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Who played the assassin in Fred Zinnemann’s The Day of the Jackal?
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Fred Zinnemann
(From left to right) Marlon Brando, Fred Zinnemann, and Montgomery Clift on the set of From Here to Eternity (1953).
In Fred Zinnemann’s 1973 film The Day of the Jackal, the role of the meticulously prepared assassin was played by Edward Fox.1