Arnoldo Foà
Birthday: Born in 1916-01-24 in Ferrara, Italy
Deathday: 2014-11-01
TV Credits
Bel Ami
Character: Mr. Walter
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Nella terra di Don Chisciotte
Character: Voce narrante
Italian-language documentary travelogue series about Spain, made by Orson Welles....
I racconti di padre Brown
Character: Flambeau
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Il giornalino di Gian Burrasca
Character: L'avvocato Maralli
A miniseries based upon the book by Vamba....
La freccia nera
Character: Sir Daniel Brackley
Very successful italian version of Robert Louis Stevenson's historical romance "The black arrow", produced by public TV and directed by Anton Giulio Majano, considered "italian tele-romance father". An happy ending love story during the "Two Roses War" between York and Lancaster, in seven episodes....
L'isola del tesoro
Character: Il capitano Smollet
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Diamoci del tu
Character: Self
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Viaggio nel Sud
Character: Voce
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Movie Credits
Ivan, il figlio del diavolo bianco
Character: Emiro Abdul
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Ce n'è per tutti
Character: Grandfather
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Barabbas
Character: Joseph of Arimathea
Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barabbas or Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiatorial arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons, ultimately becoming a follower of the man who was crucified in his place....
Borsalino
Character: Marello
In 1930s Marseilles two small-time crooks decide to join forces when they meet while brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and boxing matches, they soon find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change....
The Silent Enemy
Character: Tomolino
The Mediterranean, 1941/42 - Axis forces are using frogmen and manned torpedoes to attack previously impregnable harbours. The Allied forces need to come up with something to answer this threat, which they find in the form of Lt. Lionel "Buster" Crabb....
Between Calmness and Passion
Character: The Restorer
An appassionato art student and a dispassionate college girl make a vow, saying they would meet each other again in the Florence Cathedral after 10 years....
Jailbirds
Character: The boss
Three jailbirds - a surgeon, a robber and a wrongly convicted man must adjust to their lives once released from prison....
The Red Shadows
Character: Massimo
An intellectual encounters a youth group that seeks social change....
Toto and Carolina
Character: Commissario
During a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent, a widower named Antonio Caccavallo, stays to get better acquainted with the young Carolina....
Toto the Sheik
Character: Il matto
Antonio is the humble servant of a rich family governed by the Marquis Gastone. He is a young man madly in love with Lulu, but she betrays him, and he desperately enlist in the foreign legion....
Antonio, guerriero di Dio
Character: Papa Gregorio IX
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Take Me As I Am
Character: Tonioni
The director of the Rome office of an American news agency is seduced by his boss' daughter, who subsequently ends up dead at the foot of a cliff. Film adaptation of James Hadley Chase’s 1956 noir thriller novel You Find Him, I'll Fix Him....
Fumeria d’oppio
Character:
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....
Ti spiace se bacio mamma?
Character: Renato
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Il vedovo allegro
Character: Roy
An artist of variety, known in art with the name of Bebè, is a charlatan in Cannes, in a company with Zallos, a shady type....
What Is Love?
Character: Robert Stefelmayer
A young man, Andrea, from the bourgeoisie of Lugano, with power in high finance, falls in love with a beautiful pianist, Antonia. Antonia leaves his fabulous career for the love she feels for him. Soon the beautiful women leads him in a growing state of jealousy which leads to a murderous obsession. The young man tells his passion to an unknown, in an airport while waiting for a flight....
One Hundred Days in Palermo
Character: Minister Virginio Rognoni
In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo and take on the Mafia. Dalla Chiesa approaches the job with the same focus and methods he used in hunting down the Red Brigade....
Times Gone By
Character: Tuscan farmer (segment "Questione d'interesse")
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories....
Lucrèce Borgia
Character: Michelotto
In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Lucrèce. In a ruthless power play, César plots to have his sister’s husband murdered. But without her brother’s knowledge, Lucrèce has taken a strong lover who will challenge the Borgias....
Il cardinale Lambertini
Character: Duca di Montimar
Papal aspirant "Cardinal Lamberti" has to tread a fine line between the powerful Duke of Montimar and doing the right thing by a young couple in love in late 1730s Bologna....
Excellent Cadavers
Character: Judge Antonino Caponnetto
Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight....
Manon: Finestra 2
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
At the end of the war, he was hired by Edison and in 1951 he made a film on all the important hydroeletrical plants built in that period. In the following years, Olmi directed around 40 documentaries, including La diga del ghiacciaio, Pattuglia di Passo San Giacomo, Tre fili fino a Milano, Michelino 1aB (written by Goffredo Parise), Manon finestra 2 and Grigio (whose screenplay was written by Pier Paolo Pasolini)....
Stranger on the Prowl
Character: Inspector-in-Charge
A down-and-out crook on the lam befriends a young street urchin, in an Italian port city. At first amused that the boy is a sneak thief, he tries to deflects the kid from a life of crime. Tipped off by a woman anxious to collect the reward for him (who is wanted for murder), the police pursue the two lost souls....
La febbre
Character: Il Presidente
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A Dangerous Toy
Character: Nicola Griffo
A meek accountant buys himself a gun and finds out he's a natural marksman. After the friend who introduced him to shooting is killed by gangsters, he seeks revenge....
Destinazione Piovarolo
Character: Il podestà
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....
Damon and Pythias
Character: Dionysius the Tyrant
Damon is a thief who begins to question his beliefs after he meets Pythias, a liberal Athenian who believes all men are brothers....
The Reluctant Saint
Character: Felixa- Giuseppe's Father
Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired hand, overcoming his intellectual and social challenges with a pure heart and a simple faith. God performs a miracle through him, quite literally raising him to sainthood....
La rabbia
Character: Attore
A young director years old, lives with a girl. Active part of the Intellectual society, he represents perfectly the union between fear and determination, that changes deeply his way of understanding the world that surrounds him. His only aim is to leave a footstep of his presence on this world realizing a film....
Il vetturale del Moncenisio
Character: conte de Brissac
During the first Napoleonic expedition into Italy, Thibaud is seriously injured before being caught up in a mystery involving his wife, her rightful inheritance and his own daughter's happiness....
The Angel Wore Red
Character: Insurgent Major
A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer....
Ti voglio bene Eugenio
Character: Prof. Bonelli
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A Day in the Life
Character: Brusan
Some Italian partisans want to take refuge in a convent to escape German raids. The nuns are a little perplexed at first but then agree since one of the men is seriously wounded. When the partisans eventually leave, the Germans take a terrible revenge....
The Tartars
Character: Ciu Lang
The Tartars and the Vikings maintain a fragile peace in the harsh landscape of the Russian Steppe. When the leader of the Vikings, Oleg, declines to accompany the Tartars on a campaign against the Slavs, there is an explosion of violence. After Oleg kills the Tartar leader and kidnaps his daughter, the dead man's brother, Burandai, retaliates by holding Oleg's wife, Helga, hostage. The stalemate can be resolved only on the battlefield....
The Household
Character: Ambrogio Perigatti
A butler for wealthy clients has a problem--he can't seem to stop getting sexually involved with the wives and daughters of his bosses....
Chéri-Bibi
Character: Le Kanak
Chéri-Bibi is an ex-convict who undergoes plastic surgery in order to resemble his rival for the hand of Cecily. Once he emerges from the bandages, Cheri-Bibi is plunged into a series of melodramatic misadventures....
Viva la rivista!
Character:
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Desert Warrior
Character:
Omar Sultan's army has been defeated. However, Prince Said, son of the Sultan died, encourages people to form an army and fight again to Ibrahim. The town gets excited and running quickly, while crossing the desert, they encounter the enemy caravans and raid without knowing that one of them is Fatima, daughter of Ibrahim, who poses as a singer of the harem. Said, dazzled by the beauty of the girl, released. But soon after, Fatima, who also doesn´t know the origin of the robber, sees him again, a...
Son of Cleopatra
Character: Varrone
In Roman-dominated Egypt, the corrupt administration of a governor named Petronius has sparked a revolt headed by El Kabir, a young man who learns that he's actually the son of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. When Petronius' daughter, Livia, newly-arrived from Rome, falls into his hands, El Kabir uses this opportunity to win her over to his side before releasing her to her father....
The Stranger's Hand
Character: Commissioner
Eight-year-old Roger Court is in Venice expecting to reunite with his father, British diplomat Major Court (Trevor Howard), whom he hasn't seen in three years. Roger lives with his Aunt Rose since his mother abandoned him....
Angela
Character: Captain Ambrosi
Dennis O'Keefe plays a GI who falls in love with Mara Lane in postwar Rome. Lane kills her boss, forcing her to flee the law. O'Keefe goes along for the ride so that he won't be knocked off by Lane's husband. Just when it looks as though O'Keefe is willing to go to any lengths to protect the woman he loves, he discovers that she frankly isn't worth it....
The Nights of Lucretia Borgia
Character: Astorre
Federico, a virtuous nobleman from an impoverished family, is brought into service by autocrat Cesare Borgia. His promiscuous sister Lucrezia seems to have an amorous interest in Federico and wants him as her lover though Federico is in love with Diana, the Duke of Alva's daughter, whom he has saved from being raped. When he learns about Diana's feud against the Borgia clan, he becomes aware of their infamous deeds....
Attention
Character: Direttore Giornale
On the plane back to Rome, a well-known journalist indulges in an unbridled and somewhat melodramatic erotic fantasy involving his estranged wife and his stepdaughter....
L'eroe della strada
Character: il pubblico ministero
Felice Manetti is a poor tramp in Turin who, due to his ingenuity, often finds himself in trouble....
A Matter of Time
Character: Pavelli (uncredited)
During a press conference, international star Nina remembers simpler times, flashing back to her days as a maid in a run-down Italian hotel. As a young woman, Nina befriends Contessa Sanziani, an elderly woman who entertains Nina with memories of her vibrant, wealthy life with Count Sanziani. Inspired by her tales of success, young Nina fantasizes about her own adventures and seeks to find the same excitement in her life....
Beauties on bicycles
Character: Sergente
Two chorus girls leave Milan to get to the famous Totò's theatre company. Unfortunately the bus they are on breaks down and they ask for a lift, but the driver gets too fresh with them and they decide to continue the journey with any means of transport, including bicycles....
The Lucky Five
Character: Alfredo
Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it afterwards. Everyone will spend his own day with the car and get some gratification. Some will get it, others will not. And the fifth poor fellow?...
Love in a Hot Climate
Character: Riera
Love in a Hot Climate (Spanish: Sangre y luces, French: Sang et lumières) is a 1954 Spanish-French drama film directed by Georges Rouquier and Ricardo Muñoz Suay. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival....
Processo contro ignoti
Character: Basilio
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War Gods of Babylon
Character: Zoroastro
Noble, wise King Sardanapolo and his more soft and naive younger brother Prince Sammash get into a bitter feud over the affections of sweet and alluring innocent peasant girl Mirra. Meanwhile, the treacherous and ruthlessly ambitious General Arbace plots against both siblings....
Adam and Eve
Character: Achille
Eva Bianchi, who works as a manicure in a beauty salon in Milan, falls in love with the owner Adamo Rossi. But Adam, who at first always gives her roses, now no longer seems interested in her....
Viva il cinema
Character: produttore
Tonino, a young, shy salesman, engaged to his neighbor Pallina, is a cinema enthusiast. He has written a film script and dreams of seeing it made on the big screen....
The Trial
Character: Inspector A
Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason for this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the façade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this nightmare....
Leo e Beo
Character: Anton
A man named Leo has the ability to speak to his dog, Beo. He falls in love with a single mother named Sabrina....
Verginità
Character: Renè
Gina is the daughter of a provincial newsstand dealer and spends her time reading pulp magazines and dreaming of a glamorous vocation on the big city. She enters a beauty contest in a nearby city, without her father's permission, and, en route, meets Franco, a salesman....
Non c'è amore più grande
Character: Romolo Rocca
While her new husband is away looking for work, the wife loses the child she was expecting and uses another woman's baby as a substitute so she won't have to upset her spouse when he returns....
100 Horsemen
Character: Don Gonzalo Herrera y Menendez
Don Fernando rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain....
Marechiaro
Character: avvocato difensore
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Infame accusa
Character: Don Antonio
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Captain Blood
Character: Marshal of Ancre, Concino Concini
Le capitan is a 1960 French-Italian swashbuckler film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli and Lise Delamare. It is based on a novel by Michel Zévaco....
Defend My Love
Character: L'avvocato
As part of a story, a reporter goes to meet Elisa, a young woman he met a few years ago on a trial on which she was finally exonerated....
La figlia del forzato
Character: Corrado
After many years, a widowed Countess meets a former lover who lives with his daughter and her tutor....
The Villa of Monsters
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Short Documentary about a garden with strange sculptures near Rome....
Judith
Character: Interrogator
A Jewish woman is recruited to help track down a German commander who was her former husband....
Fine Secolo
Character: Attilio Magni
Luca Magni investigates the atrocious murder of a girl, Benedetta. The young victim was the only daughter of Bruno Corti, driver of the Rinaldi family, owner of a large industrial group....
Un mostro di nome Lila
Character: Il Grande Vecchio
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The Tempter
Character: Monsignor Badensky
A young writer is invited to stay in a religious hostel run by a sinister, manipulative nun who plays deadly psychological games with the inhabitants....
Desert Desperadoes
Character: The Chaldean
A caravan guarded by Roman soldiers comes across a woman bound to a stake and left to die. A wealthy merchant who hired the caravan is against taking The Woman along, but the commander of the soldiers, Verrus, overrules him. Verrus tries to get friendly with her, promising all kinds of wealth for her favors. The caravan encounters a group of Jdean refugees fleeing from King Herod's orders to kill all male children. They are on their way to Egypt with a male child with them. The Merchant begins t...
Domani è un altro giorno
Character: Cesare
A doctor rescues a young woman who is about to throw herself into the river and takes her to the hospital. The woman learns of three very sad stories revolving around suicide....
Double Cross
Character: Avvocato Luigi
A businessman is wrongly accused and convicted for the murder of his associate....
Sing me good morning sadness
Character: Marco Salviati
A 1955 film directed by Giorgio Pastina....
Yvonne of the Night
Character: Il senatore
Carlo Rutelli falls in love with the beautiful variety singer Yvonne la Nuit, but his father opposes the wedding. World War I breaks out and Carlo is killed while Yvonne has a son, but on orders from Carlo's father, she is told he is dead. Her career descends and only Nino, an art partner, remains close to her and helps her earn her living by singing in taverns....
The Testimony
Character: L'impiegato dell' anagrafe
A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant may give him a reprieve but not peace of mind....
Outlaw Girl
Character: The advocate
Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he start living like an outlaw brigand. He falls in love for Mara, a village girl, and with her help he hunts down all of the witnesses who lied about him at the trial....
7 and 8
Character: padre Superiore
6th January 1975, in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy), for a mysterious reason, a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8. Thirty-one years later Tommaso (7) and Daniele (8) meet each other by accident....
Liebe und weitere Katastrophen
Character: Opa Francesco Turrini
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The Girls of San Frediano
Character: Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Andrea, a young and charming florentine mechanic in the 1950s, romances five beautiful women simultaneously, enjoying life without really committing to anyone, but in the end who wants to grasp all lose all....
Rosso e nero
Character: Himself
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Magia Lucana
Character: Narrator (voice)
Short documentary about pagan rites in the countryside....
Pia de' Tolomei
Character: Nello della Pietra
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Cause of Divorce
Character: Maini - father of Ernesta
A couple is short of money and got marital problems. Sylverte knows Enrica and intent to marry her but before he needs divorce from his wife....
The Loves of Salammbo
Character: Splendius
During the 3rd century B.C. a horde of barbarians are hired by the Phoenian city of Carthage to fight against the Roman empire, but when the city's ruler is unable to fulfill the promised payment made to the mercenaries, they attack the African settlement, where Salammbô --the king's daughter and high priestess of goddess Tanit- tries to settle the matter when the Barbarian leader who has fallen for her steals the sacred veil of Carthage from the temple, without taking into account the evil sche...
The Shoes of the Fisherman
Character: Gelasio (as Arnoldo Foa')
All eyes focus on the Vatican, watching for the traditional puffs of white smoke that signal the election of the next Pope. This time much more is at stake. The new pontiff may be the only person who can bring peace to a world on the brink of nuclear nightmare....
First Tango in Rome: Romance and Alchemy
Character: Sciarra Colonna
A man and his assistant invent a powerful aphrodisiac they don't hesitate testing out on the beautiful female populace of their village....
Asini
Character: Cardinale
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Incensurato, provata disonestà, carriera assicurata cercasi
Character: Christian Democrats / communist / missino
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Blood Ties
Character: Vincenzo Ammirati
An innocent American engineer is blackmailed by gangsters into a plot to assassinate his cousin, who is a judge in Sicily fighting the Mafia....
People of Rome
Character: Padre al Ristorante
Rome 2003, the camera follows citizens of Rome. Night, in a flat, a woman prepares her husband's lunch. The man takes a bus, but the camera follow another bus ... a woman cleans the mayor's office... A man interviews passengers on a bus about immigration...... the owner of a bar is racist person... a survivor woman of Holocaust remembers the Ghetto deportation... deportation that is filmed by a director... Stefania Sandrelli plays with her grand daughter in a park a man tries to seduce the bus d...
Tutti gli uomini del deficiente
Character: Pres. Leone Stella
Nearing death, videogame genius Leone Stella holds a contest to find an heir: several people named like him will compete in a live-streamed reenactment of his most famous exploits, and the winner will inherit his billion-dollar fortune....
Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles
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Revenge
Character: Bermejo
After spending ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Juan is released....
I racconti di Padre Brown
Character: Flambeau
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Red Love
Character: Sebastiano Cossu
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I cadetti di Guascogna
Character: Un ufficiale (uncredited)
Two fellow soldiers fight for the love of the same girl, are constantly picked on by the older soldiers about to be discharged and are involved in the staging of a show in the military barracks....
La storia del fornaretto di Venezia
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Ettore Fieramosca
Character: Gentiluomo alla corte di Graiano
ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in 1833. Translated to the screen in 1938 by the most important director of the Italian fascist period, Alessandro Blasetti, it was intended to boost current patriotic fervor and pride in the Italian nation, and it contributed to a revival of Italian nationalism....
Il leone di Amalfi
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