Strikingly handsome blueeyed leading man from Italian films dating back the the 1950s Tinti is best known to mainstream audiences for his small role in 1965s FLIGHT OF THE PHOENIX Into the 1970s Tinti slowly appeared in lower and lower budget cinema often working for Aristide Massacessi Joe DAmato on dozens of exploitation and sex films often alongside his wife Laura Gemser Tinti died from lung cancer in the early 90s