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Oskar Werner
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For the final scene of
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
, he cut his hair to purposely create a continuity error. This was done to show his hatred for director
François Truffaut
.
He died only two days after the death of director
François Truffaut
, who directed him in two of his most famous films,
Jules and Jim (1962)
, and
Fahrenheit 451 (1966)
.
His ex-wife,
Ann Power
, is the daughter of actress
Annabella
and her ex-husband,
Jean Murat
, and was adopted by
Tyrone Power
.
For his work in
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965)
, he's one of only 7 actors to win the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a motion picture without receiving an Oscar nomination for the same performance. The other 6 are, in chronological order:
Millard Mitchell
in
My Six Convicts (1952)
,
Earl Holliman
in
The Rainmaker (1956)
,
Stephen Boyd
in
Ben-Hur (1959)
,
Richard Attenborough
,
The Sand Pebbles (1966)
and
Doctor Dolittle (1967)
,
Richard Benjamin
in
The Sunshine Boys (1975)
and
Aaron Taylor-Johnson
in
Nocturnal Animals (2016)
.
He is buried in a town called Triesen in Liechtenstein.
Originally was to play the role of Captain Potzdorf in
Stanley Kubrick
's
Barry Lyndon (1975)
, but
Hardy Krüger
replaced him after a few weeks of shooting for unknown reasons.
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