Donal O'Brien

Born Sep. 15 1930,  Pau, France

a.k.a. Donald O'Brian/O'Brien

Spaghetti Western filmography:

Silver Saddle (1978)

Mannaja (1977)

Keoma (1976)

Four of the Apocalypse (1975)

Il Giustiziere di Dio (1972)

Kung Fu Brothers in the Wild West (1973)

Sheriff of Rock Springs (1973)

God Is My Colt .45 (1972)

Jesse and Lester, Two Brothers in a Place Called Trinity (1972)

Finders Killers (1970)

Run, Man, Run (1968)

Donal O'Brien about Sergio Sollima (Run, Man, Run):

"Sollima was considered to be the intellectual among the Western filmmakers. I enjoyed working with him. He was a very intelligent and gifted man."

Donal O'Brien about 'Mannaja' and the chop off his hand:

"I can't remember how they did this effect, but it looked awful! One of the girls said to me that I was made of steel because Maurizio dragged me through the rain with the rope around my neck. That was tough indeed. Poor Maurizio died some time after that in a tennis accident."

Donal O'Brien about William Berger:

"This was a guy who had everything. He was handsome, knew how to act. He could have gone all the way to the top. But he got mixed up with drugs. I got a couple of parts because he was busy or he was arrested. When I made that Crea film, Berger had just been arrested because somebody had left drugs in his place, on the Costa Amalfi. His wife died in prison. I didn't get along with him because he was too hippy or what they call it, and I'm square! I don't drink, I don't smoke, and that's the way it is... But I knew so many psychedelic sophisticates in the early 1950s in Paris, that I just have my problems with them."

Run, Man, Run:

Mannaja: