George Hilton (actor)
Italian film actor (1934–2019)
George Hilton (16 July 1934 – 28 July 2019), sometimes credited as Jorge Hilton, was a Uruguayan actor. He was known for his many spaghetti western performances.[1]
George Hilton | |
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 Hilton in Any Gun Can Play (1967) | |
| Born | 16 July 1934 |
| Died | 28 July 2019 (aged 85) |
| Occupation | Actor |
He was born Jorge Hill Acosta y Lara on 16 July 1934 in Montevideo, Uruguay, but was raised in England.
Hilton began his career as an extra with bit parts in the mid-fifties. In 1967 he appeared to great effect as "Stranger" in Any Gun Can Play (aka Go Kill and Come Back). He went on to become one of the major stars of spaghetti westerns eventually playing Sartana in the last movie of the series I Am Sartana, Trade Your Guns for a Coffin.
Hilton died on 28 July 2019 in Rome from a long-illness, twelve days after his 85th birthday.[2]
Selected filmography
change- Alto Paraná (1958)
- The Masked Man Against the Pirates (1964)
- Two Mafiosi Against Goldfinger (1965) (as "007")
- Two Sons of Ringo (1966)
- Massacre Time (1966)
- Any Gun Can Play (1967)
- Il tempo degli avvoltoi (1967)
- Halleluja for Django (1967)
- The Last of the Badmen (1967)
- Poker with Pistols (1967)
- The Moment To Kill (1968)
- Trusting Is Good... Shooting Is Better (1968)
- A Bullet for Sandoval (1968)
- One More to Hell (1968)
- The Ruthless Four (1968)
- The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)
- Salt in the Wound (1969)
- The Battle of El Alamein (1969)
- Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin (1970)
- They Call Me Hallelujah (1971)
- The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971)
- The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (1971)
- The Case of the Bloody Iris (1971)
- All the Colors of the Dark (1972)
- My Dear Killer (1972)
- The Devil Has Seven Faces (1972)
- Return of Hallelujah (1972)
- The Two Faces of Fear (1972)
- Seven Hours of Violence (1973)
- Man Called Invincible (1973)
- Holy God, Here Comes the Passatore! (1973)
- The Killer Must Kill Again (1975)
- Mark of Zorro (1976)
- Double Game (1977)
- El Macho (1977)
- Taxi Girl (1977)
- Sweetly You'll Die Through Love (1977)
- Blazing Flowers (1978)
- Don't Play with Tigers (1982)
- The Secret Nights of Lucrezia Borgia (1982)
- The Atlantis Interceptors (1983)
- Dinner with a Vampire (TV movie, 1988)
- College (TV Series, 1990)
References
change- ↑ "George Hilton (actor)". In.com. Retrieved August 8, 2014.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "Addio a George Hilton, icona dello spaghetti western". Il Tempo (in Italian). July 29, 2019. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
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