This category is dedicated to all the American actoprs who plied their trade in Cinecitta
Robert Woods interview
Just found a Robert Woods interview I hadn’t read before on a website called www.glasshousepresents.com
Americans in Cinecitta
Alex Nicol
Alex Nicol was born in 1916 in New York. A prolific stage actor of the 1930s, where he was part of Maurice Evans’s Shakesperean company, […]
Jim Granite
Here’s an obscure performer who, I’d guess, must be an American: the marvellously named Jim Granite!
Who was he? Well, as far as I can tell he only appeared in one film, Carlo Lizzani’s Il gobbo (1960). He plays a young American soldier who comes to the assistance of Anna Maria Ferrero, only to be chased off by Pier Paolo Pasolini (who plays an angry, one armed, ex-partisan). He has a total of about two minutes of screentime, but it’s not an unimportant role and he has a good few lines of dialogue (spoken in English).
Jeff Blynn today…
Hey, looks like Jeff Blynn didn’t simply disappear after making a bunch of cop films in the seventies and eighties: he opened his own restaurant, […]
Hazel Rogers
Here’s a name that was unfamiliar to me until watching the 1959 Alberto Sordi vehicle, Il moralista, directed by Giorgio Bianchi. Hazel Rogers has a […]
Who was… Remington Olmstead?
I always enjoy finding ex-pat British or American actors in obscure films, and every time I think I know them all another one pops up […]
Jim Gaines
Jim Gaines is an African-American actor, born in Hawaii in 1955, who came to prominence in a series of Filipino action films