Succession‘s Jeremy Strong, Masters of Sex and Party Down star Lizzy Caplan, and X-Files icon Gillian Anderson are just a few of the big names attached to Netflix’s The Boys From Brazil, an upcoming limited series reimagining the 1978 thriller about a Nazi cloning conspiracy. The film — which starred Gregory Peck as Dr. Josef Mengele, one of the real-life architects of the Holocaust, and Laurence Olivier as Ezra Lieberman, the man who has dedicated his life to stopping him — was a modest hit upon release, and earned Peck a Golden Globe and Olivier a Best Actor Oscar nomination. But in the decades since, it has become a cult classic, inspiring dozens of sci-fi films with its takes on cloning and mixing fact with fiction. Today, only a handful of actors from the original film are still with us — Olivier passed away in 1989, and Peck in 2003 — but some, including Steve Guttenberg, went on to major success.

Steve Guttenberg (67)

Barry Kohler

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Aspiring Nazi hunter Kohler was Guttenberg’s second-ever credited role, when he was still going by Steven Guttenberg. Though his character was killed off early in the film, Guttenberg was able to quickly jump into bigger roles, starring in the short-lived CBS sitcom Billy in 1979. In 1982, he had his career breakthrough as part of the ensemble cast of Barry Levinson’s Diner, and in 1984, he reached stardom as Mahoney in the first Police Academy film. A series of hits followed in quick succession, including 1985’s Cocoon, 1986’s Short Circuit, and 1987’s Three Men and a Baby, as well as sequels to many of those films.

Though Guttenberg became less of an ubiquitous presence on the big screen in the following decades, he still works steadily; this year alone, he was in Lifetime’s Kidnapped by a Killer: the Heather Robinson Story and an episode of High Potential. He is currently filming the movie American Summer with Christie Brinkley.

Frau Doring

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Harris was 50 and had already had a celebrated acting career with Tony and Emmy wins when she tackled the small role of Frau Doring, a widow who has an uncomfortable encounter with Olivier’s Nazi hunter. But younger fans may remember her best as Aunt May to Tobey Maguire‘s Peter Parker in the early 2000s Spider-Man films.

Now nearly 100 years old, Harris is mostly retired; her last credit was in 2022, when she appeared in two episodes of the dark comedy Search Party.

David Bennett

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The son of acclaimed pianist Arthur Rubinstein, John was already a seasoned TV guest star who had appeared on everything from Dragnet to The Streets of San Francisco to a recurring role on Family before he scored the role of Bennett, a vigilante who helps Olivier’s Lieberman investigate the mysterious deaths of civil servants around the world.

He still appears as a TV guest star — his most recent credit was the TNT series Claws in 2022 — but his great passion seems to be live theater. He has appeared on Broadway, most recently as Grandpa Joe in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory from 2017 to 2018, and in 2023, he toured with his one-man show Eisenhower: This Piece of Ground.

Jeremy Black (63)

Cloned children

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Black was 16 when played the cloned children at the heart of the film. After the movie wrapped, he attended Harvard University. Though Black did not appear in other films, he did continue to perform in live theater, spending many years as a member of the Castillo Theatre group, and appearing in a Broadway production of Anna Karenina in 1992.

Where can you watch the original Boys from Brazil?

The film is streaming for free on Tubi and Pluto TV, and on Amazon Prime with a subscription.