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Rik Battaglia (byname of Caterino Bertaglia; born 18 February 1930) is a retired Italian film actor. He was born at Corbola, near Rovigo, Veneto.
He used mainly the stage name of Rik Battaglia although alternate names he used for his films were also Rick Austin, Riccardo Battaglia and Rick Battaglia. He would go on to appear in over 100 films from the 1955 to 1999. He went to sea at the age of 17 and worked on a freighter. He was discovered in a bar and producer Carlo Ponti hired him on the spot and signed to his first film in 1955's La donna del fiume, directed by Mario Soldati and opposite Sophia Loren. He played a cigarette smuggler who has a tempestuous love affair with a young and sexy Sophia Loren (Ponti’s wife) in hot pants.
He then took two years of drama classes and subsequently appeared in a number of costume and sword and sandal films. He played supporting parts in the Peplums (Sandal and sword epics) La Gerusalemme liberata/The Mighty Crusaders (1958, Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia), and Annibale/Hannibal (1959, Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia, Edgar G. Ulmer). In Germany he appeared as a slave merchant in the Liane-sequel Jungle Girl and the Slaver (1957, Hermann Leitner), and he was seen in the Hollywood adventure Raw Wind in Eden (1958, Richard Wilson). Rik Battaglia also played in La giornata balorda (1961, by Mauro Bolognini) and in the biblical epic Sodom and Gomorrah (1962, by Robert Aldrich). He appeared in several adventure films as Sandokan, la tigre di Mompracem (1963, Umberto Lenzi).
IN RICORDO DI RIK BATTAGLIA
FUNERALI RICK BATTAGLIA
The Conqueror of the Orient 1960 Gianna Maria Canale, Rik Battaglia, Irène Tunc Sword and Sandal
Winnetou III - Ilija Ivezic Rik Battaglia, Karl May Film 1965
Pierre Brice Anfänge II - Italien
Caesar the Conqueror 1962 Cameron Mitchell, Rik Battaglia, Dominique Wilms Sword and Sandal
Il leone di San Marco (O Leão de S. Marcos ) Film Completo Ita
BATTAGLIA RIK [ TPO storia ]
Winnetou und Old Shatterhand im Tal der Toten - Rik Battaglia Karin Dor, Karl May Film 1968
Der Schut - Lex Barker, Rik Battaglia, Karl May Film 1964