{"id":1915,"date":"2010-04-01T08:52:24","date_gmt":"2010-04-01T08:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=1915"},"modified":"2010-04-01T08:53:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-01T08:53:13","slug":"jim-granite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/performers-directors\/americans-in-cinecitta\/jim-granite\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Granite"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1918\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1918\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1918\" title=\"jim-granite\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jim-granite.jpg\" alt=\"Jim Granite in Il gobbo\" width=\"400\" height=\"297\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jim-granite.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/jim-granite-118x88.jpg 118w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jim Granite in Il gobbo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an obscure performer who, I&#8217;d guess, must be an American: the marvellously named Jim Granite!<\/p>\n<p>Who was he?\u00a0 Well, as far as I can tell he only appeared in one film, Carlo Lizzani&#8217;s <strong>Il gobbo <\/strong>(1960).\u00a0 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).\u00a0 He has a total of about two minutes of screentime, but it&#8217;s not an unimportant role and he has a good few lines of dialogue (spoken in English).<\/p>\n<p>The only other information I&#8217;ve been able to uncover is this, taken from the May 25th, 1958 issue of The Milwaukee Journal: &#8220;Rock Hudson hit it big, so a new young television thespian thinks he&#8217;s got it made too &#8211; because his name is Jim Granite.&#8221;\u00a0 So he obviously was a wannabe actor rather than someone who just happpened to be in the right time, right place to fill the role.\u00a0 I have no information about any TV roles that he might have done, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s an obscure performer who, I&#8217;d guess, must be an American: the marvellously named Jim Granite!<\/p>\n<p>Who was he?  Well, as far as I can tell he only appeared in one film, Carlo Lizzani&#8217;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&#8217;s not an unimportant role and he has a good few lines of dialogue (spoken in English).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[733],"tags":[734],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915"}],"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=1915"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1920,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1915\/revisions\/1920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}