Ever feel you’ve recognized an actor before you had? Usually, it's because you’ve seen them in a couple of films before you realized who they were. Other times it's because you’ve seen their double in something very similar and not realized it till later. In the case of Spanish actor Roberto Camardiel, he had his doppelganger in Irish American actor Mickey Shaughnessy. Both men were about the same age. The same shape. If you watch “North to Alaska” you’d swear it was Camardiel playing ‘Boggs’, the town drunk, and not Shaughnessy.
Camardiel
played a character nicknamed ‘Double Whiskey’ in the two ARIZONA COLT westerns,
MAN FROM NOWHERE and ARIZONA COLT RETURNS, and in the third entry GOD IN
HEAVEN, ARIZONA ON EARTH, where he was called ‘Duffy’ for some reason. All three films are connected by a host of
writers and producers. Italians Ernesto Gastaldi & Luciano Martino wrote
the first two, while Spaniard Ricardo Sanz’s company ‘Astro Films’ made the
second and third. ‘Double Whiskey’ was later called ‘Fuzzy’ in a couple of other
westerns that Camardiel appeared in. In Germany he was so popular that TEQUILA
was released as “Fuzzy, halt die Ohren steif!”/ ‘Fuzzy Keep Your Ears On’.
While watching “North to Alaska” Mickey Shaughnessy as
the town drunk complains that he’s drunk too much ‘whiskey’. Only natural. One
sees a lot of resemblance to Camardiel, who of course did it afterwards. Just
compare the photos below. Besides the uncanny likenesses both actors also got
dumped into empty whiskey barrels at different points in their films.
[By Michael Ferguson]
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