In January , the family moved to South America [4] and Pedersoli discontinued his studies. From to , he worked in the Italian consulate in Recife, Brazil, [5] where he learned to speak fluent Portuguese. As a professional swimmer in his youth, Spencer was the first Italian to swim the m freestyle in less than one minute when on 19 September he swam the distance in In the Mediterranean Games in Alexandria Egypt , he won a silver medal in the same m freestyle event.
As a water polo player, he won the Italian Championship in with S. Lazio [7] and the gold medal at Mediterranean Games in Barcelona with the Italian national team. His swimming career ended abruptly in Pedersoli's first film role was in Quel fantasma di mio marito , an Italian comedy shot in and released in In the following years, his son Giuseppe was born , followed by Cristiana , his contract with RCA expired and his father-in-law died Pedersoli became a producer of documentaries for the national public broadcasting company RAI.
In film director Giuseppe Colizzi offered him a role in God Forgives I Don't! Although Spencer had met Girotti before on the set of Hannibal in , this was the moment they went on to become a film duo. The film director asked the two actors to change their names, deeming them to be too Italian-sounding for a Western movie: Pedersoli chose Bud Spencer, with Bud inspired by Budweiser beer and Spencer by the actor Spencer Tracy.
While Hill's characters were agile and youthful, Spencer always played the 'phlegmatic, grumpy strong-arm man with a blessed, naive child's laughter and a golden heart'. A jazz musician and a stunt man are the spitting image of two millionaire brothers. They take the job to replace them in Rio de Janeiro when someone plans to assassinate them. PG 96 min Action, Comedy, Crime.
The money and the 2 others were never found. The Trinity bros. Fun fights. Seay , William 'Bo' Jim. Votes: 7, PG min Comedy, Family, Western. Two brothers who hate each other are going to spend Christmas with their mother.
She tries to get them together. Votes: 3, Sign In. Copy from this list Export Report this list. Refine See titles to watch instantly, titles you haven't rated, etc. Feature Film IMDb user rating average 1 1. Release year or range to ». Hannibal 12 min Action, Adventure, Biography 5.
Error: please try again. God Forgives I Don't! Blackie the Pirate 12 99 min Comedy, Action, Adventure 5. All these productions were reasonably successful, but he and Spencer would only rise to world fame with the Trinity movies. The genesis of the first Trinity movie, They call me Trinity, is still a little obscure.
Only relatively late it was decided to make a comedy. The success was enormous and breathed new life in the industry of the Italian genre movie. Hill was now the most popular actor within the Italian genre movie industry. While he had been used as a kind of ersatz Franco Nero a few years earlier, Franco Nero was now cast as an ersatz Terence Hill in several comedy westerns! His fame resulted in two starring roles in films conceived and - partially or largely — directed by Sergio Leone : the classic My Name is Nobody and the less successful sequel A Genius, two Partners and a Dupe.
Although the films had bigger budgets and usually excellent directors Colizzi, Barboni, even Corbucci , none of them was as funny nor as successful as the Trinities.
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