Ignazio Spalla

Who was Ignazio Spalla?

Ignazio Spalla was an Italian film actor.

Born in Siena, Spalla was mainly active in spaghetti westerns, in which he usually played roles of Mexicans, gunfighters and outlaws. His first roles of weight were in 1965, in Marino Girolami's Bullet in the Flesh and in Giorgio Ferroni's Blood for a Silver Dollar.

In the '70s he focused his activity in the sub-genre of comic spaghetti, and his career basically declined together with Italo-Western. Outside this genre, Spalla's credits include Eduardo De Filippo's Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand, Lucio Fulci's Beatrice Cenci and Pasquale Festa Campanile's Hitch-Hike.