''Two Mafiamen in the Far West'' ( it, Due mafiosi nel Far West) is a
1964
Events January
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* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
Italian
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* Anything of, from, or related to the people of Italy over the centuries
** Italians, an ethnic group or simply a citizen of the Italian Republic or Italian Kingdom
** Italian language, a Romance language
*** Regional Ita ...
comedy
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western film
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directed by
Giorgio Simonelli
Giorgio Simonelli (14 November 1901 Birth name: Giorgio Simonelli. – 3 October 1966), was an Italian film director, editor, screenwriter and journalist.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Simonelli obtained a high school diploma in business stud ...
. Its stars
Franco and Ciccio
Franco () and Ciccio () were a comic comedy duo formed by Italian actors Franco Franchi (1928–1992) and Ciccio Ingrassia (1922–2003), particularly popular in the 1960s and 1970s. Their collaboration began in 1954 in the theater field, and e ...
, and
Fernando Sancho
Fernando Sancho Les (7 January 1916 – 31 July 1990) was a Spanish actor.
Biography
He was born in Zaragoza, in Aragon, Spain on 7 January 1916 and died at Hospital Militar Gómez Ulla in Madrid on 31 July 1990 from a liver failure during o ...
.
Cast
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Franco Franchi
Franco Franchi (born Francesco Benenato; 18 September 1928 – 9 December 1992) was an Italian actor, comedian and singer.
He was born in Palermo, Sicily and began his career in the 1950s, although his career only really took off in the 1960s. ...
as Franco Capone
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Ciccio Ingrassia
Francesco Ingrassia (5 October 1922 – 28 April 2003) was an Italian actor, comedian and film director.
He was born in Palermo, Sicily, and began his career in the 1950s, although his career only really took off in the 1960s. He starred in m ...
as Ciccio Capone
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Fernando Sancho
Fernando Sancho Les (7 January 1916 – 31 July 1990) was a Spanish actor.
Biography
He was born in Zaragoza, in Aragon, Spain on 7 January 1916 and died at Hospital Militar Gómez Ulla in Madrid on 31 July 1990 from a liver failure during o ...
as Rio
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Aroldo Tieri
Aroldo Tieri (28 August 1917 – 28 December 2006) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1939 and 1969.
Life and career
Born in Corigliano Calabro, son of the journalist and playwright Vincenzo Tieri, Aroldo Tieri ...
as Ramirez
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Hélène Chanel
Hélène Chanel (born Hélène Stoliaroff; 12 June 1941 in Deauville, Calvados, France) is a French actress of Russian heritage. She was active in the 1960s in a variety of European international co-productions of sword and sandal, Eurospy and ...
as Betty Blanc
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Mimmo Poli
Mimmo Poli (born Domenico Poli, April 11, 1920 – April 4, 1986) was an Italian film character actor.
Career
He was one of the best known and most active characters of Italian cinema; in his thirty-five-year career he boasted an immense filmo ...
as Uomo al saloon
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Ana Casares
Ana Casares (1930 in Stanisławów, Poland – March 13, 2007 in Buenos Aires) was a Polish- Argentine film actress. She starred in 30 films between 1951 and 1980.
In 1933 she moved with her parents to Argentina. She studied acting skills ...
as Mary Simpson
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Aldo Giuffrè
Aldo Giuffrè (10 April 1924 – 26 June 2010) was an Italian film actor and comedian who appeared in over 90 films between 1948 and 2001. He was born in Naples and was the brother of actor Carlo Giuffrè.
He is known for his roles in '' The F ...
as Avvocato difesa
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Adriano Micantoni
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* Adriano Banchieri, Italian composer, music theori ...
as Ramon
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Luis Peña as Giudice Williams
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Félix Dafauce
Félix Dafauce (13 November 1896 – 5 October 1990) was a Spanish film actor. He appeared in 120 films between 1925 and 1987. He was born and died in Madrid, Spain.
Selected filmography
* ''When the Angels Sleep'' (1947)
* ''Dawn of Ame ...
as Il becchino
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Alfredo Rizzo
Alfredo Rizzo (2 January 1902 – 6 September 1991) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and director.
Life and career
Born in Nice, France into a family of actors, Rizzo started his career as an actor of avanspettacolo and revue, often alongs ...
as Colonel Peabody
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Vittorio Bonos
Luigi Bonos (1910–2000) was an Italian comedian and stage, television and film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1945 and 1992.
Born in Berlin, Germany, the son of two Hungarian circus artists, along with his brothers Vitt ...
as Mano Gialla
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Ignazio Spalla
Ignazio Spalla (best known as Pedro Sanchez; 5 May 1924 – 9 February 1995) was an Italian film actor.
Born in Siena, Spalla was mainly active in Spaghetti Westerns, usually playing roles of Mexicans, gunfighters and outlaws. His first roles o ...
as Uomo con Rio
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José Torres
José ("Chegüi") Torres (May 3, 1936 – January 19, 2009) was a Puerto Rican-born American professional boxer. As an amateur boxer, he won a silver medal in the junior middleweight division at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. In 1965, he ...
as Pablito
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Giovanni Vari Giovanni may refer to:
* Giovanni (name), an Italian male given name and surname
* Giovanni (meteorology), a Web interface for users to analyze NASA's gridded data
* ''Don Giovanni'', a 1787 opera by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, based on the legend of ...
as Un giudice
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Stelio Tanzini as Il guercio
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Loretta Gagliardini as Maria
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Vincenzo Falanga as Primo giudice
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Tony Di Mitri as Jesse James
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Olimpia Cavalli
Olimpia Cavalli (30 August 1930 – 29 March 2012) was an Italian actress.
Born in Cadeo, she was mainly active between the late fifties and mid-sixties. After being a star on avanspettacolo alongside Erminio Macario, she made her film debut i ...
as Calamity Jane
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Lanfranco Ceccarelli as Un detenuto (as Franco Ceccarelli)
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Enzo Andronico
Enzo Andronico (13 May 1924 – 26 September 2002) was an Italian character actor.
Born as Vincenzo Andronico in Palermo, he had a prolific career between theater, cinema and television, appearing in more than 100 films. Andronico's career is ma ...
as L'avvocato dell'accusa
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Mario Brega
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as Uomo con Rio
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1964 films
1964 comedy films
1964 drama films
1960s buddy comedy films
Films directed by Giorgio Simonelli
Films set in Italy
Italian Western (genre) comedy films
Italian buddy comedy films
1960s Italian-language films
Spaghetti Western films
1960s Italian films
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