Silvano Tranquilli
Birthday: Born in 1925-08-23 in Rome, Lazio, Italy
Deathday: 1997-05-10
Silvano Tranquilli (23 August 1925 – 10 May 1997) was an Italian stage, television and film actor. Born in Rome, Silvano Tranquilli attended theater lessons at the Sharoff Academy, and started his stage activity with the theatrical companies of Salvo Randone and Vittorio Gassman. In 1959 he made his television debut, and later acted in more than 100 television productions, achieving his main success with the TV-series I ragazzi di padre Tobia. In the early 1960s he also started a prolific film career as character actor. He died in Rome, at 71, shortly after his theatrical comeback with the company Stabile del Giallo. Source: Article "Silvano Tranquilli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Das Blaue Palais
Character: Louis Palm
Das Blaue Palais is a series of five TV feature films written and directed by German author and filmmaker Rainer Erler. All five stories about the research and findings of an interdisciplinary scientific project have also been published as novels by Goldmann in 1978, 1979 and 1980. The series had an international cast. It was shot in Bavaria, Scotland, USA and Asia....
Dov'è Anna?
Character: Guido Cesari
Italian mini series...
Le Retour d'Arsène Lupin
Character: Freud
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L'ultimo giorno
Character: Carlo Salvi
An ailing widower finds a pretty woman willing to take care of his 20-year-old retarded son. One day the father and son are separated and the father gives up looking for the boy and returns home. Upon his arrival he sees the boy waiting for him on the step and he's so shocked he has a heart attack....
Pumaman
Character: Dobson
Thousands of years ago, aliens visited Earth and fathered the Pumaman, a man-god with supernatural powers entrusted by a gold mask with the ability to control people's minds, which in present-day London, falls into the wrong hands....
Perfide.... ma belle
Character: The Telephone Technician (uncredited)
Michele, a young mechanic, is in love with Angela Antonia, beautiful but capricious: the girl's father, once he learns of the relationship, has him fired from the place where he works and is forced to move to Naples. He asks for hospitality from his aunt Carmela, concierge in a building, but she has no vacancies and arranges him as Donna Tecla, the owner of a pension who, having three young daughters eager to get married, hopes to arrange at least one. But the three girls are not the best of bea...
The Black Belly of the Tarantula
Character: Paolo Zani
Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife....
Syndicate Sadists
Character: Dr. Marco Marsili
A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy and destroying the two families....
Castle of Blood
Character: Edgar Allan Poe
When a cynical journalist accepts a wager that he won't survive the night in a haunted castle, it unlocks an odyssey of sexual torment, undead vengeance, and a dark seductress who surrenders the gravest of pleasures....
The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
Character: Dr. Kurt Lowe
The year is 1885, and necrophiliac Dr. Hitchcock likes to drug his wife for sexual funeral games. One day he accidentally administers an overdose and kills her. Several years later he remarries, with the intention of using the blood of his new bride to bring his first wife's rotting corpse back to life....
Help Me, My Love
Character: Valerio Mantovani
Giovanni and Raffaella are happily married from ten years, but their relationship goes into crisis when Raffaella falls in love with Valerio Mantovani, a handsome forty-year-old man she knew during the concerts of chamber music she weekly attends with her mother....
So Young, So Lovely, So Vicious...
Character: Dr. Batrucchi
Angela is not happy about her daddy's choice for a new wife and does everything she can to destroy her stepmother-to-be....
Tony Arzenta
Character: Montani, the Interpol officer
A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody shootouts - ensue....
Happy New Year
Character: Italian Lover
Released from prison under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season Cannes, but also by a very special someone he met there....
The Violent Professionals
Character: Gianni Viviani
With or without help from law enforcement officers, a lone individual decides to crack down on the syndicate....
Violent Naples
Character: Paolo Gervasi
Inspector Betti (Maurizio Merli) is transferred to Naples and immediately after his arrival receives a warm welcome from The Commandante (Barry Sullivan), the city's crime lord. Betti then goes on a personal mission against corruption and organized crime, and tries to force the syndicate out of town with any means necessary....
The Legend of Blood Castle
Character: Médico
Countess Elizabeth Bathory conspires with her husband to acquire the blood of virgins to maintain her youth and beauty....
High Crime
Character: Franco Griva
An Italian police inspector matches wits with a powerful European drug ring. As he comes closer to the top of the underworld organization, his odds of survival decrease....
Violent Rome
Character: Police Chief
A detective sick and tired of the rampant crime and violence in his city, and constantly at odds with his superiors, is finally kicked out of the department for a "questionable" shooting of a vicious criminal. However, he is soon approached by a representative for a group of citizens who themselves are fed up with what they see as criminals going unpunished, and they make him an offer he may very well not refuse....
Down the Ancient Stairs
Character: professor Rospigliosi
A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. He is also a very active ladies'man and makes three women benefit from his sexual itch: Francesca the hospital manager's wife, Bianca, his devoted nurse and Carla, a nymphomaniac doctor's wife. His well-ordered universe starts being challenged with the coming of Anna, a trainee psy...
Manhunt in the City
Character: Paolo Giordani
A man's daughter is killed by thieves during a bank robbery. Due to the incompetence of the corrupt authorities, he decides to take to law into his own hands and track down the killers....
Unknown Woman
Character: Zappengo
When an old lady dies two hours before her life insurance expires, the insurance lawyer suspects something dubious. He begins to investigate and he becomes the lover of the old lady's daughter......
Smile Before Death
Character: Marco
After the death of her mother under strange circumstances, a teenage girl quickly begins to suspect that her recently widowed stepfather may be involved....
The Cat in Heat
Character: Antonio
A man returns home to his wife from a business trip only to find a dead body in their yard....
Agenzia Riccardo Finzi... praticamente detective
Character: Augusto Moser
After graduating in correspondence detective, Riccardo Finzi arrives in Milan. The first case he deals with is the death of a young maid. Cockpit in a surreal yellow from a novel by Luciano Secchi....
Don Bosco
Character:
This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco, who dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exploited street children in Turin....
So Sweet, So Dead
Character: Paolo Santangeli
A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene....
Lonely Hearts
Character: Diego
The marriage of a bored upper class couple gets in a crisis....
The Invisible Woman
Character: Andrea
Drama about the fading relationship between a professor and his wife. Based upon a short story by Alberto Moravia....
The Double
Character: Roger
A man is shot in an underground car-park by a mysterious bearded man. As he dies he recollects the events that led him to this situation, including adulterous liaisons and jealous envy....
Black Lemons
Character: Commissario Modica
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!...
I due sanculotti
Character:
The brothers Franco and Ciccio La Capra moves to France in the days of the French Revolution, putting themselves in a lot of trouble....
Web of the Spider
Character: William Perkins
Alan Foster, a professional American journalist, travels to London to meet with Edgar Allan Poe for an interview. While in London, Alan soon finds himself in the company of Lord Blackwood, and Alan accepts a bet to spend a night in his castle...
Madeline, Study of a Nightmare
Character: Dr. Shuman
A young woman is tormented by nightmares of her miscarriage. She becomes unfaithful to her husband and meets various lovers. Eventually, reality begins to unfurl around her....
Lips of Lurid Blue
Character: David Levi
Elli and Marco are an unquestionably unusual wedded couple. Due to a damage as a kid, Marco harbors homosexual drives that he represses inside his married life and Elli is a barely surpressed nymphomaniac. The marriage is useful for both of them as it allows them to blend in within the confines of their regular social life in a sanctimonious provincial town. But then a strange woman bursts into their world and Marco's deviant behavior come to light again but now he has a thirst for murder....
The Women of Quiet Country
Character: Il prefetto
In the late thirties of Italy, In the background of peaceful village landscapes, Guido requires unquestioning obedience to his will in his house. Alberto dreams of breaking free from the dictatorial care....
The Art of Love
Character: Andrea
A married couple, he a failed intellectual, she completely unsatisfied, try to solve their marital crisis by throwing themselves into the arms of two lovers; he a young Swede, she with a handsome Greek man....
The Stunt
Character: Dr. Milani
While on a joy-ride, a group of kids hijack a car belonging to the mob. Little do they know it, but the trunk contains thousands of dollars of dirty money. The mob boss soon sends out his top thug (played by Venantino Venantini) to locate the missing cash and punish the kids who ripped him off....
Quella chiara notte d'ottobre
Character: Marcello
A unhappily married woman tries to find happiness with a former lover, but when they witnesses crime, it leads them down a path of self-destruction...
My Wife, A Body to Love
Character: Paolo
The story of a nymphomaniac model with a somewhat older businessman husband....
Sunflower
Character: L'operaio italiano
After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover?...
The Bloodstained Butterfly
Character: Inspector Berardi
When a young female student is savagely killed in a park during a thunderstorm, the culprit seems obvious: TV sports personality Alessandro Marchi, seen fleeing the scene of the crime by numerous eyewitnesses. The evidence against him is damning... but is it all too convenient? And when the killer strikes again while Marchi is in custody, it quickly becomes apparent that there's more to the case than meets the eye......
You're Jinxed, Friend, You've Met Sacramento
Character: Doc O'Donnell
This fast-moving tale revolves around the kidnaping of a boxer's daughter. The boxer pays the ransom money but the girl is still not released. Her boyfriend decides to get her back his own way....
Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand
Character: Il tenente Bertolucci
Stuck in a dream world of his own, Italian sculptor Albert Saporito, sometimes has difficulty separating truth from fiction. When he dreams that his gangster neighbor has been murdered, he reports the crime to the police, only to involve himself in a complicated situation....
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
Character: Sylvester
There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he'll have the perfect alibi when the bodies start piling up. But it turns out his enemies have enough juice to keep him in prison, his associates start dying and the attempts on his life start. Cue Tony Breda, a wannabe wiseguy, who has a plan to spring Frankie from jail....
The Hideout
Character: Aubrey
A jewel thief hides his loot in a WELL while escaping. He returns several years later only to find there is a Resort on the site and the well is the centerpiece of the place. He then has to find a way to retrieve his haul....
Love and Death on the Edge of a Razor
Character: Police Inspector
Stefano, the son of a wealthy businessman, meets a beautiful woman named Lidia while accompanying his father to a meeting with a cardinal. He pursues her through the streets of Venice and a romance develops. Upon returning from an overseas business trip, he is informed that Lidia has been killed in an accident. Soon afterwards, he thinks he recognizes her at a building site, but the woman claims to be a reporter who is obviously involved with gangsters. Furthermore, all evidence of Lidia's death...
I piaceri del sabato notte
Character: Il vice commissario
Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution....
My Body With Anger
Character:
"Il mio corpo con rabbia" by Roberto Natale has been credited an uncertain and indefinite status between an art and an exploitation movie. Silvia is a daddy's girl who has wanted to have a drug experience only once, but this was enough for her parents to batten down the hatches, on the advice of a doctor, isolating the girl into a luxurious hotel in Sardinia and being vigilant on her "healing". It's out of season, there're almost no people in the compound. But a strange young man is roaming arou...
Casa di bambola
Character: Il dottor Rank
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