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Tomás Quintín Rodriguez-Varona Milian Salinas De La Fé y Alvarez De La Campa (3 March 1933 – 22 March 2017), better known as Tomas Milian, was a Cuban-born actor and singer who spent most his career in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, equally at home in arthouse and genre B-movies.

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Tomás Quintín Rodriguez-Varona Milian Rodríguez-Varona Milián Salinas De La de la Fé y Alvarez De La Álvarez de la Campa (3 March 1933 – 22 March 2017), better known as Tomas Milian, was a Cuban-born actor and singer who spent most his career in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, equally at home in arthouse and genre B-movies.



* 1966 ''The Big Gundown'' as Manuel 'Cuchillo' Sanchez
* 1967 ''Face to Face'' as Solomon 'Beauregard' Bennet
* 1967 ''Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!'' as The Stranger/Django
* 1970 ''Film/{{Companeros}}'' as El Vasco
* 1971 ''Film/TheLastMovie'' as Padre
* 1972 ''Film/DontTortureADuckling'' as Andrea Martelli
* 1974 ''Film/AlmostHuman'' as Giulio Sacchi
* 1975 ''Film/TheWhiteTheYellowTheBlack'' as Sakura
* 1979 ''Film/WinterKills'' as Frank Mayo
* 1982 ''Film/IdentificationOfAWoman'' as Niccolò
* 1985 ''Film/KingDavid'' as Akiss
* 1991 ''Film/{{JFK}}'' as Leopoldo
* 1997 ''Film/{{Amistad}}'' as Ángel Calderón de la Barca y Belgrano
* 1997 ''Series/{{Oz}}'' as Ricardo Alvarez
* 2000 ''Film/Traffic2000'' as General Salazar
* 2002 ''WebVideo/TheHire'' as The Passenger

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* 1966 ''The Big Gundown'' (1966) as Manuel 'Cuchillo' Sanchez
* 1967 ''Face to Face'' (1967) as Solomon 'Beauregard' Bennet
* 1967 ''Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!'' (1967) as The Stranger/Django
* 1970 ''Film/{{Companeros}}'' (1970) as El Vasco
* 1971 ''Film/TheLastMovie'' (1971) as Padre
* 1972 ''Film/DontTortureADuckling'' (1972) as Andrea Martelli
* 1974 ''Film/AlmostHuman'' (1974) as Giulio Sacchi
* 1975 ''Film/TheWhiteTheYellowTheBlack'' (1975) as Sakura
* 1979 ''Film/WinterKills'' (1979) as Frank Mayo
* 1982 ''Film/IdentificationOfAWoman'' (1982) as Niccolò
* 1985 ''Film/KingDavid'' (1985) as Akiss
* 1991 ''Film/CatChaser'' (1989) as Andres [=DeBoya=]
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''Film/{{JFK}}'' (1991) as Leopoldo
* 1997 ''Film/FoolsRushIn'' (1997) as Tomas Fuentes
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''Film/{{Amistad}}'' (1997) as Ángel Calderón de la Barca y Belgrano
* 1997 ''Series/{{Oz}}'' (1997) as Ricardo Alvarez
* 2000 ''Film/Traffic2000'' ''Film/{{Traffic|2000}}'' (2000) as General Salazar
* 2002 ''WebVideo/TheHire'' (2002) as The Passenger
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* 1975 ''Film/TheWhiteTheYellowTheBlack'' as Sakura
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* 1982 ''Film/IdentificazioneDiUnaDonna'' as Niccolò

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* 1982 ''Film/IdentificazioneDiUnaDonna'' ''Film/IdentificationOfAWoman'' as Niccolò
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He later returned to the U.S., where he starred in ''Film/{{JFK}}'', ''Film/{{Amistad}}'', and ''Film/{{Traffic}}''.

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He later returned to the U.S., where he starred in ''Film/{{JFK}}'', ''Film/{{Amistad}}'', and ''Film/{{Traffic}}''.
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* 2000 ''Film/{{Traffic}}'' as General Salazar

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* BadassBeard: Sported one in most of his roles.
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* FauxFluency: Most of his early roles were dubbed, but he picked up Italian quite quickly and soon began rewriting his own dialogue and doing his own dubbing.

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* 1974 ''Film/AlmostHuman'' as Giulio Sacchi
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* 1966 ''The Big Gundown'' as Manuel 'Cuchillo' Sanchez
* 1967 ''Face to Face'' as Solomon 'Beauregard' Bennet
* 1967 ''Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!'' as The Stranger/Django
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* FakeNationality: Spent most of his career playing Mexican banditos, or Italian cops and criminals. It wasn't until he moved back to the U.S. that he actually started to play Cuban characters.

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* FakeNationality: Spent most of his career playing Mexican banditos, or Italian cops and criminals. It wasn't until he moved back to the U.S. that he actually started to play played some Cuban characters.
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* 1972 ''Film/Don'tTortureADuckling'' as Andrea Martelli

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Tomás Quintín Rodriguez-Varona Milian Salinas De La Fé y Alvarez De La Campa (3 March 1933 – 22 March 2017), better known as Tomas Milian, was a Cuban-born actor and singer who spent most his career in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Tomás Quintín Rodriguez-Varona Milian Salinas De La Fé y Alvarez De La Campa (3 March 1933 – 22 March 2017), better known as Tomas Milian, was a Cuban-born actor and singer who spent most his career in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s.
1970s, equally at home in arthouse and genre B-movies.


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* 1970 ''Film/{{Companeros}}'' as El Vasco
* 1971 ''Film/TheLastMovie'' as Padre
* 1972 ''Film/Don'tTortureADuckling'' as Andrea Martelli
* 1979 ''Film/WinterKills'' as Frank Mayo
* 1982 ''Film/IdentificazioneDiUnaDonna'' as Niccolò
* 1985 ''Film/KingDavid'' as Akiss
* 1991 ''Film/{{JFK}}'' as Leopoldo
* 1997 ''Film/{{Amistad}}'' as Ángel Calderón de la Barca y Belgrano
* 1997 ''Series/{{Oz}}'' as Ricardo Alvarez
* 2000 ''Film/{{Traffic}}'' as General Salazar
* 2002 ''WebVideo/TheHire'' as The Passenger

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* FakeNationality: Spent most of his career playing Mexican banditos, or Italian cops or criminals. It wasn't until he moved back to the U.S. that he actually started to play Cuban characters.

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* FakeNationality: Spent most of his career playing Mexican banditos, or Italian cops or and criminals. It wasn't until he moved back to the U.S. that he actually started to play Cuban characters.


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* LargeHam: Capable of swallowing the scenery whole.
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* 1966 ''Film/{{Django}}'' as Django
* 1966 ''[[Film/TheBible1966 The Bible: In the Beginning...]]'' as Abel
* 1967 ''Theatre/{{Camelot}}'' as Lancelot
* 1970 ''Film/{{Tristana}}'' as Horacio
* 1970 ''Film/{{Companeros}}'' as Yodalf Peterson
* 1971 ''Film/DontTurnTheOtherCheek'' as Dmitri Vassilovich Orlowsky
* 1973 ''Literature/WhiteFang'' as Jason Scott
* 1976 ''Film/{{Keoma}}'' as Keoma Shannon
* 1978 ''Film/ForceTenFromNavarone'' as Captain Lescovar
* 1979 ''Film/TheVisitor'' as Jesus
* 1990 ''Film/DieHard2'' as General Esperanza
* 2010 ''Film/LettersToJuliet'' Lorenzo Bartolini
* 2011 ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'' as Uncle Topolino
* 2011 ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' as Roberto Distasio
* 2012 ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' as Amerigo Vessepi
* 2016 ''Film/TheLostCityOfZ'' as Baron de Gondoriz
* 2017 ''Film/JohnWickChapter2'' as Julius

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[[caption-width-right:300:Milian in the mid-70s]]

Tomás Quintín Rodriguez-Varona Milian Salinas De La Fé y Alvarez De La Campa (3 March 1933 – 22 March 2017), better known as Tomas Milian, was a Cuban-born actor and singer who spent most his career in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s.

Though born and raised in Havana and educated in New York City, Milian became something of an Italian cultural icon for his roles in SpaghettiWestern and ''poliziotteschi'' (Italian action-crime) films, often playing wisecracking police officers and impassioned criminals whom Italian audiences could closely identify with. It helped that he had a strong command of accents and local slang, often writing his own dialogue in ''romanesco'' (Roman dialect), which helped endear him to local audiences.

He later returned to the U.S., where he starred in ''Film/{{JFK}}'', ''Film/{{Amistad}}'', and ''Film/{{Traffic}}''.

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!!His filmography includes:

* 1966 ''Film/{{Django}}'' as Django
* 1966 ''[[Film/TheBible1966 The Bible: In the Beginning...]]'' as Abel
* 1967 ''Theatre/{{Camelot}}'' as Lancelot
* 1970 ''Film/{{Tristana}}'' as Horacio
* 1970 ''Film/{{Companeros}}'' as Yodalf Peterson
* 1971 ''Film/DontTurnTheOtherCheek'' as Dmitri Vassilovich Orlowsky
* 1973 ''Literature/WhiteFang'' as Jason Scott
* 1976 ''Film/{{Keoma}}'' as Keoma Shannon
* 1978 ''Film/ForceTenFromNavarone'' as Captain Lescovar
* 1979 ''Film/TheVisitor'' as Jesus
* 1990 ''Film/DieHard2'' as General Esperanza
* 2010 ''Film/LettersToJuliet'' Lorenzo Bartolini
* 2011 ''WesternAnimation/Cars2'' as Uncle Topolino
* 2011 ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'' as Roberto Distasio
* 2012 ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' as Amerigo Vessepi
* 2016 ''Film/TheLostCityOfZ'' as Baron de Gondoriz
* 2017 ''Film/JohnWickChapter2'' as Julius


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!!Tropes:

* BadassBeard: Sported one in most of his roles.
* FakeNationality: Spent most of his career playing Mexican banditos, or Italian cops or criminals. It wasn't until he moved back to the U.S. that he actually started to play Cuban characters.
* FauxFluency: Most of his early roles were dubbed, but he picked up Italian quite quickly and soon began rewriting his own dialogue and doing his own dubbing.
* MethodActing: Studied under Lee Strasberg himself.
* SameLanguageDub: Despite being at least tri-lingual, many of Milian's Italian films saw him dubbed into English by another actor (usually Michael Forest).

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