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Frank Wolff

Frank Wolff
Photo: Luciano Ercoli · Public domain

About

Walter Frank Hermann Wolff (May 11, 1928 - December 12, 1971) was an American actor born in San Francisco who launched his career in Roger Corman's low-budget productions before relocating to Europe, where he appeared in more than fifty films across the 1960s - spaghetti westerns, gialli, and crime thrillers, mostly made in Italy. He earned wider recognition with a supporting role in Elia Kazan's Oscar-nominated America, America (1963) and is best remembered today as the doomed farmer Brett McBain in Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West (1968). He died in Rome at the age of 43.

Born:
11 May 1928 (43 years)
Died:
12 December 1971
Place of birth:
San Francisco, California, USA

Tracks

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)role of Bretta McBain - Wolff's most famous performance, Leone's classic spaghetti western
America, America (1963)role of Vartan Damadian - film nominated for an Oscar for Best Picture, directed by Elia Kazan
Salvatore Giuliano (1962)breakthrough role in Italian cinema, directed by Francesco Rosi
The Great Silence (1968)role of a sheriff, spaghetti western by Sergio Corbucci
Caliber 9 (1972)posthumously released film, crime thriller by Fernando Di Lea

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