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Charles Southwood

Charles Southwood

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Born August 30, 1937 in Los Angeles, California, USA

Died April 8, 2009

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Charles Southwood born Charles Allen Southwood August 30, 1937 in Los Angeles, California, died April 8, 2009 in Grants Pass, Oregon was an American actor in Europe and the founder of Death Cigarettes.

Born in Los Angeles in 1937, his family moved to Oregon at the end of World War II. He earned a degree in philosophy at Oregon State University.

He travelled to Europe where he worked at a variety of jobs before becoming a stand in for Lex Barker on Woman Times Seven in 1966. He was spotted by an agent who led him into lead roles in spaghetti westerns.

Returning to Oregon, he came up with the idea of "Death Cigarettes" in 1991. Deciding to be honest about the effect of cigarettes, Southwood, a smoker from age 13 to 40, decided to be brutally honest about his cigarettes. In addition to the standard warnings, Death Cigarettes were packed in their own coffin: a stark little black package bearing a skull and crossbones. Southwood traveled to the Southern United States, where the major U.S. tobacco companies found his idea "antithetical to their interests." He found a small tobacco company in Holland that was willing to manufacture his cigarettes, and he briefly took up smoking again to get the blend of tobaccos just right, however he couldn't find a cigarette distributor willing to move his product into stores. "I think they're afraid of pressure from the major cigarette manufacturers".

The idea of Death cigarettes was "borrowed" by BJ Cunningham for sales in England from 1991-1999.

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FILM ANNONCE LA SAIGNÉE (1971)

Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol For a Coffin (1970) Trailer

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Documenteur Poster

Documenteur Feature Film1981L'homme au water bed

Profession: Adventurers Poster

Profession: Adventurers Feature Film1973Henry Ralstrom

Some Too Quiet Gentlemen Poster

Some Too Quiet Gentlemen Feature Film1973Charles

Cops Is Cops Poster

Cops Is Cops Feature Film1972Un agent du Narcotic Bureau

Elle cause plus... Elle flingue Poster

Elle cause plus... Elle flingue Feature Film1972Le beatnik

Guns for Dollars Poster

Guns for Dollars Feature Film1971Grand Duke Alexey Wissayolovich Kropotkin

The Contract Poster

The Contract Feature Film1971Insp. Marvin Hobbart

Roy Colt & Winchester Jack Poster

Roy Colt & Winchester Jack Feature Film1970Winchester Jack

Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin Poster

Sartana's Here... Trade Your Pistol for a Coffin Feature Film1970Sabata

I Protect Myself Against My Enemies Poster

I Protect Myself Against My Enemies Feature Film1968Alan Burton

Make the Sign of the Cross, Stranger! Poster

Make the Sign of the Cross, Stranger! Feature Film1968Frank - Bounty Hunter

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Woman Times Seven Poster

Woman Times Seven Feature Film1967

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