Italian actor Peter Martell was featured in numerous Spaghetti Westerns and Euro-thrillers in the 1960s and 1970s. His films include Antonio Margheriti’s 1966 sci-fi film War Between the Planets (aka Planet on the Prowl), and Jess Franco’s 1970 witch-hunting horror film Night of the Blood Monster (1970) with Christopher Lee.
He was born Pietro Martellanza in Bolzano in 1938, and went to Rome in the early 1960s to work in films. He was featured in such movies as I Kill, You Kill (1965), The Cobra (1967), Mission Phantom (1967), Death Walks at Midnight (1972), and The Executioner (1976). His film career largely ended in the mid-1970s, though he had a small role in the 1986 juvenile science fiction film Momo. The 1999 documentary film Starring Peter Martell brought attention to the dire circumstances he had been in since the end of his film career. He returned to the screen as Dracula in Jess Franco’s horror spoof Killer Barbys vs.
He was born Pietro Martellanza in Bolzano in 1938, and went to Rome in the early 1960s to work in films. He was featured in such movies as I Kill, You Kill (1965), The Cobra (1967), Mission Phantom (1967), Death Walks at Midnight (1972), and The Executioner (1976). His film career largely ended in the mid-1970s, though he had a small role in the 1986 juvenile science fiction film Momo. The 1999 documentary film Starring Peter Martell brought attention to the dire circumstances he had been in since the end of his film career. He returned to the screen as Dracula in Jess Franco’s horror spoof Killer Barbys vs.
- 2/12/2010
- by Bryan
- FamousMonsters of Filmland
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