George Hilton (actor)
George Hilton ( * July 16, 1934 in Montevideo, Uruguay; actually Jorge Acosta y Lara Hill ) is an actor who often played in spaghetti westerns.
Life
Hilton was born in Uruguay and began his career in radio. Contrary to other conjectures, he was up to his time with the movie never been to Europe.
In 1955 he moved to Argentina, where he worked under the pseudonym of Jorge Hilton in subsequent work in local comic (photo novels ) and films with, among other things, to Fernando Ayala, Francis Lauric and Vlasta Lah. The end of 1963 he went to Italy and got the lead role in the movie L' uomo pirates contro i pirati mascherato (1964). In 1965 he can be seen in the comedy 2 idiot against Goldfinger ( Due mafiosi contro Ginger Gold ) by Giorgio Simonelli with Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia as Agent 007.
His entry in the genre of spaghetti westerns was 1966, the film Django - His Hymns was the Colt (Tempo di massacro ) Lucio Fulci directed on the side of Franco Nero. Many more gigs followed, such as 1967 as Kitosch in The man who came from the north and time of vultures, Gold by Sam Cooper ( 1968). Other well-known roles are those of the comic-like gunslingers " Hallelujah" and " Tresette ", which were developed by Giuliano Carnimeo.
In the late 1960s it is also found in other genres, dramas ( Il dolce corpo di Deborah 1968) and war films ( King Tiger before El Alamein and hot over Africa Earth 1969 ) arise. As this wave came to an end, he frequently appeared in Gialli on (often as a partner of Edwige Fenech ). In the late 1970s he was involved in crime novels authority over the city ( 1977) and comedies Taxi Girl (1977 ), later also in the science-fiction adventure Atlantis Inferno (1983 ) by Deodato, but in the eighties, his appearances became increasingly rare, so in the horror film dinner with the Vampire (1988) and the television series College ( 1989).
Hilton lives in Rome and works to this day, mostly for Italian television.