Riccardo Pizzuti

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Riccardo Pizzuti (born April 28, 1934 in Cetraro ) is an Italian actor and stuntman .

Riccardo Pizzuti at the ComicCon Stuttgart 2018

Life

From 1963, Pizzuti played minor roles in numerous Italian genre films, where he benefited from his training as a stuntman .

The gray-haired, mustached actor gained a certain degree of notoriety when he took on supporting roles in films with the duo Bud Spencer and Terence Hill in the 1970s and 1980s . In these "beating comedies" he almost always played the villain 's henchman and thug who initially provoked Spencer and Hill and then was hit particularly often and severely by their blows. Through his appearances, Pizzuti achieved cult status with Spencer Hill fans.

Today Pizzuti lives near Toulouse .

Films (selection)

literature

  • Christian Heger: The right and left hand of the parody: Bud Spencer, Terence Hill and their films . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89472-664-5 .

Web links

Commons : Riccardo Pizzuti  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. short biography on budterence.tk (Italian, accessed on 30 December 2013).