Luigi Pistilli
Luigi Pistilli ( born July 19, 1929 in Grosseto, Italy, † April 21, 1996 in Milan ) was an Italian actor.
Life
Pistilli studied acting training at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, where he graduated in 1955. His film career began in 1961, and a year later he played under the direction of Sergio Leone spaghetti western classic For a Few Dollars More. He was then employed in the at that time very popular genre in several outstanding productions. Leone signed him up again for the last part of the " Dollars" trilogy, Bad and the Ugly with Lee Van Cleef and Clint Eastwood. In Sergio Corbuccis corpses pave his way he played on the side of Klaus Kinski and Jean -Louis Trintignant, in Django the Avenger along with Franco Nero and Giulio Petroni The invoice will be paid with lead again with Lee van Cleef. As the heyday of the genre ended in the 1970s, he moved to crime and horror movies.
Pistilli was regarded in Italy as one of the best stage actor, particularly for his interpretation in the plays The Threepenny Opera and St. Joan of the Stockyards by Bertolt Brecht. Shortly before his last appearance in the production of the opera Tosca by Giacomo Puccini he committed suicide after the piece had been panned by both critics and by the audience and he had also separated from his longtime partner Milva.