director clint the stranger
___MASK86___ ( 3 January 1929  30 April 1989 ) was an Italian film director , producer and screenwriter , credited as the inventor of the " Spaghetti Western " genre . ___MASK12___ ( 2 March 1926  28 December 1993 ) was a Spanish screenwriter , film director and producer . He wrote for 46 films between 1958 and 1983 . He also directed 30 films between 1960 and 1984 . He was born and died in Barcelona , Catalonia , Spain . Clint the Stranger , also known as Clint the Nevada ' s Loner , Nevada Clint and Clint , the Lonely Nevadan ( in original Italian , Clint il solitario ) , is a 1967 Italian spaghetti western starring George Martin . A sequel entitled The Return of Clint the Stranger would follow in 1972 . ___MASK42___ ( born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski ; 18 October 1926  23 November 1991 ) was a German actor . He appeared in more than 130 films , and was a leading role actor in the films of ___MASK99___ , including " Aguirre , the Wrath of God " ( 1972 ), " Nosferatu the Vampyre " ( 1979 ), " Woyzeck " ( 1979 ), " Fitzcarraldo " ( 1982 ), and " Cobra Verde " ( 1987 ). He also appeared in many Spaghetti Westerns , such as " For a Few Dollars More " ( 1965 ), " A Bullet for the General " ( 1966 ), " The Great Silence " ( 1968 ), " And God Said to Cain " ( 1970 ), " Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead " ( 1971 ) and " A Genius , Two Partners and a Dupe " ( 1975 ). A controversial figure in Germany , some of Kinski ' s violent outbursts on set were filmed in Herzog ' s documentary " My Best Fiend ". The Return of Clint the Stranger ( aka There ' s a Noose Waiting for You Trinity !, ) is a 1972 Italian - Spanish Western film directed by ___MASK12___ and starring Klaus Kinski . Spaghetti Western , also known as Italian Western or Macaroni Western ( primarily in Japan ), is a broad subgenre of Western films that emerged in the mid - 1960s in the wake of ___MASK86___ ' s film - making style and international box - office success . The term was used by American critics and other countries because most of these Westerns were produced and directed by Italians .