RIP Lars Bloch

 

Lars Bloch, the Mega President of 'Fantozzi contro tutti', is dead

 

Adnkronos

March 29, 2022

The Danish actor was 83 years old and had lived in Rome since the late 1950s

 

Farewell to Lars Bloch, the actor known for the role of the Mega Archangel President of the film "Fantozzi contro tutti", interpreter of a scene that has become legendary among the fans of the series starring Paolo Villaggio. The Danish naturalized Italian actor, learns Adnkronos, died in Rome at the age of 83 on Sunday 27 March. The funeral parlor will be tomorrow from 11.30 to 12.30 at the Tempietto Egizio at the Roman cemetery of Verano.

Born in Hellerup on August 6, 1938, Bloch arrived in Italy in the late 1950s to pursue an acting career. Destined to be a character actor, he often had early roles as a handsome young man in films such as "The beauty of Ippolita" (1962), "Eighteen years in the sun" by Camillo Mastrocinque (1962), "Stories on the sand" (1963), " The beautiful families "," The flying saucer "(1964) by Tinto Brass," Extramarital "(1964).

Bloch was then the interpreter of numerous spaghetti westerns, including Sergio Corbucci's "Navajo Joe" (1966), Luigi Vanzi's "A Stranger in Town" (1967), "Alleluia and Sartana, Sons of God" (1972) , "Trinity & Sartana Those Sons of Bitches " (1972). Among his other films "Certo, certissimo, nzi ... probable" (1969) by Marcello Fondato and three films by Joe D'Amato "Heroes in Hell of 1973," Red Jackets "of 1975 and" Emanuelle in America "of 1977).

Lars Bloch became known thanks to the character of the Mega President Archangel in "Fantozzi contro tutti" (1980) directed by Neri Parenti and the village itself. Unforgettable is the scene in which the accountant Ugo Fantozzi (Paolo Villaggio) after having realized his dream of writing in the sky with his finger the phrase "The Mega President is an asshole!" he is discovered and invited to cancel it. "Are you convinced of what you wrote about me?" Asks the Mega President with his almost angelic aura. "I didn't write it, I just thought it!", Fantozzi replies. "You mustn't think, Fantozzi, this is his mistake. Come with me, come on, come on, erase."

Bloch also appeared in "Fracchia against Dracula" (1985) also directed by Parenti. He made his last appearance in the film "A liar in paradise" (1998) by Enrico Oldoini.

 

BLOCH, Lars

Born: 8/6/1938, Hellerup, Denmark

Died: 3/27/2022,Rome, Lazio, Italy

 

Lars Bloch’s westerns – actor:

Django Kill – 1966 (Oak henchman)

Navajo Joe – 1966 (Swedish immigrant)
A Stranger in Town – 1966 (Lieutenant Ted ‘George’ Harris/Stafford)

Western, Italian Style – 1968 [archive footage]
Alleluia and Sartana, Sons of God - 1972 (Danish)
On the Third Day Arrived the Crow – 1972 (Bill) [as Lars Block]
The Return of Hallelujah – 1972 (Cain)
Trinity & Sartana Those Sons of Bitches – 1972 (Clyde)

Behold the Strange, Stimulating Smell of Dollars – 1973 (soldier)
Shanghai Joe – 1973 (Wells Fargo client)
Red Coat – 1974 (Andy O’Brien)

Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern (TV) - 2005 [himself]