Mike Mazurki was Splitface in 1945's "Dick Tracy."
All-time great performance as Moose Malloy in 1944's "Murder My Sweet." ("I want you should find my Velma.")
in 1945's "Dick Tracy."
should find my Velma.") Don't forget Mike...
in John Ford's Cheyenne Autumn:
Sr. First Sergeant...
[Mazurki]: [a Cossack] kills Poles just because they're Poles. Like we're trying to kill Indians just because they're Indians.
Capt. Thomas Archer...
[Richard Widmark]: Come on, Wichowski. You fought Indians before!
Sr. First Sergeant...
[Mazurki]: I fought Indians who wanted to fight me, not just some poor blanket-heads trying to go home!
Well, nobody's...
perfect--
BTW when they were filming Cheyenne Autumn staying near Gunnison, Colorado, in early 1964, I was 15 and got to see a drunken Richard Widmark get his rump kicked in the bar of the Tomichi Lodge--