Luc Merenda
Birthday: Born in 1943-09-03 in Nogent-le-Roi, Eure-rt-Loir, France
Deathday: Alive
Luc Charles Olivier Merenda September 3, 1943 in Nogent-le-Roi, Eure-et-Loir, France
TV Credits
Nonni und Manni
Character:
Nonni and Manni is a children's television series produced as a joint venture between Iceland and West Germany. It debuted on 26 December 1988 on West Germany's ZDF channel and lasted for six episodes with the last one being aired on 1 January 1989. The story was based on the eponymous book written by the popular Icelandic children's author Jón Sveinsson, nicknamed "Nonni", who had written several books inspired by his own experiences of growing up alongside his brother Ármann, nicknamed "Manni...
L' Edera
Character: John
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Châteauvallon
Character: André Travers
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Movie Credits
Hostel: Part II
Character: Italian Detective
Three American college students studying abroad are lured to a Slovakian hostel, and discover the grim reality behind it....
Law Breakers
Character: Marco
A judge investigating police corruption finds that the deeper he digs, the more roadblocks he finds....
OSS 117 Takes a Vacation
Character: Hubert Bonisseur de La Bath alias OSS 117
OSS 177 goes on holiday to Brazil, but is called into action when he finds himself being stalked by a double....
Le Mans
Character: Claude Aurac
Filmed during the annual 24-hour endurance race at Le Mans, Michael Delaney is a Porsche driver haunted by the memory of an accident at the previous year's race in which a competing driver was killed. Delaney also finds himself increasingly infatuated with the man's widow....
Torso
Character: Roberto
A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them. When a wealthy student identifies one of the scarves and thinks she has a lead on a suspect, she becomes the killer's next target, retreating to her family's remote cliffside villa with three of her girlfriends....
Red Sun
Character: Chato
In 1870, Japanese ambassador Sakaguchi and his entourage travel by train to Washington to deliver a valuable sword to the President of the United States, a gift from the Emperor of Japan. On board the same train are two robbers, Link and Gauche, ready to make their move…...
Hostel Part II: A Legacy of Torture
Character: Self
Documentary about Hostel Part II and tools of torture....
Firefighters 2: Heroic Mission
Character: Comandante McFarland
Following a twinning between the national fire brigade and the special forces of the Canadian firefighters, Captain Carter arrives in Rome....
Buio come il cuore
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Kidnap Syndicate
Character: Mario Colella
After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that his rash actions will bring about for his child and another kidnapped boy, the son of a poor mechanic....
The Last Round
Character: Rico Manzetti
Stelvio Massi's crime thriller centers on a drifter who sets out to help blue-collar workers rise up against the two powerful families who are exploiting them. After settling in an industrial town and witnessing the cruelty of the factory owners, ex-mercenary Marco (Carlos Monzón) assumes the role of union agitator. When a violent confrontation erupts, the labor leader is driven to bring down the corrupt clans....
Silent Action
Character: Inspector Giorgio Solmi
A number of unexplained military deaths hit Italy and are ruled to be accidental or suicides, but police inspector Giorgio Solmi suspects otherwise. When a mysterious wealthy electrician is seemingly murdered by a female escort, a sinister plot slowly begins to unravel....
Puzzle
Character: Edward
In London, A man who has amnesia attempts to uncover the truth about his identity. A menacing individual accuses him of betrayal, and soon more pieces of his puzzling past begin to fall in place....
The Violent Professionals
Character: Vice commissario Caneparo
With or without help from law enforcement officers, a lone individual decides to crack down on the syndicate....
The Nun and the Devil
Character: Carafo
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....
Gambling City
Character: Luca Altieri
Luca Altieri is a gambler. He likes cards and he is a master in playing poker. He is a cardsharper too. He begins working for "The President", who has many gambling houses and everything seems to go well until Luca falls for Maria Luisa. Unfortunately for them, she is the girl of Corrado, the son of "The President"......
A Man Called Magnum
Character: Commissioner Dario Mauri
A drug deal goes bad and the heroin is stolen. One mob boss doesn't have his drugs and the other doesn't get his money. People are going to die until they discover who double-crossed them. Into this backdrop, Inspector Dario Mauri arrives from Milan to help clean-up Naples. His mission – find the drugs and stop the killing....
Hotel Fear
Character: Rodolfo
A young girl and her mother run a hotel during the war. When the mother dies, the girl finds herself at the mercy of her sex-crazed guests. Soon enough, a cloaked figure starts killing off everyone that tries to harm her....
Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
Character: Self
A documentary concerning the violent Italian 'poliziotteschi' cinematic movement of the 1970s which, at first glance, seem to be rip-offs of American crime films like DIRTY HARRY or THE GODFATHER, but which really address Italian issues like the Sicilian Mafia and red terrorism. Perhaps even more interesting than the films themselves were the rushed methods of production (stars performing their own stunts, stealing shots, no live sound) and the bleed-over between real-life crime and movie crime....
Nick the Sting
Character: Nick Hezard
Nick Hezard, a young con man, wants to avenge the death of a friend of his and organizes a swindle trying to cheat Robert Turner, an American businessman he thinks responsible for his friend's death. He succeeds in getting a hundred thousand swiss francs and uses them to carry out the second part of his plan....
Shoot First, Die Later
Character: Domenico Malacarne
When mobsters try to put an honest policeman on the payroll, he seeks revenge on the mob. But, he soon learns that his actions, however honest, have dire consequences....
Man Called Amen
Character: Così Sia / Amen
A very unlikely trio join forces in order to rob a bank: an ex-bandit called Smith, now a cheerful reverend, a nomadic artist and a pickpocket. Their plan is successful, however, and the three make off with the money from the bank's vaults, only to find themselves robbed of their newly-acquired wealth by a young schoolmistress....
They Still Call Me Amen
Character: Cosi' Sia / Amen
Chaco and his band of downtrodden men meet Così Sia (Amen), who always seems to get the better of them. He takes on the men with a plan to break into the Bank of Little-hole. For Così Sia, getting the money is not as important as getting his revenge on Reverend Smith, with whom he has a bone to pick....
Deadly Chase
Character: Commissario Verrazzano
Police Commissioner Verrazzano (Luc Merenda) is visited by charming Giulia Medici (Janet Agren) who claims that her brother, banker Valter Medici didn't commit suicide but was murdered. The investigation leads Verrazzano to dark secrets of loan sharks....
The Palace of Angels
Character: Ricardo
Bárbara, a French girl living in São Paulo, and two friends decide to transform a little apartment into a luxury bordello, "The Palace of Angels", securing money and success, but some problems as well....
Target
Character: Keaton
On a mission in Istanbul, an interpol agent disrupts the activities of a powerful drug lord and his accomplices. To get rid of him, the gangsters blackmail a skeet shooting champion into shooting the inspector....
The Madonna and the Dragon
Character: Simon LeTerre
Exposé of two news photographers covering the People's Revolution in the Philippines....
The Nosy One
Character: Paolo
Luciano Persichetti is hypersensitive and convinced that he has paranormal powers. Susanna, a parapsychology student with whom he is in love, tries to help him interpret the paranormal warning messages he is receiving. When Luciano turns out to be haunted by a mysterious killer who calls himself "The Guardian Angel", Susanna discovers that Luciano's paranormal powers are not real at all....
'o Re
Character: Don Josè Borjes
One of the key factors in Italian unification was the overthrow in 1860 of Francesco, the King of Naples and the two Sicilies, who went into elegant but impoverished exile in Rome with his Queen, Maria Sofia. This seriocomic drama follows the deposed royals as they adapt to their new lives. The former king has recognized the political finality of his deposition, but his queen has taken to traveling in men's clothing all over Italy trying to foment an uprising to restore them to the throne. She i...
La ragazza fuoristrada
Character: Giorgio Martini
An Italian photojournalist falls madly in love with a young black women he meets while on assignment in Egypt. She goes with him when he returns to Italy and the two soon get married. But the small town he is from is not quite so friendly nor open-minded to his new bride, and racism and petty jealousy threaten to break up their once idyllic happiness....
Il paese del melodramma
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Action
Character: Bruno Martel
A failed actor, broken by violence and rejection, finds refuge among outcasts and forms an unconventional bond, but their fragile peace is threatened by a jealous husband....
Could It Happen Here?
Character: Ferruccio
Three terrorists—a rebel girl from an upper-class family, a teacher who despises capitalism, and an ex-con with a taste for violence—come together to kill the Minister of the Interior and destabilise the government....
For Love One Dies
Character: Enzo
A hyper sensitive film student falls in love with an older woman....
Tough to Kill
Character: Martin
A group of mercenaries escort a man with a million dollar bounty on his head across the African terrain. Double crosses, back stabbing, and gunfire follows....
Pretendo l'inferno
Character: Self
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Love in First Class
Character: poliziotto
A man from Milan, Carmelo, is forced to take his young son Malcolm, on a trip down South so his mother, who usually takes care for the boy, can go on vacation with her Moroccan boyfriend. Carmelo, who obviously is not too often at home, has no clue about how to deal with young children, even the most basic chores a father should know to tend the restless imp thrown in his care. The crowded train traveling from Milan to Reggio, Calabria, is packed in the second class section where Carmelo and Mal...
Evil Thoughts
Character: Recrosio
Mario Marani is a well-respected lawyer in late 70s Milan, with a wonderful wife and a high social life. But Mario has a problem: every time he sees his wife talking to one of their friends he immediately visualises them in a hot affair. His jealousy spirals out of control, until a young man who hides inside their flat crosses his path....
Superfantozzi
Character: Antagonista di Fantozzi
Superfantozzi (1986) is an Italian film from 1986. It is the fifth film in the saga of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio. In this film, Fantozzi is portrayed in a surreal historical journey, from Genesis to 1980s....
Pover'ammore
Character: Giorgio
Carmelo and Maria have a baby girl. He wants a boy but another pregnancy would risk Maria's health. Eventually, Carmelo leaves Maria and she attempts to win him back....
Destruction Force
Character: Commissario Ghini
A shoot out after a robbery ends with the death of the Chief of Police. Police detective Ghini goes in search of a suspect, Lanza, to avenge the death of his boss. Ghini's search leads him to Belli, a Sicilian gangster and 'Trashy', the dirty leader of a gang of killers. The action is violent as both police and criminals track down Belli who still finds some time to attempt a couple of robberies......
Teste di quoio
Character: Maniaco (uncredited)
A group of clumsy terrorists hold a strange group of inhabitants of a compartment block hostage....
Honey
Character: The man in the room
A surreal erotic fantasy about a young woman who checks into a bizarre, labyrinthine hotel....
Appelez-moi Fouks
Character: Fouks
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