Name: Tomas Milian
Date of Birth: 3 March 1932 Father was a general under the Cuban dictatorship. In 1933 the dictatorship was overthrown and his father arrested. His father later committed suicide in 1945 in his home with Tomas as an eyewitness. Influenced into the acting profession by James Dean after watching "East of Eden." Discovered by director Mauro Bolognini after appearing on stage in Italy. Tomas began in Italian features playing sensitive, spoiled bourgeoisie. After the tremendous success of Sergio Leone's "A Fistful of Dollars" in 1964 starring Clint Eastwood, Tomas grubbed up his own image and propelled himself to stardom in likewise fashion with such classics as The Bounty Killer (1966) The Big Gundown (1967) with Lee Van Cleef, Face to Face (1967), Django Kill! (1967) and Run, Man, Run (1968). ... In the 70s he specialized in playing lone-wolf anti-heroes in giallos and crime features. He started an extremely successful series of tough, violent films as the small time crook Er Monnezza (3 times) and Inspector Nico Giraldi (12 times).' Returned to the US in the late 80s and has played ethnic bad guys for the most part. In most of his Italian comedies from the 1970s, his voice was dubbed by Ferruccio Amendola, who provided a strong roman accent. However, Milian had real knowledge of roman slang and generally wrote his own lines. Longtime friend of fellow actor Ray Lovelock. One son, Tommaso (b.1982). Read more Tomas Milian movies (actor)User Comments |
