Gennarino
Pappagalli was born Primo Di Gennaro on September 19, 1909 in Rome, Lazio,
Italy. He begins to appear in films during the 1970s in various supporting and
character roles in numerous films , including such Euro-westerns as “Gunman in
Town”, ( 1970 ), “The Magnificent West”, ( 1972 ), by Gianni Crea.
In
the following years, thanks to the particular features of his face, he quickly
became an interpreter of roles of wealthy men or senior executives in a variety
of films, even being "branded" as a look-alike of the lawyer Giovanni
Agnelli, former president of FIAT. The best-known films in which he took part
were the “Cat O 'Nine Tails”, (1971), by Dario Argento and “Fantozzi contro
tutti”, (1980), for Neri Parenti.
Gennarino
appeared in eleven Euro-westerns. Besides those mentioned above his other
well-known westerns were: “Return of Sabata” (1971), “Man of the East” (1972),
“Deaf Smith and Johnny Ears” (1973).
The
last film in which he appeared was in 1983’s, “I predatori di Atlantide” from then
on he has dropped out of sight and there had been no news of him until his
death on August 9, 1990 in Rome.
Today
we remember Gennarino Pappagalli on what would have been his 105th
birthday.
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