Warden Ranken (Runaway Train)

Warden Ranken is the main antagonist of the 1985 film Runaway Train.

Biography
Ranken is the warden of Stonehaven Maximum Security Prison in Alaska, and the archenemy of convict Oscar Manheim.

After Manny breaks out with Buck McGeehy, Ranken starts a manhunt for the two escapees. They eventually find their clothes at the train yard and Ranken concludes that Manny and Buck are on the runaway locomotives.

Ranken forces Frank Bartow to tell him where the runaway is and he finds it by helicopter.

Eventually, he boards the lead engine but is captured and handcuffed by Manny, who uncouples the remaining units from the lead engine sending both him and Ranken to their deaths.