– He did not suffer. He had us all with him, and his last words were “thank you”, said Spencer’s son, Giuseppe Pedersoli, the Italian news agency Ansa.
Spencer was born in Naples in 1929 and baptized Carlo Pedersoli. First in 1967 he took the name Bud Spencer, allegedly after his favorite beer Budweiser and favorite actor Spencer Tracy.
Besides being western movie star, he was a very competent swimmer in his younger days. Spencer, then Pedersoli, was the first Italian who swam 100m Freestyle in under a minute, and he represented the homeland in the Olympics both in Helsinki (1952) and Melbourne (1956).
Among Spencer’s most famous films are “They Call Me Trinity” “Trinity Is Still My Name,” “Ace High” and “All the Way, Boys.” He played most of the films with Terence Hill, whom he met in 1959.
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