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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. |
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