Lou Castel
Lou Castel (actually Ulv Quarzéll , born May 28, 1943 in Bogotá , Colombia ) is a Swedish - Italian actor .
Life
Castel, born in Colombia as the son of a Swede and an Irish woman, went to Europe as a young man. Interested in acting, he attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia , which he soon had to leave. He had his first (unmentioned) film role in Visconti's The Leopard . Just two years later, he made the breakthrough in With his fist in his pocket . He quickly became a symbol of a rebellious youth who fought against social differences. His unusual, nervous and absent-minded, but also introverted way of acting was quite unique in Italian cinema and made him appear as an antihero.
In the following years Castel worked with renowned European directors of the time, for example Pier Paolo Pasolini , Wim Wenders , Claude Chabrol , Helke Sander and Rainer Werner Fassbinder , but also played in purely commercial productions, some of which were obscure. He was also featured in television series, for example in a 1989 Tatort episode on NDR. Castel was known for giving large parts of his fees to liberation movements in Latin America.
Castel is now an Italian citizen.
Filmography (selection)
- 1963: The leopard (Il gattopardo)
- 1965: With my fist in my pocket (I pugni in tasca)
- 1966: May they rest in peace (Requiescant)
- 1966: Kill Amigo (Quien sabe)
- 1966: Francesco d'Assisi
- 1968: Thank you, aunt (Grazie zia)
- 1970: Welcome to Hell (¡Mátalo!)
- 1970: Warning of a holy hooker
- 1973: The scarlet letter
- 1974: output
- 1974: Nada (Nada)
- 1976: Meeting Point Death Bridge (The Cassandra Crossing)
- 1977: Violanta
- 1977: The American friend
- 1977: Mr. Mean
- 1983: trauma
- 1984: The beginning of all horrors is love
- 1986: Fraulein
- 1989: Tatort - dirty work
- 1991: Arizona Road (Fuga da Kayenta)
- 1993: When love ignites (La naissance de l'amour)
- 1996: Irma Vep (Irma Vep)
- 2012: L'affaire Gordji, histoire d'une cohabitation (TV)
- 2013: The nun
- 2013: partial shade
- 2016: Les Hauts Pays (High Grounds)
Web links
- Lou Castel in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Biography at mymovies (Italian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.mymovies.it/biografia/?a=5347
- ↑ Enrico Lancia, Fabio Melelli: Dictionnaire del cinema italiano. Attori stranieri del nostro cinema. Rome 2006, pp. 47/48
- ↑ Interview, bonus material on the DVD of "Kill Django"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Castel, Lou |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Quarzéll, Ulv (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish-Italian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 28, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bogotá , Colombia |