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Old October 13th, 2018 #1
James T Kirk
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Default The Nazis And The Actors Who Played Them In The 1960's Television Show..."COMBAT!"

The American TV series "COMBAT!" ran for five seasons, and was a very successful show when it ran on ABC back in the 1960's. Well-acted, with excellent scripts and background music, it attracted many of the best TV stars of that era, among them James Caan, Robert Duvall, James Coburn, and many others. At least two of its guest stars went on to win Academy Awards in motion pictures. It also did something that most World War II based movies did not do at that time by having its German soldiers speak almost exclusively in German, with an occasional one able to speak English as well. In the episode, "Cry For Help", guest star Robert Duvall played a German medic who spoke German, English, and French.

Made some twenty years after the end of World War II, it was not unexpected that it would be biased toward the American point of view, portraying the Germans, for the most part, as thoroughly villainous. But occasionally it showed the war from the German point of view, which lent another texture of realism to the show.

And now we will use this thread to post "The Nazis of "COMBAT!" and the actors who portrayed them. We'll begin with Robert Duvall, and move on from there. Others are free to comment and/or post their photos and comments as well...


Robert Duvall as a captured German explosives expert in "COMBAT!"






Robert Duvall years later as Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Duvall, who has blue eyes, even
went so far as to wear brown contact lenses in order to historically match those of Lee