Racial-role roulette

Brad Beam

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Jun 27, 2020, 10:52:03 PM6/27/20

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Currently, INSP is running a 1968 episode of “The Virginian” in which Ricardo Montalban is playing a thinly-veiled version of famed Métis (Canadian First Nations) revolutionary Louis Riel.

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JW

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Jun 28, 2020, 6:58:32 AM6/28/20

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> Currently, INSP is running a 1968 episode of “The Virginian” in which
> Ricardo Montalban is playing a thinly-veiled version of famed Métis
> (Canadian First Nations) revolutionary Louis Riel.

He also played a Japanese gangster in a 1968 episode of Hawaii Five-O.

David Bruggeman

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Jun 28, 2020, 10:13:17 AM6/28/20

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Montalban played a number of roles of different races, Khan Noonien Singh (described as a Sikh - ethnically if not religiously - in the Star Trek episode) among them.

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Dave Sikula

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Jun 29, 2020, 5:31:45 AM6/29/20

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And his old nemesis, Shatner, appeared on an episode of "Naked City," playing a Burmese sailor -- while speaking in a German accent.

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