‘That actor that played the German was always typecast in movies as the Nazi superman. Karl Otto Alberty was his name. He had a prolific acting career too.”
I remember him from “The Great Escape”...another screen gem!!!
Yeah...I can leave Donny Sutherland too. Another anti-Vietman War flippo, IIRC.
RE German:
Once you get typecast into a role, it’s hard to break out of it.
Wolfgang Preiss was another one - they always had him playing Rommel or some other high-ranking German general. He was in The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far, Von Ryan’s Express, Is Paris Burning, The Train...basically, “The German General” each time.
James Mason played Rommel in “The Desert Fox”; he had that icy Teutonic character about him as well. Mason was delightfully evil in Hitchcock’s “North By Northwest”. An all around great actor.