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.