George Hilton (actor)

George Hilton
Hilton in Any Gun Can Play (1967)
Born	16 July 1934 Montevideo, Uruguay
Occupation	Actor

George Hilton (born 1934, sometimes credited as Jorge Hilton) is an actor well known for his many spaghetti western performances. He was born Jorge Hill Acosta y Lara on 16 July 1934 in Montevideo, Uruguay.

Hilton began his career as an extra with bit parts in the mid-fifties. In 1967 he appeared to great effect as "Stranger" in Any Gun Can Play (aka Go Kill and Come Back) with Edd Byrnes and Gilbert Roland. He went on to become one of the major stars of spaghetti westerns eventually playing Sartana in the last film of the series I Am Sartana, Trade Your Guns for a Coffin when Gianni Garko left the part. Besides westerns Hilton appeared in gialli and in more conventional crime and action films when the spaghetti western craze ended.

Selected filmography

• Alto Paraná (1958)
• The Masked Man Against the Pirates (1964)
• Two Mafiosi Against Goldfinger (1965) (as "007")
• Two Sons of Ringo (1966)
• Massacre Time (1966)
• Any Gun Can Play (1967)
• Il tempo degli avvoltoi (1967)
• Halleluja for Django (1967)
• Poker with Pistols (1967)
• The Moment To Kill (1968)
• Trusting Is Good... Shooting Is Better (1968)
• A Bullet for Sandoval (1968)
• One More to Hell (1968)
• The Ruthless Four (1968)
• The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)
• Salt in the Wound (1969)
• The Battle of El Alamein (1969)
• Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin (1970)
• They Call Me Hallelujah (1971)
• The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1971)
• The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (1971)
• The Case of the Bloody Iris (1971)
• They Call Me Hallelujah (1971)
• All the Colors of the Dark (1972)
• My Dear Killer (1972)
• The Devil Has Seven Faces (1972)
• Return of Hallelujah (1972)
• The Two Faces of Fear (1972)
• Seven Hours of Violence (1973)
• Man Called Invincible (1973)
• Holy God, Here Comes the Passatore! (1973)
• The Killer Must Kill Again (1975)
• Mark of Zorro (1976)
• Double Game (1977)
• El Macho (1977)
• Taxi Girl (1977)
• Sweetly You'll Die Through Love (1977)
• Blazing Flowers (1978)
• Don't Play with Tigers (1982)
• The Secret Nights of Lucrezia Borgia (1982)
• The Atlantis Interceptors (1983)
• Dinner with a Vampire (TV movie, 1988)
• College (TV Series, 1990)

External links

• George Hilton at the Internet Movie Database
• George Hilton at AllMovie