Luigi Montefiori
Luigi Montefiori (born August 16, 1942 in Genoa ) is an Italian actor and screenwriter , who mostly appeared under the pseudonym George Eastman .
Life
The 2.06 m tall actor went to Rome in his early twenties and achieved first successes after attending the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia and the acting school of Alessandro Fersen in the late 1960s in leading roles in various genre films, especially in spaghetti westerns , before going on Was no longer employed for some time due to differences with the Italian film industry.
He was later used in mostly lower-budgeted films and in important supporting roles, before he began a long-term collaboration with director and producer Aristide Massaccesi in the mid-1970s , for whom he also wrote some screenplays and once directed. However, his greatest success as a screenwriter was the late- western Keoma . Actually, he turned more and more to sex films as well as horror and action films , u. a. with his most famous role in Massaccesis' controversial Man-Eater - The Man-Eater .
Since the mid-1980s, Montefiori has mostly devoted himself to writing, but occasionally still appears in films, most recently in La rivincita di Natale (2004). As a screenwriter, he turned numerous adventurous materials into sometimes multi-part television films.
Filmography
- actor
- 1966: Django - Only the Colt was his friend (Django spara per primo)
- 1966: Jonny Madoc (Due once di piombo)
- 1967: Django kills quietly (Bill il taciturno)
- 1967: My body for a game of poker (Il mio corpo per un poker)
- 1967: Poker with Pistols (Un poker di pistole)
- 1967: Rocco - I'll kill you (L'ultimo killer)
- 1968: Django and the gang of the hanged (Preparati la bara!)
- 1968: No roses for OSS 117 ( Pas de roses pour OSS 117 )
- 1968: Five Sons of Dogs (Cinque figli di cane)
- 1968: Hate Your Neighbor (Odia il prossimo tuo)
- 1969: Fellinis Satyricon (Fellini - Satyricon)
- 1969: Hill of Bloody Boots (La collina degli stivali)
- 1970: Django - The Night of the Long Knives (Ciakmull)
- 1971: Django - The day of reckoning (Quel maledetto giorno della resa dei conti)
- 1971: Bounty for Chako (Bastardo, vamos a matar)
- 1972: Ben and Charlie (Amico, Stammi lontano almeno un palmo)
- 1972: Call of the Wild (The Call of the Wild)
- 1972: Scalawag (Scalawag)
- 1973: All for one - beating for all (Tutti per uno ... botte per tutti)
- 1973: Torture Garden of Sensuality 2 (Baba Yaga)
- 1974: Beat that the scraps fly (A forza di sberle)
- 1974: Wild Dogs (Cani arrabbiati)
- 1975: Torture Garden of Sensuality (Emanuelle e Françoise le sorelline)
- 1975: The Tiger from the Kwai (La tigre venuta dal fiume Kwai)
- 1976: blood of a bull (Sangue di sbirro)
- 1977: Emanuela - All the lusts of this world (Emanuelle - Perché violenza alle donne?)
- 1980: Orgasmo Nero III - Black skin on white sand (Sesso nero)
- 1980: Man-Eater (Antropophagus)
- 1980: In the violence of the zombies (Le notti erotiche dei morti viventi)
- 1981: Island of Zombies (porn holocaust)
- 1981: Absurd (Rosso sangue)
- 1982: He - stronger than fire and iron (Ironmaster - La guerra del ferro)
- 1982: Metropolis 2000 (I nuovi barbari)
- 1982: The Riffs - We are violence (1990: I guerrieri del Bronx)
- 1983: Endgame - The last game with death (Endgame - Bronx lotta finale)
- 1983: Fireflash - The day after the end (2019 dopo la caduta di New York)
- 1984: Blastfighter - The Executor (Blastfighter)
- 1985: Paco - fighting machine of death (Vendetta dal futuro)
- 1986: The smart asses (Asilo di polizia)
- 1986: Christmas present (Regalo di Natale)
- 1989: This vital anger (In una notte di chiaro di luna)
- Director
- 1982: 2020 - Texas Gladiators (Anno 2020 - I gladiatori del futuro)
- 1990: Lizard (Metamorphosis)
- script
- 1972: Ben and Charlie (Amico, Stammi lontano almeno un palmo)
- 1975: The red coats (Giubbe rosse)
- 1979: Horror sex in the night express (La ragazza del vagone letto)
- 1980: Man-Eater (Antropophagus)
- 1981: Absurd (Rosso sangue)
- 1991: Lion of the Desert (Il principe del deserto)
- 1994: Palace of a Thousand Dreams (The Maharaja's Daughter) (TV miniseries)
- 1996: The Return of Sandokan (Il ritorno di Sandokan)
- 1997: Princess Amina (Il deserto di fuoco)
- 1998: The Secret of the Desert (Il cielo sotto il deserto)
Web links
- Luigi Montefiori in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- George Eastman on Wicked-Vision.com
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. I registers. Rome 2002, pp. 295/296.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Montefiori, Luigi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eastman, George (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 16, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Genoa , Italy |