Cemetery with crosses - legends lost but remembered

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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...

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FRESH GRAVES

  • TOMMASI, Amedeo - 12/1/1935, Trieste, Friuli Venezia Giulia, Italy - 4/14/2021, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Italian composer, arranger and musician Amedeo Tommasi died in Rome, Italy on April 14, 2021. He was 85. Amedeo was born in Trieste, Italy on December 1, 1935. He began taking piano lessons at the age of 6 and was thought to be one the most talented pianist of his generation, Tommasi came to light in 1960, during a radio transmission entitled "La coppa di jazz". He joined trumpet player Chet Baker’s group in 1961 and then worked as an arranger for RCA Italy. He became a film composer towards the end of the 1960s. Amedeo worked with Ennio Morricone for over 20 years providing him with electronic sound material for his films, and subsequently collaborated with him on the music for the film “The Legend of the Pianist on the Ocean” by Giuseppe Tornatore. He composed the score for the 1967 Euro-western “This Man Can’t Die” starring Guy Madison.


  • BRANCUCCI, Ernesto 11/23/1947, Rome, Lazio, Italy - 4/12/2021, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Italian voice actor, singer and musical director he was a part of the Disney world in Italy. His career was very long, in which he remained known above all for his work in adapting the songs of films and TV series and for the dubbing of the character of Pumbaa in the film The Lion King died in Rome, Italy on April 12, 2021. Born in Rome on November 23, 1947, the son of composer Italo Brancucci and brother of the singer Maria Cristina Brancucci aka Christy, he used the name of Ermavilo as a mixture of his initials and those of his wife Marinella Viri and his daughters Virginia and Lorena. After having started singing in the Alleluia Clan, he was chosen by the maestro Pietro Carapellucci for the parts sung in various films. Starting in 1986 as Basil the detective, after the death of Roberto De Leonardi, he began to deal with the adaptations for the lyrics of the songs of the Disney films. Since 1993 he has worked as a music director for many films, such as “Nightmare Before Christmas”, “The Lion King”, “Lilo & Stitch”, “The Princess and the Frog, Rebel - The Brave”, “Frozen - The Kingdom of Ice”, “Oceania”, “Coco, Ralph Breaks the Internet”, “As if by Enchantment”, “The Return by Mary Poppins”, “Dumbo”. He was a voice actor on “Fistful of Dollars” (1964); “For a Few Dollars More” (1965); “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” (1966).


  • SCIOTTI, Enzo - 12/24/1944, Rome, Lazio, Italy - 4/10/2021, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Enzo Sciotti, famous illustrator of horror movie posters, died on 11 April 2021 at the age of 76. Sciotti was particularly known for having created the covers of several Italian comics of the seventies and eighties and for the artistic works dedicated to film posters and home-video editions. The high point of his career, however, was reached through the collaboration with Lucio Fulci, for which he illustrated the poster of ... And you will live in terror! The afterlife and that villa next to the cemetery. Also famous is the artwork created for the blue velvet and Phenomena poster by David Lynch and Dario Argento. Spaghetti western art that Enzo designed were “Lola Colt” (1967); “The Hunting Party” (1972); “Keoma” (1975); “Thunder Warrior I, II and III (1983, 1985, 1987) and “Django Strikes Again” (1987).


  • PINORI, Giuseppe - 9/15/1928, Tagliacozzo, Abruzzo, Italy - 3/3/2021, Rome Lazio, Italy

Cinematographer, director of photography Giuseppe Pinori died in Rome on April 3. He was born in Tagliacozzo on September 15, 1928. His filmography includes significant films of the new auteur cinema such as “Ecce bombo” by Nanni Moretti, “Maledetti vi amerò” and “La caduta degli angeli ribelli” by Marco Tullio Giordana. He has collaborated with directors such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Lucio Fulci and Romano Scavolini. He has taught Photography for Cinema at the Cinecittà Cinema Academy (ACT Multimedia), together with Franco Di Giacomo. Pinoori was the cinematographer on 1972’s “The Return of the Holy Ghost” starring Vasili Karis.


  • FILIPELLII, Gerard - 12/12/1942, Paris, Ile-de- France, France - 3/30/2021, France

French composer, singer, musician, writer, actor Gérard Filippelli died on March 30, 2021. He was 78. Born in Paris on December 12, 1942 Filippelli was a founder and member of the ‘Charlots’. Gérard appeared as Phil as well as with the Charlots in the 1969 Euro-western TV film “The Man Who Came from Cher”.


  • McMURTRY. Larry (Larry Jeff McMurty) - 6/3/1936, Archer City, Texas, U.S.A. - 3/25/2021, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.

Larry McMurtry, a prolific novelist and screenwriter who demythologized the American West with his unromantic depictions of life on the 19th-century frontier and in contemporary small-town Texas, died on March 25, 2021 at his home in Tucson, Arizona. He was 84. Norn Larry Jeff McMurtry on June 3, 1936 in Archer City, Texas, U.S.A. McMurtry wrote more than 30 novels and many books of essays, memoir and history. He also wrote more than 30 screenplays, including the one for “Brokeback Mountain” (written with his longtime collaborator Diana Ossana, based on a short story by Annie Proulx), for which he won an Academy Award in 2006. But he found his greatest commercial and critical success with “Lonesome Dove,” a sweeping 843-page novel about two retired Texas Rangers who drive a herd of stolen cattle from the Rio Grande to Montana in the 1870s. The book won a Pulitzer Prize in 1986 and was made into a popular television mini-series. Larry was a producer and writer on the 2002 Euro-western TV film “Johnson County War” in 2002 starring Tom Berenger and Burt Reynolds.


  • LIBRALESSO, Natalino - 11/22/1941, Rome, Lazio, Italy - 3/24/2021, Rome, Lazio, Italy

Italian actor and voice actor Natalino Libralesso also known as Stefano Carraro died in Rome, Italy on March 24, 2021. Born in Rome on November 22, 1941 he began his career as a radio speaker of the Giornale Radio Rai, but due to the exclusive contract with the radio that was signed at that time, he began to dub under the pseudonym Stefano Carraro. Among the actors he has voiced are Charles Bronson, Roy Scheider and Liam Neeson. Natalino was the Italian voice of Michel Lemoine in 1969's "Cemetery Without Crosses"; Angel Aranda in 1969's "Law of the Violence"; Vassili Karis in 1971's "He Was Called the Holy Ghost" and Paolo Resino in 1973's "Anything for a Friend"


  • SEGAL, George (George Segal Jr.) - 2/13/1934. Great Neck, Long Island, New York, U.S.A. - 3/23/2021, Santa Rosa, California, U.S.A.

American actor and musician George Segal died March 23, 2021 in Santa Rosa, California due to complications from bypass surgery. He was age 87. "The family is devastated to announce that this morning George Segal passed away due to complications from bypass surgery," his wife Sonia Segal said in a statement. Born on February 13, 1934 in Great Neck, Long Island, New York, he discovered an interest in acting at age 9 when he saw Alan Ladd in the 1942 film noir This Gun for Hire. After appearing in a few roles on stage, including an understudy part in Broadway's The Iceman Cometh, Segal enjoyed a few minor film roles in the early 1960s. His first substantial part came in 1961 with The Young Doctors. He’s perhaps best known for his performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. George appeared in one Euro-western; as Gottlieb in the 1980 TV mini-series “My Friend Winnetou”.


  • GARRIGA, Francisco (Francisco Javier Garriga Vial) - 1935, Spain - 3/20/2021, Spain

Spanish voice actor and dubber Francisco Garriga died on March 19, 2021. He was 86 years old. Born Francisco Javier Garriga Vial, he began his career on the radio in 1964 as an announcer which led to his career as a dubber. One of his most difficult films was “Days of Fury” where he had to dub three characters; one who was miserable, one mentally retarded and one a revolutionary. He was the Spanish voice of Germano Longo in “5 Giants from Texas”; Moises Rocha in “Dynamite Joe”; Jose Canalejas in “A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die”; Rudy Ugland in “Chato’s Land”; Poldo Bendandi in “His Name was Holy Ghost”; James Doohan and Henry Wilcoxon in “Man in the Wilderness”; Lee Burton in “Who Killed Johnny Ringo?”; Luis Induni in “Karate, Fists and Beans”; Cesar Ojinaga in “Watch Out Gringo Sabata Will Return”; Vito Salier in “Captain Apache”; George Martin in “Return of Clint the Stranger”; Benito Stefanelli in “W Django”; Franco Ressel in “The Ballad of Death Valley”; Richard C. Adams in “China 9, Liberty 37”; Paul Breitner in “Potato Fritz”; Jimmie Ray Weeks in “Dead Man”; Salvatore Puntillo in “A Man Called Blade”; Richard Harrison in “Vengeance”; Glauco Onorato in “John the Bastard”; John Bartha in “His Name was King” and Enzo Fiermonte in “Boot Hill”.


  • SZERSEN, Gyula - 11/22/1940, Budapest, Hungary - 3/17/2021, Budapest, Hungary

Hungarian actor and voice dubber Gyula Szersen died in Budapest on March 17, 2021. Gyula was born on November 22, 1940 in Budapest. He graduated from the Theater Academy in 1965, but has been performing at the State Deryne Theater and the Comedy Theater since 1958. He appeared in over 75 films and at the same time was also a voice dubber who dubbed voices for nine Euro-westerns; “Buddy Goes West” [Hungarian voice of Riccardo Pizzuti]; “A Genius” 1981 [[Hungarian voice of Gerard Boucaron] both 1981; “Man of the East” (1984) [[Hungarian voice of Jean Louis]; “Trinity Sees Red” (1991) [Hungarian voice of Maximo Valverde]; “Flaming Frontier” [Hungarian voice of Larry Pennell]; “God Forgives… I Don’t” [[Hungarian voice of Terence Hill] both 19932; “Killer Kid” (1993) [Hungarian voice of Jan Hendriks]; “It Can Be Done Amigo” (1999) [Hungarian voice of Jack Palance] and “A Genius” (2001) [Hungarian voice of Patrick McGoohan].


  • ABRIL, Anton Garcia - 5/19/1933, Teruel, Aragón, Spain - 3/17/2021, Madrid, Madrid, Spain

Spanish composer Anton Garcia Abril died in Madrid on March 17, 2021. He was 87. Born in Teruel, Aragón, Spain on May 19, 1933 he composed more than 200 soundtracks during his career which includes the composition of works for orchestras, cantatas, concerts and chamber music. He composed scores for five Euro-westerns: “The Savage Guns” (1961); “The Avenger” (1966); “When Satan Grips the Colt” (1969); “Awkward Hands” (1970) and “Pancho Villa” (1971).


  • DARROW, Henry (Enrique Tomás Delgado) - : 9/15/1933, New York City, New York, U.S.A. - 3/14/2021, Wilmington, North Carolina, U.S.A.

American film and TV actor Henry Darrow died March 14, 2021 at his home in Wilmington, North Carolina. He was 87. Born Enrique Tomás Delgado in New York City of Puerto Rican heritage on September 15,1933, he appeared in over 150 films and television performances. Best known as Manolito Montoya for 5 seasons on TV’s ‘The High Chaparral’ he also appeared in the Euro-western TV series ‘The New Zorro’ as Don Alejandro de la Vega for 4 seasons from 1990-1993. The series was filmed in Spain and starred Duncan Regehr.

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