.Westerns...All'Italiana!: January 2026

Thursday, January 1, 2026

Happy New Year 2026

Remembering those we lost in 2025

Nora Orlandi [composer, songwriter, singer, musician] 6/28/1933 – 1/1/2025

Roger Pratt [cinematographer] 2/27/1947 – 12/31/2024

Phyllis Dalton [costume designer] 10/11/1925 – 1/9/2025

Giorgio Favretto [voice dubber] 12/5/1941 – 1/23/2025

Horst Janson (actor) 10/4/1935 – 1/28/2025

Fiore De Rienzo (actor) 1959 – 1/28/2025

William Roberts (actor) 10/18/1943 – 2/?/2025

Geneviève Page (actress) 12/13/1927 – 2/14/2025

Antonio Contreras (actor, musician) 1942 – 2/16/2025

Juan Mariné [cinematographer] 12/31/1920 – 2/17/2025

Tony Isbert (actor) 12/5/1950 – 2/19/2025

Gene Hackman (actor) 1/30/1930 – 2/18/2025

Eleonora Giogi (actress) 10/21/1953 – 3/3/2025

Maria Grazia Spina (actress) 6/3/1936 – 3/13/2025

Gianfranco Barra (actor) 4/5/1940 – 3/23/2025

Maria Gustafsson (actress) 8/31/1946 – 3/23/2025

Denis Arndt (actor) 11/23/1939 – 3/25/2025

Angel del Pozo (actor) 7/14/1934 – 3/29/2025

Yves Boisset [director, assistant director] 3/14/1939 – 3/31/2025

Lee Montague (actor) 10/16/1927 – 3/30/2025

Sian Barbara Allen (actress) 7/12/1946 – 3/31/2025

Val Kilmer (actor) 12/31/1959 – 4/1/2025

Juan Fairen (stuntman, actor) 19?? – 3/31/2025

Ted Kotcheff [director] 4/7/1931 - 4/10/2025

Miguel Bordoy (actor) 4/10/1944 – 4/18/2025

Axel Scholtz [voice dubber] 3/1/1935 - 4/21/2025

Ruth Buzzi (actress) 7/24/1936 – 5/1/2025

Francesca Benedetti (actress) 11/18/1935 - 5/3/2025

Joe Don Baker (actor) 2/12/1926 – 5/7/2025

Aurora Clavel (actress) 8/14/1936 – 5/19/2025

Nino Benvenuti (actor) 4/26/1938 – 5/20/2025

Mariano Ozores [director, writer] 10/5/1926 – 5/20/2025

Billy Williams [cinematographer] 6/3/1929 - 5/21/2025

Peter David [producer, writer, actor] 9/23/1956 – 5/24/2025

Nicole Croisille [voice actress, singer] 10/9/1936 – 6/4/2025

José Luis Galicia (actor, set, production designer) 5/31/1930 – 6/5/2025

Harris Yulin (actor) 11/5/1937 – 6/10/2025

Sergio Lerer (actor) 9/24/1948 – 6/16/2025

Manny Zarzo (actor) 4/26/1932 – 6/16/2025

Hunt Powers (actor, singer) 4/11/1929 – 6/19/2025

Alvaro Vitali (actor) 2/3/1950 – 6/24/2025

Javier Franquelo [voice actor] 2/14/1934 – 6/24/2025

Lea Massari (actress) 6/30/1933 – 6/23/2025

Leticia Roman (actress) 8/12/1941 – 6/26/2025

Frank Barrie (actor) 9/19/1940 – 6/30/2025

Michael Madsen (actor) 9/25/1957 – 7/3/2025

Milan Mikulan (stuntman, actor) 2/20/1943 - 7/3/2025

Connie Francis [singer] 12/12/1937 – 7/16/2025

Jiří Krampol [actor, voice dubber] - 7/11/1938 – 7/26/2025

Adriana Asti (actress) 4/30/1931 – 7/31/2025

Nando Angelini (actor) 8/17/1933 – 8/3/2025

Terence Stamp (actor) 7/22/1938 – 8/17/2025

Brandy (Ildebrando José Rodríguez Rossetti) (stuntman) 1940 – 8/22/2025

Eusebio Poncela (actor) 9/15/1945 – 7/27/2025

Roberto Posse (actor) 10/31/1950 – 8/28/2025

Victor Agramunt [voice actor] 11/18/1935 – 8/30/2025

Arthur Brauss (actor) 7/24/1936 – 8/30/2025

Joe Bugner (actor) 3/13/1950 – 9/1/2025

Graham Greene (actor) 6/22/1952 – 9/1/2025

Jean-Pierre Bouyxou (actor) 1/16/1946 – 9/2/2025

Neil Summers [stunt coordinator, stuntman, actor] 4/28/1944 – 8/5/2025

Miguel Rey [voice dubber] 193? – 9/10/2025

José Antonio Félez [producer] 12/31/1953 – 9/9/2025

Stephen Forsyth (actor) 9/22/1938 – 9/12/2025

Sergio Salvati [cinematographer] 5/16/1935 – 9/17/2025

Claudia Cardinale (actress) 4/15/1938 – 9/23/2025

Hartmut Bitomsky (filmmaker) 5/10/1942 – 9/24/2025

James Mitchum (actor) 5/8/1941 – 9/20/2025

André Oumansky (actor) 8/15/1933 - 9/26/2025

Jerry Leggio (actor) 9/23/1935 – 10/1/2025

Thomas Wolff (voice actor) 6/17/1951 – 10/2/2025

Heinz Roske [production designer] 6/3/1939 – 10/3/2025

Jimmy Shaw (actor) 4/6/1966 – 10/11/2025

Samantha Eggar (actress) 3/5/1934 – 10/15/2025

Martine Brochard (actress) 4/2/1944 – 10/18/2025

Michael Delano (actor) 11/26/1940 -10/20/2025

Dawn Little Sky (actress) 4/17/1930 – 10/24/2025

Adam Greenberg (cinematography) 4/11/1937 – 10/31/2025

Tchéky Karyo (actor) 10/4/1953 – 10/31/2025

Rita di Lernia (actress) 4/28/1943 – 11/5/2025

Tatsuya Nakadai (actor) 12131932 – 11/11/2025

Sally Kirkland (actress) 10/31/1941 – 11/11/2025

Hark Bohm (producer, director, writer) 5/18/1939 – 11/14/2025

Ornella Vanoni (actress, singer) 9/22/1934 -11/21/2025

Ingrid van Bergen (actress) 6/15/1931 – 11/28/2025

Péter Kálloy Molnár (actor, voice actor) 6/6/1970 – 12/1/2025

Roger Lumont (actor, voice actor) 2/21/1934 – 12/4/2025

Mauro Bosco (actor) 5/12/1938 – 12/10/2025

James Ransone (actor) 6/2/1979 – 12/19/2025

Brigitte Bardot (actress, singer) 9/28/1934, - 12/28/2025

Little Known Spaghetti Western actors ~ Luigi del Pizzo

[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.]

Luigi del Pizzo is/was an Italian character actor. He only has one film credit according to the IMDb and that was as also his only Spaghetti wester appearance as a juror in 1963’s “Cuatro balazos” (4 Bullets for Joe).

I can find no biographical information on him.

del PIZZO, Luigi [Italian] – film actor.

4 Bullets for Joe – 1963 (juror)

Spaghetti Western Directors, Screenwriters, Cinematographers:

Spaghetti Western Director, Screenwriter – Giuseppe Accatino

Giuseppe Accattino was born in Genoa, Liguria, Italy on September 2, 1914. Accattino was an Italian producer, film director, screenwriter.

After graduating in architecture from the Academy of Fine Arts, Giuseppe Accattino attended the CSC (Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia) in Rome. After a few documentaries that are considered lost, he founded the film production company S.I.L.A. (Società Italiana Lanci Artistici) after the Second World War, with which he directed, wrote and produced his only feature film, “Buffalo Bill a Roma” (Buffalo Bill in Rome), in 1949. The film was torn apart by critics and was not distributed until 1951 (and again in 1953). In the credits his last name was spelled with only one ‘T’ Accatino. Another planned project failed.

Giuseppe died in Rome on April 20, 1979 at the aga of 64.

ACCATINO, Giuseppe (Giuseppe Accattino) [9/2/1914, Genoa, Liguria, Italy – 4/20/1979, Rome, Lazio, Italy] – producer, director, writer, founded S.I.L.A. (Società Italiana Lanci Artistici).

Buffalo Bill in Rome – 1949

Spaghetti Western Cinematographers – Sante Achilli

Sante Achilli was born in 1934. He was a cameraman who worked in the electrical department early on and then became a cinematographer and even appeared as an actor in the 1956 short film “Ragazzi di Trastevere”.

He worked as a cameraman on twenty-five films between 1956-1970 and as a cinematographer on nine films between 1967-1970. His only Spaghetti western was “John the Bastard” in 1967.

Sante's biggest claim to fame was that he was romantically involved with actress Catherine Spaak after her breakup with her first husband producer, actor, singer Fabrizio Capucci [1939- ]. In fact there’s a photo of Achilli and Spaak touting he was her fiancé. Achilli had been a cameraman on several of her films.

What has become of Sante is unknown.

ACHILLI, Sante (aka Santa Accile) [1934 - ] - cinematographer, cameraman, actor.

John the Bastard – 1967

50th anniversary of the premier of “White Fang and the Hunter”

Today marks the 50^th anniversary of the premier of “Zanna Bianca e il cacciatore solitario” (White Fang and the Hunter) directed by Alfonso Brescia and starring Robert Woods, Pedro Sanchez and Malisa Longo. The film tells the story of Daniel (Robert Woods) and Dollar (Pedro Sanchez), two hunters who meet and become friends by chance, come loaded with valuable furs to a city where Thomas Ferguson (Claudio Undari) is the master of everything and, with his gang of henchmen tends to impose rates of usury on everyone. Determined not to sell below the going price, the two friends and the magnificent wolfdog White Fang, take refuge temporarily at the farm of the young widow Helen Burton (Malisa Longo). They are thus able to take her side along with her son Johnny (Massimo De Cecco), who is haunted by the same Ferguson. He wants to buy their land and farm where according to the plans of the tyrant, the railway will pass. Daniel recovers documents of the murdered Burton, proving the misdeeds of Ferguson and brings them to the RCMP. Now with Ferguson arrested, Daniel marries Hellen, Dollar joins with the Indian woman Rising Moon (Linda Sini); and the new railway is built in peace and justice.

Zanna Bianca e il cacciatore solitario – Italian title

Croc-blanc el le chasseur solitaire – French title

Von Wölfen gehetzt – das wilde abenteuer – German title

Von Wölfen gehetzt – German title

Wolfsblut - Der einsame Jäger – German title

Sta dontia tou lykou – Greek title

Fehér agyar és a magányos vadász – Hungarian title

Bialy Kiel i mysliwy – Polish title

El cazador solitario de la Predera Nevada – Spanish title

Lone Hunter of the Wild North – U.K. title

White Fang and the Hunter – English title

A 1975 Italian film production [Pleida Film (Rome)]