View Full Version : Actor Played Star Wars Villain, Hitler


Jim NCC1701A
09-03-2005, 07:29 AM
Michael Sheard, who played Admiral Ozzel in The Empire Strikes Back and Adolf Hitler five times, including in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, has died at age 65. Sheard appeared in more than 40 feature films, working with actors including Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Roger Moore and Sean Connery. He is best known in Britain for his role as Maurice Bronson, the teacher who terrorized his pupils in the lon-running teenage soup Grange Hill.

From The New Zealand Herald, 3 September 2005

John P
09-03-2005, 10:02 AM
Too young! :(

BEBruns
09-03-2005, 12:02 PM
I usually ignore typos, but "lon-running teenage soup?"

scotpens
09-03-2005, 02:29 PM
I usually ignore typos, but "lon-running teenage soup?"
Was his character a cannibal?
:)

Jim NCC1701A
09-04-2005, 01:18 AM
My bad. "Long-running teenage soap". Better?
I coulda blamed the paper but the truth it is was late and I was trying to type while reading the obit off the paper. Sheesh, everyone's a critic nowadays...