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)
References
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1933 births
1994 deaths
20th-century Italian male actors
Italian male film actors
Italian male television actors
Male actors from Rome
Male Spaghetti Western actors
Road incident deaths in Italy