Mario Scaccia
Birthday: Born in 1919-12-26 in Rome, Italy
Deathday: 2011-01-25
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The Word
Character: Agusto Monti
A document is discovered that appears to be an ancient eyewitness account of the life of Jesus Christ. A public relations executive is hired to publicize this document as a new version of the Bible, but he finds himself enmeshed in controversy and intrigue....
Le avventure di Pinocchio
Character: Primo dottore
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastero Cherry, he decides to build himself a puppet to make him company....
Les Évasions célèbres
Character: Le châtelain
From Bonaparte to Casanova, history is cast in the light of famous escapes from various European countries....
Les Évasions célèbres
Character: Le Duc Philippe Marie Visconti
From Bonaparte to Casanova, history is cast in the light of famous escapes from various European countries....
Il conto Montecristo
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Il maresciallo Rocca
Character: Avvocato Ardenzi
The adventures of the marshal of the carabinieri Giovanni Rocca, played by the great Gigi Proietti. Definitely one of the most successful Rai fictions ever, the series, after the first eight episodes broadcast in 1996, went on for six seasons, ending only in 2008. For over a decade the investigations and the private life of the marshal of Viterbo , born from an idea by Laura Toscano, have fascinated the television audience, making them become attached to characters such as the beautiful pharmaci...
Le avventure di Pinocchio
Character: 1° Dottore
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastero Cherry, he decides to build himself a puppet to make him company....
Tartarino sulle Alpi
Character: Bompard
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...
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The Anatomy of Love
Character: Extra
Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom....
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Character: Signor Rossetti
Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother....
Bambina
Character: Don Amilcare de Loyola
In order to convince Raimonda, a wealthy noble woman, to finance his project for a holiday resort, Saverio gets engaged to Clotilde, her mentally-disturbed and sex-obsessed adolescent daughter. He plans to have her kidnapped and raped by an accomplice so she won't be a virgin anymore and he'll have an excuse to get out of the impending marriage. But what he doesn't plan is to fall in love with the girl......
Break Up
Character: The Doctor
Paolo has been reasonably happy for the past 10 years; he has a job at the university and has Sena as a lover all these years. When she suddenly decides to leave the relationship, it comes as a shock to him, and he desperately wants to know the reason....
The Antichrist
Character: Faith Healer
An Italian nobleman seeks help after his paralyzed daughter becomes possessed by the spirit of a malevolent ancestress....
According to Pontius Pilate
Character: Imperatore Tiberio
The story of salvation is told from the perspective of the Roman governor in Judea, Pontius Pilate....
Day by Day, Desperately
Character: Lello, il capo infermiere
The mental illness affecting young Dario, one of the two sons of the Dominici family living in a council building in Rome, disrupts the lives of all its members....
Robin Hood and the Pirates
Character: Jonathan Brooks
On his way to (or from) the Crusades, Robin Hood is shipwrecked but saved by pirates who plan to return him home in order to ransom him to his father....
Summer Frenzy
Character: Ugo
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La calandria
Character: Ruffo
The luxurious Livio bets with the lord of the city to seduce a young bride in a month, at the cost of his genitals....
L'arte della commedia
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The Swindlers
Character: Lawyer (segment "Medico e fidanzata")
A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a public servant and an industry manager....
Voglio stare sotto al letto
Character: Giò Giordani
Leonardo is a young theater enthusiast who has written a comedy for a comedian at sunset, Giordani, and leaves for the Adriatic coast together with the producer Peppino and his assistant to reach the actor and convince him to stage the script. During the journey, which becomes longer and longer and with unusual and bizarre stops, he will soon realize that Peppino's attentions are not disinterested, while he will be attracted by a young and beautiful girl, Paola....
Musketeers of the Sea
Character: Re di Francia
Three pirates are saved from a shipwreck and seize a galleon bound for Maracaibo, where they will save the governor from a conspiracy. Italian adventure movie directed by Steno....
Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence
Character: Dottor Zambelli
Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, religion, and--most of all--the omnipresence of hypocrisy....
We Still Kill the Old Way
Character: curato di Sant'Amo
A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it....
Eye of the Cat
Character: Salomone Fioravanti
Biting, sadistic satire punctuates this dark comedy about a feckless musician named Marcello Ferrari (Nino Manfredi) whose wife Giulia (Mariangela Melato) and kids are stolen away by the domineering, fascist madman Cesare (Eli Wallach)....
Adventure at the Motel
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A series of sketches about people who have illicit affairs in a motel: among them a starlet and a pilot, two bit Casanovas, an industry manager and his secretary....
Il generale dorme in piedi
Character: Gen. Arturo Pigna
A colonel in the Army has a problem: when resting lying starts screaming anarchist and antimilitarist phrases. Because of his fitful sleep is therefore forced to sleep standing up....
A Maiden for the Prince
Character: Cardinale Gonzaga
Young Prince Vincenzo Gonzaga, rejects his first wife Margherita Farnese, obtaining the annulment of the union and, at the same time, raising strong doubts about her virginity...
Revenge of the Barbarians
Character: Onorius
408 AD. The Visigoths led by Alaric invade northern Italy. At Ravenna, they have to battle, and they are stopped by the power of the Roman legions and the cunning of the emperor's sister, Galla Placidia. As the Goths lose many warriors in the cruel battle, Alaric vows bloody revenge....
Too Bad She's Bad
Character: Carletto, l'uomo derubato della borsa
When young and attractive Lina Stroppiani, a thief like the rest of her family, tries to steal the taxi of Paolo, together with two accomplices, she can't possibly know that this will have far reaching consequences....
Meo Patacca
Character: Cardinale
Adapted from the mock-heroic poem in Roman dialect, tells the misadventures of the young trasteverino Bartolomeo Patacca that, because of the ambition of his woman, is having to train a group of beggars to go fight in defense of Christianity in Vienna, besieged by the Turks....
Love, the Italian Way
Character: Edmondo
A group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoy various adventures and become romantically involved with each other....
Ursus
Character: Kymos
Ursus returns from war to find his fiancée, Attea, has been kidnapped by a mysterious sect which sacrifices virgins to its patron goddess. Ursus faces much treachery and is forced to display much courage and strength as he and the blind girl Doreide embark upon a quest to retrieve Attea....
Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Character: Cardinale Piazza-Colonna
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel....
Property Is No Longer a Theft
Character: Albertone
A young bank teller, literally allergic to paper money, becomes the worst nightmare of his best customer, a wealthy butcher who manages his business unscrupulously....
Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga
Character: Il maggiordomo Leopoldo
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The Sex Machine
Character: Mons. Alberoni
The year is 2037 A.D. Depletion of natural fuels has eliminated electrical power throughout the world. No light… no heat… no T.V., until a team of award-winning scientists succeeds in harnessing energy from the world’s oldest source of reciprocating motion....
A Mink Coat
Character: Baldini
A newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives forever....
Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio
Character: Corinto Marchiella (episodio "Il pelo della disgrazia")
The film is divided into two episodes, The Hair of Disgrace and The Magician, both focusing on the theme of the occult and beliefs....
The Adventures of Pinocchio
Character: medico
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and after trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastro Ciliegia, decides to build himself a puppet to keep him company....
Black Journal
Character: Rosario
A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow tenants in a 1938 Italian apartment building....
A porte chiuse
Character: Manning, albergatore
The movie is about the celebrated trial of Olga Duvovich, very beautiful woman accused of killing her husband, a wealthy financier....
Between Miracles
Character: Priore
Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and made him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That fact will determine his life, which will be affected by inner torment caused by the confrontation between sexual desires and sacrifices of faith, sin and grace....
The Traffic Policeman
Character: Mayor's lawyer
An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy....
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Character: Guidarino, Journalist
Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta....
Easy Love
Character: Cante Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano")
Five episodes: A professor decides to murder her husband to win a woman. A hotelier seduces a boarder. A man convinces a friend to marry his lover, so as not to arouse his wife's suspicions. A man borrows money from a loan shark to pay for the services of his wife. Two couples try in vain to take a trip to the seaside....
All the Other Girls Do!
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The innocent love of two young students is hindered by their families. The two meet in a squalid apartment where they will perhaps decide their future. At the exit, however, are arrested for a kiss exchanged on the road....
Soldier of Fortune
Character: Don Pedro Gonzalo de Guadarrama
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 ...
Un amore targato Forlì
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The young Rimini native Stefano Santi goes to Rome, with a letter of recommendation for the maestro Melchiorri, artistic director of the Opera House, to take part in a competition for cellists. While trying in vain to be received by Melchiorri, he met an unscrupulous girl, Giorgia Muller, an architectural student temporarily linked to a fellow student. Between one misfortune and another the cello smashes, a homosexual theater manager tries to enmesh him Stefano, who now has a precarious employme...
Double Murder
Character: Marino Cianciarelli
Detective Baldassarre spends his forced exile sorting criminal records. He gets a chance to return to the line of fire when two people, an aristocrat and a worker are struck by lightning inside a fancy mansion. The incident would be relegated to freak accidents, but Baldassare's attention is drawn to the strangeness of the events and he begins to investigate....
The Seventh Sword
Character: The Cardinal
In this costume adventure, a dashing swordsman helps protect Philip III of Spain from the traitors trying to overthrow him....
What a Woman!
Character: Head waiter
A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it....
Love and Larceny
Character: Il gioielliere
Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant....