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[seanmc1114]

I thought it would be interesting to show some side by side comparison shots of actual historical military figures and the actors who have portrayed them on film. Sometimes the resemblance is uncanny while in other cases it is, shall we say, a stretch.

 

Obviously let's see some of the more obvious choices such as Ike and Patton, but let's also see some more obscure examples. In that vein, first up is Navy diver Master Chief Boatswain's Mater Carl Brashear who was portrayed by Cuba Gooding, Jr. in the 2000 film "Men Of Honor".

 

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Lt. Col. Harold G. Moore as portrayed by Mel Gibson in the 2002 film "We Were Soldiers"

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Ike, in "The Longest Day"...aka Henry Grace. 

 

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"Monty" in "I was Monty's double"...actor Clifton Webb.

 

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Ryan O'Neal as General Gavin in "A bridge too far".

 

 

 

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George C. Scott as General Patton.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited by Sabrejet, 04 March 2014 - 07:18 AM.

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Ryan O'Neal as 82nd Airborne Division commander Gen. James M. Gavin in "A Bridge Too Far".

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Edited by seanmc1114, 04 March 2014 - 07:21 AM.

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Ryan O'Neal as General Gavin in "A bridge too far".

 

 

 

 

Sorry, I didn't see you had posted this before I posted mine.
 

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Gregory Peck and Tommy Lee Jones as General MacArthur.

 

 

Edited by Sabrejet, 04 March 2014 - 07:25 AM.

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Robert Redford as Major Julian Cook in "A Bridge Too Far". I think they were going more for the star quality than an actual lookalike.

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Sean Connery as General "Roy" Urquhart in "A bridge too far".

 

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Bruno Ganz as you-know-who in "Downfall".

 

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Robert Duvall as Dwight Eisenhower in the 1979 ABC mini-series "Ike"

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Gary Cooper as Sgt. Alvin York.

 

 

Edited by cutiger83, 23 June 2014 - 11:32 AM.
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Werner Hinz as Rommel in "The Longest Day"

 

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Tom Selleck seemed an unlikely choice to play Dwight D. Eisenhower in 2004's "Ike: Countdown To D-Day" but it was actually very good.

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Robert Ryan as General Gavin in "The Longest Day"...rather miscast as Gavin was considerably younger at the time!

 

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...and not forgetting Damien Lewis as Lt. Richard Winters!

 

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Audie Murphy as Audie Murphy in 1955's "To Hell And Back"

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Dale Dye as Col. Robert F. Sink in "Band Of Brothers"

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Doesn't anyone else want to play?!  

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Malden and Scott as Generals Patton and Bradley in "Patton".

 

 

 

Edited by Sabrejet, 04 March 2014 - 08:18 AM.

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Robert Mitchum as General Norman Cota. The resemblance is remarkable...NOT!  

 

 

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Henry Fonda as Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. from "The Longest Day"

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Major General Maxwell Taylor, commander of the 101st Airborne Division, on the left and actor Paul Maxwell on the right re-creating the same image from "A Bridge Too Far"

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