Portrayal in Popular Culture
Joachim von Ribbentrop has been portrayed by the following actors in film, television and theater productions;
- Henry Daniell in the 1943 United States propaganda film Mission to Moscow
- Graham Chapman (as "Ron Vibbentrop") in the 1970 British television comedy Monty Python's Flying Circus: The Naked Ant
- Henryk Borowski in the 1971 Polish film Epilogue at Nürnberg
- Miodrag Radovanovic in the 1971 Yugoslavian television production Nirnberski epilog
- Geoffrey Toone in the 1973 British television production The Death of Adolf Hitler
- Robert Hardy in the 1974 television production The Gathering Storm
- Kosti Klemelä in the 1978 Finnish television production Sodan ja rauhan miehet
- Demeter Bitenc in the 1979 Yugoslavian television production Slom
- Anton Diffring in the 1983 United States television production The Winds of War
- Hans-Dieter Asner in the 1985 television production Mussolini and I
- Richard Kane in the 1985 US/Yugoslavian television production Mussolini: The Untold Story
- John Woodvine in the 1989 British television production Countdown to War
- Wolf Kahler in the 1993 Merchant-Ivory film The Remains of the Day
- Benoît Girard in the 2000 Canadian/U.S. TV production Nuremberg
- Ivaylo Geraskov in the 2006 British television docudrama Nuremberg: Nazis on Trial
- Edward Baker-Duly in the 2010 BBC Wales/Masterpiece TV production Upstairs, Downstairs
Ribbentrop is also a key figure in the historical novel Famous Last Words by Timothy Findley (Penguin Books 1982, ISBN 0-14-006268-8) and Harry Turtledove's alternate history series Worldwar where his Soviet counterpart Molotov frequently expresses contempt for his lack of intelligence.
Ribbentrop appears in Kazuo Ishiguro's 1989 novel The Remains of the Day (ISBN 0-679-73172-5) in which he is a frequent guest at Darlington Hall.
Ribbentrop is also mentioned in the movie, The King's Speech, for sending the future British king's fiancée 17 carnations a day.
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