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Ivano Staccioli

Italian actor (1927–1995)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2026
Entity authorityQ1432538
Source-derived summary

Ivano Staccioli (3 January 1927 – 15 July 1995) was an Italian film actor.

Careetr

Staccioli made 70 appearances between 1960 and 1991, mostly in film. He is best known for his appearances in historical adventures and action or western films in the 1960s. Particularly in the early 1960s he appeared in many gladiatorial films or ancient epics. In 1965 he starred in the western Gold Train and A 008, operazione Sterminio, a spoof of the James Bond genre.

In the mid to late 1960s he was often credited as John Heston for Italian films dubbed for the American audience, particularly his westerns. He also appeared in a number of Italian giallo films, such as Death Walks at Midnight and The Flower with the Petals of Steel. Two of his last films before retiring were controversial Nazi death camp films, KZ9 and SS Girls, both directed by Bruno Mattei.

Editorial summary

“Ivano Staccioli” enters the record as italian actor (1927–1995). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ivano, Staccioli and Italian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1927, 1995, 1960, 1991—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1927-01-03. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ivano, Staccioli and Italian.
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Why this record matters

“Ivano Staccioli” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ivano, Staccioli and Italian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1432538. VIAF identifies the subject as 209044551. The Library of Congress control number is no2018142162. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1927, 1995, 1960 and 1991.

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This entry incorporates text from Ivano Staccioli” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.