Paolo Stoppa
Birthday: Born in 1906-06-06 in Rome, Italy
Deathday: 1988-05-01
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Paolo Stoppa (6 June 1906 – 1 May 1988) was an Italian actor and dubber. Born in Rome, he began as a stage actor in 1927 in the theater in Rome and began acting in films in 1932. As a stage actor, his most celebrated works include those after World War II, when he met director Luchino Visconti: the two, together with Stoppa's wife, actress Rina Morelli, formed a trio whose adaptions of works by authors such as Chekhov, Shakespeare and Goldoni became highly acclaimed. He debuted in television in 1960 in the drama series Vita col padre e con la madre, reaching the top of the popularity in the 1970s, in particular in the adaption of crime novels by Friedrich Dürrenmatt (Il giudice e il suo boia and Il sospetto) and Augusto De Angelis. As a film actor, Stoppa made some 194 appearances between 1932 and his retirement in 1983: films he appeared in include popular classics such as Miracolo a Milano (1951), Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960), Viva l'Italia! (1961), Il Gattopardo (1962), La matriarca (1968), Amici miei atto II (1982). He also had a role in the Sergio Leone epic Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) and cameoed in Becket (1964). Stoppa was also a renowned dubber of films into Italian. He began this activity in the 1930s as dubber of Fred Astaire. Other actors he dubbed include Richard Widmark, Kirk Douglas and Paul Muni. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paolo Stoppa, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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L'amaro caso della Baronessa di Carini
Character: Don Ippolito
Sicily 1812: the first liberal constitution shall put an end to the privileges of the feudal lords. Luca Corbara, sent by the Minister of Finance to control the landed properties, begins to suspect that the current Carini feud is made up of lands usurped more than two centuries before by the lover of the killed Baroness....
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The Leopard
Character: Don Calogero Sedara
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout....
Indiscretion of an American Wife
Character: Traveling Salesman
While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he doesn't want her to go. Together they wander the railroad station where Mary is to take the train to Paris, then ultimately reunite with her husband and daughter in Philadelphia. Will she throw away her old life for this passionate new romance?...
House of Ricordi
Character: Giovanni Ricordi
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....
The Shadow
Character: Michele
A painter's wife becomes ill. A friend comes to comfort him,but he falls in love with her....
My Friends Act II
Character: Savino Capogreco
The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery....
Boccaccio '70
Character: Lawyer Alcamo (segment "Il lavoro") (uncredited)
An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy young love and office politics in the big city; milk advertisements that begin to haunt an aging prude; a trophy wife enduring her husband's very public affairs; a lucky ticket-holder at a small town fair....
The Marquis of Grillo
Character: Papa Pio VII
In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself....
Miracle in Milan
Character: Rappi
Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out....
Rookies Go to War
Character: Le Colonel
A Grand Slapstick comedy about four buddies serving in the army. Their long-suffering sergeant attempts to whip them into shape but the conflict spirals out of control....
Becket
Character: Pope Alexander III
Thomas Becket, Henry II's longtime advisor, finds his friendship with the debauched king corroding when he is unwillingly appointed as Archbishop of Canterbury in an attempt to gain absolute loyalty from the Church....
Oh! Sabella
Character: Avvocato Mancuso
Raffaele, a Neapolitan student, get the news that his beloved grandmother Sabella is dying. He immediately goes to Pollena to be beside her....
Fumeria d’oppio
Character: Amico di Za-la-mort
A young woman is murdered and robbed in broad daylight. A young man is arrested, in possession of some of the jewels of the victim. The passionate protests of his sister arouse the compassion of Za la Mort, who promises to help the girl....
The Love of a Woman
Character: Le Curé
Marie, a young doctor, settles down on the Ouessant Island. She will be able to win the diffidence of the local population but she will have to fight for her independence after falling in love with an Italian engineer....
A che servono questi quattrini?
Character: Marchetiello
Marquis Eduardo Parascandolo, after having squandered all his possessions for not having cared about his finances, spends his time professing to some young people his philosophy of life....
The Iron Crown
Character: Trifilli
In the kingdom of Kindaor, traitor Sedesmondo kills his brother, the King of Kindaor, and becomes the tyrant of kingdom. He abandons the prince Arminio to beasts in the woods, but lions don't kill him and breed him as one of them....
Times Gone By
Character: Guido's father (segment "L'Idillio")
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories....
The Cape of Hope
Character: Simon Liakim
Lyria, a faded beauty who runs a seedy waterfront bar, is madly in love with Bob, a crooked attorney. Bob can't bring himself to confess his love for Minnie, the pretty daughter of Simon, a safe cracker. In order to run away with her, Bob, one of the masterminds of a big-time robbery, betrays his friends. But Lyria, who has found out what is happening, makes Minnie fall into a deadly trap....
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
Character: Gardunia
A lecherous governor of Naples in 1680 lusts after the wives of several peasants, particularly after the miller's wife Carmela. The miller himself plans to avenge his honor by seducing the wife of the governor....
L'allegro fantasma
Character: Gigetto
The noble Pantaleo Di Santa Paola has just died, and the preamble to his will is a confession in which he claims that in his youth he had a relationship with a circus rider that produced twin sons....
The Gold of Naples
Character: Don Peppino, the widower (segment Pizza on Credit)
A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice....
Beach House
Character: Nonno
Summer Sunday at a small beach house at the coast of Rome. Many people and stories: women's basketball team, two sports-obsessed soldiers, two men with their girlfriends and the priest with a big secret, an elderly couple with their pregnant granddaughter, and engagemented couple wanting to have sex for the first time....
The Most Wanted Man
Character: Tony Fallone
A nearsighted clerk gets fired after embarrassing mishaps. He mistakenly takes a gangster's raincoat, finds a gun inside, and is arrested as Public Enemy No. 1. Chaos erupts as both the police and the mob pursue him....
Tomorrow We Dance
Character: Padre di Mariangela
Aliens send a hypnotic signal through a TV channel, and the signal makes people dance and makes them forget their fears....
The Last Judgment
Character: Giorgio
The Last Judgement (Italian: Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France. It has an all-star Italian and international cast, including Americans Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; Greek Melina Mercouri and French Fernandel, Anouk Aimée and Lino Ventura. The film was a huge flop, massacred by critics and audiences when it was released. It was filmed in black and white, but the last sequence, the dance at theatre, i...
The Beauty of the Devil
Character: Official
Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages of old age ... whereupon Mephistopheles, agent of Lucifer, appears as a virile, handsome young man and exchanges bodies with him to induce Faust to sign a pact to exchange his soul for renewed youth, riches and power. But though the "new" Faust is attracted by the material improvements in his life, he remains wary of signing, while Mephistopheles, now posing as the aged professor whos...
Destinazione Piovarolo
Character: Gorini
Antonio La Quaglia becomes the railroader in Piovarolo during 1922 meanwhile the fascism is raising. Later he marries a jewish woman. He has career ambitions but can not reach them....
Escape by Night
Character: Prince Alessandro Antoniani
In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major....
Miracles of Thursday
Character: Don Salvador
In Fontecilla, a Spanish village in decline, the mayor and other illustrious citizens hatch a crazy plan to revitalize tourism....
Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Character: il nonno
Two back-to-back stories that deals with two "taboo" themes, the celibacy of the clergy in the episode of Renato Pozzetto and the homosexuality in the one with Nino Manfredi....
Scampolo 53
Character:
A young girl meets by chance an engineer who lives with an unbearable mistress. After abandoning his mistress, the engineer has to leave for Sardinia. He decides to take the girl with him, who has been waiting for this....
The Joy of Living
Character: Hairdresser
Ulisse is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. He drops the offer he gets from a group of fascists to go in with the Fossatis, a family of anarchists (unknown to him)....
Storms
Character: Amedeo Cini
A renowned surgeon becomes involved with an attractive circus trapeze artist with the relationship threatening his marriage and family life....
Right You Are (if you think so)
Character: Signor Ponza
Absurdism’s king of comedy, Luigi Pirandello, adapted a 1915 short story he wrote titled “Signora Frola and Signor Ponza, Her Son-in-Law” into a play two years later. Right You Are (If You Think Are) was presented in dramatic form as a “A Parable in Three Acts.” As in any instructive parable, the characterization is put fully into the service of delivering the lesson and thus creates mysteries about motivation that remain unresolved by the conclusion....
Don Cesare of Bazan
Character: Sancho
In Barcelona, in 1650, Count Don Cesare di Bazan tries to foil, with the help of an actress, a plot hatched against the king by the French ambassador....
A Mink Coat
Character:
A newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives forever....
Empty Eyes
Character: Egisto Palmucci
A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman....
Dad Becomes Mom
Character: Lo psicanalista
The Passaguai family is living peacefully, but then they go to see the magician Bhorman, starting a series of problem for them....
Rome 11:00
Character: Impiegato
The story of 5 girls among 200 who answer a wanted ad for a modest secretarial position, which leads to overcrowding in the building and a tragic accident....
Viva l'Italia!
Character: Nino Bixio
The film shows how Italy's historic national hero Giuseppe Garibaldi (embodied by Renzo Ricci) leads a military campaign known as Expedition of the Thousand in 1860 and conquers Sicily and Naples. When the Bourbon monarchy has left Southern Italy, he supports Victor Emmanuel II of Italy who achieves a lasting unification under the aegis the House of Savoy. Roberto Rossellini has said he was prouder of this film than of any other film he ever made....
Behold a Pale Horse
Character: Pedro
Manuel Artiguez, a famous bandit during the Spanish civil war, has lived in French exile for 20 years. When his mother is dying he considers visiting her secretly in his Spanish home town. But his biggest enemy, the Spanish police officer Vinolas, prepared a trap at the hospital as a chance to finally catch Artiguez....
The Payoff
Character: Don Michele Miletti
Sasà Jovine (Nino Manfredi) is a self-styled lawyer involved in petty businesses with Neapolitan mobsters (camorristi). When one of his clients, don Michele Miletti (Paolo Stoppa) offers him a huge bribe (mazzetta) to search for his daughter who disappeared mysteriously taking with her some hot documents, Sasà finds himself trapped into a spiral of homicides....
Our Dreams
Character: Oreste
Leo (Vittorio De Sica) is young man trying to make a living without any success. Through fortuitous circumstances, he is assigned by the director of a big firm to accompany for one night the daughter of the firm's accountant, Titi (María Mercader). Leo pretends then to be the son of a tycoon, and takes her in a luxurious restaurant....
Un americano in vacanza
Character: Augusto
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Sambo
Character: Manuel, il pittore
A fallen nobleman convinces a Roman coachman that he has found the way to win at Sambo, a Brazilian game of chance. Sent a messenger to Brazil to gamble, the two men go wild and run up debts. When they realize they have won nothing, they initially fall into total despair; however the coachman had played a coupon from the football pools on his own account. He will win and make things right....
High Time
Character: Rocchetti
The historic clock of a small town needs to be repaired but there is no money in the town coffers to pay for it. Don Paolo (Peppino Spadaro), the Priest, raises the money by lottery and thinks the surplus should go to the poor. The Communists and Socialists object because they are afraid the priest will get the credit and they claim it as "the people's money." The democratic mayor (Arturo Brogaglia) can think of no solution other than organizing committees and sub-committees. Finally, Rocchetti ...
La contessa azzurra
Character: Don Peppino Razzi
Loreley looks back to the happy times when she became a silent movie star with the huge success of "La Contessa Azzurra", directed by Don Salvatore and produced by Don Peppino, the owner of a Café Chantant....
Gioco pericoloso
Character: Giovanni
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La passeggiata
Character: preside del collegio
A meek and simple-minded boarding school teacher falls in love with a prostitute and gets the boot from school. He tries to have her change her way of living but she is very hard to convince. When she finally realizes he really loves her it is too late....
Nerone
Character: San Pietro
Parody of real life events of the Roman emperor Nero....
Una famiglia impossibile
Character:
A wealthy young woman falls in love with a radio singer without ever having seen him. She forces her strange family (forgetful father, mother with ideas of grandeur, three sisters with a passion for singing and another who takes care of abandoned children) to go to the EIAR headquarters to be able to meet him....
Holiday Island
Character: Advocate Appicciato
Intersecting lives on an island holiday: A lawyer anxious he caused a youth's death.An engineer suspecting his wife after being teased by pranksters.A young man falling for a nurse.A Frenchman seeing his wife wooed by a local....
The King's Guerrillas
Character: Peppino Luciani
Diavolo's bandits fight Napoleon's troops and so King Ferdinand IV, the Neapolitan king, makes Fra Diavolo a Colonel. In the meantime the bandit also falls in love with Marietta, the king's illegitimate child....
The Visit
Character: Doctor
Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed......
È arrivata la parigina
Character:
An ambitious French girl who moved to Italy to be an actress cannot break through and then opts for a normal life....
The Return of Don Camillo
Character: Marchetti
Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone....
Il romanzo di un giovane povero
Character: Enrico di Bevallan
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La bella di Roma
Character: Oreste
Nannina is engaged to a sleazy, unruly boxer who ends up in jail after a fight with a traffic policeman....
Trappola d'amore
Character: Il finto poliziotto
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Frenesia
Character: Bobby
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Se non son matti non li vogliamo
Character: Il conte Giuseppe Bardonazzi
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Lorenzino de' Medici
Character: Giomo, soldato del Duca Alessandro
Lorenzino de 'Medici manipulates Alessandro ruler of Florence to save his beloved Bianca....
Il Fiore sotto gli Occhi
Character: Arrigo Santucci
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Canto, ma sottovoce...
Character: Fabrizio
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Symphony of Love
Character: Calafatti
It is a biopic portraying the life of the composer Franz Schubert....
An Adventure of Salvator Rosa
Character: Il secondo contadino
Everything unfolds in Naples seventeenth century, when a mysterious masked swordsman who calls Salvador Rossa becomes champion of the needy and lonely struggle against the cruel tyrant that frightens the country....
Prima di sera
Character: Paolo Bancani
A middle-aged insurer, after spending a sleepless night because of a quarrel with his wife, goes to the pharmacy to buy a sleeping pill. By mistake, the doctor, instead of giving him a sedative, gives him poison. The man goes out of town to visit a client and, unaware that he is wanted by the police, is more than once about to swallow the pills; but every time an obstacle prevents him from fulfilling his purpose....
Uomini ombra
Character: Antiquario Bertrand
Italian naval secret agents acquire a British codebook and the Italian counter-espionage agents start tracking enemy agents working undercover in Italy and providing false information....
Neapolitan Carousel
Character: Salvatore Esposito
Music, ballet, folk dances and mime eliciting the spirit of Naples across the ages are loosely tied together by the comedic wanderings and exploits of the Esposito family....
Il tallone di Achille
Character: Lo Strozzino Serafino
Tino Scotti plays a man who is tricked into trying to kill himself. When all his attempts fail, he is believed to be immortal....
Puccini
Character: Giocondo
Produced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including a sexy, beautiful singer (Two for the Road's Nadia Gray) whom he drops for a small town girl (Sirocco's Marta Toren), and a servant girl who commits suicide o...
Maracatumba... ma non è una rumba!
Character: Miguel Martinez, l'impresario
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Character: Bertuccio
Edmond 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 Edmond 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 Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the trea...
Vanina Vanini
Character: Asdrubale Vanini
Vanina Vanini, a bored, spoiled Roman countess, falls in love with a dedicated young patriot who is in Rome to assassinate a traitor to the brotherhood of the Carboneria....
Non ti pago!
Character: L'avvocato Lorenzo Strumillo
The owner of a lottery store refuses to pay a large sum won by one of his workers that he hates, because that man received the winning numbers in a dream....
Gastone
Character: Achille
During the period between world wars, vaudeville sketches were popular before film showings.Gastone is one of the characters played by the famous Ettore Petrolini who figures in these sketches....
Apparizione
Character: Alberto
One of the most famous movie stars of the moment has a problem with his car. The actor is obliged to stop in a provincial hotel, where he finds himself surrounded by his admirers....
Giorni felici
Character: Bernardo
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A Woman Alone
Character: L'inquilino del piano di sopra
Three women share the same apartment and the same goal, to find a wealthy husband and settle down....
Sunday Heroes
Character: Piero
Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like an amateur and the crowd begin to smell something fishy going on....
Dogs and Cats
Character: don Cosimo
In a village, the pharmacist and the innkeeper have an intense rivalry fuelled by the fact that they were once romantically involved many years before. To spite her rival, the innkeeper arranges to have her nephew set up a second pharmacy to take business away him. Unbeknownst to them a romance is developing between the younger generation of the families....
If I Was Honest
Character: barone Paolo Vareghi
The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and messes that ends out well....
Sant'Elena, piccola isola
Character: Il medico curante di Napoleone
The last days of Napoleon on the island of Saint Helena....
The Law
Character: Tonio
A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game....
Skyscrapers
Character: Frank Millstone
During a party a drunken guest falls from the terrace, killing himself. The police inspector in charge of the investigation suspects all the participants in turn, and mysterious stories come to light....
My Seven Little Sins
Character:
The Count of Courvallon, whose gallant exploits have made the headlines, has uncoupled and lives in a pleasant estate in the C te. He has a son, Edouard, and a stylish valet, Antonio. This peaceful life is disrupted by a battalion of penniless girls living in a neighboring villa. Luisella has the nerve to introduce herself to André de Courvallon as his daughter, and immediately her comrades follow suit. The supposed father is not fooled, but his son takes it badly, especially as he has fallen in...
Ti conosco, mascherina!
Character: Luigi
An unscrupulous theatrical agent introduces his latest "discovery" to an elderly baron who becomes infatuated with her....
Rossini
Character: Tottola
The famous composer's life and his career. His love story with Isabella Colbran, the soprano who was to become his wife and the singer in all his operas up to the unfortunate day she lost her voice....
Il padrone sono me
Character: Mingòn
In Romagna, an Italian district, at the beginning of the twentieth century, the owners of an estate are the professor Edoardo, always lost in reveries, and his wife Maria. They have a son, Robertino, who has a friend: Zvanin. Zvanin is the son of Mingòn and Marianna, two peasants. Dolly is an american cousin and every summer she comes in Romagna. The movie narrates their stories over the years until the post I World War period....
The Fabiani Affair
Character: Graziani
The tale of the famous vendetta, vengeance over the years between two families. For nearly nothing at the start, as always with Sicilians or Corsican people, from the underworld or not......
Divieto di sosta
Character:
A wealthy widow becomes infatuated with an adventurer posing as a poet and, forgetting her responsibilities as a mother and her no longer young age, falls prey to a love frenzy in her family that puts her at odds with her daughter, who has just left boarding school, and her own brother, who is all about scientific research. The girl, who has learned of the alleged poet's less-than-honest intentions, tries every means to drive him away and restore her mother's sentimental balance. For this she pr...
Wife for a Night
Character: Agusto
A poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage....
Girls of Today
Character: Giuseppe Bardelotti
Peppino Bardellotti, a widower, lives in Milan with his four daughters and ex sister-in-law Matilde, who urges girls to settle down by marrying a wealthy man....
Rocco and His Brothers
Character: Cerri
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results....
The Seven Deadly Sins
Character: Mr. Alvaro (segment "Avarice and Anger")
A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony....
Rugantino
Character: Mastro Titta
A beautiful girl Rosina lives In Rome. Her husband is strong as a bull and jealous as Shakespeare's Othello. Once the husband of Rosina kills a wealthy aristocrat, who sang the serenade to his wife, and now he is hiding from justice....
You Love Me, I Love You
Character: Eugenio Sinibaldi
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L'amore si fa così
Character: Zaccaria Poussier
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Princess Cinderella
Character: Herr Bonaventura
Cinderella manages to marry the prince and move to the palace, where she is well-liked and loved by everyone. However, her evil stepsisters devise a way to get her kicked out....
Voice of Silence
Character: der Verleger
The film follows men from all walks of life, seeking to give meaning to their lives and rediscover their inner peace during a retreat in the “House of Silence”. For three days, they meditate on their lives....
Beauties of the Night
Character: Direktor der Oper
A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history....
The Thief of Venice
Character: Marco
A beautiful tavern-keeper finds herself getting caught up in a war between Italy and Turkey....
The Menace
Character: Cousin
Josepha is on the verge eighteen living with her drunken washed up actor uncle. She longs for the companionship of a group of her mo-ped riding peers who dabble in activities on the shady side of a legal dividing line. In order to get the semi-delinquent group to accept her, Josepha runs to the police with a tall tale about the local druggist, Savary. The police are looking for a sex murderer, and Josepha insists Savary is their man. What she does not know, however, can do her considerable dama...
Male Companion
Character: Professor Gaetano
A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself....
A Mink Coat
Character: Russo
A newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives forever....
After the Fox
Character: Polio
A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold....
Carthage in Flames
Character: Astarito
Historical drama depicting the last of the Punic Wars between the Roman Republic and Carthage....
Gli assi della risata
Character:
An anthology of several segments about everyday Italian life....
I cavalieri dalle maschere nere (I beati paoli)
Character: nobile balbuziente
Sicily, 17th Century. When his fiancée is kidnapped, a young man sets out to find her....
Wanda the Sinner
Character: Marco
Wrongly accused of his wife's death, a marine officer is forced to resign and sees his life fall apart....
Music on the Run
Character: Fogliatti, il produttore
An Italian comedy from 1943....
The Beautiful Otero
Character: Frédéric
An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and actress, star of Folies-Bèrgere: Carolina Otero....
Che tempi!
Character: Alessandro Raffo
Anna, only daughter of Felice Pastorino, a rich Genoese merchant, falls in love with a young sailor, Eugenio Devoto, with whom she has exchanged only a few words. Pastorino, a kind-hearted man, sincerely loves his daughter but is also very attached to money and would like to marry her to his cousin Alessandro Raffo, a man who is no longer young but wealthy, narrow-minded and materialistic....
The Steppe
Character:
Based on a Anton Chekhov short story, this slight tale has some good moments as the drama of a young boy's journey unfolds. The lad comes from peasant stock, and one day his family decides it would be best for him to go live with his uncle in the city. The only problem is that the city is all the way across the Russian steppes, and at this time in history, that arduous journey could only be undertaken by horse and carriage. Reminiscent of the American pioneer wagon trains heading West, the tale ...
Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
Character: Doctor Sperenzoni
Ignazio is married to a much younger girl, as she starts being attracted by a handsome young man. The new couple set up several plans to kill the cuckhold, but.. it always seems to work out for lucky Ignazio!...
The Cheerful Squadron
Character: Il maresciallo Flick
The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini. Based on the military environment novel The Allegro Squadron by Georges Courteline (1886), this film presents a series of sketches on military life in the late nineteenth century....
It's Never Too Late
Character: Antonio Trabbi
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Jus primae noctis
Character: The pope
Ariberto de Ficulle is a nobleman who came into possession of a small feud by marrying the ugly Matilde Montefiascone....
The City Stands Trial
Character: Delegato di polizia Perrone
Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated....
The Woman Who Came from the Sea
Character: Console Italiano
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The Libertine
Character: Professor Zauri
A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality....
I'll See You on the Balcony
Character: Voce (uncredited)
Ignazio Panizza goes from one failure to the other until he meets a singer, Caterina, provided with an exceptional voice....
Quartetto pazzo
Character: Filippo
Elena invites her former husband Roberto to her country house with the aim of winning him back while her sister Monica invites her lover Filippo....
From a Roman Balcony
Character: Rag. Alberto Moglie
The ironic study of a young man's poignant adventures and sensual adventures...based on "Roman Tales" by Alberto Moravia....
Daughters of Destiny
Character: Nicephore (segment "Lysistrata")
Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war widow who comes on pilgrimage in Italy....
Uncle Hyacynth
Character: Restorer
Hyacinth, a former matador who lives miserably with his nephew Pepote, receives a letter reminding him that, as agreed a few days before, he must participate in a bullfight to be held that same afternoon....
Il Conte Aquila
Character: Principe di Metternich
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The Lady in White
Character: Direttore d'albergo
The lawyer Giulio Gualandi plans yet another escapade in Viareggio while he is with his wife on holiday in Cervinia....
Are We Men or Corporals?
Character: Il caporale
These are the years of the Second World War, and Toto is imprisoned in a concentration camp, suffering the harassment of Colonel Hammler, a Nazi cruel and despotic....
Three Etc.'s and the Colonel
Character: Le marquis
In Spain, during the Napoleonic rule, the French Governor of Andalusia is besieged by the locals who have countless demands and wishes....
Gente dell’aria
Character: Il tenente Guido Landi
Two half brothers, one a pilot, the other a repairman at the plane factory of their father, are in a disagreement due to the envy of the younger brother, son of the first wife of their father. Then both brothers fall in love with the same woman; this causes more conflict between the two, making worse an already tense situation....
L'ultimo ballo
Character: Felix
A good lady, taken by the fear of getting old, gives herself to the frivolities of worldly life....
Farewell, My Beautiful Naples
Character: Ruocco
In Naples, a local composer falls in love with an American tourist....
Once Upon a Time in the West
Character: Sam
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life....
Acque di primavera
Character: Doctor Berni
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La famiglia Brambilla in vacanza
Character:
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The Dream of Butterfly
Character:
Italian filmmaker Carmine Gallone was still in his "operetta" mode when he helmed 1938's Il Sogno di Butterfly (Dream of the Butterfly) Maria Cebotari plays opera diva Rosa Belloni, currently starring in a production of Puccini's Madama Butterfly. The plot thickens when Rosa's backstage life begins to mirror the travails of the character she is portraying. The climax comes when Harry Peters (Fosco Giachetti), the American father of Rosa's illegitimate child, returns after four years with his new...
Aquila Nera
Character: Un bandito
An evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and insinuates himself into his enemy's castle by pretending to be a French teacher....
The Shortest Day
Character: Padre di Dino
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle....
Gioventù alla sbarra
Character: Il giudice Benni
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Voice of Silence
Character:
The film follows men from all walks of life, seeking to give meaning to their lives and rediscover their inner peace during a retreat in the “House of Silence”. For three days, they meditate on their lives....
Pazza di gioia
Character: Alvaro Montero
A modest accountant wins a utility vehicle in a contest and publishes an ad looking for a companion to share expenses on a vacation trip. An attractive young lady answers the ad, but at the meeting place, the girl mistakes the accountant for a millionaire, who of course, leaves with her......
Amami, Alfredo!
Character: Cecè
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Giuliano de' Medici
Character: Volpino
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Incontri di notte
Character:
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Il principe ribelle
Character: Emissario Spagnolo
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Fabiola
Character: Manlio
In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to being a Christian, is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to the death in the arena....