Gianni Ciardo
Birthday: Born in 1949-07-21 in Bari, Italy
Deathday: Alive
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Il Polpo
Character: Commissario Cosimo Ciambotto
The 1993 Telenorba sit-com written and directed by Gennaro Nunziante. The Show it's a parody, in Apulian dialect sauce, of the Michele Placido starring series "La Piovra" (1984) A bloody feud features two families, the Inpetto and the Sanguellatte. At the origin of it all is a wrong suffered on a Sunday morning many years earlier. Rocco Sanguellatte's mother, intent on preparing the traditional ragout, realized she lacked parsley, essential for seasoning the braciole. She then went to ask for ...
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The Doctor Prefers Sailors
Character: Gianni
A doctor in a hotel has a lot of problems like a man repeatedly fails to commit suicide, a pair of window washers witness a murder by a hit man, a suspicious wife checks up on her husband who happens to be having an affair with her and many more......
College Girl on Vacation
Character: Terenzio
Massimo Castaldi is a social climber married to Violante who comes from a rich family. His relationship with his mistress Laura is jeopardised when the family moves to their summer house on the Pugliese coast. Nevertheless, Massimo seems to find a solution. His raunchy daughter Sonia failed in Italian and he plans to present Laura as a nun who will give Sonia private lessons for her compensation exam. On the other hand, there are two dim-witted criminals, Terenzio and Fulgenzio, who are planning...
Grunt! - La clava è uguale per tutti
Character: Atar
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Pierino il fichissimo
Character: Carmelo
The innkeeper Carmelo subdues a good deal in the sale of his two-Arab tavern....
Nicola: Mussels, Kebab & Coca Cola
Character: Self
Antonio, a filmmaker running out of ideas, has a vision of the city's patron, St. Nicholas, who asks him to make a film about his true story. So Antonio sets out on a journey in the myth's footsteps, crossing all the countries where the saint is revered. Turkey, Belgium, Holland, France, Russia, all the way to the United States, where he is better known as Santa Claus, i.e., Santa Claus. A journey in the midst of a melting pot of popular cultures and traditions, with all their contradictions, ...
Pierino medico della SAUB
Character: Nicola
Alvaro Gasperoni, alias Peter returned to Rome with their families from Addis Ababa, where he received his bachelor's degree in medicine. Helped by his father through a recommendation from the P2 Lodge, he manages to get in a hospital in Rome as assistant to the primary. Here begins the struggle with other colleagues to buy up the post of deputy prime. As any good doctor is measured by the number of patients who, the whole family and all his friends are hospitalized; He, in this way, comes from ...
Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich
Character: Giovanni
Claudia, Rita, and Caterina are three friends who live in a conservative Italian town and lead seemingly neat and respectable married lives. One day, they are summoned to the notary public's office and learn that Anna, one of their peers in high school who got a bad name as a "whore" in the town because of them and was forced to leave is now dead. Furthermore, she had amassed a great fortune abroad and decided to bequeath it to the three. However, she has a strange condition: Claudia, Rita, and ...
Italiani a Rio
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A bank sends three prize-winning employees on a vacation to Rio....
Il segreto del giaguaro
Character: Juan l'originale
‘Romano de Roma’, incurable ‘70s maniac and born optimist, er Piotta alias “the Jaguar” has his headquarters in a bar near Piazza Vittorio, a meeting point for bizarre characters of various generations. Every now and then, some strange event interrupts the routine, while the Jaguar imparts lessons in life and conquest......
Nulla ci può fermare
Character: Max
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Children are Pieces of Your Heart
Character: Nicola - the teacher
A humble organ grinder is married to a barren woman. The pair would like to adopt a child but are too poor. Suddenly a miracle seems to happen: she's pregnant. Unfortunately the baby dies and the man is forced, through hardship, to buy one from a chorus girl who wants to get rid of him. After a short time even his wife dies and the poor man brings up the child on his own, singing in taverns to make ends meet. The father and son's humble life is upset when the real father of the boy reappears and...
Jumping from High Places
Character: Gianni
To honor her best friend's last wish, a young woman with severe anxiety confronts her greatest fears to try and reclaim her life — and perhaps find love....
L'esercito più pazzo del mondo
Character: obiettore
In an unnamed village there is a barracks where improbable soldiers have been recruited, who are up to all sorts of things. From a completely wrong flag-raising to a kidnapping, we certainly won't get bored: the two kidnappers ask for an escape route to the Caribbean, where they can move with the blackmail money, but things don't go as planned....
Ferragosto O.K.
Character: Giusto
Funny events of the clients who spend their summer holidays at the Hotel Internazionale in San Benedetto del Tronto....
Doppio misto
Character: Gianni Celletti
Two married couples horn each other .. choosing the same vacant apartment as the place of the escapade! How many misunderstandings can arise in this continuous game of doors that open and close?...
É forte un casino!
Character: Il Conte
Some friends in an earl's mansion (where one of them works), try to get rich quick by scamming an Arab sheik and then invite a rich Californian heiress to Rome, interested in weaving a relationship with an Italian nobleman....
Mi rifaccio il trullo
Character: Don Gianni
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Il padre delle spose
Character: Nicola Lori
Riccardo, a southern man of solid principles and good feelings, decides to go and visit his daughter Aurora, who has been living in Barcelona for some time. There, however, a surprise awaits him: Aurora has married a woman. Indignant, Riccardo hastily returns to Italy, determined never to see her again. But perhaps destiny has decided otherwise....
The Strange Desire
Character: Peppino
Two aliens on the planet "Alpha 4" win in competition of the local television "Cripto-Tivvu", a prize travel on Earth. They arrive in Bari, where they enter the bodies of two poor accountants....
Suntanned
Character: Elide's Husband
On the Adriatic Riviera the destinies of a variety of characters cross. A piano player is the lover of a rich woman who wants him to become a killer, a call girl is looking for her true love, two workers want to marry two old billionaires....
Mezzo destro mezzo sinistro - 2 calciatori senza pallone
Character: allenatore Gianvincenzo Coligno
The "Marchigiana" soccer team has been promoted to the Serie A of the national championship, but it is the last in the standings due mainly to two players, Gigi and Andrea....
Un figlio a tutti i costi
Character: Don Agostino
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Effetti indesiderati
Character: Ispettore
The story of three brothers who have to face the failure of their dairy business....
Laura... a 16 anni mi dicesti sì
Character: The Mad Bomber
A young fisherman from Pozzuoli, Gino Esposito, is in love with the sixteen-year-old Laura who reciprocates him with passion; but her family is opposed to the idyll and even goes so wildly to beat the young man. The two pigeons, however, on the advice of the common friend Tito, flee to Venice but are immediately resumed; she is brought back home, he in prison for a minor rat. Laura marries Tito to save Gino from prison. So they spend about ten years, the two lovers meet again by chance in the re...
Tradimento
Character: Gianni
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Il sommergibile più pazzo del mondo
Character: Nicola Soletti
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Prisoners of a Nightmare
Character: Carlino
A group of teenagers in a coastal house are terrorised by a hooded killer....
Il pirata - Memorie da Spoon River
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All'improvviso un Uomo
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The narrative follows a former gangster who, in an attempt to escape his tumultuous past, seeks refuge in a new village. Upon his arrival, he adopts the guise of a priest. In this newfound role, he becomes a central figure within the community, significantly influencing the lives of its inhabitants....