Ignazio Spalla

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Ignazio Spalla
Born Pedro Sanchez
(1924-05-05)May 5, 1924
Siena, Italy
Died February 9, 1995(1995-02-09) (aged 70)
Italy
Occupation Actor
Years active 1964-1977

Ignazio Spalla (best known as Pedro Sanchez, 1924-1995) was an Italian film actor.

Born in Siena, Spalla was mainly active in spaghetti westerns, in which he usually played roles of Mexicans, gunfighters and outlaws.[1] His first roles of weight were in 1965, in Marino Girolami's Bullet in the Flesh and in Giorgio Ferroni's Blood for a Silver Dollar.[1]

In the '70s he focused his activity in the sub-genre of comic spaghetti, and his career basically declined together with Italo-Western.[1] Outside this genre, Spalla's credits include Eduardo De Filippo's Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand, Lucio Fulci's Beatrice Cenci and Pasquale Festa Campanile's Hitch-Hike.[2]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Massimo Giraldi, Enrico Lancia, Fabio Melelli. 100 caratteristi del cinema italiano. Gremese Editore, 2006. 
  2. ↑ Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Gli attori. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN 8884402697. 

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