
Known for
Acting
Born
October 16, 1934
Died
November 22, 1995 (aged 61)
Born in October 1934, Buchanan made his first listed appearance late, at the age of 31 in the 1975 film C.I.A. Secret Story, directed by the arch provocateur Giuseppe Ferrara. Before this, however, he had already been active in Italian cinema for almost half a decade – much like many anonymous American adventurers – as a stuntman and extra, sometimes using the name Buck West. His part in C.I.A. Secret Story was largely insignificant, and although he played a named character in Edward Dmytryk’s big-budget spy film The Human Factor he was just one of a number of jobbing Americans buried deep in the credits (including a very young Danny Huston, who was only thirteen at the time). More fleeting...
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1989
as Muncy
1983
as Hackett
1981
as Conte Bardolin
1980
as Solo navigator
1980
as McCorkindale
1980
as Ralph, Stunt Coordinator
1979
as Peter Rhodes
1978
as Herb Julian
1978
as Captain Connolly
1978
1977
as Richard
1976
as (as John West Buchanan)
1976
1976
as Padre Splendid
1975
as Aldo
1975