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*'''SABATINI, Carlo''' - 4/7/1932, Rome, Lazio, Italy - 4/10/2020, Rome, Lazio, Italy
*'''PALLASCIO, Aubert''' - 8/19/1937, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - 7/5/2020, Montreal, Quebec, Canada


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].
Canadian actor Aubert Pallascio, known for many roles on the small screen, in the movies and on stage, died Sunday July 5, 2020 of cancer. He was trained at the Paris Conservatory of Dramatic Art. During his career, which spanned more than 60 years, he stepped on the boards of many stages ranging from the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde to Jean-Duceppe, passing by the Rideau Vert and Le Trident. On television, he was seen more recently in the Unit 9 series, as well as in Destinies, Providence and The Black Dog Inn. Many will also remember his character of Gabriel Galarneau in the L’Héritage series, broadcast in the late 1980s. His voice will also be familiar to fans of American cinema, since he has dubbed several Hollywood actors, including Morgan Freeman more than a dozen times.




*'''MEYER, Hans''' 7/21/1925, Paulpietersburg, KwaZulu/Natal, South Africa - 4/4/2020, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France
*'''MORRICONE, Ennio''' - 11/10/1928, Rome, Lazio, Italy – 7/6/2020, Rome, Lazio, Italy


South African born actor Hans Meyer died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Île-de-France, France on April 3, 2020. He was 94. Born to German parents Hans was born in Paulpietersburg, KwaZulu/Natal, South Africa on July 21, 1925. He worked initially as a model where he posed for book covers until a friend in Germany working for an advertising agency lined up his first work as an actor, a television advert for Puschkin Vodka. The brand became Germany's best selling vodka and Meyer became known as "Frank S. Thorn" The Puschkin Man. He was hired by Anatole Litvak as an extra for his film The Night of the Generals. In the 1960s, he played supporting roles in numerous French films alongside French cinema stars such as Lino Ventura, Alain Delon and Jean-Paul Belmondo in such films as La grande vadrouille, The Devil’s Garden, Les Étrangers and Barry Lyndon. Meyer appeared in Steven Spielberg and George Lucas's The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles as well as the French cult movie Brotherhood of the Wolf. He played Svedborg in his only Euro-western 1970’s Cannon for Cordoba.
Ennio Morricone the Oscar winner whose haunting, inventive scores expertly accentuated the simmering, dialogue-free tension of the spaghetti Westerns directed by Sergio Leone, died in Rome, Italy on July 6, 2020. He was 91. The Italian composer was born in Rome on November 10, 1927, scored more than 500 films, seven for his countryman Sergio Leone and fellow classmate in elementary school.  Ennio, whose first instrument was the trumpet, won his Oscar for his work on Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight (2015) and also was nominated and robbed for his original scores for Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven (1978), Roland Joffe’s The Mission (1986), Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables (1987), Barry Levinson’s Bugsy (1991) and Giuseppe Tornatore’s Malena (2000). Known as “The Maestro,” he also received an honorary Oscar in 2007 (presented by Clint Eastwood) for his “magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music,” and he collected 11 David di Donatello Awards, Italy’s highest film honors. Morricone’s ripe, pulsating sounds enriched Leone’s low-budget Spaghetti westerns: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), starring Clint Eastwood, and his masterpiece, Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and Duck, You Sucker (1971). “The music is indispensable, because my films could practically be silent movies, the dialogue counts for relatively little, and so the music underlines actions and feelings more than the dialogue,” Leone, who died in 1989, once said. “I’ve had him write the music before shooting, really as a part of the screenplay itself.The composer loved the sound of the electric guitar and the Jew’s harp and employed whistles, church bells, whips, coyote howls, chirping birds, ticking clocks, gunshots and women’s voices to add textures to scores not associated with the typical studio arrangement. He leaves his wife Maria Travia whom he married in 1956 and four children Marco, Alessandra, Andrea and Giovanni.




*'''GIORDANA, Carlo''' - 1945 Nereto, Teramo, Abruzzo, Italy – 4/8/2020, Italy
*'''ELLIOTT, Peter J. (Peter John Henry Elliott) - 6/14/1930, England, U.K. - 12/?/2016.


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.
British National Springboard Diving champion and 1948 London Olympic participant Peter J. Eliott died in December 2016. His daughter Laura confirmed his passing in a recent article about the Roe Hampton Club where her father was a member and often practiced his diving skills. Born Peter John Henry Elliott on June 14, 1930 in England, at 17 he was the youngest member of the British 1948 Olympic team. He would go on to have a career as a singer and stuntman and actor in films and television. Peter emigrated to South Africa where he appeared in the 1990 Euro-western “Barrett” as Mont.




*'''BLACKMAN, Honor''' - 8/22/1925, Plaistow, Newham, London, England, U.K. - 4/6/2020, Lewes, Sussex, England, U.K.
*'''PERIER, Étienne (Étienne Périer Paul Gaston Perier)''' - 12/11/1931 Brussels, Belgium - 6/21/2020, Le Plan-de-la-Tou, Var, France


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.
French director, screenwriter Étienne Périer, died on June 21, 2020 at the age of 88 in his home in Plan-de-la-Tour. Born in Brussels on December 11, 1931, Etienne Perier crossed the camera in hand last century, a script under his arm, from one end of the world to the other. He was an assistant to Henri Georges Clouzot in "Les Diaboliques", in 1957, and he worked on a film with his friend Bernard Buffet, a short film which won him an award at the Venice Festival in 1958. This success will propel him. He works with Jean Cocteau to write and prepare the "Testament of Orpheus". From then on, his career will never stop. A director, and scriptwriter, from I953 until 1958, he collaborated with Charles SPAAK on several scenarios including "Charmants boys" and with Dominique Fabre who, subsequently, wrote most of his French films. He was co-director and screenwriter on the 1984 TV Euro-western ‘Louisiana’ starring Margot Kidder.  




*'''CARROLI, Silvano''' - 2/22/1939, Venice, Veneto, Italy - 4/4/2020, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy
*'''GIUSTI, Paolo''' - 10/21/1942, Rome, Lazio, Italy - 6/24/2020, Rome, Lazio, Italy


Italian baritone Silvano Carroli died on April 4, 2020 in Lucca at the age of 81. The baritone, who was born on Feb. 22, 1939, went on to study with Marcello Del Monaco before perfecting his technique with legendary tenor Mario Del Monaco. He also studied at the Teatro La Fenice di Venezia under the guidance of Mario Labroca, Francesco Siciliani, and Floris Ammannati. Carroli performed at the some of the greatest theaters including the Royal Opera House, the Teatro alla Scala, Teatro la Fenice, Arena di Verona, the Metropolitan Opera, and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, where he had one of his most successful triumphs in the role of Scarpia in “Tosca”. Carroli played Jack Eance in the Italian RAI TV presentation of “La fanciulla del West” in 1982.
Italian film and fotoromanzi actor Paolo Giusti died in a Rome hospital after a long stay on June 24, 2020. He was 78. Born in Rome on October 21, 1942 he was known as a fotoromanzi actor and appeared in small roles in films. He was sometimes billed as Paul Just and was also a singer. Paolo appeared as Chris in the 1967 Euro-western “Death Rides Along” as was to appear in “The Last of the Gunfighters” a 1967 western that was never completed.




*'''LEVA, Carlo''' - 2/27/1930, Bergamasco, Piedmont, Italy - 4/4/2020, Bergamasco, Piedmont, Italy
*'''BRAVO, Charly (Ramón Carlos Mirón-Muñoz Bravo)''' - 3/6/1943, Casablanca, Morocco - 6/23/2020, Madrid, Madrid, Spain


Set, dresser, costume designer, art director and production designer Carlo Leva died in his hometown of Bergamasco, Piedmont, Italy March 4, 2020. He was 90. Born in Bergamasco on February 27, 1930, along with architect and set designer Carlo Simi, Leva was a guiding force in the look of the Spaghetti westerns for Sergio Leone and for others of the genre. Leva worked on all of Leone’s westerns as well as “The Big Gundown” (1966), “The Price of Power” (1969) and Terence Hill’s ‘Lucky Luke’ (1991-1992) TV series and film of the same name. He was honored at the showing of “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” shown at grand opening of the reconstructed Sad Hill Cemetery in 2016.  
Spanish supporting and character actor Charly Bravo died in his room at the Estrella de Madrid hostel on June 23, 2020. He was 77. Born Ramón Carlos Mirón-Muñoz Bravo on March 6, 1943, Bravo appeared in more than 200 movies and was the face of a thousand different men. From western films to “Conan the Barbarian”, he became one of the most common faces on the screen in his supporting roles. He proudly carried the title of being the Spaniard who had worked in the most in westerns such as “A Town Called Hell”, “Captain Apache”, “A Man Called Noon” and 20 more.  




*'''de DIEGO, Hipolito (Hipólito de Diego Navares)''' - 19??, Spain - 3/28/2020, Spain
*'''BIEDERSTAEDT, Claus''' - 6/28/1928, Staigard. Pomerania, Germany - 6/18/2020, Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany


Veteran Spanish dubbing actor and director Hipolito de Diego died March 28, 2020 in Spain. It was announced by by Voces de Imagenes on Facebook of his passing. I have no record of his date or place of birth and no mention was where Hipolito died. He was both active in Barcelona and Madrid during his career and both dubbed voices and directed the dubbing sessions. His Euro-western dubbing included  “The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw” (1960) as director and Spanish voice of Sid James and Sheldon Lawrence; “The Vengeance of Zorro” (1962) where he was the Spanish voice of Manuel Alexandre and Guillermo Mendez; “Two Mafiamen in the Far West” (1965) as director and Spanish voice of Mario Brega; “Taste of Vengeance” (1969) as the Spanish voice of Ivan Scratuglia; “My Name is Nobody” (1974) as the Spanish voice of Geoffrey Lews and Mario Brega; “El Zorro” (1974) as the Spanish voice of Padre Eusebro; “Zorro” (1976) doing various voices and for the 1983 DVD release of “Black Jack” hse was the Spanish voice of the hotel clerk.
German actor and voice dubber Claus Biederstaedt died on Thursday June 18, 2020. He was 91. Claus appeared in over 60 films including the Euro-westerns ‘Mexikanische Revolution’ a 1968 TV films as (Jose Maria Gonzales) and 1978 TV Jack London film ‘Burning Daylight’ as Erzhaler. He was probably best known as a voice actor and the German voice of such actors as Marlon Brando, Yves Montand, James Garner and Paul Newman. He voice Guy Madison in 1967’s “Payment in Blood”, Yul Brynner in 1968’s “Pancho Villa”, Stephen Boyd in 1968’s “Shalako” and Mimmo Palmara in 1968’s “Shotgun” with Tab Hunter.




*'''VIVES, Salvador (Salvador Vives Gomes)''' - 1942, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain - 3/21/2020, Spain
*'''POIVEY, Patrick''' - 2/18/1948, Paris, Île-de-France, France - 6/16/2020, Paris, Île-de-France, France


It was announced Saturday March 28, 2020 by Voces de Imagenes on Facebook that Spanish actor and voice dubber Salvador Vives had passed away from the Coronavirsu. Salvador was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1942. He was the Spanish dubbing voice of Jeremy Irons, Rupert Everett, Pierce Brosnan and William H. Macy. Along with his long dubbing career he also appeared in over 20 film and TV series from 1967 – 2006. His Eurowestern dubbing consisted of the Spanish voice of John Steiner in the 1983 Spanish DVD release of “A Man Called Blade”, Pierce Brosnan’s voice in 1999’s “Grey Owl”, the voice of Fabio Testis in the 2007 Spanish DVD release of “China 9, Liberty 37” and the voice of Manuel Bozzuffi in the 2015 DVD release of “Lucky Luke’.
The French actor, essential voice of the hexagonal dubbing (or post-synchronization as he preferred to name the exercise), left us this Tuesday June 16, 2020 at the age of 72 years. Born in Paris on February 18, 1948 he was the French voice of Tom Cruise, Kyle MacLachlan, Don Johnson and mainly Bruce Willis among the actors who were able to rely on the unique stamp of the actor. During his vocal career who crossed five decades, Patrick Poivey also dubbed Tom Cruise on ten feature films (including Top Gun and Rain Man), Don Johnson (from Deux cops à Miami à Watchmen), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks, Desperate Housewives), Michael Biehn (Terminator), Mickey Rourke (9 1/2 weeks), Daniel Day-Lewis (The Last of the Mohicans), Charlie Sheen (Wall Street) or even his brother Emilio Estevez (Young Guns). Poivey was the French voice of Terence Hill in the 1980 DVD releases of “They Call Me Trinity” and “Trinity is STILL My Name” and Fritz Sperberg in the TV series “Lucky Luke” (1991) and the voice of Davy Crockett in the 1994 animated TV series of the same name.




*'''CONTINI, Alfio''' - 9/19/1927, Castiglioncello, Livorno, Italy - 3/23/2000, Rome, Lazio, Italy
*'''BRUMMELL, Beau (Michael F. Bush)''' - 1942, Pretoria, South Africa - 6/11/2020, Pretoria, South Africa


Italian cinematographer, director of photography, camera operator Alfio Contini died in Italy on March 23, 2020. He was 92. Born in Castiglioncello, Livorno, Italy on September 19, 1927 during his career he worked with such directors as Dino Risi “Il sorpasso” (1962) and “La marica su Cavani” (1963), Pasquale Festa Campanile “La matriarca” (1968), Lucio Fulci, Liliana Cavani “Galileo” (1968), “Night Porter” (1974), “Ripley’s Game” (2002) and Michelangelo Antonioni “Zabriskie Point” (1970); “Beyond the Clouds” (1995) for which he won the David di Donatello award. For Euro-westerns he was cinematographer on “Man from Canyon City” (1965); “Yankee” (1966); “God Forgives… I Don’t” (1967) and “They Call Me Renegade” (1987).
South African personality and actor Beau Brummell died in Pretoria, South Africa on May 10, 2020 according to a Facebook post by his daughter Cheyanne Bush. Born Michael F. Bush in Pretoria, South Africa in 1943, Brummell became better known for opening and operating South Africa’s first nudist colony ‘Beau Valley’ along with his wife Celia. Brummell wrote the story and starred in the 1970 Euro-western “Three Bullets for a Long Gun”. He was also a singer, musician who worked with the bands ‘Park Sable and the Jungle-n-Beats’ and ‘Beau Brummell & His Noble Men’ with which he had charted a 1963 hit called “I Know, Know, Know’.




*'''ZAMPERLA, Nazzareno''' - 4/25/1937, Treviso, Veneto, Italy - 3/19/2020, Rome, Lazio, Italy
*'''BEGONA, Mary (María Begoña Bragas)''' - 4/4/1925, Bilbao, Vizcaya, Spain - 4/12/2020, Madrid, Madrid, Spain


It was announced today on Facebook by his son David that film actor, stunt coordinator and stuntman Nazzareno Zamperla died today March 19, 2020 in Italy. He was 82. Zamperla was credited as Nick Anderson early on during his career an appeared in 15 Euro-westerns including both MacGregor films, “The Hills Run Red”; “Sugar Colt” (both 1966), “Those Dirty Dogs” (1973), “California” (1977); “Buddy Goes West” (1981) ending his western career as stunt coordinator on “Tex and the Lord of the Deep” (1985).
Spanish actress, vedette Mary Begoña passed away at the residence where she spent the last years of her life on April 12, 2020 in Madrid, Spain. Cause of death was not disclosed. She was 95 years old. With her real name Begoña Bragas born in Bilbao, Spain on April 4, 1925, the actress could have done little in show business. So she adopted Mary Begoña. According to printed bios she was born in 1929, which was quite improbable because in 1938, according to Álvaro Retana in his Historia del Arte Frívolo, he was already working on the premises of the CNT entertainment union, and was about fourteen years old. It has been learned that she was born in 1925. She spent he career on stage but made several films including her loan Euro-western “Torrejón City” (1962) playing a prostitute.
 
 
*'''BOLOGNESI, Rino''' - 8/14/1932, Cattolica, Emila-Romagna, Italy - 3/19/2020, Rome, Lazio, Italy
 
Italian actor and voice dubber Rino Bolognesi died in Rome, Italy on March 19, 2020. He was 87. He was best known as the television voice of Bruce Wayne/Batman starring Adam West. He also voice he was noted for was the Hulk in TV’s ‘The Incredible Hulk’. As a voice actor of animated series, he is mainly remembered for his interpretation in the first two animated series of Star Blazers in which he covered three different roles: the Supreme Desslok, Sandor and the Narrator. In the series The Monkey played the Narrator and various secondary characters. He has also worked as an actor in a few films, including “Blue Jeans” (1975). He was the Italian voice of Paolo Gozlino in “Vengeance” (1968); José Torres in “Sartana the Gravedigger” (1969); “Massacre at Fort Holman” (1972); Frank Brana “Tex and the Lord of the Deep” (1985) and Jim Carter in the TV series “The New Zorro” (1990-1993).
 
 
*'''WHITMAN, Stuart (Stuart Maxwell Whitman)''' - 2/1/1928, San Francisco, California, U.S.A. - 3/16/2020, Montecito, California, U.S.A.
 
Stuart Whitman, the rugged actor who starred on TV's Cimarron Strip and received an Oscar nomination for playing a convicted child molester trying to rid himself of psychological demons in The Mark, died at his Montecito, California home on March 16, 2020. He was 92. Born Stuart Maxwell Whitman on February 1, 1928 in San Francisco, California, he made his movie debut in When Worlds Collide (1951), then appeared on TV shows like Boston Blackie and Lux Video Theatre and made an impression opposite Ethel Barrymore and Carolyn Jones as the wild title character in Johnny Trouble (1957). When Charlton Heston bowed out of the high-profile Warner Bros. war movie Darby’s Rangers (1958), James Garner replaced him and Whitman took on Garner's role, playing the soldier Hank Bishop. He starred twice opposite John Wayne, first as the New Orleans gambler Paul Regret in The Comancheros (1961), Michael Curtiz's final feature, and then as an army lieutenant in the all-star World War II epic The Longest Day (1962). Though CBS' Cimarron Strip lasted just one season (1967-68) and 23 original episodes, Whitman remains known for his turn as Marshal Jim Crown on the ambitious series, one of the first on television to run for 90 minutes. He produced and had a financial interest in the period Western as well. He stated that he was offered the role of “The Man With No Name” but turned it down because it was a terrible script. He did appear in one Euro-western as Griffin in 1971’s “Captain Apache”.






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Revision as of 19:31, 6 July 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...

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FRESH GRAVES

  • PALLASCIO, Aubert - 8/19/1937, Montreal, Quebec, Canada - 7/5/2020, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Canadian actor Aubert Pallascio, known for many roles on the small screen, in the movies and on stage, died Sunday July 5, 2020 of cancer. He was trained at the Paris Conservatory of Dramatic Art. During his career, which spanned more than 60 years, he stepped on the boards of many stages ranging from the Théâtre du Nouveau Monde to Jean-Duceppe, passing by the Rideau Vert and Le Trident. On television, he was seen more recently in the Unit 9 series, as well as in Destinies, Providence and The Black Dog Inn. Many will also remember his character of Gabriel Galarneau in the L’Héritage series, broadcast in the late 1980s. His voice will also be familiar to fans of American cinema, since he has dubbed several Hollywood actors, including Morgan Freeman more than a dozen times.


  • MORRICONE, Ennio - 11/10/1928, Rome, Lazio, Italy – 7/6/2020, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Ennio Morricone the Oscar winner whose haunting, inventive scores expertly accentuated the simmering, dialogue-free tension of the spaghetti Westerns directed by Sergio Leone, died in Rome, Italy on July 6, 2020. He was 91. The Italian composer was born in Rome on November 10, 1927, scored more than 500 films, seven for his countryman Sergio Leone and fellow classmate in elementary school. Ennio, whose first instrument was the trumpet, won his Oscar for his work on Quentin Tarantino’s The Hateful Eight (2015) and also was nominated and robbed for his original scores for Terrence Malick’s Days of Heaven (1978), Roland Joffe’s The Mission (1986), Brian De Palma’s The Untouchables (1987), Barry Levinson’s Bugsy (1991) and Giuseppe Tornatore’s Malena (2000). Known as “The Maestro,” he also received an honorary Oscar in 2007 (presented by Clint Eastwood) for his “magnificent and multifaceted contributions to the art of film music,” and he collected 11 David di Donatello Awards, Italy’s highest film honors. Morricone’s ripe, pulsating sounds enriched Leone’s low-budget Spaghetti westerns: A Fistful of Dollars (1964), For a Few Dollars More (1965), The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), starring Clint Eastwood, and his masterpiece, Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and Duck, You Sucker (1971). “The music is indispensable, because my films could practically be silent movies, the dialogue counts for relatively little, and so the music underlines actions and feelings more than the dialogue,” Leone, who died in 1989, once said. “I’ve had him write the music before shooting, really as a part of the screenplay itself.” The composer loved the sound of the electric guitar and the Jew’s harp and employed whistles, church bells, whips, coyote howls, chirping birds, ticking clocks, gunshots and women’s voices to add textures to scores not associated with the typical studio arrangement. He leaves his wife Maria Travia whom he married in 1956 and four children Marco, Alessandra, Andrea and Giovanni.


  • ELLIOTT, Peter J. (Peter John Henry Elliott) - 6/14/1930, England, U.K. - 12/?/2016.

British National Springboard Diving champion and 1948 London Olympic participant Peter J. Eliott died in December 2016. His daughter Laura confirmed his passing in a recent article about the Roe Hampton Club where her father was a member and often practiced his diving skills. Born Peter John Henry Elliott on June 14, 1930 in England, at 17 he was the youngest member of the British 1948 Olympic team. He would go on to have a career as a singer and stuntman and actor in films and television. Peter emigrated to South Africa where he appeared in the 1990 Euro-western “Barrett” as Mont.


  • PERIER, Étienne (Étienne Périer Paul Gaston Perier) - 12/11/1931 Brussels, Belgium - 6/21/2020, Le Plan-de-la-Tou, Var, France

French director, screenwriter Étienne Périer, died on June 21, 2020 at the age of 88 in his home in Plan-de-la-Tour. Born in Brussels on December 11, 1931, Etienne Perier crossed the camera in hand last century, a script under his arm, from one end of the world to the other. He was an assistant to Henri Georges Clouzot in "Les Diaboliques", in 1957, and he worked on a film with his friend Bernard Buffet, a short film which won him an award at the Venice Festival in 1958. This success will propel him. He works with Jean Cocteau to write and prepare the "Testament of Orpheus". From then on, his career will never stop. A director, and scriptwriter, from I953 until 1958, he collaborated with Charles SPAAK on several scenarios including "Charmants boys" and with Dominique Fabre who, subsequently, wrote most of his French films. He was co-director and screenwriter on the 1984 TV Euro-western ‘Louisiana’ starring Margot Kidder.


  • GIUSTI, Paolo - 10/21/1942, Rome, Lazio, Italy - 6/24/2020, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Italian film and fotoromanzi actor Paolo Giusti died in a Rome hospital after a long stay on June 24, 2020. He was 78. Born in Rome on October 21, 1942 he was known as a fotoromanzi actor and appeared in small roles in films. He was sometimes billed as Paul Just and was also a singer. Paolo appeared as Chris in the 1967 Euro-western “Death Rides Along” as was to appear in “The Last of the Gunfighters” a 1967 western that was never completed.


  • BRAVO, Charly (Ramón Carlos Mirón-Muñoz Bravo) - 3/6/1943, Casablanca, Morocco - 6/23/2020, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Spanish supporting and character actor Charly Bravo died in his room at the Estrella de Madrid hostel on June 23, 2020. He was 77. Born Ramón Carlos Mirón-Muñoz Bravo on March 6, 1943, Bravo appeared in more than 200 movies and was the face of a thousand different men. From western films to “Conan the Barbarian”, he became one of the most common faces on the screen in his supporting roles. He proudly carried the title of being the Spaniard who had worked in the most in westerns such as “A Town Called Hell”, “Captain Apache”, “A Man Called Noon” and 20 more.


  • BIEDERSTAEDT, Claus - 6/28/1928, Staigard. Pomerania, Germany - 6/18/2020, Fürstenfeldbruck, Bavaria, Germany

German actor and voice dubber Claus Biederstaedt died on Thursday June 18, 2020. He was 91. Claus appeared in over 60 films including the Euro-westerns ‘Mexikanische Revolution’ a 1968 TV films as (Jose Maria Gonzales) and 1978 TV Jack London film ‘Burning Daylight’ as Erzhaler. He was probably best known as a voice actor and the German voice of such actors as Marlon Brando, Yves Montand, James Garner and Paul Newman. He voice Guy Madison in 1967’s “Payment in Blood”, Yul Brynner in 1968’s “Pancho Villa”, Stephen Boyd in 1968’s “Shalako” and Mimmo Palmara in 1968’s “Shotgun” with Tab Hunter.


  • POIVEY, Patrick - 2/18/1948, Paris, Île-de-France, France - 6/16/2020, Paris, Île-de-France, France

The French actor, essential voice of the hexagonal dubbing (or post-synchronization as he preferred to name the exercise), left us this Tuesday June 16, 2020 at the age of 72 years. Born in Paris on February 18, 1948 he was the French voice of Tom Cruise, Kyle MacLachlan, Don Johnson and mainly Bruce Willis among the actors who were able to rely on the unique stamp of the actor. During his vocal career who crossed five decades, Patrick Poivey also dubbed Tom Cruise on ten feature films (including Top Gun and Rain Man), Don Johnson (from Deux cops à Miami à Watchmen), Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks, Desperate Housewives), Michael Biehn (Terminator), Mickey Rourke (9 1/2 weeks), Daniel Day-Lewis (The Last of the Mohicans), Charlie Sheen (Wall Street) or even his brother Emilio Estevez (Young Guns). Poivey was the French voice of Terence Hill in the 1980 DVD releases of “They Call Me Trinity” and “Trinity is STILL My Name” and Fritz Sperberg in the TV series “Lucky Luke” (1991) and the voice of Davy Crockett in the 1994 animated TV series of the same name.


  • BRUMMELL, Beau (Michael F. Bush) - 1942, Pretoria, South Africa - 6/11/2020, Pretoria, South Africa

South African personality and actor Beau Brummell died in Pretoria, South Africa on May 10, 2020 according to a Facebook post by his daughter Cheyanne Bush. Born Michael F. Bush in Pretoria, South Africa in 1943, Brummell became better known for opening and operating South Africa’s first nudist colony ‘Beau Valley’ along with his wife Celia. Brummell wrote the story and starred in the 1970 Euro-western “Three Bullets for a Long Gun”. He was also a singer, musician who worked with the bands ‘Park Sable and the Jungle-n-Beats’ and ‘Beau Brummell & His Noble Men’ with which he had charted a 1963 hit called “I Know, Know, Know’.


  • BEGONA, Mary (María Begoña Bragas) - 4/4/1925, Bilbao, Vizcaya, Spain - 4/12/2020, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Spanish actress, vedette Mary Begoña passed away at the residence where she spent the last years of her life on April 12, 2020 in Madrid, Spain. Cause of death was not disclosed. She was 95 years old. With her real name Begoña Bragas born in Bilbao, Spain on April 4, 1925, the actress could have done little in show business. So she adopted Mary Begoña. According to printed bios she was born in 1929, which was quite improbable because in 1938, according to Álvaro Retana in his Historia del Arte Frívolo, he was already working on the premises of the CNT entertainment union, and was about fourteen years old. It has been learned that she was born in 1925. She spent he career on stage but made several films including her loan Euro-western “Torrejón City” (1962) playing a prostitute.

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