Daniele Vargas | |
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Born | |
Died | 7 January 1981 Rome, Italy | (aged 58)
Occupation | Film actor |
Daniele Vargas, stage name of Daniele Pitani (20 April 1922 – 7 January 1981) was an Italian film actor.
Born in Imola, a small town in the district of Bologna, after attending high school with Pier Paolo Pasolini, Daniele Vargas enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine of Bologna University.[1][2] After graduation in 1957 he moved to Rome to follow his passion for cinema.[1]
He began to appear in small roles in costume films and sword-and-sandals at the end of the 1950s and rapidly became one of the most active character actors, specializing in villain roles and sometime in characters of Spanish language.[1]