littlebuddy Posted March 5, 2014 #76 Posted March 5, 2014 Richard Todd as Major John Howard at "Pegasus Bridge" in The Longest Day. ( Todd was actually "there" on D-Day with the British Airborne boys) He was actually asked to play himself in the film but said he didn't do anything out of the ordinary during the landings!!
littlebuddy Posted March 5, 2014 #77 Posted March 5, 2014 Kenneth Moore as Douglas Bader in "Reach for the sky". Believe it or not this is one of my favourite films ever , behind the Wizard of Oz !!
littlebuddy Posted March 5, 2014 #78 Posted March 5, 2014 I don't know if I have missed it ?? but who played Morgan in Memphis Belle ??
Sabrejet Posted March 5, 2014 #79 Posted March 5, 2014 I don't know if I have missed it ?? but who played Morgan in Memphis Belle ?? Nobody. It wasn't a character thing...it was a generic crew.
world war I nerd Posted March 6, 2014 #80 Posted March 6, 2014 Anthony Hopkins as Richard Nixon in "Nixon" (commander in Chief)
world war I nerd Posted March 6, 2014 #81 Posted March 6, 2014 Anthony Hopkins as John Quincy Adams in "Amistad"
gwb123 Posted March 6, 2014 #83 Posted March 6, 2014 It's interesting how close some of these are.... and how others are just way off...
world war I nerd Posted March 6, 2014 #84 Posted March 6, 2014 Fred MacMurry as Eddie Rickenbacker in "Captain Eddie"
Sabrejet Posted March 6, 2014 #85 Posted March 6, 2014 It's been mentioned to me that there are no "military women" from the movies featured here. Good point. I can't bring one to mind but if anyone out there can....?
uniformcollector Posted March 6, 2014 #86 Posted March 6, 2014 Glenn Close as Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer in Serving in Silence
Sabrejet Posted March 6, 2014 #89 Posted March 6, 2014 Jaclyn Smith as Florence Nightingale?! ( Yeah...that's what I thought too! )
124cav Posted March 6, 2014 #90 Posted March 6, 2014 Who was the actor that ported Truscott in Patton?
Sabrejet Posted March 6, 2014 #93 Posted March 6, 2014 William Witney as AAF General Curtis LeMay in "The wild blue yonder".
world war I nerd Posted March 6, 2014 #94 Posted March 6, 2014 Jude Law as Vassili Zaitzev in "Enemy at the Gates"
world war I nerd Posted March 6, 2014 #95 Posted March 6, 2014 Ed Harris as Major Erwin Koenig in "Enemy at the Gates"
world war I nerd Posted March 6, 2014 #96 Posted March 6, 2014 Bob Hoskins as Nikita Khruschev in "Enemy at the Gates"
Sabrejet Posted March 6, 2014 #97 Posted March 6, 2014 Alexei Petrenko played Josef Stalin in a BBC tv drama "World War 2 behind closed doors".
Sabrejet Posted March 6, 2014 #98 Posted March 6, 2014 Henry Fonda as Admiral Chester Nimitz in "Midway".
Sabrejet Posted March 6, 2014 #99 Posted March 6, 2014 Glenn Ford as Admiral Raymond Spruance in "Midway".
world war I nerd Posted March 6, 2014 #100 Posted March 6, 2014 Robert Duval as Joseph Stalin in "Stalin"
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