1. Tomas Quintin Rodriguez-Varona Milian Salinas de la Fe y Alvarez de la Campa was a Cuban-born actor with American and Italian citizenship, known for the emotional intensity and humor he brought to starring roles in European genre films.
14 Facts About Tomas Milian
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Tomas Milian was born in Havana as the son of a Cuban general.
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Tomas Milian's father was arrested, jailed, and later committed suicide on December 31,1946.
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Tomas Milian then decided to leave Cuba and pursue his wishes of being an actor.
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Tomas Milian settled in the United States to study at New York's Actors Studio and later became an American citizen.
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Tomas Milian eventually decided to relocate to Italy, where he lived for over 25 years, becoming a very successful performer.
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Tomas Milian initially starred in arthouse movies and worked with directors such as Mauro Bolognini and Luchino Visconti.
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Tomas Milian became a star of the Spaghetti Western genre, where he often played Mexican bandits or revolutionaries, roles in which he spoke in his real voice.
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Tomas Milian starred in The Ugly Ones, The Big Gundown, Django Kill.
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Tomas Milian starred with Barbara Bouchet in the giallo Don't Torture a Duckling.
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Tomas Milian later turned to comedy, playing the recurrent characters of petty thief Monnezza and Serpico-like police officer Nico Giraldi in a variety of crime-comedy pictures.
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Tomas Milian appeared in non-genre pictures, such as Bernardo Bertolucci's La Luna, for which he won a Nastro d'Argento for Best supporting Actor, and Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification of a Woman.
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Tomas Milian appeared in Sydney Pollack's Havana, Steven Spielberg's Amistad, Steven Soderbergh's Traffic as well as Andy Garcia's The Lost City, about Revolutionary Cuba.
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Tomas Milian was found dead from a stroke at his home in Miami on 22 March 2017.