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

—  Donald O'Brien (actor)

Euro Trash Cinema magazine interview (March 1996)

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Italian film and TV actor 1930–2003

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