Casino Royale - David Niven

[stek]

Oddly enough Niven claimed to be Scottish, being born in Kirriemuir. Reality it was to make his actors CV look more interesting, he was born in boring London.

Interesting bloke tho, came back from Hollywood to serve during the war.=, and managed to squeeze the name of his schoolchum 'Trubshawe' in his movies somewhere - certainly in 'A Matter of Life and Death', I remember it well!

[Sysman]

A posh Englishman speaking German in a bad Scottish accent?

That must break the laws of physics or something.

I can't remember the accent. A lot of stuff in that era was badly dubbed.

In the early 80s a lot of TV series were dubbed into German by the same few actors.

Badly - they would simply read the scripts in a bored fashion rather than get into the character. An actor could be seen screaming their head off but the voice would come over as one quiet "Nein".

One spectator sport was identifying which roles in other TV series that a given voice dubbed.

And of course a given actor/actress had a different voice when he/she was in some other series.

Bodie in The Professionals had a squeaky voice. That always cracked me up.

[Sysman]

Oddly enough Niven claimed to be Scottish, being born in Kirriemuir. Reality it was to make his actors CV look more interesting, he was born in boring London.

Interesting bloke tho, came back from Hollywood to serve during the war.=, and managed to squeeze the name of his schoolchum 'Trubshawe' in his movies somewhere - certainly in 'A Matter of Life and Death', I remember it well!

He wrote some entertaining books too, with some good tales about his mate Errol Flynn.

I've a feeling he got hammered for tax on his return to serve in the war.

[TestMangler]

When Sean Connery played King Richard (of England) in Robin Hood, Prince of Theives he retained a Scottish accent

And as for Dick Van Dykes cockney accent in Mary Poppins

There have been some pretty tulip accents in films

Was worse in The Hunt for Red October.

Shee Yoo Jimmy ? I am a Russian Shubmarine Captain......

[stek]

I can't remember the accent. A lot of stuff in that era was badly dubbed.

In the early 80s a lot of TV series were dubbed into German by the same few actors.

Badly - they would simply read the scripts in a bored fashion rather than get into the character. An actor could be seen screaming their head off but the voice would come over as one quiet "Nein".

One spectator sport was identifying which roles in other TV series that a given voice dubbed.

And of course a given actor/actress had a different voice when he/she was in some other series.

Bodie in The Professionals had a squeaky voice. That always cracked me up.

The German Homer Simpson sounds well wrong and he doesn't even go 'D'oh!' if I remember correctly....

[Doggy Styles]

The German Homer Simpson sounds well wrong and he doesn't even go 'D'oh!' if I remember correctly....

Did he go 'Ach!' instead?

[MarillionFan]

Was worse in The Hunt for Red October.

Shee Yoo Jimmy ? I am a Russian Shubmarine Captain......

Nah. Highlander

Shee Yoo Connor ? I am an Egyptshun metelurgish.