Ignazio Spalla

Ignazio Spalla
Yul Brinner and Ignazio Spalla like Pedro Sanchez in Adios, Sabata (1970)
Born(1924-05-05)5 May 1924
Termini Imerese, Italy
Died9 February 1995(1995-02-09) (aged 70)
Costacciaro, Italy
Other namesPedro Sanchez
OccupationActor
Years active1964–1977

Ignazio Spalla (5 May 1924 – 9 February 1995), best known as Pedro Sanchez, was an Italian film actor.

Born in Siena, Spalla was mainly active in Spaghetti Westerns, usually playing roles of Mexicans, gunfighters and outlaws.[1] His first roles of weight were in 1965, in Marino Girolami's Bullet in the Flesh and in Giorgio Ferroni's Blood for a Silver Dollar.[1]

In the 1970s he focused his activity in the subgenre of comic spaghetti, and his career basically declined together with Italo-Western.[1] Outside this genre, Spalla's credits include Eduardo De Filippo's Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand, Lucio Fulci's The Conspiracy of Torture, and Pasquale Festa Campanile's Hitch-Hike.[2]

Partial filmography

References

  1. ^ a b c Giraldi, Massimo; Enrico Lancia; Fabio Melelli (2006). 100 caratteristi del cinema italiano. Gremese Editore.
  2. ^ Lancia, Enrico; Roberto Poppi (2003). Dizionario del cinema italiano: Gli attori. Gremese Editore. ISBN 8884402697.