The movies Kingsley played in and the nationalities:
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DabacTSP — 13 years ago(September 01, 2012 05:36 PM)
The movies Kingsley played in and the nationalities:
- House of sand and fog - Iranian (Persian)
- Gandhi - Indian
- Hugo - French
- Sexy beast - Englishman
- Dictator - Arab
- Schindler's list - Jewish
- he must have been playing American also
Isn't that remarkable?
This is just from my memory; I'm sure if I dig deeper I would find more.
Is there any other actor that played so many different nationalities and people from different cultures?
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oscarinca — 13 years ago(October 29, 2012 12:53 PM)
Nah! You must be too young to remember Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner and Kirk Douglas or Antony Quinn.
Heston was Italian Michelangelo, French Cardinal Richeliu, British general Gordon in Khartoum, being Jew and Roman citizen in Ben Hur, Jew raised as an Egyptian as Moses, Mark Anthony himself, played American presidents and soldiers, a Latino with a dark moustache in Orson Welles's B movie Touch of Evil, played an American native Indian; Douglas played Greek, a foreing slave under Roman rulership, a Viking, a militar Jew, a Dutch painter Van Gogh, an Italian mobster in The Brotherhood to name a few. Quinn was Greek big shot Onassis, Mexican desperado, an Arabian relative of prophet Muhammed, Italians, a French artist Gauguin (son of a French man and Peruvian mother who was a writer), etc, etc.
Your knowledge of cinema is 0.
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MrBlondNYC — 12 years ago(June 18, 2013 09:49 PM)
"Your knowledge of cinema is 0."
0 is also how many seconds Charlton Heston was believable as a Mexican in Touch of Evil. A dark moustache and brownface does not make for a believable performance. He played a Mexican but only in the most literal sense. He played a Mexican but didn't
play
a Mexican. A classic movie regardless due to the genius of Orson Welles.
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DabacTSP — 10 years ago(October 21, 2015 12:37 PM)
I admit, C.Heston and A.Quinn were also of various nationalities, but I didn't know that about Christopher Lee.
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cvsandstuff — 10 years ago(December 04, 2015 03:05 PM)
Benicio Del Toro is right up there too.
Latino - Che + many
Black - Fenster in Usual Suspects
European - Snatch
Alien - GOTG
And Gary Oldman
He played a black guy in True Romance
American - many inc. Batman, Cop in Leon
Brit - Sid And Nancy
Romanian - Dracula
Russian - Air Force One
German - Beethoven
and both were convincing in all guises.
The best cross ethnic switch IMO was Jeffrey Wright as Peoples in Shaft. Totally convincing.