[Second rôle] Rick Battaglia

[Rex Lee]

Né en Italie en 1927.
Il est dans les westerns suivants:


Les cavaliers rouges
Freddy und Lied der Prarie
Les mercenaires du Rio Grande
Viva Gringo
Winnetou III : La piste des desperados
Tonnerre sur la frontière
Black Jack
Winnetou und Shatterhand im Tal der Toten
Ringo ne devait pas mourir
Tire, Django, tire!
Chapagua
Killer Amigo
Il était une fois la révolution
L'appel de la forêt
La longue chevauchée de la vengeance
Croc-Blanc
Un génie, deux associés, une cloche
Mannaja





Black Jack




Killer Amigo





Tonnerre sur la frontière





Les mercenaires du Rio Grande





Winnetou III: La piste des desperados





Ringo ne devait pas mourir





Le dernier Winnetou (1968), inédit en France, avec Karin Dor.





Tonnerre sur la frontière






La longue chevauchée de la vengeance...rôle recyclé dans I sette del gruppo selvaggio.







Hors western:




Débuts en 1954 dans La fille du fleuve avec Sophia Loren





Esther et le Roi (1960) avec Joan Collins.






Sandokan, le tigre de Bornéo (1963)





Au pays des Skipetars (1964) avec Marie Versini.






La fille du fleuve (1954) avec Gérard Oury.






Jules César, conquérant de la Gaule (1962)






Il giorno piu corto (1963)





Le Flibustier des Caraïbes (1965) dont il est la vedette.

[Rex Lee]

J'espère que cette coupure de presse a sa place ici...De quoi est-il question?...

[Personne]

J'imagine que c'est une bio d'époque! Pour moi c'est nickel!

[Richards]

Les amants d'outre-tombe. 1965. Mario Caiano.

[Tom Betts]

Rik Battaglia aka Rick Battaglia whose real name was Caterino Bertaglia was born in Corbola, Rovigo, Italy on February 18, 1927 and died of heart failure in his home town of Corbola, Rovigo, Italy on March 27, 2015.

[Rex Lee]

Sodome et Gomorrhe (1962)

[Tom Betts]

Addio to Rik Battaglia: from Soldiers to Leo, a life for cinema

He was 88 years old. He made his debut in 1955 alongside Sophia Loren in "The woman of the river", noticed by Mario Soldati as a bartender

la Repubblica
March 28, 2015

ROVIGO - The former actor Rik Battaglia, also known as Rick Austin and Riccardo Battaglia, died at his home in Corbola, in the province of Rovigo where he was born 88 years ago, while at the registry office he was Caterino Bertaglia. Between the fifties and the nineties he took part in more than 100 films between cinema and television, many as the main protagonist, working in Italy, the United States and Germany.

Battaglia arrived at the cinema by accident, and stayed there for a lifetime. Fortune smiled on him with the face of Mario Soldati who one day noticed him at his workplace: Battaglia was a bartender at the Agip Restaurant in Milan, and the director, who is preparing La donna del fiume, offered him the role of the protagonist, next to Sophia Loren. After that film Battaglia attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome for two years where he graduated. In 1959 she starred in the film Caterina Sforza, the lioness of Romagna, by Giorgio Walter Chili.

At the end of the fifties his face became popular among the many peplum and historical costume films that in those days were the most popular, always in important roles, then shuttled between different genres, passing casually from western to espionage to movies of action and adventure. Among his best known appearances, there is Sergio Leone's Duck You Sucker and The Genius with Terence Hill and Bud Spencer in 1975, repeating the companion character a few years later in Bomber.

Battaglia knew the cinema of the great masters, above all Sergio Leone, of whom he was also a friend. But Rick Battaglia's cinema was also that of the great Hollywood stars: Esther Williams, Liza Minnelli. Nina (1976), the latest film by the great Vincente Minnelli, shoots with the latter. In the entertainment and culture environment, Battaglia becomes one of the favorites. He knows and attends great writers and writers, such as Moravia, Pasolini, Flaiano.

https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/cinema/2015/03/28/news/addio_a_rick_battaglia_-110695667/

[Rex Lee]

La Muraille de feu (1957)

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