Saturday, December 16, 2023

Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Luciano Benetti

[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.]


 Luciano Benetti is/was and Italian actor who appeared in a dozen films between 1955 and 1967.  He appeared in three Spaghetti westerns, one where he was credited as Lucky Bennett. I can find almost no biographical information about him.

A couple of interesting items came up as I was trying to research him such as there was a married couple who acted in Italian silent films, Carlo Benetti [1885-1949] and his wife actress Olga Benetti [18??-1949] could they have been Luciano’s parents? Also, there is another actor named

Gianfranco Benetti. Could he be a brother or relative? I did see a newspaper article mentioning that Luciano Benetti was the best man at the wedding of actor Johnny Kitzmuller and Dusia Bejic.

BENETTI, Luciano (aka Luchiano Benatti, Lucien Benetti, Lucky Bennett) [Italian] - master of arms, film actor.

Massacre at Grande Canyon – 1963 (town official)

A Stranger in Sacramento – 1965 (Mel Morgan) [as Lucky Bennett]

A Colt in the Hand of the Devil – 1967 (General Scott/Captain McDonald)

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