Cemetery with crosses - legends lost but remembered

KÜLOWThis page is our personal hall of fame. A reminder to us all that even though considered a B-genre, Spaghetti Westerns were full of great characters, played by great people. Many have passed away, and while we are young growing up re-watching all these classics, many more will probably leave us. May they be remembered. What follows, is a work-in-progress, a growing list of legends who have passed away...

sorted by their last names: A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z|} FRESH GRAVES SANDER, Ian - 11/22/1947, New York City, New York, U.S.A. - 5/3/2016, Encino, California, U.S.A. Ian Sander, who with his wife Kim Moses executive produced the popular drama series 'Ghost Whisperer' and 'Profiler', died Tuesday at home after suffering a heart attack. He was 68. Born in New York City on November 22, 1947, he graduated from the University of Southern California and attended Loyola Law School before launching a career as an actor. He appeared in the 1970 film "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls", in the 1971 Broadway play "No Place to Be Somebody" and on such TV series as 'The Mod Squad', 'Medical Center' and 'The Rockford Files'. Sander appeared as Red Clayton in the 1976 Euro-western “God’s Gun”. De ANDRES LOPEZ, Ángel - 10/23/1951, Madrid, Madrid, Spain -5/4/2016, Madrid, Madrid, Spain Spanish stage, film and TV actor Ángel de Ándrés López died May 4th at his home in Madrid, Spain. He was 64. Ángel participated in various Spanish television series garnering much success and fames such as ‘Cuéntame’, ‘Pelotas o más’ and more recently ‘Carlos, Rey Emperador’. He appeared as Cheyenne in the 2002 Euro-western “800 Bullets”. Di GIACOMO, Franco - 9/18/1932, Amatrice, Umbria, Italy - 4/30/2016, Rome, Lazio, Italy The great Italian director of photography Franco Di Giacomo died April 30, 2016 in Rome. He was 83. More than 120 films to his credit, and worked with some of the greatest Italian directors, from Bertolucci to Ettore Scola, Taviani by Nanni Moretti. He was also president of A.I.C., The association of the authors of photography. Di Giacomo was a camera operator on “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (1966), “Once Upon a Time in the West” (1968), and was cinematographer on “Buddy Goes West” (1980). FRIEDRICHSEN, Uwe - 5/27/1934, Altona, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany - 4/30/2016, Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany German stage, film, TV and voice actor Uwe Friedrichsen has died. He died Saturday at the age of 81 in a Hamburg hospital as the result of a brain tumor. Friedrichsen is best remembered for his role in the television series "Family Schoeller Man" and the role of the detective in "John Klings Abenteuer" (1965-1970) for which he took over and his work on the German version of “Sesame Street”. Uwe was the German voice of Montgomery Ford (Brett Halsey) in “Today We Kill… Tomorrow We Die” (1967), Monte Markham in “Guns of the Magnificent Seven” (1968_ and Dean Reed in 1970’s “Adios, Sabata”. He also starred as Tex Ritter in the German western TV series ‘Stadt ohne Sheriff’ in 1972. ADINOLFI, Ugo 4/1/1943, Milan, Lombardy, Italy - 4/26/2016, Rome, Lazio, Italy Italian supporting actor Ugo Adinolfi died in his sleep in Rome on April 26th. He was 73. His son Mario reported his father’s passing on Facebook. Ugo was born in Milan, Lombardy, Italy on April 1, 1943. He moved to Rome where he graduated from the Experimental Centre of Cinematography and became an actor in over 60 films of which eighteen were westerns. In the early 1970s he left the business to devote time to his family. Most of the films he appeared in he had small parts and he was cast mainly for tax purposes. Among his films were “Killer Kid”, “The Moment to Kill”, “The Wild and the Dirty” (all 1967), “Gatling Gun”, “Kill Them All and Come Back Alive”, “The Mercenary”, “Sartana” (all 1968), “A Man Called Apocalypse Joe” (1970) and “Drummer of Vengeance” (1971). His son is journalist and politician Mario Adinolfi. HESS, Wolfgang - 9/1/1937, Switzerland - 4/28/2016, Zurich, Switzerland Another legendary voice actor has left us. Wolfgang Hess, the German voice of Bud Spencer in over 40 films died on April 28th. He was 79. Hess was born on September 1, 1937 in Switzerland. He was mainly in the 1970s and 1980s, sought-after and often booked as a voice actor with more than 500 credits. More than 40 times Hess voiced the roles of Bud Spencer in Germany, among which are his most popular works with Terence Hill as They Call Me Trinity, Trinity Is Still My Name. He was Fernando Sancho's German voice in "The Big Gundown", Gregg Palmer's voice in They Call Me Providence and Eli Wallach's voice in The White, The Yellow, the Black among many others. LETO, Marco - 1/18/1931, Rome, Lazio, Italy - 4/21/2016, Rome, Lazio, Italy Marco Leto. Italian film, television director and screenwriter Marc Leto died in Rome on April 21st. He was 85. Born in Rome on January 18, 1931, Leto started his career in the 1950s as an assistant director in a large number of films. Starting from 1965 he started a collaboration with RAI TV, for which he directed several serials and TV movies. After writing several screenplays, Leto made his film directorial debut in 1973, with the critically appreciated “Black Holiday”; in the following years he was active both in cinema and in television. Leto co-wrote the screenplays for “Dead Men Don’t Count” and “A Pistol for 100 Coffin” both from 1968. ELSHOLTZ, Arnie - 1944, Germany - 4/26/2016, Berlin, Berlin, Germany German voice actor Arne Elsholtz died in Berlin, Germany on April 26th. He was 72. Born in 1944 Elsholtz was the German voice of such actors as Tom Hanks, Bill Murray, and Kevin Kline among many others. Elsholtz also took drama lessons and was heard as a voice in many German commercials. He voiced over fifteen Euro-westerns such as the German voice of Alain Tissier in “Shatterhand” (1963), Edd Byrnes in “Professionals for a Massacre” (1967), John Steiner in “Challenge of White Fang” (1974), Tom Berenger in “Rustler’s Rhapsody” (1984) and Dermot Mulroney in “Silent Tongue” (1993) de LUNA, Josefina - 1921 Cadiz, Andalusia, Spain - 4/25/2016, Madrid, Madrid, Spain Spanish voice actress Josefina de Luna died in Madrid on April 25th she was 95. Josefina was held in great reverence by all Spanish voice actors as her career started back in 1939. She was the voice of such actresses as Ingrid Bergman, Anne Baxter, Claudia Cardinale, Olivia de Havilland, Claudette Colbert, Gina Lollobrigida, Marilyn Monroe, Jayne Mansfield and Gloria Swanson. She voiced over 20 Euro-westerns including Jayne Mansfield in “The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw” (1958), Karin Dor in “The Last Tomahawk” (1964), Norma Bengell in “The Hellbenders” (1966), Maria Perschy in “Vengeance of Pancho Villa” (1966) and Claudia Cardinale in “Once Upon a Time in the West” (1968). TORRES, Vicente Martínez - 1935, Spain - 4/20/2016, Spain Vicente Martínez Torres, who was responsible for lending his voice to the narrator of the classic series of Spanish cartoon tales and who was also a television announcer and voice actor died on April 20th. He was 80. He was the Spanish voice of additional actors in “$5.00 for Ringo” (1965), “The Tall Women” (1966), “Clint the Stranger” (1967), “Shalako” (1968) and “Reverend Colt” (1970). WEST, Kit (Christopher John West) - 1936, Wandsworth, London, England, U.K. - 4/16/2016, London, England, U.K. British special effects specialist Kit West died on April 14th. He was 89. Born in Wandsworth, London, England, U.K. in 1936 he was known for his work on Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi (1983), Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) for which he won an Oscar and The Bourne Supremacy (2004).West did special effects on four Euro-westerns: El Condor (1970), Catlow and Doc (both 1971) and Charley One-Eye 1973). IVEZIC, Ilija - 7/20/1926, Rièice kraj Graèaca, Croatia/Hrvatska - 4/14/2016, Zagreb, Croatia Croatian stage, film and TV actor Ilija Ivezic died on April 14th. He was 89. Ivezic appeared in over 70 film and TV programs in his 60 year career. Ivezic appeared in nine Euro-westerns including eight Winnetou films such as “The Treasure of Silver Lake” (1962), “Apache Gold” (1963), “Frontier Hellcat” (1964), “Rampage at Apache Well’s” and also in “Hellhounds of Alaska” (1972). IRESON, John (John B. Ireson) - 9/24/1937, Smethport, North Carolina, U.S.A. - 4/6/2016, Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.A. Whose John Ireson? Well you probably knew him better as one-half of the Wilder Brothers singing group who composed the score for “The Cold Killer” but probably bestremember him for the vocal to Johnny Yuma. John was born on September 24, 1937 in Smethport, North Carolina and passed away on Tuesday April 6th in Lexington, Kentucky. He was 78. Along with his singing partner Wayne Parham who died in 2007, their voices were an intricate part of the Euro-western sound we’ve all come to love. Along with Peter Tevis they are probably the most well-known American singers of the genre. ALBULESCU, Mircea (Iorgu Constantin Vasile Albulescu) - 10/4/1934, Bucharest, Romania - 4/8/2016, Bucharest, Romania Romanian, stage, film, radio and television actor Mircea Albulescu died in a Bucharest hospital today from a respiratory ailment at the age of 81. Born in Bucharest on October 4, 1934, he appeared in over 70 films and hundreds of stage plays in a career that spanned over 60 years. His only Euro-western appearance was as Wheeler in 1978’s “The Actress, the Dollars and the Transylvanians”.