RIP Germano Longo

 

RIP Germano Longo. According to a post on the Italian dubbing website “Il mondo dei doppiatori, Italian actor and novelist Germano Longo died on July 14, 2022. Born Mario Longo in Poggiardo, Lecce, Italy on May 24, 1933. Longo was a 1953 graduate of the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. Longo received his only star billing in his screen debut, the adventure drama “Moana, Virgin of the Amazon” (1955), filmed in Venezuela. After this, he was almost invariably cast as a supporting actor. He was seen in sword and sandal films, war films and Spaghetti westerns. He sometimes billed as Herman Lang and Grant Laramy and appeared in many international co-productions alongside English-speaking genre actors like Lex Barker, Gordon Mitchell, Don Megowan, John Ericson and Mark Forest. By the 1970s and until his quasi-retirement in 1981, he focused primarily on acting in made-for-TV movies and mini-series. Longo also worked as a dubbing artist, providing the voice for numerous cartoon characters, as well as for foreign stars like Hal Holbrook, Jack Hawkins, Louis Gossett Jr. and Patrick Magee. Germano appeared in six Euro-westerns: Charge of the 7^th – 1964 (lawman); Adiós Gringo – 1965 (Stan Clevenger) [as Grant Laramy]; My Gun is the Law – 1965 (Mark) [as Grant Laramy]; 5 Giants from Texas – 1966 (Jim Latimore); I'll Sell My Skin Dearly - 1967 (Father Dominique Magdalena) [as Grant Laramy] and $20,000 for Seven – 1968 (Sheriff Bill Cochran) [as Herman Lang].