"(Gordon Mitchell) weighed 220 pounds when he did these muscle pictures, and he went down to 160 pounds for this movie, like nothing."
Donal Timothée O'Brien, commonly known as Donald O'Brien, was an Irish-French actor who appeared in dozens of film, stage, and television roles over a 40-year career. He was particularly known for his performances in Spaghetti Western films of the late-1960s and '70s, as well as later appearances in other Italian genre productions.
"[Camilla Fulci] was about 15 or so at the time. I tried to remind her of her riding along the set [of 1975s Four of the Apocalypse). She looked very strange, when I said that. A stuntman led me away and showed me that the lower half of the poor girls body was paralyzed because of a riding accident, just like that of Christopher Reeves! She was such a lovely girl. It made me feel very bad that I had said that."
"[OBriens heroes are] William Butler Yeats, Michael Collins, André Malraux, Maurice Ravel, Giorgio Di Cirico, Laurence Olivier and Max Schmeling. And of course the great Douglas Baader, the war pilot who had no legs. When he was captured by the Germans, they allowed the British to parachute his steel legs. And he escaped! So, I dont care about The Merry Wives of Windsor, but talk to me about Douglas Baader!"
"I cant remember how they did this effect [on 1977s Mannaja), but it looked awful! One of the girls said to me that I was made of steel because Maurizio dragged me through the rain with the rope around my neck. That was tough indeed. Poor Maurizio died some time after that in a tennis accident."
"Because I was stupid, I said, To hell with it, and I joined a drama school. [It was a ridiculously little school, which was first run by a very clever woman, but she soon was replaced by] "a nitwit, who had read a few books on the Actors Studio and was very much into analysis, instead of teaching us how to walk and talk!"
"My father was a magnificent Irishman with a Barrymore profile and the physique of a boxer."
"[GIOCHI EROTICI DI UNA FAMIGLIA PERBENE] was one of these sex flicks where the cameraman always measures the distance between the camera and your crotch, which makes for a very strange working atmosphere."