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Originally Posted by Nick Beale
Not to forget his protrayal of 007's arch-enemy, Ernst Stavro Blofeld, white cat and all!
He wasn't the only British character actor to have been a PoW and then played one: Sam Kydd was another, I believe. A lot of the actors in British war movies of the 50s had seen war service of course: they were the right age. For example, Richard Todd had been a paratrooper in Normandy, before he became a Dambuster in movies.
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Yes, how could we forget Blofeld? I knew that Richard Todd (another good one) had been a paratrooper and was in Normandy. It must have really been
deja vu all over again for him in
The Longest Day! I thought the 1960's special effects of the glider attack on the bridge are still one of the best ever done. Nick, do you know what unit he was with and where he was actually dropped?