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Interested in acting from an early age, he attended the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, but was quickly kicked out.
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Lou Castel
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Born Ulv Quarzell in Bogotá, Castel moved to Europe as a young manitoba His first movie role was an uncredited extra in The Leopard (1963). He later played Jeff, the temperamental bisexual film director in Beware of a Holy Whore (1971), directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
Fassbinder himself portrayed the film"s producer.
In the following decades, Castel worked with European directors such as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Wim Wenders, Philippe Garrel, and Olivier Assayas. Though the quality of the films he acted in were quite disparate, ranging from arthouse films to cheap exploitation, Castel always chose roles that reflected his militant leftist beliefs.
He has a son from the actress Marcella Michelangeli. Castel remains active in his profession.
