George Eastman (actor)

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George Eastman
File:Preparati la bara! (1968) George Eastman.png
Eastman in the movie Django, Prepare a Coffin (1968)
Born
Luigi Montefiori

(1942-08-16) August 16, 1942 (age 82)
Genoa, Kingdom of Italy
OccupationActor
Years active1966–2004
Height6 ft 9 in (206 cm)

George Eastman (born Luigi Montefiori; August 16, 1942) is an Italian actor and screenwriter well known for his frequent collaborations with notorious director Joe D'Amato. He is most famous for his role as the insane, cannibalistic serial killer Klaus Wortmann in the gory 1980 horror film Antropophagus (aka The Grim Reaper). He also played a similar role in its 1981 follow-up, Absurd. Both films were directed by D'Amato and written by Eastman.

Career

Eastman was born in Genoa, Italy, and studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and at the Drama School held of Alessandro Fersen.[1] He took his Americanized alias "George Eastman" when he was cast as a "heavy" in many Spaghetti Westerns made in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1972 he played the villain in The Call of the Wild which starred Charlton Heston and was directed by Ken Annakin. Eastman later became a regular performer in many movies directed by Joe D'Amato, for whom he also wrote many screenplays. Their first work together was Cormack of the Mounties (aka Giubbe rosse) in 1975.[1] Two of his greatest major villain roles were in Rabid Dogs (aka Kidnapped, 1974) and Blastfighter (1984). He appeared in Paramount's 1985 biblical film King David playing Goliath in David's childhood flashback scene. In 1986, he performed as Stefano in the movie Regalo di Natale, directed by Pupi Avati. He also wrote and directed the science fiction film Metamorphosis/ DNA Formula Letale[2] (produced by Joe D'Amato) in 1990, after which he quit acting to concentrate on his screenwriting. He is now a well regarded author in Italian television and only acts occasionally. (In 2003, he returned to acting in La rivincita di Natale, a film directed by Pupi Avati.)

Partial filmography

Title Year Credited as Role Notes Refs.
Actor Screenwriter Story author
Django Shoots First 1966 Yes Jesse Kluster [3][4]
My Name Is Pecos 1966 Yes Member of Kline's group [5][6]
Django Kills Softly 1967 Yes Bill [7][8]
The Last Killer Yes Ramon/Chico [7][9]
Poker with Pistols Yes Lucas [10][11]
Django, Prepare a Coffin 1968 Yes Lucas [12][13]
Bootleggers 1969 Yes McGowan "The Irish" [14]
Fellini Satyricon Yes The Minotaur [15]
Bastard, Go and Kill 1971 Yes — [3]
Ben and Charlie 1972 Yes Charlie [16]
The Call of the Wild Yes Black Burton [17]
Baba Yaga 1973 Yes Charlie [18]
Scalawag Yes Don Aragon [19]
A forza di sberle 1974 Yes
Cormack of the Mounties 1975 Yes [20]
Blood and Bullets 1976 Yes Dan Caputo, "Knell" [21]
Keoma Yes Yes [22][23]
Canne mozze 1977 Yes [24]
Sesso nero 1980 Yes Yes Yes Voyakis [25]
Antropophagus Yes Yes Nikos Karamanlis Also producer [26][27][28]
1981 Yes Professor Lemoine
1990: The Bronx Warriors Ironmaster Yes Vood [29][30]
The New Barbarians 2019, After the Fall of New York Yes Big Ape [31]
Blastfighter 1984 Yes Tom [32][33]
Delirium The Barbarians Yes Jacko [34]
Il deserto del fuoco Rabid Dogs 1974 Yes Trentadue / Thirty-two [35]
2020 Texas Gladiators Emanuelle's Revenge The Cobra Emanuelle Around the World 1977 — Yes [36]
L'Inspettore Giusti — Yes [37]
Master Stroke

Screenplays

  • Giubbe rosse (1974), aka Red Coats, aka Cormack of the Mounties, directed by Joe D'Amato
  • Candido Erotico (1978)[38]
  • La Ragazza del Vagone Letto (1979)[39]
  • The Great Alligator River (1979), directed by Sergio Martino (Eastman got plot credit only)
  • Sesso nero/ Black Sex (1980), directed by Joe D'Amato
  • Erotic Nights of the Living Dead (1980), directed by Joe D'Amato (Eastman also co-starred in this film)
  • Absurd/Rosso sangue (1981), directed by Joe D'Amato (Eastman co-starred in this film as the monster)
  • Caligula... The Untold Story (1982), directed by Joe D'Amato
  • Endgame (1983), directed by Joe D'Amato (Eastman co-starred in this film as well)
  • Stage Fright (1987), a.k.a. Deliria, directed by Michele Soavi (Eastman has an uncredited role in this film, playing the masked killer)
  • Metamorphosis (1990), a.k.a. DNA Formula Letale (Eastman directed this film, and had a cameo role in it as well[40])
  • Il Principe del Deserto (TV serial)[41]
  • The Son of Sandokan (1998), made-for-TV movie

References

Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Roberto Poppi (2002). I registi: dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2002. ISBN 8884401712.
  2. ↑ Palmerini, Luca M.; Mistretta, Gaetano (1996). "Spaghetti Nightmares". Fantasma Books. p. 110.ISBN 0963498274.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Grant 2011, p. 440.
  4. ↑ "Django spara per primo (1966)". Archviodelcinemaitaliano.it (in italiano).
  5. ↑ "Due once di piombo (1966)" (in italiano). Archivio del cinema italiano.it. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  6. ↑ Grant 2011, p. 442.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Grant 2011, p. 445.
  8. ↑ "Bill il taciturno (1967)". Archviodelcinemaitaliano.it (in italiano).
  9. ↑ "L'ultimo killer (1967)". Archviodelcinemaitaliano.it (in italiano).
  10. ↑ Grant 2011, p. 446.
  11. ↑ "Un poker di pistole (1967)". Archviodelcinemaitaliano.it (in italiano).
  12. ↑ "Preparati la Bara!". AllMovie. June 30, 2012. Archived from the original on 2012-06-30. Retrieved November 8, 2018.
  13. ↑ "Preparati la bara! (1968)". Archviodelcinemaitaliano.it (in italiano).
  14. ↑ Curti 2013, p. 24.
  15. ↑ "Fellini Satyricon (1969)" (in français). Bifi.fr. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  16. ↑ Erickson, Hal. "Ben e Charlie on AllMovie". Archived from the original on 25 July 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  17. ↑ "Ruf der Wildnis". Filmportal.de. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  18. ↑ Curti 2013, p. 126.
  19. ↑ "Scalawag". American Film Institute. Retrieved 28 August 2017.
  20. ↑ Bruckner, Ulrich P. (2002). Für ein paar Leichen mehr: der Italo-Western von seinen Anfängen bis heute (in German). Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf. p. 428.
  21. ↑ Curti 2013, p. 161.
  22. ↑ Pahlow, Colin (1977). "Keoma". Monthly Film Bulletin. 44 (516). London: 235. ISSN 0027-0407.
  23. ↑ Green 2009, p. 124.
  24. ↑ Curti 2013, p. 208.
  25. ↑ Grattarola & Napoli 2014, p. 405.
  26. ↑ Shipka 2011, p. 133.
  27. ↑ Ray, Forest. "Antropophagus". Archived from the original on 30 July 2012. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  28. ↑ "Antropophagus". AllMovie. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
  29. ↑ Kinnard & Crnkovich 2017, p. 203.
  30. ↑ Kinnard & Crnkovich 2017, p. 204.
  31. ↑ Paul 2005, p. 296.
  32. ↑ "Blastfighter on AllMovie". Archived from the original on 5 July 2016.
  33. ↑ Binion, Cavett. "Blastfighter on AllMovie". Archived from the original on 2 August 2012.
  34. ↑ Kinnard & Crnkovich 2017, p. 199.
  35. ↑ Curti 2013, p. 115.
  36. ↑ Paul 2005, p. 202.
  37. ↑ Paul 2005, p. 297.
  38. ↑ Palmerini, Luca M.; Mistretta, Gaetano (1996). "Spaghetti Nightmares". Fantasma Books. p. 111.ISBN 0963498274.
  39. ↑ Palmerini, Luca M.; Mistretta, Gaetano (1996). "Spaghetti Nightmares". Fantasma Books. p. 111.ISBN 0963498274.
  40. ↑ Palmerini, Luca M.; Mistretta, Gaetano (1996). "Spaghetti Nightmares". Fantasma Books. p. 111.ISBN 0963498274.
  41. ↑ Palmerini, Luca M.; Mistretta, Gaetano (1996). "Spaghetti Nightmares". Fantasma Books. p. 111.ISBN 0963498274.

Sources

  • Curti, Roberto (2013). Italian Crime Filmography, 1968-1980. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786469765.
  • Curti, Roberto (2016). Diabolika: Supercriminals, Superheroes and the Comic Book Universe in Italian Cinema. Midnight Marquee Press. ISBN 978-1-936168-60-6.
  • Grant, Kevin (2011). Any Gun Can Play. Fab Press. ISBN 9781903254615.
  • Green, Paul (2009). Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns: Supernatural and Science Fiction Elements in Novels, Pulps, Comics, Films, Television and Games. McFarland. ISBN 978-0786458004.
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  • Paul, Louis (2005). Italian Horror Film Directors. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-8749-3.
  • Shipka, Danny (2011). Perverse Titillation: The Exploitation Cinema of Italy, Spain and France, 1960–1980. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-4888-3.

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