Character from The Dollars Trilogy by Sergio Leone / United Artists
The dying Confederate soldier who hid the gold and split the secret — telling Tuco the cemetery, telling Blondie the grave, making them each half of the only map that matters.
Bill Carson is already dead by the time he matters. He appears only long enough to split the secret between Tuco and Blondie — an act that may have been delirious accident or conscious design — and then the war takes him. He is the entire engine of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly: without his dying disclosure, there is no plot. Without his split disclosure, there is no reason for Blondie and Tuco to tolerate each other through everything that follows. He is a catalyst who never knows what he started.
A Confederate soldier in the last stages of dying in the desert — sunburned, parched, barely conscious. He looks like the war's end result: a man who survived battles and then didn't survive the desert. The uniform is the wrong color for what he's done with the money.
Also known as: Bill Carson