"Svenson taught me how to speak German in this film! I didn't know anything, and this guy, who used to be a Swedish ice-hockey player who went to Vietnam as a Marine, he stood there with me, coaching me things like `Bringen Sie die Gefangenen in mein Buro!' Williamson also was a very nice person. I had one wonderful scene in this movie, where I...I was outranking them, they are my prisoners, I walk in front of the prisoners, and I have to say something like, in a very contemptuous way: `Americans...Italians...Jews...Irish!' I felt like a traitor!"
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Donald O'Brien (actor)
Donal "Donald" O'Brien (15 September 1930 – 29 November 2003) was a French-born Italian film actor of Irish decent. In his near 40-year career, O'Brien appeared in dozens of stage performances and in more than 60 film and television productions. He was particularly known for his performances in Spaghetti Westerns during the late-1960s and 70s, and later in Italian exploitation and horror films.
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