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Born Laruschka Mischa Skikne in Joniskis, Lithuania, he immigrated to South Africa at the age of 5. He grew up in Johannesburg, moving to London in 1946, at age 16. He enrolled in the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, and from there moved to stage and film stardom. His first major role was in Room at the Top, for which he received a Best Actor Oscar nomination.

During the 1950s and 1960s, he starred in several major films, including Butterfield 8, The AlamoThe Alamo sometimes refers to the Battle of the Alamo. Two major Hollywood motion pictures titled The Alamo have been made concerning the 1836 battle between 189 Texian and Tejano defenders and nearly 4,000 soldiers led by Mexican general Antonio Lopez de, DarlingDarling is a 1965 film which tells the story of an amoral model who sleeps her way to success. It stars Laurence Harvey, Dirk Bogarde and Julie Christie. The movie was written by Frederic Raphael and directed by John Schlesinger. It won Academy Awards for and The Manchurian CandidateThe Manchurian Candidate is a 1959 novel by Richard Condon. It has twice been made into movies of the same name; a celebrated 1962 film directed by John Frankenheimer, and a 2004 film directed by Jonathan Demme. 1962 film The premise of the film was that,.