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Woody Strode , an African-American athlete-turned-actor, appeared in two of the best-known film sequences of all time: as a gladiator duelling Spartacus in the 1960 epic and as a gunman in the opening scene of C’era una volta il West/ Once Upon a Time in the West (1968).

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  1. 1.SouthamptonUK

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