Sunday, December 31, 2017

2017 Boot Hill


Here's a list of all the people involved with the Euro-western genre that passed on this year. We remember them with fondness for all they gave to the western genre we love. RIP


Francine York (actress) 8/26/1936 – 1/6/2017
Angelina Gatell (voice actress) 6/8/1925 – 1/7/2017
Sergio Spina (writer) 4/24/1928 – 1/19/2017
Jaki Liebezeit (musician) 5/26/1938 – 1/22/2017
John Hurt (actor) 1/22/1940 – 1/27/2017
Montserrat Julio (actress) 1929 – 1/26/20217
Gianfranco Plenizio (composer) 1/10/1941 – 2/7/2017
Gerald Hirschfeld (cinematographer) 4/25/1921 – 2/13/2017
Pasquale Squitieri (director, screenwriter) 11/27/1938 – 2/18/2017
Antonio Casale (actor) 5/17/1932 – 2/4/2017
Chris Wiggins (actor) 1/13/1931 – 2/19/2017
Barbara Hudson (Brunella Bovo) (actress) 3/8/1930 – 2/21/2017
Romano Giomini (actor) 1936 - 3/1/2017
Piero Leri (actor) 8/4/1939 – 3/2/2017
Ingeborg Krabbe (actress) 6/13/1931 – 3/17/2017
Tony Russel (actor, dubber) 11/23/1925 - 3/18/2017
Tomas Milian (actor) 3/3/1933 – 3/22/2017
Giorgio Capitani (director) 12/29/1927 – 3/25/2017
Alessandro Alessandroni (composer, musician, whistler) 3/16/1925 – 3/26/2017
Meme Perlini (Amelio Perlini) (actor) 12/8/1947 - 4/5/2017
Relja Basic (actor) 2/14/1930 - 4/7/2017
Michael Ballhaus (cinematographer) 8/5/1935, 4/12/2017
Bret Davidson (stunt coordinator) 2/28/1959 – 4/19/2017
Gustavo Rojo (actor) 9/5/1923 – 4/22/2017
Don Gordon (actor) 11/13/1926 – 4/24/2017
Pierre Gaspard-Huit (director) 11/28/1917 – 5/1/2017
Lukas Amman (actor) 9/29/1912 – 5/3/2017
Daliah Lavi (actress) 10/12/1940 – 5/3/2017
Edwin Sharin (director) 1/15/1930 – 5/4/2017
Victor Lanoux (actor) 6/18/1936 – 5/4/2017
Powers Boothe (actor) 6/1/1948 – 5/14/2017
Oleg Vidov (actor) 6/11/1943 – 5/15/2017
Dragomir Stanojevic (actor, stuntman) 7/30/1941 – 5/24/2017
Maury Dexter (director) 6/12/1927 – 5/28/2017
Jose Greci (actress) 1/10/1941 – 6/1/2017
Adam West (actor) 9/19/1928 – 6/9/2017
Mieczyslaw Kalenik (actor) 1/1/1933 – 6/16/2017
Gilberto Galimberti (actor, stunt coordinator) 2/25/1933 – 6/16/2017
Paolo Villagio (actor) 12/30/1932 – 7/3/2017
Solvi Stubing (actress) 1/19/1941 – 7/3/2017
Manlio De Angelis (dubber) 1/9/1935 – 7/3/2017
Elsa Martinelli (actress, singer) 1/30/1935 – 7/8/2017
Paquita Rico (actress) 10/13/1929 – 7/9/2017
John Karlsen (actor) 10/20/1919 – 7/5/2017
Martin Landau (actor) 6/20/1928 – 5/15/2017
Emilio Freixas (actor) 1927 – 7/30/2017
Sam Shepard (actor) 11/5/1943 – 7/30/2017
Jean Moreau (actress) 1/23/1928 – 7/31/2017
Nicola Di Gioia (actor) 5/3/1944 – 7/31/2017
Ty Hardin (actor) 1/1/1930 – 8/3/2017
Bruno Canfora (composer) 11/6/1924 – 8/4/2017
Terele Pavez (actress) 7/29/1939 – 8/11/2017
Margot Hielscher (actress) 9/29/1919 – 8/20/2017
Mario Milita (dubber) 6/26/1922 – 8/22/2017
Hans Lucke (actor) 4/25/1927 - 8/27/2017
Egon Gunther (screenwriter, actor) 3/30/1927 - 8/31/2017
Gastone Moschin (actor) 6/8/1929 – 9/4/2017
Francisco Dumont (voice actor) 1939 – 9/6/2017
Terence Harvey (actor) 10/?/1945 – 9/7/2017
Hans Aldredson (actor) 6/28/1931 – 9/10/2017
Fernanda Borsatti (actress) 9/1/1931 – 9/14/2017
Bernie Casey (actor) 6/8/1939 – 9/19/2017
Květa Fialová (actress) 9/1/1929 – 9/26/2017
Umberto Lenzi (director, actor) 8/6/1931 – 10/19/2017
Fangareggi Ugo (actor) 1/30/1938 - 10/20/2017
Gianluca Petrazzi (actor, stuntman) 9/3/1966 – 11/1/2017
Albert Baldan (Alberto Baldan Benbo) (composer) 194? – 11/5/2017
Karin Dor (actress) 2/22/1938 – 11/6/2017
Brad Harris (actor, stuntman) 7/16/1933 – 11/7/2017
Raymond Lovelock (actor) 6/19/1950 – 11/10/2017
Chiquito de la Calzada (actor) 5/28/1932 – 11/11/2017
Luis Enriquez Bacalov (composer) 8/30/1933 – 11/15/2017
Peter Berling (actor) 3/20/1934 – 11/20/2017
Rance Howard (actor) 11/17/1928 – 11/25/2017
Anthony Harvey (director) 6/3/1930 – 11/23/2017
Ulli Lommel (producer, actor) 12/21/1947 – 12/1/2017
Johnny Hallyday (actor) 6/15/1943 – 12/5/2017
Steve Reevis (actor) 8/14/1962 – 12/7/2017
Juan Luis Bunuel (director, assistant director) 11/9/1934 – 12/7/2017
Leonid Bronevoy (actor) 2/17/1928 - 12/9/2017      
Manolo Bolognini (producer) 10/26/1925 – 12/23/2017
Thomas Hunter (actor) 12/19/1932 – 12/27/2017

Spaghetti Western Locations ~ Adios, Sabata


We continue to our search for filming locations of the 1970 film “Adios, Sabata”. We then see Ocana’s men at the base of the Guadalupe bridge but there are too many soldiers marching        down the road to allow them to set their dynamite. We also see Folgen and two of his henchmen riding in a wagon back to Col. Skimmels headquarters.  


This sequence was filmed at Llano Ochotorena, Spain.



For a more detailed view of this site and other Spaghetti Western locations please visit my friend Yoshi Yasuda’s location site: http://y-yasuda.net/film-location.htm and Captain Douglas Film Locations http://www.western-locations-spain.com/

Special Birthdays



Gaston Modot (actor) would have been 125 today, he died in 1970.

Saturday, December 30, 2017

Who Are Those Composers? ~ John Cameron




John Cameron was born in Woodford, Essex, England on March 20, 1944. Cameron's career in music began at Cambridge University, where he was Vice-President of the Cambridge Footlights comedy club and performed on the local jazz scene. After leaving Cambridge, Cameron began working as an arranger for folk-pop artist Donovan; his credits include Donovan's number-1 U.S. hit "Sunshine Superman" (co-arranged with Spike Heatley). He became Donovan's music director, touring with him and arranging hit singles "Jennifer Juniper" and "Epistle to Dippy", the albums Sunshine Superman and Mellow Yellow, as well as Donovan's music for the 1967 Ken Loach film Poor Cow.

Cameron also began working in television; one of his first major credits in this area was as music director and arranger for three seasons of the TV variety series Once More with Felix with folk-singer Julie Felix (1967–69), The Bobbie Gentry Show and numerous episodes of the BBC's In Concert series (directed by Stanley Dorfman), which featured artists including James Taylor, Joni Mitchell and Randy Newman.

Cameron also scored two British hits as a songwriter with "If I Thought You'd Ever Change Your Mind", a #20 UK hit for Cilla Black (which was also a #11 UK hit for former ABBA vocalist Agnetha Fältskog in 2004) and "Sweet Inspiration", a Top 10 single for Johnny Johnson and the Bandwagon.

Cameron's first venture in film composition was for director Ken Loach, who asked him to compose the score for Kes (1969). This led to further commissions, including The Ruling Class (1972) with Peter O'Toole, Night Watch (1973) with Elizabeth Taylor, and A Touch of Class (1973) with Glenda Jackson and George Segal, for which Cameron was nominated for an Academy Award.[2] His other film scores included The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970) and the cult horror film Psychomania (1973), among many others.


CAMERON, John [3/20/1944, Woodford, Essex, England, U.K. -     ] – composer, conductor, arranger, musician (piano), married to Barbara Cameron father of Amy Cameron, formed the music group: CCS (1970–1973).
Charley-One-Eye - 1973