The extremely Aryan Casper Van Dien played Filipino Johnny Rico in Starship Troopers.
I think Michael Ansara has played every ethnicity except his own (Syrian) - various Mexican and Hispanic, Native American, Egyptian, Sikh, Chinese, Babylonian, Hawaiian, Samoan, Albanian, Italian, generic Arabian, plus generic Caucasian. And, of course, Klingon (boney and non-boney).
Maybe. I just saw that as comic relief, playing an Oriental Stereotype, not a Japanese American, but I’m probably in the minority.
Also, I think Khigh Dhiegh (Kenneth Dickerson) aqcuitted himself rather well playing Yellow Peril characters.
Looking back at the old “Hawaii Five-O” series, many of the Oriental characters were played by Jews, some OK, some not so OK.
Nah, they cut the reference to the Philippines from the film – Rico is an Argentine from Buenos Aires . . . and there are a lot of Aryans in Argentina! ![]()
Swede Warner Oland as Charlie Chan.
Actually, I would buy him as part Cherokee.
Raj’s dad on Big Bang Theory is Jewish.
Did I miss anyone mentioning Sean Connery as Japanese?
If you’re referring to You Only Live Twice, that was clearly a disguise, but yeah, I’d think he would have had considerable trouble blending in with the inhabitants of a Japanese fishing village.
All of the Italian actors who were portrayed in westerns as Indians, including Sal Mineo, for god’s sake.
[Voice of Raj]: NO! :eek:
Mineo’s portrayal of an ape in “Escape From the Planet of the Apes” was so offensive a real ape killed him.
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Dick van Dyke as a cockney
I am now about to win the internets with this [/QUOTE]Holy crap, those white women don’t even remotely look Brazilian.
Sal Mineo and Hector Elizondo also once played men from a fictional Middle Eastern country in an episode of Columbo.
More, uhm, makeup was obviously needed. ![]()
Charlton Heston in “A Touch of Evil” as a Mexican narcotics officer.
Slovakian Jew Peter Lorre as the Japanese Mr. Moto.