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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.
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.






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Revision as of 14:11, 23 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...

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

  • HINZ, Dinah - 2/14/1934, Heidelberg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany - 7/14/2020, Zürich, Switzerland

German born theater, film and voice actress Dinah Hinz died in Zurcih, Switzerland on July 14, 2020. She was 86. Born Dinah Eleanora Hinz on February 14, 1934, Hinz came from a family of actors and was discovered by Fritz Kortner as a high school student. She made her debut at the Hebbel Theater in Berlin at the age of 15. During her acting training at the Otto Falckenberg School in Munich, she played at the Residenz Theater and the Munich Kammerspiele. Dinah was also a speaker in radio play productions and for documentaries and features. As voice actress, she lent her voice to Carroll Baker, Elizabeth Taylor and Joanne Woodward, among others. She appeared in two Euro-western TV shows. ‘Aye, Aye Sheriff’ - 1973 as Mrs. Rosemary Wilson and ‘Huckleberry Finn and His Friends’ – 1979 as Aunt Sally.


  • 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.


  • 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.

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