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Old 10-10-2008, 08:06 AM
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James Mason kind of started the tradition with his acclaimed portrayal of Rommel in The Desert Fox.

There just aren't that many famous english speaking German actors who have crossed over into international films. Oskar Werner, Maximillian Schell, Carl Schell, Klaus Maria Brandauer and Peter Lorre were all Austrian. Klaus Kinski was the most notable German I can think of, and was a monumental pain in the ass on most film sets. Karl Michael Vogler and Anton Diffring were Germans.
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Back "in the day" they had trouble casting orientals as well.

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i was talking about british playing germans, not germans playing germans :)
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i was talking about british playing germans, not germans playing germans :)
gotcha....I was kinda responding to festered's statement

"There just aren't that many famous english speaking German actors who have crossed over into international films. Oskar Werner, Maximillian Schell, Carl Schell, Klaus Maria Brandauer and Peter Lorre were all Austrian. Klaus Kinski was the most notable German I can think of, and was a monumental pain in the ass on most film sets. Karl Michael Vogler and Anton Diffring were Germans."
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Back "in the day" they had trouble casting orientals as well.

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and mickey rooney plaing Mr. Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffanys
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Robert Downey Jr. does a great job [ as usual...I'm glad he straightened out his act ] in Tropic Thunder as an Australian playing a black guy......funniest bit in the movie.

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Don't forget Mr. Moto!
wow....you're right.....he gets NO respect on here.

I'm actually surprised I didn't think of him first.
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I love the non-Asians playing Asians. I just watched Nightingale, a story in which Mick Jagger played the emperor of Cathay.
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I love the non-Asians playing Asians. .
you must have loved Kung-Fu then :)
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