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Luciano Pigozzi

{{Short description|Italian actor (1927–2008)}}

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{{Infobox person

| image = Luciano pigozzi.jpg

| caption = Pigozzi in Syndicate Sadists (1975)

| name = Luciano Pigozzi

| birth_date = {{Birth date|1927|1|10|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Novellara, Italy

| death_date = {{death date and age|2008|6|14|1927|1|10|df=yes}}

| death_place = Rome, Italy

| occupation = Actor

| yearsactive = 1954–1989

| other_names = Alan Collins

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Luciano Pigozzi, also known professionally as Alan Collins (10 January 1927 – 14 June 2008), was an Italian character actor. A long-time staple of Italian genre cinema, Pigozzi was noted for his resemblance to Peter Lorre{{cite book |last=Lucas |first=Tim |authorlink=Tim Lucas|title=Mario Bava: All the Colors of the Dark |publisher=Video Watchdog |year=2007 |page=782 |isbn=978-0-9633756-1-2}} and appeared in such films as Human Cobras,{{cite web |title=L'Uomo Piu Velenoso Del Cobra (1971) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/142579/L-Uomo-Piu-Velenoso-Del-Cobra/details |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151120054958/https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/142579/L-Uomo-Piu-Velenoso-Del-Cobra/details |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2015 |archive-date=20 November 2015}} Yor, the Hunter from the Future,{{cite web |work= The New York Times |series= Yor the Hunter from the Future |title= 'YOR, THE HUNTER,' WITH A CAVE MAN HERO |author= Maslin, Janet |authorlink= Janet Maslin |date= 21 August 1983 |url= https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9806EEDA103BF932A1575BC0A965948260}} Ivanhoe, the Norman Swordsman,{{cite web |title=La Spada Normanna (1971) |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/142479/La-Spada-Normanna/details |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151120052731/https://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/142479/La-Spada-Normanna/details |department=Movies & TV Dept. |work=The New York Times |date=2015 |archive-date=20 November 2015}} Blood and Black Lace,[https://web.archive.org/web/20151120085120/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/movie/91049/Blood-and-Black-Lace/cast The New York Times] Libido and perhaps his goriest role in Baron Blood.

Born in Novellara, province of Reggio Emilia, in Italy; he appeared in more than one hundred films between 1954 and 1989, including many 1960s Italian thrillers such as Terror-Creatures from the Grave, Werewolf in a Girls' Dormitory and The Whip and the Body. Pigozzi died on 14 June 2008, at the of age 81.

Selected filmography

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  • {{IMDb name|0683119|Luciano Pigozzi}}

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Category:1927 births

Category:2008 deaths

Category:People from the Province of Reggio Emilia

Category:Male actors from Emilia-Romagna

Category:Italian male film actors

Category:20th-century Italian male actors