Sorry Stellan Skarsgård, Ian McNeice, remains the best Baron Harkonnen!
There is a wrongheaded impulse to portray Vladimir Harkonnen as gross and disgusting. Ian McNeice plays him as calculating, and smart who is able to turn a phrase in an intelligent manner - This tracks better with the book. Where yes he is imposing. Listen to the audiobook of DUNE and you'll know right off why Ian's version of the Baron is better.
The Baron Harkonnen was even better, when he appeared as a genetic ghost in Syfy's Children of DUNE driving his granddaughter, Alia to the end of madness.
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