Rod Dana (born Roger Francke; 8 August 1934) is an American former actor, writer and model, mainly active in Italian cinema.

Life and career

Born in

Vernal Vernal, the county seat and largest city in Uintah County, Utah, Uintah County is in northeastern Utah, approximately east of Salt Lake City and west of the Colorado border. As of the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, the city populatio ...

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, Dana started his career as a runway and photographic model in the late 1950s.Enrico Lancia, Fabio Melelli. ''Dizionario del cinema italiano. Attori stranieri del nostro cinema''. Gremese 2006, . After occasionally appearing in minor roles in a number of B-movies, he moved to Italy to pursue an acting career. In the second half of the 1960s starred in a number of genre films, mainly

Eurospy Eurospy film, or Spaghetti spy film (when referring to Italian-produced films in the genre), is a genre of spy films produced in Europe, especially in Italy, France, and Spain, that either sincerely imitated or else parodied the British James B ...

and

Spaghetti Western 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 ...

films, often credited as Robert Mark. In 2003 Dana wrote a novel, ''Conversations with the Devil: Dialogues with the Soul'', under the

pen name A pen name, also called a ''nom de plume'' or a literary double, is a pseudonym (or, in some cases, a variant form of a real name) adopted by an author and printed on the title page or by-line of their works in place of their real name. A pen na ...

Jon Christian Eagle.

Filmography

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* 1934 births People from Vernal, Utah 20th-century American male actors American emigrants to Italy American male film actors Male models from Utah Living people Male actors from Utah {{US-film-actor-1930s-stub