Lars Bloch
Lars Bloch ( born August 6, 1938 in Hellerup ) is a Danish actor, mostly in Italian films.
Life
Bloch lived as a child in Rungsted and Charlottenlund, before he moved with his parents to Mariager ( Jutland ). After successfully completing his schooling in 1956, he visited Italy. After completing his military service in the Navy Bloch came in the spring of 1959 returned to Italy and was quickly occupied due to its large, hulking, blond and mostly bearded appearance in films as a prototype of the Nordic villain. His first two films were directed by Lucio Fulci. Until the 1980s, he played so many films, including nearly ten spaghetti westerns mostly small roles; occasionally he was also in larger productions ( as Carol Reed Michelangelo - as the founder of the Swiss Guards - ) to see or positive roles such as that of King Richard the Lionheart in Robin Hood movie The fiery arrow of revenge. In the 1970s, he worked several times together with Aristide Massaccesi, who cast him in Eroi all'inferno ( under a pseudonym ) in a rare lead role.
After his playing career, Bloch was employed as a sales manager from DVD productions of Italian films for the Japanese market and was occasionally involved in the production of several feature films.