Thursday, January 20, 2022

Hardy Kruger, German Actor in A Bridge Too Far and Barry Lyndon, Dies at 93




By N.S.

"The star frequently played a German soldier in Hollywood films like The Wild Geese and starred [sic] alongside John Wayne in Howard Hawks' Hatari!" [N.S.: And, lest we forget, Robert Aldrich's The Flight of the Phoenix (1965). Kruger didn't "star alongside John Wayne" in Hatari!, he supported him in it.]

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5 comments:

  1. AnonymousFriday, January 21, 2022 at 12:15:00 AM EST

    "Verrry interesting,but obscure."

    --German soldier,Arte Johnson on "Laugh-in".

    -GRA

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  2. AnonymousFriday, January 21, 2022 at 4:36:00 AM EST

    Hardy Kruger played a shell-shocked war veteran in the 1962 French film "Sundays and Cybele." His co-star was the enchanting child actress Patricia Gozzi as the titular heroine. I found it a very impressive and touching film when I saw it during its first theatrical release. Incidentally, Patricia's look-alike sister Chantal Gozzi appeared in "Leon Morin, Priest" (1961) with Jean-Paul Belmondo. Although the two girls are not twins, the resemblance between them is so strong that Wikipedia mistakes Chantal for Patricia in its entry for the Belmondo movie.

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  3. AnonymousFriday, January 21, 2022 at 9:00:00 AM EST

    jerry pdx
    I remember him in Barry Lyndon, a movie that got absolutely trashed by critics when it first came out, kind of a Heaven's Gate type thrashing. But when I watched it some years later, I really liked it. Well acted and produced period piece with good characters and an interesting story. It had a lot of hype before release and I suspect critics were just trying to seem like they were anti establishment in not liking the big budge big hype movie.

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  4. David In TNFriday, January 21, 2022 at 9:48:00 AM EST

    Hardy Kruger's character in The Wild Geese (1978) was a South African.

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  5. AnonymousFriday, January 21, 2022 at 12:08:00 PM EST

    TWO MORE WHITE ENTERTAINERS DROP DEAD--LOUIE ANDERSON(68)AND MEATLOAF(76).

    GRA:Dropping like flies lately--after being sprayed with Raid.Anderson had cancer and was obese,Meatloaf?Well,with a name like that...

    --GRA

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