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2	[[caption-width-right:300:Milian in the mid-'70s]]
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4	Tomás Quintín Rodríguez-Varona Milián Salinas de la Fé y 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.
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6	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.
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8	He later returned to the U.S., where he starred in ''Film/{{JFK}}'', ''Film/{{Amistad}}'', and ''Film/Traffic2000''.
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11	!!His filmography includes:
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13	* ''The Big Gundown'' (1966) as Manuel 'Cuchillo' Sanchez
14	* ''Face to Face'' (1967) as Solomon 'Beauregard' Bennet
15	* ''Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot!'' (1967) as The Stranger/Django
16	* ''Film/{{Companeros}}'' (1970) as El Vasco
17	* ''Film/TheLastMovie'' (1971) as Padre
18	* ''Film/DontTortureADuckling'' (1972) as Andrea Martelli
19	* ''Film/AlmostHuman'' (1974) as Giulio Sacchi
20	* ''Film/TheWhiteTheYellowTheBlack'' (1975) as Sakura
21	* ''Film/WinterKills'' (1979) as Frank Mayo
22	* ''Film/IdentificationOfAWoman'' (1982) as Niccolò
23	* ''Film/KingDavid'' (1985) as Akiss
24	* ''Film/CatChaser'' (1989) as Andres [=DeBoya=]
25	* ''Film/{{JFK}}'' (1991) as Leopoldo
26	* ''Film/FoolsRushIn'' (1997) as Tomas Fuentes
27	* ''Film/{{Amistad}}'' (1997) as Ángel Calderón de la Barca y Belgrano
28	* ''Series/{{Oz}}'' (1997) as Ricardo Alvarez
29	* ''Film/{{Traffic\|2000}}'' (2000) as General Salazar
30	* ''WebVideo/TheHire'' (2002) as The Passenger
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33	!!Tropes:
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35	* 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 played some Cuban characters.
36	* FauxFluency: Most of his early roles were dubbed, but he picked up Italian quickly and began rewriting his own dialogue and doing his own dubbing.
37	* LargeHam: Capable of swallowing the scenery whole.
38	* MethodActing: Studied under Lee Strasberg himself.

Context Creator / TomasMilian