El Indio

El Indio (Spanish for "The Indian") played by Gian Maria Volonté, is the main antagonist in the spaghetti western film For a Few Dollars More.

He is a ruthless, cruel and sadistic criminal, considered by the authorities in the film to be one of the worst criminals of the times; according to a bank official "Not even Indio would dare to rob that one." In his first appearance, El Indio orders the family of an old rival to be executed shootouts (including a baby son), but still, the man gave him the opportunity to avenge himself, however, man fails and dies in the attempt and killed by El Indio.

In a flashback sequence it is revealed that he shot a young man and raped his wife. The girl shot herself in the process. The girl was the Colonel Mortimer's sister. El Indio carries around with him a musical watch that plays a tune when it is wound. El Indio smokes what seems to be cannabis or opium to ease the intensity of the memory. In the film, El Indio has a gang of fourteen men who rob the bank in El Paso. Eventually Colonel Douglas Mortimer (played by Lee Van Cleef) tracks El Indio down and shoots him dead in a final duel.