Miranda Campa
Birthday: Born in 1914-01-31 in Genève, Switzerland
Deathday: 1989-05-07
Miranda Campa (31 January 1914 – 7 May 1989) was a Swiss-born Italian actress and voice actress. Born Liliana Campa Capodaglio in Geneva, the nephew of actors Pio Campa and Wanda Capodaglio, Campa studied acting at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating in 1938. Mainly active on stage, she was part, among others, of the theatrical companies of Vittorio Gassman, Andreina Pagnani and Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. She made her film debut at mature age, in 1949, usually cast in character roles, often playing religious figures. Campa was also very active as a voice actress and as a dubber. Source: Article "Miranda Campa" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Il dottor Antonio
Character: La baronessa Eleonora
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Tartarino sulle Alpi
Character: Una donna dell'Esercito della Salvezza
Tartarin sur les Alpes is a novel written by the French writer Alphonse Daudet in 1885. It is the second part of a trilogy which also includes Tartarin de Tarascon (published in 1885) and Porto Tarascona (published in 1890). Seeing his position as president of the Alpine Club of Tarascon threatened because of his fellow citizen Costecalde, who questions his abilities as a mountaineer, Tartarin travels to the Bernese Alps to accomplish a memorable feat. In 1968, a television transposition of Tart...
Vita di Antonio Gramsci
Character: Signora Passarge
The life and times of Antonio Gramsci from the establishment of L'Ordine Nuovo newspaper in 1919 to his untimely death in 1937, encompassing the birth of the Italian Communist Party (PCd'I), Gramsci's visits to Moscow where he met his future spouse, his election to Parliament, anti-fascism, trial and conviction....
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The Fourth Victim
Character: Felicity Downing
A wealthy Englishman finds his third wife dead. After the police discover that his first two wives had also died suddenly, an investigation is launched. Meanwhile, a new neighbor moves in and becomes very interested in him....
The Overtaxed
Character: Fabio Topponi's wife
Mr. Pezzella owns and operates a well-established luxury-clothing store. He does not like and does not consider it right to pay taxes and therefore uses a tax consultant to be able to evade more taxes....
Gold of Rome
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Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering them what seems to be an expensive way out of imprisonment and death....
Le signorine dello 04
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The lives and loves of five Italian telephone operators. One is betrayed by her husband, one helps a student who wants to take his life, one changes her boyfriend every other day, one is a single mother and the last one tries to inflame a recent-widower accountant....
The Priest's Wife
Character: Valeria's Mother
After discovering her boyfriend is married, a young woman attempts suicide but survives and falls for the priest who took her call, leading to complications with his vow of celibacy....
The Return of Don Camillo
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Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone....
Family Diary
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Enrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo has died. Enrico recalls their long and difficult relationship; he was brought up by their poor but warm-hearted grandmother, Lorenzo was raised as a gentleman by a wealthy local aristocrat. Reunited in the Florence of the 1930s, Enrico becomes his spoilt brother's keeper, forever haunted by a sense of guilty responsibility towards a man he both hates and loves....
The Bacchantes
Character: Agave
The god Dionysus decides to pay a visit to the city of Thebes. Dionysus wants to be the worshiped by the masses, but the kingdom is suffering a horrific drought and the king Pentheus wants instead to sacrifice a virgin to the God Demeter....
The Centurion
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A Roman soldier falls in love with the daughter of a Greek city's anti-Roman leader....
La grande rinuncia
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Sweet Dreams
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Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 student demonstrations. At the same time, Michele has a creative block and struggles to finish his film titled "Freud’s Mother." Nanni Moretti’s self-inquiry into filmmaking, political ennui, and men’s relations with their mothers....
The Slave of Sin
Character: madre superiora
A former prostitute and a little Polish girl are survivors of a train crash. The woman wishes to adopt the child, but her past makes that difficult....
Pietà per chi cade
Character: Nadia Berruti
Carlo Savelli, gone missing after the war, returns to Italia after many years. His wife Anna, believing him dead, has established a romance with Andrea, and in order to keep him happy, she follows him to Venice....
Malombra
Character: Giovanna
Malombra is a 1974 TV film directed by Raffaele Meloni and based on the novel of the same name by Antonio Fogazzaro....
The Two Orphans
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Grog
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Two convicts escape from prison and evade the law by taking hostage the middle-class family of a doctor. One of the jailbirds calls the local television station, requesting that they broadcast his demand for a plane so they can escape the country. The television director and his crew show up to film the hostage crisis, and then things get progressively more bizarre and satirical. Not content with the living drama, he directs everyone's actions to make the event more newsworthy....
I Always Loved You
Character: Anna
A landowner loves a good girl, but is ensnared by another richer woman who is actually aiming for her fortune. This she will be able to temporarily make the two young men go away but the man makes his girlfriend understand that her is true love; he realizes that he has been the victim of a scam and will bring the woman he has always loved to the altar....
The Dam on the Yellow River
Character: Mary
Anti-Communist propaganda film, in which the victory of Mao Tse-Tung's People's Liberation Army is seen through the eyes of an American journalist reporting from the Nationalists' side....
The Giant of Marathon
Character: ancella di Karis
A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army....
Easy Down There!
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A priest gets a little hot under the collar when the wife he thought was dead unexpectedly returns....
Non perdiamo la testa
Character: cuoca
A mad scientist pursues a man hoping to study his brain....
Il processo di Santa Teresa del bambino Gesù
Character: Suor Maria Gabriella della Concezione
The trial of Saint Teresa de Lisieux....
Revelation
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A young communist discovers the power of faith....
Against the Law
Character: Fidanzata di Marcello
A young bourgeois who launders money for the mafia gets accused of murder....
Hell in the City
Character: Ida Maroni
A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life....
Winged Devils
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The real-life courage and audacity of aeronautic acrobats whose ground life is often as exciting as flight maneuvers....
Canterbury proibito
Character: Mother of Santa (segment "Santa del Grande")
Two young boys compete for the same girl - a third enjoys from a distance . Two men are abusing a girl. Three men desires a married woman. Two nuns get out in the nice weather with a bunch of monks....
Lust of the Vampire
Character: Signora Robert
A mad scientist captures young women and drains their blood, in order to keep alive an ancient, evil duchess....
Roman Tales
Character: The Maid at Mazzoni Baralla's (uncredited)
Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They need only a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?...
A Brief Vacation
Character: Nurse Guidotti
Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potential new life — is opened up to her....
Cavalier in Devil's Castle
Character: Governante
A mysterious horseman, called the Dark Knight, sets himself up as a masked vigilante and decides to free the duchet of Valgrado from the grip of a terrible tyrant....
Womanlight
Character: Lydia's maid
Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship....
Barabbas
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Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barabbas or Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiatorial arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons, ultimately becoming a follower of the man who was crucified in his place....
Solo Dio mi fermerà
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The Secret Conclave
Character: The Pope's Mother
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