RIP “George”

The Italian film industry has lost one of its wildest facial expressions with the passing of George Eastman at the age of 83.

The actor, writer, and (on a couple of occasions) director formerly known as Luigi Montefiori actually did have some contact with “respectable” cinema like Fellini’s Satyricon and even a couple of Hollywood roles, but he was a lot better known for his work at the lower end of the Italian film industry, especially with Joe D’Amato; you can see him above in D’Amato’s Anthropophagus (1980) which he also wrote, but he also did some of Joe’s early skinflicks including Erotic Nights of the Living Dead and Porno Holocaust. I have seen the former and it convinced me not to go in search of the latter; it’s possibly the only film I’ve seen where I was actually kind of happy that I got the cut version…

Author: James R.

The idiot who owns and runs this site. He does not actually look like Jon Pertwee.