Dan Vadis
Also Known As: Constantine Daniel Vafiadis
Biography: Dan Vadis was born on January 3, 1938 in Shanghai, China as Constantine Daniel Vafiadis. He was married to Sharon Jessup. He died on June 11, 1987 in Lancaster, California, USA.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Shanghai, China
Adult: No
Birthday: January 03, 1938
Age: 87 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 11, 1987
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Zorikan The Barbarian
Overview: The Film Zorikan The Barbarian
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Death Is Nimble, Death Is Quick
Overview: Two Yanks are hired to protect a rich lady from a sinister underworld group. Lots of jungle thrills, martial arts, ancient temples, huge explosions, & even sci-fi elements. Watch for Harris' great karate fight inside a crumbling temple, surrounded by masked members of an ancient sect.
Genres: Crime Action Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-05-17
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The Scalphunters
Overview: Forced to trade his valuable furs for a well-educated escaped slave, a rugged trapper vows to recover the pelts from the Indians and later the renegades that killed them.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-02-29
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Fort Yuma Gold
Overview: Near the end of the Civil War, an imprisoned Confederate raider is sent under guard to warn both his men and the Army at Fort Yuma that an impending rebel raid is really nothing but a ruse by scoundrels from both sides, in cahoots to take the fort's gold for themselves during the chaos. Soon he slips his treacherous escort and attempts to complete the mission himself.
Genres: Western War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-10-07
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The White Buffalo
Overview: In this strange western version of Moby Dick, Wild Bill Hickok hunts a white buffalo he has seen in a dream. Hickok moves through a variety of uniquely authentic western locations - dim, filthy, makeshift taverns; freezing, slaughterhouse-like frontier towns and beautifully desolate high country - before improbably teaming up with a young Crazy Horse to pursue the creature.
Genres: Western Adventure Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-05-01
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Hercules the Invincible
Overview: Hercules battles to save the population from a giant dragon.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-03-19
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The Seven Magnificent Gladiators
Overview: A bandit leader endowed with supernatural powers by his sorceress mother makes yearly raids on a peasant village. However, the women of the village come into possession of a magic sword, and go in search of a hero who is able to wield it and save their village from the evil bandit.
Genres: Adventure Action Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-07-31
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The Stranger Returns
Overview: The Stranger happens across a murdered postal inspector and a gang of bandits set on a prize of stolen gold which should be transported in a stagecoach. The Stranger, a sharpshooter named En plein and a treacherous postal agent try to get their hands on the gold. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-17
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God Will Forgive My Pistol
Overview: Johnny Texas is asked to inquire about the death of Prescott, a rich landowner accused of having robbed a postal wagon. His investigation upsets Prescott's neighbor, Martin, who will use all possible means to stop him.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-08-07
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Degueyo
Overview: Ramon and his bandit gang launch an attack on Danger City, searching for rumoured hidden treasure and unable to find the loot either kill or take as hostage all the men, leaving only the women and children to produce the treasure or face 'Deguello' - an attack with no quarter. Four men arrive in town searching for Ramon and agree to help protect the town from the bandits.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-02-04
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Hercules vs. the Giant Warriors
Overview: Hercules, having agreed to restore justice to Mycenae, confronts evil Prince Myles. The villain is invested with power over giant bronze warriors by his mother Pasiphaë, a sorceress in Hades. Myles assassinates the king and abducts his cousin, Queen Ate, through whom he plans to inherit the throne. Although Zeus temporarily removes Hercules' strength for killing Eurystheus, an innocent man framed by Myles, the god restores his powers. Hercules then saves Ate and destroys Myles, Pasiphaë, and the giant warriors.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-01-30
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The Ten Gladiators
Overview: Roccia and a band of fellow gladiators join forces with a patrician named Glaucus Valerius to replace Nero, (and his evil henchman, Tigelinus), with a new emperor: Servius Galba. During the course of this bloody struggle, the gladiators lose their mentor and trainer - Resius - and then must rescue Lidia, Resius' beautiful niece, from death on the cross.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-12-14
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Bronco Billy
Overview: An idealistic, modern-day cowboy struggles to keep his Wild West show afloat in the face of hard luck and waning interest.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-06-11
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Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators
Overview: The story of Spartacus and 10 other gladiators who rebelled against the bloody coliseum sports. They escape and are faced at every turn by Roman soldiers bent on taking them back to the Coliseum - dead or alive!
Genres: Adventure Comedy History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-23
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Cahill: United States Marshal
Overview: J.D. Cahill is the toughest U.S. Marshal they've got, just the sound of his name makes bad guys stop in their tracks, so when his two young boy's want to get his attention they decide to rob a bank. They end up getting more than they bargained for.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-07-11
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Triumph of the Ten Gladiators
Overview: The ten gladiators are hired to travel to Arbela, a small country on the outskirts of the Roman Empire to learn if Parthia is planning to war with Rome. Upon arriving, the heroes decide to kidnap the beautiful Parthian queen and spirit her to Syria to serve as a hostage.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-11-26
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Any Which Way You Can
Overview: Philo takes part in a bare knuckle fight - as he does - to make some more money than he can earn from his car repair business. He decides to retire from fighting, but when the Mafia come along and arrange another fight, he is pushed into it. A motorcycle gang and an orangutan called Clyde all add to the 'fun'.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-17
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Colossus of the Arena
Overview: A powerful man posing as a gladiator in Rome's fourth century discovers a plan to put the beautiful Queen in prison, which he thwarts by exposing a sinister duke as a traitor.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-13
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The Rebel Gladiators
Overview: In order to persuade the Emperor to spare his village, the mighty Ursus is forced to fight the greatest gladiator in Rome in the Roman Arena.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-11-15
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The Pirates of the Mississippi
Overview: European produced Western based on the novel by Friedrich Gerstäcker, set in the 19th century in a town on the banks of the Mississippi River. The area is plagued by a gang of pirates under the leadership of Captain Kelly, who live on an island in the river, from where they operate raids on passing steamboats and traders rafts, robbing them of their cargo and murdering the crews. Townspeople and settlers do their best to put an end to the crimes and rid themselves of the pirates and their daring leader.
Genres: Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-10-17
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Every Which Way but Loose
Overview: Philo Beddoe is your regular, easygoing, truck-driving guy. He's also the best bar-room brawler west of the Rockies. And he lives with a 165-pound orangutan named Clyde. Like other guys, Philo finally falls in love - with a flighty singer who leads him on a screwball chase across the American Southwest. Nothing's in the way except a motorcycle gang, some cops, and legendary brawler Tank Murdock.
Genres: Action Comedy Adventure Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-16
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High Plains Drifter
Overview: A gunfighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago. After gunning down three gunmen who tried to kill him, the townsfolk decide to hire the Stranger to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.
Genres: Western Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-04-19
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Mr. Horn
Overview: Western saga based on the legend of frontier folk hero Tom Horn, including his role in the trackdown of Geronimo in the 1880s with his mentor and pal, Al Sieber, the fabled Indian scout, his later days as a Pinkerton detective, and the way he was used by both sides in turn-of-the-century cattle wars, leading to his tragic death.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-02-01
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