Who Are Those Singers & Musicians? ~ Jacques Higelin

 

Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin was a French composer and singer. Born in Brou-sur-Chantereine, Seine-et-Marne, France on October 18, 1940. His father, Paul, was a railway worker and musician of Alsatian descent. He introduced his two sons to various forms of music, while his mother, Renée, of Belgian descent, raised them both.

Higelin's entertainment career began at age 14, when he left school to work as a stunt double. While playing a number of minor roles in motion pictures, Higelin was taught to play the guitar by Henri Crolla, a French-Italian jazz guitarist and a composer of film scores. By the early 1960s, Higelin was attending the René Simon drama school, where he won the François Perier award.

For two years beginning in 1961, Higelin served in the French military in various countries. Upon returning to France, he resumed his film career but increasingly began to focus on music. By the end of the decade, he had become very active in the artistic underground in Paris and began to channel his music towards radical activism.

Higelin began attracting popular attention through his live concerts, typically held in smaller venues, and released his first solo album in 1971. By the middle of the 1970s, Higelin had become one of France's most successful pop musicians, and he remains influential to this day.

In the 1970's Higelin was in a relationship with a French-Vietnamese woman called Kuelan Nguyen. She accompanied him during the recording of an album at Château d'Hérouville Studio, where Iggy Pop was also recording his debut solo album "The Idiot". Iggy Pop became infatuated with Nguyen, who rejected him, but the incident inspired the song China Girl, which later became a hit when re-recorded by David Bowie.

In all Higelin recorded 20 albums before his death in Paris on April 6, 2018. He was 77.

HIGELIN, Jacques (aka Jacques Igelin) (Jacques Joseph Victor Higelin) [10/18/1940, Brou-sur-Chantereine, Seine-et-Marne, France - 4/6/2018, Paris, Île-de-France, France] – composer, singer, stuntman, actor, father of writer, composer, singer Arthur H. (Arthur Higelin) [1966-    ] with Nicole Courtois [1940-    ], actor Ken Higelin [1972-    ] with Kuelan Nguyen [1950-    ], actress, singer Izïa Higelin [1990-    ] with Aziza Zakine, married to Aziza Zakine [1956-    ] (2001-2018).

Another Man, Another Chance – 1977 [Sings: “La complainte du nouveau monde”]

Spaghetti Westerns Podcast Season 6 episode 2 #115

 Please join me today at high noon PST for the “Spaghetti Westerns Podcast Season 6 episode 2 #115. I’ll be covering a couple of rare, 1964 seldom talked about films “Okay Sheriff” and “Die for a Dollar in Tucson” in our ongoing segment “History of the Spaghetti Western”. We’ll also talk about “Whatever Happened to… Ken Wood. “Who are Those Guys?” will feature Italian actor Fernando Rey. The film of the week will be the classic Lee Van Cleef “Sabata” from 1969. The LP/CD of the week is also “Sabata” by composer Marcello Giombini and we’ll have an autograph of the week, book of the week and wrap things up with a jam-packed News of the Week. So join us today at 12 noon PST.

From the WAI! vault

 

Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ José Bastida

 [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.]

José García Bastida was born in Tetuan, Morocco on January 2, 1936. He worked as a supporting and character actor, especially in the 1960s and 1970s and was highlighted in mainstream films. José’s first film was “La mano de un hombre muerto” (1962) directed by Jesús Franco and starring Ana Castor and Howard Vernon. Bastida would go on to appear in over 30 films before his final appearance in 1984’s “Serpiente de mar” (The Sea Serpent) directed by Amando de Ossorio and starring Timothy Bottoms. During his 20-year career he appeared in seven Euro-westerns: “Rebels in Canada”, “Renegade Gunfighter” (both 1965) “A Fistful of Songs” (1966), “Kitosch, the Man Who Came from the North”and “Kill the Wicked” (both 1967), “White Comanche” (1968) and “Long Live Your Death (1971). Where he died was not reported. 

José Bastida died in Spain on August 4, 2012 at the age of 76.

BASTIDA, José (aka Jose Bastida, Sal Bastida) (José García Bastida) [January 2,1936, Tetuan, Morocco - 8/4/2012, Spain] – film, TV actor.

Rebels in Canada – 1965 (executioner)

Renegade Gunfighter – (Clark henchman)

A Fistful of Songs – 1966 (piano player)

Kitosch, the Man Who Came from the North – 1966 (Corporal Bates)

Kill the Wicked! – 1967 (padre)

White Comanche – 1968 (Garcia henchman)

Long Live Your Death – 1971 (deputy)

RIP Richard Moll

 

Richard Moll, who portrayed the towering and tenderhearted bailiff Aristotle Nostradamus “Bull” Shannon on all nine seasons of the popular NBC sitcom Night Court during its original run, has died. He was 80. Moll died in Big Bear, California on October 26^th. He was 80. Born Charles Richard Moll in Pasadena, California the 6-foot 8-inch actor played an abominable snowman alongside Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach in the comedy feature “Caveman” (1981), and he was a scary, decomposing Vietnam veteran in the horror film “House” (1986).

Moll also did lots of voiceover work, with a regular gig as the immortal bodyguard Norman on the syndicated series Mighty Max and turns as Harvey Dent/Two-Face for three Batman cartoons. Moll appeared in two Euro-westerns. He acted in an uncredited role in the TV min-series ‘The Adventures of Smoke Bellew’ in 1995 and provided additional voices for the animated 1997 TV series ‘The Legend of Calamity Jane’.

The 'Zorro' series will shoot some scenes in Toledo: it will be between November 2023 and January 2024

 

An audiovisual project that is expected to premiere between 2024 and 2025

 

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By Alejandro Martín Carrillo

October 24, 2023

It's news that SER Toledo is advancing... The 'Zorro' series will shoot several scenes in Toledo in the coming months. Precisely, this new audiovisual project is looking for extras during this Thursday and Friday, with the aim of filming several days in the capital of Castilla-La Mancha. Filming is expected to take place between November 2023 and January 2024. However, this project will also shoot different scenes in Almeria.

Specifically, this series is expected to premiere between the years 2024 and 2025. However, it has nothing to do with the series filmed in Gran Canarias, where the actor of the series 'Elite', Miguel Bernardeau, will play the fox and, also, has the starring role of Renata Notni. In this way, Bernardeau will take over from Antonio Banderas to reincarnate the character of Zorro, in a series that will be set in Mexico in the nineteenth century. With this, it so happens that there are two projects of Zorro to transfer it to the small screen.

The new 'Zorro' series can be seen on French television

For its part, this new project in the ‘Zorro’ series will have a Franco-Spanish production and will be shot entirely between the locations of Toledo and Almeria. A project that is expected to premiere at the end of 2024 or in 2025. In principle, this series would be broadcast on one of the French television channels, although it is not ruled out that it could be marketed to other television channels in the world, as well as on streaming platforms.

A project that has nothing to do w”th t’e one that can be seen on Amazon Prime Video and, subsequently, on TVE and that is produced by Secuoya. Precisely, the premiere of this last project is expected for the first half of next 2024.

Casting of extras underway

In this way, the production company is casting dozens of people in the courtyard of the Toledo City Hall to look for extras for the filming that will take place in the imperial city. We have spoken to some of them in 'Hoy por Hoy Toledo' and many of them were attending a casting of this type for the first time. However, they all had in common their love of series and movies.

Spaghetti Western Locations for “Bad Man’s River”

 We continue our search for locations for “Bad Man’s River”. A stagecoach is seen racing across the prairie while inside Maria totals the money with a pencil and a pad of paper. Across from her is an older man drinking from a flask. She looks up and says, “How am I doing papa?”, he replies, “Just like your dear mama!” and sneezed into his handkerchief. 

In the black and white closing credits the King gang is scene riding after the coach exchanging gunshots with the robbers.

Fine

Filmed at Colmenar Viejo, Madrid, Spain.

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/