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Monday, October 30, 2023

Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Douglas Bates

[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.]

Douglas Bates was a British actor who appeared in only two films in his career. He appeared in the role Constable Sanderson in the 1940 film “North West Mounted Police” directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Gary Cooper, Madeleine Carroll and Paulette Goddard. His only Euro-western appearance was 25 years later in 1965’s “Carry on Cowboy” as a rider.

BATES, Douglas [British] – film actor.

Carry on Cowboy – 1965 (rider)

Spaghetti Western Locations Then and Now ~ “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”

In the photo below from 1966’s “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” we see Sergio Leone and the crew setting up the bunker scene when the battle for Langstone Bridge.

The same location as seen this year in July 2023.

European Western Comics – Assi dell'Audacia

Axes of Audacity

This comic book series contains 44 issues with #1-#6 just a magazine, without cover data, containing 48 pages with various characters, some of whom continue their stories in successive numbers. 4 consecutive numbers now doubly numbered (#1=#7): public Paulino (PA) from Lombardy, Kid Sullivan (KS) by Guido Buzzelli and A. Torrisi, Tullino (TU) by Tullo Palasciano, Robin Hood (RH), Zenone Coccodrillo (ZE) by Franco Privitera. #29 and #31 were written by Gianfranco Scatassa and designed by Vincenzo Ciolfi, respectively. #43 and #44 were by Francesco Privitera (Frank) and Tullo Palasciano.

This was a weekly publication starting with issue #1 in January 1954 and ending with issue #44 in December 1955. The comic book was published in Lombardy and Rome by the publishing house of G. Gioggi & C. Editore under the direction of Gabriele Gioggi. Each issue contained either 16 or 48 black and white pages with color covers.

Titles

01 (00.00.55) - senza titolo

02 (00.00.55) - senza titolo

03 (00.00.55) - senza titolo

04 (00.00.55) - senza titolo

05 (00.00.55) - senza titolo

06 (00.00.55) - “Super Strenna” (Super Strenna)

07 (01) (00.00.55) - “Il segreto dei pesci rossi” (TU) (The Secret of the Fish)

08 (02) (00.00.55) - “Kid Sullivan, il figlio del Texas” (KS) (Kid Sullivan, the Texas

Kid)

09 (03) (00.00.55) - “Tullino e il fantasma” (TU) (Tullino and the Ghost)

10 (04) (00.00.55) - “Il duello di Robin Hood” (RH) (The Duel of Robin Hood)

11 (00.00.55) - “L’ultimo dei bandoleros” (The Last of the Bandits)

12 (00.00.55) - “Sterminio sul fiume” (Stermino on the River)

13 (00.00.55) - “Tullino e le ricerche sottomarine” (TU) (Tullino and Underwater

Research)

14 (00.00.55) - “L’arrembaggio della Pilar” (KS) (The Pillar Attack)

15 (00.00.55) - “La superstizione di Pablo” (Paul’s Superstition)

16 (00.00.55) - “La gola di fuoco” (The Growing Up)

17 (00.00.55) - “Tullino e il siero della forza” (TU) (Tullino and the Sierra Dela Forza)

18 (00.00.55) - “L’astronave scomparsa” (The Astronaut Scompars)

19 (00.00.55) - “Pallino il distratto” (PA) (The Distracted Pallino)

20 (00.00.55) - “Il rapimento di Julie Dray” (The Rapids of Julie Day)

21 (00.00.55) - “Tullino e Bibbo fra gli esquimesi” (Tullino and Bibbo among the

Eskimos)

22 (00.00.55) - “Carovana d’eroi” (Caravan of Heroes)

23 (00.00.55) - “Pallino e la casa stregata” (Pallino and the Haunted House)

24 (00.00.55) - “La frontiera dell’odio” (The Frontier of Hate)

25 (00.00.55) - “Tullino e Bibbo nei guai” (TU) (Tullino and Bibbo in Trouble)

26 (00.00.55) - “Avventure allegre” (Merry Adventures)

27 (00.00.55) - “L'assalto dei Sioux” (The Assault of the Sioux)

28 (00.00.55) - “Tullino e Giannetto nella dimensione “K” (Tullino and Giannetto in the

“K” Dimension)

29 (00.00.55) - “Gli arditi moschettieri” (The Bold Musketeers)

30 (00.00.55) - “Tullino e il naufragio” (Tullino and the Shipwreck)

31 (00.00.55) - “Fiamme Garibaldine” (Garibaldine Flames)

32 (00.00.55) - “Pallino” (Pallino)

33 (00.00.55) - “Zenone il coccodrillo fra i Mamba Conga” (“Zenone the Crocodile

Among the Mamba Conga)

34 (00.00.55) - “Arlecchinata” (Harlequinade)

35 (00.00.55) - “Agguato nel deserto” (Ambush in the Desert)

36 (00.00.55) - “Mio Mao” (My Mao)

37 (00.00.55) - “Zenone coccodrillo golosone” (ZE) (Zenone the Greedy Crocodile)

38 (00.00.55) - “Tullino eroe per forza” (TU) (Tullino Hero by Force)

39 (00.00.55) - “Bolidi sull’asfalto” (Rads on the Asphalt)

40 (00.00.55) - “I moschettieri di Guascogna” (The Musketeers of Gascony)

41 (00.00.55) - “Zenone cocodrillo e le sferotrappole” (ZE) (Zenone the Crocodile and

the Spherotraps)

42 (00.00.55) - “La pista infallibile” (The Infallible Trail)

43 (00.00.55) - “Massimiliano Bandito Gentiluomo” (Massimiliano Bandit Gentleman)

44 (00.12.55) - “La grande strenna di Bingo e Frugolino” (The Great Gift of Bingo and

Frugolino)

Sunday, October 29, 2023

RIP Stephen Kandel

Prolific American writer Stephen Kandel died in Boston, Massachusetts on October 21^st. He was 96. Born in New York City on April 30, 1927. He began his career in Hollywood in 1958, writing for the TV series ‘Sea Hunt’ with Lloyd Bridges. His vast filmography includes series such as ‘Star Trek’, ‘MacGyver’, ‘Mission Impossible’, ‘Batman’, ‘Wonder Woman’, ‘Hart to Hart’, ‘Iron Horse, ‘Six Million Dollar Man’, ‘Barnaby Jones’, ‘Mannix’, and many others. He also wrote the feature Euro-western film “Cannon For Cordoba” and “The Battle of The Coral Sea” and won the Humanitas Award for his television movie ‘Sonrise’. As mentioned above Kandel was a writer in the 1970 Euro-western “Cannon for Cordoba”.

From the WAI! vault.

Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Anne Bataille, Denise Battaille

Anne and Denise Bataille were most likely French actresses with a short careers Most likely they were models who were hired for roles as an extra for background and crowd scenes.

Anne’s career consisted of two films from 1975-1977. Her only Spaghetti western appearance was as a saloon girl in 1974’s “The White, the Yellow, the Black” directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Giuliano Gemma, Tomas Milian and Eli Wallach.

BATAILLE, Anne [French] – film, TV actress. sister of actress Denise Bataille.

The White, the Yellow the Black – 1974 (saloon girl)

Denise Battaile had a somewhat longer career as she appeared in six films and television appearances from 1965 to 1980. Like her sister Denise appeared in only one Spaghetti western along with her sister in 1974’s “The White, the Yellow, the Black” directed by Sergio Corbucci and starring Giuliano Gemma, Tomas Milian and Eli Wallach.

Whatever happened to the sisters is unknown.

BATAILLE, Denise [French] - film actress. sister of actress Anne Bataille.

The White, the Yellow the Black – 1974 (saloon girls)