Originally Posted By: CG2015



The actor who plays the U.S. Nuclear submarine commander in The Spy Who Loved Me and who also had minor roles in Space: 1999 and Star Wars.




He was also in the Superman films and several others. His presence is simply because like several of the Aliens cast members in 1986, he was an American actor living in the UK with his union card. He was considered the same as a British actor for legal/accounting/whatever purposes and meant they didn't need to ship an American or Canadian actor overseas (which there are generally speaking strict limits on).

Same with John Ratzenberger. In the early 80s he moved back to the US before he started on Cheers and doing Pixar film voices, but in the late 70s he lived over there, so he was in both Supermans (missile officer in the first, NASA mission controller in the 2nd) and ESB in the Hoth base.

Simple politics.




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