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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

LOZANO, Margarita - 2/14/1931, Tetuan, Morocco, Spain - 2/7/2022, Lorca, Murcia, Spain

Spanish theater, film, TV actress Magarita Lozano died in Lorca, Spain on February 7, 2022. She was 90. Born in Tetuan, Morocco, Spain on February 14, 1931. Her father was a soldier and Lozano studied design and fashion in college. She abandoned her studies to pursue an acting career in Madrid, initially in the theater. She starred in acclaimed Spanish director Luis Bunuel's 1961 drama "Viridiana" about a young nun about to take her final vows. The movie won the top Palme d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival that year. In the 1960s she went to Italy, appearing in Pasolini's 1969 drama "Pigsty" as well as Sergio Leone's 1964 western "A Fistful of Dollars" alongside Clint Eastwood. She retired for a decade to raise her family but returned to Italian cinema in the 1980s, appearing in several films by Paolo Taviani and his brother Vittorio Taviani.

SPIEHS, Karl - 2/20 1931, Ternitz, Lower Austria, Austria - 1/27/2022, Vienna, Austria

Austrian film producer and actor Karl Spiehs died in Vienna on January 27, 1922. He was 90. Spieh’s was born on February 20, 1931 in Blindendorf-Dunkelstein, Neunkirchen District, Austria and produced more than 160 films and television shows from 1961 to 2017. He’s best known for “Love, Lies, Passions” (2002), “Bloody Friday” (1972) and “Killer's Carnival” (1966). He was married to Elfriede and to actress Angelica Ott. He was the father of three children, one of which is Austrian filmmaker David Spiehs. Karl produced five Euro-westerns: “The Last Ride to Santa Cruz” and “Legend of a Gunfighter” both 1964, “Blood at Sundown” (1966), “Cry of the Black Wolves” (1972) and “Hellhounds of Alaska” (1973).

MILLI, Camillo - 8/1/1929, Milan, Lombardy, Italy - 1/20/2022, Genoa, Liguria, Italy

Italian actor Camillo Milli died in a Genoa, Italy hospital of Covid-19. He was 92. He had been hospitalized for some time. Milli was born as Camillo Migliori in Milan on August 1, 1929. He debuted on the big screen with “Girls of Today” in 1955. He went on to appear in numerous roles in Italian films. Milli appeared in one Euro-western” Hallelujah to Vera Cruz” (1973) as the Abbot of the monastery.

KRUGER, HARDY (Franz Eberhard August Krüger) - 4/12/1928, Wedding, Berlin, Germany - 1/19/2022, Palm Springs, California, U.S.A.

Hardy Krüger, considered one of post-war Germany's best actors, has died aged 93. Krüger.died "suddenly and unexpectedly" on January 19, 2022 in Palm Springs, California, where he lived with his third wife, American-born writer Anita Park. Krüger. starred in the 1957 British movie “The One That Got Away” about a captured German fighter pilot who stages a series of daring attempts to escape the Allies and, as the title suggests, finally succeeds. His charm, good looks and the fact that he deserted from the Nazi army toward the end of World War II helped Krüger.land further roles at a time when Germans of his generation were still eyed with suspicion abroad. Krüger. appeared in a string of English-language adventure and war movies, including A Bridge too Far (1977) and The Wild Geese (1978). Hardy made one Euro-western in 1975’s “Montana Trap” (aka Potato Fritz) as Captain Henry Ebedard ‘Potato Fritz’ Jansen.

BEINIX, Jean-Jacques - 10/8/1946, Paris, Île-de-France, France - 1/13/2022, Paris, Île-de-France, France

French film director Jean-Jacques Beineix died on Thursday January 13, 2022. at the age of 75, his family told Agence France Presse on Friday. Beineix came to prominence with his first film, “Diva”, in 1980, and achieved wider international fame in 1986 with the movie “Betty Blue”, starring Jean-Hugues Anglade and Beatrice Dalle. Beineix was the executive producer of the 2006 Euro-western “Requiem for Billy the Kid”.

WILKINSON, Marc (Marc Lancelott Wilkinson) - 7/27/1929, Paris, Île-de-France, France - 1/8/2022, Orsay, Essone, Île-de-France, France

RIP Marc Wilkinson. Composer, conductor, arranger Marc Wilkinson died in Orsay, France on January 8, 2022. He was 92. Wilkinson was born in Paris on July 27, 1929 and was best known for his film scores, including “The Blood on Satan's Claw”, and incidental music for the theatre, most notably for Peter Shaffer's “The Royal Hunt of the Sun”. His compositional approach combined traditional techniques with elements of the avant-garde. For most of his life he resided resident in the UK, he retired from composition and lived in France until his passing. Wilkinson was the composer and conductor for the 1979 Euro-western “Eagle’s Wing” starring Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston and Harvey Keitel.

Christy (Maria Cristina Brancucci) - 4/20/1940, Rome, Lazio, Italy - 1/11/2022, Rome, Lazio, Italy

The Italian dubbing website “Il Mondo dei Doppiatori” is reporting that Christy (Maria Cristina Brancucci) died January 11, 2022 in Rome. She was 81. He was the daughter of the composer Italo Brancucci [1904-1958], sister of the singer, lyricist and voice actor Ernesto Brancucci [1947-2021]. As a singer she was active in the 1960s and 70s using the pseudonyms Christy and Cristy. She began his career as a singer at the beginning of the 1960s , singing on various soundtracks made for the Italian RCA by xomposers such as Ennio Morricone and Luis Bacalov, often collaborating with Alessandroni's "Modern Cantori". In 1968 he dubbed Barbra Streisand in the sung parts of the film Funny Girl. She continued her dubbing career usually in animated features. She sang the title songs in two Euro-westerns: “The Big Gundown” (1966) and “Tepepa” (aka Nlood and Guns) 1969.

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 The Italian dubbing website “Il Mondo dei Doppiatori” is reporting that Christy (Maria Cristina Brancucci) died January 11, 2022 in Rome. She was 81. He was the daughter of the composer Italo Brancucci [1904-1958], sister of the singer, lyricist and voice actor Ernesto Brancucci [1947-2021]. As a singer she was active in the 1960s and 70s using the pseudonyms Christy and Cristy. She began his career as a singer at the beginning of the 1960s , singing on various soundtracks made for the Italian RCA by xomposers such as Ennio Morricone and Luis Bacalov, often collaborating with Alessandroni's "Modern Cantori". In 1968 he dubbed Barbra Streisand in the sung parts of the film Funny Girl.  She continued her dubbing career usually in animated features. She sang the title songs in two Euro-westerns: “The Big Gundown” (1966) and “Tepepa” (aka Nlood and Guns) 1969.
-*'''LAURENTI, Mariano''' - 4/15/1929, Rome, Lazio, Italy - 1/6/2022, Gubbio, Umbria, Italy
-Italian director, writer Mariano Laurenti died in Gubbio, Umbria, Italy on January 6, 2022. He was 92. Born in Rome on April 15, 1929. He started as a script supervisor and later became an assistant director for, among others, Mauro Bolognini and Stefano Vanzina. He directed 50 films between 1966 and 1999, being mainly active in the "sexy comedies” genre of Italian films. Laurenti was the assistant director on 1962’s “Terrible Sheriff”, a writer as Francesco Martino on 1968’s “A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof” and directed Franco Franchi in 1975’s “The Grandson of Zorro”.
-*'''LANFRANCHI, Mario''' - 6/30/1927, Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy - 1/3/2022 Valparma di Langhirano, Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
-Italian producer, director, screenwriter and actor Mario Lanfranchi died in Valparma di Langhirano, Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy on January 3, 2022. He was 94. Born in Parma on June 30, 1927, after graduating from the Accademia dei Filodrammatici in Milan, in 1952 Lanfranchi was called by Sergio Pugliese, director of television programs, to collaborate with the nascent Rai. He was the first to bring opera to the small screen, in 1956, with Giacomo Puccini's "Madama Butterfly", which brought attention to the general public of Anna Moffo, then an unknown young American soprano, who became his wife the following year. Lanfranchi was also an owner of horses and greyhounds. He directed the 1968 Euro-western “Death Sentence” starring Tomas Milian.
-*'''CHILCOTT, Barbara (Barbara Chilcott Davis)''' - 9/10/1922, Newmarket, Ontario, Canada - 1/1/2022, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
-Canadian actress Barbara Chilcott died at her home in Toronto, Canada on New Year’s Day 2022. She was 99. A fixture of the Crest Theatre in Toronto and frequent player at the Stratford Festival in its early years, Chilcott moved between Canada and England during a prolific career on the stage, said William Scoular, a former colleague and acclaimed director. A fixture of the Crest Theatre in Toronto and frequent player at the Stratford Festival in its early years, Chilcott moved between Canada and England during a prolific career on the stage, said William Scoular, a former colleague and acclaimed director. She returned to Canada in 1950 and performed on CBC Radio before joining her brothers Murray Davis and Donald Davis in their summer theatre company, Straw Hat Players. Chilcott survived her husband Harry Somers, a renowned Canadian composer who passed away in 1999. She had no children. Chilcott appeared in one Euro-western, 1966’s ‘The Trap’ as trader’s wife. The British/Canadian co-production starred Oliver Reed and Rita Tushingham.
-*'''SCARPA, Renato''' -  9/14/1939, Milan, Lombardy, Italy - 12/30/2021, Monteverde, Rome, Lazio, Italy
-Italian supporting and character actor Renato Scarpa died at his Rome, Italy home on December 30, 2021. He was 82. Born in Rome on September 14, 1939, Scarpa began his career in the early 1970s and went on to appear in over 160 films. He appeared in two Euro-westerns “Buddy Goes West” (1981) as Logan and “The Sons of Trinity” (1995) as Pablo.