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Shalom " Sam " Jaffe (March 10, 1891 – March 24, 1984) was an American actor, teacher, musician, and engineer. In 1951, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Asphalt Jungle (1950). He also appeared in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and Ben-Hur (1959), and is additionally known for ...
He appeared in George Stevens Gunga Din (1939) which sported big star names as well. Stevens gave Jaffe the lead, Gunga Din, native regimental bhisti (Hindi for water-carrier). It was probably Jaffe's most familiar film role. It was a standout part which Jaffe handled with great humanity, and the film was a huge hit.
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The film is about three British sergeants and Gunga Din, their native bhisti (water bearer), who fight the Thuggee, an Indian murder cult, in colonial British India . The supporting cast features Joan Fontaine, Eduardo Ciannelli, and in the title role, Sam Jaffe. The epic film was written by Joel Sayre and Fred Guiol from a storyline by Ben ...
Mar 25, 1984 · Mr. Jaffe won acclaim for scores of performances, but perhaps his best- remembered film characterizations were as the humble but heroic Indian water-carrier in ''Gunga Din'' in 1939 and the ...
Sep 3, 2015 · GUNGA DIN (1939), directed by George Stevens. Jaffe was forty-eight when he played the grueling role of the regimental Indian water carrier in Stevens’ film taken from Rudyard Kipling’s immortal poem, with an expanded story from Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur.
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Jan 14, 2014 · Cary Grant, Victor McLaglen, and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. play three soldiers hell-bent on making the world safe. When an English cavalry patrol at Tantapur, India, gets wiped out, Sergeants Cutter (Grant), MacChesney (McLaglen), and Ballantine (Fairbanks, Jr.) ride in and fight a murder cult of Thuggees. Gunga Din (Sam Jaffe) is the company ...
Sam Jaffe. Actor: The Asphalt Jungle. Originally named Shalom Jaffe, he became known to the world as Sam Jaffe. He was born in New York City, to Heida (Ada) and Barnett Jaffe, who were Russian Jewish immigrants. As a child, he appeared in Yiddish theatre productions with his mother, a prominent regional stage actress. He graduated from the City College of New York and then studied engineering ...
