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Mark Damon won the 1960 Golden Globe for New Star of the Year for Roger Corman's House of Usher, then moved to Italy to act in Spaghetti Westerns as part of Rome's Dolce Vita film scene. He later switched sides of the camera entirely, founding production and distribution companies including Producers Sales Organization and Vision International that shaped how independent films got financed and sold internationally.