tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764631039755560338.post1511314861976640259..comments2024-03-08T20:21:22.820+00:00Comments on The Deighton Dossier: Goodbye Erich Stinnes ....Deighton Dossierhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01764108300942425651noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5764631039755560338.post-18852044899435549382014-09-06T23:04:55.649+01:002014-09-06T23:04:55.649+01:00Another German actor who had link with Deighton fi...Another German actor who had link with Deighton film albeit as a minor character was Gunter Meisner <br />Gunter Meisner was archetypal in portraying unsavoury minor characters-be it a fanatic Nazi - General Greifer, vocally exhorting the “one leader and one nation” and “thousand year Reich” nonsense of his beloved Fuhrer in the film Odessa File, and who was quite shy of the camera , as Kreutzman, the Berlin gangster, who was entrusted with the escape of Colonel Stok from East Berlin in the film, Funeral in Berlin, and finally as Mr Slugworth, who was Wonka’s rival who had less than honest curiosity to know of recipes of Wonka in the film, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. He died in Berlin 1994.<br />Meisner with his serious face and glasses was known for his portrayal of Adolf Hitler,but much more convincingly as a Nazi officer.<br />In the Golden Eye film, which was not one of my favourite Bond films, General Ourumov was the only character I liked in this very unconvincing film. I never liked Pierce Brosnan as the Bond. I was prejudiced of course, given that for me the Bond on the screen has always been Sean Connery, having seen him on the screen in 1962, the very first day of the release of Dr NO.<br /> <br />By the way, it is possible that Gottfried John had a Slavic ancestry. I know a few German friends, born in Germany, who have Slavic ancestry. Germany born polish friends are more predominant. After all Germany borders with Poland and former Czechoslovakia .<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com