- Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood (born Clinton Eastwood, Jr. on May 31, 1930) is an American actor, composer, film director and producer. While his recent work as a director, on films like "Million Dollar Baby" and "Letters from Iwo Jima", is consistently praised by critics, Eastwood is perhaps most famous for his tough guy, anti-hero acting roles, … - Lee van Cleef
Lee Van Cleef (January 9 1925 - December 16 1989) was an American film actor, who appeared mostly in Western and action pictures. His sharp features and piercing eyes made him an ideal "bad guy," though he was occasionally cast in a hero's role, such as a bounty hunter in "For a Few Dollars More". - Terence Hill
Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti March 29, 1939) is an Italian-born actor. - Ernest Borgnine
Ernest Borgnine (born Ermes Effron Borgnino in Hamden, Connecticut on January 24, 1917) is a Golden Globe, BAFTA and Academy Award winning American actor. Borgnine is the son of Carlo Borgnino and Anna Boselli, who immigrated to the U.S. from Modena, Italy. His parents divorced when he was two years old and he and his mother went to live in Italy, but five years later they returned to Hamden, Connecticut, where he attended public schools. - Eli Wallach
Eli Herschel Wallach (born December 7, 1915) is an American film, TV and stage actor. - Jack Palance
Jack Palance (February 18, 1919 - November 10, 2006) was an Oscar-winning American film actor. With his rugged facial features and gravelly voice, Palance was best known to modern movie audiences as both the characters of Curly and Duke in the two "City Slickers" movies, but his career spanned half a century of film and television appearances. - Klaus Kinski
Klaus Kinski (October 18, 1926 - November 23, 1991) was a German actor, famous for his ability to project on-screen intensity, and for his explosive temperament. He acted in over 180 films. - Richard Harrison
Richard Harrison and his movies: * *semi-official Richard Harrison site by John. - Franco Nero
Franco Nero (born November 23, 1941) is an Italian actor. - Fernando Sancho
Fernando Sancho was a Spanish actor. Sancho was born in Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain, and died in Madrid after surgery. He was often typecast as a Mexican bandit in paella and spaghetti westerns, several of which were directed or produced by Ignacio F. Iquino and sometimes starred Richard Harrison. He also appeared in a number of Spanish horror movies in the 60's and 70's. - Orson Welles
George Orson Welles (May 6, 1915 - October 10, 1985) was an Academy Award-winning American screenwriter, a radio, film and theatre director, a radio and film producer and an actor in film and theatre, as well as a Grammy Award-winning radio personality. Welles first gained wide notoriety for his October 30, 1938 radio broadcast of H. G. Wells' "The War of the Worlds". Adapted to sound like a contemporary news broadcast, … - William Berger
William Berger (b. Wilhelm Thomas Berger, January 20, 1928 in Innsbruck, Austria; d. October 2, 1993 in Los Angeles, of prostate cancer, USA) was a European actor, mostly associated with Euro or spaghetti westerns and travel documentaries. His earliest work was in Broadway theater, but while visiting Italy, he was cast in his first western, "Break Up" in 1965. A series of westerns followed, including "Faccia a faccia" (1967), … - Mark Damon
Mark Damon (born April 22, 1933, in Chicago, Illinois) is an American film actor and producer. He started his career in his native country, appearing in such films as "Young and Dangerous" (1957) and Roger Corman's "House of Usher". In an attempt to boost his career, he relocated to Italy, where he starred in several spaghetti westerns and B-movies, playing either the hero or the antagonist. - George Hilton
George Hilton (Sometimes Credited as Jorge Hilton) is an actor well-known for his many spaghetti western performancers. He was born Jorge Hill Acosta y Lara on 16 July 1934 in Montevideo, Uruguay but raised in England. He was dubbed into English in most westerns because of his English accent. Hilton began his career as an extra with bit parts in the mid-fifties. - Bud Spencer
Bud Spencer (born October 31, 1929), born as Carlo Pedersoli, is a famous Italian actor, known for his height at 6' 4" (193 cm) and his past roles in spaghetti westerns. Growing from a successful swimmer in his youth, he later achieved a degree in law, and has registered several patents. - Charles Bronson
Charles Bronson was an American actor of "tough guy" roles. In most of his roles he starred as a brutal police detective, a western gunfighter, vigilante, boxer or a Mafia hitman. - Yul Brynner
Yul Brynner (July 11, 1920 - October 10, 1985) was a Russian-born Broadway and Hollywood actor. He appeared in many movies and stage productions in the United States. He is best known for his portrayal of the Siamese king in the Rodgers & Hammerstein musical "The King and I" on the stage and on the screen, as well as Rameses II in the 1956 Cecil B. DeMille film "The Ten Commandments" and as Chris Adams in "The Magnificent Seven". - Guy Madison
Guy Madison was an American film and television actor. - John Steiner
John Steiner is a British actor, born on 7 January, 1941 in Chester, United Kingdom. Tall, thin and gaunt, Steiner attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts and worked for a few years at the BBC. He later found work primarily in films. In the late 1960s, Steiner was hired to play a part in the spaghetti western "Tepepa". He found himself in demand in Italy and relocated there, … - Aldo Sambrell
Worked with Sergio Leone for a long time and became perhaps one of the most used European actors in Italian westerns. - John Phillip Law
John Phillip Law (born September 7, 1937) is an American film actor, with move than a hundred movie roles to his credit. He is the son of actress Phyllis Sallee, and the brother of actor Thomas Augustus Law. He is best known for his roles as the blind angel Pygar in the science fiction classic "Barbarella", and as news anchor Robin Stone in "The Love Machine". - Van Heflin
Van Heflin (December 13, 1910 - July 23, 1971) was an Academy Award-winning American film and theater actor. - James Coburn
James Harrison Coburn (August 31, 1928 - November 18, 2002) was an Academy Award-winning American actor. - Gordon Mitchell
Gordon Mitchell was an United States actor who was born Charles Allen Pendleton in Denver, Colorado, on July 29, 1923 and died in Marina Del Rey, California, on September 20, 2003. He was one of the American bodybuilder-actors who migrated to Italy in the wake of Steve Reeves, finding work first in "peplum", then in Spaghetti Western. From the early 70's onwards, his career started to diversify into everything from horror ("Dr. - Cameron Mitchell
Kameron Mitchell was an American film, television and Broadway star with close ties to one of Canada's most successful families, and considered, by Lee Strasberg, to be one of the founding members of The Actor's Studio in New York City. Born Kameron Justin Mitchell in Dallastown, Pennsylvania to Rev. Charles and Kathryn Mitzell, Mitchell's film career began with minor roles in films dating back to 1945, … - Luigi Pistilli
Luigi Pistilli (July 19, 1929 - April 21, 1996) was an Italian actor of stage, screen, and television. In theater, he was considered one of the country's best interpreters of Bertolt Brecht's plays in "The Threepenny Opera" and "St. Joan of the Stockyards". Born in Grosseto, Pistilli studied acting at Milan's Piccolo Teatro, graduating in 1955. - Frank Wolff
Walter Frank Hermann Wolff (May 111928-December 121971) was a versatile American actor whose prolific movie career began with roles in five 1958-61 Roger Corman productions and ended a decade later in Rome, after scores of appearances in European-made films, most of which were lensed in Italy. A native of San Francisco, Frank Wolff was the son of a Bay area physician. The elder Wolff, a political and social maverick, encouraged young Frank to follow an unconventional path. - Antonio Casas
Antonio Casas (11 November 1911 A Coruña, Galicia - 14 February 1982 Madrid, Spain) was a Spanish film actor who appeared in film between 1941 and his death in 1982. Casas originally began as a footballer but entered film in 1941 and made nearly 170 appearances in film and TV between then and 1982. He appeared in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western the "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" in 1966, a film that has consistently been voted one of the greatest of all time. - Claudia Cardinale
Claudia Cardinale (born April 15, 1938) is a Tunisian-Italian actress born in Tunis, Tunisia to Italian parents. - Giuliano Gemma
Giuliano Gemma (born September 2, 1938) is an Italian actor. Born in Rome, he first worked as a stuntman, then was offered real acting parts by director Duccio Tessari, starting with the film "Arrivano i titani" (1962). He also made an appearance in Luchino Visconti's "Il Gattopardo". Gemma later went on to star in spaghetti westerns, where he enjoyed great success playing the hero in films such as "A Pistol for Ringo" and "Day of Anger". - Gianni Garko
Gianni Garko (born Giovanni Garcovich in 1935 and often billed as John Garko) is a Dalmatian actor who found much fame in Italian westerns especially as the enigmatic Sartana, starting with the first official film "If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death". He also played two other spaghetti western characters Holy Ghost and an unofficial Django. He began his film career in 1958. - Tony Anthony
Tony Anthony (born Roger Pettito on October 16, 1937, in Clarksburg, West Virginia), is a former film actor, producer, director, and screenwriter. He is best known for starring roles in spaghetti westerns such as "Blindman", and for writing, producing and starring in two 1980s 3-D films; "Comin' at Ya!" and "Treasure of the Four Crowns". He co-wrote a handful of films with director Saul Swimmer, … - Jack Elam
Jack Elam (November 13, 1920 - October 20, 2003) was an American film actor. He appeared mostly in westerns. William Scott Elam, "Jack", was born in Miami, Arizona to Millard Elam and Alice Amelia Kerby. Despite wildly spread rumors to the contrary, Alice did not die when Jack was one or two years old. She died in 1924 when he was just shy of four years old. After she died, he was raised by relatives in very unhappy circumstances. - George Eastman
George Eastman (birth name Luigi Montefiori), Italian B-movie actor and screenwriter, was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1942. Montefiori took his Americanized alias "George Eastman" when he was cast as a "heavy" in many spaghetti westerns made in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Eastman later became a regular performer in many movies directed by Joe D'Amato, for whom he also became a screenwriter. - Brett Halsey
Brett Halsey (born June 20, 1933, in Santa Ana, California), is an American film actor, sometimes credited as Montgomery Ford. He is best known as the original John Abbott on "The Young and the Restless", a role he held from 1980 to 1982, before being replaced by Jerry Douglas. Halsey played supporting and co-starring roles in Hollywood, appearing in such films as "Return of the Fly" (1959) with Vincent Price. - Luis Induni
Luis Induni (5 March 1920, Romano Cavanese,Turin, Piedmont - 31 December 1979, Barcelona, Spain) was an Italian film actor of the 1950s 1960s and 1970s. Induni appeared in mostly Spaghetti Western Italian films starring as a sheriff in Black Beauty in 1971, although his roles later in the 1970s extended to many other genres such as the 1972 horror film Dr. Jekyll y el Hombre Lobo. He died in 1979. - Henry Silva
Henry Silva (born September 15, 1928) is an American actor who has played a wide variety of movie roles. Silva was born in Brooklyn, New York to a Sicilian father and a Spanish mother. He grew up in Harlem and quit school when he was 13 years old to attend drama classes, supporting himself as a dishwasher and waiter in a Manhattan hotel. By 1955, Silva felt ready to audition for the Actors Studio. He was one of five students chosen out of more than 2,500 applicants. - Antonio Casale
Antonio Casale was a Spanish film actor of the 1960s and 1970s who appeared in mostly Spaghetti Western Italian films between 1965 and 1976. Although his roles later were greater, Casale is probably most known worldwide for his brief appearance as the dying Bill Carson in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western the "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" in 1966, a film that has consistently been voted one of the greatest of all time. - Livio Lorenzon
Livio Lorenzon (6 May 1923 Trieste - 23 December 1971 in Latisana) was an Italian film actor of the 1950s and 1960s. Lorenzon is best known in world cinema for his small roles in Spaghetti Western films in the 1960s, appearing in "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" and The Secret Seven in 1966. Lorenzon appeared in some 75 films mostly westerns between 1952 and 1969. He died in 1971 in Latisana in a street accident only aged 48. - John Bartha
János Bartha was a Hungarian film actor who appeared primarily in Spaghetti westerns in the 1960s and 1970s. He is probably most recognizable in western cinema for his role as Sheriff who captured Tuco in the 1966 Sergio Leone film, the "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly", a film that also starred Clint Eastwood. He made nearly 80 appearances in film between 1951 and 1981.
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