Morton Schwartz

Morton Schwartz is an American actor, who appeared mostly in European b-movies.

Morton Schwartz was born in 1942 in a small town in Idaho. In 1954 the Schwartz family moved to Los Angeles, where Mortons father was offered a job in a small production company. In 1963 Morton starred for the first time in a movie. It was the now classic "Vampires Inc." Then he did several small roles in lost C-Movies and cheap television-series. By 1968 he left the states to move to Europe, where he was offered a leading role in a spaghetti-western. It was "Django contro Dio", which became a cult western among students in 1968.During the 70s he made several cheap crime flicks in West-Germany like "Söldner kennen keine Gnade".In 1979 he starred as the schizophrenic preacher in the sequel to the Robert Mitchum classic "Night of the Hunter". In the early 80s he made his well-known and most successful films like "The Blood Car", "Lazarus 2000" or "Invisible Men". Got married to actress/model Francesca Rocca,who died a few months later under mysterious circumstances. The case was never solved. In 1984 he disappeard.

Filmography

* "Vampires, Inc." ( Alarm auf Planet Dracula ) USA 1963
* "Paranoism" ( The Conspiracy ) USA 1965• "Django contro Dio" Italy/West-Germany 1968
• "Soeldner kennen keine Gnade" ( Zombie Schock 2 ), Nebenrolle, West-Germany/Austria 1972
• "Der Killer von der Reeperbahn" West-Germany 1974
• "Star Crash, Nebenrolle", USA/Italy 1979 (uncredited)
• "Dawn of the Hunter" USA/Italy 1979
• "Lazarus 2000" Italy 1980
• "The Blood Car" USA 1981
* "Die Superspezialisten" West-Germany 1983
* "Invisible Men" Italy/France/USA 1984
* "Amazonas" Joe Italy/Brasil 1984 (unfinished)