Good casting, bad casting

I just watched this for the first time since it aired, having picked up the DVD last week. Considering that it's dated, and was a TV miniseries (from the Golden Age of Miniseries), which roles do you think were well cast and which were miscast?

Great casting choice: Michael Moriarty as Erik Dorf

I agree with the others who have posted in the various threads, about how well Moriarty played Dorf. "Creepy", "frightening"--those terms come to mind, but I think also he really nailed the portrayal of "the banality of evil". Here is this law student, recently graduated, who looks for and takes a job with the Security Service, because he needs it, and he is able then to make all of the rationalizations necessary to implement the murder of millions of men, women and children. He even wrestles with his conscience, but his resolve is steeled by his Lady Macbeth of a wife.

Miscasting: David Warner as Reinhard Heydrich

I love David Warner in just about every role I've ever seen him play, from young Mr. Blifil in "Tom Jones" all the way to Dr. Necessiter in "The Man With Two Brains" (and lots in between). But Heydrich was tall, thin, blonde, long-skulled, classically "Aryan" in the Nazis' corrupt way of looking at things, and he was 38 when he was killed. Even though Warner was about the same age, when the miniseries was filmed, he looked too old. But he carried off the role with his usual skill.


Anyone have any others?


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