Giovanni Lombardo Radice achieved substantial cult favorite status by portraying a handful of memorably sick, sleazy, and eccentric characters who are gruesomely killed in numerous 1980s Italian splatter pictures. He was usually credited in these movies under the pseudonym John Morghen.

Born on September 23, 1954 in Rome, Italy, Lombardo Radice first began acting on stage at age seventeen. He made his film debut as David Hess' passive and pathetic friend in Ruggero Deodato's "The House on the Edge of the Park". He was impressive as a deranged Vietnam veteran in Antonio Margheriti's "Cannibal Apocalypse", as a twitchy degenerate village idiot/pervert in Lucio Fulci's extremely gory "City of the Living Dead", a vicious drug-crazed racist madman in Umberto Lenzi's "Cannibal Ferox", and a flamboyant homosexual in Michele Soavi's "Stagefright".

Lombardo Radice was briefly glimpsed as Simon Legree in a stage production of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" that was featured in Martin Scorsese's "Gangs of New York", and had a small part as a priest in Kehanet V: 666 (2006).

Outside of acting, Lombardo Radice directed and translated both English and French language plays, penned screenplays, and directed operas.