Roldano Lupi
Birthday: Born in 1909-02-08 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy
Deathday: 1989-08-13
TV Credits
Dov'è Anna?
Character: Cesare Ranucci
Italian mini series...
David Copperfield
Character: Robert Strong
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L'isola del tesoro
Character: Il dottor Livesey
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Le donne del Tenente Sheridan
Character: sceriffo
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I miserabili
Character: Gillenormand
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Movie Credits
Times Gone By
Character: Antonio Serra
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories....
House of Ricordi
Character: Domenico Barbaja
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi....
Umanità
Character: Antonio
The meritorious assistance of a US institution, towards the inhabitants of a refugee camp, in the Italian post-war period, among the protagonists a doctor who tries to do everything possible to treat the population in critical health conditions. The doctor will fall in love with a girl particularly affected by the dramatic war period, but the return of the girl's boyfriend from captivity and the subsequent marriage will make the American doctor return to daily reality....
L'Attaque de Fort Adams (Une aventure de Buffalo Bill)
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The Trojan Women
Character: Poseidone
In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio Cetrangolo, but creates an original way of film adaptation, inspired by the Brechtian conception of staging the ancient theater. He does not use costume or set design, but is based only on the simple performance of the actors, highlighted by the shooting technique. The absolute sense of tragedy is perceived by the public through emotional engagement and imag...
Avenger of the Seven Seas
Character: Redway
It's 1790 and British Naval Commander Redway is driven by greed for money and will stop at nothing to get it. His second in command, David Robinson, questions his allegiance when Redway kills his father and takes his brother prisoner. In order to save his brother and avenge his father's death David must join forces with a band of pirates, led by Captain Bernard, hunt down and kill Redway....
Addio, amore!
Character: Cesare Dias
Naples, 1880. Two young sisters from a noble family, after losing their parents, get taken in by a friend of their family....
The Giant of Metropolis
Character: King Yotar
Obro the muscleman goes to Atlantis and sinks a death-ray king who knows the secret of immortality....
L'uomo dal guanto grigio
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A famous painting by Antonello da Messina, "the man with a gray glove", has been entrusted to an old restorer. When, subsequently, the painting is withdrawn from the restorer's studio and exposed, the art critic Drago discovers that it is not the original, but a copy....
Duel Without Honor
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Bianca, a rich heiress, being an orphan, lives in her palace with her guardian uncle and cousin Olga....
The Case of Poisons
Character: Lesage
Madame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set eyes on a younger beauty, Marie-Angélique Scorailles. Having had enough of the situation, the rejected mistress decides to visit La Voisin, a woman known as a fortune teller, a doctor, a midwife and who is also said to arrange black masses and sell poisons. Some time later Marie-Angélique, now Duchess of Fontanges, dies mysteriously aged only twenty......
The Testimony
Character: Pietro Scotti
A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant may give him a reprieve but not peace of mind....
The Contessa's Secret
Character: Orsini
The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life....
Il vetturale del Moncenisio
Character: Jean Claude Thibaud
During the first Napoleonic expedition into Italy, Thibaud is seriously injured before being caught up in a mystery involving his wife, her rightful inheritance and his own daughter's happiness....
Crossed Swords
Character: Pavoncello
Nobleman Rainiero, Sidonia's duke son, comes back home with his friend Renzo. Soon after arrival, Renzo will get in a big trouble and he will be forced to choose between going to church for marriage or going to prison....
Flesh Will Surrender
Character: Giulio Wanzer
Giovanni used to be a humble, mild-mannered government clerk whose life was turned upside down when he met Giulio, a notorious forger who at once set about manipulating the over-confident man. Giovanni did what he should never have done: he associated himself with the crook. Giulio soon laid hands on Giovanni's money, ruined his career and manhandled him into marrying his own mistress, the beautiful Ginevra. It was of course an unhappy marriage but Giovanni found a little solace when his son Cir...
La campana di San Giusto
Character: Stella
The adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One....
Revenge of The Gladiators
Character: Valentiniano III
The mighty Gladiator is captured after freeing the misguided emperor's daughter. The girl surrenders herself for his freedom but is again freed by the Gladiator....
Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West
Character: Colonel Peterson
Colonel William Cody, alias Buffalo Bill, intends to put an end to the dishonest relations between a gang of white swindlers and the Indian, Yellow Hand. So he goes to the chief of Yellow Hand's tribe, Wise Fox, and tries to convince him to sign a peace treaty with the Federal troops. In order to avoid this, Yellow Hand abducts Wise Fox's daughter, pretending that the soldiers have done it....
La freccia nel fianco
Character: Luigi Barbano
Started in the summer of 1943 by Lattuada and , the because of the war that raged in Italy at the time, the shooting was interrupted several times only to stop for good in September of the same year. It only resumed after the war, in the spring of 1945, but with Mario Costa as the director instead of Lattuada. It was eventually released in September 1945 with only Lattuada billed as the director. Similarly, the film was started with Vittorio Gassman in the role of Brunello, but when the shooting...
Lovers Without Love
Character: Piero Leonardi
This flashback heavy melodrama is a loose adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata named after the Beethoven piece. The story concerns marriage, divorce, love, carnal lust and jealousy....
Il segreto delle tre punte
Character: duca di Melia
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The Mongols
Character: Genghis Khan
During the Mongol invasion of Poland, a conflict between Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan and his oldest son Ogotai ensues when the former aims for peace and the latter itches for war and conquest....
Hero of Rome
Character: Porsenna
In ancient Rome, the people finally oust their despised king, Tarquinius, and declare the city a republic. Tarquinius makes an alliance with the Etruscan king, Porsenna, to take back power in Rome, but a Roman general, the heroic Mucius, sets out to stop him....
Cab Number 13
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To secure her fortune with Monsieur Vaudieu de la Tour, the Machiavellian Claudia kills her lover's elder brother and steals his child. The boy is adopted by a coachman, and later, as secretary to the Minister of Justice, discovers the truth, punishes the bad guys, rewards the good ones and marries the daughter of another innocent man, unjustly accused by Claudia....
Jealousy
Character: Marchese Antonio di Roccaverdina
A film based on the book Il marchese di Roccaverdina by Luigi Capuana about a marquis who is in love with his servant Agrippina but is unable to marry her because of her status. The marquis commands his trusted subject to marry her in his stead as long as he vows not to have sex with her....
The Gate of Heaven
Character: Giovanni Brandacci, the pianist
Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our Lady of Loreto....
The Queen of Babylon
Character: Assur
In this Biblical epic, a brave Chaldean rebel takes on his evil nemesis, a cruel Assyrian king. En route to his fateful meeting, the rebel hides in the humble hut of a luscious peasant girl....
Sicilian Uprising
Character: Giovanni Da Procida
Sicilian Uprising or Sicilian Vespers is a 1949 Italian historical drama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Marina Berti, Clara Calamai and Roldano Lupi....
The Seven Revenges
Character: Grande Khan
The leaders of Circassians and Kyrgyz face off in a tournament divided into seven challenges: only one will gain the supremacy....
The Count of Monte Cristo
Character: Morrel
Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmund of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmund escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmund must find the trea...
Il cappello da prete
Character: Baron Carlo di Santafusca
The baron of Santafusca, descended from a noble family, leads a dissipated life. To pay debts he is forced to sell his house. He tries to steal from the house of a very rich priest and, surprised during the theft, he kills the priest, and then throws the body in an abandoned well. He continues his life of revelries and luxury, until the remorse for the crime trigger a process of self-destruction. The nightmares of the baron, tormented by the only evidence left of the murder, the hat of the pries...
The White Devil
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In the Caucasus a rebel fighter battles against the rule of an oppressive Russian Governor, although he is in real life a prince who pretends to be a supporter of the Governor....
Lui, lei e il nonno
Character: John
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Wolves Hunt at Night
Character: Miguel
A secret agent is summoned by the head of a counter espionage organization, to Trieste where he is to unmask a potential enemy operating in Venice....
Altura
Character: Efisio Barra
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Hercules Against the Barbarians
Character: Genghis Khan
The eternal Hercules in this film has gone way beyond his usual time and place in ancient Greece and is now helping Poland free itself of Mongol invaders in the 12th century. Mark Forest is the star of this peplum epic, Hercules Against The Barbarians....
Koenigsmark
Character: Le grand-duc Frédéric de Lautenburg
A young French, Vignerte, is hired in the court of Lautenberg, an imaginary land, as the young Prince's private teacher and as the Grand Duchess' reader....
The Adulteress
Character: Tarquinio
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