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Federico was the music editor on Ennio Morricone’s 1971’s score for “Duck You Sucker!
Federico was the music editor on Ennio Morricone’s 1971’s score for “Duck You Sucker!
*'''SEBALT, Maria''' - 4/26/1930, Berlin-Steglitz, Berlin, Germany – 4/4/2023, Munich Bavaria, Germany
German actress Maria Sebalt died in Munich, Germany on April 4, 2023. She was 92. Born in Berlin on April 26, 1930, she was best known for her television career and her roles in “Die Wicherts von nebenan” and “Ich heirate eine Familie” Maria made her breakthrough as an actress in the early 1950s and had appeared over the years alongside numerous acting legends such as Heinz Rühmann, Robert Woods and Peter Alexander. Even after the birth of her daughter Katharina with husband actor Robert Freitag in 1967, Maria’s career took off again and she lived out her passion to the fullest. Maria appeared in only one Spaghetti western as Helen Greenwood in 1965’s “$5,000 on One Ace” with Robert Woods.
*'''OLIVEROS, Ramiro ((Ramiro Oliveros Fernández)''' - 3/13/1941, Madrid, Madrid, Spain - 4/26/2023, Pozuelo Alarcón, Madrid, Spain
Spanish actor Ramiro Oliveros died in Pozuelo Alarcón, Madrid, Spain of multi-organ failure on April 26, 2023. He was 82. Born Ramiro Oliveras Fernández on March 13, 1941, he dropped out of medical school to pursue acting, so he enrolled in drama at the Royal Court Theatre in London. Later he moved to Paris and Frankfurt, where he dared to direct a Spanish theater group. In 1972 television fell in love with him and did not let go. He had a very gallant physique. He debuted in several chapters of ‘Hora’ once and four years later he intervened in the popular ‘La saga de los Rius’. He also did a lot of theater on the small screen, his last appearance being in ‘¿Se puede?’ (2004). The cinema also knocked on his door where the films “El asesino está en los trece” (1973) and “Memorias de Leticia Valle” (1980) stand out. He retired from the theatre completely in 2001. He had married Consuelo Buenader (1976-1982), with whom he had two sons, Ramiro and Hugo Samuel. He then married actress Concha Márquez Piquer [1945-2021] in 1982 and they had a daughter singer Iris Amor [1988- ]. Oliveros appeared in one Spaghetti western as Tortuga in 1984’s

Revision as of 15:35, 26 May 2023

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

  • WESTBURY, Ken (Albert Kenneth Westbury) - 1/5/1927, Sherpherd’s Bush, London, England, U.K. - 4/28/2023, Staines, Middlesex, England, U.K.

Veteran British cameraman, cinematographer Ken Westbury died in the U.K. on April 28, 2023. He was 96. Born Albert Kenneth Westbury on January 5, 1927, in Shepherd’s Bush, London, England, he had a 40+ year career, mainly working on BBC programs and productions. He began his career as clapper for the British Ealing Studios and then when Ealing was purchased by MGM, Ken went to work for the BBC as a cinematographer and cameraman. He worked on two TV Eurowesterns: “Dr. Who: The Gunfighters” in 1966 and 1971’s “The Last of the Mohicans”.


  • BROWN, Jim (James Nathaniel Brown) 2/17/1936, St. Simons Island, Georgia, U.S.A. - 5/18/2023, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Jim Brown, the NFL titan who appeared in “The Dirty Dozen,” a number of Blaxploitation films and Oliver Stone’s “Any Given Sunday,” The Running Man,” Tim Burton’s “Mars Attacks” and Spike Lee’s “He Got Game,” to name a few films, died May 18, 2023 in Los Angeles. He was 87. In nine extraordinary seasons as a fullback with the Cleveland Browns, Brown set an array of NFL records. In 2002 the Sporting News named him the greatest professional football player ever. That phenomenal athleticism and a charismatic personality made him bankable as the first African American action star. The 1969 Western “100 Rifles” starred Brown as an Arizona lawman who ventures into Mexico to find Burt Reynolds’ Yaqui Joe, a Native American who robbed a bank to buy rifles for his people. There he tangles with a beautiful native leader played by sex symbol of the day Raquel Welch; much was made in the press of the interracial love scene featuring Brown and Welch, but Brown apparently grew impatient with the actress because of the control her people exerted over the film. “When I’m on a picture,” he told Ebert at the time, “I have two bosses, the director and the producer. My co-star is not my boss.” Brown also starred opposite Lee Van Cleef in three Spaghetti westerns: “El Condor.”, “Take a Hard Ride” and “Kid Vengeance”.


  • YELIZAROV, Anatoly - 2/16/1943, Saint Petersburg, Russia, U.S.S.R. - 5/8/2023, Moscow, Russia

Honored artist of Russia, the master of pantomime Anatoly Yelizarov was found dead in his apartment in Moscow on May 8, 2023. He was 80 years old. Yelizarov was born on February 16, 1943, in Leningrad. From the age of 13, he studied the art of pantomime in the Mime studio of the famous circus artist Rudolf Slavsky. Since the 1960s, the artist began to tour in the USSR and abroad. The Soviet and foreign press compares him to the master of French mime Marcel Marceau. Yelizarov also starred in the films “Aibolit-66” by Rolan Bykov, “Completely Lost” by Georgy Danelia, “The Sun, Again the Sun” by Svetlana Druzhinina, “The Crew” by Alexander Mitta, “The Imaginary Sick” by Leonid Nechaev. He appeared in only one European western in a small cameo role as the man with top hat and cane in 1973’s “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn”.


  • JOHNSTONE, Iain (Iain Gilmour Johnstone) - 4/8/1943, Reading, Berkshire, England, U.K. - 5/4/2023, London, England, U.K.

It was reported in the British paper The Guardian on May 18th that English author, broadcaster and television producer Iain Johnstone died suddenly in London, England on May 4, 2023. Born Iain Gilmour Johnstone on April 8, 1943 in Reading, Berkshire, England, Johnstone was a film critic for The Sunday Times for twelve years and producer and fill in presenter of the ‘Film 82’. Johnston produced other British TV programs such as the BBC Two chat show ‘Friday Night, Saturday Morning’, ‘The Frost Interview’ and ran the BBC's Watergate coverage. Johnstone co-wrote the film Fierce Creatures (1997) with John Cleese, and made eight documentaries with Steven Spielberg. Johnstone was also a biographer of Tom Cruise and Clint Eastwood. Johnstone produced the 1977 TV documentary ‘The Man With No Name’ on the career of Clint Eastwood.


  • AUSTIN, Ray (Raymond John DeVere Austin) - 12/3/1932, London, England, U.K. - 5/17/2023, Earlysville, Virginia, U.S.A.

British born producer, director, stuntman and coordinator Ray Austin died at his home in Earlysville, Virginia on May 17, 2023. He was 90 years old. Born in London on December 3, 1932. He started his career as a stunt performer on such films as “North by Northwest” (1959) and “Spartacus” (1960). From 1965 to 1967 he served as stunt coordinator on 50 episodes of “The Avengers”. For The Champions he initially became involved as a second unit director, subsequently rising to the position of full director. His work as a television director included episodes of “The Avengers” (1968), “Space: 1999” (1975–1976), “The New Avengers” (1976–1977), and “V” (1984). He directed 50 of the 88 episodes of the Euro-western series ‘Zorro’, which was filmed in Madrid between 1989 and 1992 for the American ABC Family Channel. He has also directed some made-for-TV films, including “The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.” (1983), and some feature films such as “Virgin Witch” (1972) and “House of the Living Dead” (1974). Austin was married from 1976 to actress Yasuko Nagazumi, who performed in some of the series he worked on, notably ‘Space: 1999’. He later divorced Nagazumi and married British producer and writer Wendy DeVere Knight-Wilton in 1984.


  • SAVINA, Federico - 6/9/1935, Turin, Piedmont, Italy - 5/10/2023, Rome, Lazio, Italy
Godspeed, Maestro.

Today the cinematic arts lose a mentor, an artist, and a gentleman: Federico Savina. If you ever heard music by Nino Rota, Ennio Morricone, and even Jerry Goldsmith and Leonard Bernstein, chances are you have been in contact with his mixing or soundtrack restoration work. A pioneer of new technology in sound, he's been a Dolby consultant during the stereo, early surround and digital transitions, contributing to the establishment of what we know today as the Dolby standards.

He could dub an entire sequence, music and dialogue, all in one pass, running faders in real time on an analog desk with no meters, on a student film he had never seen before, and he was 80 at the time!

Federico was the brother of the late composer Carol Savina.

Federico was the music editor on Ennio Morricone’s 1971’s score for “Duck You Sucker!

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