Tomas Milian

At 84 years old, Tomas Milian has this physical status:

Tomas Milian (born Tomás Quintan Rodriguez-Varona Milian Salinas, De La Fé y Alvarez De La Campa, 1933-1933) was a Cuban American actor and singer known for his emotional sensitivity and humour in European genre films. Milian, a Lee Strasberg student, studied method acting at the Actors Studio in New York City.

he was discovered by director Mauro Bolognini and appeared in several drama films throughout the late 1950s and early 1960s, including Raphael in Carol Reed's The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965).

Milian established himself as a dynamic leading actor in a string of Spaghetti Western films, most notably The Big Gundown (1966) and Django Kill.

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(1967): Milian returned to starring roles in poliziottesco films following a decrease in the fame of Spaghetti Westerns.

After receiving acclaim for his role as a psychotic killer in Almost Human (1974), the Rat and the Fist (1977).

Milian started supporting roles in film productions, including JFK (1991), Amistad (1997), Traffic (2000), and The Lost City (2005), after returning to the United States in 1985.

Milian died in 2017.

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Career

Milian went to Italy in 1958 to attend a theatre festival in Spoleto, after starting his career in the United States. He eventually decided to move to Italy, where he lived for more than 25 years, and became a very popular performer. In 1959's La notte brava, he was his first film appearance in Italy. Milián's lines in Italian (or in English, depending on the film), although his voice was usually dubbed due to his accent. He appeared in arthouse films and worked with writers including Mauro Bolognini and Luchino Visconti.

Milián, a filmmaker who produced "intellective" films, was dissatisfied with his deal with producer Franco Cristaldi and considered returning to the United States. He wanted to start over, so he took the opportunity to act as a bandit in a Spaghetti Western called The Bounty Killer. The film boosted his career and resulted in his stay in Italy. He made a name for himself in the Spaghetti Western style, in which he played Mexican bandits or revolutionaries. In 1966, he appeared in The Ugly Ones (1966), The Big Gundown (1966), Django Kill...

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Face to Face (1967), Run, Man, Run (1968), Tepepa (1968), Compaeros (1969), Sonny and Jed (1972), Life Is Tough, Providence, Eh Providence? Four of the Apocalypse (1972) and Four of the Apocalypse (1975).

Milián remained a prominent actor in several genre films as the Spaghetti Westerns dwindled, playing both villains and heroes in various polizieschi films. In the film Don't Torture a Duckling, he appeared with Barbara Bouchet. In addition to his appearance in Almost Human (1974) and appearances in Emergency Squad (1974), The Tough Ones (1976), and Rat and Fist (1977), and Umberto Lenzi's Er Monnezza films (1976-1980), beginning with Free Hand for a Tough Cop). During this period, he directed a Duckling (1972) and the non-genre films The Last Movie (1981), Identification of a Woman (1982) and Monsignor (1982).

In a variety of crime-comedy pictures, he later turned to comedy, portraying the recurring characters of petty theft perpetrator Monnezza and Serpico-like police officer Nico Giraldi. Milián wrote his own lines in Roman slang, despite being sluggish by Ferruccio Amendola at the time. Milián's innovative use of romanesco (Roman dialect) made him a cult performer in Italy. "At the cinemas as soon as Tomás Milián came on screen, it was like being at the stadium," Bruno Corbucci, the film's director, said.

Monnezza and Nico were occasionally confused by Italian audiences, who often referred to them as Monnezza, or Er Monnezza (Da garbage in Roman slang), and Milián closely associate Milián with these performances.

Milián also appeared in non-genre photographs, including Bernardo Bertolucci's La Luna for which he was voted Best Support Actor and Michelangelo Antonioni's Identity of a Woman.

Milián, who grew older, voted to return to the United States. He appeared in Sidney Pollack's Havana, Steven Spielberg's Amistad, Steven Soderbergh's Traffic, Steven Soderbergh's Traffic, as well as Andy Garca's The Lost City of Revolutionary Cuba. He has appeared on stage as well. In the film version of Mario Vargas Llosa's book The Feast of the Goat, he portrayed Generalisimo Rafael Trujillo Molina.

On March 22, 2017, Milian was discovered dead from a stroke at his Miami home.

He was named with the Leone in Memoriam award at the 7o Almer Western Film Festival on October 11, 2017. Luis Santeiro, his friend, discovered it.

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