Giuliano Gemma

Born in Rome on 2 September 1938, Gemma moved from stunt work into leading roles just as the Italian Western exploded. Duccio Tessari cast him as the title gunslinger in A Pistol for Ringo in 1965, then again as Captain Montgomery Brown in The Return of Ringo the same year — two films that set the template. Michele Lupo's Arizona Colt followed in 1966, Tonino Valerii's Day of Anger in 1967. For a decade he anchored the genre's most polished entries, returning to play Michael "California" Random in Lupo's California in 1977. He died in a car accident on 1 October 2013, seventy-five and still wo…