Tomas Milian | |
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Milian in Emergency Squad (1974)
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Born |
Tomás Quintín Rodríguez March 3, 1933 Havana, Cuba |
Residence | Miami, Florida |
Citizenship |
Cuban American Italian |
Occupation | Actor Screenwriter Singer |
Years active | 1957–present |
Spouse(s) | Margherita Valetti (m. 1964–2012) (her death) |
Children | Tomaso Milian Jr. |
Website | Tomas Milian.it |
Tomas Milian (born Tomás Quintín Rodríguez on 3 March 1933) is a Cuban American-Italian actor, screenwriter and singer, known for the emotional intensity and humour he brought to roles in Italian genre films.
A student of Lee Strasberg, Milian studied method acting at the Actors Studio in New York City. In Italy, he was discovered by director Mauro Bolognini and appeared in supporting roles in several drama films during the late-1950s and early-1960s, including as Raphael in Carol Reed's The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965). Throughout the late-1960s and early-1970s, Milian established himself as a dynamic leading actor in a series of Spaghetti Western films, most notably The Big Gundown (1966), The Ugly Ones (1967), Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (1967), Face to Face (1967), Run, Man, Run (1968), Death Sentence (1968), Tepepa (1969), Compañeros (1970), Sonny and Jed (1972), Life Is Tough, Eh Providence? (1972) and Four of the Apocalypse (1975).