Do you know? Carlo Pedersoli took the name Bud Spencer because of his favorite beer brand
Italian actor Bud Spencer was born on October 31, 1929 and is an inseparable partner of Terence Hill. This duo is often referred to as the Stan and Panja of the Italian Spaghetti Western. He was born in Naples as Carlo Pedersoli, and is said to have weighed 6 kg at birth. Born into a wealthy family, with a German tutor, he had a difficult time with Italian, especially the Neapolitan dialect. However, the wealth did not last long, the Pedersoli family was shattered when a ship moored there exploded in front of the iron factory in their port. In the scarce years that followed, the family moved frequently.
Carlo started swimming at the age of eight in a local sports club. At first, he was just walking for his own pleasure, even in high school he had no aspirations of becoming an athlete. He finished high school at the age of seventeen, with above-average results. After graduating, he went on to study chemistry at the University of Rome, but soon stopped because his family moved to South America. In Rio de Janeiro, he also worked as a factory worker on the assembly line while trying to learn Portuguese.
It was during these years that he fell in love with Brazilian music. The young man was only two years away from his homeland, in 1948 he tried to live again in Italy. He enrolled in law school and continued his sports career. In 1948, he won the Italian championship in breaststroke, and in 1950 he became the champion in the 100-meter freestyle in under a minute.
That same year, as a member of the Italian national team, he became the European champion and the team won a silver medal at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics. In 1956, he was still present at the Helsinki Olympics. five-round games were held in Melbourne, but he did not participate in several world competitions. In addition to swimming, he also achieved achievements as a heavyweight boxer.
In 1960, he married Maria Amato, the daughter of a successful and influential producer. They lived in an exemplary marriage, and they had two daughters, Cristiana and Diamante, and a son, Giuseppe. He started out as a film actor with a supporting role, and thanks to his athletic build, he was cast as a Roman bodyguard in the Oscar-winning American film Quo vadis, shot in Italy in 1950. years later, and when, in 1967, he had to say goodbye to water polo due to weight gain, director Giuseppe Colizzi approached him and he agreed to take the lead role in the Western comedy God Forgives , I Don’t. In this pasta west, he appeared as Bud Spencer, along with his good friend and later good friend, Terence Hill.
“According to legend, he took his last name out of respect for Spencer Tracy, and Bud stands for his favorite brand of beer.” This was their first movie where the tear-jerking jokes were only surpassed by the sheer number of slaps, and in the end the villains received their well-deserved punishment. After that, the famous wrestling couple made a lot of money in a number of comedies: The Devil’s Right and Left Hand (1971), We’re Getting Angry If (1973), And We’re Getting Angry Again (1978), Kincs ami Nilla (1981), Superhekusok (1985).