Ottaviano Dell'Acqua

Born to a family of other actors and stunt performers Ottaviano DellAcqua started acting in Italian Spaghetti Western productions as a child Due to his boyish looks and enthusiasm for taking risks he found himself more and more in demand as both a stunt performer and character actor throughout the 1970s often appearing alongside one or more of his siblings Roberto Alberto and Arnoldo In the 1980s he turned to stunt coordinating and has worked steadily on both major Hollywood productions as well as smaller European films ever since He may be best remembered by horror fans as the man behind the wormeyed zombie mask on the poster for Lucio Fulcis ZOMBIE aka ZOMBI 2 though has possibly the most mainstream exposure in GANGS OF NEW YORK as one of Bill the Butchers lead henchmen His only leading roles have been under the name Richard Raymond for director Bruno Mattei particularly in 1983s RATS THE NIGHTS OF TERROR in which he is topbilled Curiously the same year he appeared in numerous other postapocalyptic films RAGE and AFTER THE FALL OF NEW YORK in which he isnt billed at all