From the WAI! vault

 

Little Known Spaghetti Western actors ~ Clemente Cipriano

[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.]

Clemente Cipriano was an Italian character actor. I can little to no information on him. He apparently appeared in only two films one was “Till Marriage Do Us Part” in 1974 and the other was his only Spaghetti western as a bounty hunter in “Il grande duello” (The Grand Duel) in 1972.

Since there were several bounty hunters in the film it’s impossible to identify which one is Clemente.

CIPRIANO, Clemente [Italian] – film actor.

The Grand Duel – 1972 (bounty hunter)

Who Are Those Singers & Musicians? ~ Quinsey

 

Quinsey’s real name was Alan Elderkin and he hailed from what was then Rhodesia. He played with a band called the Etonians, before coming to the attention of producer Grahame Beggs. ‘All The Time’ was released in 1968 and made number 14 on the Springbok Top 20, spending 8 weeks on the chart. Despite several further releases, including the theme tune to a local film called “The Long Red Shadow”, ‘All The Time’ would be his only chart hit, which I guess goes to show that you can please some of the people some of the time but not all of the people with your second single.

In later life Quinsey enjoyed the quiet life of Swaziland producing a few children a girl and a boy but was killed in a car smash near the Swazi boarder.

He sang the main theme song for the 1970 South African Euro-western “3 Bullets… for a Long Gun” called ‘Wonderful Day’

QUINSEY (aka Alan Quinn) (Alan Quinn Elderkin) [19??, Zimbabwe, Rhodesia – deceased Heliumhoogte, Alton, South Africa (car accident)] – singer, married to ? father of a son and a daughter, member of the band ‘Etonians’

3 Bullets… for a Long Gun – 1970 [sings: “Wonderful Day”]

Special Birthdays

Francisco Marin (cinematographer) would have been 105 today but died in 1983.

Preben Kaas (singer) would have been 95 today but died in 1981.

Hans Nitschke [voice actor] would have been 95 today but died in 2022.

Aldo Pedinotti (actor) is 85 today.

 

RIP Ángel Del Pozo

 

Spanish actor Ángel Del Pozo died on March 29^th in Madrid, Spain he was 90. Born Ángel del Pozo Merino in Madrid on July 14, 1934, he debuted in the cinema in 1960 with “Un bruto para Patricia” as Luis. After playing supporting roles in titles such as “Margarita se llama mi amor” (1961), “Vuelve San Valentín” (1962) and Escala en Hi-Fi” (1963), he began his best remembered work in Spaghetti Western, appearing more than a dozen titles in the 1960s and 1970s.In the 1970s he debuts as a director, shooting four films. At the end of the decade, he decided to withdraw from the world of entertainment. From the 1990s to 2008 he had been working in executive production and public relations in Gestevisión Telecinco[date) (now Mediaset Spain), manager of the television stations Telecinco and Cuatro. He received a lifetime achievement award at the Almeria Western Film Festival in 2020. He is survived by his daughter journalist Almudena del Pozo. Ángel appeared in fifteen Spaghetti westerns: “Welcome Padre Murray” 1962 as John/Juan, “The Colt is My Law” as George Benson) [credited as Anthony Clark], “A Place Called Glory as Josh both in 1965, “The Big Gundown” as Chet/Shemp Miller and “Fort Yuma Gold” as Captain Lefevre both in 1966, “Face to Face” 1967 as Maximilian de Winton, “Wrath of God” 1968  as David, “El Condor” as a lieutenant, “The Price of Power” as a lawyer, both in 1969, “Catlow” as Captain Francisco Vargas”, “In the Dust of the Sun” as a priest and “Pancho Villa” as Lieutenant Eager all in 1971, “Chino” “The Man Called Noon” as Ben Janish both in 1973 and the documentary “Spanish Western” as himself in 2014.

From the WAI! vault

 

Little Known Spaghetti Western actors ~ Vito Cipolla

[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.]

Italian film and TV actor graduated from the CSC in 1963. He appeared in nineteen film and TV series from 1965-1984 and was an assistant director on the 1976 film “Al piacere di rivederla”. I can find no other biographical information on him or know whatever happened to him.

He appeared in one Spaghetti western as Juan in 1967’s “Prega dio… e scavatti la fossa!” (Pray to God and Dig Your Grave).

CIPOLLA, Vito [Italian] – C.S.C. graduate,1963 assistant director, film, TV actor.

Pray to God and Dig Your Grave – 1967 (Juan)