Ignazio Spalla
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
    
- 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)
 
References
    
- Giraldi, Massimo; Enrico Lancia; Fabio Melelli (2006). 100 caratteristi del cinema italiano. Gremese Editore.
 - Lancia, Enrico; Roberto Poppi (2003). Dizionario del cinema italiano: Gli attori. Gremese Editore. ISBN 8884402697.
 
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