Tomas Milian

Tomás Quintín Rodríguez-Varona Milián Salinas de la Fé y Álvarez de la Campa (March 3, 1933 – March 22, 2017) was a Cuban-born actor and musician, who worked extensively in American and Italian films. Born in Havana and educated at the Actors Studio in New York, Milian began his acting career in the United States before moving to Italy in the late 1950s, where he became best known for the emotional intensity and humor he brought to starring roles in genre films.

Throughout the late-1960s and early-1970s, Milian established himself as a dynamic leading actor in a series of Spaghetti Western films, most notably The Big Gundown (1966), Django Kill... If You Live, Shoot! (1967), as well as Sergio Corbucci's parody of the genre The White, the Yellow, and the Black (1975), and Dennis Hopper's Western-influenced arthouse film The Last Movie (1971).

After the decline of Spaghetti Westerns, Milian transitioned to poliziottesco films. He was acclaimed as a psychotic killer in Almost Human (1974), and appeared in Emergency Squad (1974), The Tough Ones (1976) and The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist (1977). Returning to the United States in 1985, Milian performed supporting roles in movies like JFK (1991), Amistad (1997), Traffic (2000), and The Lost City (2005), and the television series Oz (1997).