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Post by vegalyra on Sept 24, 2018 16:27:14 GMT
Richard Burton - Rains of Ranchipur  Fisher Stevens - Short Circuit  |
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Post by MiketheMechanic on Sept 24, 2018 17:04:23 GMT
 Evelyn Brent as a Chinese mob boss(!) in 1939's Daughter of The Tong. |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 24, 2018 17:07:57 GMT
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Post by RiP, IMDb on Sept 24, 2018 22:31:12 GMT
Anthony Quinn played nearly every race.
and then became a Greek, though he was Mexican.
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Post by fangirl1975 on Sept 28, 2018 19:26:29 GMT
Shirley MacLaine played an Indian(as in native of India) princess in Around The World In 80 Days.
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Post by sostie on Sept 28, 2018 19:36:14 GMT
PETER SELLERS The Party  The Millionairess  The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu  Murder By Death  Plus he played another Indian in Road To Hong Kong |
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 28, 2018 19:45:25 GMT
Classic comedy from Saturday Night Live (1984). Eddie Murphy dons makeup to learn how white people really act.
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Post by sostie on Sept 28, 2018 19:46:35 GMT
CARRY ON UP THE KHYBER - Kenneth Williams & Bernard Bresslaw  |
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Post by politicidal on Sept 28, 2018 19:54:53 GMT
The Egyptian born Omar Sharif playing a Russian in Doctor Zhivago; a Mongol in Genghis Khan; and then I think a Mexican(?) in Mackenna’s Gold.
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Post by sostie on Sept 28, 2018 20:09:15 GMT
Sean Connery plays a Spaniard, who is actually Egyptian in the Highlander films
(and to add to the nationality (though not race) mix...a Frenchman playing a Scot and an American playing a Russian!!)
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Post by manfromplanetx on Sept 28, 2018 22:01:28 GMT
Two film adaptations of novelist Eric Ambler have a Turkish character Colonel Haki, chief of the Istanbul Secret Police. Orson Welles played the colonel in Journey Into Fear (1943)  Polish born American character actor Kurt Katch plays the colonel in the excellent thriller The Mask of Dimitrios (1944) seen below with Cornelius Leyden (Peter Lorre)  |
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Post by manfromplanetx on Sept 28, 2018 22:24:42 GMT
China Gate (1957) In one of her first starring film roles Angie Dickinson plays a "half caste" Chinese Eurasian named "Lucky Legs" , she runs a popular bar/opium den, and a profitable smuggling operation, she has a 5 year old half caste child herself fathered by an American serviceman. With much to say on race relations, the drama has the Eurasian character playing a love interest opposite a white American star which was a rarity in Hollywood at the time. In another first Samuel Fuller's excellent exciting action/adventure is set during the end of the First Indochina War in Vietnam, the film opens with a narration that gives some historical perspective and details some of France’s colonial efforts to maintain control the region.  
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 29, 2018 0:33:36 GMT
China Gate (1957) In one of her first starring film roles Angie Dickinson plays a "half caste" Chinese Eurasian named "Lucky Legs" , she runs a popular bar/opium den, and a profitable smuggling operation, she has a 5 year old half caste child herself fathered by an American serviceman. With much to say on race relations, the drama has the Eurasian character playing a love interest opposite a white American star which was a rarity in Hollywood at the time. In another first Samuel Fuller's excellent exciting action/adventure is set during the end of the First Indochina War in Vietnam, the film opens with a narration that gives some historical perspective and details some of France’s colonial efforts to maintain control the region. It is fun that the fact that Dickinson doesn’t look a bit Asian is cleverly dealt with inside the movie by having a soldier say this very thing to her. Dickinson snaps, “We don’t all wear who we are on our faces!” |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 29, 2018 19:42:06 GMT
Iron Eyes Cody (link)Iron Eyes Cody was born Espera or "Oscar" DeCorti, the son of two first-generation immigrants from Italy. In 1924 he moved to California, changed his name from "DeCorti" to "Corti" to Cody, and started working as an actor, presenting himself as a Native American. He married an Indian woman, Bertha Parker, and together they adopted two Indian sons, Robert and Arthur. Iron Eyes Cody lived and worked as an Indian for all his adult life; he labored for decades to promote Native American causes.  His Classic Anti-Pollution Ad 160 Movie Credits 50+ TV Credits
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Post by manfromplanetx on Sept 29, 2018 22:02:44 GMT
It is fun that the fact that Dickinson doesn’t look a bit Asian is cleverly dealt with inside the movie by having a soldier say this very thing to her. Dickinson snaps, “We don’t all wear who we are on our faces!” Fabulous Fuller poetics, Many Thanks for sharing mikef6 |
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Post by Captain Spencer on Sept 30, 2018 3:15:22 GMT
Iron Eyes Cody (link)Iron Eyes Cody was born Espera or "Oscar" DeCorti, the son of two first-generation immigrants from Italy. In 1924 he moved to California, changed his name from "DeCorti" to "Corti" to Cody, and started working as an actor, presenting himself as a Native American. He married an Indian woman, Bertha Parker, and together they adopted two Indian sons, Robert and Arthur. Iron Eyes Cody lived and worked as an Indian for all his adult life; he labored for decades to promote Native American causes. His Classic Anti-Pollution Ad 160 Movie Credits 50+ TV Credits I remember watching those anti-pollution commercials when I was a kid. Iron Eyes Cody was also in El Condor, a western from 1970 which I really like. |
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Post by london777 on Oct 2, 2018 3:43:31 GMT
Alec Guinness played Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia. That said both Brits and Arabs are classified as Caucasians. Arabs are not a race but a language-based culture, and a minority of Arabs are Caucasian (itself not a very scientific term) but I imagine Prince Faisal would have been of as pure Semitic stock as you could find in that melting-pot of an area. I think Guinness did a great job. Faisal was earlier played by Jeff Corey in Sirocco (1951), and later by Younes Bouab in Queen of the Desert (2015) but I cannot find a still of either. |
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Post by Aj_June on Oct 2, 2018 3:49:25 GMT
Alec Guinness played Prince Faisal in Lawrence of Arabia. That said both Brits and Arabs are classified as Caucasians. I think Guinness did a great job. Faisal was earlier played by Jeff Corey in Sirocco (1951), and later by Younes Bouab in Queen of the Desert (2015). Cool. Didn't know this info. Would you recommend one of those movies? I usually like historical/period drama genre. |
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Post by london777 on Oct 2, 2018 4:00:03 GMT
Faisal was earlier played by Jeff Corey in Sirocco (1951), and later by Younes Bouab in Queen of the Desert (2015). Would you recommend one of those movies? No, I would not, despite Queen of the Desert being directed by Werner Herzog, and Sirocco starring Humphrey Bogart. |
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