Benito Stefanelli

Benito Stefanelli (born September 2, 1929 in Rome , † December 1999 ) was an Italian actor and stuntman .

Life

Stefanelli began his film career as an extra in the monumental film The Journeys of Odysseus with Kirk Douglas in the title role. From the beginning of the 1960s he also worked as a stuntman and armorer. Under the stage name Benny Reeves he played in the spaghetti westerns - Trilogy A Fistful of Dollars , For a Few Dollars More and Bad and the Ugly . Due to his good knowledge of English, he is said to have worked as a translator between Clint Eastwood and director Sergio Leone . In the 1970s he also starred in Leone's My Name Is Nobody films with Terence Hill . In the 1980s he worked increasingly as a stunt coordinator, including on Once Upon a Time in America (1984) and Cobra Verde (1987). His last film as an actor and stunt coordinator was Masters of Horror from 1991.

Filmography (selection)

• 1954: The journeys of Odysseus (Ulisse)
• 1959: Tina cleans up (La sceriffa)
• 1960: The Fearless of Parma (La strada dei giganti)
• 1964: Danza Macabra
• 1964: For a handful of dollars (Per un pugno di dollari)
• 1964: Bloody Vengeance in Tucson (Per un Dollaro a Tucson si muore)
• 1964: Not a cent for Ringo's head (Massacro al Grande Canyon)
• 1965: For a few dollars more ( Per qualche dollaro in più )
• 1965: $ 100,000 for a Colt (La muerte cumple condena)
• 1966: Tampeko - A dollar has two sides (Per pochi dollari ancora)
• 1966: Two glorious scoundrels (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo)
• 1967: Shamango (Gentleman Jo ... uccidi)
• 1967: Death Rode on Tuesdays (I giorni dell'ira)
• 1967: Wanted (Wanted)
• 1968: Il pistolero segnato da Dio
• 1968: Play me the song of death (C'era una volta il West)
• 1969: La notte dei serpenti
• 1971: A meal for Django (W Django!)
• 1971: Melody of Death (Giù la testa)
• 1972: Four fists for a hallelujah (… continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità)
• 1972: You sell death (Una ragione per vivere e una per morire)
• 1972: Women who were called killers (Le amazzoni - donne d'amore e di guerra)
• 1973: My name is Nobody (Il mio nome è Nessuno)
• 1975: Nobody is the greatest (Un genio, due compari, un pollo)
• 1975: Wolfsblut intervenes (Zanna Bianca alla riscossa)
• 1976: Bloody Sweat (Poliziotti violenti)
• 1977: El Macho
• 1980: The Puma-Man (L'uomo puma)
• 1987: Cobra Verde
• 1991: Masters of Horror (The Pit and the Pendulum)

Web links

• Benito Stefanelli in the Internet Movie Database (English)