His Name Was King
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His Name Was King is a 1971 Italian Western film
directed by Giancarlo Romitelli and starring Klaus Kinski
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Western (genre)
The Western is a genre of various visual arts, such as film, television, radio, literature, painting and others. Westerns are devoted to telling stories set primarily in the latter half of the 19th century in the American Old West, hence the name. Some Westerns are set as early as the Battle of...
directed by Giancarlo Romitelli and starring Klaus Kinski
Klaus Kinski
Klaus Kinski, born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski , was a German actor. He appeared in more than 130 films, and is perhaps best-remembered as a leading role actor in Werner Herzog films: Aguirre, the Wrath of God , Nosferatu the Vampyre , Woyzeck , Fitzcarraldo and Cobra Verde .-Early...
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Cast
- Richard HarrisonRichard Harrison (actor)Richard Harrison is an American B-movie actor and occasionally a writer/director/producer.Harrison was very prolific and worked with most of the better-known names in European B-movies during the 1960s and 1970s, branching out to exploitation films shot all over the world in the early 1970s...
- John 'King' Marley - Klaus KinskiKlaus KinskiKlaus Kinski, born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski , was a German actor. He appeared in more than 130 films, and is perhaps best-remembered as a leading role actor in Werner Herzog films: Aguirre, the Wrath of God , Nosferatu the Vampyre , Woyzeck , Fitzcarraldo and Cobra Verde .-Early...
- Brian Foster - Anne Puskin
- Tom Felleghy
- Lorenzo Fineschi
- Vassili Karis
- John BarthaJohn BarthaJános Bartha is a Hungarian film actor who appeared primarily in Spaghetti westerns in the 1960s and 1970s. He is probably most recognizable in western cinema for his role as Sheriff who captured Tuco in the 1966 Sergio Leone film, the The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, a film that also starred Clint...
- Federico BoidoFederico BoidoFederico Boido , is an Italian film actor who has appeared in many horror films, spaghetti westerns, and sword and sandal movies. He also acted in the Sadistik photo novels and related his experiences in the film The Diabolikal Super-Kriminal.He made his film debut at the age of 26...
(as Rick Boyd) - Giorgio Dolfin
- Paolo Magalotti
- Osiride Pevarello
- Luciano PigozziLuciano PigozziLuciano Pigozzi is an Italian film actor. He appeared in 105 films between 1954 and 1989. He was often credited under the pseudonym Alan Collins and occasionally Alan Collin....
- Mr. Collins - Ada Pometti
- Sergio Smacchi
- Goffredo Unger (as John Silver)
- Marco Zuanelli
Trivia
- Some parts of the soundtrack, composed by Luis Enríquez BacalovLuis Enríquez BacalovLuis Enríquez Bacalov is a prolific Argentine, naturalized Italian, composer of film scores. Early on in his career, he composed scores for Spaghetti Western films. In the early 1970s, he collaborated with Italian progressive rock bands. Bacalov has been nominated twice for the Academy Award...
, are featured in the videogame Red Dead RevolverRed Dead RevolverRed Dead Revolver is a western third-person shooter video game published by Rockstar Games and developed by Rockstar San Diego. It was released in North America on May 4, 2004, for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox....
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