Pier Paolo Capponi
Birthday: Born in 1938-06-09 in Subiaco, Rome, Italy
Deathday: 2018-02-15
Pier Paolo Capponi (9 June 1938 – 15 February 2018) was an Italian actor and screenwriter. Born in Subiaco, after his studies Capponi attended a theater school and later was chosen by director Vittorio De Seta for an important role in Un uomo a metà. His film career was divided equally between auteur films (with, among others, Paolo e Vittorio Taviani, Valerio Zurlini, Gérard Corbiau, Francesco Rosi and Nelo Risi) and genre films, in which he was sometimes credited as Norman Clark. On the big screen with some regularity for a decade, after 1977 Capponi focused his appearances on TV series and on stage. Source: Article "Pier Paolo Capponi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Dov'è Anna?
Character: Commissario Bramante
Italian mini series...
Il giovane Garibaldi
Character:
Miniseries about the early life of Garibaldi....
Movie Credits
Champagne Charlie
Character: M. de Ghuilain
This is the story of the Charles Heidsieck who opened the market for Champagne sales in America just prior to the American Civil War. He is a reluctant French spy and is captured and spends time in a Union prison. There are two parallel love stories (he is French) and some battles with his uncle for control of the family vineyard (because his father married his mother who the uncle also loved)....
Farinelli
Character: Broschi
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time....
Naked Violence
Character: Marco Lamberti
Some youngsters rape and kill their teacher; but they won't tell their motivation. The police detective on the case feels some sinister influence behind the young murderers....
The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion
Character: Peter
The wife of a financially struggling businessman is blackmailed by a mysterious man into having a sadistic relationship with him, or he will release damning evidence that suggests that her husband is a murderer....
Many Wars Ago...
Character: Lt. Santini
Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the same disastrous results. As casualties mount, indignation spreads among the rank and file. Disturbed by his superiors' decisions, Lieutenant Sassu is led to question the purpose of war and reconsider where his real duties lie....
Black Jesus
Character: Officer
A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ-like leader determined to save his people, by passive resistance, from the dictatorial regime propped up by European colonialists, is imprisoned and tortured, along with a thief who comes to a greater understanding through his contact with Lalubi....
Blood and Diamonds
Character: Tony
A man is arrested and condemned to five years in jail for robbery. After serving his term, he is out for revenge on the gang members he considers were to blame for his arrest. The prize for this deadly fight is a large cache of diamonds....
The Lady of Monza
Character: Count Taverna
A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan. Based on the life of Marianna De Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza," a 17th century nun accused of and tried by the church for breaking celibacy and plotting murder....
My Name Is Pecos
Character: Joe Kline
Pecos Martinez rides into Houston looking to settle an old score with gang leader Clane, who is after the money that disappearred from a recent robbery. The hunt for the loot and Pecos' quest become intertwined with the efforts of the locals to stay alive long enough for help to arrive. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net...
Frame Up
Character: O'Neil
Henry Silva is the police inspector Sterling who is devastated when a gang of robbers kill his son. He then becomes accused of having killed a police informer and is kicked out of the police department. His life seems ruined. To clear his name he will have to take the law into his own hands, and excitement will ensue!...
Au nom du père et du fils
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Patrice's father was murdered in 1978. Time has done nothing to erase the pain, the anger, the questions and the regrets caused by the tragedy. Twelve years later, Patrice enrolls his son with him on a search about his past and his roots....
The Last Desperate Hours
Character: The Inspector
Paolo Mancuso is a gang boss whose rivals want dead. During a failed assassination attempt, he is bitten by an infected lab rat. In the short time he has left to live, he tracks down his enemies and kills them one by one....
Fiorile
Character: Duilio
The Benedetti family's wealth comes from gold stolen from the French army during the 18th century. When Jean (Michael Vartan), the lieutenant guarding the coins -- and lover of Elisabette Benedetti (Galatea Ranzi) -- is executed for a crime he did not commit, Elisabette curses the family. Bad luck travels from generation to generation. As the latest Benedettis tell their children about their eccentric grandfather, the children worry that the family curse will be passed on....
A Season of Giants
Character: Burchard
At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leonardo Da Vinci (John Glover) create their masterpieces, while dealing with religious persecution, political turmoil, and the discovery of America....
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
Character:
Antonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist tribunals, relives the stages of his political career and private life....
A Season in Hell
Character:
The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of twenty, became an arms dealer and died at thirty-seven; and his passionate relationship with Paul Verlaine, full of wanderings, storms and falling out....
Uno a me, uno a te e uno a Raffaele
Character: The Lawyer
An American independent director comes to Italy to shoot a film. But inconveniences and obstacles stand in the way at every step. These are the years in which “Tangentopoli” rages and the golden rule of officials and collaborators is “one (bribe) to you, one to me, one to Raffaele”....
There Once Was a Cop
Character: Ugo (uncredited)
Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving husband with child - something that is not so easy for a confirmed single like Campana. Unfortunately American killers chase behind the Nice mafia clan too, in order to get control of French drug trades to USA....
Sergeant Klems
Character: Mohamed Abdel Krim
A man masquerading as a dead soldier seeks to desert his post and join the enemy in their struggle....
Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
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This vehicle for the great actress Anna Magnani was one of the four made for Italian television and shown in 1971-1972 at the end of her career. The other three were "La sciantosa," "Correva l'anno di grazia 1870," and "L'automobile" and were all directed by Alfredo Giannetti....
Black Lemons
Character: Francesco Macaluso
Rosario Inzulìa, a young man involved with the Mafia, was sentenced to labor camp, forced to pay also for crimes he didn't commit. After eight long years of imprisonment he's finally released. Rosario goes back to Sicily, where he learns that his wife died in an accident. He tries to rebuild his life, but when he finds out that his wife was murdered, he decides that it's time to take action: alone against the Mafia!...
Defeat of the Mafia
Character: Scott Luce
At the Rome airport two men are taken into custody. Inspector Scott Luce thinks their two suit-cases are full of drugs, but the suit-cases contains only white powder. Afterwards the corpse of Susan Palmer is found. She was a drug runner for the Cosa Nostra boss Frankie Agostino. Susan's friend, Jenny Ryan, meets a mysterious man from America, Arthur Ardigan, supposedly her cousin. In the meantime Inspector Luce is investigating....
Valerie Inside Outside
Character: David Rocchi
The story of a young. beautiful and very frustrated woman screwing everything in sight in every possible location. She is married to a famous choreographer. She has everything material she wants: clothes, a fancy home, jewelry, servants. Except one thing: her husband refuses to have sex with her because she wants to get pregnant and have a child....
L'enigma delle due sorelle
Character: Il Giudice
Rome, Nora Mariani, an established photographer at an advertising agency, Signal, is haunted by strange phone calls in which a female voice tells her that she is her sister Claudia, who died following a road accident that occurred two years earlier in Germany, in which Nora, who was driving the car, and a German hitchhiker, to whom the two had given a lift, had also been involved; Because of that trauma, Nora was no longer able to drive. The phone calls are increasingly frequent and insistent, s...
Our Man in Casablanca
Character: Hermann von Heufen
A man whose hand has been replaced by a steel one finds that his new hand has the ability to retain enough electricity so he can kill his enemies, which is exactly what he starts to do....
Commandos
Character: Corbi
Sgt. Sullivan puts together a group of Italian-Americans into disguise as Italian soldiers in order to infiltrate a North African camp held by the Italians. After the soldiers have knifed the Italians in their beds, they find a hooker living at the camp. Sullivan's commandos are to hold this camp and its weaponry until an American battalion arrives, all the while these Italian-Americans pretend to be Italian soldiers, often hosting the enemy. Lt. Valli is a young, "green," by-the-book officer wh...
Il gatto selvaggio
Character:
A typical 1968 film, it is directed in an elliptical style by the author, who builds a political theorem on the link between violence and revolution....
The Nun and the Devil
Character: Don Carlos
It's 1577. The Mother Superior at the convent of Archangel is seriously ill. The determined and calculating Mother Giulia plots to become the next Mother Superior. She receives tough competition from tormented lesbian Sister Chiara and the lusty Sister Carmela....
Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It
Character: The Private Detective
After many years of living abroad, a troubled young man returns home due to the death of his father (who he suspects was actually murdered). He attempts to untangle that mystery while still carrying an unhealthy obsession toward his mother, who committed suicide ten years ago. This obsession then draws in his attractive cousin and takes a sexual turn....
Three Cheers for Us
Character: Rufo
A story about ten year old Enrico who spends the summer in the village mostly playing Indians with his friends....
The Castro's Abbess
Character: Francesco Cittadini
A young woman is forced into a convent. However, due to her nobility she rises to be an abbess. She has to deal with corruption in the church....
Almost a Man
Character: Ugo
A young writer descends into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Michele retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to the brink of suicide before being sent to an asylum for shock therapy. Escaping from the asylum, Michele returns to his boyhood home, where he learns the reasons for his present mental state....
Heart and Sword
Character: Dinas
After the death of his father, prince Tristan is living in Cornwall at the court of his uncle, King Marke, who treats him like a son. When the Irish king sends his son Morold over to demand high tax payments, Tristan challenges him to combat. He manages to kill Morold but is very badly injured, and is placed in a boat to be healed by the magic powers of the sea, which takes him across to Ireland....
The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
Character: Roberto Rosone
A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982....
Bandits in Rome
Character: Director of Supermarket
After professional stickup man Mario Corda is jailed, his young, ambitious partner -- who covets both Corda's life and his wife -- cuts loose, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake....
Nailed Lips
Character: Francesco
A young commissioner investigates the murder of a Sicilian criminal with the help of a social worker....
King of Hearts
Character: English officer
An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache....
The Cat o' Nine Tails
Character: Police Supt. Spini
A newsman works with a blind puzzle-solver to uncover a deadly conspiracy linked to a genetic research facility....
The Author's Crime
Character: Marco Girardi
Against the wishes of her Aunt Valeria, attractive Milena travels to Milan in order to secretly marry Marco Giraldi. Three years later, Milena returns to her hometown Fermo, where her husband's shoe business is in financial difficulties. Shortly afterwards, she is abducted, a valuable painting is stolen and Aunt Valeriais murdered. Two young villains, who carried out the dirty work, are then killed......
Avenger X
Character: Mister X
A retired ex-criminal, the notorious Mister X, must clear his name when an up-and-comer commits a heinous copycat crime....
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids
Character: Inspector Vismara
A maniac on the loose is committing savage acts of slaughter, and one survivor may be the only key to unmasking the serial slayer known as the Half-Moon Killer. The mysterious half-moon lockets he leaves with his victims could be the only key to unraveling his sinister motives, but will that be enough before he completes his ice-cold plot to claim his intended seven victims?...
The Boss
Character: Cocchi
A hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians....
Bankomatt
Character: Impiegato banca
With three of his companions in a fatal gas-station robbery drowned while evading a police roadblock, the surviving young thug has no reason to turn himself in to the police, since they don't know about his existence. At least, that's the way his rescuer Bruno (Bruno Ganz) sees it. Besides, Bruno needs such an overly enterprising fellow to help him pull off a really big heist that he's been planning for a long time. It takes some doing, but the boy and his girlfriend are recruited by the older m...
The 10th Victim
Character: Terrace Snack Bar Manager (uncredited)
In the near future, big wars are avoided by giving individuals with violent tendencies a chance to kill in the Big Hunt. The Hunt is the most popular form of entertainment in the world and also attracts participants who are looking for fame and fortune. It includes ten rounds for each competitor, five as the hunter and five as the victim....
The Subversives
Character: Muzio
The film combines actual footage of Communist leader Palmiero Togliatti's funeral with the intermingled stories of four people affected by his death: Ettore, a Venezuelan radical who abandons the wealthy Italian woman he loves to go back to his country and help his cause; Ludovico, an ailing filmmaker who finds out that art alone is not enough; Giulia, a woman who embarks upon a lesbian affair with a former mistress of her husband; and Ermanno, a philosophy graduate who breaks up with his past....
18.000 giorni fa
Character: Fraticelli
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