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As everyone knows, John Wayne always played John Wayne. He was terrific at it, but it was a limited role. Given his bulk and his peculiar ambulatory sway, could it have been any different? There are other kinds of actors, of course, for whom anatomy is not necessarily destiny, and they can do anything. So far, it's hard to tell which category the German actor Ulrich Matthes belongs to. He's certainly very talented, yet it is hard to imagine this slender, hawk-faced, haunted-looking man appearing in a light comedy or a German-language remake of "On the Town." Like Wayne, Matthes may be predestined to play the same kind of role over and over--in his case, a fanatic burning ...