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The most multi-ethnic actor of all times!


The movies Kingsley played in and the nationalities:
- House of sand and fog - Iranian (Persian)
- Gandhi - Indian
- Hugo - French
- Sexy beast - Englishman
- Dictator - Arab
- Schindler's list - Jewish
- he must have been playing American also...

Isn't that remarkable?
This is just from my memory; I'm sure if I dig deeper I would find more.
Is there any other actor that played so many different nationalities and people from different cultures?

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Anthony Quinn is one, I don't know exactly how many nationalities he's played though.

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He has a very interesting, complex ethnic and national heritage; it's no wonder he's so diverse.

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Nah! You must be too young to remember Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner and Kirk Douglas or Antony Quinn.

Heston was Italian Michelangelo, French Cardinal Richeliu, British general Gordon in Khartoum, being Jew and Roman citizen in Ben Hur, Jew raised as an Egyptian as Moses, Mark Anthony himself, played American presidents and soldiers, a Latino with a dark moustache in Orson Welles's B movie Touch of Evil, played an American native Indian; Douglas played Greek, a foreing slave under Roman rulership, a Viking, a militar Jew, a Dutch painter Van Gogh, an Italian mobster in The Brotherhood to name a few. Quinn was Greek big shot Onassis, Mexican desperado, an Arabian relative of prophet Muhammed, Italians, a French artist Gauguin (son of a French man and Peruvian mother who was a writer), etc, etc.

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Armand Assante plays a lot of different types as well.

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"Your knowledge of cinema is 0."

0 is also how many seconds Charlton Heston was believable as a Mexican in Touch of Evil. A dark moustache and brownface does not make for a believable performance. He played a Mexican but only in the most literal sense. He played a Mexican but didn't play a Mexican. A classic movie regardless due to the genius of Orson Welles.

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Christopher Lee blows all of the mentioned off the water. The guy has played every conceivable ethnicity except for black.

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I admit, C.Heston and A.Quinn were also of various nationalities, but I didn't know that about Christopher Lee.

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