Luigi Pistilli
Gender: Male
Born: 19th July 1929
Died: 21st April 1996
Movies: Twitch of the Death Nerve, Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key, Death Rides a Horse, The Great Silence, Eagles Over London, Tragic Ceremony, For a Few Dollars More, Summer Affair, The Case of the Scorpion's Tail, Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife, Texas, Adios, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Machine Gun McCain, Eerie Midnight Horror Show, The Libertine, Illustrious Corpses, Bandits in Rome, Milano calibro 9
Luigi Pistilli (July 19, 1929 – April 21, 1996) was an Italian actor of stage, screen, and television. In theater, he was considered one of the country's best interpreters of Bertolt Brecht's plays in The Threepenny Opera and St Joan of the Stockyards.
Born in Grosseto, Pistilli studied acting at Milan's Piccolo Teatro, graduating in 1955. He never completely severed his ties with the theater and often returned to appear in plays directed by Giorgio Strehler. Pistilli made his feature film debut with an uncredited role in Dark Passage (1947).
He appeared in many spaghetti Westerns such as The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966) (as the priest brother of Eli Wallach's character Tuco) and in For a Few Dollars More (1965) as the cunning second-in-command Groggy (his first credited film role). He played the murderous Alberto in the Mario Bava giallo Twitch of the Death Nerve in 1971. He had a regular role on the popular Italian television Mafia drama The Octopus. He also appeared as the main villain in "Death Rides a Horse".
In 1972 he appeared in the giallo film Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key playing an alcoholic.
Pistilli committed suicide in his Milan home just
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