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Post by lowtacks86 on Sept 9, 2020 17:41:25 GMT
For instance, did you guys know Iron Eyes Cody wasn't an actual Native American? (he was of Italian background)
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Sept 9, 2020 17:42:44 GMT
Anthony Quinn
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Post by kolchak92 on Sept 9, 2020 17:43:05 GMT
Benny Rubin
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Post by CoolJGS☺ on Sept 9, 2020 17:47:04 GMT
Al Pacino
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Post by lowtacks86 on Sept 9, 2020 17:58:07 GMT
Wasn't Charlie Chan played by a white guy?
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Post by thisguy4000 on Sept 9, 2020 17:59:19 GMT
Rob Schneider?
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 9, 2020 17:59:41 GMT
Anthony Quinn was the first to come to mind. Akim Tamiroff must have played four or five different ethnicities.
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Sept 9, 2020 18:00:01 GMT
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 9, 2020 18:00:13 GMT
 Peter Lorre was born László Lowenstein on Rózsahegy, Hungary. |
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Post by lowtacks86 on Sept 9, 2020 18:01:20 GMT
Some people today might condemn Al Jolsen for his blackface, but he actually did help struggling black actors by casting them in his movies.
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 9, 2020 18:03:24 GMT
Some people today might condemn Al Jolsen for his blackface, but he actually did help struggling black actors by casting them in his movies. Jolson wasn't playing a different ethnicity ... he was in blackface only for singing "ethnic" songs !
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Post by Popeye Doyle on Sept 9, 2020 18:05:50 GMT
Anthony Quinn was the first to come to mind. Akim Tamiroff must have played four or five different ethnicities. Greek Italian Mexican French Arab |
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Post by BATouttaheck on Sept 9, 2020 18:07:53 GMT
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 9, 2020 18:30:10 GMT
Nehemiah Persoff was born in Mandate Palestine and played Italian, Spanish, Russian, German, Greek, and Eastern European characters.
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 9, 2020 18:39:30 GMT
I would run out of fingers, toes, and ears if I tried to count the number of ethnicities essayed by J. Carrol Naish, an American actor of Irish Catholic ancestry. Here is a start: Mexican: The Last Command (1955) Native American: Sitting Bull (1954) The title role Italian: Sahara (1943) Italian American: Black Hand (1950) Japanese: Batman (1943) Cliffhanger serial Spanish: Blood and Sand (1941) Indian: The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) Russian: Beau Geste (1939) Chinese-American: Charlie Chan (1957) Unsuccessful TV series He did all these at other times in other movies plus many I have missed. Naish earned his living for 30 years playing everything, I think, except Irish-American.    |
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Post by bravomailer on Sept 9, 2020 18:41:12 GMT
Michael Ansara was Syrian and played Polynesian, Mexican, Pashtun, Sikh, Corsican, Native American, Roman, Nepalese, Russian, and Irish characters. He was married to Barbara Eden.  |
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 9, 2020 18:47:24 GMT
Some people today might condemn Al Jolsen for his blackface, but he actually did help struggling black actors by casting them in his movies. Jolson wasn't playing a different ethnicity ... he was in blackface only for singing "ethnic" songs ! David Thomson has also slammed Jolson for misleading late-'20s / early-'30s audiences about what "jazz" really is. As the star of "The Jazz Singer" and other such films, these "ethnic" songs in blackface were passed off as "jazz" singing.
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Post by mikef6 on Sept 9, 2020 18:49:21 GMT
Michael Ansara was Syrian and played Polynesian, Mexican, Pashtun, Sikh, Corsican, Native American, Roman, Nepalese, Russian, and Irish characters. He was married to Barbara Eden. And Native American.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Sept 9, 2020 19:13:32 GMT
Peter Sellers
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Post by CrepedCrusader on Sept 9, 2020 19:42:19 GMT
Lou Diamond Phillips. The son of an American father who was of Scots-Irish descent and a Filipina mother, there was a period in the 80s and early-90s where he seemed to play nothing but Native American and Latino characters.
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