Mitch Leary

Mitch Leary was a cold, psychotic CIA assassin and the main antagonist of the 1993 thriller film In the Line of Fire.

He was portrayed by John Malkovich, who also portrayed numerous other villains, including Cyrus Grissom from Con Air.

Character Biography
Mitch Leary was once a successful, highly skilled CIA assassin that was fired for being too dangerous. Under immense amounts of pressure, Leary was unable to adjust to civillian life on the outside, and snapped, suffering a psychotic break. Leary began growing delerious, insisting that the government needed to be "taught a lesson", and he began to harbor an obsession with killing the President of the United States.