George Eastman (actor)

George Eastman is an Italian Bmovie actor and screenwriter well known for his frequent collaborations with notorious director Joe DAmato. He is perhaps most famous for his role as the insane, cannibalistic serial killer Nikos Karamanlis in the gory 1980 horror film Anthropophagus The Grim Reaper. He also played a similar role in its 1981 spiritual successor, Absurd. Both films were directed by DAmato and written by Eastman.

Eastman was born in Genoa, Italy and studied at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome and at the Drama School held of Alessandro Fersen. He took his Americanized alias George Eastman when he was cast as a heavy in many spaghetti westerns made in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 1972 he performed the villain in the movie The Call of the Wild together with Charlton Heston . Eastman later became a regular performer in many movies directed by Joe DAmato, for whom he also became a screenwriter. He was a very familiar face in Italian Bcinema in the early 1980s, being generally cast as the villain, thanks to his height and his dark and menacing looks and exaggerated acting style. His most famous movie is the gory horror film Anthropophagous, directed by Joe DAmato in 1980.

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