Large Ham/Film



No scenery is left intact with these guys!

Note: Merely quoting a line in ALL CAPS and/or in bold does not constitute proof of hamminess. Descriptions of the performance, character, and scene are, as are links to clips of the performance.

Disney Animated Canon
"Let's see if we can't refresh that rusty old memory of yours. Is she on SATAN'S RIDGE? Or NIGHTMARE CANYON? What do you think Joanna? Yeah that's it. Right smack dab in the MIDDLE, at CROC FALLS!"
 * Many Disney characters in the animated canon, but especially the villains.
 * The Rescuers Down Under has Percival C. McLeach, as portrayed by George C. Scott.

""MUHUHUHUHAHAHAHAHA! I'M MEAN!""
 * The Wicked Queen in Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs is the first in that canon and a particularly wonderfully nightmarish example. (This may have a lot to do with her being voiced by Lucille LaVerne, a stage and silent film actress. She's also visually based on Kate Hepburn.)
 * Actually, although she has a few drips of ham, the Queen is one of the more subtle villains out there. When she turns herself into the hag on the other hand, all bets are off, and she chews the scenery wonderfully.
 * Scar, from The Lion King.
 * "IDIOTS!!! THERE WILL BE A KING!! IIIIIII WILL BE KING! STICK WITH ME, AND YOU'LL NEVER GO HUNGRY AGAIN!!!!" So, how many hams does it take to feed a pride of lions, Scar?
 * Jeremy Irons again; see Eragon and Dungeons and Dragons elsewhere in this page.
 * Scar is even hammier in German, believe it or not. This guy knows how to rock a Villain Song.
 * From the sequel: Zira, if her lullaby is anything to go on.
 * Their son Nuka qualifies too. Probably It Runs in The Family.
 * Cruella de Vil is another example. Specially as played by Glenn Close in the Live Action Adaptation.
 * Who can forget the enormous ham from hell, Hades?
 * No one hams like Gaston. It helps that he bears an uncanny resemblance to Bruce Campbell.
 * Forte in Beauty and The Beast The Enchanted Christmas, voiced by Tim Curry.
 * Whenever Beast gets angry, he hams up accordingly ("Then go ahead and STAAAAAAAAAAAAARVE!").
 * Except maybe Pat Carroll's Ursula the Sea-Witch from The Little Mermaid, who actually turns herself into a very large...octopus...for the finale. She may be the first and only Disney villain to actually shake her moneymakers for the camera.
 * "And don't underestimate the importance of...BODY LANGUAGE!"
 * Well, the only one until Alameda Slim, who not only dances, but can "YODEL ADLE ELDE IDLE OOOOOO!" No ham is complete without a Las Vegas performer-esque shiny outfit.
 * In poker terms, Marina Del Rey from Ariel's Beginning will see you that outfit, and raise you a time-space wormhole from Bob Mackie's warehouse that leads directly into her underwater armoire.
 * All we gotta do is build an act. Make ya a star. A headliner! Dumbo the Great!
 * Timothy Mouse from Dumbo is a non-villainous example of a Large Ham. Who knew a circus mouse impersonating Nosferatu in one scene would take hamminess to extremes!
 * For pure, unadulterated, lean Grade A ham, nothing beats a thick, juicy slab of Jafar.
 * "GENIE! My second wish! I wish to be the most POWERFUL sorcerer... IN THE WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORLD! AH HA HA HA HA HAAAA!"
 * "THE UNIVERSE IS MINE TO COMMAND!!! TO CONTROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!!!"
 * Even better, in the second film he gets a whole musical number, every line of which seems to made entirely of pun-filled ham.
 * The only thing that could make Jafar more hammy is if he was voiced by Tim Curry. Case in point; his Reprise of the Prince Ali song.
 * Jafar may have been killed off by the start of the TV series, but the Hamjitsu was conserved by the late Jonathan Brandis as the smarmy sorcerer Mozenrath. Who knew you could fit all that ham into a pair of leather pants?
 * Let's not forget Mechanicles, "THE GREATEST OF THE GREAT GREEK GENIUSES!"
 * Clayton from Tarzan, as played by Brian Blessed.
 * Kazar the wildebeest from The Wild, voiced by William Shatner. Also Nigel to some extent.
 * Maleficent. Even the name screams "Ham!"
 * Zurg from Toy Story 2. Even more hammy in the spinoff series Buzz Lightyear of Star Command.
 * Behold the shadowy ham that is The Phantom Blot.
 * Even hammier in his appearance in Duck Tales.

"Timon: "When he was a young warthog..."
 * And then there was the time he became "THE PHANTOM RAIIIINBOOOOOOW!"
 * Ratigan may be Vincent Price's hammiest performance-- and that's saying a lot.
 * Magica DeSpell often gets so carried away.
 * DON'T YOU DISRESPECT ME, LITTLE MAN! Call it part of his showman persona, or part of him, Dr. Facilier knows how to chew the scenery
 * It is him, he's a ham who tends to steal the scene he's in.
 * This list is not complete without the delightful Captain Hook, voiced by Hans Conreid, aka Doctor Terwilliger, aka Snidely Whiplash. A connoisseur of fine ham if there ever was one.
 * Of course, the non-Disney Hook, with a rapacious wit and a love of the Bard, is no slouch either.
 * Clopin is a non-villainous example. Frollo was fairly conservative compared to other villains.
 * Except for "Hellfire": "Choose me or your pyre...be mine or you...will...BURN!!!"
 * Also, let's not forget : "AND HE SHALL SMITE THE WICKED AND PLUNGE THEM INTO THE FIERY PIT!!!"
 * While we're in Plucky Comic Relief Hams, The Genie, originally played by the one and only Robin Williams.
 * Pumbaa is possibly a literal Large Ham.

Pumbaa: "WHEN I WAS A YOUNG WARTHOOOOOOG!"

Timon: [cleaning his ear] "Very nice."

Pumbaa: "Thanks!""

"Pumbaa: Are you talkin' to me?
 * And of course, who could forget Banzai's biggest mistake...

Timon: (to Shenzi) Uh-oh, he called him a pig...

Pumbaa: Are you talking to ME?

Timon: Ya shouldn't have done that!

Pumbaa: ARE YOU TALKING TO ME!?

Timon: NOW they're in for it!

Pumbaa: They CALL me, MIIIIIISTERRRR PIIIIIG!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH--"

- *insert one hellacious off-screen thrashing here, with the normally goofballed Ed staring on in absolute terror*

"The Director: Let me ask you, Mindy from the network, what do you see here?
 * And of course, his partner Timon is voiced by scenery connoisseur Nathan Lane.
 * Jumba. "I prefer to be called... EEVIL GEN-EE-OUS!!"
 * The Queen of Hearts: OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!
 * AND WHEN IT ARRIVES, (AH HA HA HA!) I'LL SMASH IT WIF A HAMMAH!! You can tell Eartha Kitt had fun playing the aptly named Yzma!
 * Who else but Shere Khan could eclipse every other song in a film with Just. One. Line.
 * Besides Zurg, Toy Story has Jessie ("YEE-HAW") and an obvious one in Hamm the piggy bank ("PIG PILE!"). Buzz dabbles in it sometimes, specially in the third film when he's reset and starts speaking in Spanish.
 * Does Chernabog from Fantasia count? He manages to be a Large Ham without ever even SPEAKING A WORD.
 * Bolt has both Bolt the dog and Rhino the hamster as somewhat hammy characters, but the director of the Show Within a Show as easily the hammiest character in the movie.

Mindy Parker: Uhh... the dog?

The Director: "The dog" she says. Oh, Mindy. Poor, poor Mindy.

Mindy Parker: ... am I missing something?

The Director: You're missing everything, Mindy. You see a dog. I see an animal that believes, with every fiber of his being; EVERY FIBER; that the girl he loves is in mortal danger! I see a depth of emotion on the face of that canine, the likes of which has never been captured on screen before. NEVER, Mindy from the network. We jump through hoops to make sure Bolt believes everything is real. It's why we don't miss marks. It's why we don't reshoot. It's CERTAINLY why we do NOT allow the dog to see BOOM MIKES... because, Mindy from the network... if "the dog" believes it... then "the audience" believes it."

Jim Carrey
"Swoosie Kurtz: Your Honor, I object!
 * Liar Liar has such gems as: "I HOLD MYSELF IN CONTEMPT! WHY SHOULD YOU BE ANY DIFFERENT?!" and this outtake:

Carrey: You would!

Kurtz: Overactor!

Carrey: Jezeb--! (collapses in laughter as the entire "courtroom" bursts out)

Kurtz: He [indicating the director?] put me up to it! It wasn't my idea! He told me to do it!

Carrey: (mugging for the camera even though it's clearly not getting into the movie) ...oh no! They're onto me!"

""If knowledge is power, then A GOD... AM... IIIIIIIIIIII! (Beat) Was that over the top? I can never tell!""
 * Count Olaf from the movie version of Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events was a Master of Disguise, but also a Large Ham - not just because Carrey played him that way, but because within the story itself Olaf is supposed to be a Large Ham. There's also this outtake: "But enough of recent history, let's go back in a TIME machine! [high voice] TIIIME machine, TIIIME machine..."
 * Actually if you read the books, Count Olaf doesn't actually become a proper ham until the books that came out after the film. Beforehand, his evil was more withheld.
 * How the Grinch Stole Christmas: The Grinch.
 * As Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumber: "We've got no food! We've got no jobs! Our pets' HEADS ARE FALLIN' OFF!!!!"
 * Ace Ventura. "ALLLLL RIGHTY THEN!"
 * The Mask was a shy guy who got turned into a Large Ham by Applied Phlebotinum. "Sssssssmokin'!"
 * Carrey's acting in Batman Forever was once described as "transcend[ing] considerations of good or bad acting into sheer weirdness". "Weird", in this case, means... well... ham.

""I AM BRUCE ALMIGHTY!!!!! MY WILL BE DONE!!!!!""
 * "CCCCCAAAAAABBBBBBLLLLLLEEEEEE GUY!"
 * With Man On the Moon, Jim gets moments of ham -- Andy Kaufman, after all, loved creating and inhabiting Large Ham personas such as Tony Clifton and the Intergender Wrestling Champion of the World, so the role(s) requires someone who understands the art of going over the top.
 * Bruce Almighty: You know, the one where Jim Carrey becomes God (more "A God Am I" for ya!). "SMITE ME, OH MIGHTY SMITER!", etc.

Harry Potter films
""SIIIIIIILEEEEEEEEENNNNNNNNCEEEEEEE!"
 * Kenneth Branagh as Gilderoy Lockhart in Harry Potter, another character actually required by the story to be a Large Ham. His performance is summed up beautifully by Mike Nelson in the Riff Trax commentary as Kenneth first appears; "Yes, treat your family and friends to the flavor of traditional Northern Irish HAM."
 * Rumor has it Branagh, Alan Rickman (Snape), and Jason Isaacs (Lucius Malfoy) had a friendly competition on the set to see who could ham it up the most. ... Ooooooh my.
 * Strangely, Voldemort, particularly in Goblet of Fire. It's easy to see the fun Ralph Fiennes is having. Fiennes has said that he tried not to go over the top with Voldemort, but then he realized there's no other way to play him. For example, the bit with: DON'T YOU TURN YOUR BACK ON ME HARRY POTTER!!!! I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT ME WHEN I KILL YOU!!! I WANT TO SEE THE LIGHT LEAVE YOUR EYES!!!! Or, what about the infamous, "CRRRRUUUCCCCCCCC-io!" Even after calming down in each following film, his infamous "NYEEEEAAAAHHH HEH HEH" from Deathly Hallows has become quite popular.
 * For context: This is the scene after . Voldemort and the Death Eaters take the body back to Hogwarts to gloat at the defenders. After announcing , the Death Eaters burst into laughter, cuing one of the most awkward laughs from Voldemort one will hear. He even seems to dance in place for a second. Coupled with one of the weirdest hugs ever done a few minutes later, this troper put it as "And now, Ralph Fiennes decides to gobble up as much scenery as possible before his inevitable death." The fact that the entire audience burst into laughter when Voldemort laughed affirmed this assertion.
 * AAAAAAAAVADA KEDAVRA!
 * So incredibly over-hammed it sounded more like "UUUUUUUhvudu Kuduvru!"
 * NYYEEAAAAH!
 * Incidentally, the hug scene was Fiennes' own idea.
 * Michael Gambon as Dumbledore. He doesn't chew the scenery; he devours it whole, spits it out, and then devours it again. At least in Goblet of Fire.

"DID YOU PUT YOUR NAME IN THE GOBLET OF FIRE!" (Did joo putyer name in'a gobletaFIYA!)"


 * which is said while he has Harry by his shirt collar and pressed against a wall.

"Moaning Myrtle: I'm Moaning Myrtle! I wouldn't expect you to know me! Who would ever want to talk about ugly, miserable, moping, Moaning Myrtle? AHHHHHHHHHH!
 * That bit was the result of Did Not Do the Research, as Mr. Gambon hadn't read the book. Still pretty darn hammy, though.
 * At least he made up for it in subsequent films.
 * Shirley Henderson as the hammiest Ghost in Hogwarts, Moaning Myrtle.

Hermione: She's a little sensitive."


 * It's a small role, but Miriam Margolyes is nearly intolerable as Professor Sprout.
 * Brendan Gleeson as Mad-Eye Moody, between character voice, exaggerated motions, and mentoring role, fits the bill perfectly.
 * He has only a small role in Goblet of Fire but David Tennant as Barty Crouch Jr fills every moment with ham, with wild eyes and that weird flicking tongue thing - sheer craziness.
 * Not to mention Gary Oldman's somewhat hamtastic turn as Sirius Black. "I would have DIED, Peter! I would have DIED rather than BETRAY MY FRIENDS!!!!!" He calmed down considerably in the fifth movie.
 * Oh, and the scene where  How could we forget "You know the man you TRULY ARE, Remus!" and "THIS FLESH IS ONLY FLESH!"
 * Professor Trelawney: In THIS room, YOU shall discover if YOU possess THE SIGHT![[hottip:*:This is a central trait of her character. Naturally, as she's a faux psychic
 * Both Daniel Radcliffe and Rupert Grint get to be this during two particularly funny scenes of Half-blood Prince -- first when Ron accidentally drinks a love potion and then when Harry deliberately drinks a luck potion.
 * Emma Watson's first scene as Hermione in Sorcerer's Stone gets pretty hammy. In fact most of the scenes in the first movie for the kid actors are very overly done simply because of inexperience.
 * Miranda Richardson as Rita Skeeter in Goblet of Fire. She has very few lines compared to the book but she makes every one memorable. Witness her interview with Harry in a broom closet.
 * Helena Bonham Carter as Bellatrix Lestrange. She made the character way more rabid and insane than described in the books. Her first scene in Order of the Phoenix she's licking the dark mark on her arm. She takes it further with each subsequent film until in Deathly Hallows, each line she says is a thick slice of ham.
 * Jessie Cave looked at the description of Lavender Brown as a ditzy Smitten Teenage Girl who is Sickeningly Sweethearts with Ron, and charged in full ham ahead. Witness the hospital scene.
 * According to Helen McCrory (Narcissa Malfoy) much of the overacting was revenge for having their subplots cut.
 * Speaking of Malfoys, Jason Isaacs was more than able to bring out the porks. "You cost me MY SERVANT!"
 * Perhaps he had listened to the audiobooks, where Stephen Fry practically howls that line: "YOU COST ME MY SERVANT...BOYEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

Kenneth Branagh
""Mr. West, ah am not an animal! Ah am a visionary, ah am a genius, and now AH AM 'AGREH! And I promise that when I kill you, ah will have your body boiled down for ax-ell grease!"
 * Any of his own adaptations of William Shakespeare.
 * Much Ado About Nothing being a prime example.
 * Hamlet is also notable. He plays Hamlet, and so we get to hear him do the speech on how actors should act and be a Large Ham during it; we get to see him saw the air while urging the actors not to. This makes that speech more hilarious than was probably intended. It's made even better with Hamlet's father being played by BRIAN BLESSED. The scene with the two of them together is pure Ham to Ham Combat.
 * His speech in his own adaptation of Henry V is especially good as he is supposed to be a Large Ham. The audience can see that Branagh is loving it - as Henry does in the play. It is incredibly powerful.
 * His 1930s-set musical version of Loves Labours Lost is full of hams, the biggest being Timothy Spall's Don Armado. His Cole Porter bit must be seen to be believed.
 * Branagh was even hammier as Dr. Loveless in Wild Wild West. "Don't yew just haaaate thay-ut song?" complete with 720 degrees of eye-rolling.
 * Loveless' Villainous Breakdown is so hammy, that even Will Smith backs up a bit:


 * His performance in Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, playing the titular character. His mother dies and he feels compelled to look up the ceiling shrieking "THIS MUST NOT HAPPENNNNNNN!"
 * Though in the 1996 film adaptation of Othello, he's actually very subtle and restrained as Iago. Knowing how hammy he usually gets when he does Shakespeare, this makes his performance incredibly effective.
 * No so much Ham, but some TRIFLES!
 * He even hams it up playing an American private eye in Dead Again.
 * And chews the scenery as an uptight government official in The Boat That Rocked.
 * Averted in some of his more recent dramatic roles, such as Wallander, Valkyrie and Shackleton.

Michael Keaton

 * He does an admirable job in the Much Ado About Nothing as Dogberry....in fact, he's also a ham of great distinction in much of his work.
 * One word: Beetlejuice. Just don't say it three times.
 * And Johnny Dangerously.
 * Half ham, full ham, whatever it takes...
 * Gung Ho
 * Surprisingly, he averts this as Batman. Even his Bruce Wayne is subdued.
 * Except when he wants to get nuts.
 * Ken in Toy Story 3.

John Goodman
""IT'S AAAAAAAALLL ABOUT THE MONEY BOYS!""
 * Chomping a number of scenes as Walter in The Big Lebowski especially when it involves marking it zero.
 * Taking up very, very large chunks of screen as Pope Sergius in Pope Joan.
 * O Brother Where Art Thou


 * He's mostly subdued in Fallen... until Azazel possesses him, complete with singing "Time Is on my Side"
 * Barton Fink. Madman Mundt. "I'll show you the life of the mind."
 * LaMonte T Montgomery in Bee Movie. He even puts on an over-the top act when the main character's best friend stings him on the behind.

John Rhys-Davies

 * His guest-starring role as Alexandre Dumas in The Secret Adventures Of Jules Verne.
 * "...they're diggin in the wrong place!"
 * "Nobody tosses a dwarf!"
 * "You are not in Rhineland, you are IN MY SHOP!"
 * "TROPHIES! HA HA!"?
 * Though more understated then his live-action role, his turn as The Narrator in the Updated Release version of Quest for Glory IV still is rather hammy

Superman

 * Kevin Spacey's Lex Luthor in Superman Returns.
 * "WROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG!!!"
 * Gene Hackman's Luthor in Superman II also serves, even if the next example is the biggest ham in the movie.
 * Superman nemesis Zod. One has to almost kneel before him in respect of his vast arsenal of over-the-top bluster, which of course he can back up on Earth with tremendous power only the Man of Steel can challenge. Whole websites have been devoted to the glorious OTTness of Terrence Stamp's portrayal of Zod as a vain, short-tempered and sometimes rather bored aristocratic psycho. So indelible was Stamp's rendition (which bore little resemblance to the comic character on whom it was based) that most subsequent comic versions of Zod have been negatively received due to their lack of similarity to Stamp's characterization. Recently they just gave up and reintroduced the "real" Zod in the direct likeness of Stamp's persona.
 * Speaking of Stamp, his transvestite character in The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert had a lot more to do with Ham than it did with Camp.

Batman and The Dark Knight Saga

 * Tommy Lee Jones as Two-Face in Batman Forever. (and the other villain, Riddler, was the already discussed Jim Carrey... amazingly, Jones manages to out-ham Jim Carrey; ponder that for a moment).
 * What's to ponder? TLJ can chew the scenery with the best of them. Heck, even his performance in The Fugitive feels hammy even though he never raises his voice.
 * "This is my happy face!"
 * I. Don't. Bargain.
 * Regular or Extra Crispy?
 * "I DON'T CARE."
 * "What I want from each and every one of you is a hard-target search of every gas station, residence, warehouse, farmhouse, henhouse, outhouse and doghouse in that area. Checkpoints go up at fifteen miles. Your fugitive's name is Dr. Richard Kimble - Go get him."
 * Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr. Freeze in Batman and Robin. "Go! Kill the heroes!", "Everybody, chill!", etc.
 * Uma Thurman as Poison Ivy, in a rare female example, is also a saving grace for the film.
 * John Glover's brief role as Dr. Woodrue as well, giving Dr. Forrester a run for hammiest Mad Scientist.
 * Christian Bale as the caped crusader himself in The Dark Knight Saga. That voice must require some serious throat pastilles afterwards, and notice how he can't keep it up when he seems out of breath?
 * In all fairness, that infamous voice emerged in The Dark Knight, while not nearly as grating in Batman Begins. Apparently, that one had an okay balance. But still, to quote him in the second, "WHURRRR ARRRRRR THEYYYY?!"
 * And as himself. "DO YOU WANT ME TO TRASH YOUR LIGHTS? Seriously, you and me, we're done professionally."
 * Jack Nicholson as The Joker, though really, that's practically a prerequisite for playing the character. He likes Chewing the Scenery Chew and gets several great lines... (one of them a Trope Namer: "Where does he get all those wonderful toys...?!")
 * Has Jack Nicholson ever not been hammy?
 * Going by The Witches of Eastwick, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest and more, probably not. Basically, if there's a role that requires bombast and hamminess, he'll be there.
 * "HEEEEEEEEEEERE'S JOHNNY!"
 * "YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!" That makes him a Trope Namer twice.
 * *slap* I SAID I WANTED THE TRUTH!
 * About Schmidt might be the only occasion where Nicholson was low-key.
 * In The Departed, he is playing probably his most hammy role ever. Especially the now famous "I smell a rat" scene. Within the course of the scene, he does all of the following: a Spit Take onto an elaborate drawing of a swarm of rats, setting part of said drawing on fire only to put it back out in a few seconds, making some truly bizarre facial expressions, tiptoeing around like a cartoon character, and finally, dramatically sniffing Leonardo Di Caprio's character. Oh, and later in the movie, he whips a giant purple dildo out of his pants and starts shaking it in Matt Damon's face.
 * Heath Ledger's Joker is also sadistically wonderful, funny and terrifying at the same time. And hammy.
 * "What do you believe in, huh? WHADDA YOU BELIEVE IN!?" "I believe that whatever doesn't kill you...simply makes you stranger." It's not often the Nietzsche Wannabe mangles an actual Nietzsche quote.
 * Ledger took it to such extremes, every line the Joker sounds as if he's literally chewing something.
 * Hell, if you want to put it that way, anytime The Joker is played by anyone, the actor is going to find himself unleashing the Hog...
 * Considering the Joker is on both the Comics and Western Animation (and indirectly, Live Action TV) sections... Overacting with a Nietzsche Wannabe Monster Clown is pretty easy.
 * Not to mention Danny DeVito's Penguin. "I AM NOT A HUMAN BEING! I AM AN ANIMAL! COOOOOLD-BLOODED! CRANK THE A.C.!"
 * Hey, DeVito in almost anything as well. From Mars Attacks (Film): "ROOOOLEEEEEXXXXXX!"
 * "Shut up! I-- I can't THINK with all these SIRENS!!"
 * Don't forget Get Shorty, where he was a ham playing a ham... playing a ham.

James Bond villains
""Names is for tombstones, baby! You take this honky out and waste him!"
 * Jonathan Pryce as Elliot Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies. Whatever scenery his Mooks don't riddle with bullets or blast into a million pieces, he cheerfully chows down on like there's no... well, tomorrow. And the movie is, arguably, the better for it.
 * Gustav Graves from Die Another Day.
 * Max Zorin from A View to A Kill, played as a psychotic yuppie by Christopher Walken.
 * And who could forget General Orlov from Octopussy? His Chewing the Scenery briefing scene near the beginning of the movie combines the speech patterns of William Shatner, the volume levels of BRIAN BLESSED, and a truly awful accent to form the essence of Ham.
 * To clarify: this was awesome.
 * "Yes, but tomorrow I shall be a Hero of the Soviet Union!"
 * "Man has climbed Mount Everest, gone to the bottom of the ocean. He's fired rockets at the Moon, split the atom, achieved miracles in every field of human endeavor... EXCEPT CRIME!!!" The Hammiest Ham that Ever Hammed.
 * And who can forget "NO, Mister Bond, I expect you to DIE!"?
 * Better still - Gert Fröbe was a unilingual German speaker. He spoke all of his lines phonetically, and they were dubbed over afterwards.
 * One wonders at what the movie would've been like if Goldfinger had been played by BRIAN BLESSED, though that may have caused the universe to implode from the super-dense ham.
 * The laser wouldn't have been necessary, that's for sure. BRIAN BLESSED simply could've shouted until Sean Connery's face melted.
 * While Yaphet Kotto played a relatively mellow Dr. Kananga in Live and Let Die, Kananga's alter ego, Mr. Big, is a pretty Big ham (hur hur hur), with lines like "DID YOU TOUCH HER??!!" belted with feeling.

"Le Chiffre: YOU! ARE SOOO WRONG!!! *point*"
 * Exception: Sean Bean played a low-key villain in Goldeneye.
 * Fortunately, the hamjitsu was conserved by the impressively loud Boris (played by the INVINCIBLE! Alan Cumming).
 * Don't forget Le Chiffre in Casino Royale, who was low-key most of the time, except when he corrects Bond's statement that he won't be safe if he tortures Bond to death.


 * Dominic Greene in Quantum of Solace is a restrained ham struggling to break free.
 * Charles Gray as Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever is a smarmy, snarky, campy ham par excellence.
 * Charles Gray, HE'S OKAY!

Will Ferrell
"Megamind: Oh, you're a villain alright. Just not a super one.
 * GREAT ODIN'S BEARD! Did someone mention Ron Burgundy? I'm in a glass case of emotion!
 * Help me Jesus! Help me Jewish God! Help me Allah! Help me Tom Cruise!
 * Blades of Glory
 * Kicking And Screaming
 * Bewitched
 * Zoolander
 * HEY MOM! CAN WE GET SOME HAM?!
 * Guten tag hop hop! Guten tag clop clop!
 * It's all in the PRESENTATION!:

Titan: Oh yeah? What's the difference?

Megamind: PRESENTATION! HAM!"

Star Wars
"ONCE MOAAAARRR the Sith will RUUUUUULE the GALAXYYYYY... and... we shall have... peace."
 * Emperor Palpatine was like this in Return of the Jedi, but substantially more subdued in the first two prequels. Then he was in Revenge of the Sith, where any given line he says after the second act is pure, unadulterated ham. And he's still a fairly effective bad guy. I guess he stopped caring about self-restraint once he conquered the entire galaxy.

"Darth Vader: Where are those transmissions you intercepted? WWWHHHHAAAT have you DONE with those PLANS????
 * Something...something...something...Dark Side.
 * This troper has pinpointed the exact moment when Ian McDiarmid's ham switch was flipped to on in Revenge of the Sith. I think we all know which scene it was.
 * He did have flashes beforehand though: "Have...youuuuu...ever.......heaaaaaaaaard....the stooooooooooooooryyyyyyyyyyyy of...Daaaaaaaaarth Plagueisssssssssss..........the Wiiiiiiiiiiiiiise?"
 * In Return of the Jedi, even when Palpatine isn't yelling about the dark side, he's still unbelievably hammy. "Now, young Skywalker........... you will die."
 * And, while shaking his head like a douchebag, "Oh, I'm afraid the shield generator will be quite op-er-a-tion-al, when your friends... arrive..."
 * Geez, he didn't have to be such a dick about it.
 * Wass abot Jar Jar Binks! *shudder*
 * Boss Nass. Voiced by BRIAN BLESSED.
 * Three words: Jabba The Hutt! "BO SHUDA!".
 * Oh, my! The probability that C-3PO is not a fussy tin of Camp ham is approximately three thousand, seven hundred twenty to one!!
 * Never Tell Me the Odds!
 * Okay, all together now: NoooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooOOOOOOOooooooooooOOOOoo!!!!!
 * Like father, like son.
 * If you're mentioning Luke, even though he's played by a HAMill, only in the Luke, I Am Your Father scene he overacts. And the others who shout it (it appears in all movies), only ham it up while shouting the Big No (Obi-Wan, Qui-Gon, Vader, and a background robot).
 * On the set this looked like a MASSIVE ham since the line David Prowse gave in order to keep the big secret was, "Obi-Wan killed your father."
 * Actually, Vader was quite hammy, not only during his Big No scene, but also in Episode IV as well. In Episodes V and VI, he was a bit more subdued and chilling. Bless you, Dave Prowse (who gestures plentifully) and James Earl Jones (who delivers his lines with intense passion).

Darth Vader: Commander, TEAR THIS SHIP APART UNTIL YOU FIND THOSE PLANS! And BRING me the passengers, I WANT THEM ALIVE!

Darth Vader: You are PART of the REBEL AllIANce and a traitor! TAKE HER AWAY!"

"Darth Vader: Luuuuke, you do not yet realize your impPORtance. You have only begun to discover your POWAH. Join me, and I will complete your training. With our COMBINED STRENGTH, we can END this destrOOCTive conflict and bring ORDAH to the GALAXYYY.
 * Vader still had a few traces of ham left in his system, most notably in his We Can Rule Together speech to Luke in Empire:

Luke: I'll NEVER join you!

Darth Vader: IF YOU ONLY KNEW THE POWAH OF THE DAHK SIDE."

"Grievous: You FOOL! I have been trrrained in yourrr Jedi arrrts by Count... DOO-ku!"
 * Vader's ham, particularly in A New Hope, may have been due to James Earl Jones dubbing over David Prowse's rather...unfortunate acting.
 * No mention of General Grievous yet? What he lacks in evilness he makes up for with hamminess.

"Count Dooku: You MUST JOIN ME, Obi-Wan, and together WE WILL DESTROY THE SITH!"
 * His hamminess probably comes from the fact that he's based a bit on Dracula.
 * What about Count Dooku?


 * Watto. "YOU'LL-A FIND-AWHAT-A-YA NEED!"

Star Trek
""Cry HAVOC!!! And let slip the dogs of war!!""
 * Christopher Plummer as General Chang in Star Trek VI the Undiscovered Country. His Crowning Moment of Ham-osity has to be the bit near the end where his ship is pummeling the crap out of Enterprise, and he's having total blast, bellowing Shakespeare, while twirling around in his motorized Captain's chair. Hamtacular.

""He tasks me! He tasks me and I shall have him! I'll chase him 'round the moons of Nibia and 'round the Antares maelstrom and 'round perdition's flame before I give him up!""
 * The ham is noted in-universe by Dr. McCoy, who states "I'd pay real money if he'd shut up."
 * Noted in Shatner's book Star Trek Movie Memories, where a photo of him and Plummer laughing at a flub in the courtroom scene has a caption describing the two as "Hamosauruses".
 * And how can we forget Ricardo Montalban as KHAAAAAN!!! Interestingly enough, his first take on the character was even hammier, and the director asked him to dial it down to make the times he did rant and rave feel more powerful.

"Time They say Ham is the fire in which we burn."
 * Malcolm McDowell as Dr. Soren in Star Trek Generations.

"Sarek: Do you deny these facts?
 * Behold! The quintessential HAM in Star Trek IV the Voyage Home: John Schuck, playing the Klingon H ambassador. Remember this well -- There will be no unchewed scenery, as long as Kirk lives!!

John Schuck: We denyyyyyy nothing. We have the RIGHT to preSERVE our HAM!! RACE!!"

"GET OUUUUT!! GET OUT OF THERE!!
 * Shuck got in on TV Trek as well, playing the delightfully hamtastic Legate Parn on Star Trek Deep Space Nine.
 * Klingon captains are never not hammy. Remember Commander Kruge?

GLORIOUS, isn't it?!"

"IT HAPPENED! I SAW IT HAPPEN! DON'T TELL ME IT DIDN'T HAPPEN!!!
 * Apparently, Christopher Lloyd was a barely containable ham in one scene. Kruge was supposed to call to be beamed up over his handheld communicator, but they could never get him to talk into the prop -- he'd always spread his arms wide, throw his head back, and bellow "BEAM ME UP!" to the heavens. Epic ham.
 * F. Murray AbraHAM as the face-stretching, scenery-chewing, Smug Snake Ru'afo in Star Trek Insurrection.
 * He wasn't much less hammy as Salieri in Amadeus, which got him an Oscar.
 * Eric Bana: Shitty Hulk, but great Star Trek villain:

FIRE EVERYTHIANNG!!!!

SPAAAAWWWWK!!!"

"Picard: The line must be drawn Heeyah! This far, no further. And IIIIIII... will make them pay, for what they've done!"
 * That first gets extra points because during one take Bana literally passed out after yelling it all.
 * Of course, who could forget Picard's rant in First Contact. Normally, Patrick Stewart keeps it mellow and classy, but when his crew suggests they run from the Borg, he has a Heroic BSOD complete with a couple of Big Nos and a thick side of ham. (Apparently he took a few lessons from Shatner in between takes of their previous movie.)

Daniel Day-Lewis
""I'll paint Paradise Square with his blood. TWO COATS! I'll festoon my bedchamber with his guts. And if you ever show yourself in the Five Points again, Mr. Tammany-fucking-hall, you will be dispatched by mine own hand. Help yourself to some decent meat on your way out.""
 * In There Will Be Blood he's pretty much the epitome of this trope.
 * "My spoon reaches ACROOOOOOOOOOSS the room...and starts to eat your large ham. I. Eat. Your. LARGE HAM! * nom nom nom* I EAT IT UP!"
 * DRAINAGE!
 * The critics agree, as seen here in Esquire magazine: "Acting is fine. But Daniel Day-Lewis, now in There Will Be Blood, proves that overacting can be a lot more fun."
 * Throwing a napkin over his face and bellowing his lungs out at rival businessmen in a fancy restaurant.
 * Aaaand in Gangs of New York he is both a Large Ham and a butcher!!! Heheheheh... oh God, that was terrible...

""BECAUSE IT IS MY NAAAAAAAAME!! BECAUSE I CANNOT HAVE ANOTHER IN MY LIIIIIIIIIFE! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; LEAVE ME MY NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME!!!!!!!!!
 * He got two really really good ones in The Crucible

"I say-- I say-- GOD IS DEEEEEEEAAD!!!""

Tim Curry
"Queen: I would rather die!
 * For a perfect example, watch him having far too much fun playing evil wizard Trymon in The Colour of Magic.
 * I'm just a sweet transvestite... From Transexual, Transylvaniaaaaa...
 * Totally enjoying himself, even under the tons of brilliant make-up and prosthetics, as the quite literal Evil incarnate in Legend: "Oh, Mother Night! Fold your dark arms about me. Protect me in your black embrace. I sit alone, an impotent exile, whilst this form, this presence, returns to torment me!" And what's more, he also manages to remain genuinely imposing and scary all through the whole hamned thing, to boot! "Every wolf suffers fleas. 'Tis easy enough to scratch!"
 * As Cardinal Richelieu (what's up with Cardinals being such awesome characters?) in The Three Musketeers 1993, is what Tim Curry's all about:

Richelieu: THAT CAN BE ARRANGED!!"

"Richelieu: One for all ... and more for meeee!"

"Wadsworth: That's what we're TRYING to figure out! We're trying to figure out who killed who, WHERE AND WITH WHAT!
 * Cardinals are awesome and usually evil characters for the same reason that viziers are (as Terry Pratchett points out in Pyramids!). Aside from some specific qualification tests during the initial interview, Narrativium radiation ensures that they are usually the power behind the throne, who wish to make sure that the throne is occupied by someone with all the ambition of a freshly-purchased gym sock.
 * In a little-known but oddly enjoyable little film called Pass the Ammo, Curry shines glitters as a crooked evangelist. Let me repeat that: Tim. Curry. as...an evangelist.
 * An evangelist from the Deep South to boot.
 * And he's the Lord Wizard in The Worst Witch. He even gets a very 1980's MTV-style music video. That lasts ten minutes.
 * He fails the Opening Line test in the film version of Annie, where the first time he opens his mouth results not in an opening line, but a Rooster's crow.
 * Oiiiilllll and griiiimmmmme! Poiiiiiissonn sluddddge! Dieeeessssel cloudss and noxxxiouss muck!
 * Who's the best part of the otherwise forgettable film The Pebble and The Penguin? And who gets the best song? Just guess. "Hope you can swim better than you can (mocking Hubie's stuttering) t-t-t-TALK!"
 * Heck, he even hams it up in Muppet Treasure Island as Long John Silver. "Professional Pirate" is a particularly fun example.
 * And as Captain Hook in Peter Pan and The Pirates, of course.
 * "No one controls my mind, Shadow! There's a new world order coming, and I'm gonna be a king! A KING!"
 * Speaking of which.... Ever see Beauty and The Beast The Enchanted Christmas? Forte has to be one of the only good things about that movie. Just listen to Don't Fall In Love and you'll see what the ham can do.
 * "Don't you see?! They CAN'T fall in love, if they're DEAD!!!"
 * As well as a helping of finest imitation Russian ham in Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3. "I am going to the one place uncorrupted by capitalism... SPAAACE!"
 * There's also the short-lived 1997 sitcom Over The Top. As the title clearly indicates, the show was about a character Tim played who just happened to be a Large Ham.
 * Think about this: it's very likely that Curry was such a large ham, he was too hammy to be the voice of The Joker in Batman the Animated Series.
 * According to Bruce Timm, it was more about Curry getting throat problems from doing the voice. In other words, he was so hammy it physically hurt him.
 * Then there's Clue, where he played the butler:

Professor Plum: There's no need to shout.

Wadsworth: I'M NOT SHOUTING!" (pause) "All right I am! I'm SHOUTING, I'M SHOUTING, I'M SHOUT--"

""Aww...come on, BUCKO! Don't ya want a ba-LOON?"
 * His performance as Pennywise the Dancing Ham in IT freely mixes this trope with Nightmare Fuel.

"They all FLOOOOOAT down here!"

"I am the eater of worlds...And of CHILDREN!"

"KISS ME, FATBOY!"

"Don'tcha want it? Don'tcha WANT IT? Don'tcha ya WANT IT? DON'TCHA WANT IT?"

"Beep Beep Richie!""

""Excuse me, Sir!! Do you have Prince Albert in a can?? You do?? Well, ya better let the poor guy out!! WA-HA! WA-HA! WA-HA!"
 * His Evil Laugh in particular touches both bases.
 * Except at one point where it becomes intentionally hilarious:


 * Gabriel Knight is a very scary Ham.
 * King Chicken! Buck, buck, buck!
 * They called me mad, insane, WENDELL!
 * "At last we meet, Mr. Ip--kissssss...
 * Surprisingly averted when he voiced Arl Rendon Howe who manages to be one of his most repulsive villains.

Malcolm McDowell

 * There's a strange man, munchy-wunching lomticks of ham...
 * Ham and POWER!!!
 * I am a British person!
 * Have you had dental surgery in the past 24 hours?!?
 * Time to play Follow-My-Leader.
 * They say Ham is the fire in which we burn.
 * As Metallo in Superman the Animated Series: "LAAAAST STOP, EVERYONE! LAAAAST STOP!"
 * JOHN HAM... sorry, HENRY EDEN
 * They started this World of Ham... THEY CAN BURN IN IT!
 * I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night! Although I have taken the form of Gaius Caligula, I am all men as I am no man and therefore I am a Ham!
 * On Billy Sherwood's all-star tribute to Pink Floyd's The Wall, Malcolm sings ALL of "The Trial." And it is as awesome as it sounds.
 * This is the ham... (ahem)These are the eyes of a psychopath.

Samuel L Jackson
"Nick Fury: I recognize the council has made a decision, but given that it's a stupid-ass decision, I've elected to ignore it."
 * Sam HAMuel L. Jackson in Snakes On a Plane. The film would only be half as enjoyable if he played his role "straight".
 * "WHAT! Does Marsellus Wallace look like?!"
 * "And you WILL KNOW my name is THE LORD when I LAY MY VENGEANCE UPON THEE!"
 * "You ready to blow? Well, I'm a mushroom-cloud-laying motherfucker, motherfucker! Everytime my fingers touch brain, I'm Superfly, TNT! I'm the Guns of the Navarone! IN FACT, what the FUCK am I doing in the back?! YOU the motherfucker should be on brain detail! We're fucking switching. I'm cleaning the windows, and YOU picking up this nigga's skull!"
 * Frank Miller must have demanded that Jackson play The Octopus in The Spirit. He then flew right in swinging a toilet and proceeded to chew the whole plain damn weird movie to greasy, cheesy bits! "I DO NOT LIKE...  EGG HAM... ON MY FACE!"
 * Frank Miller has a habit of Hamming up his characters, the most (in)famous example probably being "I'm the GODDAMN BATMAN". Other examples include "CHILDREN! Pull on your tights, AND GIVE THEM HELL!" In fact, The Dark Knight Strikes Again is probably the hammiest graphic novel ever written, easily venturing into So Bad It's Good territory.
 * "Ham! When you absolutely must chew every piece of scenery in the room, accept no substitutes!"
 * "YES THEY DESERVED TO DIE, AND I HOPE THEY BURN IN HELL!"
 * Deep Blue Sea was a crappy movie, but Jackson was hilarious in it. That's mainly why his death scene is so hilarious.
 * Somewhat subverted in The Avengers until he has to deal with the most horrifying villain in the film: the politicians.

George C. Scott
"Kinderman: Yes, I believe... I believe in death. I believe in disease'. I believe in injustice and inhumanity and torture and anger and hate... I believe in murder. I BELIEVE IN PAIN. I believe in cruelty and infidelity. I believe in slime and stink and every crawling, putrid thing... every possible ugliness and corruption, YOU SON-OF-A-BITCH! I BELIEVE... in you.
 * He was a master at saving the ham for just the right moment, for maximum effect.
 * In the desert battle in Patton, he spends most of it just watching, calmly p the whole thing. Then when it's clear his troops are winning, comes the immortal, "Rommel, you Magnificent Bastard, I read your BOOOK!"
 * Interestingly enough, George Patton's daughters said that Scott nailed Patton's personality so perfectly, they felt like they were actually watching their father on the movie screen. Does that make George Patton a ham? (especially in light of the fact that the movie actually DOWNPLAYS some of the more crude and vulgar catchphrases that he was famous for).
 * Maybe the real-life Patton was a hammier ham than George C. Scott? After all, those pearl-handled revolvers were not exactly army regulation.
 * They're ivory-handled. Only a New Orleans pimp would carry pearl-handles.
 * That jingoistic speech at the beginning of the movie? It's actually fairly closely paraphrased from an even more over the top speech that Patton actually gave.
 * Also in The Hustler, "You owe me MONEY!"
 * Similarly, The Rescuers Down Under. "I didn't make it all the way through third grade for NOTHING!"
 * "Home, home on the range! Where critters are tied up in chains! I cut through their sides and rip off their hides, and the next day I do it again! EVERYBODDAY!!!!"
 * He also, at Kubrick's urging, made quite the snack of Dr. Strangelove.
 * The overacted scenes were supposed to be practice takes. Mr. Scott was not happy to see himself hamming it up on the big screen.
 * Hardcore. TURN IT OFF! TURN IT OFF! TURN IT OFF!
 * The Exorcist III. I BELIEVE speech was off the charts, even for Scott.

"There is a carp in my bathtub, father. Swimming. Up. And down. Up. And down. And I hate it.""

Richard O'Brien
"Xilus: I'LL NEVER TOLERATE IT WHEN MAGES TRESPASS in MYYYYYYYYYY GUILD!!!!"
 * "They didn't like me! THEY NEVER LIKED ME!!!"
 * "Say goodbye to all THIS. And hello to... obLIVION!"
 * Goodbye, all this! Hello, oblivion! How's the wife and kids?
 * Your wife, my kids!
 * Your dog, my puppies!
 * "I remeeeeeembeeer doing the TIIIIIME WAAAAARP!"
 * It was a senSAATION!
 * LIKE YOU'RE UNDER SEDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAATION!
 * LET'S DO THE TIME WARP AGAIN!!!!!
 * "Tooooooooooooooooooooooooooo the Crystal Dooooooooooooooooooooooooooooome!"
 * Dungeons and Dragons How has this not come up?

Udo Kier

 * Flesh For Frankenstein
 * "To know DEATH, Otto.... you have to fuck LIFE... in ze gallbladder."
 * "Oh no! No! Katherine! My... my WIFE! Ze mother of my CHEEL-DREN! You have KILLED HER, on account of him! My SISTER! My BEAUTIFUL SISTER! YOU KILLED HER!"
 * Blood For Dracula
 * "Ze BLOOD of zese WHOOORES is KILLINK ME!"

Al Pacino
""I'm looking for generals ... and what do I get? foot soldiers!""
 * Al Pacino has been delivering Large Ham performances for, oh, the past decade or two. Some particular gems:
 * Scent of a Woman ("If I were the man I was five years ago I'd take a FLAME-THROWER to this place!" "HOO-AH! I'm just getting warmed up!") - after being passed over for numerous Oscars, he finally got one for this movie due to the hammy speech at the end. He's stuck with the formula since.
 * Heat ("cause she's got a... GREAT ASS! And you got your head... ALL THE WAY UP IT!" "I had COFFEE with McCauley... HALF AN HOUR AGO!")
 * I saw the trailer for a movie called City Hall and chose not to watch it because the trailer showed me all I needed. "I choose to FIGHT BACK!!!!!1111one... until this city is a palace again!"
 * Pacino as Big Boy Caprice in Dick Tracy is a ham large enough to choke Godzilla.


 * As the Devil in The Devils Advocate, Pacino would only take the part if he got to do a ten minute rant in the film's climax. Upon hearing that, the producers must have looked at each other, shrugged, and said; "Do whatever the hell you want, Al!" Cue Satan Breaking The Fourth Wall as he dips a finger into holy water, boiling it.
 * GOD!! IS AN ABSENTEE LANDLORD!!
 * How can we discuss Pacino's legendary Hammy acting without bringing up Scarface? Practically every line of spoken dialog by Tony Montana is Ham, and the movie wouldn't have been half as good without it (though that probably goes for all of Pacino's roles)
 * "SAAAAAAY HELLO TO MY LITTLE FRIEEEEEEND"
 * And Justice for All - Al ends the movie with an epic bit of courtroom haminess: "My client, the Honorable Henry T. Flemming should GO RIGHT TO FUCKING JAIL!!! THE SON OF A BITCH IS GUILTY!" (lots of ranting then follows)
 * Including the following, which is guaranteed to show up in any career montage for Pacino: "You're out of order! You're out of order! THE WHOLE TRIAL IS OUT OF ORDER!"
 * Any Given Sunday definitely lets him ham his way. Special moment at the end : WE CLAAAAW WITH OUR FINGERNAAAIIILS FOR THAT INCH

John Turturro

 * I CAN'T DIE...OUT HERE IN THE WOODS...LIKE A PRESSED HAM!!!
 * I'm a writer, you monsters! I create! I create for a living! I'm a creator! I am a creator! This is my uniform!
 * Let me tell you something, pendejo. You pull any of your crazy shit with us, you flash a piece out on the lanes, I'll take it away from you, stick it up your ass and pull the fucking trigger 'til it goes "click."
 * DO NOT SEEK THE HAM!
 * Tune in and watch Herb Stempel get fed to the Columbia Lions! Tune in and watch Charles Van Doren eat his first kosher meal, this week on 'Twenty-One!'
 * Take your ham and get the fuck back to Africa.
 * You're excited? Feel these nipples!
 * "ONE HAM! ALONE! BETRAYED BY THE COUNTRY HE LOVES!"
 * "You see this??? This is a 'Do-Whatever-I-Want-And-Get-Away-With-It' Badge"

Nicolas Cage
"NO!! I don't need anybody's damn permission!! I'm gonna search every inch of this town in the next three hours and anybody who interferes will be brought up on murder charges, you got that!? And you have my permission to stay outta the FUCKING WAY!!!"
 * See this link.
 * His entire performance in Ghost Rider was full of ham, but the hammiest scene of all has to be the transformation. You know, raiiiiiiseeeeeeee fooooooottttt...... STEP! Raiiiiiiiiseeeeeee..... STEP! * MANIACAL LAUGHTER!!!!!!!*
 * THIS! IS MY MECCA!!! HAHAHAHA!!!! AHHAHAHAHA!!!!!
 * Playing both Castor Troy and Sean Archer in Face Off. "HALLELUJAH!"
 * "HOW'DITGETBURNED?HOW'DITGETBURNEDHOW'DITGETBUUUUUUUUURNED?!?"
 * "OH GOD... OH JESUS CHRIIIST!!!"
 * "OH NO! NO, NOT THE BEES!!! NOT THE BEES!!! AAAAAAAAAAAGGGHH!!! MY EYES!!!"


 * In Kick-Ass, he does an impersonation of fellow Large Ham god among men Adam West. It is every bit as amazing as it sounds.
 * How about his performance in Astro Boy as Dr. Tenma?
 * "It's gonna make it Perfect. PERFECT!"
 * "Just get that ol' brain humming again... WHIIIRR!"
 * "YEEEEES!"
 * Nicolas Cage can even ham up the alphabet.
 * "Have you ever been dragged to the sidewalk and beaten until you... PISSED! BLOOD!?"
 * BullSHIT, man!
 * This gem from Deadfall: SOMEONE'S GONNA KILL ME MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!
 * He's at his best in The Rock:
 * "How in the name of Zeus' BUTTHOOOLE did you get out of yourelf ?!?"
 * "What we say we cut the Chit Chat, A-HOLE ?!?"
 * "Look, I'm just a biochemist. Most of the time, I work in a little glass jar and lead a very uneventful life. I drive a Volvo, a beige one. But what I'm dealing with here is one of the most deadly substances the earth has ever known, so what say you cut me some (deep voiced)FRIGGIN'SLACK ?"
 * "A toast? Yeah. To high treason. That's what these men were committing when they signed the Declaration. Had we lost the war, they would have been hanged, beheaded, drawn and quartered, and-Oh! Oh, my personal favorite-and had their entrails cut out and BURNED. So... Here's to the men who did what was considered wrong, in order to do what they knew was right... what they knew was right..."
 * And who could forget these Japanese pachinko commercials starring him?

Steve Buscemi

 * I am through fucking around, drop that fucking ham!
 * You're acting like a first-year ham, I'm acting like a professional!
 * This is so much fun, it's freaky!
 * He's got the whole ham, in his hands...
 * Oh, this is damn good! Say, this is the best ham I've ever had!
 * NICE WORKIN' WITH YA!
 * Shut the fuck up, Donnie.

Harvey Keitel

 * Shit...You shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize.
 * I'm a mean, mhm mhm servant of God.
 * So, pretty please, with sugar on, clean the fucking car.
 * Lah!

Benicio Del Toro

 * Those hookers let you down!
 * One of these days, I'm gonna toss a fucking ham in that place...
 * The Acid Scene in the hotel. About three minutes of pure Angrish.
 * The phone call he makes to Lucy. Although that's mainly because his character is actually the one hamming it up here.

Johnathan Harris

 * The late, truly great Johnathan Harris, who built his reputation on hamming it up. Who is he you ask? You know him best as Dr. Smith from Lost in Space and that's really all you need to know. Although you should also know him pretty well as Manny, the praying mantis, in Pixar's A Bugs Life. I dare you, no really, I. DARE. YOU. to come up with a better actor who has taken the Large Ham and honed it, perfected it, nay! taken it to the pinnacle of the art form! Seriously, he was such a master of it because he could take any role and imbue it with such over-the-topness, without making it silly, until it was unforgettable. You love him and you know it.

Quentin Tarantino

 * Lemme tell you what 'Like a Virgin' is about. It's all about this cooze who's a regular fuck machine, I'm talking morning, day, night, afternoon, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick, dick.
 * When you came pulling in here, did you notice a sign out in front of my house that said "Dead Nigger Storage"?
 * "How's your hand, Rich?" It hurts like a fucking son of a bitch, thanks for asking, Seth!
 * WE ARE ALL GONNA DIE!!!
 * You gave me some wood, now I'm gonna give you some FUCKING wood!

Cecil B. Demented
"Honey Whitlock: What do I get if I win? (referring to the Honey Whitlock costume contest)
 * Given it's a spoof of bad movies, EVERYONE in this movie gets their chance!
 * I'M CECIL B DEMENTED AND I AM A FUCKING HAM!!!
 * Patch Adams doesn't DESERVE a Director's Cut! The original was LONG ENOUGH!!!
 * Oh, Santa, why has thou forsaken me, I cry, AND SHE DOESN'T BELIEVE ME!!!
 * Before I became a ham addict, I had so many problems. Now I just have one: HAM! It's given my life real focus!
 * You look so pale... * SMACK* Sorry, but Satan says you need more ham! (They really need to let her ham it up more often, cause she's just fucking exquisite in this.)
 * We're non-union! AND WE'RE TAKING OVER THIS MOVIE!!!
 * Cecil says I gotta give you a new look...
 * The concept was even lampshaded:

Ticket Seller: A big ham! What else?"

Antonio Banderas
"Miguel: YOU BLEW IT! I AM STILL ALIVE!!! HAHAHA!!!"
 * How can you classify his work on Four Rooms?
 * "Did they misbehave?"
 * And don't forget the elevator scene.
 * Also his portrayal of Zorro is quite hammy. In particular, he gleefully chews the scenario whenever Alejandro gets drunk in The Legend of Zorro.
 * In Spy Kids 2: "These are my children. And I will find them MY WAY!!"
 * And who can forget Puss-in-Boots in Shrek?!
 * "PUSS! In boots...
 * From movie numero quatro: "Feed me... if you dare!"(yes, he actually says that.)
 * It's almost impossible to beat him as Miguel, the Ax Crazy killer in Assassins. Just look at this! This is one of the biggest Chewing the Scenery scenes in cinema history.


 * He's undeniably the most fun thing about the movie.
 * Probably it's because he's a Badass Spaniard.

Sin City

 * Recognize my VOICE, Hartigan? Recognize my voice, you piece-of-shit cop? I look different, but I bet you can recognize my voice!
 * This is a career-ending wound, WHORE!
 * This is blood for blood and by the GALLON. These are the old days, the bad days, the all-or-nothing days. They're BACK! There's no choice left. And I'm ready for war.

Pirates Of The Caribbean
""Dearrly beloved, we be gathered here today, to nail your gizzards to the mast, you poxy cur!""
 * Captain Hector Barbossa from the Pirates of the Caribbean films. Even the character seems to be deliberately cultivating his exceptional, rum-laced ham, right down to the slightly unhinged Evil Laugh he repeatedly indulges in. And the bit where he goes "Aaar!"
 * Indeed, one of the best parts of the first movie is watching Geoffrey Rush and Johnny Depp try to out-ham one another.

"Elizabeth: Captain Barbossa! We need you at the helm!
 * Also, this:

Barbossa: ...Aye, that be true!"


 * And then there's the scene where the Pearl is sailing around the malestrom and Barbossa is at the helm, laughing his head off and generally having the time of his life.
 * Of course, as mentioned above, Captain Jack Sparrow. It gets even worse when he is Talking to Himself in the third movie.
 * Don't forget Davy Jones, specially with that weird accent. DAMN YOU, TV TROPEEEEESSSS!
 * HARRIDAN! YOU'LL SEE NO MERCY FROM ME!
 * In the second and third movies, Keira Knightley is clearly enjoying herself as Elizabeth ("I just wanted the pleasure of doing that myself!").

Gary Oldman
"Stansfield: Bring me everyone.
 * Gary Oldman certainly showed potential in Sid and Nancy, but he wouldn't come into his own as a real ham until Dracula, where he served up an intense, hissing slice of Romanian pork product. We got a second course in True Romance, with Drexl the dreadlocked pimp ("It ain't white boy day is it?"). But his peak was undeniably The Professional:

Benny: What?

Stansfield: EEEEEVERYYYYONEEE!"


 * Things calmed down for a couple of years, until The Fifth Element, where weapons dealer Zorg somehow became a used car salesman channeling Ross Perot. He then hit another high point in Air Force One, where castmates appear to be genuinely afraid. Whether this was just good acting or fear that he was about to go into cardiac arrest is unknown. He even managed to ham it up in two episodes of Friends, though this appears to have been the end of the ham ... for now.
 * End of the Ham? I THINK NOT, COMRADE! FOR THE MOTHERLAAAAAAAAAAAAND!
 * Siriusly!
 * ALL DAT WAS LEFT IN DA VAULT WAS MARKED BILLS!, THEY KNNNEW WE WERE COMING!
 * EVERYTHING' Gary Oldman's been in, like Bram Stokers Dracula. So far the biggest exceptions are the shockingly subtle acts as Lee Harvey Oswald in JFK and George Smiley in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy.

Other Hams On The Menu
""Change the scheme! Alter the mood! Electrify the boys and girls, if you'd be so kind.""
 * French actor Louis de Funès. Nuff said.
 * Though the intention is only to trigger laughter, rather than looking EPIC and EMPHASISED.
 * Italian comedian Totò.
 * Michael Sheen's portrayal of Castor in Tron Legacy smells like Tim Curry caliber ham.

""Greetings, programs! Oh, what an occasion we have here before us. Because your rumors are true! We do indeed have in our midst... A USER! A user! So, what to do? What does this user deserve? Might I suggest, perhaps... the challenge of the grid?! (crowd cheers) And who best to battle this singular opponent? Perhaps one who has some experience in these matters... oh yes indeed, programs! Your liberator! Your luminary! Your leader and beacon! The one who vanquished the tyranny of the user those many cycles before! CLU!!!!""
 * Castor's not the only ham on The Grid. In addition to his grand entrance to the lightcycle grid, Clu gives a Brian Blessed-style New Era Speech to inform his army that he will make our world open and available to all of them. Yes! TO ALL OF THEM!!!!!
 * Clu's Middle Management Mook Jarvis is quite a Large Ham himself, especially when he's tasked with announcing Clu's entrance into the lightcycle arena:

"Loki: Father...
 * MISSSTER PILGRIM! It is I, Matthew Pattel! Consider our fight... BEGUN!
 * The entire Barrymore family are the original Large Hams. Example: John Barrymore in Twentieth Century: I CLOSE THE IRON DOOR ON YOU!
 * Their prominence is all the more impressive considering it was an age when being a Large Ham was practically a requirement to appear in movies.
 * Except Drew Barrymore, who has a tendency to underplay things.
 * Billy Crystal loves to scream. A lot.
 * Michael C. Hall truly hams it up in Gamer. Just take a look at his dance number!!!
 * Robert De Niro as Max Cady in Cape Fear. His Captain Shakespeare of the movie adaptation of Stardust belongs here as well -- that cancan REEKS of ham (and you can just tell he loves every second of it).
 * If
 * Similarly, the entire cast of Brazil chewed scenery at some point or another.
 * Since Alan Rickman was mentioned in Harry Potter, this page can't be complete without mentioning Hans Gruber and the Sheriff of Nottingham.
 * Gruber's actually something of an anti-Ham; until the end of the movie, he was viewed as much more restrained than the typical action movie bad guy.
 * Robert Preston. The Music Man, Victor/Victoria, The Last Starfighter...
 * In Ang Lee's 2003 Hulk, Nick Nolte chews the set. Literally.
 * Hannibal Lecter as played by Anthony Hopkins (Brian Cox, less so).
 * Hopkins does it again as Odin in Thor. At one point, he tells his son Loki to shut up by literally growling at him.

Odin: HAEEERGH!"

"Loki: Kneel before me. I said... KNEEL! Is not this simpler? Is this not your natural state? It's the unspoken truth of humanity that you crave subjugation. The bright lure of freedom diminishes your life's joy in a mad scramble for power. For identity. You were made to be ruled. In the end, you will always kneel."
 * Although Odin's son Thor (played by Chris Hemsworth) gives Hopkins a run for his money, what with all the intense gazes and grandiloquent declarations.
 * Tom Hiddleston as Loki probably takes the prize pig in a family of hams, though, leaving most of the ham for when he strikes Earth in The Avengers. Seriously, the speech he gave to the crowd in Germany was spectacularly theatrical:

"Dracula: I have charrrrtered a ship to take us to Eengland. Ve vill be leeeaving....tomorrow....eeeee-ven-inng.
 * Dracula, in many of his appearances - most of them aping the original Hampire, the man, the myth, Bela Lugosi.

Dracula: Excellent, Mis-ter...Ren-field...

Dracula: I neeever drink.......wine.

Dracula: (swings a sword at Keanu) Eet iz no laughing ma-TTAH!"

"Dracula: Nooo!!! I HAVE NO HEART! I feeeel no pain! No love! No...sorrow...I...am...HOLLOW...and I vill liive....forever!"
 * And taken to parodistic extremes by Richard Roxburgh's turn as the Count in Van Helsing.


 * It's a bad sign when the Big Bad opens his mouth, and all you can think of is how many Linkin Park albums he owns.

"I am... MEGATRON!!!
 * Then there's Moulin Rouge, where Roxburgh's villainous Duke is the largest ham in a movie stuffed with them (although Jim Broadbent gives him a fair run for the money).
 * The fact the two of them got to sing "Like A Virgin" together absolutely cements their oversized porcine status.
 * Ray Winstone in Beowulf, although that's pretty clearly part of the character. A little more creepily, Crispin Glover as Grendel.
 * And who could forget the most succulent ham of them all, Robert Newton in Treasure Island?
 * James Robertson Justice. A Ham so Large, he was BRIAN BLESSED and John Rhys-Davies combined, in virtually every single role he performed (including the cheese commercials!).
 * But of course! Who doesn't love ham and cheese?
 * Charlton Heston in every movie he was in, especially as Moses.
 * Don't forget Planet of the Apes! "IT'S A MAAAAAAADHOUSE!", "THEY BLEW IT ALL UP! GODDAMN YOU ALL!" etc...
 * SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!
 * He spent a good chunk of Ben Hur in a no-holds-barred Ham to Ham Combat with Sheik Ilderim.
 * "THE LORD OF PORKS WILL DO BATTLE FOR US! BEHOLD HIS MIGHTY HAM!"
 * "YOU have deCIEVED ME!"
 * Do not let the golden ham that is Charlton Heston in The Ten Commandments eclipse the cured Eastern ham that is Yul Brynner in that film.
 * "The city he built ... shall BEAR MY NAME. The woman he loves ... shall BEAR MY CHILD."
 * "Farewell! ... my ONE TIME brother."
 * "Does FEAR rule Egypt ... or do IIIIIIII?" * sweep your cape around*
 * Unfortunately, constant repetition and Memetic Mutation has also invested Brynner's postmortem exhortation for people not to smoke with a degree of ham.
 * ANY movie John Agar is in. And watching him is like getting hit in the face OVER AND OVER by a large ham.
 * Peter Cullen returning as the voice of Optimus Prime in Transformers. BEFORE TIME BEGAN, THERE WAS A LARGE HAM!
 * Though the proper term for what Peter "Optimus" Cullen has isn't ham, its gravitas. See the first episode of The Colbert Report for details on the subject.
 * But David Letterman took all advantage from Cullen's/Optimus' hamminess in a Top Ten List.
 * If anything, Megatron is the ham here:

JOIN them in EXTINCTION!

You STILL fight for the WEAK! THAT is why YOU LOSE!"

""LEEEETTTTT THEEEIRRRR BLOOODDDD RAIIINNNN FRRROOMMM THE SKKKYYYY!"
 * One simply cannot forget Jetfire in Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, especially his line about his father (the first wheel, apparently) transforming into, "NOTHING! But he did so with honour! Dignity!" or his introduction: "Behold... the eternal glory of... Jetfire!
 * And for a non-Serkis Folk example, John Turturro, who already has his own section in this page ("Ooh. Nokia's are real nasty. You've gotta respect the Japanese. They know the way of the samurai." ), particularly in Revenge of the Fallen where he is free from The Men in Black constraints.
 * John Malkovich and Ken Leong in the third movie as well.
 * James Rethrick in Paycheck exclaims "Still think you can change your fate, Mike!? I AM A FUTURE MIKE!!".
 * Rupert Everett is incredibly hammy, and is the perfect example of camp 'luvvie' actors who are classically trained but pretty pretentious and deluded as to their talent.
 * Jeremy Irons in Dungeons and Dragons, possibly a result of being the only actor in the movie who realized how silly the whole thing was - and just going with it.

"You don't like that, do you? GOOOOOOD! I could USE every OOOOUNCE of your RAAAGE! Hathathathathata!""

""Mind the little bones. Hate to see you choke.""
 * He was also pretty hammy in Eragon, probably for the same reason, though he was still the best actor in the movie.

"Who said that? Who dares challenge my evil ways?"
 * And while we're on Eragon, special mention for John Malkovich, the ham's ham. "I suffer without my stone. DO NOT prolong my suffering..." Malkovich really is a ham all over, though (see Burn After Reading)
 * Irons and DeVito both hammed it up on Sesame Street in cameos during the song Put Down The Duckie
 * From Roger Ebert's review of the 2002 version of The Time Machine: "[Guy] Pearce, as the hero, makes the mistake of trying to give a good and realistic performance. Irons at least knows what kind of movie he's in, and hams it up accordingly."
 * Those of us with young children can take some relief in the fact that Man HAMdy Patinkin saw fit to have fun with his role as the villain in Elmo's Adventures in Grouchland.

"Can you SMEEEEEELL what The Rock is COOOOKIIIIING?!"
 * Marlon Brando in some of his films.
 * Marlon Brando started dishing out large servings of ham almost as soon as he started getting lead roles.
 * Stellaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
 * And if he wasn't hammy, it's likely because he simply didn't give a damn (the Superman movies)
 * A role for which he didn't even bother memorizing his lines. He had cue cards taped all over the set so that every time he's on-screen, he is literally just reading lines.
 * Willem Dafoe. The Green Goblin. "THINK ABOUT IT, HERO!" and "Sleeeeeep!" come to mind. The performance can charitably be described as "operatic".
 * "FINISH IT!"
 * "WE'LL MEET AGAIN, SPIDAH-MAAAAAAAAAAN!" And don't forget Doc Ock in the second film. "You have a train to catch."
 * Don't forget J. Jonah Jam HAMeson, played with gusto by J.K. Simmons. I guess that batch of "Christmas meat" was ham...
 * And further proving villains are a fun role, Eddie Brock/Venom. "I like being bad. It makes me happy."
 * Willem Dafoe. Everything Else. "THERE WAS A FIREFIGHT!"
 * Virtually anybody in Speed Racer, but in particular Pops ("Terrible what passes for a ninja these days"), Royalton ("Do you want to become a real race car driver?! Then SIGN that contract!"), and impressively, eight-year-old Spritle.
 * A new age is dawning. An age of HAM, and ALL THE WORLD WILL KNOW that SPARTAN KING LEONIDAS chewed EVERY LAST INCH OF SCENERY TO DEFEND IT!
 * Ephialtes and Xerxes were pretty hammy, too. (A particular scene of the latter's earned a "Ham alert! Ham alert" in 300's Riff Trax)
 * Let's not give Dwayne Johnson, a.k.a. "The Rock" a free pass. From The Rundown to Doom, hammy till the cows come home. Not that that's a bad thing, but it's pretty hilarious in every single case (the best being Be Cool, specially his "acting showoff").

""I'm surrounded by INCOMPETENCE! I'm being undermined by my own disciples!""
 * Yes, and it's a big thick ham steak, wrapped in bacon and stuffed into a suckling pig with a can of Spam in its mouth. Served on a plate of porkchops.
 * The Rock's mother didn't like him using the word "ass" (during his general promo about "turn[ing] that sumbitch sideways and sticking it straight up your candy ass!")... so one time, he changed it to "straight up... your RECTUM."
 * Let's not forget his work in the masterful Southland Tales. "I'm a pimp... and pimps... don't. Commit. Suicide."
 * This troper's personal favourite cut of Ham from the Rock was in The Scorpion King where he proves you can ham up gestures.
 * Oliver Reed in Gladiator. I can't think of any ham-related puns based on his name.
 * YOU SOLD ME...QUEER GIRAFFES.
 * Speaking of Gladiator, Russell Crowe took the ham and cranked it to 11 as Sid 6.7 in Virtuosity.
 * Both the villains of Space Mutiny. One of them is extremely easy to amuse ("Remember Carl's blond joke?") and seems to think that acting is entirely based on scrunching up your forehead ("Come on, skull, pop out of my skin!"). The other is unnaturally intense and always hisses.

""He sitssss up there, in those melancholy hills. Some say he SLUMBERS DEEP, like the KRAKEN! The troopers will never catch him! So... I... wait, Mr. Murphy. I wait.""
 * Jellon Lamb. Or perhaps, Jellon Ham.

""That's not what I wanted! That's not who I was! I was a ballerina! GRACEFUL! DELICATE!""
 * Or his even more delightful line, which is censored not because it's a spoiler, but because of how offensive it is,. ""
 * Faye Dunaway, burying herself in the character and a very Large Ham, as Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest. "NO. MORE. WIRE. HANGERS!!!"
 * Creeeeeeeeeedence Léonore Guilgud from Troll 2, incapable of not extending a word to epic proportions, and playing up the creepy witch Depraved Bisexual angle for everything it's worth. As Rifftrax so memorably put it: "This is community college draaaaaaaaama class!".
 * Dorothy Lamour commenting on making the Road To... pictures with Bing Crosby and Bob Hope: "I felt like a wonderful sandwich, a slice of white bread between two slices of ham."
 * Vincent Price is another classic example. For a particularly thick slice, check out one of his own particular favorites: Professor Ratigan in The Great Mouse Detective.
 * Justified in Theater of Blood, where his character is a murderous actor. A HAMMY murderous actor.
 * His monologue at the beginning of the song Black Widow by Alice Cooper is nothing short of hamtastic. Same goes for his rap in Michael Jackson's Thriller.
 * Another amazing example is The Abominable Dr. Phibes, where Price chews the scenery without even opening his mouth.
 * Price was always the right side of ham though, as his passion for acting and captivating voice and mannerisms helped him stop becoming cheesy.
 * Bear in mind he also played Egghead in the 60's Batman series, delivering a fine meal of ham and eggs.
 * In His Kind Of Woman, Price plays an Errol Flynn-style movie star who, when confronted with real mortal danger from mobsters, gets a huge rush from it, and leaps into the fray shouting out Shakespeare with extra ham - he even wears a thespian cape!
 * Just about everybody with a name from Super Mario Bros gets to ham it up now and again (Toad's guitar playing for one), but Dennis Hopper as King Koopa stands out above all the rest. "Bobomb..."
 * Given that the two leads have said they only got through the film due to large amounts of alcohol, it stands to reason.
 * Joan Cusack in School of Rock, although Jack Black outhams her in that film.
 * But can you name a role where Jack Black isn't being hammy? (only Shallow Hal comes to my mind)
 * He was also remarkably subdued on his guest spot in The X-Files, despite playing himself again.
 * Also subdued in King Kong and The Holiday.
 * Ironically, Black's liberal use of ecstasy while filming King Kong was likely a great contributor to his down-to-earth performance.
 * Also, Joan Cusack as the nanny in The Addams Family second move. ''Don't I deserve love... and jewelry?

"Dr. Terwilliker: We shall play the most beautiful piece ever written. I wrote it.
 * Chris Farley in Tommy Boy.
 * In anything. He hammed 'til the cows, er, pigs came home in every role. Especially in Beverly Hills Ninja.
 * An exceptionally fabulous ham can be found in The 5000 Fingers of Dr. T, another Seuss story; Hams Hans Conried plays the doctor with the relish of a thousand Burger Fools and the camp of a hundred Mardi Gras. The man made pointing downwards epic. And there's this line:

Dr. Terwilliker: I want him disintegrated. ATOM... by ATOM!!!!!""

"Fat Bastard: First theings first! Where's yer shitter?! I got a CRAP on deck that could choke a donkey!!
 * "Inconceivable!"
 * To Wong Foo Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar was the proverbial feast of a thousand hams. Every lead actor was salted, cured, and hickory-smoked. And it was delicious.
 * Jack Palance could go from quiet, breathy ham to loud, bombastic ham in the blink of an eye.
 * Half the cast of Oceans Eleven and its sequels, with special mention going to Elliot Gould as Reuben Tishkoff and Don Cheadle as Basher Tarr.
 * Meet the Fockers has a tag team of Large Hams in the form of Barbra Streisand and Dustin Hoffman, both shamelessly mugging for the cameras and having a blast doing it. Amazingly, they manage to pull off the feat of being Large Kosher Hams.
 * Apparently directorial advice to Forest Whitaker for playing Cpt. Jack Wander in Street Kings was something like "speak very VERY loudly half the time, act like you're hitting on Keanu Reeves for the other half" - with a wikked Baw-stahn accent all the while. Yum yum, good ham.
 * Michael "Basil Exposition" York as the Antichrist in The Omega Code 2: Megiddo probably tops every single example on this page, to the point that the movie should have been called The Omega Ham. His performance single-handedly elevates this movie to So Bad It's Good status. See for yourself.
 * Nathan Lane, in nearly everything, but especially The Birdcage.
 * The whole movie was a hamming competition between Robin Williams and Nathan Lane.
 * In The Birdcage, Williams and Lane were hamming it up so much they had to promise to do at least one 'straight' (term used loosely) take for every scene.
 * Austin Powers has quite a few including the main character and Dr. Evil (both played by Mike Myers). "OH BEHAVE!"
 * Don't forget Fat Bastard and Goldmember (Myers again x2)!

Goldmember: I love ''goooooooooooooooooollldddd!!!"

"FOR I TELL YE THIS! THERE'LL BE NO HAM IN HELL!!!!!!!!!"
 * Listen up you primitive screwheads! Bruce Campbell is a LARGEHAM! He starts off as a Deadpan Snarker, top-of-the-line. You can find this in lines like "Groovy". That's right, then this sweet actor from Royal Oak, Michigan gets 110 bucks worth of ham. He's got a hyperactive jawline, walnut brown eyes and a hair ham trigger. So when shopping for ham, Shop Smart. Shop S-Mart. GOT THAT?
 * Also, the only Sci Fi original movies that are even close to bearable are the ones with Bruce Campbell in them, specifically for this reason.
 * His performance as an elderly Elvis in Bubba Ho-Tep is a slightly subdued version.
 * Sort of lampshaded in Army Of Darkness, where one character asks if everyone in the future is as much of a loudmouthed braggart as he is.
 * Sam Raimi gave him cameos in all three Spider-Man films. The first two (a wrestling announcer and a theater usher) are short and constrained. But as a French maître d' in the third, he chews scenery and easily steals the scene.
 * The delightful Sir Ian McKellen.
 * YOU SHALL NOT PAAAAASSSSS!!
 * The scene in X 2 X Men United where a drugged Magneto talks to Xavier also comes to mind.
 * Followed by some rare wordless hamming in X3, where Magneto lives out the secret fantasy of anyone who's ever been caught in traffic.
 * McKellen giving directions on changing a flat tire.
 * In a movie so stuffed full of pork it practically oinks, his performance in Cold Comfort Farm tasted of roasted suckling pig, slathered with lard, wrapped in bacon, and lightly salted with Hickory flavored Bacon Salt.

""In the place of a Dark Lord you would have a Ham! Not dark but beautiful and hammy as the Morn! Treacherous as the Seas! Stronger than the foundations of the Earth! All shall love me and despair!""
 * The Toad in Flushed Away, pretty much any time he appears on screen. Coupled with wonderful animation for that extra ham.
 * Speaking of Flushed Away, the Toad's main minion, LeFrog (who, being played by Jean Reno, at least has an authentic French accent).
 * Spike, another of his minions, tried to be one on several occasions, but his efforts usually ended up as successful as his attempts to catch the heroes.
 * Almost every character in this movie becomes a Large Ham at some point, if only for a few minutes. Even the slugs.
 * Let's give Christopher Lee some love, shall we?
 * A great EYYYE HAM. LLLLID LESS. Wrrreaaathed in FLLLAAAMMME.
 * Constable Crane!!! This is a song that we have heard from you more than once! A cameo appearance that is memorable.
 * Cliffhanger featured John Lithgow as the Big Bad, a criminal mastermind trying to find 100 million dollars, but finding plenty of ham.
 * John Lithgow? You mean Dr. Emilio Lizardo himself? "CURSE-A YOU BANZAI!"
 * Bloody damn everyone in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension was hamming it up so bad that toss in some cheese and a couple loaves of bread and you could feed Grovers Mills for a month. Just try to tell me that every single person in front of that camera wasn't having the time of their lives by trying to out-ham everyone else.
 * John Lithgow in pretty much anything he's in. But this troper will single him out for 1985's Santa Claus: The Movie. "FOR FREE?!?!"
 * Cate Blanchett in Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The Crystal Skull. Complete with Ukrainian accent.
 * Lao Che and his cronies in Temple of Doom. "To the poison you just drank, Doctor Jones!" "Too much to drink, Doctor Jones?"
 * Back into Blanchett, her performance as Galadriel is subdued... except for this scene (warning: scary).

"Contemplate this... on the tree of woe.
 * Another female example: Hermione Gingold.
 * Sean Connery's mentor role in Highlander - bonus marks for a velvet pimp outfit with peacock cloak - see here
 * The Kurgan (played by Clancy Brown) in the same movie sometimes becomes hammy as well (turning him even more creepy).
 * Not to mention his performance as Sir August de Wynter in The Avengers 1998. Includes his bombastic address to the Council of Ministers, his "Rain or shine, all is MINE!", and his over-the-top insults to Steed.
 * John Travolta (Creator)'s backing of and appearance in Battlefield Earth would be damning enough, but his performance... wow.
 * "While you were still learning how to SPELL YOUR NAME!...I...was being trained...to conquer GALAXIES!"
 * "If you RATBRAINS knew AN-Y-THING about FIREARMS, you'd know you never store LOADED WEAPONS!"
 * The main hero of the film isn't much better. "A demon! A monster! A BEAST! RAAAAAAH!"
 * "I aM TorGo. I tAke caRe oF tHe PlaCe wHilE thE MastEr iS aWay."
 * The actor was actually dubbed by someone else, as the camera they used couldn't record sound. Although, Torgo's constant mugging and twitching suggests that he was perfectly capable of hamming it up in mime. Even his walk is over the top.
 * "MANOS! As thou hast decreed, so have I done. The Hands of Fate have doomed this man! Thy... will...is...done."
 * Ann-Margret in Ken Russell's Tommy. Fine ham abounds. And your ham has to be pretty damned fine to stand out in that freakfest (see Tina Turner as the Acid Queen and Keith Moon as Uncle Ernie just for starters). She even got an Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
 * Ann-Margret is no stranger to ham. A decade before Tommy she stole the show as juvenile delinquent Jody in the silly potboiler Kitten With a Whip.
 * Hugo Weaving as Agent Smith in The Matrix is so hammy he doesn't need a ham-related pun! "Humans...are a virussss...a disease...and we are the cure!"
 * Even more in the sequels ("Missster Anderson! Surprised to see me?" and of course, "Smith will suffice").
 * Not to mention, "This is MY WORLD! MY WORLD!
 * As Elrond in Lord of the Rings: "Evil was allowed to enduuuuuuuuh."
 * They had their money's worth with him as Red Skull: YOU ARE FAILIIIINGGGG!!!
 * Roddy McDowall as Peter Vincent in Fright Night and its sequel. Also Chris Sarandon's character Jerry Dandridge counts too. Oh yeah, and Evil Ed. "You're so cool Brewster!".
 * Mystery Men has quite a few most notably Casanova Frankenstein and Tony P.
 * Both Tonies, actually: "Hey, shovel man! Dig this!"
 * Obadiah Stane.
 * "TONY STARK was able to ham it up in a CAVE! With a box of SCRAPS!"
 * Justin HAMmer in the sequel is basically Tony Stark's annoying, hammy Evil Counterpart.
 * Tony is also clearly enjoying himself too much at times. "I have successfully privatized world peace!"
 * The Wizard played by Mako in Conan the Barbarian is a humming ball of ham in a seaweed outfit, while Thulsa Doom manages to be completely mesmerising, yet hammy as well. "Steel isn't strong, boy...flesssh is stronger."

Mako: "BETWEEEEEN THE TIME WHEN THE OCEANS DRAANK ATLAAANTIS... AAAND the rise of the sons of Aryas... there was an age undreamed-of. AND ONTO THIS, CONAN! Destined to bear the jeweled cwown of Kahlifonia Aquilonia UP...PON A TROUB...BLED...BROW. It is I, his KWONICLER who ALONE can tell thee of his saga. LET ME TELL YOU OF THE DAYS OF HIIIIIIIGH AD-VEN-TUUUUREE!!!!""

""I'll get you my pretty! And your large ham too!"
 * DUN DUN DA-DUN, DA-DUN, DA-DUN, DA-DUN!
 * Speaking of Mako, how can we forget AKU, THE SHAPESHIFTING MASTER OF DARKNESS?!
 * Do you know why he is called the Dragon of the West? Here's a hint: It's not because he's Avatar: The Last Airbender.
 * Margaret HAMilton as the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz.

I'm me-eeelting, I'm me-eeelting!!! What a world, what a world, oh!"

"Gurney (Patrick Stewart) MOOD?! Mood is for cattle and loveplay!"
 * Speaking of witches, The White Witch in The BBC adaptation of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. In every damn scene.
 * "Then how DAAARE you come ALOOONE?!"
 * John Candy sometimes played roles like this. In the 1986 film version of Little Shop of Horrors he had a cameo as an over-the-top radio DJ named Weird Wink Wilkinson. Weirrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrd stuff!
 * Steve Martin as the evil dentist in Little Shop of Horrors.
 * Dan Aykroyd as JP Valkanheiser in Nothing but Trouble. Boola boola boola!.
 * Speaking of which, Grocer in Grosse Pointe Blank just oozes ham. And it is awesome.
 * Peter Sellers knew a thing or two about being this in many of his films. Prime cuts of ham include the title character in Dr. Strangelove and Dr. Fritz Fassbender in What's New Pussycat (arguing with his wife: "Is she prettier than you? I'M prettier than you!"). And Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau was good for five films' worth of this, especially as he drove Herbert Lom's hapless Dreyfus to the (hammy) edge of sanity.
 * Stanley Kubrick, making Lolita, gave Sellers plenty of room to improvise, so his part as Claire Quilty grew much larger than planned, apparently bothering star James Mason in the process.
 * Half the cast members of Enchanted are practically required by the situation (cartoon fairy tale characters thrown into the real world) to do this. James Marsden and Susan Sarandon are especially generous with the ham.
 * George Pickett is played this way in Gettysburg. In his first appearance, he comes riding into Longstreet's camp shouting "HELLO MY BOYS, VIRGINIA HAS ARRIVED!".
 * In Gods and Generals, Jeff Daniels hams it up HUGE with his recitation of Marcus Lucanus's poem about Caesar crossing the Rubicon. Tops it off with "HAIL, CAESAR! WE WHO ARE ABOUT TO DIE, SALUTE YOU!"
 * The Baron Harkonnen of David Lynch's film of Dune is an enormous bucket of ham. His nephews Rabban and Feyd are definitely on their way to full ham-hood, Piter de Vries even proves you can give sign language a pork content, and Gurney Halleck is hammy as ever.

"Thufir Hawat: (Wait, what?) THOSE SOUNDS ...(smack your lips, wiggle your jowls) COULD. BE. IM-IT-TAYT-TED."
 * Seems he and Freddie Jones had a scene-chewing competition going on.

"Jake: Oh, please, don't kill us! Please, please don't kill us! You know I love you baby. I wouldn't leave ya. It wasn't my fault!
 * Ian McNeice chews up immense amounts of scenery as the Baron in the Sci-Fi miniseries. Possibly lampshaded when Paul suggests renaming House Harkonnen to "House Hog". Though it's probably just the Atreides having a laugh at the Harkonnens' expense.
 * To be fair, half the dialogue they had to work with had distinct pork content to begin with.
 * Kyle Reese in every line of Terminator.
 * Speaking of Michael Biehn, he actually plays the soft-spoken badass in Aliens, letting Bill Paxton take charge as the memorably large Ham of that movie ("Game over, man! GAME OVER!").
 * As mentioned in the Batman entry, Christian Bale as John Connor in Terminator Salvation.
 * John Belushi in the criminally under-rated war comedy Nineteen Forty One.
 * Not to mention the entirety of The Blues Brothers. Take the scene where Belushi finally comes face to face with Carrie Fisher (aka the Chick With the Flamethrower) and throws himself on his knees to apologize:

Mystery Woman: You miserable slug! You think you can talk your way out of this? You betrayed me.

Jake: No, I didn't! Honest! I ran out of gas! I, I had a flat tire! I didn't have enough money for cab fare! My tux didn't come back from the cleaners! An old friend came in from out of town! Someone stole my car! THERE WAS AN EARTHQUAKE! A TERRIBLE FLOOD! LOCUSTS! IT WASN'T MY FAULT, I SWEAR TO GOD!"

"TOGA! TOGA!"
 * How could we mention the good Mr. Belushi without talking about his most ludicrously over-the-top role ever: Bluto Blutarsky!

"Mr. Humberfloob: Fired.
 * Listen to the announcer in just about any trailer for a science fiction film from the 1950s. Every single one of them tries to inform the audience, in the hammiest way possible, how terrifying, imaginative, fantastical, mind-revolutionizing, and amazing their film is. The trailer for Them is especially notable for this.
 * The Cat in The Hat:

Jim McFinnigan: I beg your pardon?

Mr. Humberfloob: Fired.

Jim McFinnigan: But I...

Mr. Humberfloob: FIIIIIIRRRRRRREEEEEEDDDDDD-UH!"

"Mr. Humberfloob: [speaking to Joan] If your house is as messy as last time, YOU'RE FIIIIIIRRRRRRREEEEEEDDDDDD-UH!"
 * Soon after:

"Oh, I hate being disappointed, Smee. And I hate living in this flawed body. And I hate living in Neverland. And I hate... I hate... I hate Peter Pan!
 * No specific lines come to this editor's mind at the moment but Dolph Lundgren reeeally hammed it up as a villain in Universal Soldier.
 * Zero Mostel. Estragon in Waiting for Godot. Max Bialystock in The Producers. Abe in The Hot Rock. Pseudolus in 'A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum. John in Rhinocerous''. He wasn't always a ham, but when he was, he was the biggest, best, hammiest ham ever.
 * He was also the voice of Kehaar, a Large Ham seagull.
 * The one human being who can out Ham The Muppets. Don't believe me?
 * In the second clip even his index finger overacts.
 * Subverted in The Front, in which he plays an actor who plays Large Ham, but is generally low key save one drunk scene. His  is quiet, dignified, and depressing.
 * Peter Lorre on some occasions.
 * "But it was the hand! I TELL YOU IT WAS THE HAND!"
 * Peter Ustinov steals the spotlight in every movie he appears in. Special mention goes to his performance of Nero in Quo Vadis, where he makes being the emperor of Rome look so fun that it's just about impossible to hate him even as he makes living torches out of Christians.
 * "Oh! Is this the untimely end of Nero?" Declare it in your most florid voice; it's fun!
 * KILL! KIIIILLLLLLLL THE NEWBORN!!
 * A good chaser to Tim Curry's Pass the Ammo performance is the barely-released Marty Feldman comedy In God We Tru$t (1980), which brought the world Andy Kaufman as a Deep South televangelist. The character's name, Armageddon T. Thunderbird, is just the tip of the ham hock here.
 * Supporting performer Scott Paulin, in the beat-'em-up Knights. The leads are either capable only of Dull Surprise (Kathy Long), or clearly thinking mainly of their pay-cheques (Kris Kristofferson, Lance Henrikson); Paulin appears to have been the only one on the set who realized he was playing a vampire ninja cyborg named after an apostle and decided to just go with it! The resulting exuberant, gleeful bombast that embues 'Simon's' seven screen-minutes almost hauls the movie up into the 'cheesy-fun' bracket.
 * Ciaran Hinds in the 1997 version of Jane Eyre. Just look at this.
 * Mamma Mia consists of Meryl Streep, Pierce Brosnan, Julie Walters, and Christine Baranski switching between hamming it up for all they're worth and giving a heartbreakingly genuine performance. Sometimes they do both at once.
 * Meryl Streep knows how to chew the scenery. Julie and Julia is one half hamming it up as Julia Child, and one-half shameless Food Porn.
 * Jon Voight as Paul Sarone in Anaconda.
 * Christopher Walken playing an outsized version of himself in Balls of Fury.
 * The best part of Steven Spielberg's Hook was undoubtedly Dustin Hoffman as the titular character.

Peter. I swear to you wherever you go, wherever you are, I vow there will always be daggers buried in notes signed James Hook. They will be flung into doors of your children's children's children, do you hear me?

"I. HATE. PETER. PAAAAAAAAN!""

""Why didn't anyone ever tell me my ass HAM was SO BIG!!"
 * Naomi Watts in The Ring. "What do you WANT from MEEE!?" and most infamously, "I'm NOT your FUCKing HAMMY MOMMY!"
 * Mel Brooks in anything. Particularly hammy as President Skroob in Spaceballs:

"This ship is too long! If I walk, da movie'll be over!!""

"If I don’t get out of here, I’ll die! If I don’t get out of here, I hope I die!"
 * Rick Moranis as Dark Helmet.
 * Well, more like Small Ham, since he is 5'4''.
 * Not only as Skroob, but also as Yogurt. "Spaceballs da FLAMETHROWAH!"
 * Madeline Kahn in both Blazing Saddles ("Wilkommen. Bienvenue. Welcome. Come on in!") and Young Frankenstein ("Oh, sweet mystery of life, at last I've found yooouuu!!").
 * In Blazing Saddles, Harvey Korman in his hilariously over the top performance of Hedy Lamarr (that's Hedley!), especially "Where's my froggie? WHERE'S MY FROGGIE?!"
 * "You will only be risking your lives, while I will be risking an almost certain Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor."
 * Kurt Russell has such a habit of hamming it up that you could practically make a drinking game out of it. Probably the most jarring example would be the river shoot out in Tombstone, shouting a Big No as he unloads two barrels of buckshot into Curly Bill while making a face that could only be described as the face that a walrus makes when sucker-punched in the kidneys.
 * Hell, everybody in Tombstone takes big pieces out of the scenery - Val Kilmer as Doc Holliday, Michael Biehn as Johnny Ringo, Sam Elliot as Virgil Earp ...
 * Daredevil was notable for one thing: the deliciously hammy performance of Colin Farrell as Bullseye. It was quite an appropriate way to play scenes in which he killed people with peanuts, pencils, paper clips, and playing cards.
 * What? No Galaxy Quest? Never give up! Never surrender!
 * As well as Star Trek, this movie is essentially a tribute to the glory of hammy actors. Which might possibly be one and the same thing given, you know, Star Trek...
 * William Shatner has no idea what you are talking about.
 * Most of the cast of Rat Race, with special mentions to Rowan Atkinson and John Cleese.
 * Michael Caine in The Swarm plays his Heroic Scientist character as condescending towards everyone and with a tendency to start shouting at the top of his lungs with almost no provocation.
 * The main villain in the otherwise forgettable Warriors of Virtue. While everyone else appeared to be playing their roles arrow-straight, the Big Bad goes so far over the top throughout the movie he could touch God.
 * The Doctor/ from G.I. Joe the Rise of Cobra -- and he spends most of the movie with a mask on, hamming it up with just his Darth Vader-like voice.
 * Don't forget Destro, with that self-pleased smile and that over-the-top Scottish accent.
 * Clive Merrison's headmaster in The History Boys is definitely hamming it up.
 * Also, most of the boys get an element of this at least once in the show, especially when they're acting out scenes from classic films.
 * Bette Davis as Baby Jane Hudson in What Ever Happened to Baby Jane "But you are, Blanche! You are in that chair!"
 * Not forgetting Beyond the Forest.

"PUSH THE BUTTON, MAX!"
 * Jack Lemmon as Professor Fate in The Great Race. His character is a parody of Mad Scientist villains, thus he overacts as much as it's possible.

"Merlin: BeHOOOOOLLLLlllddd! The sword of POWahhhh! ExxxxCALibahhh!
 * Robocop. Peter Weller in the first two, Ronny Cox, Kurtwood Smith, and Miguel Ferrer (among others) in the first one, Tom Noonan (among others) in the second, Rip Torn (among others) in the third...
 * Judge Dredd. Armand Assante as Rico.
 * Doesn't Sylvester Stallone as the title character also qualify?
 * "I. AM. THE LAW!"
 * Certainly. But consider this: "LAAAWWWWW!!!"
 * That is just the tail end of a wonderful 9 second rapid ham-off between Sylvester Stallone and Armand Assante. ""You betrayed the LAW!!" "LAAAAAAWW!!"".
 * Gene Wilder as Frederick Fronkensteen Frankenstein in Young Frankenstein.
 * And as Willy Wonka in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, though he was far from alone in that movie.
 * "YOU LOSE! GOOD DAY, SIR!"
 * For single film Ham content, it's very difficult to get past Gabriel Byrne as Uther and Nicol Williamson as Merlin in John Boorman's Excalibur. Williamson in particular makes a massive meal out of the scenery:

Merlin: CHHHAAAAaaaange! TRANS! FORM! NOWWW!

Merlin: Oh, I have sleeept. For nine moOOns. What I did for eeeewe wasn't easy.

Merlin: Do nothing. Sleep! Rest in the arms of the dragonnnn. DREEEEAAAAMMM.

Merlin: A dream ham. To some. A NIGHTMARE!!! TO OTHERS!!!"

"Uther: Merlin! I am the STRONGEST! I am the ONE!!
 * Gabriel Byrne chews up a pig's worth of Ham even though he's only in the movie's first act:

Uther: They were hasty words Merlin! This is FLESH! and BLOOD! HAM! and CHEESE!"

""I'm not the Vindicator or the Victimizer or the Vaporizer or the Vibrator! I'm... The Violator!""
 * Patrick Stewart also hams it up as Arthur's father-in-law Leondegrance.
 * Why hasn't Orson Welles been mentioned yet? Don't you know who he is? HE'S CHARLES FOSTER KANE!
 * Pick a film with Christopher Lloyd, any film with Christopher Lloyd. He even manages to produce Nightmare Fuel ham in Who Framed Roger Rabbit. "Remember me, Eddie?! When I killed your brother, I talked just! LIKE! THIS!!!"
 * "1.21 GIGAWATTS!"
 * EIGHTY-EIGHT! MIIIIIILES! PER HOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUR!
 * GREAT SCOTT! This is getting hammy.
 * I CAN EVEN OUTHAM SHATNER!!! (Kirk's response: I... have... had... enough of your HAMMING!)
 * A-hem: I WAS FRO-ZEN TODAY!!
 * Hank Azaria as evil pharaoh Kahmunrah in the Night At the Museum sequel.
 * Heck, Hank Azaria VA'ing a cute little bat in Anastasia.
 * Does Raul Julia's performance as M. Bison in Street Fighter deserve a mention here? OF COURSE!! GAAAAAAAAAME....OOOOOOOOOVERRRRRRRRRR!!!
 * "Something wrong, Colonel? You come here prepared to fight a MADMAN, and instead you found... A GOD?"
 * Raul Julia was also pretty hammy in The Addams Family movies. "MAAAAMUSSSSSHKAAAAA!" "CARA MIA!"
 * And in The Gumball Rally. "[shouting] Now you are marked... for life!"
 * Both Doctor Logan: "I want you to sit there in the dark and think about what you've done. Think about it. Think." and Captain Rhodes: " I'M RUNNING THIS MONKEY FARM NOW, FRANKENSTEIN, AND I WANNA KNOW WHAT THE FUCK YOU'RE DOING WITH MY TIME!!! " in Day of the Dead.
 * Ben Foster as the drifter in Thirty Days of Night.
 * And as Jake Mazursky in Alpha Dog: "No matter where you go, No matter what you do, I'm gonna hunt you down. I'm gonna hunt you down and then I'm gonna slit your throat and then I'm gonna cut you open and then I'M GONNA EAT YOUR MOTHER FUCKING HEART! YOU BETTER YOU PRAY, JOHNNY YOU BETTER FUCKING PRAY THAT THE COPS FIND YOU, BEFORE I DO! GET ON YOUR COCKSUCKING KNEES AND PRAY!"
 * French actor Gérard Depardieu in about every single role he had.
 * Pontius Pilate in the 2000 filmed version of Jesus Christ Superstar. I especially love it when he yells "HE'S HEROD'S CAAAAAAAAAAAAAASE!"
 * Jon Lovitz as the Radio in The Brave Little Toaster. Practically everything he says from the first lines spoken in the movie identifies him as a "Large Ham Radio".
 * Ed Harris resuscitating his dead wife in The Abyss "NOOOOOOOO!! She has a STRONG HEART, She wants to LIVE!!"
 * Beware the wrath...of CROKER!!!
 * Karl Malden hamming it up big time to fill the CINERAMA screen in How the West Was Won.
 * Tod Slaughter, the screen's original Sweeney Todd. How he should love to polish you orff! Heheheh...HEHEHEHEHEHEHHEHEHHHHHHHHHHH!
 * Half the cast of Troy are hamming it up but Brian Cox easily bests them all as a bloodthirsty, utterly batshit insane Agamemnon.
 * Brad Pitt as Achilles isn't a slouch either: "Immortality? Take it! IT'S YOURS!"
 * David Hurst wildly overacts as the headwaiter in Hello Dolly.
 * Tom Cruise in Minority Report: "Don't you EVER SAY HIS NAME!"
 * Don't forget him in Tropic Thunder.
 * "Okay, Flaming Dragon. Why don't you take a big step back, and literally FUCK YOUR OWN FACE!!!"
 * Bernard Hill as Theoden in the The Lord of the Rings films. He even says ham.
 * Victor McLaglen in most of his appearances for John Ford.
 * Kathy Bates as The Waterboy's overbearing mother: "FOOSBALL?!"
 * Brad Pitt as Lt. Aldo Raine in Inglourious Basterds: "We're gonna be doin' ONE THANG and ONE THANG ONLY: Killing Natzies."
 * Also as an Unintelligible Pikey in Snatch, where it's easy to see how much he's enjoying it.
 * Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland has Johnny Depp as the Mad Hatter and Helena Bonham Carter as the Red Queen.
 * Bill Nighy people. Especially when he's Viktor in the Underworld films and Davy Jones in Pirates of the Caribbean films. And as Rattlesnake Jenkins in Rango.
 * He's a villainous sorcerer who got no less than three songs, one of which was a Villain Love Song. He had an Unlimited Wardrobe replete with swirling capes and infamous tights. On top of that, he was frightening, he reordered time, he turned the world upside down, and he did it all for you! Jareth (David Bowie) is exhausted from living up to your expectations of hamminess. Isn't that generous?
 * Spawn has John Leguizamo as the Clown, better known as...

"Kneel Before Zod! KNEEL TO YOUR GOD!"
 * Sandra Bullock in The Blind Side, especially in her Mama Bear moments. Surprisingly enough, she won an Oscar for it.
 * Ralph Fiennes as Hades in the remake of Clash of the Titans. Apparently he watched Battlefield Earth a lot while preparing for the role.
 * Liam Neeson sometimes dives into it as well. "RELEASE THE KRAKEN!"
 * Paul McGann's cameo in The Three Musketeers 1993 is brief, but more than makes up for it in hamminess ( "D'ARTAGNAAAAN" )
 * Jay Robinson

""OH THAT'S RIGHT! They all forgot! That's why I needed Jason to kill for me to get them to remember! But now, he JUST WON'T STOP! That. Hockey. Punk!""
 * The Court Jester. Half the budget was apparently spent repairing the scenery Danny Kaye ate. Get it?
 * Got it.
 * Good.
 * The Duke of Buckingham in Paul WS Anderson's re-imagining of The Three Musketeers 2011 is a scenery-chewing, tantrum-chucking hunk of smoke-cured goodness. And he's played by Orlando Bloom, believe it or not. And it's glorious.
 * It's not all that often you see Tim Roth embracing the ham. Fortunately, he does so to great effect in Hoodlum.
 * And don't forget Planet of the Apes, where the hammy performance transcends the heavy make-up (and makes General Thade even more chilling).
 * Jared Leto along with a head of cornrows in Panic Room.
 * Robert Englund as Freddy Krueger is practically ham personified...especially in Freddy vs. Jason

""Are yew flirtin' with me?"
 * Maximilian Schell as the Mad Scientist in The Black Hole.
 * Juliette Lewis really goes for it as Mallory Knox in Natural Born Killers.

"How sexy hammy am I now, you fuck?!?""

""FUCK, THOSE ANIMALS STINK!"
 * Watching Bruce Payne it is difficult to tell if he takes his roles too seriously or doesn't take them seriously enough but it amounts to the same. Just watch how he says the phrase "headless chickens" in Highlander Endgame.
 * Steven Seagal is a crowning example of Dull Surprise, even though sometimes he speaks very passionately ("I'll take you to the bank, senator Trent,*dramatic pause*, the blood bank!"). His lack of expression is usually countered by hammy villains (who probably knew what film they were dealing with): in Under Siege, Gary Busey and Tommy Lee Jones; in On Deadly Ground, John C. "Dr. Cox" McGinley (who F-yous an old guy several times before killing him) and Michael Caine:

"Then we should COUNT on that, Mr. McGruder! Forrest Taft is the patron saint of the impossible. And if you had only done your job like you're supposed to, it wouldn't have COME TO THIS!"

" You're a bunch of GUTLESS PRICKS! ALL OF YOU!""

"Wallace Wells: "FFFIIIIIIIIGGGHHHTTT!!!!!"
 * Scott Pilgrim vs. the World. SO MUCH.

Lucas Lee: "Now you listen close, and you listen hard, bucko. The next click you hear is me hanging up. The one after that... IS ME PULLING THE TRIGGER!!"

Roxy Richter: "Give it a rest, Ramona! This is a LEAGUE game... meaning your precious Scott must DEFEAT ME WITH HIS OWN FISTS!!!"

Matthew Patel: "MISTER PILGRIM!!!!"

Todd Ingram: "Because you'll be pulverized in two seconds, and the cleaning lady? She cleans up... dust. SHE DUSTS."

Gideon Graves: "You made me swallow my gum... it's gonna be in my digestive tract for SEVEN YEARS!!!""

"Syndrome: [with Mr. Incredible in his tractor beam] I am Syndrome! [wild hand gestures] I am your nemesis! I-- [Syndrome's hand gestures accidentally turn off the tractor beam and Mr. Incredible goes flying.] Oh, brilliant."
 * Joe Clark as portrayed by Morgan Freeman in Lean On Me.
 * Edward James Olmos as Selena's father in Selena, don't start him on how Hispanic-Americans get treated he won't stop. And also there's the scene where Selena starts dancing in a skimpy clothing and Olmos' character nearly has a meltdown, and of course yelling "YOU'RE FIRED" at Selena's boyfriend/band member either when he trashes a hotel room or he makes it clear he has a thing for his daughter. There are times where he's calm and subtle and there's other scenes where Olmos completely loses it and goes completely over the top. Though Stand and Deliver was pretty hammy in the performance department too, though a little more subtle than Selena.
 * Morgan Freeman as a pimp named Fast Black in Street Smart, not only is it against type casting even for its time, Freeman gives a pretty frightening over the top performance. The most frightening the bathroom beatdown on Christopher Reeve, that probably made him piss his pants.
 * Joe Spinell in Maniac and to a greater degree The Last Horror Film complete with whining, crying and general disturbing behavior which is natural considering one was a serial killer and another was a crazed stalker fan.
 * Most of the characters, hell even the atmosphere in John Woo's HK movies (Sometimes in his American movies but to a lesser extent), to a glorious level. Chow Yun Fat is the winner of hamminess in Woo's movies though,with the most hammy being the rice scene in A Better Tomorrow 2 where Fat nearly force feeds an American Gangster rice at gun point. Hard Boiled is built of ham, which just makes it more awesome. The villains in nearly all of Woo's films, even his American films with the exception of Windtalkers, are great giant hams (best example being Face Off where Nicolas Cage becomes John Travolta (Creator) and vice versa, and the results are copious amounts of Ham to Ham Combat).
 *  THAT WAS AN ORDER! STEINER'S ATTACK WAS AN ORDER! WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE, TO DISOBEY AN ORDER THAT I GIVE! THE GENERALS HAVE BEEN LYING TO ME, EVERYONE HAS BEEN LYING TO ME, EVEN THE SS! 
 * In fairness, this is a pretty accurate portrayal.
 * Syndrome from The Incredibles flip-flops between Dangerously Genre Savvy understated and hammier than a Honeybaked warehouse, especially when he's enjoying himself. In fact, he gets so hammy that he actually loses Mr. Incredible.

"The merger has begun! Earth is under attack! And IT! IS! GLORIOUS!"
 * Oogie Boogie in The Nightmare Before Christmas.
 * Jack Skellington can be pretty hammy too. Seriously: "I AM THE PUMPKIN KING!!!"
 * Ludmilla from Bartok the Magnificent.
 * Igor has quite a few, including the mad scientists.
 * Lampshaded in Shrek the Third. When Arty starts guilt tripping Merlin to help Shrek, Donkey, and Puss back to Far Far Away, little Arty starts hamming it up to a fairly respectable degree. After his little guilt-trip is over, Shrek, obviously impressed, asks "Would you like some eggs with that ham?" Granted, little Arty has nothing on Shatner, but still...
 * BOB in Monsters vs. Aliens. Also Stephen Colbert as the president, and to a lesser extent, Kiefer Sutherland as a General Ripper.
 * Brian Thompson in Mortal Kombat Annihilation:


 * Piper Laurie as Margaret White, the fanatically religious mother of the title character, in the 1976 version of Carrie. Her performance was so over-the-top that she thought that the film was meant to be a comedy... before she saw the finished product, of course. She wound up getting an Oscar nomination for it.