I’ve always been a fan of Gary Oldman, he strikes me as the type of actor who puts everything into his performances and thus he would be left hollow, quiet, even disconnected, in real life. As DEA agent, Stansfield in The Professional / Leon, you’d swear you were watching surveillance footage of an actual corrupt cop.

Very few actors have the villainous acumen of Gary Oldman. His expansive biography of baddies extends from mythology’s greatest bad guy (Dracula) to common pimps and crooks. His talent is so far reaching it also includes douchy politicians and power-hungry killers with bad hair.

Alas, lately he’s been springing up as Goody Two Shoes, like Batman’s wingman Commissioner Gordon. He’s even been using his predisposition as a bad guy with a sense of irony, as in his role in the Harry Potter series, Sirius Black.

However, in his latest movie, The Book of Eli, he returns to his roots – playing the antagonist. So we’d like to congratulate Gary on his comeback to malevolence (we’ve missed you) with a highlight of the various evil-doers he’s made so vivid on the silver screen, ranked in order of his characters’ titles.

Gary Oldman's Ranks of Villainy

Via Screen Junkies