

Robert De Niro seems like the type whare you can hang out and have friendly conversations with but keep your distance from him when he is pissed off or else type.

After seeing Kevin Bacon in Sleepers just looking at the man screams potential Sex Offender or Serial Killer .

[Haunt]

Robert Englund and Quentin Tarantino look kind of skeevy to me. are we differentiating between 'skeevy' and 'sex offenderish?'

[hoffmandu]

Jack Black - There is something about that guy that screams multiple sex offender
Paul (Pee Wee Herman)Ruebens-obvious reasons but remember his look in Independence Day


* send my kids to Pee Wee's Playhouse or Jack Black's School of Rock...I think not!

I don't think Reubens was in ID4, dude.............do mean Spiner (data)?

[Edward E. Nigma]

Peter Stormare
My first thought.

[Magneto_X]

Bruce Spence (Mad Max)
Brad Doriff
Colin Farrell
Danny Trejo
Michael Berryman (Hills Have Eyes ['77])
Steve Buscemi (The Island)
Tom Sizemore
Richard Greiko (21 Jump Street)

[Edward E. Nigma]

Jeffery Combs

[EZMOHR]

Robert DeNiro does exude a skeeviness in some way. He seems like he could be normal to you for like a few weeks, and then one day, he would kidnap your kids, and tell them you were dead, and that he wants them to call him, "Tio Bobby."

But to get back to skeevieness, I would like to throw early Steve Zahn. He just looks like that guy who buys 13 year old boys beer, but makes them come to his mom's basement to get it. Then one day, you read the paper, and there he is with the mugshot.

I also see some skeevieness in mustached Leonardo DiCaprio. Dude, his mustache is circa 15 year old boy. He definately looks like the kind of dude that if he wasn't a world famous celeb, he would throw on the old letterman jacket, and pick up any 15-16 year old girl at a party, get her knocked up, and not pay child support ever.

And for an athlete...well anybody who thinks Adam Morrison is not a child predator is just lying to their self.

[NYRUNAWAY]

I don't think Reubens was in ID4, dude.............do mean Spiner (data)?

Thanks for the correction...but "Data"Spiner did look kinda like a child molester in that movie.
How about the guy who played in Oz and Sleepers... Terry Kinney

I would also place that character actor from Batman begins( the one who plays the corrupt cop in the sex offender category too) He was also in 2 Fast 2 Furious

If we were to compile a list of professional wrestlers past and Present this list would get really long

[EZMOHR]

Thanks for the correction...but "Data"Spiner did look kinda like a child molester in that movie.
How about the guy who played in Oz and Sleepers...

I would also place that character actor from Batman begins( the one who plays the corrupt cop in the sex offender category too) He was also in 2 Fast 2 Furious

If we were to compile a list of professional wrestlers past and Present this list would get really long

I think you mean Mark Boone Junior. Or something like that. He is pretty skeevie looking in 2 Fast 2 Furious. Of course, most things that have to do with Miami have some sort of Skeeve involved.

[Kirayoshi]

I'd nominate Seth Green in anything after the first Austin Powers movie. Especially "Goldmember" when he started to look more like Mr. Evil.

He was a sweetheart as Oz on Buffy(the strong, silent artist type), but Scott Evil was just wacked out.

[NYRUNAWAY]

Robert DeNiro does exude a skeeviness in some way. He seems like he could be normal to you for like a few weeks, and then one day, he would kidnap your kids, and tell them you were dead, and that he wants them to call him, "Tio Bobby."

But to get back to skeevieness, I would like to throw early Steve Zahn. He just looks like that guy who buys 13 year old boys beer, but makes them come to his mom's basement to get it. Then one day, you read the paper, and there he is with the mugshot.

I also see some skeevieness in mustached Leonardo DiCaprio. Dude, his mustache is circa 15 year old boy. He definately looks like the kind of dude that if he wasn't a world famous celeb, he would throw on the old letterman jacket, and pick up any 15-16 year old girl at a party, get her knocked up, and not pay child support ever.

And for an athlete...well anybody who thinks Adam Morrison is not a child predator is just lying to their self.

Dude you are 4 for 4 here
Steven Zahn and Adam Morrison LMFAO

[maczero]

are we differentiating between 'skeevy' and 'sex offenderish?'Well I think both are the same thing. It's just a sliding scale of where you rank the actors. For me, Steve Buscemi ranks as the type of guy who would steal from you kids' piggy bank. Otoh, Christopher Walken reminds me of the kinda guy who would eat your kids and make you watch.

[marshal99]

A lot of the prison break cast looks like scumbag material , i.e Wade Williams , Dominic Purnell (yes , dislike him since Blade III) , Robert Knepper , Peter Stormare , Frank Grillo , Matt DeCaro etc.

[brundlefly]

are we differentiating between 'skeevy' and 'sex offenderish?'

Well I think both are the same thing. It's just a sliding scale of where you rank the actors. For me, Steve Buscemi ranks as the type of guy who would steal from you kids' piggy bank. Otoh, Christopher Walken reminds me of the kinda guy who would eat your kids and make you watch.

Homer Jay differentiated skeevy into creeps (or bad guys/villains) and douchebags (or 'sex offenders,' if you like) earlier, so yeah, there are two groupings. Sinister-looking guys like Walken, Rutger Hauer, etc. would go into the first group, while the greasy, shifty likes of Steve Zahn, Skeet Ulrich, etc. go in the latter.

[Haunt]

seems kind of futile to start another thread but... "which actors look cocky beyond belief?"


i nominate...

Ian Somerhalder
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0813812/

Clive Owen
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/4540/Events/4540/CliveOwen_Devan_7974905_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Owen,%20Clive

Sean William Scott
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0419984/Ss/0419984/wc.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Scott,%20Seann%20William

Chris Evans
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/3068/Events/3068/ChrisEvans_Vespa_4902690_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Evans,%20Chris%20(V)

David Boreanz
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/1640/Events/1640/DavidBorea_Barso_591109_400.jpg.html?hint=nm000477 0

and
Oliver Hudson
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/3717/Events/3717/OliverHuds_Cohen_6160218_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Hudson,%20Oliver%20(I)

[Jared]

I wouldn't say that Clive Owen generally looks cocky. Ben Affleck, OTH, looks like one cockym'fer. Someone else once hit the nail on the head, in saying that he has this look on his face all the time like he's standing in front of the camera thinking "yeah, that's right, I'm Ben Affleck..."

Quentin Tarentino seems really skeevy to me. So do the Lowe brothers, but they're better at hiding it.

[Evo Schandor]

Willem Dafoe
Ed Norton

[tangentman]

Who is that loser Chloe Sevigny sucked off in Brown Bunny? The very ESSENCE of "Skeeviness"!

[Haunt]

Who is that loser Chloe Sevigny sucked off in Brown Bunny? The very ESSENCE of "Skeeviness"!

that would be Vincent Gallo

[brundlefly]

Who is that loser Chloe Sevigny sucked off in Brown Bunny? The very ESSENCE of "Skeeviness"!

Do you mean Vincent Gallo? Oh, man, good call there. Can't believe his name hasn't come up yet....

[Magneto_X]

IIRC Gallo was the psycho who tried to auction off his own sperm on eBay a few years ago.

[EZMOHR]

seems kind of futile to start another thread but... "which actors look cocky beyond belief?"


i nominate...

Ian Somerhalder
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0813812/

Clive Owen
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/4540/Events/4540/CliveOwen_Devan_7974905_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Owen,%20Clive

Sean William Scott
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/ss/0419984/Ss/0419984/wc.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Scott,%20Seann%20William

Chris Evans
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/3068/Events/3068/ChrisEvans_Vespa_4902690_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Evans,%20Chris%20(V)

David Boreanz
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/1640/Events/1640/DavidBorea_Barso_591109_400.jpg.html?hint=nm000477 0

and
Oliver Hudson
http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/3717/Events/3717/OliverHuds_Cohen_6160218_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Hudson,%20Oliver%20(I)


Good call on Clive Owen. That dude looks like he goes to bed at night, looking in the bathroom mirror, saying, "It's so wonderful to be Clive Owen everyday. I really do feel sorry for those poor blokes who aren't Clive. Honey, get in here quick, I'm Clive Owen for Christ sake, do it now."

As for more cocky actors....does anybody just want to punch out most of the Ocean's Actors while they are in those films, or is it just me. Ocean's Twelve just felt like a movie thats sole purpose was to make the viewer say "Damn, I'm worthless for not being George Clooney, Matt Damon, Brad Pitt, or Don Cheadle. I mean, they've got to be great, they just said so on film, right there. And this Vincent Cassell French dude has got to be as great as them, because they are saying he's great." Man, George Clooney is on an otherworldly plain when it comes to cockiness and smarm.

[The Xenos]

It's weird, some of these actors I like them because of their skeeviness and some of them I dislike because of it.

Walken, Jeffery Combs, and Buschemi all are creepy, but I really like them. I also see them as nice guys that are just.. um.. freaky. The late Vincent Sciavelli too. Nice guys, but can carry the creepiness which they use for some really creepy characters.

Then you got ones like Crispin Glover or Ed Norton. Creepy or skeevy guys I just wouldn't want to meet in person. Though I liked a number of Norton's roles. And I guess Glover can really act, because he was Marty's dad in Back to the Future. Though he was a peeping tom perv in that, after all.

Clive Owen.. I'm inbetween on him. Maybe he's jsut typecast as a world weary schlub. Guess it fits that he's gonna be Phillip Marlowe. Also, Daniel Craig, but again, it worked well for this Bond reboot.

[Magneto_X]

And this Vincent Cassell French dude has got to be as great as them, because they are saying he's great." Man, George Clooney is on an otherworldly plain when it comes to cockiness and smarm.

Cassell is married to Bellucci.

I'm sure he doesn't give a sh*t about Clooney.

Xenos:

Glover was super-creepy in the first Charlie's Angels movie, too.

[Headhunter]

Steve Buscemi and Skeet Ulrich running away, in my opinion. Danny Trejo's up there too...

[Magneto_X]

I'll add Gary Sinise, Michelle Rodriguez and Benicio Del Toro.

[maczero]

I'll add Gary Sinise, Michelle Rodriguez and Benicio Del Toro.Whoa! We finally got a woman nominated (even though I disagree with the choice). Maybe I should have said actresses as well.

[EZMOHR]

I don't know if it is skeeviness...but Fairuza Balk exudes something that scares the crap out of me.

Now for skeeviness....Robin Tunney is just plain dirty looking. She is very, very, very skeevy. It was a good thing she was on Prison Break, cause she fit in well with all the greasy males who were on that show.

[Magneto_X]

Tunney can go back and forth.

In Empire Records she was a shaved-headed cutter but in most roles she's incredibly hot (re: The Craft).

I agree with Balk.

[NYRUNAWAY]

Tunney can go back and forth.

In Empire Records she was a shaved-headed cutter but in most roles she's incredibly hot (re: The Craft).

I agree with Balk.

Drea Dematteo(sp)from The Sopranos. Saw her in person last year and she looked like she parties and drinks an awful lot
Lori Petty from Point Break and other movies looks skanky too
Gina Gershon in every movie she has ever done