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Angel del Pozo, in one of the 'Spaghetti Western' in which he appeared.

The Ángel del Pozo actor, one of many faces of the movie style generally known as Swestern paghettihas died this Saturday at 90 years of age, as reported by this system Fiesta of Telecinco. This style allowed him to develop a global profession, through which he shared poster with stars reminiscent of Lee Van Cleef, Christopher Lee, Jean Rochefort, Yul Brynner and Orson Welles.

Throughout his profession, he participated in additional than 60 titles, of which greater than 30 belong to the style western. From the Nineteen Nineties till 2008, Executive and Public Relations producer was additionally in Telecinco Gesters, the present Mediaset Spain Communication Group.

From 1960 he participated within the large display screen in movies reminiscent of Margarita is named my lovedirected by Tito Fernández; Valentine’s Dayby Fernando Palacios; The fourth windowby Julio Coll; or within the Spanish-tonate co-production, A manner a manneramongst different titles.

He additionally labored as movie director with characteristic movies reminiscent of The promisethe place he directed Carmen Sevilla and Antonio Ferrandis; both The stashstarring Juan Luis Galiardo.

In 2020, Almería Western Film Festival (AWFF) acknowledged him with the Film Tabernas Award. “One day, my representative told me that a foreign director was looking for Spanish actors for a west movie that were going to shoot in Almeria and asked me if we were interested. We went to do a test. They told me to sit in an armchair with my light giving me on my face and should convince them,” he then recalled within the being the actor. “The truth is that in almost all the movies I did not arrive alive at the end, they killed me before. Although I also killed some, but always in self -defense,” I had humor on this interview.

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