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"Elliott Gould - Col. Robert Stout"
"Gene Hackman - Maj. Gen. Stanisław Sosabowski"
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"Ryan O'Neal - Brig. Gen. James Gavin"
"Robert Redford - Maj. Julian Cook"
"Laurence Olivier - Dr. Jan Spaander"
"Liv Ullmann - Kate ter Horst"
"Nicholas Campbell - Capt. Glass"
"Denholm Elliott - RAF meteorological officer"
"Peter Faber - Capt. Arie D. "Harry" Bestebreurtje"
"Christopher Good - Maj. Carlyle"
"Frank Grimes - Maj. Fuller"
"Jeremy Kemp - RAF briefing officer"
"Paul Copley - Pete Wicks"
"Donald Douglas - Brigadier Gerald Lathbury"
"Keith Drinkel - Lieutenant Cornish"
"Colin Farrell - Corporal Hancock"
"Richard Kane - Col. Weaver"
"Paul Maxwell - Maj. Gen. Maxwell Taylor"
"Stephen Moore - Maj. Robert Steele"
"Donald Pickering - Lt. Col. C.B. Mackenzie"
"Gerald Sim - Col. Sims"
"John Stride - Grenadier Guards major"
"Alun Armstrong - Cpl. Davies"
"David Auker - "Taffy" Brace"
"Michael Bangerter - British staff colonel"
"Philip Raymond - Grenadier Guards Colonel"
"Michael Graham Cox - Capt. Jimmy Cleminson"
"Garrick Hagon - Lieutenant Rafferty"
"John Ratzenberger - Lt James Megellas"
"Arthur Hill - U.S. Army surgeon (colonel)"
"Mark Sheridan - Sergeant Tomblin"
"George Innes - Sergeant MacDonald"
"Hardy Krüger - SS-Brigadeführer Ludwig"
"Maximilian Schell - SS-Obergruppenführer Wilhelm Bittrich"
"Wolfgang Preiss - Generalfeldmarschall Gerd von Rundstedt"
"Walter Kohut - Generalfeldmarschall Walter Model"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.