Tano Cimarosa

Tano Cimarosa

Born: January 1, 1922
Died: May 24, 2008
in Messina, Sicily, Italy
Tano Cimarosa, real name Gaetano Cisco, (1 January 1922 – 24 May 2008) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He participated in more than fifty movies.

He played the "Blacksmith" in the Oscar-winning film Cinema Paradiso from 1988. He is known to horror film fans for directing Reflections in Black in 1975.

Source: Article "Tano Cimarosa" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Se sarà luce sarà bellissimo - Moro: Un'altra storia
Title: Se sarà luce sarà bellissimo - Moro: Un'altra storia
Character: Comunista Cimarosa
Released: December 4, 2008
Type: Movie
The film is the result of a planned trilogy about the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades first announced by director Grimaldi in 2003: shot in the UK on a low budget, the project was never completed because of lack of funding and other issues, and the existing footage from the first two planned installments was condensed into a single movie and released on DVD in 2009.
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L'anno mille
Title: L'anno mille
Character: Custode
Released: April 23, 2008
Type: Movie
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Two Friends
Title: Two Friends
Released: March 20, 2002
Type: Movie
Two Sicilian friends, Nunzio and Pino, share the same apartment in Turin. Nunzio works in a factory but is laid off because of his illness. Pino, on the other hand, is a mysterious man and he is always traveling because of his work. Nunzio would very much like to know what his friend is doing for a living but Pino will not tell him. Nunzio spends his free time the best he can in his friend's absences. He ends up falling in love with Maria, a commercial employee, whereas his health condition deteriorates...
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Una storia qualunque
Title: Una storia qualunque
Character: venditore ambulante
Released: February 5, 2000
Type: Movie
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Title: Don Matteo
Character: Carmelo Frasca
Released: January 7, 2000
Type: TV
Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people and solve crimes. He’s a parish priest who never met an unjustly accused person he didn’t want to help.
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Frida Professione Menager
Title: Frida Professione Menager
Character: Richard
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Frida gets married, but is very busy with her job as an engineer, and doesn't have time for her new husband. He then runs away with the flower girl which causes Frida to lose it.
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The Star Maker
Title: The Star Maker
Character: Grandpa Bordonaro
Released: September 21, 1995
Type: Movie
The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s Sicily pretending to work for the big film studios in Rome.
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A Pure Formality
Title: A Pure Formality
Character: Servant
Released: May 15, 1994
Type: Movie
Onoff is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. In an isolated, rural police station, the Inspector tries to establish the events surrounding a killing, to reach a startling resolution.
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Nineties - Part II
Title: Nineties - Part II
Character: Don Mimì Cantalamessa, boss mafioso
Released: June 6, 1993
Type: Movie
Second scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV...
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Acla's Descent into Floristella
Title: Acla's Descent into Floristella
Released: September 10, 1992
Type: Movie
Set in Sicily in the 1930's, Aurelio Grimaldi's feature debut chronicles the harsh story of twelve-year-old boy, Aclà, sold into slavery by his destitute parents to work in the underground Floristella sulfur mines. Overworked and underfed, Aclà toils from Monday to Saturday in the steamy, candle-lit labyrinths. Repeatedly beaten and abused by his "owner" and with constant threats of being raped, Aclà plots his escape to the sea...
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La sarrasine
Title: La sarrasine
Released: February 15, 1992
Type: Movie
Montreal, 1904. Giuseppe and Ninetta own a boarding house where they welcome their fellow Sicilians. One day, as he comes to the defence of one of his boarders, Giuseppe accidentally kills Theo, his French Canadian best friend’s son-in-law. This drama depicts the tensions between people from different ethnic backgrounds and their life-changing impact. Based on a true story, 'The Saracen Woman' paints a portrait of Italian immigration to Quebec and the affinities and conflicts that arose from the clash of two different cultures.
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Boys on the Outside
Title: Boys on the Outside
Character: Capomastro
Released: September 14, 1990
Type: Movie
Young men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he takes up with his friends again but none can find work. Claudio, from Palermo, gets out of juvenile detention in Naples and he's met by Vita, a girl who's come from home to run away with him. Where can they go? A young dad, whose potato stall at the market is shut down because he has no permit, takes his two small children to the beach and yells at them. Mario, gay, a prostitute in drag, gets a visit from his mom; he offers tea, then finds the water to his apartment is shut off. Social workers drop by, parole officers file reports. What hope is there? What options besides crime?
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Cinema Paradiso
Title: Cinema Paradiso
Character: Fabbro, blacksmith
Released: November 17, 1988
Type: Movie
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
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The Shatterer
Title: The Shatterer
Released: June 13, 1987
Type: Movie
Following the opening of a Japanese auto factory in Sicily, the head of the company is kidnapped by Sicilian mobsters. This was a co-production between Italy and Japan's Toho Studios.
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Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone
Title: Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone
Character: il boss
Released: September 2, 1983
Type: Movie
Marino Stroppaghetti is a breadwinner in a layoff fund who, in order to make some money, arranges himself by doing small tailoring jobs at home. Desperate for having received the eviction, he turns to the City of Rome, where he discovers that there are as many as 80 thousand questions before his. How to do?
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Uomini di parola
Title: Uomini di parola
Character: Gaetano Frasca
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Eurocrime/Poliziotteschi movie from 1981
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Cafè Express
Title: Cafè Express
Character: Polfer Marshal Panepino
Released: February 16, 1980
Type: Movie
An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.
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Quattro Delitti: Winchester M2
Title: Quattro Delitti: Winchester M2
Character: Il ricattatore
Released: April 25, 1979
Type: Movie
Madness and jealousy push a not very attractive young man to plan to kill a friend who, on the contrary, has a lot of luck with women.
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A Man on His Knees
Title: A Man on His Knees
Character: Sebastiano Colicchia
Released: April 13, 1979
Type: Movie
Nino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers that a wealthy woman has been kidnapped and that everyone who was involved in it is being killed off. However, Nino had nothing to do with the kidnapping and has to find out who has sent the killers and stop them before it's too late.
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Death Hunt
Title: Death Hunt
Released: October 20, 1977
Type: Movie
When his baby daughter is was ran over by a car full of violent criminals her father decides to avenge her death by gorily killing them all one by one.
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L'Italia in pigiama
Title: L'Italia in pigiama
Character: Il padre incestuoso
Released: February 9, 1977
Type: Movie
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L'Italia in pigiama
Title: L'Italia in pigiama
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
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Free Hand for a Tough Cop
Title: Free Hand for a Tough Cop
Character: Cravatta
Released: August 27, 1976
Type: Movie
A cop recruits a criminal and his cohorts to help track down a violent crime lord who has kidnapped the ill daughter of a rich family.
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Reflections in Black
Title: Reflections in Black
Character: Pantò
Released: October 3, 1975
Type: Movie
A woman dressed in black is murdering young women. The police question lawyer Anselmi for whom one of the girls worked as a secretary, and it turns out that all the victims were friends of lawyer's wife Leonora.
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L'ammazzatina
Title: L'ammazzatina
Character: Pasqualino Mosco
Released: February 28, 1975
Type: Movie
Sicilian baron, Mimì Galluzzo, will be able to enjoy the legacy of his deceased father-in-law on two conditions: that his wife accepts the will and that there is a compromising document to be delivered to the mafia. While, however, the precious "dossier" is, in reality, in the hands of an avid widow, Donna Maria, willing to sell it only if Mimi marries her. Rosalba, obsessed with the absence of a child, suddenly goes mad or pretends 'go crazy. Recommended by Donna Maria, of whom he became the lover Don Mimì tries, with the help of his friend Langatta, undertaker, and a nurse in the clinic in which Rosalba was hospitalized, to get rid of his wife. Instead, he finds himself without having reached his goal, involved in an obscure series of crimes that will make him lose his mind.
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The Exorciccio
Title: The Exorciccio
Character: Turi Randazzo
Released: February 27, 1975
Type: Movie
A satire on the American film "The Exorcist," but with an Italian twist.
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How to Kill a Judge
Title: How to Kill a Judge
Character: Tano Barra - l'assistente di parcheggio
Released: February 5, 1975
Type: Movie
A filmmaker's popular movie about a corrupt judge who is killed by the Mafia seemingly foretells the murder of a magistrate who orders the film's seizure.
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Pasqualino Cammarata... capitano di fregata
Title: Pasqualino Cammarata... capitano di fregata
Character: Patanò
Released: August 14, 1974
Type: Movie
Pasqualino Cammarata is an Italian naval officer who has been disliked by his admiral because of his high-level knowledge, given that he is quite incapable as an officer.
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Bread and Chocolate
Title: Bread and Chocolate
Character: Gigi
Released: May 5, 1974
Type: Movie
An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?
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Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
Title: Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
Character: Rosario Agrò
Released: January 31, 1974
Type: Movie
In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. Other people (who were around when she died) also learn about it. Thus several people arrive in Leningrad trying to find the treasure, each one for himself/herself. What's worse - the only information they have is that the treasure is under a lion - and it's in Leningrad, a city known by its numerous statues of lions. The story gets even more interesting when the soviet militia (police) learns about the whole thing and send an undercover agent...
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They Still Call Me Amen
Title: They Still Call Me Amen
Character: Chaco
Released: December 24, 1973
Type: Movie
Chaco and his band of downtrodden men meet Così Sia (Amen), who always seems to get the better of them. He takes on the men with a plan to break into the Bank of Little-hole. For Così Sia, getting the money is not as important as getting his revenge on Reverend Smith, with whom he has a bone to pick.
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All Sons of the Saintest Mother
Title: All Sons of the Saintest Mother
Character: Puddu Campolia
Released: August 12, 1973
Type: Movie
Two crime families battle for supremacy in 1929 Chicago in this Italian crime spoof. One group, known as the "Sons of Mammasantissima" thereby professes its (ironic) dedication to the Virgin Mother. The other family works undercover from a Salvation Army soup kitchen. Neither family seems capable of accomplishing anything of note until a wily Sicilian arrives on the scene and sorts things out.
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Gang War in Milan
Title: Gang War in Milan
Character: Nino Balsamo
Released: February 21, 1973
Type: Movie
A Milan pimp faces off against a ruthless and greedy French gangster whom wants to unite organized crime in Italy.
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Man Called Amen
Title: Man Called Amen
Character: Chaco, Gang Boss
Released: August 11, 1972
Type: Movie
A very unlikely trio join forces in order to rob a bank: an ex-bandit called Smith, now a cheerful reverend, a nomadic artist and a pickpocket. Their plan is successful, however, and the three make off with the money from the bank's vaults, only to find themselves robbed of their newly-acquired wealth by a young schoolmistress.
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Delirium
Title: Delirium
Character: John Lacey
Released: July 5, 1972
Type: Movie
A respected doctor becomes the prime suspect in a series of gruesome murders.
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A Girl in Australia
Title: A Girl in Australia
Character: emigrato italiano da Gela
Released: December 22, 1971
Type: Movie
The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's , who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.
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Why
Title: Why
Character: Agente del carcere di Sagunto
Released: October 27, 1971
Type: Movie
Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?
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Touch and Go
Title: Touch and Go
Character: Italian soldier on the beach
Released: September 1, 1971
Type: Movie
North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods, transporting them from Libya to Tunisia on an old boat.
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Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Title: Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Character: commissario di polizia
Released: July 5, 1971
Type: Movie
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Between Miracles
Title: Between Miracles
Character: Zi' Checco
Released: March 19, 1971
Type: Movie
Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and made him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That fact will determine his life, which will be affected by inner torment caused by the confrontation between sexual desires and sacrifices of faith, sin and grace.
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A Sword to Brando
Title: A Sword to Brando
Character: Greedy friar
Released: May 14, 1970
Type: Movie
In a mediaeval feudal hamlet, young girls are being abducted by a sect of devil-worshipers, all of whose faces are masked by sinister skulls. Brando, the young hero of this film, saves two damsels from the ravages of the sect.
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The Most Beautiful Wife
Title: The Most Beautiful Wife
Character: Gaetano Cimarosa
Released: March 12, 1970
Type: Movie
A 16-year-old Sicilian becomes the target of a mafia-hit man after refusing to go through with her prearranged marriage.
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Police Chief Pepe
Title: Police Chief Pepe
Character: Agente Cariddi
Released: September 24, 1969
Type: Movie
A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a lesbian and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.
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The Tough and the Mighty
Title: The Tough and the Mighty
Character: Cartana
Released: September 23, 1969
Type: Movie
Based on the story of real life Sardinian bandit Graziano Mesina.
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Bootleggers
Title: Bootleggers
Character: Mancho
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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Death on High Mountain
Title: Death on High Mountain
Character: General Valiente
Released: January 25, 1969
Type: Movie
Braddock is an influential and highly respected citizen of the town of Two Arrows. He also represents a group of Mexican outlaws led by Valiente. Braddock plans an important robbery with only two young men, Loring and Parker, standing in the way of the bandits.
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Be Sick… It's Free
Title: Be Sick… It's Free
Character: Salvatore Laganà
Released: October 24, 1968
Type: Movie
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
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Suicide Commando
Title: Suicide Commando
Character: Calleya
Released: October 9, 1968
Type: Movie
World War 2 - a British commando squad is tasked with attacking the "secret" German airfield from which German fighters have been attacking bombers which are trying to stop German tanks from reinforcing the D Day defences.
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May God Forgive You... But I Won't
Title: May God Forgive You... But I Won't
Character: Chico
Released: August 13, 1968
Type: Movie
While Cjamango is away from his ranch, bandits attack and kill his family. Disrupted by this tragedy, he sets out to take his revenge, helped by a Mexican who has seen the bandits. The writer of the western Cjamango directed this unofficial sequel to Cjamango.
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The Day of the Owl
Title: The Day of the Owl
Character: Zecchinetta
Released: February 17, 1968
Type: Movie
Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself.
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The Tall, The Short, The Cat
Title: The Tall, The Short, The Cat
Character: Netturbino
Released: May 3, 1967
Type: Movie
Two dim-witted servants to an elderly, wealthy woman learn that they are to inherent the late woman's money, on the condition that they have to care for her rambuncous pet cat, which is not an easy thing to do so.
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The Witches
Title: The Witches
Character: Sicilian (segment "La siciliana") (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1967
Type: Movie
Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress travels to a mountain resort, only to evoke jealousy from women and lust from men. A woman offers to take an injured man to the hospital. A widowed father and his son seek for a new wife/mother. A man seeks revenge for a woman's honor. A bored housewife tries to explain to her husband that he's not as romantic as he used to be.
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The Two Parachutists
Title: The Two Parachutists
Character: Garcia's aide
Released: December 24, 1965
Type: Movie
Two penniless Italian buskers want to go to the USA but get on the wrong ship and end up in South America in a concentration camp where they are rescued by American parachutists from. Afterwards they become big shots in the States but their dream comes to an end : they are sent to fight in Vietnam
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The Eye of the Needle
Title: The Eye of the Needle
Character: uno dei mafiosi
Released: September 14, 1963
Type: Movie
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.
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Crazy Sea
Title: Crazy Sea
Released: September 13, 1963
Type: Movie
A pretty woman approaching middle age rents out rooms in a small Italian town. An aging sailor and a handsome younger man are amongst the lodgers.