Terence Hill and Bud Spencer are incredibly popular in Hungary to this day, and history has developed in such a way that their films have become cult films in Hungary, and many of them are still shown on Hungarian TV every week. So it is not surprising that even today there is a lot of news about them in our country, and in the past they sent letters to Hungarian fans many times, and some of them were even photographed.
But there is a galactic thread in quite a few of their films, which most people probably don’t know about. Hungarian-born boxer and actor Joe Bogner has appeared in several co-productions with them. But Joe Bogner is not only known for these roles, he also appeared in a joint work with Jeac-Claude Van Damme, in 1994 we can see him on the screen in the action Street Fighter.
Most Hungarians don’t even know about its existence: here is the first film of the stunningly handsome Terence Hill from 1967, in which he plays for the first time the character Terence Hill
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Joe Bogner left Hungary with his parents in 1956, at the age of 48 he was a world champion boxer, and his expertise was requested in many films in connection with wrestling scenes. In 1973 and 1975, he clashed twice with the legendary Muhammad Ali. Furthermore, Joe Bugner almost starred in one of the Sylvester Stallone-inspired Rocky movies, almost playing a Soviet boxer in the fourth installment of the Rocky saga. Among other things, the dry Hungarian athlete spoke about this earlier in an interview, which HVGgive to
But back to Bud Spencer and Terrence Hill, in I’m With the Hippos, Bugner played Ormond, a greedy animal dealer, who was the couple’s biggest opponent, and they certainly got into a wrestling match.
Then and now: This is what the locations where the Bud Spencer and Terence Hill films were shot looked like
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