{"id":110,"date":"2008-03-26T15:09:48","date_gmt":"2008-03-26T15:09:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattblake.wordpress.com\/?p=106"},"modified":"2010-03-30T13:15:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T13:15:14","slug":"black-actors-in-italy-van-aikens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/performers-directors\/black-actors-in-italy\/black-actors-in-italy-van-aikens\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Actors in Italy: Van Aikens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/europeanfilmreview.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/vanaikens003.jpg\" alt=\"Van Aikens\" align=\"right\" border=\"1\" height=\"140\" width=\"210\" \/>Van Aikens had a very brief Italian films career in the very early sixties, appearing in a handful of peplums.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Rivolta degli schiavi, La<\/b> (1960), aka  Revolt of the Slaves (as Iface)<\/li>\n<li><b>Barabba <\/b>(1961), aka Barabbas<\/li>\n<li><b>Gordon, il pirata nero <\/b>(1961), aka The Black Pirate<\/li>\n<li><b>Maciste contro il vampiro<\/b> (1961), aka Goliath and the Vampires (as Amahl)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There was also a Win Van Aikens who appeared in Vittorio Sala&#8217;s <b>I Don Giovanni della Costa Azzurra <\/b>in 1962.  I&#8217;d <i>suspect <\/i>they&#8217;re the same person.  I have found reference to a Van Aikens who was a dancer in Los Angeles, and it could be that they&#8217;re the same person&#8230;?<\/p>\n<p>(picture is of Van Aikens in  <b>Maciste contro il vampiro <\/b>(<i>thanks to High Plains Drifter on the European Film Review board for this<\/i>))<b><br \/>\n<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Van Aikens had a very brief Italian films career in the very early sixties, appearing in a handful of peplums. Rivolta degli schiavi, La&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[733,10],"tags":[238],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1910,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions\/1910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}