{"id":2555,"date":"2011-05-26T11:20:43","date_gmt":"2011-05-26T11:20:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2011-05-26T11:22:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-26T11:22:13","slug":"daniel-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thewildeye.co.uk\/blog\/performers-directors\/black-actors-in-italy\/daniel-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another in our on off guide to black actors in Italian cinema, this time it’s the turn of: Daniel Jones.<\/p>\n

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Daniel Jones in Senza piet\u00e0 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now I can’t claim to know anything at all about this gentleman.\u00a0 He has a supporting role in Senza piet\u00e0<\/strong>, Alberto Lattuada’s excellent 1948 film, a hybrid of neo-realism and crime thriller, as an inmate who tries to escape from military prison along with the protagonist, John Kitzmiller<\/a>.\u00a0 He dies, needless to say, in the act, urging Kitzmiller’s character to carry on without him (natch).\u00a0 IMDB lists him as appearing in a handful of other (primarily British) films, but I’m not convinced: would he really have appeared as ‘Otto the Dummy’ in Asylum (71)?\u00a0 Or as a teenager in Slugs<\/strong> (88), some 40 years after Senza piet\u00e0<\/strong> (in which he must have been 20+ already).<\/p>\n

No, I’d guess he was actually a GI who endedup staying behind in Italy for some time after the war – much like Kitzmiller, in fact –\u00a0 and was one of the many non-professional actors to been featured in films of the period.\u00a0 In fact, there are numerous other black characters in the cast, most of whom are unnamed and don’t really have a speaking part (such as the individual below), and I’d imagine they were there for pretty much the same reasons. Jones probably had the more high profile part because he’s a very distinctive looking chap, with proiminent facial scarring (which must have been real, possibly a wartime wound?).<\/p>\n

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Unidentified actor in Senza piet\u00e0 <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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