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Little Known Spaghetti Western Actors ~ Arthur Brough

[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]

Frederick Arthur Baker was born in Petersfield, Hampshire, England on February 26, 1905. As Arthur Brough he was a British actor and theatre founder, producer and director best known for portraying the character of bumbling senior menswear salesman Ernest Grainger on the BBC TV sitcom ‘Are You Being Served?’

Brough originally wanted to become a teacher but failed to gain such employment and worked in a solicitor's office. After taking an interest in acting, Brough attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, graduating in 1928. He then joined a Shakespearean theatrical troupe, where he met his wife-to-be, actress Elizabeth Addyman [1900-1978]. After they married in 1929, they used their wedding dowry as collateral to rent the Leas Pavilion, a repertory theatre in Folkestone, Kent. The couple had one daughter, Joanna [1933-2002] who became the curator of the Brontë Parsonage Museum.

Brough was also a regular guest on such British television shows as ‘Upstairs, Downstairs’, ‘Dad's Army’, ‘Z-Cars’, ‘The Persuaders!’, and ‘Jason King’. Brough retired from acting in 1978 shortly after his wife’s passing.

BROUGH, Arthur (Frederick Arthur Baker) [2/26/1905 Petersfield, Hampshire, England, U.K. – 5/28/1978, Folkestone, Kent, England, U.K.]– producer, director, theater film actor, married to actress Elizabeth Addyman [1900-1978] (1929–1978) father of curator of the Brontë Parsonage Museum Joanna Hutton [1933-2002].

The Singer Not the Song – 1961 (farmer)

RIP Jörg Hengstler

German voice actor and dubber died sometime this year but no specific date or place is known. Born in Germany on October 31, 1956, he was 67 years old. News of death was learned from an Instagram post by fellow dubber Peter Flechtner. Hengstler has1,295 credits on the German dubbing database Deutsche Synchronkartei. Jörg voiced several Euro-westerns including Juan Vallejo in 1968’s “Zorro the Fox”; the lieutenant in the animated “Lucky Luke” (1984); “The New Zorro” 1990-1993 TV series where he was the German voice of Nigel Terry, Roddy Piper, Vincenzo Nicoli; the “Lucky Luke” TV series in 1991 where he voiced Neil Summers and Steve Cormier and 1994’s “Troublemakers” where he voiced Summers once again. He was the German voice Brad Johnson in the 2008 TV film “Copperhead”, and the voice of Ronan Vibert in the 2012 TV mini-series “Hatfields and McCoys”.

Un uomo da ridere

Un uomo da ridere – Italian title

A 1980 Italian television production [Rai 2 TV (Rome)]

Producer: Fabrizio Centamori

Director:

Story: Lucio Fulci, Giorgio Mariuzzo

Teleplay: Lucio Fulci, Giorgio Mariuzzo

Photography: Massimo Sallusti [color]

Music: Marcello de Martino

Song: “Un Uomo da Ridere” sung by Franco Franchi

Running time 6 episodes x 60 minutes

Story: Franco Franchi, interprets the artistic life of the actor Bianco Bianchi, from the 1950s to the present day told by Totò who follows Bianchi's successes and defeats from the sky.

Episode 3 concentrates on Bianchi’s time acting in Spaghetti westerns.

Cast:

Bianco Bianchi - Franco Franchi (Francesco Benenato)

Madame - Rita Frei

Renatina - Marina Marfoglia

Ammarita - Gloria Paul

Amleti - Silvio Spaccesi

Totò – Dino Valdi

Zingara – Aiche’ Nana (Kiash Nanah)

Farmers – Roberto Ruggini, Pietro Torrisi

Osvaldo – Paolo Gozlino

Factotum Cinecittà – Guglielmo Spoletini

Tony Boccea – Carlo Croccolo

Vincenzon – Renato Manzella

Immordini – Luca Sportelli

Richard – Donal O’Brien

Policeman – Pippo Lauricella

Barman – Fernando Cerulli

American director – Vincenco Gentile

Assistant director – Victor Touriansky

Members of the troupe – Francesco Anzalone, Osvaldo Nastari

Actor – Enzo Andronico (Vincenzo Andronico), Alfredo Adami

Bandit – Franco Diogene

Blacksmith – Umberto Amambrini

Antonio Sabato – Antonio Sabato

Duccio Tessari – Duccio Tessari (Amadeo Tessari)

Totò’s voice – Carlo Croccolo

[photo courtesy of Michael Ferguson]

Spaghetti Western Locations for “Face to Face”

We continue our search for locations for “Face to Face”. The scene shifts to a hut where Brad is talking to one of Beau’s men discussing different size bullets and learning what kind of ammunition to use for specific tasks. He hears someone being slapped and a woman crying out in pain. He leaves to investigate and finds Vance slapping Marta who was the man who took her. She refuses until Brad comes from behind and announces he was the one. At first Brad tries to talk to Vance but it soon turns to Vance beating Brad until Brad finally gets Vance on the ground and stars to pound his head on a rock nearly killing him until Beau steps in and pulls him off. Brad tells Beau he wanted to kill so now he feels he must be part of Bennett’s Raiders.

This scene was filmed in Hoyo de Manzanares, Spain.

For a more detailed view of this site and other Spaghetti Western locations please visit my friend Yoshi Yasuda’s location site: http://y-yasuda.net/film-location.htm and Captain Douglas Film Locations http://www.western-locations-spain.com/