Lou Castel
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| Born | 28 May 1943 Bogotá, Colombia |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1963-present |
Lou Castel (born 28 May 1943) is a Colombian-born Italian actor known primarily for his work in Italian films.[1]
Biography
Born Ulv Quarzell in Bogotá, Castel moved to Europe as a young man. Interested in acting from an early age, he attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, but was quickly kicked out. His first movie role was an uncredited extra in The Leopard (1963). Two years later, he gained international fame for his performance in Fists in the Pocket, in which he played the epileptic Alessandro, who murders his mother and his brother. He later played Jeff, the temperamental bisexual film director in Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Fassbinder himself portrayed the film's producer.
In the following decades, Castel worked with European directors such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Wim Wenders, Philippe Garrel, and Olivier Assayas. Though the quality of the films he acted in were quite disparate, ranging from arthouse films to cheap exploitation, Castel always chose roles that reflected his militant leftist beliefs. He has a son from the actress Marcella Michelangeli. Castel remains active in his profession.
Selected filmography
References
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External links
- Lou Castel at the Internet Movie Database
- Lou Castel, "My 'State of Things'," tr. by Rainer J. Hanshe, Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics (spring 2014) 278–280.
- Lou Castel, "Before / After the filming of The Stoning of St. Stephen," tr. by Rainer J. Hanshe, Hyperion: On the Future of Aesthetics (spring 2014) 281–288.
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