Ignazio Spalla | |
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 Yul Brinner and Ignazio Spalla like Pedro Sanchez in Adios, Sabata (1970) | |
| Born | 5 May 1924 Termini Imerese, Italy |
| Died | 9 February 1995 (aged 70) Costacciaro, Italy |
| Other names | Pedro Sanchez |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1964–1977 |
Ignazio Spalla (5 May 1924 – 9 February 1995), best known as Pedro Sanchez, was an Italian film actor.
Born in Siena, Spalla was mainly active in Spaghetti Westerns, usually playing roles of Mexicans, gunfighters and outlaws.[1] His first roles of weight were in 1965, in Marino Girolami's Bullet in the Flesh and in Giorgio Ferroni's Blood for a Silver Dollar.[1]
In the 1970s he focused his activity in the subgenre of comic spaghetti, and his career basically declined together with Italo-Western.[1] Outside this genre, Spalla's credits include Eduardo De Filippo's Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand, Lucio Fulci's The Conspiracy of Torture, and Pasquale Festa Campanile's Hitch-Hike.[2]