Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Mircha Carven

[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.]

Mircha Carven was born in Bucharest, Romania on May 18, 1950. He bears a remarkable resemblance to actor Clark Gable and took advantage of this when he stated in an interview in 1977 that his mother Constanza, a writer, had met Gable on the Côte d'Azur and, concealing his paternity from Gable, gave birth to him in Bucharest in 1951. Sometimes he let himself be listed as John Gable. Between 1974 and 1978 he made some unremarkable commercial films (only the controversial camp “Lager SSadis Kastrat Kommandantur” (SS Experiment Love Camp) enjoys negative fame). He was also seen in a total of 44 photo novels from 1976 onwards.

He appeared iu 13 films and TV appearances 1962-1978 and released a couple of recordings including a single entitled “A Devious Man” which was released for the film “Çikolata Tarlasi” in 1975 and then again in “Candido erotico” (A Man for Sale).

The most recent information I can find on him is he is living in Santa Monica, California.  

Carven appeared in only one Spaghetti western “Talento por amor” (A Talent for Loving) as Benito in 1969.

CARVEN, Mircha (aka John Gable) [5/18/1950, Bucharest, Romania -   Santa Monica, California, U.S.A.] – fotoromanzi, film, TV actor, singer.

A Talent for Loving – 1969 (Benito Patricio)

Spaghetti Western locations Then & Now “Run, Man, Run”

This village scene from 1968’s “Run, Man, Run” starring Tomas Milian and Donal O’Brien was filmed in Las Hortichuelas, Níjar, Almería, Spain.

Here’s the same exact location as seen today.

European Western Comic Books – La Vita e le Vere Avventure di Buffalo Bill

 

La Vita e le Vere Avventure di Buffalo Bill

(The Life and True Adventures of Buffalo Bill)

 

This booklet was an Historic Centenary Edition with a large-format album that presents the character's exploits, "for the first time taken from documents of the time", described and dramatized by Silvar and illustrated by Walter Aquenza. It was published from May 23^rd to October 3, 1946, by Edizioni Esse in Milan, Italy under the direction of editor Vilchy Aidinvan. Each issue contained 8 black and white pages.

 

Titles

01 (23.05.46) - "La prima avventura" (The First Adventure)

02 (03.06.46) - "Il segno di morte" (The Mark of Death)

03 (13.06.46) - "Aquila Bianca contro Penna di Falco" (White Eagle vs Hawk Feather)

04 (23.06.46) - "Quick-Dan trova un maestro" (Quick-Dan Finds a Master)

05 (13.07.46) - "Il corriere scomparso" (The Missing Courier)

06 (23.07.46) - "Le vittime della frontiera" (The Victims of the Frontier)

07 (23.08.46) - "Il grande giuramento" (The Great Oath)

08 (03.09.46) - "I vendicatori della prateria" (The Avengers of the Prairie)

09 (23.09.46) - "Il corriere del Pony-Express" (The Pony Express Courier)

10 (03.10.46) - "Missione mortale" (Deadly Mission)

 

Special Birthdays

Mona Goya (actress) would have been 115 today but died in 1961.

Saturno Cerra (actor) would have been 100 today but died in 2015.

Rosanna Schiaffino (actress) would have been 85 today but died in 2009.

From the WAI! vault

 

Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~Ana Caravajal

[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.]

Ana Caravajal is/was a Spanish actress. She was the daughter of actress Gracita Morales who was one of Spains most beloved film and theater actresses. Ana was also the niece of actor José Morales and actress Ana María Morales.

Most likely born in the late 1930s or very early 1940s she first appeared on screen in 1958. She’s gone on to appear in over 30 films and TV series. Her last credited appearance was in an episode of the 2004 TV series ‘El comisario’. I can find no biographical information on her other than her relationship to her famous relatives.

Ana appeared in two Spaghetti westerns: “Le tre spade di Zorro” (Three Swords of Zorro) 1963 as a maid and “Un uomo e uomo colt” (A Man a Colt) 1967 as Conchita.

CARAVAJAL, Ana (aka Ana Cervajal) (Maria Carvajal) – film, TV actress, daughter of actress, singer Gracita Morales (María Gracia Morales Carvajal) [1928-1995], niece of actor José Morales, actress Ana María Morales.

Three Swords of Zorro – 1963 (maid)

A Man, a Colt – 1967 (Conchita) [as Ana Cervajal]

Spaghetti Western Locations for “The Forgotten Pistolero”

We continue our search for locations for “The Forgotten Pistolero”. While the firing continues the nanny of Sebastian is told to dress and the nanny leads him out of the hacienda but they stop when they hear the bell tolling for help.  

This scene was filmed at the Talamanca de Jarma, Spain built in 1703.

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

Kurt Heintel (actor) would have been 100 today but died in 2002.

Max Slaten (actor) would have been 100 today but died in 1997.

Sophie Daumier (actress) would have been 90 today but died in 2003.

RIP Jurgen Thormann

 

Veteran German voice actor Jurgen Thormann died on November 23^rd. He was 96. Born in Rostock, Germany on February 12, 1928. He was the primary German voice dubber of actors Michael Caine and Peter O'Toole. On-camera, Thormann appeared on TV’s ‘Ein Heim für Tiere’ and, like most German actors, the crime series ‘Tatort’. In audio books, he appeared in classic horror adaptations as the blind man in Frankenstein and Peter Hawkins in Dracula, was a regular supporting player in ‘The Three Investigators’ series, Ming the Merciless in ‘Flash Gordon’, Capt'n Baddog in ‘Lego Pirate’ cassettes, various characters in the Professor Van Dusen adaptations, and narrator of the Trixie Belden series. Jurgen was married to the actress Uta Sax [1939- ]. Thormann's Euro-westerns:

Among Vultures – 1964 [German voice of Dusan Bulajic]

Carry on Cowboy – 1965 [German voice of Jon Pertwee]

Duel at Sundown – 1965 [German voice of Todd Martin]

Flaming Frontier – 1965 [German voice of Dusko Janicijevic]

The Return of Ringo – 1965 [German voice of unknown actor]

El Cisco – 1966 [German voice of Tom Felleghy]

Django, the Last Killer – 1967 [German voice of Daniele Vargas]

My Name is Pecos – 1966 [German voice of Robert Woods]

Halleluja for Django – 1967 [German voice of Hunt Powers]

Pecos Cleans Up – 1967 [German voice of Robert Woods]

$10,000 Blood Money – 1967 [German voice of Claudio Camaso]

Bandidos – 1968 [German voice of Enrico Maria Salerno]

To Hell and Back – 1968 [German voice of Gerard Herter]

Viva Django – 1968 [German voice of Lucio de Santis]

Cemetery Without Crosses – 1969 [German voice of Serge Marquand]

The Forgotten Pistolero – 1969 [German voice of Luciano Rossi]

Sabata – 1969 [German voice of Robert Hundar]

‘Doc’ – 1970 [German voice of Dan Greenburg]

Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin – 1970 [German voice of Carlo Gaddi]

Catlow – 1971 [German voice of Julian Mateos]

Companerors – 1971 [German voice of a famer]

Duck You Sucker- 1971 [German voice of Antoine Saint-John]

Sting of the West – 1972 [German voice of Guillermo Mendez]

The Genius – 1975 [German voice of Benito Stefanelli]

Ace High – 1977 [German voice of Daniele Vargas]

From the WAI! vault

 

Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Pippo Caruso

[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.]

Giuseppe ‘Pippo’ Caruso was born in Belpasso, Catania, Italy on December 22, 1935. Caruso linked his professional success to the television presenter Pippo Baudo, who had been his university classmate, and that Caruso regularly flanked as conductor in his TV programs starting from ‘Canzonissima’ 1973. Caruso composed several successful songs, including Mita Medici's "A ruota libera" and Lorella Cuccarini/Alessandra Martines' "L'amore è", and, starting from the sixties, Caruso also wrote several film soundtracks, such as “Maladolescenza” (1977).and “Uccidete Johnny Ringo” (Kill Johnny Ringo) in 1965 where he appeared in his only Spaghetti western as the piano player.

Caruso went on to become a very successful composer conductor and music arranger before his death on May 28, 2018, in Fara, Sabrina, Italy at the age of 82.

CARUSO, Pippo (Giuseppe Caruso) [12/22/1935, Belpasso, Catania, Italy – 5/28/2018, Fara, Sabrina, Italy] – composer, conductor, arranger, film actor.

Kill Johnny Ringo – 1965 (piano player)

Who Are Those Singers & Musicians ~ Nino Culasso

 

Giovanni Nicola ‘Nino’ Culasso is/was a trumpet player who performed with various Italian composers and their orchestras such as Armando Trovaioli, Piero Umiliani and Ennio Morricone as well as performing with the Rai orchestra on a regular bais.

He was the featured trumpet player in the the 1965 Spaghetti western “Per qualche dollaro in più” (For a Few Dollars More)

CULASSO, Nino (Giovanni Nicola Culasso) [Italian] – trumpet.

For a Few Dollars More – 1965

Special Birthdays

Robert Towne (writer) would have been 90 today but died in 2024.

Maxwell Caulfield (actor) is 65 today.

Spaghetti Western Trivia ~ Toshirô Mifune gourmet cook / restaurant

 

Toshirô Mifune entertained the cast and crew throughout the entire production with his refined culinary skills, bringing over a supply of Japanese meats, watercress, seaweed, and other ingredients. He would also exchange recipes for French and Italian dishes, including spaghetti. 

Mifune is an izakaya-style Japanese restaurant in Roppongi, but it is also the name of the very famous actor Mifune Toshiro.

Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Anthony Caruso

 [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.]

Anthony Caruso, not to be confused with the Italian/American film and TV actor of the same name (1916-2003), is/was an Italian character actor. His only film role that I can find was his oly Spaghetti western film: “30 Winchester per El Diablo” (Gold Train) - 1965

CARUSO, Anthony [Italian] – film actor.

Gold Train – 1965

New Double CD Release – “Una pistola per Ringo” / “Il ritorno di Ringo”

 

“Una pistola per Ringo” / “Il ritorno di Ringo”

(A Pistol for Ringo / The Return of Ringo)

(1965 / 1965)

 

Composer: Ennio Morricone

 

Country: Spain

Label” Quartet Records

#QR550

Tracks: 48

Listening time: 1:29:17

 

Quartet Records, in collaboration with GDM and Universal Music Publishing Italia, presents a revised, remastered edition of two iconic western scores by Ennio Morricone for the for the classic RINGO diptych, directed by Duccio Tessari in 1965 and starring Giuliano Gemma.

This 2-CD deluxe edition brings together all the previously released material from both RINGO movies with programs that were originally put together for RCA and GDM Music.

Disc 1 contains the stereo program of both RINGO movies, with the cues selected by Morricone for the original RCA release. We have also included the very rare 1965 album originally entitled “La Storia, I Dialoghi, Le Canzoni di Il Ritorno Di Ringo.” This soundtrack was a dialogue/music hybrid that featured Morricone’s music interspersed with newly recorded narration and even included sound effects to retell the whole story in about half an hour. This album also notably includes some short cues that can only be heard in that program.

Also included is a clean take of “L’incontro con la figlia” Although originally composed for his rejected score for THE BIBLE, and later used in THE SECRET OF THE SAHARA, Morricone also used this cue in IL RITORNO DI RINGO, and it even appeared on the 1965 dialog album.

Disc 2 includes the first version released by GDM on CD in 2004 with cues once again selected by the composer, which was entirely in mono. It is interesting because some takes are different from the previous stereo version, as well as the fact that the program was expanded.

Restored and mastered by Chris Malone and supervised by Claudio Fuiano, the richly illustrated 16-page booklet contains in-depth liner notes by the much-missed Gergely Hubai discussing the film and the score. -QUARTET

 

DISC ONE

UNA PISTOLA PER RINGO (Stereo)

1. Angel Face 2:18

2. Honky Tonky 0:42

3. Suspence Grottesca 1:40

4. Rag Sospeso 1:24

5. Messico Eroico 1:35

6. Bamba Bambina 1:31

7. La Strage 1:58

8. L’attesa 2:36

9. Lo Scontro 1:23

10. Una Pistola per Ringo 2:17

 

IL RITORNO DI RINGO (Stereo)

11. Il Ritorno di Ringo 2:16

12. Il Travestimento 2:23

13. Lo Sceriffo Carson 1:20

14. Dai Fuentes 1:08

15. L’incontro con la figlia 2:45

16. La Bamba di Barnaba 2:34

17. Il Matrimonio e la Vendetta 1:28

18. Il Funerale 2:03

19. La Pace Torna a Mimbres 2:20

 

LA STORIA, I DIALOGUI, LE CANZONI DI IL RITORNO DI RINGO (Mono)

20. La storia, I dialogui, le canzoni di Il Ritorno di Ringo Part I 17:47

21. La storia, I dialogui, le canzoni di Il Ritorno di Ringo Part II 18:58

 

Total Disc Time: 73:49

 

DISC TWO

UNA PISTOLA PER RINGO (Mono)

 

1. Angel Face (Titoli di testa) 2:18

2. Honky Tonky 0:41

3. Suspence Grottesca 1:40

4. Lo Scontro 1:58

5. Rag Sospeso 1:24

6. Messico Eroico 1:35

7. Una pistola per Ringo (Instrumental) 2:17

8. Bamba Bambina 1:31

9. La Strage 1:58

10. L’attesa 2:36

11. Lo Scontro (#2) 1:30

12. Rag Sospeso (#2) 1:13

13. Messico Eroico (#2) 1:00

14. Angel Face (Titoli di coda) 1:40

15. Una pistola per Ringo Suite 3:53

 

IL RITORNO DI RINGO (Mono)

 

16. Il ritorno di Ringo (Titoli di testa) 2:15

17. Il Travestimento 2:23

18. Il ritorno di Ringo (Mariachi #1) 1:51

19. Il ritorno di Ringo (Violenza) 5:54

20. Lo Sceriffo Carson 1:20

21. Dai Fuentes 1:07

22. Il ritorno di Ringo (Mariachi #2) 2:03

23. Il ritorno di Ringo (Instrumental) 1:26

24. La Bamba di Barnaba 2:33

25. Il Matrimonio e la Vendetta 1:27

26. Il Funerale 2:01

27. La Pace Torna a Mimbres 2:20

Total Disc Time: 55:28

Special Birthdays

Jack Ary (writer, actor) would have been 105 today but died in 1974.

RIP Lucian Iancu

 

Romanian actor, director Lucian Iancu died in Bucharest, Romania on November 20^th. He was  84. Born in Constanţa, Romania on February 3, 1940. He graduated from the Theatre and Cinema Institute in Bucharest in 1940. He became one of Romania’s leading actors and the General Director of the Dramatic Theatre of Constanţa. Iancu performed roles in plays by Sophocles, Euripides, Rostand, Brecht, Ionescu, Sartre, Shakespeare, Moliere, Chekhov and many others. He’s appeared in over 20 films and has been awarded various prizes and recognition for his contributions to the dramatic arts. Iancu appeared in three Euro-westerns: “Apaches” in 1973 as Chico, “The Prophet, the Gold and the Transylvanians” in 1977 as Will Clanton and “The Oil, the Baby and the Transylvanians” in 1981as a McCallum henchman.

Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Armando Cartiglia

[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.]

Armando Catiglia is/was an amateur actor who appeared in the film “Cowboy Story” in 1953 as the outlaw villain of the film. The film’s dialogue was supplied by Italian director and screenwriter Ernesto Gastaldi. Ernesto was a friend of the director of the film Giuseppe Sacchi and therefore helped in the production.

No other biographical information is available on Armando.

CARTIGLIA, Armando [1932, Biella, Piedmont, Italy -    ] – film actor.

Cowboy Story – 1953 (outlaw)

New German DVD “Winnetous Rückkehr”

 

“Winnetous Rückkehr”

(Winnetou’s Return)

(1998)

 

Director: Marijan David Vajda

Starring: Pierre Brice, Candice Daly, Pierre Semmler

 

Country: Germany

Label: Pidax

DVD

Language: Dolby Digital 2.0 German

Running time: 2 hours and 56 minutes

ASIN: ‎B0DHHHRGWP

Release date: November 21, 2024

Voices of the Spaghetti Western ~ “Yankee”

As we know most of the Euro-westerns were co-productions from Italy, Spain, Germany and France which incorporated British and American actors to gain a worldwide audience. The films were shot silent and then dubbed into the various languages where they were sold for distribution. That means Italian, Spanish, German, French and English voice actors were hired to dub the films. Even actors from the countries where the film was to be shown were often dubbed by voice actors for various reasons such as the actors were already busy making another film, they wanted to be paid additional salaries for dubbing their voices, the actor’s voice didn’t fit the character they were playing, accidents to the actors and in some cases even death before the film could be dubbed.

I’ll list a Euro-western and the (I) Italian, (S) Spanish, (G) German and (F) French, (E) English voices that I can find and once in a while a bio on a specific voice actor as in Europe these actors are as well-known as the actors they voiced.

Today we’ll cover “Yankee”

[(I) Italian, (S) Spanish, (G) German, (F) French, (E) English]

Yankee - Philippe Leroy (I) Sergio Graziani, (S) Arsenio Corsellas, (G) Eckart Dux

Grande Concho – Adolfo Celi (I) Renato Turi, (S) Alfonso Santigosa, (G) Alf Marholm

Filosofo – Jacques Herlin (I) ?, (S) Antonio Gómez de Vicente, (G) Alois-Maria Giani

Luiz - Tomás Torres (I) Aldo Giuffrè, (S) Dionisio Macías, (G) Alois-Maria Giani

Consalvo - Paco Sanz (I) Gianni Bonagura, (S) José Maria Santos, (G) Wolfgang Spier

Rosita – Mirella Martin (I) Rita Savagnone, (S) María Luisa Solá, (G) Eva Ingeborg Scholz

Eckart Dux  (1926 – 2024)

Eckart Hermann „Ecki“ Dux was the son of the chief insurance inspector Eugen Dux. As a 17-year-old, he was drafted by the Wehrmacht, and after the end of the Second World War he caught up on his high school diploma. His first marriage was to the actress Gisela Peltzer [1926- ]. From 1970 he was married to the film editor Marlies Dux [1945- . This marriage produced a son. Dux lived in Dannenbüttel, where he died on April 9, 2024, at the age of 97.

From 1948 onwards, Dux was extensively active in dubbing and, together with Jürgen Thormann, was one of the longest-serving German voice actors in his old age. In the 1950s and 1960s he was the standard voice of Audie Murphy, from 1957 to 1991 the standard voice of Anthony Perkins, whom he voiced in the classic “Psycho”, among others. Dux also dubbed such well-known actors as Van Johnson, Steve Martin, Fred Astaire and the actor George Peppard in the action series ‘The A-Team’. From 2001 to 2007, he lent his voice to actor Jerry Stiller in the role of eccentric father-in-law Arthur Spooner in the sitcom ‘King of Queens’. After the death of Joachim Höppner in 2006, Dux took over the dubbing of Ian McKellen (Gandalf) in Peter Jackson's Hobbit trilogy (2012–2014). He also had this role in the films “The Lego Movie” (2014) and “The Lego Movie 2” (2019). In the series ‘Designated Survivor’ (2016–2019), he dubbed Geoff Pierson in the role of former president Cornelius Moss in 16 episodes. He can also be heard in the animated film “The Boss Baby”. In the animated series “Santa Claus & Co.KG”, which has been broadcast every year at Christmas time on Super RTL since 1997, he took on the role of Santa Claus.

Eckart Dux has also worked as a radio play narrator, for example as Flitze Feuerzahn in the radio play series of the same name von Europa (1984 to 1987), as Conni's grandfather in the radio plays for the children's book series ‘Meine Freundin Conni’, as narrator in the Maritim production ‘Edgar Wallace’ (from 2004) and in the audio book series Darkside Park (2009) by Ivar Leon Menger. In 2001, Dux voiced the audiobook of Blanker Unsinn by Steve Martin. He took on guest roles in several episodes of the detective series ‘Die drei ???’ (first in 1984 in the episode ‘Die drei ??? und der Höhlenmensch’) and ‘TKKG’ (first in 1984 in the episode ‘Wer raubte das Millionenpferd?’). From 2010, Dux regularly took on roles in Titania Medien's horror cabinet series.

Dux lived in Dannenbüttel, where he died on April 9, 2024, at the age of 97.

Special Birthdays

Etta Cameron (actress) would have been 85 today but died in 2010.

Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~Jim Carter

[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.]

James Edward Carter was born in Harrogate, Yorkshire, England on August 19m 1948. His mother was a land girl (Women's Land Army WLA) and later a school secretary, and his father worked for the Air Ministry. Carter attended Ashville College, Harrogate, where he was head boy in his final year, and the University of Sussex where he studied Law and appeared with the fledgling Drama Society, playing the title role in “Serjeant Musgrave's Dance”, the first student production at the newly-built Gardner Arts Centre theatre. He dropped out of university after two years to join a fringe theatre group in Brighton.

He was a member of the "Madhouse Company of London", a comedy troupe which performed in Boston in the 1970s. Other members were Marcel Steiner, Marc Weil and Tommy Shands. Ken Campbell, who appears in “A Fish Called Wanda” (1988) as George Thomason's lawyer was also associated with the troupe.

Under the stage name Jim Carter, he’s appeared in over 150 films and television series since 1976. As Jim Carter, he’s also appeared in theater and as a narrator

Carter was married to actress and singer Dame Imelda Staunton since 1983 but the separated in 2010. They have a daughter named Bessie born in 1983.

Chairman of Hampstead Cricket Club since 2010. He was awarded the OBE (Officer of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2019 Queen's New Years Honors List for his services to Drama.

Carter has appeared in three Euro-westerns: “Hiawatha” – 1984 (narrator), “Rustlers’ Rhapsody” in 1984 as Blackie, “The New Zorro” (TV) in 1990 as Colonel Mefisto Palomarez.

CARTER, Jim (aka James Carter) (James Edward Carter) [8/19/1948, Harrogate, Yorkshire, England, U.K. -     ] – theater, film, TV actor, singer, married to actress, singer Dame Imelda Staunton (Imelda Mary Philomena Bernadette Staunton) [1956-    ] (1983-    ) father of actress, singer Bessie Carter [1983-    ].

Hiawatha – 1984 (narrator)

Rustlers’ Rhapsody – 1984 (Blackie)

The New Zorro (TV) – 1990 (Colonel Mefisto Palomarez)

Who Are Those Guys? ~ Colin Drake

 

Colin Drake was born in England on March 8, 1917. Drake found incredible success as an accomplished actor, appearing in a variety of films throughout his Hollywood career. Drake started off his career in film with roles in the Yul Brynner comedic adaptation "Once More, With Feeling" (1960), the comedy "What's New, Pussycat?" (1965) with Peter Sellers and "Mister Freedom" (1968). He went on to act in the Judith Anderson horror flick "Inn of the D*mned" (1974), the John Jarratt comedy "The Great MacArthy" (1975) and "Cheers" (NBC, 1982-1993). He also appeared in "People Like Us" (1989-1990) and "Cast a Deadly Spell" (HBO, 1991-92). More recently, Drake appeared on "Megalodon: The New Evidence" (Discovery Channel, 2013-14).

Drake appeared in two Spaghetti westerns: Dynamite Jack – 1960 as Larry Schultz and “Dans la poussière du soleil” (In the Dust of the Sun) in 1971 as Sheriff Edwards.

Drake died in Auburn, California on March 27, 2011, at the age of 94.

DRAKE, Colin (aka Collin Drake) [3/8/1917, England, U.K. – 3/27/2011, Auburn, California, U.S.A.] – writer, theater, film, TV actor.

Dynamite Jack – 1960 (Larry Schultz)

In the Dust of the Sun – 1971 (Sheriff Edwards)

Special Birthdays

 Louis Levy (composer) would have been 130 today but died in 1957.

Paco Catala Ibanez (actor) is 90 today.

Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Marilù Carteny

[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.]

Maria Luigia Carteny was an Italian production designer, costume designer and film actress. She is often confused in film credits with Simonetta Santaniello who played Maureen McBain in Sergio Leone’s 1968 “Once Upon a Time in the West”. Marilu had worked as a costume designer on Italian films since 1950. She became a production designer in 1970.

Carteny also designed costumes for two other Spaghetti westerns Quién sabe? (A Bullet for the General) and Dio perdona ... io no! 1967 (God Forgives… I Don’t!) both in 1967.

She actually appears on screen in a small role as one of the mourners at the McBain ranch in the funeral scene.

CARTENY, Marilù (aka Marilyn Cartemy, Maria Luigia Carteny, Marilu Carteny) (Maria Luigia Carteny) [Italian] – production designer, costume designer, film actress.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - 1965 (observer at Tuco's hanging)

Once Upon a Time in the West – 1968 (mourner at McBain funeral)

New British Book Release – Sergio Leone by Himself

 

Sergio Leone by Himself

Author: Sir Christopher Frayling was released by Reel Art Press on

 

Country: England

Language: English

Pages: 256

ISBN-10: ‎1909526967

ISBN-13: ‎978-1909526969

Available: November 19, 2024

 

Between the worldwide box-office success of his Dollars trilogy and his untimely death in April 1989 at the age of 60, Sergio Leone gave several interviews to selected film journalists. He also wrote a series of thoughtful essays about his cinematic influences such as Charlie Chaplin, Federico Fellini, Henry Fonda, Robert Aldrich and John Ford. To accompany his final film, Once Upon a Time in America (1984), he published several articles about his obsessive quest to make the film and how it eventually happened. Most of these writings have never before appeared in English; as a collection they have never before appeared anywhere. Sergio Leone by Himself, compiled by Leone’s acclaimed biographer Christopher Frayling, gathers all his significant interviews, essays and articles to create a director’s-eye view of a body of work that over the past half century has had a decisive influence on world cinema. The book is illustrated with previously unseen photographs, posters and related ephemera from the Leone family collection and the Angelo Novi archive, both now housed in the Cineteca in Bologna.

The architect of cinema’s American West, Sergio Leone (1929–1989) did not speak English. His “spaghetti Westerns” were filmed in Italy and Spain and received both critique and acclaim for their violence, grittiness and camera work. Leone is best remembered for his two “trilogies'' of films: the Dollars trilogy starring Clint Eastwood and his Once Upon a Time films.

Christopher Frayling is the leading scholar on the life and legacy of Sergio Leone and is the author of his bestselling biography, Something to Do with Death. He served as rector of the Royal College of Art from 1996 to 2009 and as chairman of Arts Council England from 2005 to 2009. As Sergio Leone once said to him, “it took an Englishman to take my films seriously.”

Trailer link: Sergio Leone by Himself, by Christopher Frayling. Published by Reel Art Press

Manoa, the City of Gold

 

Manoa la ciudad de oro – Spanish title

Маноа. Золотой город – Russian title

Manoa, the City of Gold – English title

 

A 1996 Spanish film production [Teresa Sancho de Meras, Grup Somni, Enrique Cerezo

     Producciones Cinematográficas S.A. (Madrid)]

Producer: J.P. Simon (Juan Piquer Simón), José Ortega, Primitivo Rodríguez

Director: Juan Piquer Simón

Story: E Salgari (Emilio Salgari)

Screenplay: Juan Piquer Simón

Cinematography: Julio Bragado (Julio Darman) [Eastmancolor]

Music:

Running time: 80 minutes

 

Cast:

Webber - Andrés Alexis

Marcella - Cristina Cavallaro

Carnot – John Legget

Fernando - Juan C. Gabarda (Juan Carlos Gabarda)

Manuel - Juan C. Lee (Juan Carlos Lee)

Morgan - Frank Braña

Harkin - Fabrizio Meschini

Senor Rostand - Manuel Máñez

Brujo Indian - Germán Montaner

Guía Indian – Omar Chira

Cantinero - Vicente Amaya

Indio Shaw - Javier Sanchís

Guerrero Inca - Fernando Misiego (Fernando Missiego)

Sinoky - Francisco Pardo (Francisco Pardo López)

Hombres - Ricardo Gómez, Juan Prado, Edmond Peter Clay, Sergio George Reig

Pistoleros - Ximo Martínez, Juan E. Chira, Rafael Rodríguez, Javier Pérez

With: Ricardo Gregori, Paloma Gómez, José A. Rodríguez, Marta Murcia

 

Webber (Andrés Alexis) and Fernando (Juan C. Gabarda) find an old Indian who has been beaten almost to death. But before dying he entrusts them with an Inca map that describes the location of a hidden treasure, for which they will have to fight to find it before anyone else.

 

It’s based on a story by Emilio Salgari (by way of Jules Verne) set in the 1920's.

Made by Enrique Cerezo who produced "Outlaw Justice", "Dollar for the Dead" & "Return of El Coyote" (all 1998). He also made a pair of Vampire films, "La Venganza de Ira Vamp" (2010) and "Argento's Dracula" (2012). Cerezo most recently remade Jesus Franco's "Los últimos de Filipinas", as "1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines" (2016).

[submitted by Gary Williams, Michael Ferguson]

Special Birthdays

Jean Manse (writer) would have been 125 today but died in 1967.

Carlos López Moctezuma (actor) would have been 115 today but died in 1980.

RIP Charles Dumont

 

French composer, singer-songwriter Charles Dumont, who composed Edith Piaf's “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien” (I Have No Regret), It topped the charts in France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Canada. The song is also well known throughout the English-speaking world. Dumont died November 18^th in his hometown of Cahors, Lot, France at the age of 95. Born in Cahors on February 26, 1929, he was a trained trumpeter and musician, he collaborated with an array of international stars, including Barbra Streisand, Dalida, Jacques Brel and Juliette Gréco, but it was his work with the late French singer Piaf that he became most famous for. He went on to have a successful solo career from the 1970s. Dumont composed the score for the 1968 Spaghetti western “Il mio corpo per un poker” (The Belle Starr Story) with Elsa Martinelli, Robert Woods and George Eastman. He also composed the music for the song “No Time for Love” sung by Martinelli in the film.

Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Paola Carta

[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.]

Paola Carta is/was an Italian actress who appeared in only one film and that was in the 1966 Spaghetti western “Sugar Colt”.

I can find no other reference to her or any biographical information.

CARTA, Paola [Italian] – film actress.

Sugar Colt – 1966

Spaghetti western locations Then and Now – “100 Rifles”

The memorable scene of Raquel Welch taking a shower under the water tank to distract the Mexican soldiers in 1969’s “100 Rifles” was film at Llanos de La Calahorra/Granada

Nothing remains of the water tank today and is just a barren patch of soil today and the remnants of the railbed.

European Western Comic Books – Buffalo Bill

 

Buffalo Bill

This comic book series revisits the one that was created by Amilcare Medici and drawings by Lina Buffolente. One of the many productions that the close-knit couple of authors created in the immediate post-war period for a series of little-known publishers, such as Noè Cini of Stellissima C. The images for this new series were provided by Nestore Corti. It was published in Milan, Italy by the Publisher Stellissima in 1946. Issue #1 was released in January and the last issue #9 was released in September of that year. Each issue contained black and white pages with color covers.

 

Titles

01 (00.00.46) - “La valle della morte” (The Valley of Death)

02 (00.00.46) - “I banditi della prateria” (The Prairie Bandits)

03 (00.00.46) - “La lotta mortale” (The Mortal Struggle)

04 (00.00.46) - “L'insidia” (The Insidious)

05 (00.00.46) - “Il salvatore misterioso” (The Mysterious Savior)

06 (00.00.46) - “Lotta senza quartiere” (A Fight Without Quarters)

07 (00.00.46) - “Il segreto del Capo Solitario” (The Secret of the Loen Chief)

08 (00.00.46) - “La corsa alla morte” (The Race to Death)

09 (00.00.46) - “Sfidando la morte” (Defying Death)

Special Birthdays

Emilio Cigoli [voice actor] would have been 115 today but died in 1980.

Jarislov Stercl would have been 105 today but died in 1996.

Arnold Alfredson (actor) would have been 100 today but died in 2015.

Nate Parker (actor) is 45 today.