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Greene_Mr t1_j9o0jya wrote

Reply to comment by res30stupid in TIL that Gert Frobe, the actor who portrayed Auric Goldfinger in James Bond, was a former Nazi. Because of this, Goldfinger was banned in Israel until a Jewish man informed the Israeli Embassy that Frobe had hidden his mother and him from the Nazis. by NYstate

Actually, Quarrel's actor dubbed himself, since he lived in Europe and was able to -- Peter Hunt, the film's editor, confirmed it (and I've heard John Kitzmiller's voice in other films; it's him). But I'm pretty sure the roadworker was dubbed by Robert Rietty.

Robert Rietty dubbed almost every male side character in Dr. No; Nikki Van Der Zyl dubbed every female side character. Barbara Jeffords voiced Tatiana Romanova in From Russia with Love; Michael Collins voiced Goldfinger. And, yes, Rietty voiced Celi in Thunderball; he also dubbed Tetsuro Tamba in You Only Live Twice.

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res30stupid t1_j9nzyfu wrote

Reply to comment by DroolingIguana in TIL that Gert Frobe, the actor who portrayed Auric Goldfinger in James Bond, was a former Nazi. Because of this, Goldfinger was banned in Israel until a Jewish man informed the Israeli Embassy that Frobe had hidden his mother and him from the Nazis. by NYstate

To be fair, the Bond films did a lot of post-production dubbing of all the actors, which can be pretty noticable in the first film Dr No because they used only a handful of actors for the voiced dialog.

All but two women who were important to the plot were voiced by the same woman and a few male voices were reused as well; you'll notice that when Bond and a roadworker are overlooking the crash site from when the Three Blind Mice tried to kill Bond, he's got the same voice as Quarrel.

This actually ended up fucking up a BBC show, actually. They cast Adolfo Celi due to his role in Thunderball, but they didn't know he was dubbed over by a voice-actor because his English was near-incomprehensible.

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PA2SK t1_j9nvxs6 wrote

Reply to comment by 128Gigabytes in Today I learned that there is enough evidence to suggest that orca are actually an occasional predator of moose, due to the fact that moose can dive up to 20' for vegetation underwater in killer whale territories. by Uranusspinssideways

There's no confirmed cases of it happening. There's basically a few anecdotes from people who claimed to see it and a deer carcass was found by some scuba divers off the coast of Vancouver that looked liked a killer whale might have chewed on it. That's it, there's no hard evidence. It may happen but if it does it's very rare and is probably more a case of mistaken identity then actual intentional hunting of moose.

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PeriodicGolden t1_j9nvwpp wrote

Reply to comment by BranWafr in TIL The Rocky Horror Picture Show is still in limited release after 47 years making it the longest-running theatrical release in film history by shakeyjake

I find discussions about what's "the oldest X" interesting since each place defines it in a way where they end up being the oldest. You see it with pubs as well. "This is the oldest pub in the city that's always been in the same place", "This is the oldest pub in the city that has been in continuous operation", "This is the oldest pub in the city that's remained in the same family"

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widdrjb t1_j9nverm wrote

Reply to TIL The Rocky Horror Picture Show is still in limited release after 47 years making it the longest-running theatrical release in film history by shakeyjake

We went to the live stage show when it ran in the West End. That was 1990.

The front rows were reserved for the fans in costume, and the whole audience were word perfect. Except for the people sitting next to us, a dozen or so tourists who had been booked in by their package operator. I stole a look during "Time Warp"; they looked like rabbits in front of an 18 wheeler.

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