Photo Opportunity #79: Clint and Romano Puppo
Here’s a cracking behind the scenes shot of Clint and Italian leading stuntman, Romano Puppo. The photo captures them relaxing in between takes during The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966).
Born in Rome, Puppo debuted in 1961 in the Mauro Bolognini's drama Careless, and after a number of very minor roles he soon became a regular of Italian genre cinema in roles of henchmen and villains. Mainly active in Spaghetti Westerns and Poliziotteschi films, he was also cast as the Paolo Villaggio's antagonist in a number of comedies. He was hired as Lee Van Cleef's stuntman and double stand-in by director Gianfranco Parolini for his Sabata trilogy, and was one of his pallbearers in 1989. He served as his stuntman in a number of films including Sabata (1969), Commandos (1968) along Giampiero Albertini, and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) along Benito Stefanelli.
Puppo died in a motor scooter accident while having a heart attack, aged just 61.
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