While looking up Oscar Brand, another Brand came to my mind.
Neville Brand, my all-time favourite film and TV villain, got me thinking: Is there such a thing as “favourite villain”?
Does anyone have his/her own favourite villain(s)?
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I should add to my list.
Geoffrey Lewis, long-time collaborator to Clint Eastwood.
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Loved her as Lilith in Sabrina. She’s so good!
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Yes!! 
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For the last little while (oh, twenty years or so) my attention has been drifting away from popular culture (Technically, since the end of the 60s.), so forgive me for asking: Who the devil is this gentleman?
John Lithgow, in Santa Clause the Movie.
A brilliant performance.
He also played a serial killer in Dexter which was equally as sinister.
And more recently a weird villain role in The Rule of Jenny Penn
He was also in Third Rock from the Sun, comedy show.
He’s easily one of my favourite actors of all time.
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Of course you’re right. Thanks for straightening me out!
Arthur Mitchell was terrifying. So nice and personable to strangers and a monster to his own family. And then a deranged killer on the side 
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Regretfully, I have not watched a single episode of Dexter, but I agree John Lithgow is capable of playing any role with ease.
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Dexter is a fabulous series. The last season didn’t thrill a lot of folks. Much like the last season of Game of Thrones. But, I loved it all 
Walton Goggins is another delightful villain. Justified and Unicorn seem like two different actors.
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It’s my favourite season - Arthur Mitchell was deranged and Lithgow as amazingly good at portraying that.
What a season!
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Original Sins is decent and Dexter: Resurrection is good so far.
The original series was brilliant. Dexter is the villain, really, but he’s kind of an anti-villain he only kills bad people. Still, without his code, he’d be just as bad as everyone else. Actually, he is as bad, but he’s so likeable.
You could say Doakes was a villain to Dexter, even though he was a cop who was on to him. It’s one of those shows where the villain dynamic keeps shifting.
You never want Doakes to catch Dexter. Doakes was a brilliant character too. But could you really call him a villain?