Erstellt am 01.06.2006 - 15:37

Naja, ich glaube, es gibt für alles einen Namen, das stimmt schon. Ist 'transsexuell' nicht doch richtig?

F: O:

Erstellt am 02.06.2006 - 09:37

Doch, dürfte stimmen. Habe zwar nur den ersten Absatz gelesen (war zu faul), aber demnach schon:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transsexuell

Erstellt am 02.06.2006 - 13:45

Yes, it is true that many of the black actors I listed are very unknown and some of them were only in 1 or 2 films. I think that Jane Garrett from "La bestia uccide a sangue freddo" is probably a pseudonym but I'm not sure. I have pictures of most (but not all) of these actors if anyone wants that...

I looked around a little more and here are some more black actors from Italian films:

Francisco Charles
Joseph Dickson
Antonio Fargas (La Notte degli squali)
Hugh Quarshie (La chiesa)

Marcia Briscoe
Catana Cayetano
Barbara McNair (Paroxismus)
Luigina Rocchi (at least I think so)

Erstellt am 12.06.2006 - 19:36

Oh, I find this absolutely interesting. Hugh Quarshie is a name well known to me (from British films, I think), but I never realized that he was black...

Lovely Catana Cayetano played in a number of German films before she vanished into obscurity, and her only 'Italian' entry, La capanna dello zio Tom, certainly features more black actors, most of them otherwise unknown: Dorothee Ellison, Rhet Kirby, Felix White, Harry Tamekloe, Aziz Saad, George Goodman and the aforementioned Harold Bradley, as well as title star Kitzmiller (who died two months before the film opened) and singer Olive Moorefield who had the 'Big Black Mama' roles in Germany's 50s cinema.

I'd like to know who Francisco Charles and Joseph Dickson are.

FRank

Erstellt am 13.06.2006 - 15:22

...und noch einmal:

Jussara: das brasilianische Mädchen, das in Giuliano Montaldos Ad ogni costo (1967) auf einem Hausboot lebt. Sicher eine Brasilianerin, aber anscheinend ihr einziger Film.

Isaac Hayes und Paula Kelly in Duccio Tessaris Uomini duri (1974). Die beiden sind natürlich auch amerikanischen Filmen reichlich bekannt.

F: O:

Erstellt am 13.06.2006 - 15:52

Catana Cayetano was also in 12+1 (1969)

Jeannie Bell has a small role in Casanova & Co (1976) - she was otherwise only in American films.

Another addition to the list is Josette Martial. I think she is a singer but she was also in a few Italian films.

Also, in the film Noa Noa (1974), there are many black actors. I can't identify all of them but I know that alle the women in the film were black, so we can add to the list: Mariana Camara, Vera De Oliveira, Karen Grannus and Carmen Salamon. De Oliveira was also in Le avventure e gli amori di Scaramouche (1975). Does anyone have that film or a picture of her? I'd like to find out who she is in Noa Noa...

I see know that there is a picture of Francisco Charles here: http://users.pandora.be/divx_repair/cul … ry001.html

Erstellt am 13.06.2006 - 19:05

Ah! I always remember more after I have written something here!!!

Ambroise Bia

Melba Englander (Mosè, la legge del deserto, 1975)

Carin McDonald

And does anyone know the name of the black actress that plays Michele Placido's girlfriend in ...e tanta paura (1976)? She had a pretty big role. Cecilia Polizzi maybe????

Erstellt am 15.06.2006 - 15:11

Sensational!

Francisco Charles' face is unknown to me, but that certainly won't say much. To me, he looks rather Mexican or so than Afro-American, but that may be due to the picture.

I'm not of much help to asnwer your questions, but here's an addition: 'Hams', who played in Amleto Palermi's Il corsaro Nero (1936), is said to be a black person, and it seems pretty singular to be mentioned in a film in those days.

You're right about Noa Noa, and there's another film set in the Caribbean with mainly black actors but I can't recall the name...

Frank

Erstellt am 15.06.2006 - 15:29

Ah, I remember: it's Lorenzo Ricciardi's Venere creola (1961) which probably has an all-black cast:

Calvin Lockhart as Melchior de la Cruz
Helen Williams as Jenny Bell
Issa Arnal as Fafa
Sheila Gibson as Dolores de la Fuente
Berenice Figuera as Paulina Mattias
Bany Velverton as Marianne


some pictures

Erstellt am 15.06.2006 - 16:21

Very very interesting!

Two other Italian films with an almost all black cast:

Il fiore delle mille e una notte (1974) by Pasolini. Lots of black actors here but most of them unknown.

Il decamerone nero (1972) by Piero Vivarelli. Another decamerotica film but filmed in Senegal with an all black cast. Only Beryl Cunningham (Vivarelli's wife) is familiar.

Of course we also have Shulamith Lasri (a.k.a. Sharon Leslie), the star of Emanuelle nera No. 2 (1976).

And I guess Iris Peynado, who I would say is a mulatto.