Nello Pazzafini | |
Birth Name: | Giovanni Pazzafini |
Birth Place: | Rome, Italy |
Death Place: | Ostia, Italy |
Years Active: | 1958–1992 |
Occupation: | Actor |
Giovanni "Nello" Pazzafini (15 May 1933 – 9 January 1996) was an Italian actor who appeared in a very large number of Peplum movies, Spaghetti Westerns and Poliziotteschi.
Born in Rome from parents originally from Ferrara, at young age Pazzafini was a footballer and in 1958 he attended the first school for stunt men opened in Italy.[1] Initially an often uncredited stunt performer in peplum films, starting from mid-1960s he gradually got bigger roles, specializing in villain characters.