George Hilton (actor)

George Hilton
Hilton in Any Gun Can Play (1967)
Born	Jorge Hill Acosta y Lara[1] (1934-07-16)16 July 1934 Montevideo, Uruguay
Died	28 July 2019(2019-07-28) (aged 85) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1956–2019

George Hilton (born Jorge Hill Acosta y Lara; 16 July 1934 – 28 July 2019)^[1] was a Uruguayan actor well known for his many Spaghetti Western performances. Sometimes credited as Jorge Hilton, he appeared in over 20 Euro-Westerns as well as several giallo and action films.

Born in Montevideo, Hilton moved to Italy in 1963, before he got the lead role in the 1964 Italian pirate swashbuckler film The Masked Man Against the Pirates. The film that launched him to fame was Massacre Time (1966), while his roles as Sartana in the 1970 film Sartana's Here… Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin and Hallelujah in the 1971 film They Call Me Hallelujah made him a spaghetti western star. Other films he starred in include The Case of the Scorpion's Tail (1971), El lugar del humo (1979), and Un coccodrillo per amico (2009).^[2]