Tullio Altamura (born 18 July 1924) is an Italian actor, best known for his roles in

spaghetti westerns The Spaghetti Western is a broad subgenre of Western films produced in Europe. It emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's film-making style and international box-office success. The term was used by foreign critics because most of ...

and action films in the 1960s.

Life and career

Born in

Bologna Bologna (, , ; egl, label= Emilian, Bulåggna ; lat, Bononia) is the capital and largest city of the Emilia-Romagna region in Northern Italy. It is the seventh most populous city in Italy with about 400,000 inhabitants and 150 different na ...

, the son of a career officer in the

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army, Altamura grew up in Rome, where he studied at the

liceo classico Liceo classico or Ginnasio (literally ''classical lyceum'') is the oldest, public secondary school type in Italy. Its educational curriculum spans over five years, when students are generally about 14 to 19 years of age. Until 1969, this was ...

. After having worked for some time as a freelance journalist, he started his professional acting career in the first half of 1950s. Starting from the 1960s he specialized in

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roles in genre films, in which he often adopted the stage name Tor Altmayer. Active on television from 1957 and on stage from 1961, he was also a television writer and documentarist.

Filmography

*''Il cardinale Lambertini'', directed by Giorgio Pàstina (1954) *''

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'', directed by Guido Salvini (1955) *'' L'isola del tesoro'', directed by

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(1959) - Tv *''Ottocento'', directed by

(1959) - Tv *''I figli di Medea'', directed by

(1959) - Tv *''

Seddok, l'erede di Satana ''Atom Age Vampire'' ( it, Seddok, l'erede di Satana, links=no) is a 1960 Italian horror film directed by Anton Giulio Majano. Shot in black-and-white, the film was produced by Elio Ippolito Mellino and stars Alberto Lupo, Susanne Loret, and Serg ...

'', directed by

(1960) *'' Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti'', directed by

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(1960) *''

La lunga notte del '43 ''Long Night in '43'' (Italian: La Lunga Notte del '43) is an Italian film of 1960 set in Ferrara, in the Italian Social Republic German puppet state during the late stages of the Second World War. It was directed by Florestano Vancini and adapted ...

'', directed by Florestano Vancini (1960) *''

Labbra rosse ''Labbra rosse'' is a 1960 Italian film directed by Giuseppe Bennati and starring Gabriele Ferzetti. Plot Rome. The lawyer Martini discovers that his sixteen-year-old daughter Baby did not go by train to Rapallo as she had told her family. He th ...

'', directed by

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(1960) *''I tre nemici'', directed by

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(1962) *''Zorro alla corte di Spagna'', directed by

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(1962) *''

Ercole contro i tiranni di Babilonia ''Ercole contro i tiranni di Babilonia'' (English Translation: ''Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon'') is a 1964 Italian sword-and-sandal film directed by Domenico Paolella and starring Peter Lupus. Plot Asparia, Queen of the Hellenes, has ...

'', directed by

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(1964) *''Il colosso di Roma'', directed by

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(1964) * ''

Sonaron cuatro balazos ''Four Bullets for Joe'' ( es, Sonaron cuatro balazos or ''Cuatro balazos'') is a 1964 Spanish-Italian Western film directed by Agustín Navarro, scored by Manuel Parada, screenplayed by Fernando Galiana, Mario Guerra, José Mallorquí, Julio ...

'', directed by

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(1964) *'' Un dollaro bucato'', directed by

(1965) *'' Rififi ad Amsterdam'', directed by Sergio Grieco (1966) * ''

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'', directed by

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(1967) * ''

Danger!! Death Ray ''Danger!! Death Ray'' (Italian: ''Il Raggio infernale'', lit. ''The Infernal Ray''Blake, Deal, p.56) is a 1967 Italian Eurospy secret agent spy film starring Gordon Scott. The film was satirized on a 1995 episode of '' Mystery Science Theater ...

'', directed by

Gianfranco Baldanello Gianfranco Baldanello (born 13 November 1928) is an Italian film director, screenwriter and second unit director. He sometimes used the alias Frank G. Carroll. Baldanello is the son of actors Emilio Baldanello and Vanda Vianello (also known as V ...

(1967) *''Marinai in coperta'', directed by

Bruno Corbucci Bruno Corbucci (23 October 1931 – 7 September 1996) was an Italian screenwriter and film director. He was the younger brother of Sergio Corbucci, and wrote many of his films. He was born in Rome, where he also died. The vast majority of ...

(1967) *''Dick smart 2.007,'' directed by

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(1967) *''L'uomo del colpo perfetto,'' directed by Aldo Florio (1967) *'' La morte non ha sesso'', directed by

Massimo Dallamano Massimo Dallamano (17 April 1917 – 4 November 1976), sometimes credited as Max Dillman, Max Dillmann or Jack Dalmas, was an Italian director and director of photography. Life and career Born in Milan, Dallamano began in the 1940s as camera ...

(1968) *'' Le calde notti di Poppea'', directed by

Guido Malatesta Guido Malatesta (1919 – 14 June 1970), born in Gallarate, Italy, was a film director and screenwriter. He began working as a professional journalist. After he moved to Rome, he was drawn to cinema, as creator of treatments, then scriptwrite ...

(1969) *''Diario di un maestro'', directed by

Vittorio De Seta Vittorio De Seta (15 October 1923 – 28 November 2011) was an Italian cinema director and screenwriter, considered Italian cinema's great imaginative realists of the 1960s.Libera, amore mio...'', directed by Mauro Bolognini (1973) *''Bachi da seta'', directed by Gilberto Visintin (1988)

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* 1924 births Possibly living people 20th-century Italian male actors Italian male film actors Italian male stage actors Italian male television actors Male Spaghetti Western actors {{italy-actor-stub