Nino Castelnuovo
Birthday: Born in 1936-10-28 in Lecco, Lombardy, Italy
Deathday: 2021-09-06
Francesco "Nino" Castelnuovo (28 October 1936 - 6 September 2021) was an Italian actor of film, stage, and television. Castelnuovo appeared as Guy Foucher in the French-language musical film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and as D'Agostino in the romantic-drama The English Patient (1996). His other films include the drama Rocco and His Brothers (1960), the sexploitation Camille 2000 (1969), the black-comedy L'emmerdeur (A Pain in the ..., 1973), the giallo film Il prato macchiato di rosso (1973), and the spaghetti-westerns Massacre Time (1966) and The Five Man Army (1969).
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Questa è la mia terra
Character: Guido Corradi
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Ritratto di Donna Velata
Character: Luigi Certaldo
Miniseries with occult elements....
Diamoci del tu
Character: Self
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I promessi sposi
Character: Renzo Tramaglino
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Il maresciallo Rocca
Character: Giuseppe Alfò
The adventures of the marshal of the carabinieri Giovanni Rocca, played by the great Gigi Proietti. Definitely one of the most successful Rai fictions ever, the series, after the first eight episodes broadcast in 1996, went on for six seasons, ending only in 2008. For over a decade the investigations and the private life of the marshal of Viterbo , born from an idea by Laura Toscano, have fascinated the television audience, making them become attached to characters such as the beautiful pharmaci...
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The English Patient
Character: D'Agostino
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics....
The Truth About Love Is...
Character: critico
Dora, raises her two children with the help of her eccentric family, free-spirited best friend, and a charming poet-turned- nanny....
Strip Nude for Your Killer
Character: Carlo Bianchi
After a fashion model dies during a botched abortion, the doctor stages her death to exonerate himself but is murdered by a mysterious assailant who soon begins hunting down her agency colleagues....
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Character: Guy
This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant....
A Pain in the Ass
Character: Bellhop, Le garçon de d'étage
Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him....
The Facts of Murder
Character: L'elettricista, Diomede
A police inspector comes into contact with people of all types and dispositions during a grueling murder investigation....
Massacre Time
Character: Jason 'Junior' Scott
In 1866, prospector Tom Corbett returns to his hometown of Laramie, Texas, now under the brutal control of gangster Jason Scott and his violent son, Junior. With his brother Jeff, a struggling drunk cared for by their maid Mercedes, Tom seeks to overthrow the Scotts' tyrannical rule and restore peace to the town....
Camille 2000
Character: Armand Duval
Marguerite, a beautiful woman of affairs, falls for the young and promising Armand, but sacrifices her love for him for the sake of his future and reputation....
The 5-Man Army
Character: Luis Dominguez
At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat styles to help him rob a Mexican Army train carrying $500,000 in gold....
Made in Italy
Character: Dr. Gavino Piras (segment "2 'Il Lavoro', episode 2")
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants....
Psychout for Murder
Character: Mario
Mario consigns his girlfriend Licia to a whorehouse for an evening in order to get the photographic goods to blackmail her father with. To get her out of the way, Licia is then consigned to a mental hospital by her father....
The Reward
Character: Luis
A crash-landed crop-duster betrays a fugitive and his girlfriend to Mexican bounty hunters....
The Cavern
Character: Mario Sconamiglio
Adventure drama during WW2 in Italy where a mixed group of people get trapped inside a cave after a bomb raid. But can they co-operate? And will they survive?...
Everybody Go Home!
Character: Artigliere Codegato
When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes....
Il divorzio
Character: Piero
Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life....
A Day for Lionhearts
Character: Danilo
September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving from Rome. On the way to come back Rome the two meets Gino and all together will try to pass trough the Gothic Line....
The Hunchback
Character: Cencio
Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt....
Day by Day, Desperately
Character: Gabriele Dominici
The mental illness affecting young Dario, one of the two sons of the Dominici family living in a council building in Rome, disrupts the lives of all its members....
Diary of a Telephone Operator
Character: Piero
Marta works as a telephone operator for a telephone company. She lives with her friend Nanda in Nanda's flat. But Nanda's priority is above anything else to find a husband....
The Angel Wore Red
Character: Capitano Trinidad
A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer....
The Eye of the Needle
Character: Nicola Badalà
Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who in the meantime has fallen in love with the victim....
Il sottile fascino del peccato
Character: Padre di Giada
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Un amour de pluie
Character: Giovanni
Elizabeth and her daughter Cecile spend their holidays at a lakeside resort in the French mountains. Elizabeth falls in love with a strange Italian, Giovanni, while young Cecile is courted by an apprentice cook. It seems that mother and daughter are drifting apart from each other, but then their holidays are over....
Love and Anger
Character: The Director (segment "L'Amore")
Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one ch...
We'll Go to the City
Character: Ivan, un partigiano
"Andremo in città" (We'll Go to the City) is a 1966 Italian drama film directed by Nelo Risi. It is based on the novel of the same name by Edith Bruck, Risi's wife. Bruck, a Hungarian concentration camp-survivor, settled in Italy after the Second World War and wrote about her experiences in autobiographical and fictional formats.[1] The film stars Geraldine Chaplin and Nino Castelnuovo....
La via del petrolio
Character: Narrator
La Via del Petrolio is a three-part documentary Bernardo Bertolucci made for the Italian oil giant ENI that aired in 1967. The film was made following Bertolucci’s breakthrough second feature Before the Revolution, and the director has said that it’s a documentary made by a man who is desperate to direct another feature. The film was presented in three parts: "The Origins", "At Sea" and "In the Heart of Europe"....
The Big Deal
Character: Sandro
Three clumsy thieves come up with a robbery scheme against the "Grandi Magazzini Romani". They call to their aid a skilled "only by reputation" French burglar, Pierre Le Compte....
That Malicious Age
Character: Napoleone
Gardener Napoleone takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Paola and her mother, which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem....
Virgin Merchants
Character:
A man who sells counterfeit drugs decides to become a marriage counselor. Having barely started this business, he finds himself in serious trouble, threatening him with mortal danger......
La collegiale
Character: Marco
The sexually naive Daniela returns home from boarding school only to realize that her family is involved in an excess of bed-hopping and sexual perversion....
Wife by Night
Character: Giorgio
The story of a beautiful young woman who, for the love of her ambitious husband, becomes a blackmail victim and has to resort to prostitution......
The Virtuous Bigamist
Character:
The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his quarrelsome wife for his weekly round. On the train he meets a young woman, Marie, who looks a little lost. No wonder. Marie is pregnant but lacks the customary husband. She's returning to her village but is not exactly looking forward to the confrontation with her parents and the villagers, all pretty conservative people. After getting to know Paul a little better (for which there is ample time duri...
Star Odyssey
Character: Lt. Oliver 'Hollywood' Carrera
Earth is attacked by an intergalactic villain and his army of robotic androids....
On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
Character: Marculfo
A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades....
The Apartment
Character: Vincenzo
A building instructor cheats on his wife with a young fashion model....
Rocco and His Brothers
Character: Nino Rossi
When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results....
The Fantastic Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
Character: William Wilson
Four Edgar Allan Poe adaptations running an hour apiece, including "Night in the House of Usher," "Ligeia Forever," "The Delusion of William Wilson" and "The Fall of the House of Usher." Originally made for Italian TV....
Gott schützt die Liebenden
Character: Emilio Trenti
Engineer Paul Holland returns from a trip. His girlfriend Sybille has disappeared from their apartment without leaving a note. He searches for her and finds himself in the middle of a manhunt for an international drug ring....
The Beaches of Agnès
Character: Self (archive footage)
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy....
Escapade in Florence
Character: Bruno
American students, Tommy and Annette, find themselves in a heap of trouble when they accidentally discover an art forgery ring in Florence, Italy....
Red Roses for the Fuhrer
Character: Vincent
James Daly is an American special soldier who goes behind enemy territory during WWII. His Objective: to steal top secret SS document that can change the course of the war....
Laura nuda
Character: Franco
Laura, a young woman from the Verona bourgeoisie, seeks to emancipate herself, but is desperately confronted with what she considers to be the hypocrisy of men and the conformism of a society that only considers women if they marry and procreate....
The Bloodstained Lawn
Character: UNESCO agent
A couple of wandering hippies meet a man by the name of Antonio who takes them to the home where he lives with his sister and brother-in-law. There they meet several strange characters: a gypsy woman, a prostitute and a disturbing drunk. The host tells them that he is a producer of wines and loves to entertain strange people. In fact he is a madman who has created a mechanism that can suck blood from human bodies....
The Creatures
Character: Jean Modet
A writer decides to use the strange inhabitants of a small island as a basis for characters in his new book....
A Young World
Character: Carlo
A freelance photographer falls in love with a French medical student and becomes pregnant. Faced with the situation, he pressures her to have an abortion, even sleeping with an older woman for money. She later decides to keep the baby....
Elective Affinities
Character: Il Capitano
Adaptation of Goethe's novel....
The Double Bed
Character: L'amant (segment 2 "Le monstre")
Various sketches centered on alcove stories....
The World of Jacques Demy
Character: Self
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes....
Strip First, Then We Talk
Character: Giuliano
An employee discovers the infidelity of the girlfriend and will try to take revenge....
The Shortest Day
Character: Corteggiatore (uncredited)
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle....
A Dirty Business
Character:
A gang of four boys and a woman kidnap a lawyer....
A Viso Coperto
Character: Maggiore Dominici
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L'isola degli smemorati
Character: Lenzo (voice)
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Love and Anger: Love
Character: The Director
Godard dissects movie romance as row intellectuals watch an Italian-speaking man and his French-speaking partner talk about love....