- For the final scene of Fahrenheit 451 (1966), he cut his hair to purposely create a continuity error. This was done to show his hatred for director François Truffaut.
- He died only two days after the death of director François Truffaut, who directed him in two of his most famous films, Jules and Jim (1962), and Fahrenheit 451 (1966).
- His ex-wife, Ann Power, is the daughter of actress Annabella and her ex-husband, Jean Murat, and was adopted by Tyrone Power.
- For his work in The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1965), he's one of only 7 actors to win the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in a motion picture without receiving an Oscar nomination for the same performance. The other 6 are, in chronological order: Millard Mitchell in My Six Convicts (1952), Earl Holliman in The Rainmaker (1956), Stephen Boyd in Ben-Hur (1959), Richard Attenborough, The Sand Pebbles (1966) and Doctor Dolittle (1967) , Richard Benjamin in The Sunshine Boys (1975) and Aaron Taylor-Johnson in Nocturnal Animals (2016).
- He is buried in a town called Triesen in Liechtenstein.
- Originally was to play the role of Captain Potzdorf in Stanley Kubrick's Barry Lyndon (1975), but Hardy Krüger replaced him after a few weeks of shooting for unknown reasons.
Contribute to this page
Suggest an edit or add missing content