Bud Spencer and Terence Hill: Like Their Movies, This Autobiography Will Blow You Into Your Face

Remember Terrence Hill and Bud Spencer? A comedy duo of the 70’s and 80’s, they thrived in movie theaters, then video clubs, and rebroadcast television with their always good-natured and family-friendly films.

And this year, Bud Spencer’s autobiography was published for the first time in France, and thankfully we still have his strong, bearded, bearded character, always ready to take a few slaps for good measure. reason!

New edition with a foreword by Terence Hill

Even better, this French edition of the work includes a new foreword signed by none other than Terence Healy, the other half of the duo, a twinkling and smiling handsome guy…also a slug spreader!

under the name My thousand and one lives, a book published by “L’Editeur à part” covers the entire career of Spencer, whose real name is Carlo Pedersol. In particular, he discusses the reasons for choosing this pseudonym, his meeting with Hill, their films together, individual films and his career as an Olympic swimmer.

Among Bud Spencer’s films with Terence Hill, we recall the two Trinity films, the two Supercops, but also Hello Friend, Goodbye Treasure, God Give, Me Not or Ass and T-Shirt.

Solo, Spencer will become the hero of the Piedon tetralogy (literally “flat foot” in French) of police comedies. We haven’t heard anything about it in France and their titles are An outlaw Cop, Le Cogneur, Pied plat en Afrique and Pied Plat sur le Nile.

An anecdote from the book

In the book, we learn that Spencer had beards until 1967, when he was asked to grow a beard for the western God Forgives, Me Not!, his first feature film, starring Terence Healy. To fulfill a request from a director who wanted to surf the films of unshaven hero Sergio Leone, he obliged… and the film was the hit that made him internationally famous! He then forces himself to maintain this attribute throughout his career.