Angel Eyes

Angel Eyes, also known as "The Bad" and "Sentenza", is the villain in Segio Leone's legendary 1966 western, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. He is played by Lee Van Cleef.

Angel Eyes is a ruthless killer, who has been hired to get some clues on the whereabouts of a man called Jackson, finding out he goes now under the name of Bill Carson and is gone missing. When he learns that a fortune in cash is in the middle of this thing, he kills the informer and his own employer and goes on a search by himself. After learning that Carson is with the Confederacy, he gets a job as a sergeant from a Union prison camp in case the man is captured. When Blondie (The Good) and Tuco (The Ugly) fall in this camp, he eventually deducts that Carson is dead and that Tuco was one of the last people to see him alive. He has one of his henchmen to brutally beat Tuco in order to find out about the money, and is told the name of the cemetery where it has been buried. Angel Eyes then recruits Blondie as a member of his gang, since he knows the specific grave where the treasure is, and offers him a 50/50 deal. Meanwhile, Tuco is being escorted on a train by the man that beat him to a far town where he is to be hanged, but manages to escape and kill his guard. Blondie eventually acquits from Angel Eyes' custody and reunits with Tuco, reaching the cemetery after spending a day and a night at a Union Fort. As they are looking for the grave, Angel Eyes suddenly shows up for the final duel.

Ironically, of the three main characters, Angel Eyes is the one who kills less people throughout the film: Stevens and his son and then Baker; yet he is clearly the most vicious of them, as he takes certain joy in killing and jokes during the torture of Tuco.