Best Choice of Actor for Playing Infamous SS Officers...

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 02 Apr 2006 23:06

Kenneth Colley, an underrated character actor who played the iconic Admiral Piett in The Empire Strikes Back and The Return of the Jedi played high ranking officers from the German Army and SS as well.

Judging from his weasely looks, he must have played a good Adolf Eichmann.

Beppo Schmidt · Post by **Beppo Schmidt** » 03 Apr 2006 19:17

Yes in the pictures I saw from the movie about Wallenberg, Kenneth Colley looked like Eichmann. He was good as SS Col. Blobel in War and Remembrance.

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 04 Apr 2006 05:11

Beppo Schmidt, do you think Tony Shalhoub would be a good choice in playing Adolf Eichmann? He's that quirky police detective from Monk and looks much more like Eichmann, than Colley does (in my book) even though Colley is great.

Adolf Eichmann: http://www.spiegel.de/img/0,1020,37156,00.jpg

Tony Shalhoub: http://images.hollywood.com/images/4_1697316.jpg

If Tony Shalhoub would play a WWII bad guy, Eichmann would be it. He would be just as good as Stanley Tucci.

Also, Beppo Schmidt, who else would play Paul Blobel? I think off the top of my head the best choices would be either David Lloyd (Back to the Future) or Rade Serbedzija (Snatch) as both men are a similar age to real Blobel and look roughly similar; more so than the ever reliable Colley.

Paul Blobel: http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/project ... ruppen.jpg

David Lloyd: http://us.movies1.yimg.com/movies.yahoo ... sworld.jpg

Rade Serbedzija: http://www.novine.ca/intervju/slike/-%2 ... JA%203.jpg

What do you think?

LAH_Faust · Post by **LAH_Faust** » 04 Apr 2006 15:37

Ed Harris as Rommel

Ian McKellen as Arthur Phelps

Anthony Hopkins as 'Sepp' (ok, maybe a bit of a stretch, but not Pesci)

Jason Statham (from Snatch and Lock, Stock) as Jochen Peiper

Beppo Schmidt · Post by **Beppo Schmidt** » 04 Apr 2006 19:17

Tony Shalhoub could maybe play Eichmann. I don't know who would play Blobel though. Neither Lloyd nor Serbedzija look like him to me.

I think Anthony Hopkins is too old to play Sepp Dietrich. Ed Harris as Rommel is an obvious choice, although the thread is about SS officers, Rommel wasn't an SS officer.

Anthony Hopkins and Ian McKellen are two of the best actors alive though, they could probably pull off a wide range of roles.

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 07 Apr 2006 00:09

Posted by Beppo Schmidt:
I don't know who would play Blobel though. Neither Lloyd nor Serbedzija look like him to me.

Are you sure? I think Davod Lloyd looks especially like Blobel; they both share similar facial features and their eyes match up well. Lloyd certainly resembles Blobal much more than any other actor I can think of.

And though you'd think I'm strange, but would Kevin Spacey be great choice for playing Heinrich Himmler? Give Spacey blue contact lenses, pebble glasses and the Reichsfuhrer-SS uniform and it could work.

And did Anthony Hopkins and McKellan play Nazis? I've heard that Hopkins played Adolf Hitler, while Ian McKellen played a ex-SS camp guard in Apt Pupil and pseudo-Nazi in Richard III.

Beppo Schmidt · Post by **Beppo Schmidt** » 07 Apr 2006 00:12

Yea Hopkins played Hitler, and McKellen was a great Nazi fugitive in Apt Pupil.

Actually I can maybe see Spacey as Himmler.

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 07 Apr 2006 20:50

Here is a photo of Kevin Spacey: http://www.makeup-artist.com/images/por ... spacey.jpg

What do you think Beppo Schmidt?

And he played modest, fairly bright, unassuming, but really vicious vilains in The Usual Suspects and Se7en.

Beppo Schmidt · Post by **Beppo Schmidt** » 07 Apr 2006 22:40

I know what Spacey looks like, and I can sort of see him as Himmler, with some makeup maybe.

And yea, Spacey can be creepy.

Potsdamerplatz · Post by **Potsdamerplatz** » 07 Apr 2006 23:20

In the next few years I can see PAUL BETTANY and CILLIAN MURPHY playing SS officers in movies as both men have the "evil" look and have experience of playing villains.

PAUL BETTANY

CILLIAN MURPHY

Perhaps in a few years time when they are both older Paul Bettany could play Reinhard Heydrich and Cillian Murphy could play Walter Schellenberg in movies.

Best regards,

David

Beppo Schmidt · Post by **Beppo Schmidt** » 07 Apr 2006 23:23

Paul Bettany and Cillian Murphy are both interesting and fairly fresh faces. I've only seen Bettany in Master and Commander (though I hear he makes a good villain), but so far I've seen Murphy in 28 Days Later, Red Eye, and Batman Begins...he's one of those actors who just seems creepy.

Bettany kind of has that Aryan look.

Cor · Post by **Cor** » 09 Apr 2006 21:22

For me the best ss-officer performed is Ralph Fiennes. The picture that he is riding through the town. The expression on his face on that time.

Is there anybody who know an actor who could play Heinrich Muller??

Potsdamerplatz · Post by **Potsdamerplatz** » 09 Apr 2006 23:57

Does anyone else think Rutger Hauer would make a good SS-Obergruppenfuhrer Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski

Best regards,

David

Big Orange · Post by **Big Orange** » 10 Apr 2006 00:06

Posted by Cor:
Is there anybody who know an actor who could play Heinrich Muller??

James Woods or Anthony Heald?

Beppo Schmidt · Post by **Beppo Schmidt** » 10 Apr 2006 02:12

David, yes good old Rutger does look a bit like von dem Bach-Zelewski, especially in that picture from Batman Begins.