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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
For three men the Civil War wasn't hell. It was practice.
While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
  • Released on 12/22/1966 (Movie)
  • 8.461 out of 10 (8489 votes on TMDB)
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Clint Eastwood

Character's name: "Blondie"
Birthday: 05/31/1930
Birthplace: San Francisco, California, USA
Biography:
Clinton "Clint" Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American film actor, director, producer, composer and former politician. Following his breakthrough role on the TV series "Rawhide" (1959–65), Eastwood starred as the Man with No Name in Sergio Leone's Dollars Trilogy of spaghetti westerns ("A Fistful of Dollars," "For a Few Dollars More," and "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly") in the 1960s, and as San Francisco Police Department Inspector Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry films ("Dirty Harry," "Magnum Force," "The Enforcer," "Sudden Impact," and "The Dead Pool") during the 1970s and 1980s. These roles, along with several others in which he plays tough-talking no-nonsense police officers, have made him an enduring cultural icon of masculinity. Eastwood won Academy Awards for Best Director and Producer of the Best Picture, as well as receiving nominations for Best Actor, for his work in the films "Unforgiven" (1992) and "Million Dollar Baby" (2004). These films in particular, as well as others including "Play Misty for Me" (1971), "The Outlaw Josey Wales" (1976), "Pale Rider" (1985), "In the Line of Fire" (1993), "The Bridges of Madison County" (1995), and "Gran Torino" (2008), have all received commercial success and/or critical acclaim. Eastwood's only comedies have been "Every Which Way but Loose" (1978) and its sequel "Any Which Way You Can" (1980); despite being widely panned by critics they are the two highest-grossing films of his career after adjusting for inflation. Eastwood has directed most of his own star vehicles, but he has also directed films in which he did not appear such as "Mystic River" (2003) and "Letters from Iwo Jima" (2006), for which he received Academy Award nominations and "Changeling" (2008), which received Golden Globe Award nominations. He has received considerable critical praise in France in particular, including for several of his films which were panned in the United States, and was awarded two of France's highest honors: in 1994 he received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres medal and in 2007 was awarded the Légion d'honneur medal. In 2000 he was awarded the Italian Venice Film Festival Golden Lion for lifetime achievement. Since 1967 Eastwood has run his own production company, Malpaso, which has produced the vast majority of his films. He also served as the nonpartisan mayor of Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, from 1986 to 1988. Eastwood has seven children by five women, although he has only married twice. An audiophile, Eastwood is also associated with jazz and has composed and performed pieces in several films along with his eldest son, Kyle Eastwood. Description above adapted from the Wikipedia article Clint Eastwood, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Eli Wallach

Character's name: "Tuco Ramirez"
Birthday: 12/07/1915
Date of Death: 06/24/2014
Birthplace: Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
Biography:
Eli Herschel Wallach (December 7, 1915 – June 24, 2014) was an American film, television and stage actor, who gained fame in the late 1950s. For his performance in Baby Doll he won a BAFTA Award for Best Newcomer and a Golden Globe nomination. One of his most famous roles is that of Tuco in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966). Other roles include his portrayal of Don Altobello in The Godfather Part III, Calvera in The Magnificent Seven, and Arthur Abbott in The Holiday. Wallach has received BAFTA Awards, Tony Awards and Emmy Awards for his work. Wallach also has a cameo as a liquor store owner in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River. Wallach received an Honorary Academy Award at the 2nd Annual Governors Awards, presented on November 13, 2010. Description above from the Wikipedia article Eli Wallach, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Lee Van Cleef

Character's name: "Sentenza / Angel Eyes"
Birthday: 01/09/1925
Date of Death: 12/16/1989
Birthplace: Somerville, New Jersey, USA
Biography:
Clarence LeRoy "Lee" Van Cleef Jr. was an American actor best known for his roles in Spaghetti Westerns such as For A Few Dollars More and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. Hatchet-faced with piercing eyes, he had declined to have his nose altered to play a sympathetic character in his film debut, High Noon, and was relegated to a non-speaking outlaw as a result. For a decade he was typecast as a minor villain, his sinister features overshadowing his acting skills. After suffering serious injuries in a car crash, Van Cleef began to lose interest in his apparently waning career by the time Sergio Leone gave him a major role in For a Few Dollars More. The film made him a box-office draw, especially in Europe. Military service: After basic training and further training at the Naval Fleet Sound School, Van Cleef was assigned to a submarine chaser and then to a minesweeper, USS Incredible, on which he worked as a sonarman. After leaving the Navy, Van Cleef read for a part in Our Town at the Little Theater Group in Clinton, New Jersey and received his first stage role. From there, he continued to meet with the group and audition for parts. The next biggest part was that of the boxer, Joe Pendleton, in the play Heaven Can Wait. During this time, he was observed by visiting talent scouts, who were impressed by Van Cleef's stage presence and delivery. One of these scouts later took him to New York City talent agent Maynard Morris of the MCA agency, who then sent him to the Alvin Theater for an audition. Van Cleef's screen debut came in High Noon. During a performance of Mister Roberts in Los Angeles, he was noticed by film director Stanley Kramer, who offered Van Cleef a role in his upcoming film. Kramer originally wanted Van Cleef for the role of the deputy Harvey Pell, but as he wanted Van Cleef to have his "distinctive nose" fixed, Van Cleef declined the role in favor of the part of the silent gunslinger Jack Colby. He was then cast mostly in villainous roles, due to his sharp cheeks and chin, piercing eyes, and hawk-like nose, from the part of Tony Romano in Kansas City Confidential (1952), culminating 14 years later in Sergio Leone's The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) Despite suffering from heart disease from the late 1970s and having a pacemaker installed in the early 1980s, Van Cleef continued to work in films until his death on December 16, 1989, at age 64. He was buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Hollywood Hills, California, with an inscription on his grave marker referring to his many acting performances as a villain: "BEST OF THE BAD". Description above from the Wikipedia article Lee Van Cleef, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Aldo Giuffrè

Character's name: "Alcoholic Union Captain"
Birthday: 04/10/1924
Date of Death: 06/26/2010
Birthplace: Naples, Italy
Biography:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Aldo Giuffrè (10 April 1924 – 26 June 2010) was an Italian film actor and comedian who appeared in over 90 films between 1948 and 2001. He was born in Naples. He is known for his roles in The Four Days of Naples, and as the alcoholic Union Army captain in the Sergio Leone film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in 1966. Giuffrè died in Rome in 2010 of peritonitis.

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Luigi Pistilli

Character's name: "Father Pablo Ramirez"
Birthday: 07/19/1929
Date of Death: 04/21/1996
Birthplace: Grosseto, Tuscany, Italy
Biography:
Luigi Pistilli (19 July 1929 – 21 April 1996) was an Italian actor of stage, screen, and television.

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Rada Rassimov

Character's name: "Maria"
Birthday: 05/07/1938
Birthplace: Trieste, Italy
Biography:
Rada Rassimov (born Rada Đerasimović (Serbian Cyrillic: Рада Ђерасимовић) on 3 March 1941 in Trieste, Italy) is an Italian actress of Serb origin, who has appeared in film since the early 1960s and television since 1975. Sister of actor Ivan Rassimov.

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Enzo Petito

Character's name: "Storekeeper"
Birthday: 07/24/1897
Date of Death: 07/17/1967
Birthplace: Naples, Italy
Biography:
Enzo Petito (24 July 1897 – 17 July 1967) was an Italian film and stage character actor. A theatre actor under Eduardo De Filippo in the 1950s in the Teatro San Ferdinando of Naples, with whom he was professionally closely associated, Petito also appeared in several of his films, often co-starring Eduardo or/and brother, Peppino De Filippo, brothers who are considered to be amongst the greatest Italian actors of the 20th century. Petito played minor roles in some memorable commedia all'Italiana movies directed by the likes of Dino Risi and Mario Monicelli in the late 1950s and early 1960s, often appearing alongside actors such as Nino Manfredi, Alberto Sordi, Peppino De Filippo, Anna Maria Ferrero, and Totò. Although never a leading actor, he made a number of small appearances as character actors alongside Italy's leading film stars in films throughout the early to mid-1960s and is arguably best known in world cinema for his role as the store keeper in the Sergio Leone classic Spaghetti Western film The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in 1966. His roles ranged from storekeepers and cobblers to priests and homeless men. His role of most esteem, however, is perhaps as Napoleon in Sergio Corbucci's comedy Chi si ferma è perduto in 1963.

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Claudio Scarchilli

Character's name: "Tuco Henchman"
Birthday: 02/10/1924
Date of Death: 07/25/1992
Birthplace: Rome, Italy
Biography:
Claudio Scarchilli (10 February 1924, Rome – 25 July 1992) was an Italian film actor who appeared in films throughout the 1960s. He acted in nearly twenty films within that decade. He is best known in world cinema for his small roles in several of Sergio Leone's films, portraying Pedro, member of Tuco's gang, in the Spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in 1966, and Once Upon a Time in the West in 1968. His brother Sandro Scarchilli was also an actor and also appeared in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in 1966. He made his last appearance in 1970.

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Antonio Casale

Character's name: "Bill Carson / Jackson"
Birthday: 05/17/1932
Date of Death: 02/04/2017
Birthplace: Roma, Italy
Biography:
Antonio Casale (17 May 1932 – 4 February 2017) was an Italian film actor of the 1960s and 1970s who appeared in mostly Spaghetti Western Italian films between 1965 and 1976.

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Livio Lorenzon

Character's name: "Baker"
Birthday: 05/06/1923
Date of Death: 12/23/1971
Birthplace: Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy
Biography:
Livio Lorenzon (6 May 1923 – 23 December 1971) was an Italian actor who was mainly active during the 1950s and 1960s.

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Sandro Scarchilli

Character's name: "Tuco Henchman"
Birthday: 01/01/1925
Date of Death: 08/31/1999
Birthplace: Rome, Italy
Biography:
Sandro Scarchilli (22 April 1934, Rome – 31 August 1999) was an Italian film actor who appeared in several films in the late 1960s and 1970s.

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Benito Stefanelli

Character's name: "Member of Angel Eyes' Gang"
Birthday: 09/02/1928
Date of Death: 12/18/1999
Birthplace: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Biography:
Benito Stefanelli (2 September 1928 – 18 December 1999) was an Italian film actor, stuntman and weapons master who made over 60 appearances in film between 1955 and 1991.

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Angelo Novi

Character's name: "Monk"
Birthday: 06/09/1930
Date of Death: 05/06/1997
Birthplace: Lanzo d'Intelvi, Italy
Biography:
Angelo Novi (9 June 1930 – 6 May 1997) worked for thirty years as the exclusive photographer with some of the most known Italian film directors of his time, such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Sergio Leone, and Pier Paolo Pasolini. He studied at the Brera Academy in Milan, and from 1952 on, started to work as a photojournalist. The ability to capture the decisive moment, inspired by idols like Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Capa, is an important gist for his photographic style, which later honed in his work as a set photographer. Novi told his own story through the scenic action captured by his photographs. Emphasis on the decisive moment, the contrast of proximity and distance, and the black and whites, are all attributes of Novi's work. With his photographs, Novi has made a comprehensive contribution to the cultural memory of the golden era of the Italian cinema. As a silent observer, he captured the moments at the film sets both behind the scenes and in action, revealing intimate aspects that cannot be found on the screen.

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Antonio Casas

Character's name: "Stevens"
Birthday: 11/11/1911
Date of Death: 02/14/1982
Birthplace: A Coruña, Galicia, Spain
Biography:
Antonio Casas (11 November 1911 - 14 February 1982) was a Spanish footballer turned film actor who appeared in film between 1941 and his death in 1982. Casas originally began as a footballer for Atlético Madrid, but entered film in 1941 and made nearly 170 appearances in film and TV between then and 1982. He appeared in A Pistol for Ringo in 1965 and Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in 1966. One of his best-known roles was in Luis Buñuel's Tristana.

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Aldo Sambrell

Character's name: "Member of Angel Eyes' Gang"
Birthday: 02/23/1931
Date of Death: 07/10/2010
Birthplace: Vallecas, Madrid, Spain
Biography:
Alfredo Sánchez Brell (23 February 1931 – 10 July 2010), born Alfredo Sánchez Brell, was a Spanish stage and screen actor, director, and producer who appeared in over 150 films between 1961 and 1996. His parents were exiled to Mexico, where Aldo began a football career in Puebla F.C., known as Madrileño Sánchez. When he returned to Spain he played for Alcoyano and Rayo Vallecano, and finally started to work as an actor.


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