Lou Castel
Gender: Male
Born: 28th May 1943 (currently 68 years old)
Nationality: Colombia
Movies: Reconstructing Damon Albarn in Kinshasa, Cambio de Sexo, Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why?, Fists in the Pocket, What Time Is It?, Requiescant, The Scarlet Letter, Flesh Color, Tiresia, Clément, Irma Vep, La naissance de l'amour, Caro Michele, In the Name of the Father, A Bullet for the General, Killer Nun, Beware of a Holy Whore, Heartbeat Detector, The American Friend, Nada, The Cassandra Crossing, Fräulein, Orgasmo, A Woman Called Yssabeau
Lou Castel (born 28 May 1943) is a Colombian actor known primarily for his work in Italian films.
Born Ulv Quarzell in Bogotá, Castel moved to Europe as a young man. Interested in acting from an early age, he attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, but was quickly kicked out. His first movie role was an uncredited extra in The Leopard (1963). But two years later, he would catch his big break when he starred in Fists in the Pocket. His performance as the epileptic Alessandro, who murders his mother and his brother, was acclaimed all over the world. His next role to gain international prominence was probably as Jeff, the temperamental bisexual film director in Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Fassbinder himself portrayed the film's producer.
In the following decades, Castel worked with some of the other important European directors of the era, including Pier Paolo Pasolini, Wim Wenders, Philippe Garrel, and Olivier Assayas. Though the quality of the films he acted in were quite disparate, ranging from arthouse films to cheap exploitation, Castel always chose roles that reflected his militant leftist beliefs. He is still acting to this
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