Bud Spencer
Birthday: Born in 1929-10-31 in Napoli, Campania, Italy
Deathday: 2016-06-27
Bud Spencer was an Italian actor, filmmaker and a former professional swimmer. He was known for past roles in action-comedy films together with his long-time film partner Terence Hill. Growing from a successful swimmer in his youth, he got a degree in law, and has registered several patents. Bud also became a certified commercial airline and helicopter pilot, Bud Spencer also supported and funded many children's charities, including the Spencer Scholarship Fund. Bud Spencer and Terence Hill both appeared, produced and directed over 20 films together and thus became and remain best friends until he passed away.
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I delitti del cuoco
Character: Carlo Banci
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Noi siamo angeli
Character: Bob Russell / Father Orso
Bob and Joe are two prisoners locked up in the Latin American maximum security prison of Santa Consuelo. The two manage to escape during an attack by the revolutionaries commanded by Napoleon Duarte and pretend to be friars, taking refuge in the mission of San Rolando. In the mission, in which monks and Indians live in harmony, the two escapees become Father Orso and Father Zaccaria and win the affection of all....
Am laufenden Band
Character: Self - Guest
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Stars in der Manege
Character: Self - Guest
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Wetten, dass..?
Character: Self
A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?....
Detective Extralarge
Character: Jack Costello
Extralarge is a television series starring Bud Spencer, Michael Winslow and Philip Michael Thomas....
Ciao Darwin
Character: Capitano Grassi
Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The ga...
Auf los geht's los
Character: Self
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Bambi-Verleihung
Character: Self
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in international media and television to personalities in the media, arts, culture, sports, and other fields "with vision and creativity who affected and inspired the German public that year", both domestic and foreign. First held in 1948, it is the oldest media award in Germany. The trophy is named after Felix Salten's book Bambi, A Life in the Woods ...
Big Man
Character: Jack Clementi
The renowned Insurance International Co. has created an enquiry network, headed by detective Jack Clementi, to defend itself against insurance fraud. Jack has saved the company enormous amounts of money throughout his successful investigations and his bosses are more than willing put up with his brusque manners, his disconcerting frankness, and his intolerance for any form of company bureaucracy. Yet he is a big guy with a huge heart....
Auf los geht's los
Character: Self - Guest
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Markus Lanz
Character: Self - Guest
TV presenter Markus Lanz invites prominent guests and experts from all areas of public life to his colourful talk show. As a rule, there are four guests, introduced individually to contribute their personal experiences to the topics....
Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
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Markus Lanz
Character: Self
TV presenter Markus Lanz invites prominent guests and experts from all areas of public life to his colourful talk show. As a rule, there are four guests, introduced individually to contribute their personal experiences to the topics....
NDR Talk Show
Character: Self
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Riverboat
Character: Self
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Brisant
Character: Self
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Jack Clementi
Character: Jack Clementi
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Movie Credits
All the Way Boys
Character: Salud
The "Trinity" crew makes another modern era film. Plata and Salud are pilots ditching aircraft for insurance money. They wind up crashing for real in the jungles of South America. The plot involves "Mr. Big", who is buying the diamonds from the miners for much too little, and has thugs who keep the price down. Of course, Plata and Salud side with the miners...
Miami Supercops
Character: Steve Forest / L.A. Ray
In 1978, $20 million was stolen from a Detroit bank. One of the robbers was caught, one was found dead, and the third disappeared. The money was never found. Seven years later, the robber who was caught was released from jail. He immediately went to Miami, only to be found dead the next day. Now FBI agents Doug Bennet and Steve Forest have been called in to investigate the case while posing as Miami police officers. Somewhere in Miami the third robber is hiding with his $20 million, and he has a...
The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid
Character: Sheriff Hall
A young humanoid alien who gets stranded on earth hooks up with a grizzled old sheriff in a western town and tries to help him solve a tough case, but the sheriff doesn't want any help from a "kid."...
They Called Him Bulldozer
Character: Bulldozer
The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local Armybase, he is asked to be their trainer. His boat was damaged by a submarine and he currently has no work, so he agrees....
Flatfoot in Egypt
Character: Inspector Rizzo
Inspector Rizzo and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing....
Why Did You Pick On Me?
Character: Sheriff Hall
Following the events of The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid, Sheriff Hall and H-725 (using the official identity of Charlie Warren) still get no rest from the military - because the little alien has not yet grasped the meaning of keeping a low profile. They are constantly on the move, and H-725's father has had to pick them out of a tight spot too many times already....
The Knock Out Cop
Character: Inspector Rizzo
Inspector “Flatfoot” Rizzo investigates crime and corruption in Naples....
Flatfoot in Hong Kong
Character: Inspector Rizzo
Inspector Rizzo is accused of drug trafficking. In order to clear his name he has to find out who is the person, from a Mafia ring, who has infiltrated his police department....
Flatfoot in Africa
Character: Inspector Rizzo
Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediately before this meeting the South African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his young son Bodo. Rizzo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo....
Banana Joe
Character: Banana Joe
Island farmer Banana Joe helps the local community by trading his bananas for goods. When gangsters arrive with plans to construct a banana processing plant, Joe kicks them out, but the mob boss discovers that Joe is operating without a license. After the mob tips off the authorities and Joe's boat is impounded, he ventures into a big city for the first time to seek help....
Who Finds a Friend Finds a Treasure
Character: Charlie O'Brien
Alan gets a map to some war treasure which the Japanese army left behind on a small Pacific island at the end of World War II. But some gangsters try to steal the map from him and so he hides on Charlie's boat which just leaves the harbor. He manipulates the ship's compass so that Charlie is not aware that he is sailing to the treasure island. But when they step on the island, they discover that it is not as abandoned as they believed: there are some natives - and a Japanese soldier still defend...
Odds and Evens
Character: Charlie Firpo
A bumbling government agent recruits a trucker whose gambling knowledge can help crack an illegal Florida operation....
The Two Missionaries
Character: Father / Padre Pedro De Leon
Two missionaries come into conflict with the authorities when they turn their missionary into a parrot farm. The Bishop of Maracaibo calls them his 'black sheep' and the Monsignore has been called to check on their behavior. Like usual, our heroes help the poor to defend themselves and provoke some funny fist fights in the process....
Crime Busters
Character: Wilbur Walsh
An attempted robbery turns to be an unexpected recruitment when two unemployed men mistakenly break into a police office instead of a store....
Speaking of the Devil
Character: Bull Webster
Bull Webster is a taxi driver with some work problems on his hands: the Spider Corporation, a giant financial holding company, has decided to buy out his taxi co-operative in order to make it go bankrupt and purchase its land at a low cost....
Thieves and Robbers
Character: Alan Parker
A Lothario, in trouble for fooling around with a Senator's wife, becomes an unwitting witness to a mob murder. Police Lieutenant Parker tries to solve the case in enough time to take his long-suffering family on vacation....
Bomber
Character: Bud Graziano
Bomber is an unemployed boat captain. One day he meets Jerry, a manager of boxers who are struck by the force of his fists. That is when they see the chance to win big money....
Even Angels Eat Beans
Character: Charlie Smith
Two mismatched buddies are mistaken for mob enforcers in Depression-era America....
Go for It
Character: Doug O'Riordan / Mason
After Doug picks up hitchhiking Rosco with his truck, they are mistaken for two bank robbers by the traffic police. They manage to escape only to be confused for two secret agents while trying to take a flight at the airport....
Watch Out, We're Mad
Character: Ben
After a tied 1st place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide who of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back....
Soldier of Fortune
Character: Hector Fieramosca / Ettore Fieramosca da Capua
Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is traveling through Europe with his partners looking for a fight where they can earn some money. When they come across a Spanish castle under siege by the French army, Ettore bides his time to determine which side is the winning one. This is at first the French, but the treatment he receives from them is unpleasant enough to make him change his mind and turn to the Spanish side. Somehow, Ettore must rally the weakened Spanish troops to battle their enemy long ...
Trinity Is Still My Name
Character: Bambino
The two brothers Trinity and Bambino are exchanged by two federal agents and take advantage of the situation to steal a huge booty hidden in a monastery by a gang of outlaws....
Ace High
Character: Hutch Bessy
After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy of a lot of money and steals their horses. This results in a merry chase and Stevens and Bessy become unwilling allies in Cacopoulus' revenge against the people who deserted him and framed him to get their money back....
Double Trouble
Character: Greg Wonder / Antonio Coímbra
A stuntman and a saxophonist stand in for two billionaires threatened by killers....
Boot Hill
Character: Hutch Bessy
Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers...
I'm for the Hippopotamus
Character: Tom
In Africa, Slim and Tom don't like it when a German tyrant starts selling all of the African wildlife to Canadian zoos. Slim and Tom must teach this guy a lesson by beating the hell out of him and his gang....
Troublemakers
Character: Moses
Two brothers who hate themselves are going to spend Christmas with their mother. She tries to get them together....
Aladdin
Character: Genie
A teenager in modern-day Miami finds a magic lantern and out pops a genie, who's been asleep for 200 years and in his gratitude grants the boy several wishes....
They Call Me Trinity
Character: Bambino
The simple story has the pair coming to the rescue of peace-loving Mormons when land-hungry Major Harriman sends his bullies to harass them into giving up their fertile valley. Trinity and Bambino manage to save the Mormons and send the bad guys packing with slapstick humor instead of excessive violence, saving the day....
Beyond the Law
Character: James Cooper
A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it....
God Forgives... I Don't!
Character: Hutch Bessy
In this violent spaghetti western a murderous robber hijacks a payroll train, murders everyone aboard and then stashes his loot. A gunslinger learns about it and decides he wants the money for himself and so hatches an elaborate plot to get at it. He lures the crook into a rigged poker game, and afterward a gunfight ensues. The quick-drawing gunman makes short work of the robber, then teams up with an insurance agent to look for the hidden fortune. Unbeknownst to them, the robber had an ace up h...
A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die
Character: Eli Sampson
A dishonored Union Army officer leads a group of convicts to retake Fort Holman from the Confederate Army....
Vier Fäuste lassen's krachen
Character:
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Killing Is My Business, Honey
Character: Pepe
A hit man whose mission is to prevent the printing of a tell-all book written by a former Mafioso, falls in love with the employee who may lose her job if the book doesn't get published....
The 5-Man Army
Character: Mesito
At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat styles to help him rob a Mexican Army train carrying $500,000 in gold....
Buddy Goes West
Character: Buddy
Trinity series star Bud Spencer returns to the Wild West in director Michele Lupo's comic tale of an outlaw drifter, Buddy, who is mistaken for a doctor after his Indian companion inadvertently steals a bag of surgical instruments. When a band of murderous outlaws attempts to overrun the small town Buddy is passing through, the presumed medico shows that his true talent is cracking skulls. Music is composed by Ennio Morricone....
Hijos del viento
Character: Quintero
As part of the conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, Rodrigo, a Spanish shipwreck falls in love with Tizcuitl, the young and beautiful Aztec daughter of Nezuhual, king of Tlacopan, powerful under the emperor Moctezuma....
Charleston
Character: Brian Charleston
Charleston is a 1977 Italian comedy film written and directed by Marcello Fondato. It reprises the style of the film The Sting....
Black Turin
Character: Rosario Rao
Mino and Lello, two sons of a worker wrongly accused of murder, try to find out evidence of his innocence and begin to investigate mafia business in Torino....
It Can Be Done Amigo
Character: Hiram Coburn
An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter's life from hanging. The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the boy. The dying uncle has obtained the drifter's promise to help the boy get what is his. Meanwhile the gunfighter has decided that the drifter should marry his daughter after being with her previously. The two get into a series of brawls and shoot-outs until they arrive in the town and find the boy's inheritance -which turns out not to be as useless a...
Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!
Character: O'Bannion
A man, released after a jail term for a crime he did not commit, raises a gang to go after the man who framed him....
Father Hope
Character: Padre Speranza
Don Vasari is an anti-conformist priest. For this reason he is transferred to a juvenile prison in a small town in the southern of Italy. Nino, a sixteen year old inmate, is accused of murder but Don Vasari does not believe his guilt and he starts a courageous investigation to help him....
To the Limit
Character: Elorza
Elena Hart is a distance runner in her twenties who is immersed in a terrible nightmare, suffering serious imbalances in her diet. Driven by her desire to lose weight and to please her demanding coach, Elena begins to suffer from anorexia....
A Farewell to Arms
Character: Carabinieri
An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit....
Blackie the Pirate
Character: Skull
Rivaling Pirates and Spanish gold are the ingredients for this story. Blackie the pirate is the one who first hears from this shipment of gold when he encounters "Don" Pedro. He thinks of a plan to find this ship and its gold. His counter player is the vice roy of the Spanish kolony. When they visit one of the pirate settlements, they find three other pirate captains over there. One of them sells goods and prisoners from his latest capture. Don Pedro recognizes the wife of the vice roy, and Blac...
Singing Behind Screens
Character: Old Captain Andorrano
A young man enters a brothel and sees a staged narration of a Chinese folk tale concerning a female pirate....
The 5th Day of Peace
Character: Jelinek
Based on a true story. Near the end of World War II, two German deserters are put in an Allied POW camp. When a rigid and militaristic German colonel learns about their desertion, he wants them court-martialed, even if the war is over. The uninterested Allied officers oblige him, and the two men face the firing squad on "the fifth day of peace"....
A Hero of Our Times
Character: Fernando
Alberto Menichetti lives with an aunt and an old housekeeper, Clotilde; he has a job in a firm and his boss is Mrs. De Ritis, a widow whose husband was killed during a wild boar hunt. She likes him but Alberto likes Marcella; she is under age and he is awaiting her birthday to declare his love. His greater traits are to be fearful of everything and to be selfish. This nature will get him into trouble.....
Lui era Trinità
Character:
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Django, Sartana, Trinita' et les autres…
Character: Lui-même
French documentary on the Spaghetti Western genre, with numerous interviews....
Bud's Best - Die Welt des Bud Spencer
Character: Himself
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Il cocco di mamma
Character: Oscar
Aldo, Vasco and "Smilzo" (Slim) are friends. They live with their parents and are training for boxing. But their real interest is in women. When casually Aldo meets Laura and falls for her. Will he succeed in winning her love?...
Quo Vadis
Character: Imperial Guard (uncredited)
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero....
Three Forever
Character: Bops
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We Are Cinema
Character: Self (archive footage)
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema....
Human Torpedoes
Character: Magrini
A team of highly trained Italian seamen are taken to the island of Stampalia where there are to take their torpedo-laden attack craft on a daring attack on the port of Suda....
Das Bud Spencer Spezial
Character: Self
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Hannibal
Character: Rutario
A Carthaginian general attempts to cross the Alps with an army of elephants in order to conquer Rome....
They Called Him Spencer
Character: Self
SIE NANNTEN IHN SPENCER follows two of Bud Spencer's biggest fans on a road trip through Europe in search for their idol, who captured the hearts of millions and had so much more to offer than his legendary hammer-like fist blow....
Pane e Olio
Character: Laris
Pane e Olio is an Italian TV mvoie starring Bud Spencer...
Quel fantasma di mio marito
Character: Swimmer (uncredited)
Gianni Alberti is a journalist who is sent to Palestine. He decides to fake a fatal accident so he can then return home as a hero. But things don't turn out as planned, Gianni end up coming back to Italy, but only as a ghost....
Fireworks
Character: Il Cieco
Ottone, a professional dog sitter who's uncertain about most things in life, asks an analyst if he made the right decision love-wise while recounting the significant relationships he had with four women....
Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
Character: Self
The beginnings, development and decline of so-called spaghetti-western genre; with clips, interviews and opinions of producers, actors and directors. A nostalgic look at those movies that are still in the taste of many....
Thus Spoke De Crescenzo
Character:
Tracing the journey of a free thinker, engineer, writer, scriptwriter, actor and director through his life and work, Così Parlo De Crescenzo harnesses the energy of a man determined to transform the lives and culture of those around him. Born in Naples, Luciano De Crescenzo graduated in engineering and worked as a programmer for IBM until 1976, when he escaped the routine of his 'corporate prison' and published his first book....
Kino kolossal - Herkules, Maciste & Co
Character: Self
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Piedone nyomában
Character: Himself (archive footage)
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L'ultimo gattopardo - Ritratto di Goffredo Lombardo
Character: Self
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Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Character: Diomede / Godfrey
Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone is killing all his friends and trying to frame him for the murders....
Dragonland: L'Urlo di Chen terrorizza ancora l'occidente
Character: Self
The first Italian documentary on the most extraordinary phenomenon of the 70s: the Kung-fu films!...
Le 1000 vite di Bud Spencer
Character: Self (archive footage)
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