{"id":20044,"date":"2016-06-27T21:08:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T03:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=20044"},"modified":"2016-06-27T21:08:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T03:08:02","slug":"the-gloriousness-of-bud-spencer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=20044","title":{"rendered":"The Gloriousness of Bud Spencer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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TRINITY IS STILL MY NAME!, (aka CONTINUAVANO A CHIMARLO TRINITA), from left, Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, 1972<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Italian actor and filmmaker Bud Spencer, a cult favourite for his comedic spaghetti Western parodies, died on Monday at age 86.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy father died peacefully at 18:15 and did not suffer from pain, he had all of us next to him
\n and his last words were \u2018Thank you\u2019,\u201d his son and film producer Giuseppe Pedersoli said in a note to media. Pedersoli could not be immediately reached for additional comment.
\nA post on his official Facebook page read: \u201cWith our deepest regrets, we have to tell you that Bud is flying to his next journey\u201d.<\/p>\n

Born Carlo Pedersoli in the southern city of Naples, he was known to his public as the \u201cbig friendly giant\u201d of the screen due to his height and weight.He played in action and comedy films in the 1970s and 1980s, mostly working at the side of his friend Terence Hill.Often cast as a cowboy or policeman, his biggest successes included 1970\u2019s \u201cThey Call Me Trinity\u201d, a parody of Spaghetti Western movies, a successful 1971 sequel \u201cTrinity I Still My Name\u201d, the \u201cFlatfoot\u201d films and \u201cA friend is a Treasure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Spencer’s first film role was in Quel fantasma di mio marito, an Italian comedy shot in 1949 and released in 1950. Then he played a member of the Praetorian Guard in Quo Vadis, a film shot in Italy, in 1951. During the 1950s and part of the 1960s, Spencer appeared in some Italian films but “his career was strictly minor league until the late 1960s.” He changed his screen name in 1967, choosing to pay homage to Spencer Tracy as well as his favorite beer, Budweiser.<\/p>\n

Spencer met his future film partner, Terence Hill, on the set of Hannibal in 1959. They went on to work together on over 20 films, including:<\/p>\n

Hannibal (1959), as Carlo Pedersoli together with Mario Girotti
\nGod Forgives… I Don’t! (1967), first time as Bud Spencer together with Terence Hill
\nAce High (1968)
\nBoot Hill (1969)
\nThey Call Me Trinity (1970)
\nBlackie the Pirate (1971)
\nTrinity Is Still My Name (1971)
\nAll the Way, Boys (1972)
\nWatch Out, We’re Mad (1974)
\nTwo Missionaries (1975)
\nCrime Busters (1976)
\nOdds and Evens (1978)
\nI’m For the Hippopotamus (1979)
\nWho Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure (1981)
\nGo For It! (1983)
\nDouble Trouble (1984)
\nMiami Supercops (1985)
\nTroublemakers (1994)<\/p>\n

Films with Spencer alone include:<\/strong>
\nThe Five Man Army (1969)
\nThe Fifth Day of Peace (1969)
\nIt Can Be Done Amigo (1972)
\nFlatfoot (1973)
\nThey Call Him Bulldozer (1978)
\nThe Sheriff and the Satellite Kid (1979)
\nEverything Happens to Me (1980)
\nBanana Joe (1982)
\nBomber (1982)
\nSuperfantagenio (1986)<\/p>\n

The main dubber of Bud Spencer in Italy is Glauco Onorato who, with his characteristic voice, successfully enriched the character of Bud Spencer. Sergio Fiorentini dubbed Spencer in Troublemakers, To the Limit (1997) and the series of Detective Extralarge, (1991\u201393) while in the movie Everything Happens to Me the dubber is Ferruccio Amendola.<\/p>\n

Spencer wrote the complete or partial screenplay for some of his movies. His feature film career slowed down after 1983, shifting more toward television. In the 1990s, he acted in the TV action-drama Extralarge. His autobiography was published by Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf in 2011.<\/p>\n

He had many fans abroad, especially in South America where he lived at various times in his life, and in Germany.
\nSpeaking to channel SKY TG24, Osvaldo De Santis, president of 20th Century Fox in Italy, said: \u201cHe was an actor whom Italian cinema needs to thank because he brought Italian movies around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Before turning to acting, Spencer was a professional swimmer and the first Italian to swim the 100 metres freestyle in less than one minute. He twice participated in Olympic games.
\nOn several occasions he said he sympathised with the country\u2019s centre\/right parties and also ran for the Rome area regional elections in 2005 with Silvio Berlusconi\u2019s Forza Italia party.<\/p>\n

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