[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]
Gabi Amrani-Gur was born in Nachlaot, Jerusalem, Israel on October 22, 1934. Upon his release from the army, he moved to Kibbutz Yakum and started working with the national kibbutz band. Later he moved to Kibbutz Zorea and staged a show during his stay there that was successful throughout the country. In 1957, after moving to Tel Aviv, he joined the “Bezal Yerok” band, which was mostly made up of the Nahal band members. In 1962 he went to study at an acting school in New York. “I went there with my first wife, we both studied acting there and lived there for four years, it was an unforgettable experience,” he says. “It was one of the most beautiful periods of my life. In 1966, upon his return to Israel, he won his first film role in the film “Fortuna”, and from there he became one of the most successful film actors in Israel in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
Gabi’s only Euro-western was as Angel in 1970’s “Madron” with Richard Boone and Leslie Caron. Richard Boone claimed at the time, that a Yemenite actor named Gabi Amrani, who plays a Mexican bandit chief in “Madron” would become an instant favorite in the United States. “He’s stealing the picture, but the only trouble,” Boone says, “is that he will probably be type-cast as a Mexican.” [Honolulu Star-Bulletin, June 2, 1970]
AMRANI, Gabi (aka Gaby Amrani) (Gabi
Amrani-Gur) [10/22/1934, Nachlaot,
Jerusalem, Israel - ] – theater, film,
TV actor, singer, married to ?, married to ?, received the Ophir Award for
Lifetime Achievement in 2000.
Madron – 1970
(Angel)
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