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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

BASEDOW, Rainer - 5/20/1936, Mühlhausen, Saxony, Prussia, Germany - 5/15/2022, Salzburg, Austria

German actor Rainer Basedow died in Salzburg, Austria on May 15, five days short of his 84th birthday. Basedow was born on May 20, 1938 in Mühlhausen, Saxony, Prussia, Germany and grew up in the former GDR, graduated from high school in Magdeburg in 1965, but was not allowed to study because of "political unreliability". After fleeing to the West, he first began studying to become a teacher in Braunschweig, but later switched to acting and moved to Munich. From 1976 to 1995 he was a permanent member of the Munich Laughing and Shooting Society, with which he gave 19 tours and around 4000 performances. He celebrated his greatest successes in the 1970s. In 1974 he played, among other things, the sergeant Dimpfelmoser in "Räuber Hotzenplotz" alongside Bond villain Gert Fröbe. Film roles include "Drei Männer im Schnee", "Ein dicker Hund", "Starke Zeiten" und "Schwere Jungs". Basedow was seen on television in "Derrick", "Tatort", "Der Alte", "Der Bulle von Tölz" and many other productions. He also acted as voice actor in a wide variety of films: Among other things, he lent his voice to John Belushi in "The Blues Brother". But his distinctive voice was also heard in Disney productions. Among other things, as Warty Pumbaa in "The Lion King" or as Wayne Knight in "Toy Story 2". Basedow appeared as a miner in the 1976 Euro-western “Montana Trap” (aka Potato Fritz).

WEISS, Ulrich - 4/2/1942, Wernigerode, Harz, Germany - 5/3/2022, Ferch, Brandenburg, Germany

German director and screenwriter Ulrich Weiß died in Ferch, Brandenburg, Germany on May 3, 2022. He was 80. Weiß attended elementary school from 1948 to 1956 and advanced high school from 1956 to 1960 in Klingenthal. He became an assistant cameraman for a TV station in East Germany. From 1965 to 1968 he studied camera and then directing at the Academy for Film and Television in Potsdam , where he graduated in 1970. In 1971, Weiß became a director at DEFA 's studio for short films in the Effekt group led by Karl Gass . Among other things, he made a film about the censorship of Eisenstein 's battleship Potemkin in the Weimar Republic. He directed and wrote screenplays for eleven films between 1969 and 1992. Among them was one western Blauvogel (Blue Bird) in 1979.

WATERMAN, Dennis - 2/24/1948, Chapham, London, England, U.K. - 5/8/2022, Spain

British actor Dennis Waterman died in a Spanish hospital on May 8, 2022. He 74. Born in Chapman, London, England on February 24, 1948. He who starred in the TV shows Minder, The Sweeney and New Tricks – has died at the age of 74. He was best known for his role as bodyguard Terry McCann in ITV’s Minder. He has a showbiz career that spanned 60 years. He was known for singing the theme songs to many of his shows and was caricatured by David Walliams in Little Britain. He married four times. He left his second wife, with whom he had two daughters, for the actor Rula Lenska. The couple divorced in 1998 and Waterman married Pam Flint in 2011. His daughter Hannah Waterman played Laura Beale in EastEnders and guest starred in New Tricks in 2007. Waterman appeared in only one Euro-western as Jamie Lowrie in 1971’s “Man in the Wilderness” starring Richard Harris.

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 British actor Dennis Waterman died in a Spanish hospital on May 8, 2022. He 74. Born in Chapman, London, England on February 24, 1948. He who starred in the TV shows Minder, The Sweeney and New Tricks – has died at the age of 74. He was best known for his role as bodyguard Terry McCann in ITV’s Minder. He has a showbiz career that spanned 60 years. He was known for singing the theme songs to many of his shows and was caricatured by David Walliams in Little Britain. He married four times. He left his second wife, with whom he had two daughters, for the actor Rula Lenska. The couple divorced in 1998 and Waterman married Pam Flint in 2011. His daughter Hannah Waterman played Laura Beale in EastEnders and guest starred in New Tricks in 2007. Waterman appeared in only one Euro-western as Jamie Lowrie in 1971’s “Man in the Wilderness” starring Richard Harris.
-*'''Arno (Arno Charles Ernest Hintjens)''' - 5/21/1949, Oostende, Belgium - 4/23/2022
-Belgium singer Arno died of pancreatic cancer on April 23, 2022. He was 72. Born on May 21, 1949 in Ostend, a Flemish coastal town to which he remained very attached and which he evokes in his songs, Arno Hintjens began his career with the rock group TC Matic in the 1980s, notably with the song " Putain, putain" ("Damn, damn, it's really good, we are still all Europeans") - a title recently taken up in duet with another Belgian, Stromae. It was in solo that he then revealed himself to a wider audience, thanks to songs like "My mother's eyes" or his cover of "Girls by the sea" by another Belgian, Adamo. The announcement of his illness came while he was promoting an album ("Santeboutique", released in September 2019). Arno wrote and sang the song “Land of Milk and Honey” in the 2009 animated film “Luke and Lucy: The Texas Rangers”.