Antonio
Casas Barros was born in A Coruña, Galicia, Spain on November 11, 1911.
Originally the 6’ 3” Casas started his career as a soccer player for Atlético
Madrid for three seasons. Due to injuries he left the team. At the time he
already had three films under his belt beginning in 1941. He then entered the
film industry for good in 1943 and made over 180 film and TV appearances in
film and TV between then and 1982. Among them were 20 Euro-westerns. Casas
appeared in “A Pistol for Ringo” in 1965 but is probably best remembered as the
farmer Stevens in Sergio Leone's “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” in 1966, a
film that has consistently been voted one of the greatest of all time. He’s
almost unrecognizable as Brother Smith & Wesson in Sergio Sollima’s “The
Big Gundown”. One of his best non-western known roles was in Luis Buñuel's “Tristana”.
Casas
usually played sympathetic characters and men of distinction. In the early
1970s he worked mainly in television but returned to film after 1975 until his
death on February 14, 1982.
CASAS, Antonio (aka Anthony
Casas) (Antonio Casas Barros) [11/11/1911, A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
– 2/14/1982, Madrid, Madrid, Spain] – soccer player for Atletic de Madrid,
theater, film, TV actor.
Juanito
– 1958 (President Meza)
Minnesota
Clay – 1964 (Jonathan Mulligan)
Ride
and Kill – 1964 (Sheriff Clymer)
$4.00
of Revenge – 1965 (General/Colonel Jackson)
A
Pistol for Ringo – 1965 (Major Clyde)
The
Return of Ringo – 1965 (Sheriff Carson)
Son
of a Gunfighter – 1965 (Pecos)
The
Big Gundown – 1966 (Brother Smith & Wesson)
The
Good, the Bad and the Ugly – 1966 (Mondrega/John Stevens)
The
Texican – 1966 (Frank Brady)
Face
to Face – 1967 (Wild Bunch leader)
The
Price of Power - 1969 (Mr. Willer)
Sundance
Cassidy and Butch the Kid – 1969 (Barnds)
Twenty
Thousand Dollars for Seven - 1969 (bandit)
When
Satan Grips the Colt – 1970 (Warren)
The
Ballad of Ben and Charlie – 1971 (gambler)
The
Legend of Frenchie King – 1971 (wine merchant)
The
Ballad of Ben and Charlie – 1972 (gambler)
Pancho
Villa – 1972 (General Goyo)
Three
Supermen of the West – 1973 (Reverend)
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