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Few would deny that the role of Colonel Nicholson is the crowning glory of Guinness career.

Even the ones that do usually only touch on their re-integration into society briefly.

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It wouldnt be hyperbolic to label Kravchenkos performance the best of any child star in cinematic history.

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All the while, Colonel Hans Landa oversees security for a grand cinematic event for the Nazi high command.

Trip (Denzel Washington) looking upset in a scene from ‘Glory’

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In addition to beingone of Tarantinos most brilliant characters, Landa also represents the cunning evil of the Nazis.

The performance netted Waltz the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, among many other accolades that year.

Strangelovemark Stanley Kubricks two more renowned forays into war cinema; 1957sPaths of Glorymight just be his most effective.

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Colonel Nicholson standing in front of a group of soldiers in The Bridge on the River Kwai

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Ken Wantanabe in ‘Letters of Iwo Jima’

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Charlie Chaplin dressed as Adolf Hitler raising his arm and standing on a podium in The Great Dictator

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Robert De Niro in The Deer Hunter

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Flyora looking directly at the camera in Come and See

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Dr. Strangelove smiling with a deranged expression on his face in Dr. Strangelove.

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Hans Landa (Christoph Waltz) sitting behind a table and spreading his arms in Inglourious Basterds.

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Colonel Dax walking down the trench in Paths of Glory (1957)

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