Mimmo Palmara

Palmara in For One Thousand Dollars Per Day (1966)

Domenico "Mimmo" Palmara (born 25 July 1928) is an Italian actor.

Born in Cagliari, Palmara made his film debut in 1952 as character actor in drama films by eminent directors such as Luchino Visconti, Mario Monicelli and Antonio Pietrangeli,^[1] then obtained main roles in a great number of genre films, especially adventure films and peplum films.,^[1] When the sword and sandals genre declined, he took part at a number of spaghetti westerns in which he is usually credited as Dick Palmer.^[1] A close friend of Sergio Leone, he was the Leone's first choice for the role of Ramon in A Fistful of Dollars; Palmara eventually chose to star in Mario Caiano's Bullets Don't Argue and the role of Ramon was played by Gian Maria Volontè.^[2][3]

Selected filmography

• The Queen of Sheba (1952)
• Roland the Mighty (1956)
• Hercules (1958)
• Sheba and the Gladiator (1959)
• Hercules Unchained (1959)
• The Last Days of Pompeii (1959)
• The Trojan Horse (1961)
• The Colossus of Rhodes (1961)
• Hercules and the Conquest of Atlantis (1961)
• Sodom and Gomorrah (1962)
• Hercules and the Masked Rider (1963)
• Goliath and the Rebel Slave (1963)
• Slave Girls of Sheba (1963)
• Goliath and the Sins of Babylon (1963)
• The Ten Gladiators (1963)
• Pirates of Malaysia (1964)
• The Two Gladiators (1964)
• Bullets Don't Argue (1964)
• Hercules Against Rome (1964)
• 3 Avengers (1964)
• Serenade for Two Spies (1965)
• Left Handed Johnny West (1965)
• Two Sons of Ringo (1966)
• For One Thousand Dollars Per Day (1966)
• The Stranger (1967)
• The Fantastic Argoman (1967)
• The Handsome, the Ugly, and the Stupid (1967)
• Poker with Pistols (1967)
• L'Odissea (1968)
• Vengeance Is My Forgiveness (1968)
• Trusting Is Good... Shooting Is Better (1968)
• Psychopath (1968)
• A Long Ride from Hell (1968)
• Execution (1968)
• Indovina chi viene a merenda? (1969)
• Franco, Ciccio e il pirata Barbanera (1969)
• He Was Called Holy Ghost (1971)
• Panhandle 38 (1972)
• Catene (1974)
• The Arena (1974)
• That Malicious Age (1975)
• Convoy Busters (1978)

References

1. Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Gli attori. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN 8884402697.
2. Marco Giusti. Dizionario del western all'italiana. Mondadori, 2007. ISBN 8804572779.
3. Alex Cox. 10,000 Ways to Die: A Director's Take on the Spaghetti Western. Oldcastle Books Ltd, 2010. ISBN 1842434020.

External links

• Mimmo Palmara at the Internet Movie Database