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2 unusual facts about John Qualen


John Qualen

As Berger, the jewelry-selling Norwegian resistance member in Michael Curtiz' Casablanca (1942), he essayed a light Scandinavian accent, but put on a thicker Mediterranean accent as the homeward-bound fisherman Locota in William Wellman's The High and the Mighty (1954).

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Eventually reaching Broadway, he gained his big break as the Swedish janitor in Elmer Rice's Street Scene.



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