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Argentina born singer and actress Concha Márquez Piquer died in Madrid, Spain on October 18, 2021. She was 75. Born on December 31, 1946 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was the daughter of the renowned bullfighting figure Antonio Márquez and the famous singer Concha Piquer. She was hired by Columbia records with which she recorded several albums. The following year, 1971, she wanted to present herself as an actress and for this she chooses a book about La Bella Otero, written by the author Joaquín Calvo Sotelo, its title: One million roses. It is a musical comedy, which it is presented at the Maravillas Theater in Madrid, remaining on the bill for more than six months. During the next four decades she focused her career as a singer touring Europe and Mexico but she never reached the popularity of her mother.  
Argentina born singer and actress Concha Márquez Piquer died in Madrid, Spain on October 18, 2021. She was 75. Born on December 31, 1946 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was the daughter of the renowned bullfighting figure Antonio Márquez and the famous singer Concha Piquer. She was hired by Columbia records with which she recorded several albums. The following year, 1971, she wanted to present herself as an actress and for this she chooses a book about La Bella Otero, written by the author Joaquín Calvo Sotelo, its title: One million roses. It is a musical comedy, which it is presented at the Maravillas Theater in Madrid, remaining on the bill for more than six months. During the next four decades she focused her career as a singer touring Europe and Mexico but she never reached the popularity of her mother.  
Concha appeared in one Euro-western “Yellow Hair and Fortress of Gold” (1984) as the gambling woman).
Concha appeared in one Euro-western “Yellow Hair and Fortress of Gold” (1984) as (the gambling woman).





Revision as of 21:47, 23 October 2021

This page is our personal hall of faml'e. 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

  • PIQUER Concha Márquez - 12/31/1945, Buenos Aires, Argentina - 10/18/2021, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Argentina born singer and actress Concha Márquez Piquer died in Madrid, Spain on October 18, 2021. She was 75. Born on December 31, 1946 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She was the daughter of the renowned bullfighting figure Antonio Márquez and the famous singer Concha Piquer. She was hired by Columbia records with which she recorded several albums. The following year, 1971, she wanted to present herself as an actress and for this she chooses a book about La Bella Otero, written by the author Joaquín Calvo Sotelo, its title: One million roses. It is a musical comedy, which it is presented at the Maravillas Theater in Madrid, remaining on the bill for more than six months. During the next four decades she focused her career as a singer touring Europe and Mexico but she never reached the popularity of her mother. Concha appeared in one Euro-western “Yellow Hair and Fortress of Gold” (1984) as (the gambling woman).


  • COGGIO. Antonio - 5/16/1939, Savona, Liguria, Italy - 10/19/2021, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Italian composer, arranger and record producer Antonio ‘Tonino’ Coggio died in Rome, Italy on October 19, 2021. He was 82. After starting to study piano, he completed his studies at the Niccolò Paganini Conservatory in Genoa; here comes into contact with some exponents of the Genoese school, becoming in 1964 the keyboardist of the group accompanying Gino Paoli; when the singer-songwriter signed to RCA Italian, he moved to Rome, and had the first recording studio experience with the album Gino Paoli at Studio A. Coggio is then hired at RCA as a musical assistant, on the initiative of Ennio Melis, but continues his live activity as keyboardist of Domenico Modugno, whose recordings the singer-songwriter makes at the end of the 1960s for RCA follows. In 1980 he founded, together with Roberto Davini, the production company Calycantus, which collaborates both with the Italian RCA and with CBS, working in the following years with musicians such as Luca Barbarossa , Mario Castelnuovo, Fiorella Mannoia (for which he writes Caffè nero bollente ), Mimmo Cavallo, Massimo Bizzarri and Mariella Nava. Coggio was a musical technician on 1967’s “Day of Anger”.


  • BRYER, Denise - 1/15/1928, Kensington, London, England, U.K. - 10/16/2021, England, U.K.

British Actress and voice artist Denise Bryer has died, aged 93.Bryer passed away peacefully at her home in England on Saturday 16th October 16, 2021. Born on January 5, 1928, Bryer made her film debut aged just 9-years-old, going on to train at RADA and becoming a regular voice on British radio from the mid-1940s onwards. With a career that spanned an incredible 75 years, Bryer was perhaps best known for her work alongside legendary TV producer and Thunderbirds creator Gerry Anderson – in particular for her voice work on the series Terrahawks (1983-1986), terrorizing a generation with her performance as the villainous Zelda. Born on 5th January 1928, Bryer made her film debut aged just 9-years-old, going on to train at RADA and becoming a regular voice on British radio from the mid-1940s onwards. Bryer was the voice of of Ma Jones, Little Jake, Makooya on the Euro-western 1960 TV series ‘Four Feather Falls.”


  • HAAS, Ludwig - 4/16/1933, Eutin, Lübeck, Oldenbur, Germany - 10/12/2021, Neumünster, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

German film and TV actor Ludwig Haas died of a heart attack in Neumünster, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany on October 12, 2021. He was 88. Born in g. Germany on April, 16, 1933. He is best known for portraying Dr. Ludwig Dressler in theWDR German television series ‘Lindenstraße’, since the very first episode in 1985. Ludwig appeared in one Euro-western as von Zitzewitz in 1993’s Texas - Doc Snyder hält die Welt in Atem”.


  • de PABLO, Luis (Luis de Pablo Postales) - 1/28/1930, Bilbao, Vizcaya, Spain - 10/10/2021, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

The Basque composer Luis de Pablo, one of the main exponents of the Generation of ’51 (New Music), died October 10, 2021 in Madrid at the age of 91. Born in Bilbao on January 28, 1930, he started in music when he was just eight years old in Fuenterrabía (Guipúzcoa). His training, essentially self-taught, was completed in Madrid, and guided by Maurice Ohana, Max Deutsch and others. He graduated in Law, also in Madrid, in 1952. His first compositions, influenced by Falla, Debussy, Bartók and Mompou, date from the 50s, and the subsequent study of the compositional technique of Olivier Messiaen, as well as the meditation of ‘Doctor Faust’, by Thomas Mann, transferred him to his first avant-garde works, such as’ Gargoyles’ (1953), ‘ Eucharistic Choir ‘(1954),’ Symphonies’ (1954-66), ‘Inventions’ (1955),’ Concerto for harpsichord ‘(1956) or’ Sonata for piano ‘(1958), among others. He was the author of the music for some 26 films including one Euro-western, 1973’s “Yankee Dudler”.


  • PANDOLFI, Elio - 6/17/1926, Rome, Lazio, Italy - 10/11/2021, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Italian actor, singer, voice dubber Elio Pandolfi died in Rome, Italy on October 11, 2021. He was 95 years old. Born in Rome on June 27, 1926, he was considered by critics and fellow entertainers to be one of the greatest eclectic artists of the second half of the twentieth century. After earning a degree in accounting he enrolled in the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts graduating in 1948. That same year he made his stage debut and became active in theater appearing in operettas, musical theater and revues. In the 1960s he turned to films and TV where he became a character actor in a number of films, mainly in humous roles. He had a fantastic ear for sound and used this when he became a voice actor and dubber after his film and TV career began to slow down. His only Euro-western was as Miguel in 1966’s “For a Few Dollars Less”. His Italian voice was heard though dubbing Armando Bandini in 1968’s “Ace High”, Enzo Andronico in 1972’s “Trinity and Sartana are Coming” and as Peter Berling in 1985’s “Tex and the Lord of the Deep”.


  • TYLO, Michael (Michael Edward Tylo) - 10/16/1948, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A. - 9/29/2021, Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.A.

RIP Michael Tylo. Soap veteran Michael Tylo, best known for his role as Quinton McCord on Guiding Light, passed away September 29, 2021 at the age of 73. His death was announced by a work colleague where Tylo served as a teacher. Michael Edward Tylo was born in Detroit, Michigan on October 16,1948. Tylo was wed to actress Hunter Tylo (ex-Taylor Hayes) from 1987-2005. The couple had three children, Michael “Mickey,” Jr., who died in 2007, and daughters Izabella Gabrielle and Katya Ariel. In 2012, Tylo and wife Rachelle Tylo welcomed a daughter, Kollette “Koko.” Michael appeared as Alcalde Luis Ramone on the 1990-1991 Euro-western TV series ‘Zorro’ starring Duncan Reghr as the swashbuckling hero.


  • MAFAI, Giulia - 1/13/1930, Rome, Lazio, Italy - 9/26/2021, Rome, Lazio, Italy

RIP Giulia Mafai. Internationally renowned costume designer, set designer production designer, art director and wardrobe designer, Giulia Mafai died in Rome. She was 91. Giulia experienced firsthand the abomination of racial laws and subsequent persecution, when in1938 racist laws were enacted and all certainty, all sweetness, the dream of a future is destroyed in all Jewish homes. A destiny that she shared with her mother, an extraordinary artist who will soon be remembered in an exhibition in preparation for the Galleria Nazionale in Rome, and with her older sisters. In her career, Giulia Mafai worked with various post-war directors and actors, from Vittorio De Sica to Mario Monicelli, from Sophia Loren to Marcello Mastroianni. And again, Elliott Gould, Harvey Keitel, Keith Carradine. She was the creator and curator of the Venice Carnival Laboratory from 1978 to 1985. Her list of Euro-westerns in working on “The Ruthless Four” (1965) [costume designer]; “Yankee’ (1966) [costume designer, set designer]; “Death Walks in Laredo” (1967) [set designer, wardrobe]; “Two Faces of the Dollar” (1967) [production designer, set designer]; “A Hole in the Forehead” (1968) [set designer, art director]; “I’ll Sell My Skin Dearly” (1968) [costume designer, production designer]; “The Stranger’s Gundown” (1969) [costume designer, set designer]; “Roy Colt and Winchester Jack” (1970) [costume designer]; “Shango” (1970) [art director]; “Kill Django… Kill First” (1971) [costume designer, production designer].

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