Mario Brega
Mario Brega ( born March 5, 1923 in Rome, † July 23, 1994 ) was an Italian actor.
Life
The bearded, heavy-weight actor was used in the Italo - Western regularly as a supporting actor and took over in this genre often villain roles. After a brief debut in 1947, he took over regularly and permanently Rollenabgebote from 1958. For director Sergio Leone is always very grim -looking, but also the irony capable actor In 1964, in A Fistful of Dollars ( as Chico ), For a Few Dollars More (1965, as Nino ) and Wedding Crashers (1966 ) on. In the latter he played his most famous role as a sadistic torturer Wallace. In later years, Brega was in minor roles in the films My Name is Nobody (1973) and Once Upon a Time in America ( 1984) to see which were produced and directed by Leone. A frequent collaboration with Carlo Verdone enabled Brega in the 1980s, some interpretations that were created psychologically sophisticated.
In some films Brega also appeared under the pseudonyms Richard M. Braga and Stuyvesant.