# Romano Puppo

Romano Puppo (25 March 1933 – 11 May 1994) was an Italian stuntman and actor.

## Life and career

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 61.

## Selected filmography

* Gli uomini dal passo pesante (1965) - Paine Cordeen
* Agent 3S3: Massacre in the Sun (1966) - Man on Plane #2
* Massacre Time (1966) - Tall Scott Henchman (uncredited)
* The Big Gundown (1966) - Rocky, Widow's Ranchero
* The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) - Slim (Member of Angel Eyes' Gang) (uncredited)
* Death Rides a Horse (1967) - Clell
* Day of Anger (1967) - Hart Perkins (uncredited)
* Seven Times Seven (1968) - Prisoner Carrying Garbage Can (uncredited)
* Gunman Sent by God (1968) - Badman
* Beyond the Law (1968) - Sam - Burton Bandit
* Madigan's Millions (1968) - Steward (uncredited)
* Rita of the West (1968) - Zorro
* Commandos (1968) - Dino
* Death on High Mountain (1969) - Deputy
* Bootleggers (1969) - Boss' Bodyguard
* Sabata (1969) - Rocky Bendato, Stengel Henchman
* Boot Hill (1969) - Finch henchman
* Chuck Moll (1970) - Burt
* Colt in the Hand of the Devil (1970) - Soldier (uncredited)
* Dead Men Ride (1971) - Newman
* Trinity Is Still My Name (1971) - Hitman (uncredited)
* Trinity and Sartana Are Coming (1972) - Captain Bill McCorney (uncredited)
* The Master Touch (1972) - Miller's Lieutenant
* The Sicilian Connection (1972) - Hood (uncredited)
* Il Nemico In Vista (1973) - Commando
* Those Dirty Dogs (1973) - Soldier in Dormitory Fistfight (uncredited)
* Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears (1973) - Bull, Morton's Goon
* The Big Game (1973) - Alberto
* The Funny Face of the Godfather (1973) - Uomo del padrino
* ...E il terzo giorno arrivò il corvo (1973) - Henry Sloane (uncredited)
* Mr. Hercules Against Karate (1973) - Football Player (uncredited)
* Mean Frank and Crazy Tony (1973) - Assassin
* Three Tough Guys (1974) - Hood
* Street Law (1974) - Ringleader
* The Beast (1974) - Dutch Driver
* The White, the Yellow, and the Black (1975) - Kady
* Loaded Guns (1975) - Man in the Tavern (uncredited)
* El clan de los inmorales (1975)
* Cry, Onion! (1975) - Stinky
* Africa Express (1975)
* Lo sgarbo (1975)
* The Loves and Times of Scaramouche (1976)
* Street People (1976) - Fortunate
* The Big Racket (1976) - Doringo
* The Heroin Busters (1977) - Enforcer
* California (1977) - Gary Luke
* Gangbuster (1977) - Peseti Henchman
* Interno di un convento (1978)
* China 9, Liberty 37 (1978) - Zeb / Zeb's brother
* The Uranium Conspiracy (1978) - Boatswain
* Savana - Sesso e diamanti (1978) - Kent
* The Great Alligator River (1979) - Peter
* Speed Cross (1980) - Kurt Schmidbauer
* Contraband (1980) - Enforcer
* Day of the Cobra (1980) - Silvestri
* Speed Driver (1980) - Dave
* Buddy Goes West (1981) - Slim Henchman (uncredited)
* Great White (1981) - Briley (uncredited)
* The Girl from Trieste (1982) - Toni
* 2019, After the Fall of New York (1983) - Ratchet
* Escape from the Bronx (1983) - Trash's Father
* Tuareg – The Desert Warrior (1984) - Soldier
* Good King Dagobert (1984) - Argobal
* Who Is Afraid Of Dracula? (1985) - Frankenstein
* Joan Lui (1985) - Assassino
* Scuola di ladri - Parte seconda (1987) - Nostromo
* Robowar (1988) - Cpl. Neil Corey
* Cop Game (1988) - Skipper
* Der Commander (1988) - Angelo
* Ghoulies II (1988) - Zampano
* Sinbad of the Seven Seas (1989) - Captain
* After Death (1989) - Zombie Leader (uncredited)
* Born to Fight (1989) - Alex Bross
* I Won the New Year's Lottery (1989)
* Le comiche 2 (1991) - Ladro (final film role)