Acting career

Lovelock played his first credited movie part in the Spaghetti Western Se sei vivo spara (1967), directed by Giulio Questi and starring Milian.^[3] His breakthrough role came the following year in the crime thriller Bandits in Milan, as bank robber Donato 'Tuccio' Lopez. The film was a hit with critics and won several awards. He then established himself as both a reliable character actor and a leading man in Italian films and television, working steadily from the late 1960s.

Among his more notable film roles are Fiddler on the Roof (where he played Fyedka, a Russian Christian farmer who marries a Jewish girl named Chava, against the wishes of Chava's father; 1971), Let Sleeping Corpses Lie (1974), Almost Human (1974), Violent Rome (1975), Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man (1976), The Cassandra Crossing (1976), and The Last House on the Beach (1978).^[4] Later in his career he worked mostly in television, including a guest role on Mia And Me (2014).

Music career

In Italy, he released 10 singles, which included the main theme song of Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man. He also released two singles in Japan, one of which "Koi Wa Kaze" reached #34 on the Japanese Oricon chart in 1970. His album, "All about Raymond Lovelock" also charted that year and peaked at #19.^[5]

Film

Television