Eurotrash Actors

1. Gianni Garko

Gianni Garko was born on July 15, 1935 in Zara, Dalmatia, Italy [now Zadar, Croatia]. He is an actor, known for Devil Fish (1984), ... If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death. (1968) and Waterloo (1970).

2. Michael Sopkiw

Actor | Shark: Rosso nell'oceano

Although his moment in the acting spotlight was regrettably fleeting, Michael Sopkiw did nonetheless prove to be a delightfully sincere, spirited and enthusiastic asset in the four enjoyably low-rent mid-80s Italian exploitation features he starred in. Born in 1954 in Connecticut, the handsome and ...

3. Umberto Raho

Actor | Double Team

Umberto Raho was born on June 4, 1922 in Bari, Puglia, Italy. He was an actor, known for Double Team (1997), The Last Man on Earth (1964) and Seven Seas to Calais (1962). He died on January 9, 2016 in Anzio, Lazio, Italy.

4. William Berger

Actor | Hercules

William Berger was born on June 20, 1928 in Innsbruck, Austria. He was an actor, known for Hercules (1983), Keoma (1976) and Devil Fish (1984). He was married to Hanja Kochansky, Carol Lobravico and Dörte Völz-Mammarella. He died on October 2, 1993 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

5. Chris Avram

Actor | Giochi erotici nella terza galassia

Cristea Avram was a Romanian actor. He appeared in many Romanian movies of the 1960. In 1963-64, a French team came to Romania to make a film and used some of the Romanian crew available there. Avram met actress Marina Vlady and succeeded in petitioning the Romanian government to allow him to visit...

6. Leonard Mann

Actor | Flowers in the Attic

Leonard Mann was born on March 1, 1947 in Albion, New York, USA. He is an actor and director, known for Flowers in the Attic (1987), The Humanoid (1979) and Night School (1981).

7. Guy Madison

Actor | The Beast of Hollow Mountain

Handsome American leading man Guy Madison stumbled into a film career and became a television star and hero to the Baby Boom generation. As a young man he worked as a telephone lineman, but entered the Coast Guard at the beginning of the Second World War. While on liberty one weekend in Hollywood, ...

8. Georges Rivière

Actor | The Longest Day

Georges Rivière was born on July 1, 1924 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France. He was an actor, known for The Longest Day (1962), Mistress of the World (1960) and Mandrin (1962). He was married to Lucile Saint-Simon. He died on April 25, 2011 in Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France.

9. Dan Vadis

Actor | High Plains Drifter

Dan Vadis was born on January 3, 1938 in Shanghai, China. He was an actor, known for High Plains Drifter (1973), Every Which Way But Loose (1978) and The Ten Gladiators (1963). He was married to Sharon Jessup. He died on June 11, 1987 in Lancaster, California, USA.

10. Venantino Venantini

Actor | L'immortel

A staple of both the arthouse and grindhouse cinemas for nearly 50 years, Venantino Venantini only began acting as a way to finance his first passion - art. Accepted into the prestigious École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts of Paris, he took on extra work in films like Ben-Hur (1959) to ...

11. Giovanni Lombardo Radice

Actor | The Omen

Giovanni Lombardo Radice achieved substantial cult favorite status by portraying a handful of memorably sick, sleazy, and eccentric characters who are gruesomely killed in numerous 1980s Italian splatter pictures. He was usually credited in these movies under the pseudonym John Morghen.

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12. Wolfgang Preiss

Actor | A Bridge Too Far

Born in Nuremberg on February 27, 1910, the son of a school teacher, well-known German actor Wolfgang Preiss started studying philosophy and theatre sciences alternately (including dance training) and made his stage debut in 1932 in Munich. He appeared in many theatres throughout his country in the...

13. Tony Musante

Actor | The Incident

Handsome, rugged, and talented Italian-American actor Tony Musante was born on June 30, 1936 in Bridgeport, Connecticut to an accountant father and a school teacher mother. He attended both Northwestern University and Oberlin College. Tony worked as a school teacher prior to beginning his acting ...

14. Mario Adorf

Actor | Die Blechtrommel

Mario Adorf, a tell-tale name indeed. Mario calls to mind the actor's Italian roots (his father was a Calabrian surgeon) whereas Adorf reveals his German origins (his mother was a radiologist from the German region Eifel). As for the full name Mario Adorf it echoes to perfection the international ...

15. Manuel de Blas

Actor | Uncharted

Born in Extremadura, lived in Córdoba 2 years until he moves to Madrid, in order to study political sciences. While attending university, decided to enroll at the EOC, an acting school. He debuted in cinema with a minor role in the film, Rosa de Lima (1962). After an initial stage in which he ...

16. Eric Falk

Actor | Los violadores

Eric Falk is known for Mad Foxes (1981), Blue Rita (1977) and Caged Women (1980).

17. Lando Buzzanca

Actor | La parmigiana

Gerlando Buzzanca, best known as Lando Buzzanca, is an Italian theatrical, film and television actor, whose career spanned over 55 years. Born in Palermo the son of a cinema projectionist, at 16 years old Buzzanca left the high school and moved to Rome to pursue his dream of becoming an actor. In ...

18. Philippe Leroy

Actor | Il portiere di notte

Philippe Leroy was born on October 15, 1930 in Paris, France. He is an actor, known for The Night Porter (1974), La Femme Nikita (1990) and The Hole (1960).

19. Mario Brega

Actor | Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo

Mario Brega was born on March 25, 1923 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor and producer, known for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966), A Fistful of Dollars (1964) and For a Few Dollars More (1965). He died on July 23, 1994 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

20. Kirk Morris

Actor | Ercole sfida Sansone

One of the many massive men of peplum who dominated popular Italian sword-and-sandal epics of the early 1960s, Italian Kirk Morris (né Adriano Bellini) was born in Venice on August 26, 1942. A gondolier and winner of the 1961 "Mr. Italia" bodybuilding contest at the time he was discovered by an ...

21. Frank Wolff

Actor | Il grande silenzio

Frank Wolff started his career by acting in several Roger Corman films. However, Wolff had to travel to Europe to be successful. He was finally able to become a well known actor in Italy and Europe with his performance in Salvatore Giuliano (1962) and had roles in many European film productions. ...

22. Adolfo Celi

Actor | Thunderball

Sicilian born actor/writer/director was very popular with European audiences, but largely unknown to the west apart from his portrayal of the villainous SPECTRE agent "Emilio Largo" in the spectacular James Bond film Thunderball (1965). However, due to his heavy accent, Celi's voice was dubbed by ...

23. Christian Borromeo

Actor | Tenebre

Christian Borromeo is known for Tenebrae (1982), House on the Edge of the Park (1980) and Estigma (1980).

24. Alberto Dalbés

Actor | Tendre et perverse Emanuelle

Alberto Dalbés was born on April 3, 1922 in Rosario, Argentina. He was an actor, known for Tender and Perverse Emanuelle (1973), The Erotic Rites of Frankenstein (1973) and Cut-Throats Nine (1972). He died on September 14, 1983 in Madrid, Spain.

25. Franco Ressel

Actor | ... continuavano a chiamarlo Trinità

Franco Ressel was born on February 8, 1925 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He was an actor, known for Trinity Is Still My Name (1971), Erik the Conqueror (1961) and Sabata (1969). He died on April 30, 1985 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

26. Luciano Catenacci

Actor | Evil Angels

Luciano Catenacci was born on April 15, 1933 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor and production manager, known for A Cry in the Dark (1988), Girolimoni, the Monster of Rome (1972) and Blackie the Pirate (1971). He died on October 4, 1990 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

27. Gordon Scott

Actor | Tarzan and the Lost Safari

Physical Education major Gordon Weschkul left the University of Oregon after one term. He became an infantry drill instructor (rifle, pistol and bayonet; judo and hand-to-hand combat; close order drill), then a military policeman. After his honorable discharge in 1947, he was a fireman, cowboy, and...

28. Mark Forest

Actor | La vendetta di Ercole

Actor and bodybuilder Mark Forest was born in Brooklyn as Lorenzo Luis Degni, a third generation Italian-American (his grandparents hailed from Naples). He began as a bodybuilder at the tender age of thirteen, found himself featured on the cover of magazines and soon operated his own gym on Long ...

29. Bud Spencer

Actor | ...altrimenti ci arrabbiamo!

Bud Spencer, the popular Italian actor who starred in innumerable spaghetti Westerns and action-packed potboilers during the 1960s and 1970s, was born Carlo Pedersoli on October 31, 1929, in Naples. The first Italian to swim the 100-meter freestyle in less than a minute, Spencer competed as a ...

30. Werner Pochath

Actor | Joko invoca Dio... e muori

Werner Pochath was born Werner Pochlatko on September 29, 1939 in Vienna, Austria. A champion skating figure in his youth, Pochath studied acting at the prestigious Max Reinhardt Seminar in his native Vienna. Werner made his stage debut in a 1959 theatrical production of "Die Courage." Pochath ...

31. Lex Barker

Actor | Tarzan's Savage Fury

Alexander Crichlow Barker Jr. was a direct descendant of the founder of Rhode Island, Roger Williams, and of Sir William Henry Crichlow, historical Governor-General of Barbados. Barker attended the Fessenden School and Phillips-Exeter Academy, where he excelled in football and track. He went to ...

32. Eddi Arent

Actor | Der Schatz im Silbersee

Eccentric, self-deprecating comedian Eddi Arent first attracted attention in a series of quirky Edgar Wallace adaptations in the 1960's. For several years, he was Germany's idea of stereotypically blithering English lords (The Strange Countess (1961), as the aptly named Lord Selwyn Moron), laconic ...

33. Alain Delon

Actor | Le Samouraï

Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon was born in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France, to Édith (Arnold) and Fabien Delon. His father was of French and Corsican Italian descent, and his mother was of French and German ancestry. His parents divorced early on, and Delon had a stormy childhood, being ...

34. Massimo Serato

Actor | Don't Look Now

Massimo Serato was born on May 31, 1916 in Oderzo, Veneto, Italy. He was an actor, known for Don't Look Now (1973), The Humanoid (1979) and Outcry (1946). He died on December 22, 1989 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

35. Gianni Dei

Actor | Die nackte Bovary

Gianni Dei was born on December 21, 1940 in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, Italy. He was an actor, known for Die nackte Bovary (1969). He died on October 19, 2020 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.

36. John Richardson

Actor | One Million Years B.C.

Classically handsome John Richardson began his career with small roles in British movies at the end of the 1950s. His first role of note was opposite Barbara Steele in the gothic horror classic Black Sunday (1960), directed by Mario Bava. His massive success was Don Chaffey's One Million Years B.C....

37. Eddie Constantine

Actor | Alphaville: Une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution

Iconic American-born singer and actor in international films since the 1950s. Born in L.A. to Russian immigrant parents, Constantine studied voice in Vienna. He returned to the US, where his singing career wavered and he found work as a film extra. Constantine first achieved fame in Paris, where he...

38. Antonio Mayans

Actor | Revenge of the Alligator Ladies

Antonio Mayans was born on May 4, 1939 in Valencia, Spain. He is an actor and production manager, known for Revenge of the Alligator Ladies (2013), Diamonds of Kilimandjaro (1983) and Night of Open Sex (1983). He is married to Juana de la Morena. They have three children.

39. Marc Porel

Actor | Sette note in nero

Marc Porel was born on January 3, 1949 in Lausanne, Switzerland. He was an actor and writer, known for The Psychic (1977), Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976) and Don't Torture a Duckling (1972). He was married to Barbara Magnolfi and Bénédicte Lacoste. He died on August 15, 1983 in Casablanca, ...

40. Ray Danton

Actor | The Longest Day

Handsome and smooth natured leading man who often played oily individuals, Ray Danton was born in New York and dramatically trained at Carnegie Tech. First debuted on-screen as a moody Native American in Chief Crazy Horse (1955) and regularly guest-starred in many 1950s TV shows including Playhouse...

41. Ray Milland

Actor | The Lost Weekend

Ray Milland became one of Paramount's most bankable and durable stars, under contract from 1934 to 1948, yet little in his early life suggested a career as a motion picture actor.

Milland was born Alfred Reginald Jones in the Welsh town of Neath, Glamorgan, to Elizabeth Annie (Truscott) and Alfred ...

42. Luis Induni

Actor | El rapto de las sabinas

Luis Induni was born on March 5, 1920 in Romano Canavese, Piemonte, Italy. He was an actor, known for The Rape of the Sabines (1962), Fall of the Mohicans (1965) and Requiem for a Secret Agent (1966). He died on December 31, 1979 in Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain.

43. Terence Hill

Actor | ...altrimenti ci arrabbiamo!

Terence Hill was born as Mario Girotti on March 29, 1939 in Venice, Italy to a chemist. His mother was German, and as a child the family lived near Dresden, Saxony, Germany where they survived the Allied bombings of World War II. Italian film-maker Dino Risi discovered him at a swimming meet and he...

44. Roger Browne

Actor | Superseven chiama Cairo

Roger Browne was born on April 13, 1930 in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA. He is an actor, known for SuperSeven Calling Cairo (1965), Assalto al tesoro di stato (1967) and The Spy Who Loved Flowers (1966).

45. Giancarlo Giannini

Actor | Quantum of Solace

Giancarlo Giannini is an Oscar-nominated Italian actor, director and multilingual dubber who made an international reputation for his leading roles in Italian films as well as for his mastery of a variety of languages and dialects.

He was born August 1, 1942, in La Spezia, Italy. For 10 years he ...

46. David Hemmings

Actor | Blow-Up

David Hemmings, one of the great English cinema icons of the 1960s, was born in Guildford, Surrey, on November 18, 1941, to a cookie merchant and his wife. He was educated at Glyn College, Epsom, but while still a child, Hemmings made his first forays into the world of entertainment. An ...

47. Jack Palance

Actor | City Slickers

Jack Palance quite often exemplified evil incarnate on film, portraying some of the most intensely feral villains witnessed in 1950s westerns and melodrama. Enhanced by his tall, powerful build, icy voice, and piercing eyes, he earned two "Best Supporting Actor" nominations early in his career. It ...

48. Antonio Pica

Actor | Travels with My Aunt

Antonio Pica was born on March 21, 1931 in Jerez de la Frontera, Cádiz, Andalucía, Spain. He was an actor, known for Travels with My Aunt (1972), Santo vs. Doctor Death (1973) and Santo Faces Death (1969). He died on April 26, 2014 in Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz, Andalucía, Spain.

49. Mario Merola

Actor | I contrabbandieri di Santa Lucia

Mario Merola was born on April 6, 1934 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He was an actor, known for I contrabbandieri di Santa Lucia (1979), Lacrime napulitane (1981) and Inmate (1981). He was married to Rosa Serrapaglia. He died on November 12, 2006 in Castellammare di Stabia, Campania, Italy.

50. Lang Jeffries

Actor | Solo contro Roma

Lang Jeffries was born on June 7, 1930 in Ontario, Canada. He was an actor, known for Alone Against Rome (1962), Mexican Slayride (1967) and The Revolt of the Slaves (1960). He was married to Mary Householder, Gail H. Getty and Rhonda Fleming. He died on February 12, 1987 in Huntington Beach, ...