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Lorenzo Robledo

{{Short description|Spanish film actor (1918–2006)}}

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| name = Lorenzo Robledo

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1918|07|03|df=y}}

| birth_place = Madrid, Spain

| death_date = September 2006 (aged 88)

| death_place = Madrid, Spain

| occupation = Film actor

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Lorenzo Robledo (3 July 1918 – September 2006) was a Spanish film actor, who made over 85 appearances in film between 1956 and 1982. He is a familiar face in Italian Westerns, having appeared in a total of 32 spaghetti Westerns throughout the 1960s and early 1970s.

Robledo is probably best known for his roles in Sergio Leone's spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s and 1970s, portraying minor characters in the trilogy of films A Fistful of Dollars (1964),{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-VNAAQAAIAAJ |title=Western all'italiana: The specialists |first1=Stefano |last1=Piselli |first2=Riccardo |last2=Morrocchi |publisher=Glittering images |date=1 January 1998 |page=125 |isbn=9788882750343 |editor-first=Antonio |editor-last=Bruschini |editor2-first=Antonio |editor2-last=Tentori}} For a Few Dollars More (1965),{{cite news |url=https://diariolaopinion.com.ar/noticia/214322/funcion-especial-sobre-el-western |title=Función especial sobre el Western |date=27 March 2018 |access-date=7 January 2019 |publisher=Medios CMS |language=es |newspaper=Diario La Opinión |archive-date=7 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190107233136/https://diariolaopinion.com.ar/noticia/214322/funcion-especial-sobre-el-western |url-status=dead }} The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966),{{cite news |url=https://www.ideal.es/almeria/almeria/doce-clasicos-sirvieron-20171114110318-nt.html |title=Doce clásicos (y uno más) que se sirvieron de Almería para el rodaje |author=M. C. |date=14 November 2017 |access-date=7 January 2019 |newspaper=Ideal |location=Almería |language=es |publisher=Vocento}} and Once Upon a Time in the West in 1968.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=c-4cAQAAIAAJ |title=Sergio Leone: el hombre, el rito, la muerte |first=Carlos |last=Aguilar |publisher=Diputación de Almería |year=2000 |page=89|isbn=9788481082203 }} He acted in many other Westerns prolifically including the tortured sheriff in Four of the Apocalypse (1975).{{Cite book |last=Davies |first=Clive |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Co5XDwAAQBAJ&dq=%22Lorenzo+Robledo%22+%22Four+of+the+Apocalypse%22&pg=PT477 |title=Spinegrinder: The Movies Most Critics Won't Write About |date=2015-03-06 |publisher=SCB Distributors |isbn=978-1-909394-06-3 |language=en}}

His most notable role in Leone's films (where he is more recognizable) is in For a Few Dollars More when he plays the character of a cornered enemy of the main evil villain who tortures him and murders his family before killing him{{Citation needed|date=November 2014}}.

Robledo died in September 2006 in Madrid.{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=I3zGCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA314 |title=Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2006: Film, Television, Radio, Theatre, Dance, Music, Cartoons and Pop Culture |first=Harris M. |last=Lentz III |publisher=McFarland Publishing |date=26 April 2007 |page=314 |isbn=9780786429332}}

Selected filmography

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Category:Spanish male film actors

Category:Male Western (genre) film actors

Category:Male Spaghetti Western actors

Category:Male actors from Madrid

Category:1918 births

Category:2006 deaths

Category:20th-century Spanish male actors