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Born Luigi Montefiori in near Genoa, Italy, the future actor provided artwork for various advertising agencies in Genoa before moving to Rome in Though he intended to further his art career, he became involved with a crowd of film people who urged him to put his good looks to advantage in the movies. Parts in Italian westerns soon followed, usually under the pseudonym "George Eastman". (He once reportedly missed out on a role in a Franco Nero western because his height made Franco Nero look too short.) Never quite "typed", the actor soon moved into other film genres playing good guys, bad guys, and good-bad guys. These parts often exploited his athletic physique by having him remove his shirt, perhaps most memorably in Lina Wertmüller's _Belle Starr () where he suffered through a memorable torture scene involving a boot-spur. However, a few parts in English-language films, such as Charlton Heston's _Call of the Wild, The ()_ failed to significantly broaden his appeal. He also began to write or collaborate on scripts and in he directed his first movie: _DNA Formula Letale ()_. Details on his private life are sketchy but some sources indicate that he&
George Eastman
American entrepreneur, inventor, and photographer (–)
For other uses, see George Eastman (disambiguation).
George Eastman (July 12, &#;&#; March 14, ) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream. After a decade of experiments in photography, he patented and sold a roll rulle camera, making amateur photography accessible to the general public for the first time.[1] Working as the treasurer and later president of Kodak, he oversaw the expansion of the company and the rulle industry.
Eastman was a major philanthropist, establishing the Eastman School of Music, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and schools of dentistry and medicine at the University of Rochester and Eastman Dental Hospital at University College London, and making large contributions to the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), the construction of several buildings at the second campus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) on the Charles River, and Tuskegee University and Hampton University, two historically black universities in the South. With interests in improving healt
George Eastman (actor)
Italian actor and screenwriter
George Eastman | |
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Eastman in the movie Django, Prepare a Coffin () | |
| Born | Luigi Montefiori () August 16, (age&#;82) Genoa, Kingdom of Italy |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years&#;active | – |
| Height | 6&#;ft 9&#;in (&#;cm) |
George Eastman (born Luigi Montefiori; August 16, ) is an Italian actor and screenwriter well known for his frequent collaborations with notorious director Joe D'Amato. He is most famous for his role as the insane, cannibalistic serial killer Klaus Wortmann in the gory horror film Antropophagus (aka The Grim Reaper). He also played a similar role in its follow-up, Absurd. Both films were directed by D'Amato and written by Eastman.
Career
[edit]Eastman was born in Genoa, Italy, and studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and at the Drama School held of Alessandro Fersen.[1] He took his Americanized alias "George Eastman" when he was cast as a "heavy" in many Spaghetti Westerns made in the late s and early s. In he played the villain in The Call of the Wild which starred Charlton Heston and was directed by Ken Annakin.
Eastman later became a r