Cemetery with crosses - legends lost but remembered

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KÜLOWThis 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 their last names:

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|}

FRESH GRAVES

  • OSINAGA, Pedro (Pedrito Osinaga) - 12/15/1936, Pamplona, Navarre, Spain

- 12/29/2017, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Theater and film actor Pedro Osinaga died in Madrid, Spain on December 29th. He was 81. Osinaga was born Pedrito Osinaga in Pamplon, Navarre, Spain on December 15, 1936. He was one of Spain’s most popular stage actors, as proven by the jury of the XV Pepe Isbert Theater Award that was granted to him in June 2011. The actor confessed in 1988 that his professional career was possible only because he left his position with the regional soccer team of Pamplona where he played to go to Madrid to make a career as an interpreter. Osinaga appeared in only one Euro-western: “Murieta” (1965) as Claudio ‘Cucaracha’.


  • HUNTER, Thomas (Thomas O’Driscoll Hunter) - 12/19/1932, Savannah, Georgia, U.S.A. - 12/27/2017, Rowayton, Connecticut, U.S.A.

Thomas O’Driscoll Hunter died peacefully in his home in Rowayton, Connecticut, on Dec. 27, 2017. He was 85. Born in Savannah, Georgia, on December 19, 1932, he led a creative and adventurous life. He graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in art and proudly served as a captain in the United States Marine Corps. In the late ’50s, he embarked on an exciting career as an actor, which led to a 10-year residence in Italy and a number of starring roles in “Spaghetti westerns” and other movies shot around the world. In Rome, he formed his own theater company and co-wrote the screenplays for the films “The Human Factor” and “The Final Countdown.” Upon returning to the United States, he wrote and directed plays, ran theater workshops and published a novel, “Softly Walks the Beast,” and an autobiography, “Memoirs of a Spaghetti Cowboy: Oddball Tales of Luck and Derring-Do.” Hunter appeared in three Euro-westerns: “The Hills Run Red” (1966), “Death Walks in Laredo” (1967) and the TV film “Carlos” (197).


  • GEORGE, Chief Leonard - 8/18/1946, North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - 12/6/2017, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Leonard George, a beloved leader of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, died in a Vancouver, British Columbia hospital on December 6, 2017. He was 71. The son of the late actor Chief Dan George was an elder and chief of the Tsleil-Waututh Nation, he was known for his wisdom, wit and work to protect First Nation's land, water, resources and culture. Like his father, George was an accomplished actor and shone on screen in classics such as “Smoke Signals” “Call of the Wild” and the Euro-western TV film “DreamKeeper”.


  • BOLOGNINI, Manolo - 10/26/1925, Pistoia, Tuscany Italy - 12/23/2017, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Italian producer Manolo Bolgnini died of an apparent heart attack at his home Via Cassia in Rome, Italy today December 23rd. He was 92. Born in Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy on October 26, 1925, he was the brother of director Mauro Bolognini and the the producer of such films as “The Gospel According to Matthew”, “Django”, “Viva, Django”, “Texas, Adios”, “Boot Hill”, “The Forgotten Pistolero”, “Little Rita in the West”, “Keoma” and “California”.


  • GRAY, Bruce - 9/7/1936, San Juan, Puerto Rico - 12/13/2017, Los Angeles, California, U.S.A.

Canadian actor Bruce Gray, who was a prolific presence on the stage and screen with roles including an investment banker on the series “Traders” and the hapless father of the groom in the film “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” died of brain cancer on December 13th. Gray was born September 7, 1936 in San Juan Puerto Rico. to Canadian parents, who had relocated south to work in the insurance industry there. His parents decided to move back to Toronto when Gray was 13. He graduated from the University of Toronto with a master’s degree in psychology before getting into modelling and acting. He appeared as Henry Payne in the Euro-Western TV series “The Campbells” in 1990.


  • BRONEVOY, Leonid (Leonid Solomonvitch Bronevoy) - 12/17/1928, Kiev, Ukraine, U.S.S.R. - 12/9/2017, Moscow, Russia

Respected Soviet and Russian actor Leonid Bronevoi died in Moscow on December 9, 2017, at the age of 88. Born Leonid Solomonvitch Bronevoy on December 17, 1928 in Kiev, Ukrain he appeared in many Soviet films, most famously in the World War II spy thriller “Seventeen Moments of Spring”. He never played in a leading role, but was renowned as a talented supporting actor. He also was a prominent figure in Soviet and Russian theater. Bronevoi was the recipient of numerous professional and state honors, including the honorary title of People's Artist of the Soviet Union. His lone Euro-western was 1977’s “Armed and Dangerous: Times and Heroes of Bret Harte” as Piter Damfi.


  • BUNUEL, Juan Luis - 11/9/1934, Île-de-France, France - 12/7/2017, Paris, , Île-de-France, France

Artist and filmmaker Juan Luis Buñuel, eldest son of Luis Buñuel, his assistant director for a decade and other filmmakers, including Orson Welles and Louis Malle died in Paris on December 7. He was. Before cinema and sculpture, he leaned towards photography. When he was 12 years old, he was given a camera, and during his life he took photos and kept them as if he were preserving an exceptional treasure, which he exhibited at the Buñuel de Calanda Center under the title 'Friends, shootings, encounters and some nonsense'. Juan Luis, under the protection of his father, made the leap towards the direction, both fiction films and documentaries. He was Assistant director on “Viva Maria!” (1965) and “Guns for San Sebastian” (1968) and director on “The Rebellion of the Hanged” (1986).


  • REEVIS, Steve - 8/14/1962, Browning, Montana, U.S.A. - 12/7/2017, Missoula, Montana, U.S.A.

Native American actor (Blackfoot Tribe) Steve Reevis passed away December 7, 2017, at a hospital in Missoula, Montana. He was 56. Reevis was born on August 14, 1962 in Browning Montana. Among his three dozen films were the films he was featured in: "Twins," "Dances with Wolves," "Last of the Dogmen," "Fargo," and "The Longest Yard." Steve played Two Bears in 1993 Euro-western "Posse".


  • HALLYDAY, Johnny (Jean-Philippe Léo Smet) - 6/15/1943, Malesherbes, Paris, Île-de-France, France - 12/6/2017, Paris, Île-de-France, France

French singer and actor Johnny Hallyday died after a battle with lung cancer in Paris, France on December 5, 2017. He was 74. Born Jean-Philippe Léo Smet on June 15, 1943 in the Paris suburb of Malesherbes, he was known as the “French Elvis” for his massively popular recordings and acting career. Widely credited as the first French star to popularize early rock ‘n roll in France, Halladay sold more than 110 million records over his 50-year career. He sang French-language covers of American pop, starting with his 1960 debut album. His appearances soon set off near-riots, and his popularity paved the way for American rock acts to break into the French market. Hallyday reportedly gave the Jimi Hendrix Experience its first France performance, opening for him at the Paris Olympia in October, 1966. Hallyday appeared in one Euro-western: as Hud in Sergio Corbucci’s 1969 “Gli specialist” (Drop Them or I'll Shoot).


  • LOMMEL, Ulli (Ulrich Manfred Lommel) - 12/21/1944, Zielenzig, Brandenburg, Germany - 12/1/2017, Germany

German producer, director, writer, cinematographer, composer, actor Ulli Lummel died December 1st of heart failure. He would have turned 73 on December 21st. Lommel has dozens of film credits under his belt but will no doubt be best remembered by fans for his wonderfully obscure 1980 film “The Boogey Man”. Ulli worked just about up to the day he passed and leaves behind a myriad of projects for interested fans to look into. He was the voice of Predrag Ceramilac in 1963’s “Flaming Frontier” and produced and played the part of Frank Nicholson in Werner Fassbinder’s 1971 Euro-western “Whity”


  • HEERMANN, Christian - 9/11/1936, Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany - 11/27/2017, German

The respected Karl May researcher Christian Heermann, born September, 11, 1936 in Chemnitz, died on November 27, 2017. Heermann was from 1993 to 2013 Chairman of the Scientific Advisory Board Karl May House Hohenstein Ernstthal and for many years Chairman of the Karl May Circle of Friends Leipzig. Even in GDR times, he published the Karl May biography "The Man Who was Old Shatterhand", updated in 2002 under the title " Winnetous Blutsbruder" (Karl-May-Verlag). A settlement with the GDR authorities appeared in 1995 under the title "Old Shatterhand Rode Not on Behalf of the Working Class".


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