Buffy Dee

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Buffy Dee (born September 15, 1923 in New York City , New York as Anthony Nicholas DeSantolo , † early November 1995 in Middletown, New York) was an American actor and musician , who mainly appeared in films with Bud Spencer and Terence Hill gained notoriety in the 1980s, but had already been in major roles before that.

DeSantolo also worked as a lawyer in Miami and ran a club called The Alley , consisting of a bar and restaurant, in Coral Gables , Florida and another nightclub called Caribbean in Miami.

life and career

The Italian-born Buffy Dee was born on September 15, 1923 as Anthony Nicholas DeSantolo in the metropolis of New York City in the US state of New York. In his childhood he suffered from polio and was therefore dependent on a wheelchair for several years. His health improved again, but he limped all his life. After he was taken into his 20s to Miami, he graduated from the University of Miami belongs School of Law in Coral Gables , departed from it in the 1954th He subsequently worked as a lawyer and later worked as a judge at the Miami-Dade County Court of Florida . As early as 1962 he portrayed a policeman in John Frankenheimer's Mein Bruder, a rascal . The overweight smoker, who is stated to weigh 350 pounds (about 160 kilograms), did not get his first major role until eleven years later. He starred in the supporting role of Tony Lacava in Diamond Lady with Donald Sutherland , Jennifer O'Neill and Robert Duvall . In the German-language synchro published again ten years later, Walter Reichelt gave him the voice. In the meantime he played as a drummer with, among others, Carmen Cavallaro . In 1974 he had a role in an episode of Operation in Manhattan and several other appearances followed in the years to come.

In the short-lived ABC television series Caribe , it was used in 1975 in the pilot episode directed by Ed Waters . In the same year he played a supporting role in Murph the Surf , a film about Jack Roland Murphy , a surfer, writer, musician, artist and convicted murderer, who held the greatest jewel heist in US history at the American Museum of Natural History in years 1964 was involved. After Buffy Dee appeared in 1976 in the films The Wrong Sister directed by Peter Hyams and Mako, the Beast directed by William Grefe , he left acting largely dormant for a few years. He never saw himself as an actor, but always pursued these activities as a hobby and wanted to be respected for his actual work as a lawyer and judge. After his role as CB in Alles in Handarbeit by and with Jerry Lewis , where Edgar Ott lent him the voice in the German version , Buffy Dee found his first production with the duo Bud Spencer and Terence Hill . In the Super Fuzz with Terence Hill in the lead role as Dave speed he plays in the same year a turbaned selling lottery tickets, one of his many eccentric roles. In the German version, this time he received the voice from Rolf Schult . Three years later he was used for the first time at the side of the duo, in Two Bear Strong Types he played the antagonist K1 and was seen in an essential supporting role. This time Herbert Weicker appeared as his German voice actor .

In 1984 DeSantolo was used for the first time in a television series; in the sixth episode of Miami Vice , he played the bookmaker Mickey . In the German version, it was dubbed by Gerlach Fiedler , as it was in Manhattan ten years earlier . A year later he played the gay hotel owner Pancho in The Miami Cops, another very prominent role in his collaboration with Spencer and Hill, followed by a role as kidnapper in the 1986 Bud Spencer flick Aladin . While the voice of Pancho Wolfgang Völz spoke, was Buffy Dee's German-speaking voice actor in Aladin Lothar Köster . In 1988, the club and restaurant owner, who was close friends with Playboy founder Hugh Hefner and was considered one of his companions, starred in the film Miss Caribe, directed by Fernando Colomo . In the 1989 Italian-American slasher film Nightmare Beach , he had one of his last film and television appearances under Umberto Lenzi . In 1993 he starred in the third episode of the second season of Two Super Guys in Miami on the side of Bud Spencer.

In early November 1995, after living in and around Miami for almost 50 years, DeSantolo died of lung cancer in Middletown, New York . Until his death he was married to Eleanor Korn, with whom he had no children.

Filmography

Film appearances (also short appearances)
Series appearances (also guest and short appearances)

Web links

Footnotes & individual references

  1. ^ Source of an election donation for Dante Fascell's election to the US House of Representatives on city-data.com; According to other sources only Nicholas DeSantolo , with The Miami Herald listing both names and he is often listed as Anthony N. DeSantolo
  2. ↑ Dade judge enjoys lavish lifestyle , accessed April 25, 2016
  3. ↑ NICHOLAS DESANTOLO, COLORFUL CLUB OWNER (English), accessed on April 25, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Dee, Buffy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES DeSantolo, Anthony (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION US-American actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City , New York , United States
DATE OF DEATH November 1995
Place of death Middletown, New York , United States