Romano Puppo Explained

Romano Puppo
Birth Place:	Rome, Italy
Death Place:	Trieste, Italy
Occupation:	Actor

Romano Puppo (25 March 1933 – 11 May 1994) was an Italian stuntman and actor.

Life and career

Born in Rome, Puppo debuted in 1961 in the Mauro Bolognini's drama Careless, and after a number of very minor roles he soon became a regular of Italian genre cinema in roles of henchmen and villains.^[1] Mainly active in Spaghetti Westerns and Poliziotteschi films, he was also cast as the Paolo Villaggio's antagonist in a number of comedies.^[2] He was hired as Lee Van Cleef's stuntman and double stand-in by director Gianfranco Parolini for his Sabata trilogy, and was one of his pallbearers in 1989.^[3] He served as his stuntman in a number of films including Sabata (1969),^[4] Commandos (1968) along Giampiero Albertini,^{[5] [6]} and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) along Benito Stefanelli.^[7]

Puppo died in a motor scooter accident while having a heart attack, aged 61.^[8]

Selected filmography

• Gli uomini dal passo pesante (1965) - Paine Cordeen
• (1966) - Man on Plane #2
• Massacre Time (1966) - Tall Scott Henchman (uncredited)
• The Big Gundown (1966) - Rocky, Widow's Ranchero
• The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) - Slim (Member of Angel Eyes' Gang) (uncredited)
• Death Rides a Horse (1967) - Clell
• Day of Anger (1967) - Hart Perkins (uncredited)
• Seven Times Seven (1968) - Prisoner Carrying Garbage Can (uncredited)
• Gunman Sent by God (1968) - Badman
• Beyond the Law (1968) - Sam - Burton Bandit
• Madigan's Millions (1968) - Steward (uncredited)
• Rita of the West (1968) - Zorro
• Commandos (1968) - Dino
• Death on High Mountain (1969) - Deputy
• Bootleggers (1969) - Boss' Bodyguard
• Sabata (1969) - Rocky Bendato, Stengel Henchman
• Boot Hill (1969) - Finch henchman
• Chuck Moll (1970) - Burt
• Colt in the Hand of the Devil (1970) - Soldier (uncredited)
• Dead Men Ride (1971) - Newman
• Trinity Is Still My Name (1971) - Hitman (uncredited)
• Trinity and Sartana Are Coming (1972) - Captain Bill McCorney (uncredited)
• The Master Touch (1972) - Miller's Lieutenant
• The Sicilian Connection (1972) - Hood (uncredited)
• Il Nemico In Vista (1973) - Commando
• Those Dirty Dogs (1973) - Soldier in Dormitory Fistfight (uncredited)
• Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears (1973) - Bull, Morton's Goon
• The Big Game (1973) - Alberto
• The Funny Face of the Godfather (1973) - Uomo del padrino
• ...E il terzo giorno arrivò il corvo (1973) - Henry Sloane (uncredited)
• Mr. Hercules Against Karate (1973) - Football Player (uncredited)
• Mean Frank and Crazy Tony (1973) - Assassin
• Three Tough Guys (1974) - Hood
• Street Law (1974) - Ringleader
• The Beast (1974) - Dutch Driver
• The White, the Yellow, and the Black (1975) - Kady
• Loaded Guns (1975) - Man in the Tavern (uncredited)
• El clan de los inmorales (1975)
• Cry, Onion! (1975) - Stinky
• Africa Express (1975)
• Lo sgarbo (1975)
• The Loves and Times of Scaramouche (1976)
• Street People (1976) - Fortunate
• The Big Racket (1976) - Doringo
• The Heroin Busters (1977) - Enforcer
• California (1977) - Gary Luke
• Gangbuster (1977) - Peseti Henchman
• Interno di un convento (1978)
• China 9, Liberty 37 (1978) - Zeb / Zeb's brother
• The Uranium Conspiracy (1978) - Boatswain
• Savana - Sesso e diamanti (1978) - Kent
• The Great Alligator River (1979) - Peter
• Speed Cross (1980) - Kurt Schmidbauer
• Contraband (1980) - Enforcer
• Day of the Cobra (1980) - Silvestri
• Speed Driver (1980) - Dave
• Buddy Goes West (1981) - Slim Henchman (uncredited)
• Great White (1981) - Briley (uncredited)
• The Girl from Trieste (1982) - Toni
• 2019, After the Fall of New York (1983) - Ratchet
• Escape from the Bronx (1983) - Trash's Father
• Tuareg – The Desert Warrior (1984) - Soldier
• Good King Dagobert (1984) - Argobal
• Who Is Afraid Of Dracula? (1985) - Frankenstein
• Joan Lui (1985) - Assassino
• Scuola di ladri - Parte seconda (1987) - Nostromo
• Robowar (1988) - Cpl. Neil Corey
• Cop Game (1988) - Skipper
• Der Commander (1988) - Angelo
• Ghoulies II (1988) - Zampano
• Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989) - Captain
• After Death (1989) - Zombie Leader (uncredited)
• Born to Fight (1989) - Alex Bross
• I Won the New Year's Lottery (1989)
• Le comiche 2 (1991) - Ladro (final film role)

Notes and References

1. Book: Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. 8884402697.
2. Book: Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. 8884402697.
3. Book: Prickette, James . Actors of the Spaghetti Westerns . . 20 January 2012 . 476 . 9781469144290 . Charles Anthony . McLendon.
4. Book: Cox, Alex . 10,000 Ways to Die . Oldcastle Books . 21 October 2010 . 327 . 9781842434024.
5. Book: Hughes, Howard . Cinema Italiano: The Complete Guide from Classics to Cult . . 30 April 2011 . 211 . 9780857730442.
6. Book: Hughes, Howard . When Eagles Dared: The Filmgoers' History of World War II . . 30 January 2012 . 93 . 9780857721501.
7. Book: Hughes, Howard . Once Upon A Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns . . 31 March 2006 . 150 . 9780857730459.
8. Book: Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. 8884402697.