Little Known Spaghetti Western actors ~ Nino Davoli

[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.]

Nino Davoli was born in a simple family in San Pietro a Maida, Calabria, Catanzaro, Italy on October 11, 1948. There were six of them. His father and brothers travelled to Rome to seek their fortune and after a year their sister arrived. Nino was about four years old. The family ended up in Borghetto Prenestino, where he grew up. I can find no reference to him being related to yesterday’s actor Giovanni Davoli.

Davoli was discovered by poet, novelist and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, then 41, who had begun a relationship with Davoli, when he was 15-years-old boy, in 1963. Pasolini considered him to be "the great love of his life," and he later cast him in his 1966 film “Uccellacci e Uccellini” (The Hawks and the Sparrows) and co-starred with celebrated comic Totò. Pasolini became the youth's mentor and friend. "Even though their sexual relations lasted only a few years, Ninetto continued to live with Pasolini and was his constant companion, as well as appearing in six more of his films." After Pasolini's death in 1975, Davoli turned increasingly to television productions.

In all Nino Davoli appeared in 89 films and television productions and was an assistant director on one film 1979’s “Due pezzi di pane”.

In May 2015, Davoli was announced as recipient of a special Nastro d'Argento Career Award.

Nino appeared in only one Spaghetti western in which Pier Paolo Pasolini also appears. Davoli was the trumpeter in “Requiescant” (Kill and Pray) in 1967.

DAVOLI, Nino (aka Nenetto Davoli, Ninetto Davoli, Davoli Ninetto) (Giovanni Davoli Jr.) [10/11/1948, San Pietro a Maida, Calabria, Catanzaro, Italy -     ] – assistant director, film actor, married to Patrizia Carlomosti (1973-    ) father of Pier Paolo Davoli, actor Guido Davoli, awarded the Nastro d'Argento Lifetime Achievement [2015].

Kill and Pray – 1967 (trumpeter)