Nando Poggi
Posted: 23/01/2020, 20:40
I'm watching L'amante del demonio. Poggi is often credited as Hans, but he didn't play that part. In a book about Italian gothic horror movies of the 70s Poggi is listed as playing a knight. This is true. A fencer that turns up in the film is in fact called "signor cavaliere" and it looks a lot like Poggi so I think that book is right. Who played Hans in the film? DOes anyone know?
Please look at the photo of Poggi from Ben-Hur in the cinema-italiano.de database. It's the scene where Judah is taken to prison in the beginning. I could almost swear this is not Poggi. As I recall someone told me that Poggi played the pirate who was killed by the spear that Ben-Hur threw at him.
By the way, I phoned Poggi in Sept 2003 and also sent a letter to him. A nice guy who spoke an almost perfect English. Not sure if he is alive now. Probably not. Remo De Angelis also speaks a perfect English in case he is alive. At least he was in 2012.
I asked Poggi about the stuntmen in Ben-Hur. He wrote that "practically every stuntman in Italy worked on it".
Please look at the photo of Poggi from Ben-Hur in the cinema-italiano.de database. It's the scene where Judah is taken to prison in the beginning. I could almost swear this is not Poggi. As I recall someone told me that Poggi played the pirate who was killed by the spear that Ben-Hur threw at him.
By the way, I phoned Poggi in Sept 2003 and also sent a letter to him. A nice guy who spoke an almost perfect English. Not sure if he is alive now. Probably not. Remo De Angelis also speaks a perfect English in case he is alive. At least he was in 2012.
I asked Poggi about the stuntmen in Ben-Hur. He wrote that "practically every stuntman in Italy worked on it".