General Zaroff

General Zaroff, also simply known as Zaroff, is the main antagonist in the 1924 short story The Most Dangerous Game by the late Richard Connell, and the 1932 live-action film adaptation of the same name. He is a former Russian Cossack who has grown tired of hunting animals and now experiments on hunting humans for his own satisfaction.

In the 1932 film adaptation, he was portrayed by the late Leslie Banks.

Personality
Zaroff is an insane, heartless, and psychopathic man with a thirst to hunt human beings. Despite his sociopathic and dishonorable state, he acts like a kind and chivalrous gentleman and is extremely friendly and hospitable to Sanger Rainsford when he is washed up on the shore. He considers "human hunting" to merely be a game for his own amusement, and he sets up the island as an arena for the unlucky soul who crosses his path.