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Watch Ron Lacey, the actor who played the villainous Nazi officer in Raiders of the Lost Ark, share his insights and anecdotes in this rare interview.
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© Paramount Pictures (1981)Director: Steven SpielbergWriters: Lawrence Kasdan, George LucasStars: Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, Joh...
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Clip from 'Raiders of the Lost Ark' [1981]Ronald Lacey as Sturmbannführer Arnold Ernst TohtDirected by Stephen SpielbergStory by George Lucashttps://www.luca...
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Mar 19, 2016 · Notable other work: Toht may have had his face melted at the end of Raiders but that didn’t stop Lacey — who died in 1991 — from appearing as an unnamed Gestapo agent in Indiana Jones and...
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Early life and career
Major Arnold Ernst Toht had at least one sibling, a sister named Ilsa, a future agent of the Third Reich herself. Toht joined the Gestapo and, as with the rest of his Gestapo brethren, was trained in the art of combat, interrogation, torture, and espionage, and was well-versed in mysticism and the belief in Aryan society. Over time, Toht became a skilled torturer and interrogator, relishing the opportunity to inflict pain and suffering even for its own sake, and a firm believer in the Nazi do...
Search for the Ark
1. "I have the perfect man for this kind of work." 2. ―Herman Dietrich In 1936, Toht was sent to Nepal by the Third Reich Special Antiquities Collection to acquire the headpiece to the Staff of Ra from Marion Ravenwood. Toht and his surbordinate Otto hired three henchmen off the streets of Kathmandu, Nepal known as the Ratty Nepalese, the Mean Mongolian and the Giant Sherpa, paying them a handful of cash to ensure their loyalties. They all followed the American archaeologist Indiana Jone...
Legacy
After Toht's death, his sister Ilsa tried to avenge him by killing Indiana Jones, the adventurer who had contributed to his death. Ilsa, a high-ranking official of the Third Reich in the same vein as her brother, became head of a plot by the Nazis involving the theft of the Chachapoyan Fertility Idol and its use in manipulating the South American native peoples into sabotaging the American rubber interests and joining the Third Reich were war to break out. Deeming her as nasty as her brother,...
Toht was portrayed by the late Ronald Lacey in Raiders of the Lost Ark who is never referred to by name beyond the credits and only has a total of sixteen lines in the film. The film'snovel establishes Toht's first name as "Arnold" but in Marvel Comics' The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones, the character's sister Ilsa refers to him as "Ernst Toh...
Raiders of the Lost Ark novel (First appearance)Raiders of the Lost ArkcomicRaiders of the Lost ArkstorybookRaiders of the Lost Ark: Where there's smoke... on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)Raiders of the Lost Ark: Blazing battle on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)Arnold Ernst Toht on IndianaJones.com (backup link on Archive.org)Jun 10, 2016 · Spielberg had sketches drawn of Toht ( Ronald Lacey ), the bespectacled, Peter Lorre -like Gestapo interrogator, as a "Mad Max"-worthy villain, complete with a prosthetic hand that served as...
Also in pursuit was Jones' Nazi archaeologist counterpart, Dr. René Belloq (Paul Freeman), and Major Arnold Toht (Ronald Lacey), a Gestapo agent, who aim to weaponize the ark. They met...
