Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~Jim Carter

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

James Edward Carter was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England on August 19m 1948. His mother was a land girl (Women's Land Army WLA) and later a school secretary, and his father worked for the Air Ministry. Carter attended Ashville College, Harrogate, where he was head boy in his final year, and the University of Sussex where he studied Law and appeared with the fledgling Drama Society, playing the title role in “Serjeant Musgrave's Dance”, the first student production at the newly-built Gardner Arts Centre theatre. He dropped out of university after two years to join a fringe theatre group in Brighton.

He was a member of the "Madhouse Company of London", a comedy troupe which performed in Boston in the 1970s. Other members were Marcel Steiner, Marc Weil and Tommy Shands. Ken Campbell, who appears in “A Fish Called Wanda” (1988) as George Thomason's lawyer was also associated with the troupe.

Under the stage name Jim Carter, he’s appeared in over 150 films and television series since 1976. As Jim Carter, he’s also appeared in theater and as a narrator

Carter was married to actress and singer Dame Imelda Staunton since 1983 but the separated in 2010. They have a daughter named Bessie born in 1983.

Chairman of Hampstead Cricket Club since 2010. He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2019 Queen's New Years Honors List for his services to Drama.

Carter has appeared in three Euro-westerns: “Hiawatha” – 1984 (narrator), “Rustlers’ Rhapsody” in 1984 as Blackie, “The New Zorro” (TV) in 1990 as Colonel Mefisto Palomarez.

CARTER, Jim (aka James Carter) (James Edward Carter) [8/19/1948, Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, U.K. -     ] – theater, film, TV actor, singer, married to actress, singer Dame Imelda Staunton (Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton) [1956-    ] (1983-    ) father of actress, singer Bessie Carter [1983-    ].

Hiawatha – 1984 (narrator)

Rustlers’ Rhapsody – 1984 (Blackie)

The New Zorro (TV) – 1990 (Colonel Mefisto Palomarez)

Who Are Those Guys? ~ Colin Drake

 

Colin Drake was born in England on March 8, 1917. Drake found incredible success as an accomplished actor, appearing in a variety of films throughout his Hollywood career. Drake started off his career in film with roles in the Yul Brynner comedic adaptation "Once More, With Feeling" (1960), the comedy "What's New, Pussycat?" (1965) with Peter Sellers and "Mister Freedom" (1968). He went on to act in the Judith Anderson horror flick "Inn of the D*mned" (1974), the John Jarratt comedy "The Great MacArthy" (1975) and "Cheers" (NBC, 1982-1993). He also appeared in "People Like Us" (1989-1990) and "Cast a Deadly Spell" (HBO, 1991-92). More recently, Drake appeared on "Megalodon: The New Evidence" (Discovery Channel, 2013-14).

Drake appeared in two Spaghetti westerns: Dynamite Jack – 1960 as Larry Schultz and “Dans la poussière du soleil” (In the Dust of the Sun) in 1971 as Sheriff Edwards.

Drake died in Auburn, California on March 27, 2011, at the age of 94.

DRAKE, Colin (aka Collin Drake) [3/8/1917, England, U.K. – 3/27/2011, Auburn, California, U.S.A.] – writer, theater, film, TV actor.

Dynamite Jack – 1960 (Larry Schultz)

In the Dust of the Sun – 1971 (Sheriff Edwards)

Special Birthdays

 Louis Levy (composer) would have been 130 today but died in 1957.

Paco Catala Ibanez (actor) is 90 today.

Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Marilù Carteny

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

Maria Luigia Carteny was an Italian production designer, costume designer and film actress. She is often confused in film credits with Simonetta Santaniello who played Maureen McBain in Sergio Leone’s 1968 “Once Upon a Time in the West”. Marilu had worked as a costume designer on Italian films since 1950. She became a production designer in 1970.

Carteny also designed costumes for two other Spaghetti westerns Quién sabe? (A Bullet for the General) and Dio perdona ... io no! 1967 (God Forgives… I Don’t!) both in 1967.

She actually appears on screen in a small role as one of the mourners at the McBain ranch in the funeral scene.

CARTENY, Marilù (aka Marilyn Cartemy, Maria Luigia Carteny, Marilu Carteny) (Maria Luigia Carteny) [Italian] – production designer, costume designer, film actress.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - 1965 (observer at Tuco's hanging)

Once Upon a Time in the West – 1968 (mourner at McBain funeral)

New British Book Release – Sergio Leone by Himself

 

Sergio Leone by Himself

Author: Sir Christopher Frayling was released by Reel Art Press on

 

Country: England

Language: English

Pages: 256

ISBN-10: ‎1909526967

ISBN-13: ‎978-1909526969

Available: November 19, 2024

 

Between the worldwide box-office success of his Dollars trilogy and his untimely death in April 1989 at the age of 60, Sergio Leone gave several interviews to selected film journalists. He also wrote a series of thoughtful essays about his cinematic influences such as Charlie Chaplin, Federico Fellini, Henry Fonda, Robert Aldrich and John Ford. To accompany his final film, Once Upon a Time in America (1984), he published several articles about his obsessive quest to make the film and how it eventually happened. Most of these writings have never before appeared in English; as a collection they have never before appeared anywhere. Sergio Leone by Himself, compiled by Leone’s acclaimed biographer Christopher Frayling, gathers all his significant interviews, essays and articles to create a director’s-eye view of a body of work that over the past half century has had a decisive influence on world cinema. The book is illustrated with previously unseen photographs, posters and related ephemera from the Leone family collection and the Angelo Novi archive, both now housed in the Cineteca in Bologna.

The architect of cinema’s American West, Sergio Leone (1929–1989) did not speak English. His “spaghetti Westerns” were filmed in Italy and Spain and received both critique and acclaim for their violence, grittiness and camera work. Leone is best remembered for his two “trilogies'' of films: the Dollars trilogy starring Clint Eastwood and his Once Upon a Time films.

Christopher Frayling is the leading scholar on the life and legacy of Sergio Leone and is the author of his bestselling biography, Something to Do with Death. He served as rector of the Royal College of Art from 1996 to 2009 and as chairman of Arts Council England from 2005 to 2009. As Sergio Leone once said to him, “it took an Englishman to take my films seriously.”

Trailer link: Sergio Leone by Himself, by Christopher Frayling. Published by Reel Art Press

Manoa, the City of Gold

 

Manoa la ciudad de oro – Spanish title

Маноа. Золотой город – Russian title

Manoa, the City of Gold – English title

 

A 1996 Spanish film production [Teresa Sancho de Meras, Grup Somni, Enrique Cerezo

     Producciones Cinematográficas S.A. (Madrid)]

Producer: J.P. Simon (Juan Piquer Simón), José Ortega, Primitivo Rodríguez

Director: Juan Piquer Simón

Story: E Salgari (Emilio Salgari)

Screenplay: Juan Piquer Simón

Cinematography: Julio Bragado (Julio Darman) [Eastmancolor]

Music:

Running time: 80 minutes

 

Cast:

Webber - Andrés Alexis

Marcella - Cristina Cavallaro

Carnot – John Legget

Fernando - Juan C. Gabarda (Juan Carlos Gabarda)

Manuel - Juan C. Lee (Juan Carlos Lee)

Morgan - Frank Braña

Harkin - Fabrizio Meschini

Senor Rostand - Manuel Máñez

Brujo Indian - Germán Montaner

Guía Indian – Omar Chira

Cantinero - Vicente Amaya

Indio Shaw - Javier Sanchís

Guerrero Inca - Fernando Misiego (Fernando Missiego)

Sinoky - Francisco Pardo (Francisco Pardo López)

Hombres - Ricardo Gómez, Juan Prado, Edmond Peter Clay, Sergio George Reig

Pistoleros - Ximo Martínez, Juan E. Chira, Rafael Rodríguez, Javier Pérez

With: Ricardo Gregori, Paloma Gómez, José A. Rodríguez, Marta Murcia

 

Webber (Andrés Alexis) and Fernando (Juan C. Gabarda) find an old Indian who has been beaten almost to death. But before dying he entrusts them with an Inca map that describes the location of a hidden treasure, for which they will have to fight to find it before anyone else.

 

It’s based on a story by Emilio Salgari (by way of Jules Verne) set in the 1920's.

Made by Enrique Cerezo who produced "Outlaw Justice", "Dollar for the Dead" & "Return of El Coyote" (all 1998). He also made a pair of Vampire films, "La Venganza de Ira Vamp" (2010) and "Argento's Dracula" (2012). Cerezo most recently remade Jesus Franco's "Los últimos de Filipinas", as "1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines" (2016).

[submitted by Gary Williams, Michael Ferguson]

Special Birthdays

Jean Manse (writer) would have been 125 today but died in 1967.

Carlos López Moctezuma (actor) would have been 115 today but died in 1980.