Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Joseph Bradley

[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.]

Joseph Bradley appeared in only one film, and it was his only Spaghetti western as the El Paso bartender in “Per qualche dollaro in più” (For a Few Dollars More) his identity has been much discussed and debated in various forums and is often confused with Josef Egger and also his presumed identities listed by the IMDb credit as Antonio Palombi and Ulrich Muller which all are unconfirmed.

Abel Haro Pulido posted the following: "This man was the Italian Antonio Palombi, he was a carpenter on Carlo Simi's team and a friend of Sergio Leone, he was also a waiter in “Per il gusto di uccidere” “The Taste of Killing” in 1966. Credited in the production team of other films." There is no way to confirm any of this information. A post in the Quasi dimenticati group on Facebook has named him as "Ullrich Müller". Muller is actually credited on German newspaper ad mats for the Terence Hill, Henry Fonda’s “Il mio nome è Nessuno” (My Name is Nobody). If you notice Bradley is a much bigger man than the so called Muller and Palombi and if it’s Bradley in the other films he surely aged a great deal in a year or two as the actor in “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, “Once Upon a Time in the West” and My Name is Nobody are much smaller in stature and older looking.

My identification comes from an article where Lee Van Cleef says the bartender was Joseph Bradley who was a retired British railroad worker living in Almeria along with a colony of retired Brits. Van Cleef had befriended Bradley because he could speak English and Spanish and would accompany Lee to various restaurants and bars during the time he spent filming in Almeria, Spain. Until we can definitely confirm who portrayed the El Paso bartender I’ll stick with what Colonel Mortimer says.   

BRADLEY, Joseph [189?, England, U.K. – 19??, Spain(?)] – film actor.

For a Few Dollars More – 1965 (El Paso bartender)