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After this actor’s character is told about local trees very similar to elm, this actor muses “Six hundred years… That would be quite something.” In one scene, this actor refuses a glass of scotch until toasting “I suppose if I were you, I’d have to kill myself. Cheers!” This actor at first just gets up and nonchalantly dusts off his hat after being knocked down by a (*) mortar blast. This actor claimed to have been inspired by his son for the limping walk his character performs upon being let out of a metal box called “the Oven.” At a film’s climax, (10[1])this actor says only “You!?” and “What have I done?” before falling dead on a plunger to detonate explosive charges. For 10 points, name this actor who played Colonel Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai. ■END■ (0[3])

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