Benito Stefanelli
Acting
Biography
Benito Stefanelli (2 September 1928 – 18 December 1999) was an Italian film actor, stuntman and weapons master who made over 60 appearances in film between 1955 and 1991.
Born: September 2, 1928
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Known For
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
For a Few Dollars More
Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.
A Fistful of Dollars
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
Duck, You Sucker
At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.
Trinity Is Still My Name
The two brothers Trinity and Bambino are exchanged by two federal agents and take advantage of the situation to steal a huge booty hidden in a monastery by a gang of outlaws.
The Big Gundown
Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.
My Name Is Nobody
Jack Beauregard, an aging gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe, but a young gunfighter known as "Nobody" who idolizes Beauregard wants him to go out in a blaze of glory. So, he arranges for Jack to face the 150-man gang known as The Wild Bunch and earn his place in history.
Castle of Blood
When a cynical journalist accepts a wager that he won't survive the night in a haunted castle, it unlocks an odyssey of sexual torment, undead vengeance, and a dark seductress who surrenders the gravest of pleasures.
Day of Anger
A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.
Ladyhawke
Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day. Together, with the thief Philippe Gaston, they must try to overthrow the corrupt Bishop and in doing so break the spell.
Filmography
as Executioner
as Vapes
as Man in Restroom (uncredited)
as Pedro Vicente
as Greyshaft
as Debrard (as Steve Eliot)
as Bishop's Guard
as Iksay
as Rankin - Kobras' Lieutenant
as Improta
as Rick (archive footage)
as Lawyer Gorniani
as Shelley's Henchman
as Mortimer
as Supermarket Robber #1 (uncredited)
as Jackson
as Porteley
as Erno
as Piggott
as Lilly's husband
as Stingary Smith
as Alfredo Di Lorenzo
as Pancho
as Sheriff Jefferson
as Ben Caine (uncredited)
as Telegraph operator
as Owen White
as Mexican Bandit (uncredited)
as Larry
as Billy Baker
as Jess
as Slim (uncredited)
as Member of Angel Eyes' Gang
as Juko
as Il sicario Dwan
as Donovan, Foreman
as Kirk
as Luke 'Hughie'
as James
as Charlie
as Gladiator Ardenzio
as Rubio
as un uomo di Dancer
as Dying Mongol Captain (uncredited)
as William Blackwood
as Commerciante #2 (uncredited)
as Niso
as Fulton