And as a Russian fighter pilot opposite Bob Hope in The Iron Petticoat. Her accent was horrible, too. Janet Leigh in Jet Pilot made a *much *more convincing Russian fighter pilot.
And his mother is English.
Hedy Lamarr as the “half-Egyptian, half-Arab” temptress (all black in the book, but the producers had to deal with the Code) in White Cargo. She looked like an Austrian Jewish girl who’d had a bucket of black makeup dumped on her, which is about what happened.
There was a TV movie made once, called “The Girl Who Spelled Freedom” It was about a young woman came to the US when she was eight, with her mother and little brother, from Cambodia. The movie was about her winning a spelling bee. She’d learned English the way a baby does, total immersion, The little family settled in North Carolina. I saw the real girl(not the actress) on TV when she was interviewed after the movie came out, and she had a Southern accent you could cut with a knife.
I don’t think he was supposed to be Sikh, he wasn’t wearing a turban.
I get a lot of eMails from so called orphan girls in Nigeria who are always white, and usually blonde. Their daddy died leaving them 2 and a half million dollars and want to share it with me. Don’t the writers of this type of stuff know that Nigerian girls aren’t blonde with blue eyes? I have never been there but really!!!
Marla McGivers tentatively identified him as Sikh while on board the Botany Bay.
I see I misspelled his name slightly, to my eternal shame. He will no doubt stab at me from Hell’s heart! :mad:
Myrna Loy as every kind of Asian.
Oh, and AFAIK, the movie The Good Earth was entirely cast with European descent actors, including Paul Muni and Luise Rainer in the leads.
Patrick Adiarte is at least not caucasian, but otherwise looks about as Korean as Queen Elizabeth. He played Ho Jon in the first season of MASH***.
Damn, that’s pretty funny.
The ones I hear from were all born in the United States but travel a lot to Africa.
I don’t mind their dishonesty half as much as I do their thinking I’m stupid enough to believe them! :mad:
Burt Reynolds as Navajo Joe.
C. Thomas Walker as a black guy in “Soul Man”.
I know, I know. He wasn’t really black in that movie. But he still managed to convince everyone that he was, obvious wig and all.
I saw the movie as a kid. It was a total WTF experience for me. “The Neverending Story” seemed like a documentary compared to that movie.
Cliff Curtis hasn’t been quite as diverse, but he’s getting there.
Ernest Bornigne as a Russian spy in “Ice Station Zebra” (apparently from Paris).
Joey Bishop as Kronk the Indian in Texas across the River:
Shirley Maclaine as Princess Aouda in Around the World in 80 Days:
Isn’t Burt part Indian?
Why go all the way back to '56 when ‘Exodus’ is right here with us.
According to Wikipedia, his father had Irish and Cherokee ancestry.
Korean-American comedian Henry Cho has a thick Southern accent, although I think he puts it on for his shows. He was in an episode of “Designing Women” where they were flying from Atlanta to Japan (I think), and they thought he was probably Japanese, till he broke out his Southern accent.
When I was working for the US Air Force, I met a US Air Force officer with a multi-syllabic Thai name who had a thick Southern accent.
Or Egyptian?
Don’t forget Sean Connery as the only Russian who ever had a Welsh accent.
