Ignazio Spalla | |
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Yul Brinner and Ignazio Spalla like Pedro Sanchez in
Adios, Sabata (1970) | |
Born |
Termini Imerese, Italy | 5 May 1924
Died | 9 February 1995
Costacciaro, Italy | (aged 70)
Other names | Pedro Sanchez |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1964–1977 |
Ignazio Spalla (5 May 1924 – 9 February 1995), best known as Pedro Sanchez, was an Italian film actor.
Born in Siena, Spalla was mainly active in Spaghetti Westerns, usually playing 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 1970s he focused his activity in the subgenre 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 The Conspiracy of Torture, and Pasquale Festa Campanile's Hitch-Hike. [2]
Ignazio Spalla | |
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Yul Brinner and Ignazio Spalla like Pedro Sanchez in
Adios, Sabata (1970) | |
Born |
Termini Imerese, Italy | 5 May 1924
Died | 9 February 1995
Costacciaro, Italy | (aged 70)
Other names | Pedro Sanchez |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1964–1977 |
Ignazio Spalla (5 May 1924 – 9 February 1995), best known as Pedro Sanchez, was an Italian film actor.
Born in Siena, Spalla was mainly active in Spaghetti Westerns, usually playing 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 1970s he focused his activity in the subgenre 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 The Conspiracy of Torture, and Pasquale Festa Campanile's Hitch-Hike. [2]