Giovanni Lombardo Radice

Giovanni Lombardo Radice (born 23 September 1954, Rome, Italy) is an Italian film actor, better known to audiences as John Morghen.

Radice is best known for his villain roles in Italian horror films, and notably for the spectaculary and gruesome death scenes his characters semi-regularly fall victim to.^[1][2] In an interview, he reportedly stated that he wished he had never portrayed Mike Logan in Cannibal Ferox. Radice created his stage name, John Morghen, by taking the anglicized form of his first name (Giovanni becomes John) and using his grandmother's maiden name as his last name (Morghen). His family practically disowned him when they discovered he was using his family name to create incredibly violent films.^[3]

Selected filmography

• Cannibal Apocalypse (1980, aka Apocalypse Domani)
• City of the Living Dead (1980, aka The Gates of Hell)
• The House on the Edge of the Park (1980)
• Cannibal Ferox (1981, aka Make Them Die Slowly)
• Deadly Impact (1984)
• Stage Fright (1987, aka Deliria)
• Phantom of Death (1988, aka Un delitto poco comune)
• The Church (1989, aka La Chiesa)
• The Devil's Daughter (1991, aka La Setta)
• Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth (2000)
• The Soul Keeper (2002)
• Gangs of New York (2002)
• The Omen (2006)
• The Hideout (2007)
• A Day of Violence (2010)
• The Reverend (2011)

References

1. Ernest Mathijs, Jamie Sexton. Cult Cinema. John Wiley & Sons, 2012. ISBN 1444396439.
2. Ernest Mathijs, Xavier Mendik. Alternative Europe: Eurotrash and Exploitation Cinema Since 1945. Wallflower Press, 2004. pp. 9–10/ 106–124. ISBN 1903364930.
3. Giovanni Lombardo Radice Official Site

External links

• Giovanni Lombardo Radice at the Internet Movie Database
• Official website
• Interview at deliria-italiano.de