Romano Puppo

Romano Puppo

Born: March 25, 1933
Died: May 11, 1994
in Rome, Italy
Romano Puppo was an Italian stuntman and actor who found himself cast in many "tough guy" roles from the 1960's through to the 1980's. He doubled for Lee Van Cleef in his Spaghetti Western outings and was one of the pallbearers at Van Cleef's funeral. Puppo died having a heart attack while riding his motorcycle outside of Trieste, Italy in 1994.

Movies for Romano Puppo...

Cop Game
Title: Cop Game
Character: Captain 'Skipper' Kirk
Released: December 31, 1991
Type: Movie
In the final days of the Vietnam War, someone is killing the officers of the elite Cobra Force. Two undercover M.P.'s are assigned to the case. The trail leads from the streets of Saigon to the war zone.
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The Comics 2
Title: The Comics 2
Character: Ladro
Released: December 20, 1991
Type: Movie
A poster worker must remove the poster of the original movie, when the figures of Renato and Paolo suddenly moves and leaves the poster driving an ambulance dressed as nurses.
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After Death
Title: After Death
Character: Zombie Leader (uncredited)
Released: July 27, 1990
Type: Movie
A woman goes back to the island where her parents were killed. They had been working on a cure for cancer and accidentally raised the dead by angering a voodoo priest. With the woman is a group of mercenaries and they meet up with some other researchers. They raise the dead again and all hell breaks loose
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Born to Fight
Title: Born to Fight
Character: Alex Bross
Released: July 17, 1989
Type: Movie
Vietnam War veteran Sam Wood is a survivor of a vicious prison camp where he was brutally and painfully tortured before finally managing to escape. Then he returns to rescue his friends.
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I Won the New Year's Lottery
Title: I Won the New Year's Lottery
Character: Dante Mazzoleni, lo scrittore
Released: June 6, 1989
Type: Movie
Ciottoli is a journalist with absolutely no prospective for his career, with a lot of debts and a mobster that want him died. Unexpectedly he win the national lottery (almost Eur 2.5 Mln) and try to remain unanimous hiding the winner ticker into his typewriter. Ironically his director order to him to write an article on the mysterious winner. When he is back home he discovers all his furniture has been confiscate and will go on a public auction. He will try desperately to buy back the worthless typewriter while all his previous problems still follows him, especially the mobster...
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Sinbad of the Seven Seas
Title: Sinbad of the Seven Seas
Character: Captain
Released: April 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Sinbad returns from the sea to find his country subjected to the will of two unscrupulous sorcerers.
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The Commander
Title: The Commander
Character: Angelo
Released: April 28, 1988
Type: Movie
Lewis Collins is back to leading mercenaries on the move in Southeast Asia. This time the cast is unusually good including Lee Van Cleef, Brett Halsey (Cop Game), Romano Puppo (Robowar), Mike Monty (Raiders of Atlantis), Bobby Rhodes (The Great Alligator), etc. Anyway, Van Cleef has Collins go on some random mission to locate a disc with all sorts of valuable crazy intelligence data on it. It just happens that Donald Pleasence, a random government official, hires another mercenary-for-hire Manfred Lehman to tag along and make sure the data ends up in the right hands. Van Cleef isn't taking any chances, and since he is crooked and murders Collins's other bosses quickly, he places Romano Puppo in the group as well to make sure the operation runs smoothly. Collins may not be too expressive but at least he seems to figure out quickly who's out to get him, so the mission continues with lots of double-crosses, twists and turns, and of course lots of explosions!
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Title: The Secret of the Sahara
Character: Halimi
Released: January 3, 1988
Type: TV
In 1925, Desmond Jordan, an American archaeologist, tries to find the mysterious Speaking Mountain that is supposed to be in the middle of the Sahara desert, where he meets a bunch of deserters from the French Foreign Legion, who are pursued by the ruthless Lieutenant Ryker.
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Robowar
Title: Robowar
Character: Neil Corey
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A group of commandos heads into the jungles of Venezuela on a highly classified mission and encounters a robotic killing machine.
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School of Thieves 2
Title: School of Thieves 2
Character: Nostromo
Released: September 22, 1987
Type: Movie
In this second episode Dalmazio and Egisto come, respectively, from the prison and the insane asylum. They risk a second arrest for their awkwardness so they return from their "uncle" who is willing to help them.
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Ghoulies II
Title: Ghoulies II
Character: Zampano
Released: July 31, 1987
Type: Movie
Ghoulies II picks up a short time after the first movie, a few of the little nasties stow away on an amusement park ride and bring big bucks to a dying fair. The creatures are mad after an attempt to kill them, so the creatures go on a rampage through the fairgrounds, ultimately leading to an explosive conclusion!
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Joan Lui
Title: Joan Lui
Character: Assassino
Released: December 25, 1985
Type: Movie
In a world ravaged by violence, and other serious social problems, Joan - a character that alludes to Christ (which represents the return to Earth) arrives to Italy by train and preaching for the salvation of mankind, condemning the hypocrisy and hedonism.
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Who Is Afraid Of Dracula?
Title: Who Is Afraid Of Dracula?
Character: Frankenstein
Released: December 20, 1985
Type: Movie
Fracchia is desperate: he has to sell a house with at least five bathrooms within three days or his boss will fire him. Incredibly, he and his pal Filini manage to find the perfect house, a castle in Transylvania owned by some count Vlad... things get even worse when they meet the Count and his sister, who has a crush on Fracchia and decides to marry him!
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Good King Dagobert
Title: Good King Dagobert
Character: Argobal
Released: August 22, 1984
Type: Movie
King's Dagobert I intestinal and sexual problems loom large as he survives an attack on his royal caravan then barely makes it to Rome to personally give thanks to the Pope. After he arrives at the Vatican, he becomes involved in the battle between two contenders for the papacy and has to face the machinations of a ruthless Byzantine princess.
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Tuareg: Desert Warrior
Title: Tuareg: Desert Warrior
Character: Soldier
Released: March 12, 1984
Type: Movie
In a desolate section of the Sahara once ruled by the French, two thirsty men stumble into the camp of a Tuareg warrior where they're given water and shelter. Soldiers from the new Arab government now arrive by Jeep and demand the two men be turned over to them. The warrior refuses, citing the sacred laws of hospitality. The soldiers shoot dead one of the men and carry off the other - a political foe of the new government. The warrior mounts his camel and rides off to rescue his kidnapped guest.
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Escape from the Bronx
Title: Escape from the Bronx
Character: Trash's Father
Released: August 15, 1983
Type: Movie
A ragtag group of people have to fight extermination squads amid their ruined city.
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2019: After the Fall of New York
Title: 2019: After the Fall of New York
Character: Ratchet
Released: July 22, 1983
Type: Movie
After a nuclear war society breaks down into two groups, the evil Euraks, and the rebel Federation. A mercenary named Parsifal is hired by the Federation to infiltrate New York City, which is controlled by the Euraks, to rescue the only fertile woman left on Earth.
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The Girl from Trieste
Title: The Girl from Trieste
Character: Toni
Released: October 28, 1982
Type: Movie
A middle-aged artist (Ben Gazarra) sketching on the beach witnesses a young woman (Ornella Muti) being rescued from drowning. He loans her a blanket. Later she returns the blanket and they have sex several times, but she always leaves right afterward, leaving the man to wonder who she is and where she goes. Things become more complicated as he begins to fall in love with her, and after his regular girlfriend (Mimsy Farmer), with whom he has a curiously open relationship, returns. He eventually begins to realize his mysterious new lover may be very much insane.
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Buddy Goes West
Title: Buddy Goes West
Character: Slim Henchman (uncredited)
Released: May 14, 1981
Type: Movie
Trinity series star Bud Spencer returns to the Wild West in director Michele Lupo's comic tale of an outlaw drifter, Buddy, who is mistaken for a doctor after his Indian companion inadvertently steals a bag of surgical instruments. When a band of murderous outlaws attempts to overrun the small town Buddy is passing through, the presumed medico shows that his true talent is cracking skulls. Music is composed by Ennio Morricone.
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The Last Shark
Title: The Last Shark
Character: Briley (uncredited)
Released: April 2, 1981
Type: Movie
When a 35-foot great white shark begins to wreak havoc on a seaside town, the mayor, not wanting to endanger his gubernatorial campaign, declines to act, so a local shark hunter and horror author band together to stop the beast.
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Speed Driver
Title: Speed Driver
Character: Dave
Released: December 4, 1980
Type: Movie
Rudi is forced into racing for a kingpin drug dealer, but after the murder of his brother he swears revenge.
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Day of the Cobra
Title: Day of the Cobra
Character: Silvestri
Released: August 12, 1980
Type: Movie
An American narcotics agent is murdered in Italy. The head of the department decides to hire Larry Stanziani, 'The Cobra'. Larry, a former agent and now a third-rate private detective, uses the opportunity to get even with an old enemy, but soon he finds out he's facing a relentless organization
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Contraband
Title: Contraband
Character: Enforcer
Released: August 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler.
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Speed Cross
Title: Speed Cross
Character: Kurt Schmidbauer
Released: February 2, 1980
Type: Movie
Undercover cop Fabio Testi infiltrates the world of motocross racing.
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The Great Alligator
Title: The Great Alligator
Character: Peter
Released: November 3, 1979
Type: Movie
Tourists on a tropical island anger an island god, who turns himself into a giant alligator and stalks them.
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They Called Him Bulldozer
Title: They Called Him Bulldozer
Character: American Soldier (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1978
Type: Movie
The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local Armybase, he is asked to be their trainer. His boat was damaged by a submarine and he currently has no work, so he agrees.
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China 9, Liberty 37
Title: China 9, Liberty 37
Character: Zeb / Zeb's brother
Released: August 4, 1978
Type: Movie
Gunslinger Clayton Drumm is about to be hanged when he is given a chance to live if he will agree to murder Matthew (Oates), a miner who has steadfastly refused to sell his land to the railroad company. Matthew’s refusal is a major obstacle to the railroad’s plans for expansion.
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Behind Convent Walls
Title: Behind Convent Walls
Released: January 25, 1978
Type: Movie
A zealous, handsome priest, who is the confessor for a convent full of women, encourages the equally zealous abbess of the institution to enforce strict rules on these unfortunate women. At the same time, a particularly disturbed nun manages to poison herself and many of the other novitiates in yet another scandal which is covered up by church authorities.
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Gangbusters
Title: Gangbusters
Character: Peseti Henchman
Released: September 21, 1977
Type: Movie
Mario Gastaldi, a lawyer with no clients and no money, agrees to be a negotiator in a deal on stolen paintings, between the boss Peseti and the engineer Farnese, who plots kidnappings unsuspectedly. After he cashed from Farnese three hundred millions of lire to deliver to Peseti, Mario lets money be robbed by four pickpockets, which he is naturally in cahoots with and which he will share out it with. Money cannot be used since it comes from a kidnapping and it was marked. The lawyer will be able to make the boss get arrested.
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The Heroin Busters
Title: The Heroin Busters
Character: Enforcer
Released: August 13, 1977
Type: Movie
Drug use in the city of Rome is at an all-time high. Children score from dealers in front of their schools, mules waltz straight through airport security, and Interpol's main man, Mike Hamilton (David Hemmings), is at his wits' end. Fed up to the back teeth with the local police force's incompetence, his only hope is to rely on one of his own men, Fabio (Fabio Testi), an officer so deep undercover that no-one but Hamilton knows who he really is. Even as Fabio gains the trust of cartel leader Gianni (John Loffredo), however, the dealers are edging ever closer to the truth, and when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted as Fabio finds himself alone in a desperate fight to survive.
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California
Title: California
Character: Gary Luke
Released: July 16, 1977
Type: Movie
At the end of the Civil War, a Union soldier is released from prison and travels with a fellow prisoner to Missouri where his travelling companion is shot and hung for horse stealing. California decides to take the dead companion's belongings to his family's ranch, where he falls in love with his friend's sister. But then the "ghosts" of the war return in an unexpected way haunting him again.
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The Big Racket
Title: The Big Racket
Character: Doringo
Released: August 12, 1976
Type: Movie
Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles a criminal gang terrorizing a sleepy Italian town, extorting cash from the local merchants. With the threat of violence, no one dares to act, except for a restaurant owner who is forced by Palmieri to tell the truth.
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Street People
Title: Street People
Character: Fortunate
Released: March 30, 1976
Type: Movie
A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The lawyer also enlists the aid of his best friend, a grand prix driver with an adventurous streak.
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The Loves and Times of Scaramouche
Title: The Loves and Times of Scaramouche
Released: January 23, 1976
Type: Movie
The adventures of a cad in Napoleonic times.
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Africa Express
Title: Africa Express
Released: November 2, 1975
Type: Movie
John Baxter (Giuliano Gemma) is a freewheeling trader of goods in Africa with a pet chimpanzee and one dream: to save enough money to buy a gas station in Detroit. Ursula Andress is Madeleine Cooper, the lady of mystery he runs into as she flees from the hunter played by Jack Palance.
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Cry, Onion!
Title: Cry, Onion!
Character: 'Nerone' Foster
Released: August 25, 1975
Type: Movie
Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted by the local oil baron.
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Order to Kill
Title: Order to Kill
Character: Juan
Released: April 22, 1975
Type: Movie
An action drama about an assassin who is ordered to kill an old friend and the repercussions when he refuses. At the same time, although it has nothing to do with the plot, there seems to be a relentless undercurrent of sadism and masochism with a homosexual aura.
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Loaded Guns
Title: Loaded Guns
Character: Man in the Tavern (uncredited)
Released: January 18, 1975
Type: Movie
An air hostess gets involved in Naples, against her will, in the in-fighting amongst rival gangs.
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Shoot First… Ask Questions Later
Title: Shoot First… Ask Questions Later
Character: Kady
Released: January 17, 1975
Type: Movie
The White, the Yellow, and the Black (Italian: Il bianco, il giallo, il nero, also known as Shoot First… Ask Questions Later) is a 1975 Spaghetti Western comedy film. It is the last spaghetti western directed by Sergio Corbucci. Differently from his previous western films, this is openly parodic.
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Street Law
Title: Street Law
Character: Ringleader
Released: September 17, 1974
Type: Movie
Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand, but then he's helped by Tommy, a young robber who takes his side.
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Street Law
Title: Street Law
Character: Hood
Released: September 17, 1974
Type: Movie
Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand, but then he's helped by Tommy, a young robber who takes his side.
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Three Tough Guys
Title: Three Tough Guys
Character: Hood
Released: May 29, 1974
Type: Movie
Isaac Hayes plays as Lee in his feature film debut, as Father Charlie and himself solve a bank robbery mystery that stretches across the city. After Lee is removed from the force due to $1,000,000 being stolen from the bank Father Charlie helps him to gain revenge for the loss of one of his friends.
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Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
Title: Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
Character: Assassin
Released: November 23, 1973
Type: Movie
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.
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Mr. Hercules Against Karate
Title: Mr. Hercules Against Karate
Character: Football Player
Released: September 14, 1973
Type: Movie
A skinny troublemaker and his good-natured, bemuscled sidekick find trouble in Hong Kong.
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The Funny Face of the Godfather
Title: The Funny Face of the Godfather
Character: Uomo del padrino
Released: May 3, 1973
Type: Movie
The Godfather Don Vito Monreale knows, by chance, the Italian-American singer Nick Bouillon. Since the two are alike, Don Vito decided to exploit this similarity in his favour.
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The Big Game
Title: The Big Game
Character: Alberto
Released: April 2, 1973
Type: Movie
Two soldiers of fortune are hired by an inventor to protect him and his invention, a radar-like machine that is capable of controlling armies and forcing them to fight.
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Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears
Title: Deaf Smith & Johnny Ears
Character: Bull, Morton's Goon
Released: March 29, 1973
Type: Movie
Two friends help Sam Houston work for Texas statehood. Johnny Ears and his deaf-mute sidekick Erastus "Deaf" Smith go after a Mexican general under orders from Germany to agitate the populace.
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The Sicilian Connection
Title: The Sicilian Connection
Released: December 21, 1972
Type: Movie
A small time hood smuggles drugs from Turkey to Italy in an effort to make it into the big time, but along the way everyone has to have their cut.
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The Master Touch
Title: The Master Touch
Character: Miller's Lieutenant
Released: December 8, 1972
Type: Movie
A master thief, just out of prison, concocts a risky final score that would net him over a million dollars.
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Trinity and Sartana Are Coming
Title: Trinity and Sartana Are Coming
Character: Captain Bill McCorney
Released: May 30, 1972
Type: Movie
Sartana and Trinity set out on a grudging relationship hell bent for gold and comic brawls.
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At the End of the Rainbow
Title: At the End of the Rainbow
Character: Newman
Released: August 16, 1971
Type: Movie
Roy runs away from the labor camp of Santa Lucia with Emiliano, a New Mexico rancher, both imprisoned unjustly for three powerful American bankers, to seize the gold mine that had Emiliano. During flight, the landowner dies and in his last moments asked Roy to recover the mine and save Jessica, daughter of his former foreman.
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The Unholy Four
Title: The Unholy Four
Character: Burt
Released: March 11, 1970
Type: Movie
A young man who has lost his memory, escapes from prison with three other convicts. The other men help him find back bits of his past, until they arrive at a village where two warring families recognize him. Apparently he has a reputation for being a fast gun, and he has been paid to kill a man - who says he is his father. His younger brother is jealous of the attention the prodigal son receives, and things come to a dramatic end.
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Boot Hill
Title: Boot Hill
Character: Bösewicht, Joes Mörder
Released: December 20, 1969
Type: Movie
Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers
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Sabata
Title: Sabata
Character: Rocky Bendato
Released: September 16, 1969
Type: Movie
Several pillars of society have robbed an Army safe containing $100,000 so they can buy the land upon which the coming railroad will be built. But they haven't reckoned on the presence of the master gunslinger, Sabata.
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Bootleggers
Title: Bootleggers
Released: March 6, 1969
Type: Movie
A group of gangsters escape from prison and attempt to destroy a rival organisation holed up in a convent in Mexico.
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Commandos
Title: Commandos
Character: Dino
Released: November 19, 1968
Type: Movie
Sgt. Sullivan puts together a group of Italian-Americans into disguise as Italian soldiers in order to infiltrate a North African camp held by the Italians. After the soldiers have knifed the Italians in their beds, they find a hooker living at the camp. Sullivan's commandos are to hold this camp and its weaponry until an American battalion arrives, all the while these Italian-Americans pretend to be Italian soldiers, often hosting the enemy. Lt. Valli is a young, "green," by-the-book officer who constantly argues with Sgt. Sullivan, who tells his superior that he has no idea what he is doing. One man on the base, probably a touch from Argento, is an entomologist who is needlessly killed. Things go terribly wrong after that.
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Beyond the Law
Title: Beyond the Law
Released: April 10, 1968
Type: Movie
A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it.
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Day of Anger
Title: Day of Anger
Character: Hart Perkins
Released: December 19, 1967
Type: Movie
A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.
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Colt in the Hand of the Devil
Title: Colt in the Hand of the Devil
Character: Soldier (uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1967
Type: Movie
Pat Scotty is hired to eliminate a gang of Mexican bandits led by El Condor. Scotty craftily earns the trust of the bandits, enabling him to trap them all, but in the meantime, genuine friendship and respect have developed between him and El Condor.
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Death Rides a Horse
Title: Death Rides a Horse
Character: Deputy Sheriff
Released: August 31, 1967
Type: Movie
Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself continually sparring and occasionally cooperating with Ryan, a gunfighter on his own quest for vengeance, who knows more than he says about Bill's tragedy.
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Death Rides a Horse
Title: Death Rides a Horse
Character: Vice sceriffo
Released: August 31, 1967
Type: Movie
Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself continually sparring and occasionally cooperating with Ryan, a gunfighter on his own quest for vengeance, who knows more than he says about Bill's tragedy.
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The Crazy Westerners
Title: The Crazy Westerners
Character: Zorro
Released: August 11, 1967
Type: Movie
Little Rita has a dream: she dreams of a better world and she believes that all the evil in the world originates from gold. So she has decided to blow up all the gold she can put her hands on. In her mission she is assisted by the Indian Chief Bisonte Seduto and by her friend Francis. Little Rita kills Ringo and Django, but she is taken prisoner by the Mexican bandit Sancho who wants to steal her gold. Black Star rescues her and seems determined to help her, but does he?
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Days of Violence
Title: Days of Violence
Character: Clell
Released: August 10, 1967
Type: Movie
During the last months of the Civil War, Joe's brother is killed unjustly by Clifford, a captain in the Northen army. Joe decides to join a group of Southerners determined to resist till the end. Joe is considered an outlaw and a reward is posted for his capture. When the war ends, Joe returns to the farm where he used to work only to find Christine, the owner's daughter and his sweetheart, engaged to the hated Captain Clifford.
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The Big Gundown
Title: The Big Gundown
Character: Rocky
Released: March 3, 1967
Type: Movie
Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Title: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Character: Member of Angel Eyes' Gang (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1966
Type: Movie
While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
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Massacre Time
Title: Massacre Time
Character: Tall Scott Henchman
Released: August 10, 1966
Type: Movie
In 1866 New Mexico, Tom Corbett is a prospector who is called back to his hometown in Laramie Town, Texas at the bequest of a old family friend. Tom arrives in the town to see it under the control of a ruthless and greedy gangster named Jason Scott, who's psychotic and murder-crazed son, Junior Scott, runs it with fear with a posse of thugs who kill anyone who protests their business tactics. Tom finds his brother Jeff, a drunkard looked after by their family maid Mercedes. Tom then tries to persuade Jeff to help him take down the sadistic Scotts so the town can rest easy in peace and harmony again.
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Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun
Title: Agent 3S3, Massacre in the Sun
Character: Man on Plane #2
Released: May 20, 1966
Type: Movie
The island paradise of San Felipe has undergone a revolution! The charismatic General Siqueiros has assumed control! Those assisting him though have an agenda far beyond a simple dictatorship of a inconsequential banana republic! They’re scheming to put the entire world at their mercy through the mad scientist Karlesten’s efforts to develop a deadly missile-carried gas! And only one man can stop him! Walter Ross, Agent 3S3! And he not only has a license to kill, but also a license to spank!