Born in 1904 in what is now Slovakia, Lorre, who was Jewish, had a promising early career in Germany working with Bertolt Brecht and Fritz Lang, but fled Nazi Germany for London and eventually Hollywood, where he was unable to escape typecasting as a sinister, usually foreign, villain.
That unbelievable foreign villains have made movies ridiculous, but not history or the news.
He felt that the island was helping foreign villains hide stolen wealth, and wanted no part of it.
And, there are foreign villains to consider too: the French National Front leader, Marine Le Pen, and the Republican property developer, Donald Trump, being only the most conspicuous.
On issues of national security, she would be running as Iron Hillary — a combative and inexhaustible global stateswoman, who is perfectly capable of standing up to Vlad the Bad and other foreign villains.
As we read about climate change and environmental degradation, there were no foreign villains to blame for the destruction of our planet.
Black observed the same point: "Fleming did not use class enemies for his villains instead relying on physical distortion or ethnic identity ... Furthermore, in Britain foreign villains used foreign servants and employees .
Among the foreign villains he sketched were one man with a 4-gram-a-day cocaine habit — "that's four frat parties on a Saturday night in the '80s" — and another who sought drug smuggling advice from his mom.
But Trump's order suggests the real problem is a much smaller group of villains: foreign Muslims.
In a series of tightly-controlled stanzas he upended the vials of his disgust over Lord Chancellor Eldon and over his most-detested villain, the foreign secretary Castlereagh who had, with Metternich and others, riveted a reactionary peace on post-Napoleonic Europe.
The story of the operation resembles something turned out by the Tom Clancy machine: a surgical, clandestine strike deep within a foreign country; a hated villain with, in his final moment, a woman serving as a human shield; the unit's exit by helicopter, with corpse in hand; a slightly mysterious burial at sea.
