Giancarlo Prete

Giancarlo Prete — Biography

Giancarlo Prete was an actor who appeared in countless supporting roles in Italian productions of the 1970s and 1980s. He is remembered above all as Fornac in Ladyhawke and Scorpion in The New Barbarians. In the credits he often used the name Timothy Brent or Philip Garner, and in his youth he had also taken up amateur wrestling.

He entered cinema as a stuntman, then attended Alessandro Fersen's acting school, where he later taught. In the early 1970s he took roles in crime films, westerns and comedies one after another: Confessions of a Police Captain, Black Belly of the Tarantula, The Three Musketeers of the West, The Big Family and Massacre in Rome. He also appeared in costume pictures, playing Gaius Silius in Messalina, Messalina and the barber Whistle in The Loves and Times of Scaramouche. In the 1980s he turned up in The New Barbarians, Ladyhawke and Detective School Dropouts.

In later years he worked as a dubbing director and acted only in television productions, playing Dr. Dan Mateo in an episode of Space: 1999. He was married, and his son is also an actor. He died in Rome on 9 March 2001, aged 58.