Favorite WWII Real Portrayals by an Actor

Martin Balsam as Admiral Husband E. Kimmel

Sô Yamamura as Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto

James Whitmore as Admiral Halsey

James Cardwell, John Alvin, Edward Ryan, George Offerman Jr. as The Sullivan Brothers

Karl Michael Vogler as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel

Karl Malden as General Omar N. Bradley

Dirk Bogarde as Lt .Gen. Browning

Sean Connery as Maj. Gen. Urquhart

Ryan O'Neal as Brig. Gen. Gavin

Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg

Kenneth Branagh as Major-General Henning von Tresckow

Liam Neeson as Oskar Schindler

Albert Finney as Winston Chuchhill

Daniel Craig as Tuvia Bielski

Liev Schreiber as Zus Bielski

John Wayne as Sgt. John M. Stryker

Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson. This character is based on real life WWII P.O.W., Brigadier Sir Philip John Denton Toosey CBE, DSO, TD, JP (12 August 1904 – 22 December 1975) who was a lieutenant colonel, and the senior Allied officer at the Japanese prisoner-of-war camp Tha Maa Kham (known as Tamarkan) in Thailand during World War II. The men at this camp built Bridge 277 of the Burma Railway.

Jon Voight as Pres Roosevelt

Mako as Admiral Yamamoto

Bruno Ganz as Adolph Hitler

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Ulrich Matthes as Joseph Goebbels

Andrew Garfield as Desmond Doss

Added 9-1-2019