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Tony Anthony was born in New York City the son of creative parents—his father an art director on Madison Avenue, and his mother, a sculptor and a painter. His youth was spent on a horse farm in Connecticut. He studied art from a young age and became inspired to write in prep school in New Hampshire. After studing art and journalism at Syracuse University, he was drafted into the army, assigned as a combat correspondent for the198th Light Infantry Brigade of the Americal Division in Vietnam, where he founded and edited The Bayonet, the brigade newspaper. His stories appeared in Stars & Stripes, Army Digest, and other publications and were reprinted around the world. He received the Bronze Star and other medals for his reporting. After the war, in an inexplicable encounter, he met Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, the Indian guru, with whom he studied for eight years in Switzerland and India and learned to teach transcendental meditation. He then married and he and his wife have two sons. The author began his writing career in earnest with Life is War but You Can Win, an inspirational book
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Tony Anthony, born Tony Roger Petitto in Clarksburg, W.Va., is a coal strip miner’s son, who was accepted and trained at the prestigious College of Fine Arts of Carnegie Mellon. This led to the foundation of his cinematic career of over 25 International films, where he often held more than one creative title at a time, including actor, writer, director and producer. Starring in and wearing all those hats he is readily recognized in his “Stranger” series of Spaghetti Westerns and “Blindman” co-starring Ringo Starr, among others. However, he is probably best known for the resurrection of 3D technology in his successful ‘stand-alone’ Western “Comin’ At Ya’!” which led to the 1980’s frenzied revival of 3D productions in Hollywood. Anthony is also a patented inventor and had an additional success when he formed an optical 3D Projection Lens Company and sold those lenses to theaters worldwide. From his R&D of 3D cameras and sophisticated optics he then, with film producer Howard Worth, formed a medical company and he developed the DOFI Optical Screen. The DOFI Screen was attached to
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Tony Anthony was born as Roger Pettito on the 16th of October 1937, in Clarksburg, West Virginia. He made his first appearances in low-budget independent productions, directed by friend and colleague Saul Swimmer. Anthony then decided to move to Italy, where he appeared in movies made by respectable directors such as Ugo Gregoretti and Lina Wertmüller (Questa Volta parliamo di Uomini, 1965), but always in supporting roles. His chance of a lifetime came when he was asked to be in a Hollywood backed spaghetti western, called A Stranger in Town. One of the film’s producers was Allen Klein, who’d later become the manager of The Beatles.
The first two Stranger movies
A Stranger in Town (also called A Dollar between the Teeth, a literal translation of the Italian title) apparently was the first spaghetti western with American producers. It didn’t make much of an impact in Italy, but became a surprise hit in the US in the slipstream of Sergio Leone’s Dollar movies with Clint Eastwood. Anthony plays a nameless character, a stranger who rides into a Mexican border town, wher
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