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Post by Aj_June on Sept 22, 2018 6:45:12 GMT
Alec Guinness played Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia. That said both Brits and Arabs are classified as Caucasians. So I am not sure if he played any other race.
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 22, 2018 7:00:55 GMT
Katy Jurado played native American in Broken Lance (1954). She was actually a Mexican. I believe Mexicans are of diverse backgrounds and may be classified under both Caucasians and mongoloids. My personal opinion in that she was a Caucasian. Native Americans I believe are more usually classified as Mongoloids.
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Post by manfromplanetx on Sept 22, 2018 7:11:33 GMT
Serbian actor Gojko Mitić was well known for a series of adventurous Red Westerns making 12 films of this type between 1966 and 1984. The films feature Native Americans as the heroes and are said to have contributed to a significant interest in Native American Culture in the German-speaking countries where the films were very popular. The first film is an excellent exciting adventure with a twist, Die Söhne der großen Bärin, The Sons of the Great She-Bear (1966) Gojko Mitić plays a Native American an Oglala Lakota man , heroic war chieftain Tokei-ihto. The film is... an East German Western film, directed by the Czechoslovak filmmaker Josef Mach, and stars the Yugoslavian actor Gojko Mitić in the leading role as an American Indian !
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Post by timshelboy on Sept 22, 2018 7:31:05 GMT
Alec Guinness played Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia. That said both Brits and Arabs are classified as Caucasians. So I am not sure if he played any other race. He played Indian in PASSAGE TO INDIA and Japanese in A MAJORITY OF ONE Another good one - Jeff Chandler in BROKEN ARROW
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 22, 2018 7:50:42 GMT
Alec Guinness played Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia. That said both Brits and Arabs are classified as Caucasians. So I am not sure if he played any other race. He played Indian in PASSAGE TO INDIA and Japanese in A MAJORITY OF ONE Another good one - Jeff Chandler in BROKEN ARROW
He looks very Indian in this one. That said Indians are also classified as Caucasians.
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Post by Aj_June on Sept 22, 2018 13:53:35 GMT
Alec Guinness played Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia. That said both Brits and Arabs are classified as Caucasians. So I am not sure if he played any other race.
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Post by teleadm on Sept 22, 2018 14:33:14 GMT
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Post by teleadm on Sept 22, 2018 14:54:31 GMT
There is always Yul Brynner too, born in Russia, even if that was unknown until after his death.
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Post by Lebowskidoo 🦞 on Sept 22, 2018 19:04:57 GMT
Was it because studios had stars under contract and felt they had to cast them and not actual minority actors, which they were less likely to have on contract? Seems unlikely, let's face it, folks had their hang ups big-time back in the day.
And someone pointed out that to be able to pull off playing a different ethnic group than your own back then was an indication of acting chops. Compare that to now, doing so could end your career almost. Look at the flack Emma Stone got for playing a Hawaiian native in Aloha (2015).
Burt Reynolds played so many native roles early on in his career on TV westerns and in movies like 100 Rifles (1969), Sam Whiskey (1969) and Navajo Joe (1966), but at least he had Cherokee ancestry, or so he claimed.
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Post by Primemovermithrax Pejorative on Sept 22, 2018 19:38:13 GMT
Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu in various films. Quite effective too.
James Mason in Genghis Khan --that was quite a performance.
Stephen Boyd was much less convincing as a mongol.
I am not sure if Anita Ekberg was supposed to be a mongol in The Mongols 1961.
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 22, 2018 19:55:07 GMT
James Whitmore in Black Like Me Robert Downie, Jr in Tropic Thunder
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Post by ellynmacg on Sept 22, 2018 19:55:51 GMT
I'm surprised no one has mentioned Luise Rainer in The Good Earth: After all, she did win a Best Actress Oscar for the role of O-Lan (one of two she scored back to back--which pretty much killed her subsequent career ).
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Post by them1ghtyhumph on Sept 22, 2018 19:55:52 GMT
Bela Lugosi as Mr. Wong Boris Karloff as Fu Manchu Peter Lorre as Mr. Moto Henry Silva as Mr. Moto Ricardo Montalban as Nakamura in Sayonara
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Post by teleadm on Sept 22, 2018 22:27:58 GMT
Paul Muni and Luise Rainer in The Good EarthKatherine Hepburn and Turhan Bey in Dragon Seed. Nils Asther in The Bitter Tea of General Yen (the girl is the great Barbara Stanwyck)
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Post by kijii on Sept 22, 2018 22:32:32 GMT
Laurence Olivier did win me over (after some time) as The Mahdi in Khartoum (1966) Yet, I never liked his 1965 version of Othello. This is not just black face, it is black body. I can never watch this movie without thinking that some of the black stuff got onto Maggie Smith, from time to time, during the filming.
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Post by kijii on Sept 22, 2018 22:35:33 GMT
Paul Muni and Luise Rainer in The Good EarthKatherine Hepburn and Turhan Bey in Dragon Seed. Nils Asther in The Bitter Tea of General Yen (the girl is the great Barbara Stanwyck) Wow, teleadm, this is strange. I was thinking of The Dragon Seed at about the same moment you posted this.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 22, 2018 22:36:50 GMT
Richard BarthelmesS in Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (original title) He was billed as "The Yellow Man"
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Post by Deleted on Sept 22, 2018 22:55:28 GMT
Richard BarthelmesS in Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl (original title) He was billed as "The Yellow Man" Absolutely amazing how "white" early Hollywood was. I do believe Barthelmess was a solid actor in his time.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 22, 2018 23:01:38 GMT
Watermelon Man -1970"An extremely bigoted white man finds out the hard way what it's like being a black man, firsthand! " Godfrey Cambridge "before"
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Post by teleadm on Sept 22, 2018 23:12:26 GMT
A sort of reversed situation, sadly forgotten comedian Godfrey Cambridge went caucasian/white in Watermelon Man.
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