Little Known Spaghetti Western actors ~ Carlos Deschamps

[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.]

Carlos Deschamps is/was a character actor of possible Spanish origin. He only appeared in one film that I can find reference to and there is no biographical information available on him.

Carlos Deschamps only film appearance where he’s credited as Jackson in the 1964 Spaghetti western “Der letzte Mohikaner” (The Last Tomahawk) as Jackson in 1964. I watched the film again recently and heard no one called Jackson.

DESCHAMPS, Carlos – film actor.

The Last Tomahawk – 1964 (Jackson)

Spaghetti Western Directors, Screenwriters, Cinematographers

Spaghetti Western Director ~ James Campbell

James Campbell is a writer/director based in the Northeast of England. He graduated from the Northern School of Art in June 2015. His works includes “Ripper” (2016), “Please Don't Die” (2018), “Tiger Man” (2020), “1986” (2021), and the western-horror feature “The Moonshine Gang of Cheyenne” (2022) starring Steven Ogg, Pollyanna McIntosh, and Richard Brake.

Campbell has directed two Euro-westerns: “The Moonshine Gang of Cheyenne” in 2018 and “Bushwhacker Blues” in 2022.

CAMPBELL, James [British] – producer, director, writer.

The Moonshine Gang of Cheyenne - 2018

Bushwhacker Blues – 2022

Spaghetti Western Screenwriter ~ Alain Baudry

Alain Baudry is/was a French assistant director, writer and actor who was an assistant director on the 1971 television film “Vipère au poing”, appeared as an actor as an assistant director on the 1969 TV movie ‘Agathe ou Les Mains vides’ and co-wrote the screenplay for one film which was  the Euro-western  “Uncas, el fin de una raza” (Fall of the Mohicans) with Vinicio Marinucci and José Luis Martínez in 1965.

I can find no biographical information on him online or in print.

BAUDRY, Alain [French] – assistant director, writer, actor.

Fall of the Mohicans – 1965 (co)

 

Spaghetti Western Cinematographer ~ Luigi Ciccarese

Luigi Ciccarese was born in Rome, Italy in 1952. He’s worked as a cinematographer on ninety-six films 1972 and 2010. He was a cameraman nine films between 1972 and 1991 and the executive producer on the 1993 film “Dangerous Attraction”. He’s best known as the director of photography on “Terminator II” in 1989 and “First Action Hero” in 1994.

He has been director of photography for numerous Italian directors, including Roberto Mauri, Mario Bianchi, Lorenzo Gicca Palli, Luigi Petrini, Mario Siciliano and Massimo Pirri. He has also collaborated on some films directed by Umberto Lenzi, Lucio Fulci and Claudio Fragasso. The directors to whom he was most attached are Bruno Mattei and Ninì Grassia.

In some films Ciccarese has been credited as Luis Chickers, Louis C.K. Rees or even Louis Smith.

Luigi Ciccarese was a cinematographer on five Spaghetti westerns: “Un animale chiamato uomo” (An Animal Called Man) and “Bada alla tua pelle Spirito Santo! – 1972” (Return of the Holy Ghost) both in 1972, “Corte marziale” (Court Martial) in 1973, “Scalps” with Julio Burgos in 1986 and “L’Apache Bianco” with Julio Burgos in 1987.

CICCARESE, Luigi (aka Luigi Ceccarese Gigi Ciccarese, Luis Chickers, Louis C.K. Rees, Louis Smith) [1952, Rome, Lazio, Italy -     ] – producer, cinematographer, cameraman.

An Animal Called Man – 1972

Return of the Holy Ghost – 1972

Court Martial - 1973

Scalps – 1986 (co)

White Apache – 1987 (co)

CSC – Cineteca Nazionale and MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts present the film festival "Genres, yesterday and today"

 

CSC

February 19, 2026

Scheduled at the MAXXI Auditorium from February 28, with free admission.

After the excellent response recorded by the review "The great restored Italian cinema", the CSC - Cineteca Nazionale and the MAXXI - National Museum of XXI Century Arts are once again collaborating together for a new review dedicated to genre cinema of yesterday and today, in a happy and fertile comparison.

The curator of the festival, the historian and film critic Fabio Melelli, explains: "Genres have always been the backbone of national cinema, today they are more alive than ever, sometimes declined in a different way from the past, but always present on Italian screens, whether small or large. The review intends to examine some of the most significant works of Italian film production, of yesterday and today, in which the classic genres find an absolutely peculiar and authorial location. A review that takes its cue from the Po Valley Gothic by Pupi Avati, represented by one of his most recent titles, 'Il signor Diavolo', an authentic summa of the Bolognese master's work, ideally compared with the masterpiece of the seventies thriller, 'Deep Red' by Dario Argento, then passing through the classic noir by Fernando Di Leo, 'Milano Calibro 9', also celebrated for his extraordinary soundtrack, in a rock-progressive theme, by Osanna and the contemporary neo-noir 'Dogman' by Matteo Garrone. Without forgetting the great season of the Italian western, evoked with two of his most famous and beloved films, an unattainable model for legions of filmmakers, the elegiac and fairytale 'Once upon a time in the west' by Sergio Leone and the visionary and surreal 'Django' by Sergio Corbucci».

The President of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Gabriella Buontempo said: "This exhibition is part of the fruitful collaboration between the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts. The films proposed by the Cineteca Nazionale find new life and an audience of enthusiasts for a cycle of screenings that relaunch the great Italian cinema as an opportunity for meeting and debate, renewing the ritual of Sunday screening for the whole family and creating new habits for the new generations. Great authors and popular films, as in the great tradition of our cinema».

SUNDAY 8 MARCH

at 16:30 Once Upon a Time in the West by Sergio Leone (1968)

Introduced by Fabio Melelli

A lone gunslinger, Harmonica, arrives in Flagstone to meet Frank, but only finds his henchmen trying to kill him. In the meantime, Frank and his other gunslingers exterminate the entire McBain family at Sweetwater: they are hitmen of the railroad magnate Morton who wants to take possession of that land, destined to become the nerve center of the new railway route. To mess up his plans, however, comes Jill, a former prostitute from New Orleans, whom Brett McBain married and who is therefore now the owner of the land.

Once the courtly rules of the genre have been subverted in the dollar trilogy, Leone tries to immerse himself in the classic atmosphere of the western by keeping the figure of the infallible and solitary gunslinger (Harmonica) steady, but opening the story to the legendary spaces of Monument Valley and taking inspiration from one of the main themes of the conquest of the West, the advance of civilization along the railroad tracks. With Charles Bronson, Claudia Cardinale and Henry Fonda. Music by Ennio Morricone. From a story by Leone, Dario Argento and Bernardo Bertolucci.

SUNDAY 29 MARCH

at 16:30 Django by Sergio Corbucci (1966, 92')

Introduced by Fabio Melelli

Border between the United States and Mexico: in a remote village, devastated by the clashes between a racist sect commanded by Major Jackson and the revolutionaries led by General Rodríguez, Django arrives, a war veteran seeking revenge for the murder of his wife. After getting the better of Jackson's men and winning the trust of the revolutionaries, Django is betrayed. Seriously injured, the man decides to face his nemesis once and for all... A true cult movie of the spaghetti western genre, Django has given rise to an endless saga, with often apocryphal titles. In the central role we find Franco Nero: thanks to this film the Italian actor has achieved enormous popularity even on the international territory. Recently honored by Tarantino in his "Django Unchained".

All appointments are free admission subject to availability.

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Voices of the Spaghetti Western – “May God Forgive You... But I Won't”

As we know most of the Euro-westerns were co-productions from Italy, Spain, Germany and France which incorporated British and American actors to gain a worldwide audience. The films were shot silent and then dubbed into the various languages where they were sold for distribution. That means Italian, Spanish, German, French and English voice actors were hired to dub the films. Even actors from the countries where the film was to be shown were often dubbed by voice actors for various reasons such as the actors were already busy making another film, they wanted to be paid additional salaries for dubbing their voices, the actor’s voice didn’t fit the character they were playing, accidents to the actors and in some cases even death before the film could be dubbed.

I’ll list a Euro-western and the (I) Italian, (S) Spanish, (G) German and (F) French, (E) English voices that I can find and once in a while a bio on a specific voice actor as in Europe.

Today we’ll cover “May God Forgive You... But I Won't”

[(I) Italian, (S) Spanish, (G) German, (F) French, (E) English]

Cjamango McDonald – George Ardisson (I) Sergio Graziani, (G) Gert Günther Hoffmann

Dick Smart - Anthony Ghidra (I) Alessandro Sperlì, (G) Friedrich W. Bauschulte

Virginia Stuart - Cristina Iosani (I) Fiorella Betti, (G) Renate Küster

Garcia Ramirez 'Barrica' - Pedro Sanchez (I) ?, (G) Alexander Welbat

Stuart - Luigi Pavese (I) Corrado Gaipa (G)            Kurt Mühlhardt

Scott – Jen Louis (I) Cesare Barbetti (G) Rolf Schult

Special Birthdays

Josefina Serratosa (actress) would have been 115 today but died in 1990.

Alfonso Rojas (actor) would have been 110 today but died in 1996.

Fred Coplan (actor) would have been 105 today but died in 2004.

Craig Hill (actor) would have been 100 today but died in 2014.

Helga Sommerfield (actress) would have been 85 today but died in 1991.

RIP Jaime Pérez Cubero

 

Production and costume designer, set decorator and art director Jaime Pérez Cubero died in Madrid, Spain on June 24, 2025. He was a month shy of turning 93. Born Jaime Pérez-Fogón Cubero in Madrid on July 25, 1932. He was the son of director, writer, cinematographer Andrés Pérez Cubero and the brother of cameraman, cinematographer Raúl Pérez Cubero who also died in 2025. Jaime began working in the art department of various studios beginning in 1956 on the film “Tarde de toros” and worked in various capacities until 1999. Jaime worked along with his fellow artist José Luis Galicia on many films. Coincidentally José died the month before. Jaime Pérez Cubero worked on 47 westerns beginning with “The Shadow of Zorro” in 1962 as a set decorator and finished with “Tequila” as a costume designer in 1973. The Shadow of Zorro – 1962 [set decorator], Terrible Sheriff – 1962 [art director], Gunfight at High Noon – 1963 [set decorator], The Implacable Three – 1963 [production designer], The Sign of the Coyote – 1963 [set decorator], Ride and Kill – 1964 [set decorator], Seven Guns from Texas – 1964 [art director], Tomb of the Pistolero – 1964 [set decorator], Welcome Padre Murray – 1964 [production designer], A Coffin for the Sheriff – 1965 [production designer], Fistful of Knuckles – 1965 production designer], Gunman’s Hands – 1965 [set decorator], The Outlaw of Red River – 1965 [production designer], The Relentless Four – 1965 [set decorator], Seven Hours of Gunfire – 1965 [set decorator], Dollars for a Fast Gun – 1966 [set decorator], Kid Rodelo – 1966 [art director], Mutiny at Fort Sharp – 1966 [art department], Ringo and Gringo Against All – 1966 production designer], Ringo the Face of Revenge – 1966 [set decorator], Seven Guns for the MacGregors – 1966 [art director], Vengeance Ranch – 1966 [set decorator], Adios, Hombre – 1967 [production designer], Bandidos – 1967 [production designer], Django Kill – 1967 [art director], The Hellbenders – 1967 [art director], Rattler Kid – 1967 [production designer], Two Crosses at Danger Pass – 1967 [set decorator], Death Knows No Time – 1968 [set decorator], Go for Broke – 1968 [set decorator], Kill Them All and Come Back Alone – 1968 [art department]. Killer Adios – 1968 [production designer], One by One – 1968 [production designer], Ringo the Lone Rider – 1968 [set decorator], A Stranger in Paso Bravo – 1968 [set decorator], The Taste of Vengeance – 1968 [set decorator], Death on High Mountain – 1969 [production designer], $20,000 for Seven – 1969 [production designer], Gunman in Town – 1970 [set decorator], Matalo! – 1970 [art director], Santana Kills Them All – 1970 [set decorator], The Bandit Malpelo – 1971 [set decorator], Dead Men Ride – 1971 [production designer], Cut-Throats Nine – 1972 [set decorator], His Name was Holy Ghost – 1972 [production designer], Fast Hand is Still My Name – 1973 [set decorator], Tequila – 1973 [costume designer]

Little Known Spaghetti Western actors ~ Rolando De Santis

[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.]

Rolando De Santis was an Italian character actor. He appeared in several Federico Fellini films and over fifty films and television appearances between 1966 and 1998.

As is the case with most character actors no matter how many films they appeared in very little if anything is known about their personal lives or biography. Such is the case with De Santis.

Roland De Santis appeared in sixteen Spaghetti westerns: “Django” as a klan member in 1966, “Sentenza di morte” (Death Sentence) as a saloon patron in 1967, “ Un uomo chiamato Apocalisse Joe” (A Man Called Apocalypse Joe) as a Berg gunman in 1970, “Black Killer” as an O’Hara henchman, “Gli fumavano le colt…lo chiamavano Camposanto” (Bullet for a Stranger) as a soldier, “In nome del padre, del figlio e della Colt” (In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Colt) as a party guest, “Spara Joe... e così sia!” (Joe Dakota) as a dance attendee, “Era Sam Wallash!... Lo chiamavano… e “Cosi sia”” (Savage Guns) as Sam Judd all in 1971, “Hai sbagliato… dovevi uccidermi subito!” (Kill the Poker Player) as the hotel manager, “Jesse e Lester: due fratelli in un posto chiamoto Trinita” (Jesse and Lester Two Brothers in a Place Called Trinity) as a saloon patron, “El retorno de Clint el solitario” The Return of Clint the Stranger) as a saloon patron all in 1972, “ Zanna Bianca” (White Fang) as a saloon patron in 1973, “Prima ti suono e poi ti sparo” (Trinity, the Bell, the Guitar) as a saloon patron and “La Spacconata” (White Fang and the Gold Diggers) as a saloon employee both in 1974, “California” as a demobilization officer in 1977 and “Anno 2020 – I gladiatori de futoro” (2020 Texas Gladiators) as one of Catch Dog’s henchmen.

De SANTIS, Rolando (aka Chiodo) [Italian] – film, TV actor.

Django – 1966 (klan member)

Death Sentence – 1967 (saloon patron)

A Man Called Apocalypse Joe - 1970 (Berg gunman)

Black Killer – 1971 (O’Hara henchman)

Bullet for a Stranger – 1971 (soldier)

In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Colt – 1971 (party guest)

Joe Dakota – 1971 (dance attendee)

Savage Guns – 1971 (Sam Judd)

Kill the Poker Player - 1972 (hotel manager)

Jesse and Lester Two Brothers in a Place Called Trinity – 1972 (dance attendee)

The Return of Clint the Stranger – 1972 (saloon patron)

White Fang – 1973 (saloon patron)

Trinity, the Bell, the Guitar – 1974 (saloon patron)

White Fang and the Gold Diggers – 1974 (saloon employee)

California – 1977 (demobilization officer)

2020 Texas Gladiators – 1982 (Catch Dog henchman)