Cemetery with crosses - legends lost but remembered

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

• OJEDA, Manuel (Jesús Manuel Ojeda Ruiz de la Peña) - 11/4/1938, La Paz, Baja California, Mexico - 8/11/2022, Mexico City, Federal District, Mexico

Mexican actor Manuel Ojeda died on August 11, 2022. He was 83. He was born on November 4, 1940 in La Paz, Baja California Sur. He studied acting at the National Institute of Fine Arts in Mexico. He began his career in the 1970s in the cinema, his first films were 'Canoa', 'El Elegido', 'La casa del sur', 'Calzonzin inspector', 'Celestina' and 'El apando', the latter gave him his first Ariel nomination in 1977. Thanks to his talent, he won several awards in film, television and theater, including an Ariel, awarded by the Mexican Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences, as well as El Heraldo de México, a Golden Caliph and several TV Novelas. Ojeda appeared in one Euro-western 1979's "Eagle Wing" as Manuel with Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston.

• LOIRI, Vesa-Matti - 1/4/1945, Helsinki, Finland - 8/10/2022, Helsinki, Finland

The actor, singer and entertainer Vesa-Matti Loiri has passed away on Wednesday, August 10, 2022 in Helsinki, Finland. He was 77 years old. Loiri was one of Finland’s best-known and popular entertainers of all time. He was active both as an actor in films and on stage, and also recorded 34 music albums. Loiri was hired at the Helsinki City Theater straight from theater school, and from 1971 to 1977 he acted at the Turku City Theatre. He starred in several classics. In the 1960s. Loiri became famous as a comedian at the end of the 1960s in the TV series Jatkoaika. In the early 1970s, Loir's music hobby turned into a profession, when he started recording as a jazz flutist and singer. Loiri wrote the screenplay for the Finnish comedy western “Speedy Gonzales” and directed, sang and starred as The Lone Ranger in 1971’s “The Unhanged.”