Spaghetti Western Director ~ José Bolaños
José Antonio Bolaños Prado was born in Mexico City on
July 24, 1935. At the age of twelve he participated as an extra in the 1948
Orson Welles film “The Lady from Shanghai” It’s also been said he participated
as a double in 1949’s “Puerto javen” starring Cantinflas. He entered the film
industry as a co-producer on the film “Locura passional” by Tulio Demicheli in
1955. In 1966 he debuted as a director on “La soldadera” about women who
participated in the Mexican Revolution.
He was known as
something of a playboy but was also a screenwriter and director. He married
Italian actress Venetia Vianello, but his biggest claim to fame is his
relationship with Marilyn Monroe. He was her escort at the 1962 Golden Globe
Awards. A year after her death, Bolaños claimed to fan magazine Motion
Picture that the two were going to marry and adopt a child. However, he
didn't produce anything to prove such, no one in Monroe's inner circle ever
confirmed a romance or engagement, and none of her biographers have ever
accepted Bolaños as anything more than an escort.
Bolaños directed six films between 1966 and 1979. He also
was a writer on eight films between 1959 and 1989 and produced two films in
1959 and 1979.
José Bolaños died in Mexico City on June 11, 1994, at the
age of 58.
José Bolaños directed only one Spaghetti western “Arde
baby arde” (Lucky Johnny: Born in America) in 1970.
BOLANOS, José (José Antonio Bolaños
Prado) [7/24/1935, Mexico City,
Federal District, Mexico – 6/11/1994, Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico] –
producer, director, writer, married to actress Elsa Aguirre (Elsa Irma
Aguirre Juárez) [1930- ] (1965-196?),
married to actress Venetia Vianello (19??-19??), father of actress Diane
Bolaños.
Lucky Johnny: Born
in America – 1970
Spaghetti Western Screenwriter ~ Nigel Balchin
Nigel Marlin Balchin was born on December 3, 1908,
Wiltshire, England. After studying natural science at the University of
Cambridge, Balchin divided his time between research work in science and
industry (as an industrial psychologist) and writing. During World War II he
was deputy scientific adviser to the Army Council.
In The Small Back Room (1943), his best-known
novel, Balchin describes the conversation, behavior, and intrigues for position
and power of the “backroom boys” with whom he worked during the war. Almost as
successful is Mine Own Executioner (1945), a study of a psychiatrist
unable to cure his own neuroses and of the tensions created in his marriage by
his lack of self-confidence. The problems of the psychologically and physically
disabled are a recurrent theme: the hero of A Sort of Traitors (1949) is
a former pilot who has lost both arms; The Fall of a Sparrow (1955)
explores the mental processes of a psychopath.
Balchin died on May 17, 1970, in London, England aged 61.
Nigel Balchin wrote the screenplay for only one
Euro-western “The Singer Not the Song” in 1961.
BALCHIN, Nigel (aka Mark Spade) (Nigel
Marlin Balchin) [12/3/1908,
Potterne, Wiltshire, England, U.K. – 5/17/1970, Hampstead, London, England,
U.K.] – novelist, writer, married to Elisabeth Evelyn Walshe [1910-1991]
(1933-1951) father of Prudence Anne Balchin [1934-2004], psychologist Penelope
Balchin Leach [1937- ], Freja Mary
Balchin [1944- ], married to Yovanka
‘Jane’ Tomich (1953-1970) father of sports director Charles Zoran Marlin
Balchin [1955- ], women’s rights
authority Cassandra Marlin Balchin [1962–2012].
The Singer Not the Song – 1961
Spaghetti Western Cinematographer ~
Anton Giulio Borghese
Anton Giulio Borghese is/was an
Italian director, writer and cinematographer. He worked on fifteen films as a
cinematographer between 1958 and 1977. One of those films “Valentino in 1958 he
also wrote and directed.
I can find no biographical information
on him.
Anton’s only Spaghetti western as a
cinematographer was for 1968’s “Uno di più all'inferno” (Full House for the
Devil” starring George Gilton and Claudie Lange.
BORGHESE, Anton Giulio (aka Anton Giulio
Borghesi, Nino Borghesi) [Italian] – director, writer, cinematographer,
Full House for the
Devil – 1968
