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It's much easier to headline the obituary with a reference to the just-deceased actor's Empire role (he played Admiral Ozzel, if you didn't know that already) than his apparent struggle with typecasting, as Sheard played Adolf Hitler in Indiana Jones and Last Crusade...and three other times. Somewhat ironically, he didn't land the role in the 1973 TV movie The Death of Adolf Hitler; he had to settle for lesser National Socialist Heinrich Himmler (whom he would also play again).

UPDATE: Blogger Daniel Frank blames the dreaded Curse of Hitler.