Ignazio Spalla (5 May 1924 – 9 February 1995), best known as Pedro Sanchez, was an Italian film actor.
Ignazio Spalla | |
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 Yul Brinner and Ignazio Spalla like Pedro Sanchez in Adios, Sabata (1970) | |
| Born | 5 May 1924 Termini Imerese, Italy |
| Died | 9 February 1995 (aged 70) Costacciaro, Italy |
| Other names | Pedro Sanchez |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1964–1977 |
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
edit- Two Gangsters in the Wild West (1964) - Uomo con Rio
- Bullet in the Flesh (1964) - Slim McClear
- I figli del leopardo (1964) - Babalone's Henchman
- Blood for a Silver Dollar (1965) - Granjero
- Two Sergeants of General Custer (1965) - Northern Adjutant
- Perché uccidi ancora (1965) - Rojo
- Seven Golden Men Strike Again (1966)
- Go with God, Gringo (1966) - Mexico
- Thompson 1880 (1966) - Pancho - Brady's Henchman
- Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand (1966) - Carmelo Vitiello
- Two Sons of Ringo (1966) - El Indio
- Pecos Cleans Up (1967) - Dago
- Son of Django (1967) - Thompson
- La morte non conta i dollari (1967) - Pablo Rodriguez
- No Diamonds for Ursula (1967) - Caravella
- Cjamango (1967) - Paco
- Any Gun Can Play (1967) - Pajondo / Bahunda
- Don't Wait, Django... Shoot! (1967) - Barrica
- I barbieri di Sicilia (1967)
- Johnny Hamlet (1968) - Guild
- Vengeance (1968) - Laredo's Henchman (uncredited)
- May God Forgive You... But I Won't (1968) - Garcia Ramirez 'Barrica'
- Zorro the Fox (1968) - Sergeant Gomez
- The Nephews of Zorro (1968) - Sergeante Alvarez
- Pagó cara su muerte (1969)
- Sabata (1969) - Carrincha
- The Conspiracy of Torture (1969) - Catalano
- Quintana (1969) - Pater Mansueto
- Adiós, Sabata (1969) - Escudo
- Reverend's Colt (1970) - Meticcio
- Tara Pokì (1971) - Don Fifi
- Return of Sabata (1971) - Bronco
- La vergine di Bali (1972) - Pedro Porfirio
- Sotto a chi tocca! (1972) - Pietro
- Three Supermen of the West (1973) - Navajo Joe
- Seven Nuns in Kansas City (1973) - Bart
- Carambola (1974) - Mexican Leader
- Trinity Plus the Clown and a Guitar (1975) - Poker Player
- White Fang and the Gold Diggers (1975) - Dollar
- White Fang and the Hunter (1975) - Dollar
- Il sogno di Zorro (1975) - Sergeant Garcia
- Hitch-Hike (1977) - Mexican Way Station Clerk (final film role)