Happy birthday Bud Spencer - 80 years of asskicking.

[Syt]

This probably only means something to Europeans:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bud_Spencer


Olympic swimmer, graduated jurist, textile manufacturer, songwriter, pilot ...

... though he's best known as actor. In the 70s and 80s he worked in a plethora of comedy action movies where he played the gentle giant who beats up the bad guys in hillarious ways.

I grew up with those movies endlessly on tv, and the best are still hillarious today. The plots are interchangeable, but who cares?

Personally, I prefer the spaghetti western parodies he did with Terence Hill:


Though Buddy as Italian knight wannabe organizing resistance against arrogant French knights in the Middle Ages was also fantastic.


And there was of course him and Hill as Missionaries against evil Jesuits:


He's also partially responsible for my interest in American Football due to his movie where he organizes a local team against the arrogant American G.I team (their leader portrayed by German Raimund Harmstorff).


Happy birthday, big guy!

[Zanza]

I loved those films as a kid.

[CountDeMoney]

The only man who could give Joe Don Baker a run for his money.

[Lucidor]

Happy Birthday, Flatfoot!

[Alatriste]

Bud Spencer is starring in a TV ad these days (beating up guys hilariously when ATMs don't work and he can't access his bank account). He seems old and fat (well, as fat as always) but I would sign this instant to be in his shape if I live to hit 80.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evTqG5W_uX8&feature=player_embedded

[Lucidor]

Bud Spencer is starring in a TV ad these days (beating up guys hilariously when ATMs don't work and he can't access his bank account). He seems old and fat (well, as fat as always) but I would sign this instant to be in his shape if I live to hit 80.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evTqG5W_uX8&feature=player_embedded

The stunts seem to be of the same level as before.

I remember one film where he jumped down a well, and 7 guys jumped in after him, only to have 8 guys getting punched coming flying out of there.

[syk]

I loved those films as a kid.

seconded- Everybody did. 

[The Larch]

Bud Spencer is starring in a TV ad these days (beating up guys hilariously when ATMs don't work and he can't access his bank account). He seems old and fat (well, as fat as always) but I would sign this instant to be in his shape if I live to hit 80.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evTqG5W_uX8&feature=player_embedded

I was going to post the same ad! 

A whole generation grew up with their films, everybody that was a kid at that time loved those guys and "fought" like them in the school playground. 

[Syt]

Best Football game ever

[HVC]

Bud Spencer is starring in a TV ad these days (beating up guys hilariously when ATMs don't work and he can't access his bank account). He seems old and fat (well, as fat as always) but I would sign this instant to be in his shape if I live to hit 80.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evTqG5W_uX8&feature=player_embedded

the mime part is awesome

[The Larch]

Best Football game ever

The clip is worth pure gold for the sound effects alone. 

Best fight of their filmography

[Syt]

Best Terence Hill scene has to be this, though (ca. 1:30 in).

[Duque de Bragança]

Parabéns Bud!
His movies had a factual basis, at least once: A Friend is a Treasure .imdb.com/title/tt0085327/
about a Japanese soldier fighting long after then end of WWII

[Lucidor]

Best Terence Hill scene has to be this, though (ca. 1:30 in).

hehe... that one was pretty good.

[Winkelried]

I loved those films as a kid.

Me too.