Who played Karla?
It is not listed on the complete cast, does anyone know who plays Karla in the Indian jail scene? It looks a little like Patrick Stewart.
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Patrick Stewart, an actor with one of the richest voices in the world, played Karla in both TTSS and Smiley's People - and didn't have a single word of dialogue.
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It's not on the so-called "complete cast" for the series, because actors who are only in a single episode of s series or miniseries are only listed on that single episode's cast, so as not to make the "complete cast" overlong.
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Stewart did a lot of small parts (in films) before Star Trek. He is Leodegrance in Excalibur and a Russian General in Wild Geese II (not that many saw that one). He is another actor who knows how to cenvey things via body language. It's a shame that his post-Trek roles (film) rarely seem take advantage of his skills.
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Patrick Stewart was unforgettable as Lenin in The Fall of Eagles, and early 70's BBC series. He WAS Lenin. He also played Serjanus in I Claudius, another great BBC series.