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Category: Black Actors in Italy

Here we take a look at all the black actors who worked in Italy

May 21, 2010

Fernando Piazza

Fernando Piazza was one of the more obscure black actors to ply their trade in Cinecitta in the 60s. His first credited performance, as far as I can make out, was in Domenico Paolella’s entertaining historical adventure The Women of Devil’s Island

May 5, 2010

James Sampson

James Sampson was a familiar face in Italian exploitation films of the 1980s. He never had big roles, being more the kind of actor who would pop up for thirty seconds before dropping out of the picture…

August 6, 2009

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…

January 5, 2009

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

December 15, 2008

Hal Frederick

Hal Frederick was an American actor who had a very brief career in Europe, making his debut in an Italian film, Sandokan Against the Leopard of Sarawak

October 21, 2008

Lola Falana

Lola Falana, the daughter of an African-American mother and Cuban father, appeared in two Italian films during the late 1960s.

October 6, 2008

Isabel De Valvert

Isabelle De Valvert starred in a handful of films during the mid 70s, but beyond that information is scarce

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