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This is little comfort to Bulliet, how-includes the original innocent by-stander...
...year-old character actor seems an unlikely object of continental adulation or incontinent adoration. He is Bronx-born and irredeemably ugly; his voice has all the soothing qualities of a tugboat whistle. His brocade jackets and frilled shirts merely reinforce the impression of 19th century decadence. As a performer, Stander has only one style: the anthropoidal comic-heavy. Nor have two decades on Hollywood's unwritten blacklist enhanced his marketability. But Stander, who left the U.S. in 1964, has achieved extraordinary film success in Europe. He won raves as the mordant mobster in Roman Polanski...
...Stander didn't find anything funny about studio attitudes toward his offscreen romances (which eventually led to five marriages). "They treated you like a piece of meat. If they didn't like you making it with a particular broad, they'd send some hood around to threaten you with castration...
...1930s, Stander helped organize the Screen Actors Guild, raised money for the Spanish Loyalists, fought for release of the Scottsboro boys. "I was branded a nigger-loving Communist and every other red spot you can mention," he says. "I didn't work again for a major studio...
Thereafter Stander did not play in another American film until 1963, when Director Tony Richardson wangled him a part in The Loved One. He had a massive heart attack that same year, but it has not slowed him down. "I think my troubles are finally over," he says. "Just in case they ain't, I'm living it up as much...