Blind Item #9 - Old Hollywood
This deceased foreign born Oscar winning/nominated actor with an iconic look certainly played his share of intelligence operatives in his film career. Recently declassified documents show that in real life at one point he did the real thing acting as a secret back channel, couriering messages between the governments of the USA and Great Britain and his home country.
Omar Shariff?
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ReplyDeleteYup Brynner?
ReplyDeleteYul Brynner
Delete+1 MD, Brynner seems like the best fit.
ReplyDeleteElvis Presley, home country being MARS!
ReplyDeleteYawn. No one ever talks about William Smith, the last of the real life Hollywood bad asses.
ReplyDeleteDamn, I bet Anthony Rapp thought that was going to be his worst experience until he met Spacey.
ReplyDeletehttps://people.com/movies/anthony-rapp-says-yul-brynner-punched-stomach/
Yul Brynner....
ReplyDeleteHe was from from Vladivostok, and iconic look as in sexy bald ,or so he thought!
Yul Brynner.
ReplyDeleteHe got to play a southern aristocrat in The Sound and the Fury with that weird accent of his.
Peter Ustinov?
ReplyDeleteYul Brynner is best fit and had an iconic look
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ReplyDeleteYul Brynner was a Brazilian.
ReplyDeleteThat is the correct term for a bald cunt isn't it?
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Peter Ustinov
ReplyDeleteCharlie Chaplin
ReplyDeletePeter Ustinov sounds right to me too.
ReplyDeletecouriering? still trying to untwist my tongue.
ReplyDeleteI second the Chaplin guess.
ReplyDeleteYep, Yul. On a very quick google search he seems to have been in a number of spy movies.
ReplyDeleteI wonder if he worked with Chuck Barris.
Chaim Topol
ReplyDeleteErrol Flynn
ReplyDeleteDavid Niven
ReplyDeleteLeslie Howard
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ReplyDeleteLeslie Howard
ReplyDeleteHe and the other people on the plane were all shot down by the Nazis: https://warfarehistorynetwork.com/2018/12/24/actor-leslie-howard-fate-on-boac-flight-777/