Antonio Molino Rojo
Antonio Molino Rojo as Capt. Harper, prison camp commander in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)
Born(1926-09-14)14 September 1926
Venta de Baños, province of Palencia, Castilla y León, Spain
Died2 November 2011(2011-11-02) (aged 85)
Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain
OccupationFilm actor

Antonio Molino Rojo (14 September 1926 – 2 November 2011)[1] was a Spanish film actor who appeared primarily in Spaghetti Westerns in the 1960s and 1970s.

Biography

He made nearly 90 appearances in film between 1955 and 1988 but is probably most recognizable in western cinema for his roles in the Sergio Leone trilogy of Spaghetti Westerns A Fistful of Dollars (1964),[2] For a Few Dollars More (1965),[3] and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly in 1966.[4] He also appeared in the Sergio Leone picture Once Upon a Time in the West in 1968,[5] in 4 Dollars of Revenge (1966),[6] etc.

Rojo did not always play gang members in the westerns; in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Rojo portrayed a humane commandant at a Union prisoner-of-war camp whose leg was being eroded by gangrene.[7] In the film he told Angel Eyes (Lee Van Cleef) that he knew he was systematically torturing and robbing the Confederate prisoners, and hoped that before he died, he could amass enough evidence to bring Angel Eyes to trial at a court martial.

Rojo died in Barcelona on 2 November 2011 at aged 85.[8]

Selected filmography

Notes

  1. ^ Antonio Molino Rojo Archived 5 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ Hughes, Howard (30 July 2009). Aim for the Heart: The Films of Clint Eastwood. I.B.Tauris. p. 278. ISBN 9780857730473.
  3. ^ Neibaur, James L. (12 March 2015). The Clint Eastwood Westerns. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 19. ISBN 9781442245044.
  4. ^ M. C. (14 November 2017). "Doce clásicos (y uno más) que se sirvieron de Almería para el rodaje". Ideal (in Spanish). Vocento. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  5. ^ Hughes, Howard (24 October 2007). Stagecoach to Tombstone: The Filmgoers' Guide to the Great Westerns. I.B.Tauris. p. 226. ISBN 9780857730466.
  6. ^ Forsley, Christopher (19 February 2015). "'4 Dollars of Revenge' Is the Spaghetti Western That Concludes With a Swordfight". PopMatters. Retrieved 7 July 2020.
  7. ^ Hughes, Howard (31 May 2006). Once Upon A Time in the Italian West: The Filmgoers' Guide to Spaghetti Westerns. I.B.Tauris. p. 154. ISBN 9780857730459.
  8. ^ "Antonio Molino Rojo". Rememori (in Spanish). 3 November 2011. Retrieved 26 June 2018.

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