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Italian character actor Mario Donatone died April 14, 2020, he was 83. Cast by Francis Ford Coppola as a hitman it The Godfather - Part III, and an unfailing presence in almost all the movies with Tomas Milian, as well as film, TV actor and theater director he was born in Tripoli on June 9, 1933. He appeared in over 150 films, and worked with famous directors, but the role for which he is best remembered is that of the assassin Mosca, the fake priest who in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather - part III (1990) shoots Michael Corleone (Al Pacino). Donatone was also a theater director and writer. Mario appeared in only one Euro-western 1973’s “Bad Kids of the West”.
Italian character actor Mario Donatone died April 14, 2020, he was 83. Cast by Francis Ford Coppola as a hitman it The Godfather - Part III, and an unfailing presence in almost all the movies with Tomas Milian, as well as film, TV actor and theater director he was born in Tripoli on June 9, 1933. He appeared in over 150 films, and worked with famous directors, but the role for which he is best remembered is that of the assassin Mosca, the fake priest who in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather - part III (1990) shoots Michael Corleone (Al Pacino). Donatone was also a theater director and writer. Mario appeared in only one Euro-western 1973’s “Bad Kids of the West”.
*'''SABATINI, Carlo''' - 4/7/1932, Rome, Lazio, Italy - 4/10/2020, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Il Mondo dei Doppiatori, the Italian Voice Actor Database, posted that theater, film, TV and voice actor Carlo Sabatini passed away on April 10, 2020 in Rome, Italy. He turned 88 three days before on April 7. Born in Rome in 1932 Sabatini appeared and was heard in all facets of the entertainment industry. He was known primarily as one of the premier voice dubbers in Italy. He was the voice of Clint Eastwood, Donald Sutherlans, Kris Kristofferson, Alain Delon, Paul Newman, Robert Duvall and Marlon Brando. He was heard as the Italian voice of Harvey Keitel in “From Duck Till Dawn”, Morgan Freeman in ‘The Wings of Freedon” and Bruce Lee in “Three of Operation Dragon”. He is the father of actor Gabriele Sabatini. His voice was heard in the Euro-westerns: “Massacre at Fort Holman” (1972) [Italian voice of Aldolfo Lastretti]; Another Man, Another Chance (1977) [Italian voice of James Caan] and “Jonathan of the Bears” (1994) [Italian voice of John Saxon].
*'''GIORDANA, Carlo''' - 1945 Nereto, Teramo, Abruzzo, Italy – 4/8/2020, Italy
Italian actor Carlo Giordana passed away in Italy on April 8, 2020. He was 75 years old. Carlo, born in 1945 was a member of the Giordana acting family. He was the son of director, writer, actor Claudio Gora (Emilio Giordana) [1913-1998], actress Marina Berti (Elena Maureen Bertolini) [1924-2002] and the brother of actor Andrea Giordana [1946-    ], actress Marina Giordana [1955-    ], actor Luca Giordana, actress Cristina Giordana and the uncle of actor Luchino Giordana. Carlo’s acting career was a short seven films from 1965 to 1973. He appeared in two Euro-westerns; “Hate is My God” (1969) as Steve/Vincent Kearney and “Ballad of Death Valley” (1970) as Slim Craig/Slim Douglas.
*'''BLACKMAN, Honor''' - 8/22/1925, Plaistow, Newham, London, England, U.K. - 4/6/2020, Lewes, Sussex, England, U.K.
Honor Blackman, the actress best-known for playing Bond girl Pussy Galore, has died aged 94. She became a household name in the 1960s as Cathy Gale in The Avengers and enjoyed a career spanning eight decades, died of natural causes at her home in Lewes, Sussex, England on April 6, 2020. Among Blackman’s better known roles were the vengeful goddess Hera in “Jason and the Argonauts” and as Laura West in the 1990s sitcom “The Upper Hand”. She appeared in theatrical productions including “The Sound of Music”, “My Fair Lady” and “Cabaret”. Blackman was married and divorced twice, to Bill Sankey and Maurice Kaufmann. She adopted two children with Kaufmann, Lottie and Barnaby. She turned down a CBE in 2002 while ,ore recently, she joined a campaign to demand compensation payments for pensioners who lost savings in the Equitable Life scandal.




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Revision as of 14:04, 10 May 2020

This 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 last name: 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

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FRESH GRAVES

  • ERICSON, John (Joseph Alexander Ottokar Meibes) - 9/25/1926, Düsseldorf, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany - 5/3/2020, U.S.A. Santa Fe, New Mexico, U.S.A.

German born American actor John Ericson died of pneumonia in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Born Joseph Meibes on Sept. 25, 1926, in Düsseldorf, Germany, Ericson studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York in the same class as Grace Kelly, Jack Palance and Don Rickles. Ericson appeared on Broadway in the original production 1951 of Stalag 17, directed by José Ferrer, and he made his film debut in Teresa (1951), directed by Fred Zinnemann. Three years later, he starred with Elizabeth Taylor in Rhapsody (1954). Ericson played "Man Friday" Sam Bolt opposite Francis' private eye title character and a pet ocelot named Bruce on ABC's Honey West. John appeared in two Euro-westerns: “Vengeance of Pancho Villa” (1966) as Don Diego Alvarado/Diego Owens/Django and “Heads or Tails” (1968) as Will Hunter/Bill Abilene/William Huston/Black Talisman.


  • MATASSI, Goffredo 11/8/1933, Rome, Lazio, Italy - 4/28/2020, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Italian actor Goffredo Matassi died today in Rome. During his career he had voiced Morgan Freeman's caliber actors in "The Ruthless", Paul Brooke in "Bridget Jones Diary", Donnelly Rhodes in "Tron Legacy" and David Bradley in "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" and "Harry Potter and the Gifts of Death Part II". On TV Eddie Jones as Jones as Jonathan Kent in the first season of "Lois & Clark - The New Adventures of Superman" and Peter Vaughan in those of Master Aemon in "The Thrones". He was the voice of Droopy in the series "Droopy Chief Detective" and Amphitrion in the Disney movie "Hercules". Among his latest works were the dubbing of Dr. Teeth in "The Muppet" and "Muppets 2-Wanted". Matassi was also a film actor and appeared in two Euro-westerns: “The Hills Run Red” (1966) as a croupier and “Pray and Kill” (1967) as a gambler.


  • MELLIES, Otto - 1/19/1931, Schlawe, Pomerania - 4/27/2020, Germany

Theater, film, radio, TV actor and voice dubber Otto Mellies died on Monday April 27, 2020. He was 89. Born in Schlawe in Pomerania on January 19, 1931. His mother, older sister and their children died shortly before the end of the war. His father was still a soldier at that time. His brother Eberhard, who later also worked as an actor, was drafted in the war, so that Mellies was on his own when he was 14 and worked as a groom for Russian soldiers. After attending school interrupted by the turmoil of the Second World War, Mellies applied to the Schwerin Theater at the age of 16 and received from the well-known actress. In 1956 the director Wolfgang Langhoff brought him to the German Theater in Berlin, where he had been a member of the ensemble for 50 years. His leading role was Nathan in Lessing's “Nathan the Wise” – he played this role a total of 325 times and wrote stage history with it. . “For me, theater was the mother of art. I did everything else, film, television, radio, on the side. But I enjoyed everything.” He was known to German Spaghetti Western fans as the German voice of Alberto Farnese in the 1985 western “White Apache” starring Sebastian Harrison.


  • RISI, Claudio - 11/12/1948, Bern Switzerland - 4/26/2020, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Italian director, assistant director, writer, cameraman Claudio Risi died in Rome, Italy on April 26, 2020 from complications of a heart attack he has in February. The son of director Dino Risi and the older brother of producer, director Marco Risi he was involved more in television where he was twice awarded the Italian Telegatto equivalent to our Emmy for his direction of the TV series ‘The Boys of the 3rd C. Cludio was a cameraman on 1972’s “Life Is Tough, Eh Providence?” starring Tomas Milian and Gregg Hunter.


  • FANTONI, Sergio - 8/7/1930, Rome, Lazio, Italy - 4/17/2020, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Italian theater, film, television, dubber and theater director Sergio Fantoni died April 17, 2020. He was 89. Fantoni. Born in Rome on August 7, 1930, he initially thought of becoming an engineer or architect but his passion for theater prevailed and he began to attend experimental theater companies until he created in the seventies, together with Luca Ronconi and his wife Valentina Fortunato, one of the first independent companies. First, however, there had been cinema since the late 1940s and then over time with directors of the caliber of Luchino Visconti (Senso), Francesco Maselli (I delfini, alongside Claudia Cardinale), Giuliano Montaldo (Sacco and Vanzetti), but also peplums like Esther and the King. In the 1960s he experienced a Hollywood parenthesis (which lasted three years, from 1963 to 1966) with appearances in films such as Mark Robson's Intrigue in Stockholm and Von Ryan’s Express alongside Frank Sinatra, and then What Did You Do in the War Daddy? by Blake Edwards. In the 1980s. He appeared in only one Euro-western: 1971’s Bad Man’s River as Colonel Enrique Fierro. He was also a voice dubber and was the Italian voice of Jesús Guzmán in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) and Van Johnson in 1969’s The Price of Power.


  • DONATONE, Mario (Giacinto Mario Donatone) - 6/9/1933, Tripoli, Libya – 4/15/2020, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Italian character actor Mario Donatone died April 14, 2020, he was 83. Cast by Francis Ford Coppola as a hitman it The Godfather - Part III, and an unfailing presence in almost all the movies with Tomas Milian, as well as film, TV actor and theater director he was born in Tripoli on June 9, 1933. He appeared in over 150 films, and worked with famous directors, but the role for which he is best remembered is that of the assassin Mosca, the fake priest who in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather - part III (1990) shoots Michael Corleone (Al Pacino). Donatone was also a theater director and writer. Mario appeared in only one Euro-western 1973’s “Bad Kids of the West”.

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