Then there is Anthony Quinn, the original Hollywood "generic ethnic type" :) Arab? Greek? Mongol? Italian? Eastern European Jew? nothing a good make-up pencil can't dress up :)
Or the Egyptian Omar Sharif as a White Russian in Dr. Zhivago ...
Eli Wallach
Charleton Heston
Milla completely
fooled me. She'd made some movies
in France. She looked so
natural, I thought
she was French and then came here
to hit the big time.
Turns out, she was born
in the Ukraine, she was raised
in California,
and in real life she
talks almost like a val girl.
Sometimes you can't tell.