This post continues a look at hidden likenesses in WFRP1 books, which started in the previous post.

Several WFRP1 adventures also contain illustrations which resemble famous figures and GW employees. Death on the Reik, in particular, is full of them. Many come from film and television.

Cultists in Death on the Reik (p9)

Vincent Price and Peter Lorre in Tales of Terror (1962)

Death on the Reik (p23)

Greta Garbo in Queen Christina (1933)

Luigi Belladonna in Death on the Reik (p37)

Marlon Brando in The Godfather (1972)

Corrobreth in Death on the Reik (p41)

Ian McShane in Lovejoy (1986-1994)

Herbert Marcuse in Death on the Reik (p50)

Stanley Holloway in My Fair Lady (1964)

Graf Orlok in Death on the Reik (‘River Life of the Empire’, p7)

Bela Lugosi in Dracula (1931)

One character drawing is based on the astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus.

Hans-Peter Schiller in Death on the Reik (p19)

Nicolaus Copernicus (c1580)

Others are figures from GW. Steve Sedgewick, better known as Bil, the artist behind the Gobbledigook cartoon in White Dwarf, and Chaz Elliott both appear.

Kurt Kutzmann in Death on the Reik (p55)

Steve “Bil” Sedgewick

Kurt von Wittgenstein in Death on the Reik (p70)

Charles “Chaz” Elliott

There are further lookalikes in later parts of the Enemy Within campaign. In Warhammer City the bunko artist is based on English magician Paul Daniels, and the Racketeer is a drawing of comedian Gareth Hale, in his role as one of the bouncers known as the Two Rons or The Management.

Bunko Artist in Warhammer City (p52)

Paul Daniels

Racketeer in Warhammer City (p52)

Gareth Hale

The Jade Sceptre cultists are Rick Priestley and GW figure painter Sid.

Jade Sceptre Cultists in Warhammer City (p61)

Rick Priestley and Sid

Graf Boris Todbringer is based on Holbein’s painting of Erasmus.

Graf Boris Todbringer in Warhammer City (p15)

Erasmus (between 1500 and 1525)

In Power Behind the Throne Gotthard Goebbels is former White Dwarf editor Paul Cockburn.

Gotthard Goebbels in Power Behind the Throne (p63)

Paul Cockburn

Two of the pregenerated PCs in Something Rotten in Kislev are based on the White Dwarf cartoon character Thrud the Barbarian and his creator, Carl Critchlow.

Krogar in Something Rotten in Kislev

Thrud the Barbarian

Dolgan Jim in Something Rotten in Kislev

Carl Critchlow

Finally, one of the NPCs in Lichemaster is the English actor Terry-Thomas.

Cecil de Vere Cholmondeley in Lichemaster (p82)

Terry-Thomas

For more resemblances in Warhammer art, see ‘Great Artists Steal’.

Internal art by Martin McKenna, Tony Ackland and Carl Critchlow. Used without permission. No challenge intended to the rights holders.