Giuseppe Addobbati was born on August
11, 1909 in Macarsca, Kingdom of Dalmatia, Austria-Hungary. Addobbati
was born in Macarsca (present-day Makarska), then part of Austria-Hungary, and
later lived in Trieste. He made over 80 film appearances between 1937 and 1980
often as a police officer or law enforcer. He starred in films such as “The
Phantom of the Opera” (1964), “The Conformist” (1970). Sometimes billed as John
Mac Douglas or John McDouglas he appeared in eighteen Euro-westerns including
“Ride and Kill” (1963) “Blood For A Silver Dollar”, “Colorado
Charlie”, “Django” (all 1965), “$4.00 for Revenge” and “The Brute and the Beast”
(both 1966), and “The Stranger Returns” (1967).
He also made several horror film
appearances such as Nightmare Castle in 1965 alongside Barbara Steele, Paul
Muller, Helga Liné, Laurence Clift and Rik Battaglia.
Addobbati died in Rome on January 4, 1986.
Today we remember Giuseppe Addobbati on
what would have been his 105th birthday.
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