Rik van Nutter
Rik van Nutter (actually Frederick Allen Nutter , born May 1, 1929 in Los Angeles , California , † November 12, 2005 in West Palm Beach , Florida ) was an American actor .
Life
Van Nutter has played minor roles in Italian films since the late 1950s . Under the pseudonym "Clyde Rogers" he entered two main roles low budgeted films on before it by the acquaintance of his then-wife Anita Ekberg , with whom he was married from 1963 to 1975, with the producers of the James Bond films of the role Felix Leiter in Thunderball . However, Van Nutter only played in two other films before - with the exception of a brief comeback at the end of the 1970s - he retired entirely from acting. Sometimes his first name is rendered as "Rick".
In 1971 he wrote the script for an erotic film. A second marriage, entered into in 1998, failed five years later.
Filmography (selection)
- 1960: Romanoff and Julia (Romanoff and Juliet)
- 1962: Tharus, son of Attila (Tharus, figlio di Attila)
- 1964: The last bullet hit the best (Aventuras del Oeste)
- 1964: The Revenge of Ivanhoe (La rivincita di Ivanhoe)
- 1965: James Bond 007 - Thunderball
- 1966: Women as bait for CD 7 (Un colpo da mille miliardi)
- 1967: Four Hallelujahs for Dynamite Joe (Joe l'implacabile)
- 1977: Operation Foxbat (Woo Fok)
Web links
- Rik Van Nutter in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ confirmed by the California Birth Index
- ↑ Enrico Lancia, Fabio Melelli: Attori straniero del nostro cinema . Gremese 2006, p. 201
- ↑ Michael Petzel, Manfred Hobsch: The James Bond files. Munich 2002, p. 69
- ↑ http://www.mi6-hq.com/sections/allies/leiter3.php3
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Van Nutter, Rik |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Van Nutter, Frederick Allen; Rogers, Clyde; Van Nutter, Rick |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | US-American actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 1, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Los Angeles , California |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 12, 2005 |
| Place of death | West Palm Beach |