Mario Brega
Mario Brega (born March 25, 1923 in Rome , † July 23, 1994 there ) was an Italian actor .
Life
The bearded, heavyweight actor was regularly used as a supporting actor in the Spaghetti Western and often took on villain roles in this genre. After a brief debut in 1947, from 1958 he took on regular and permanent roles. For director Sergio Leone , the always very grim-looking, but also ironic actor appeared in 1964 in For a Fistful of Dollars (as Chico), For a Few Dollars More (1965, as Nino) and in Two Glorious Scoundrels (1966). In the latter he played his most famous role as the sadistic torturer Wallace. In later years, Brega appeared in smaller roles in the films Mein Name ist Nobody (1973) and Once Upon a Time in America (1984), which were produced and directed by Leone. A frequent collaboration with Carlo Verdone enabled Brega in the 1980s to make some interpretations that were psychologically more differentiated.
In some films, Brega also appeared under the pseudonyms M. Braga and Richard Stuyvesant .
Filmography (selection)
- 1947: La mascotte dei diavoli blu
- 1958: Il mondo dei miracoli
- 1961: Despair Day by Day (Giorno per giorno disperatamente) - Director: Alfredo Giannetti
- 1964: For a handful of dollars (Per un pugno di dollari)
- 1965: That was Buffalo Bill (Buffalo Bill, l'eroe del far west)
- 1965: For a few dollars more (Per qualche dollaro in più)
- 1966: An angel for Satan (Un angelo per Satana)
- 1966: No coffin without dollars (El precio de un hombre)
- 1966: Two glorious scoundrels (Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo)
- 1967: A Hallelujah for Django (La più grande rapina del West)
- 1967: More dead than alive (Un minuto per pregare, un istante per morire)
- 1967: From man to man (Da uomo a uomo)
- 1968: Django speaks the night prayer (Il suo nome gridava vendetta)
- 1968: corpses pave his way (Il grande silenzio)
- 1969: Blonde bait for the killer
- 1969: Django and Sartana, the deadly two (Una lunga fila di croci)
- 1969: La taglia è tua ... l'uomo l'ammazzo io
- 1971: Relentless to the grave (Se t'incontro t'ammazzo)
- 1972: Decamerone - the adventure of lust (Decameron n. 2… Le altre novelle del Boccaccio…)
- 1972: The ride to hell (I sette del gruppo selvaggio)
- 1972: Four happy bullies (Sotto a chi tocca!)
- 1973: Angels also eat beans (Anche gli angeli mangiano fagioli)
- 1973: My name is Nobody (Il mio nome è Nessuno)
- 1974: The colonel with the roof damage strikes again (Basta con la guerra, facciamo l'amore)
- 1975: Nobody is the greatest (Un genio, due compari, un pollo)
- 1976: In the clutches of the Mafia (Il conto è chiuso)
- 1984: Once Upon a Time in America (Once Upon a Time in America)
- 1984: A little in love (Amarsi un po ')
- 1986: The smart asses (Asilo di polizia)
- 1991: crack
Web links
- Mario Brega in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Roberto Poppi, article Mario Brega , in: Roberto Chiti, Enrico Lancia, Andrea Orbicchiani, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Rome, Gremese 1998, p. 81
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Brega, Mario |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stuyvesant, Richard; Braga, M. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 23, 1994 |
| Place of death | Rome |