# Ray Lovelock (actor)

Raymond Lovelock (19 June 1950 – 10 November 2017) was an Italian actor and musician, best known for his roles in genre films.

## Early life

Lovelock was born in Rome on 19 June 1950. His mother was Italian and his father was English. They met during the Allied occupation of Italy in World War II. While at college, he supplemented his income as an extra in movies and TV commercials. He also performed in a rock band with longtime friend and actor Tomas Milian, where he was discovered by a talent agent.

## Career
### Acting career

Lovelock played his first credited movie part in the Spaghetti Western Se sei vivo spara (1967), directed by Giulio Questi and starring Milian. His breakthrough role came the following year in the crime thriller Bandits in Milan, as bank robber Donato 'Tuccio' Lopez. The film was a hit with critics and won several awards. He then established himself as both a reliable character actor and a leading man in Italian films and television, working steadily from the late 1960s.
Among his more notable film roles are Fiddler on the Roof (where he played Fyedka, a Russian Christian farmer who marries a Jewish girl named Chava, against the wishes of Chava's father; 1971), Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974), Almost Human (1974), Violent Rome (1975), Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976), The Cassandra Crossing (1976), and The Last House on the Beach (1978). Later in his career he worked mostly in television, including a guest role on Mia And Me (2014).

### Music career

In Italy, he released 10 singles, which included the main theme song of Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man. He also released two singles in Japan, one of which "Koi Wa Kaze" reached #34 on the Japanese Oricon chart in 1970. His album, "All about Raymond Lovelock" also charted that year and peaked at #19.

## Personal life

An avid football fan, Lovelock was a member of ItalianAttori, a celebrity team that held charity matches.

## Death

He died in Trevi on 10 November 2017, at the age of 67 of cancer.

## Filmography
### Film

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1967 | Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! | Evan Templer | |
| 1968 | Seven Times Seven | Mildred's Lover | Uncredited |
| 1968 | Bandits in Milan | Donato 'Tuccio' Lopez | |
| 1969 | Plagio | Guido | |
| 1969 | Run, Rabbit, Run [de] | Brian | |
| 1969 | Oh, Grandmother's Dead | Carlo Alberto Ghia | |
| 1969 | L'amica | Claudio Nervi | |
| 1970 | Queens of Evil | David | |
| 1971 | Oasis of Fear | Dick Butler | |
| 1971 | Fiddler on the Roof | Fyedka | |
| 1973 | One Russian Summer | Yuri | |
| 1973 | Un modo di essere donna | Vasco | |
| 1974 | Emergency Squad | Micheli | |
| 1974 | The King is the Best Mayor | Sancho | |
| 1974 | Almost Human | Carmine | |
| 1974 | Let Sleeping Corpses Lie | George Meaning | |
| 1975 | Autopsy | Riccardo | |
| 1975 | Violent Rome | Biondi | |
| 1975 | La moglie vergine | Giovannino Arrighini | |
| 1976 | Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man | Antonio | |
| 1976 | Meet Him and Die | Massimo Torlani | |
| 1976 | The Cassandra Crossing | Tom | |
| 1977 | The Virgo, the Taurus and the Capricorn | Patrizio Marchi | |
| 1977 | Gangbuster | Avvocato Mario Gastali | |
| 1978 | The Greatest Battle | Lt. John Foster | |
| 1978 | The Last House on the Beach | Aldo | |
| 1978 | Being Twenty | Rico | |
| 1979 | L'anello matrimoniale | Mario | |
| 1979 | From Hell to Victory | Jim Rosson | |
| 1979 | Scusi lei è normale? | Franco Astuti | |
| 1979 | Play Motel | Roberto | |
| 1980 | L'ebreo fascista | Oberdan Rossi | |
| 1984 | Murder Rock | George Webb | |
| 1988 | Mak P 100 | Commandante Di Carlo | |
| 1998 | La vuelta de El Coyote | Edmond Greene | |
| 1999 | Una vita non violenta | Blind guitar player | Uncredited |
| 2000 | Il fratello minore | Anna's Father | |
| 2000 | Primetime Murder | Adam | |
| 2012 | The World of Hemingway | Old Ernest Hemingway | |
| 2013 | Midday Demons | Von Galen | |
| 2015 | Barbara ed Io | | |
| 2016 | My Father Jack | avv. Pontecorvo | |

### Television

| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
| 1981 | La casa rossa | Lamberto | Miniseries |
| 1982 | Una tranquilla coppia di killer | Michael Townley | Miniseries |
| 1983 | L'amante dell'Orsa Maggiore | Sergio | 7 episodes |
| 1984 | La ragazza dell'addio | Martino | 4 episodes |
| 1985 | I due prigionieri | Pietro | Television film |
| 1985 | A viso coperto | Albino Sedda | Television film |
| 1986 | Mino | Michele | Miniseries |
| 1987 | Uomo contro uomo | Carini | Television film |
| 1988 | Sentiments | Andrew de Michelis | Episode: "Manu" |
| 1990 | La piovra | Simon Barth | Episode #5.1 |
| 1991 | Un bambino in fuga - Tre anni dopo | Tatò | 3 episodes |
| 1992 | Un posto freddo in fondo al cuore | Inspector Soriano | Television film |
| 1992 | Brigada Central | Thompson | Episode: "Érase una vez dos polis" |
| 1993 | La ragnatela 2 | Motola | Miniseries |
| 1993 | Private Crimes | Inspector Stefano Avanza | Miniseries |
| 1994 | Moscacieca | Dr. Ruby | Television film |
| 1995 | Vite a termine | Vittorio | Television film |
| 1996 | Addio e ritorno | Betti | Television film |
| 1997 | Mamma per caso | Stefano Arrighi | Miniseries |
| 1999 | A due passi dal cielo | Andrea | Television film |
| 1999 | Commesse | Luca Massimi | Episodes: "Marta" & "Roberta" |
| 1999 | Non lasciamoci più | Marco Aliprandi | Episode: "Un caso di famiglia" |
| 1999 | Villa Ada | Giovanni | Television film |
| 1999 | Turbo | Fabio Dazzi | Episode: "Riflessi di un delitto" |
| 2000 | Tequila & Bonetti | Roberto Brinci | Episode: "Uno Sbirro, un cane, e una fotografia" |
| 2000-01 | Ricominciare | Luciano | 200 episodes |
| 2001 | Inviati speciali | Marco Venturi | Television film |
| 2001-03 | Incantesimo | Dr. Hans Rudolph | 37 episodes |
| 2002 | Lo zio d'America | Gianluigi Patrizi | 8 episodes |
| 2004 | Don Matteo | Professor Ridolfi | Episode: "L'amore rubato" |
| 2005-10 | My Daughters | Attilio Pensiero | 18 episodes |
| 2006 | L'ultimo rigore 2 | Massimo Normanni | Television film |
| 2006 | L'onore e il rispetto | Everaldo De Nisi | 6 episodes |
| 2006-07 | Raccontami | Marco's Grandfather | 4 episodes |
| 2008 | Capri | Palmieri | 3 episodes |
| 2011 | Inspector Rex | Augusto Varinelli | Episode: 'I nomi delle stelle" |
| 2011 | Un amore e una vendetta | Alberto Castellani | 8 episodes |
| 2015 | Mia and Me | Uncle Renzo | Episodes: "The Ghost of Blackwood Forest" & "The Mysterious Visitor" |
| 2016 | L'allieva | Paul Malcomess | 10 episodes |