[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.]
Is David Dimple his real name or is it an alias for an unknown actor?
“I magnifici brutos del West” (The Magnificent Brutes of the West) in 1964
DIMPLE, David – film actor.
The Magnificent Brutes of the West - 1964
Spaghetti Western Director ~ Vincent Eagle
Born Vincenzo dell'Aquila in 1935 in Naples, Italy. He used the aliases Enzo Dell’Aquila and Vincent Eagle. He was mainly a writer who worked on fifteen films between 1964 and 1975. He was also an assistant director on one film in 1965 and directed seven films between 1963 and 1998.
After graduating from the Centro sperimentale di cinematografia (CSC), where he studied with Fernando Di Leo and directed the short film “Un cuore per odiarvi”, Dell'Aquila directed an episode of the sketch comedy “Gli eroi di ieri, oggi, domani” in 1963 and then devoted himself mainly to screenwriting. Until 1969, he mainly wrote spaghetti western scripts; One of his two independent productions also falls under this genre in 1967. In the early 1970s, Dell'Aquila moved to television, where he was responsible for the program ‘L'altra domenica’. In 1981, he directed ‘Rosso Tiziano’ for Rai
As Vincent Eagle he directed one Spaghetti western, “…e venne il tempo uccidere” (Tequila Joe) in 1968.
EAGLE, Vincent (aka Enzo Dell
Aquila) (Vincenzo dell'Aquila) [1935, Naples, Campania, Italy - ] – director, assistant director, writer.
Tequila Joe – 1968
Spaghetti Western Screenwriter ~ Steven Carabatsos
Steven William Carabatsos was born October 2, 1938, in Manhattan, New York. He is an American screenwriter and television story editor best known for his contributions to the original Star Trek series during its first season in the mid-1960s.
Carabatsos graduated Hunter College in 1962.
As story consultant, Carabatsos worked on 12 episodes of Star Trek, providing script development and continuity support during a pivotal period of the show's production. He co-wrote the teleplay for the episode "Court Martial," a legal drama centered on Captain Kirk facing a court-martial for negligence, in collaboration with Don M. Mankiewicz. Additionally, Carabatsos penned the script for "Operation – Annihilate!," the season one finale involving a planetary crisis caused by parasitic creatures that the Enterprise crew must resolve.
Beyond Star Trek, Carabatsos contributed to several notable television series in the 1960s and 1970s, including writing for medical drama ‘Ben Casey’, soap opera ‘Peyton Place’, western ‘The Big Valley’, police procedural ‘Kojak’, and adventure series ‘The Fugitive’.
Carabatsos also ventured into film screenwriting, co-writing the 1970 western “El Condor” starring Jim Brown and Lee Van Cleef, and providing the screenplay for the 1977 horror film “Tentacles”, a Jaws-inspired story about a giant octopus terrorizing a coastal community. Other cinematic credits include story contributions to the 1987 adventure comedy “Hot Pursuit” and the 1980 Disney family film “The Last Flight of Noah's Ark”. These projects highlight his versatility across genres.
Steven Carabatsos co-wrote the screenplay for one Spaghetti western, “El Condor” with Larry Cohen in 1969.
CARABATSOS, Steven (aka Steve
Carabatsos, Steven W. Carabatsos) (Steven
William Carabatsos) [10/2/1938,
Manhattan, New York, U.S.A. - 10/24/2025, Mammoth Lakes, California, U.S.A.] –
writer.
El Condor – 1969
(co)
Spaghetti Western Cinematographer ~ Ernest Gregl
Ernest Gregi (often credited as Ernest Gregl) was born in February 23,1934 in Nova, Croatia. He is best known as a cinematographer for animated films, notably working on the 1966 feature “Alice of Wonderland” in Paris. He was involved in camera work for this collaborative animation project produced by William L. Snyder and directed by Milan Blazekovic.
Gregi died in Zagreb, Croatia on September 1, 2021 at the age of 87.
As Ernest Gregl he was a co-cameraman on 1957’s “Cowboy Jimmy” with Vladimir Svenda.
GREGL, Ernest (aka Ernest Gregl) [2/23/1934, Nova
Gradiska, Croatia – 9/1/2021, Zagreb, Croatia] – director,
cinematographer, animator, SFX.
Cowboy Jimmy – 1957
(co)
Der wilde und der zahme Westen – German title
O'Henry erzählt – German title
[The Wild and the Tame West – English translated title]
A 1974-1977 German television production [Westdeutsches
Werbefernsehen (WWF)
(Berlin)]
Producer:
Director: Uli Edel, Hajo Gies, Rudolf Jugert
Story: O. Henry (William Sidney Porter)
Teleplay:
Photography: [color]
Music:
Running time: 10 x 25 minutes
Cast:
Aileen - Ingeborg Schöner
Guest - Joachim Wichmann
Young Dandy - Frithjof Vierock
Helen - Britta Fischer
Derring - Dieter B. Gerlach
Tramper Dick – Herbert Fux
With: Christian Kohlund, Christine Buchegger, Pedro
Müller, Rudolf Fernau (Andreas Neuberger)
Episode list 1) The Brief Debut of Tildy, 2) A Christmas
as You Wish, 3) The Third Ingredient, 4) The Halberdier of the Little
Rheinschloss, 5) Checkmate at Seven, 6) Love Story of a Busy Stockbroker, 7)
The Christmas Stocking,
Michael Forest (born Gerald Michael Charlebois; on April 17, 1929, is an American actor renowned for his extensive career in live-action film and television, as well as voice-over work in animation and dubbing, spanning over seven decades with more than 100 credits.
Born in Harvey, North Dakota, Forest moved to Seattle, Washington, at a young age and later attended the University of Washington before earning a B.A. in English and Drama from San Jose State University in California. He began his acting career in Hollywood in 1955, quickly establishing himself as a rugged leading man in low-budget films produced by Roger Corman, including roles in “The Saga of the Viking Women” and “Their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent” (1957) and “Beast from Haunted Cave” (1959).
Forest gained prominence in science fiction and fantasy genres, notably portraying the god Apollo in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Who Mourns for Adonais?" (1967) and appearing in episodes of ‘The Twilight Zone’. From 1968 to 1978, he lived in Rome, Italy, where he starred in 26 films and provided dubbing voices for over 500 international productions, honing his skills in multilingual voice acting. Upon returning to Los Angeles in 1979, he took on the recurring role of Nick Andropoulos on the soap opera ‘As the World Turns’ from 1980 to 1982 and continued with supporting parts in films like “100 Rifles” (1969) and “Cast Away” (2000).
In voice acting, Forest has been a prolific contributor to English dubs of Japanese anime and video games, with 121 credited roles across animation, films, and games, including characters such as Hajime Arakawa in City Hunter and Zuo Ci in ‘Dynasty Warriors’ series. He holds a pilot's license and resides in Los Angeles.
FOREST, Michael (aka George Celik, Gerald Charlebois, Gerald
Charleboise, Michael Forrest, Mike Forrest, Alfred Thor, Russell Thor, Russel
Thor) (Gerald Michael Charlebois) [4/17/1929, Harvey, North Dakota,
U.S.A. - ] – boxer, theater, film,
TV, voice actor, married to Barbara J Dunlap (1962-1980), married to producer,
actress Diana Hale [1929-2022] (1981-2022).
The Wrath of God – 1968 (Pitt)
100 Rifles – 1969 (Humara)
The Last Rebel – 1970 (pool hustler) [as Mike Forest]
Requiem for a Bounty Hunter – 1971 (Ryan/John Burton/Nick Barton)
Now They Call Him Sacramento – 1972 (Sacramento/Amen)
Maude Adelson (actress) would have been 85 today but died in 1971.
Urban
Sahlin (actor) would have been 85 today but died in 1982.
American born Spanish actor Jack Taylor died in Chamberí, Madrid, Spain on May 12th he was 99. Born George Brown Randall in Oregon City on October 21, 1926, Taylor went through almost a century of cinema without ever losing the desire to continue working, already becoming an unrepeatable figure of horror, B series and auteur cinema shot between Spain, Mexico and Europe. At the age of 25, Taylor spent a year in San Francisco saving up to go to Los Angeles to try his luck as an actor, where he debuted on comedian Jack Benny's television show, coinciding with Marilyn Monroe herself. "Hollywood is a place where you go to bed young and wake up at 65", so he decided to leave California in search of an industry less rigid than that of the big studios. "I wanted to go to Italy, but I didn't have any money. Then I took my car and I drove thousands of kilometers to Mexico, where I arrived without even speaking the language." In eight months, he learned enough Spanish to converse with producers and actors. He became a regular in Jess Franco films and became a star of Horror, Sci-Fi and Westerns. But Jack Taylor wasn't just an actor. He was also a set designer, theatre director and writer, someone who spoke of silent films, impossible shootings, censorship, festivals and sets with the same naturalness with which he spoke of wine, reading or walks. Even in old age he was still linked to new projects, such as his participation as one of the voices narrating the recent documentary Call me Paul, about the figure of Paul Naschy, with whom he coincided on three occasions. Tireless until the end, he recently published his memoirs, My 100 Years of Cinema (Sial Pygmalion Publishing Group), and told us that he was waiting for a new role that he did not want to talk about so that it would not be lost. Taylor appeared in six Spaghetti westerns and three documentaries: “Billy the Kid” in 1963 as Blackie/Black Jack, “Tomb of the Pistolero” in 1964 as Herbert/Russ Brandon, “Fall of the Mohicans” in 1965 as Major Duncan Heyward, “The Christmas Kid” in 1966 as John Novak, “Custer of the West” in 1967, “Sons of Trinity” in 1994 as Theopolis, “Once Upon a Time in Europe (TV) in 2001 as himself, “Jack Taylor” 2007 as himself and “Print the Legend” 2023 [narrator].
[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.]
Ljubomir Dimov was a Postwar & Contemporary artist, he studied fine arts at High-School in Sofia and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Ljubomir Dimov was born in 1946 in Elena, Bulgaria. Dimov was a Postwar & Contemporary artist, he studied fine arts at High-School in Sofia and graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria.
In 1981 Dimov emigrated to Vienna, where he lived and painted. In an interview with the Bulgarian Art Magazine Black & White Dimov admitted having stopped painting for a long time out of depression and insecurities. Through the musicians Alexander and Konstantin Wladigeroff, he got introduced to the art parton Stefan Stoev. Their friendship helped Dimov to start painting again. In a video interview with Showrealfilm, Dimov talks about his internal struggle and the "resistance of the materia".
Ljubomir became an honorable member of The Society for International Development and Enhancement of Arts (IDEA Society). Dimov's painting The Figure in the Scenery became part of the PANGAEA Collection in support of 'UNICEF. In 2013 Dimov sold a painting over the famous Auction House Dorotheum. In 2015 Ljubomir got introduced over the IDEA Society to the Contemporary Female Artist Lea Fuchs, together they established the art dialogue on the "Women of Society", exhibiting together at the Austrian Parliament. and the United Nations. Following a series of international exhibitions organised by the IDEA Society, Dimov was exhibited at Sigmund Freud Museum in Vienna, at the European Parliament in Brussels, at the BKI Haus Wittgenstein in Vienna, the Laxenburg Castle in Laxenburg , at the United Nations, at the Korea Culture House, the House of the European Union, and at the Künstlerhaus "(K-Haus)". Dimov passed away on September 1st 2021, after a long illness. He was 75 years old.
Ljubomir Dimov appeared in one Euro-western, “Trini” (Death for Zapata) as Carlos in 1976
DIMOV, Ljubomir (aka Ljubo Dimov, Lubomir Dimov, Lubo
Dimov, Lübo Dimov) [1946, Elena, Bulgaria – 9/1/2021, Vienna, Austria] –
painter, theater film, TV actor.
Death for Zapata – 1976 (Captain Carlos)
