65. ALAN RICKMAN
Die Hard (1988)

The great American movie villains are usually British or German, so it only fits that the go-go '80s bad-guy archetype was a German played by a Brit. Maybe it's the ruthless intelligence that a German accent implies, or the regal, holier-than-thou British demeanor, but whatever it is, Rickman's Hans Gruber had it in spades. Gruber was that urbane criminal mastermind we all wish truly existed nowadays: the psycho terrorist who's really just a psycho thief.