10 Amazing Movies With Weirdly Distracting Castings

10. Henry Grace - The Longest Day

The Longest Day is a true epic Hollywood production. An international effort pooling together filmmakers and actors from the United States, United Kingdom, France, and Germany, The Longest Day recounts in detail Operation Overlord and the events of D-Day, from the planning stages of the operation through to the Airborne assaults and Normandy landings. While occasionally plodding, the all-star cast and scale of the battles depicted makes it a must-watch.

But there is one aspect of the film that has always been distracting to me, and that is the man who plays Dwight D. Eisenhower, the Supreme Allied Commander and later U.S. President. Growing up and even today, I always do double takes because Eisenhower in The Longest Day looks just like the real deal, to the point where each time I watch this, I am convinced that they got the man himself.

The actual reality is that Henry Grace, an Oscar-nominated set decorator, was hired to play Eisenhower because of his resemblance to the general. It is his sole acting credit, and the uncanny similarities between them never fails to amuse.