Hey all, this is one of my all time favorite spaghettis.
However I have a nagging question. Frayling, in his bio of Leone (pp.267-8; 509), explicitly rejects suggestions that anyone but a heavily disguised Leone played the hotel clerk. Furthermore Frayling even includes a non-referenced quote from Sergio Leone regarding his performance and a referenced quote from Carla Leone saying that Sergio played no part in the actual making (i.e directing) of the film.
Yet both these observations seem incorrect. Firstly the hotel clerk does not look like Leone at all - I checked the database here where it is suggested that Cris Huerta played the role and this is confirmed by imdb. Secondly, as Hossein points out on the interview on the German DVD, Leone did direct the dinner sequence - a photo of Leone directing is shown, and simply watching the scene shows it to be classic Leone at its purest; the scene is very reminiscent of the eating scenes on the stage coach at the beginning of “Duck You Sucker”.
I guess Frayling just got this really wrong?