Lou Castel

Lou Castel (actually Ulv Quarzéll, born May 28, 1943 in Bogotá, Colombia ) is a Swedish- Italian actor.

Life

Castel, born the son of an Irish woman in Sweden and Colombia, already as a young man went to Europe. Interested in acting, he attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, but he had to leave soon. His first ( unspoken ) film role in Visconti's The Leopard. Two years later, he made ​​his breakthrough in With his fist in the pocket. He quickly became the symbol of a rebellious youth who sat against the social differences to fight back. Its unusual, nervous and absent -looking, but also intorvertierte way of playing was quite unique in the Italian cinema and let him appear as an anti- hero.

In the following years Castel worked with renowned European directors of this time together, so for example with Pier Paolo Pasolini, Wim Wenders, Claude Chabrol and Rainer Werner Fassbinder, but also played in pure commercial productions partially obscure style. Even in television series, he was seen, for example, in 1989 in an episode of Crime Scene NDR. Castel was known to have large parts of its fees come liberation movements in Latin America.

Castel is now an Italian citizen.

Filmography (selection)

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