Carlo De Mejo
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| Born | 17 January 1945 (age 79) Rome, Italy |
| Occupation | Actor |
Carlo De Mejo (born 17 January 1945) is an Italian actor.
Life and career
Born in Rome, De Mejo is the eldest son of the jazz composer Oscar De Majo and of the actress Alida Valli.[1] After a few miror roles, he had his breakout with the role of a male prostitute in Pier Paolo Pasolini's Teorema.[1] In 1970 he played Claude in the Giuseppe Patroni Griffi's and Victor Spinetti's Italian adaptation of the stage musical Hair.[1] In the following years, he became very active as a character actor in genre films, especially in Lucio Fulci's cult horror films.[1][2]
Selected filmography
- Teorema (1968)
- The Dead Are Alive (1972)
- The Outside Man (1972)
- When Women Were Called Virgins (1972)
- Stateline Motel (1973)
- The Net (1975)
- Terror Express (1979)
- Cindy's Love Games (1979)
- Contamination (1980)
- City of the Living Dead (1980)
- The Other Hell (1981)
- The House by the Cemetery (1981)
- Manhattan Baby (1982)
- Emanuelle Escapes from Hell (1983)
References
- ^ a b c d Roberto Chiti, Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli artisti. Volume 3, Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN 8884402131. Cite error: The named reference "bio" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
- ^ Arnold Blumberg. Zombiemania. Telos Publishing, 2006. ISBN 1845838173.
External links
Media related to Carlo De Mejo at Wikimedia Commons
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