Gabriele Ferzetti - R.I.P.

[Leonardo]

Gabriele Ferzetti (Morton) died yesterday.
March 17th 1925 - December 2nd 2015
R.I.P.

[cigar joe]

RIP Mr. Choo Choo

[noodles_leone]

 

[Cusser]

                         


I'll wear my harmonica around my neck to work today, my usual tribute to spaghetti western contributors who are no longer with us...

[titoli]

With his wife. I didn't know he was born in Rome. 

[Dust Devil]

Sad news again...


R.I.P.

[drinkanddestroy]

I guess the tuberculosis of the bones finally got him. Morton goes Mort.
For me, he will always be remembered as Morton. A great role in a great movie that people will watch forever - what can be more immortal than that?
OUATITW is in the top 30 in IMDB, was the top Western in the 2012 Sight & Sound Directors Poll.
Terrific job, playing a man at least 20 years older than Ferzetti was at the time. That was the first movie I saw him in and he was totally convincing; I didn't realize till years later how young he actually was, after I saw him in some of his Italian movies.

Well done, Gabrielle. Rest in peace

[stanton]

OUATITW is in the top 30 in IMDB, was the top Western in the 2012 Sight & Sound Directors Poll.

Wasn't that The Searchers, as always?

[drinkanddestroy]

Wasn't that The Searchers, as always?

The Searchers was the top Western in the critics' poll; OUATITW was the top Western in the directors'' poll

http://www.fistful-of-leone.com/forums/index.php?topic=11349.msg159077#msg159077

[Novecento]

The Searchers was the top Western in the critics' poll; OUATITW was the top Western in the directors'' poll

Oh when will these critics learn... sigh...

[stanton]

Critics are always a bit too conservative in their taste ...

[Novecento]

And tend to follow each other like sheep. I guess they are no less immune to fashion trends than everyone else 

[Big Boss 1971]

"Do not kill me , mr Bond.....at least not until we've had a drink !"

GF was 007s father-in-law 

The dubber Robert Rietty should get cred for his performance as well.......

[Groggy]

His best work was definitely OUATITW. Besides the obvious, I was also impressed by his performance in Costa-Gavras's The Confession. RIP to a great actor.

[dave jenkins]

Groggy, you're alive!