Biography

Witnessed the suicide of bit-part actor Al Mulock on the set of the movie Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) ("Once Upon a Time in the West"). Mulock committed suicide on by jumping from a hotel, on location in Guadix, Spain. Mancini, who was serving as production manager on the film, was sitting in a hotel room with Mickey Knox, an expatriate American who had been hired by director Sergio Leone as a screenwriter, and saw Mulock's body pass by their window. Knox recalled in an interview that while Mancini put Mulock in his car to drive him to the hospital, Leone said to Mancini, "Get the costume! We need the costume!" Mulock, who had appeared as the one-armed bounty hunter in Leone's "The Good, The Bad & The Ugly", was wearing the costume he wore in the movie when he made his fatal leap.