7. Warren Beatty as Clyde Barrow – Bonnie and Clyde
Clyde Barrow is probably one of the most infamous and murderous gangsters of all time. So who better to play him in Bonnie and Clyde than award-wining actor, Warren Beatty. Clyde was born into a poor family in Ellis County, Texas. During his childhood, he slept with his family underneath a wagon until they eventually saved enough money to buy a tent. He turned to crime quite early on in life and would often steal cars and rob stores. After many arrests, he was eventually sent to Eastham Prison farm in 1930. During this stretch in prison, he killed another inmate by crushing his skull with a lead pipe. Clyde told the prison guards he had been repeatedly sexually assaulted by the inmate.
In 1932, he left prison and turned to crime again but this time he was even more bitter after his treatment behind bars. In the book, Running With Bonnie and Clyde by John Neal Philips, it was said that his sister, Maria, claimed, “Something awful sure must have happened to him in prison, because he wasn’t the same person when he got out.” He robbed grocery stores and gas stations with a M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle. In 1930, he met Bonnie Parker after visiting a friend and the two were completely smitten with each other. SEE ALSO: 20 Celebrities who had real sex on camera (With Pictures)
Bonnie and Clyde was released in 1967 starring Beatty and Faye Dunaway as Bonnie. The pair begin to grow their gang of gun-toting, chain-smoking robbers on the run and eventually their exploits turn even more violent. On screen, Beatty knows exactly what he is doing and how to portray Clyde in the film. He’s compassionate when it comes to his girl but the rest of the world, he just wants to watch burn. Every murder he commits is just another two fingers up towards the prison system he hates so much. Bonnie and Clyde finally met their fate in 1934, they were ambushed by four Texas officers on a rural road and shot to death in the front of their car.
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