Miranda Campa

Miranda Campa

Born: January 31, 1914
Died: May 7, 1989
in Genève, Switzerland
Miranda Campa (31 January 1914 – 7 May 1989) was a Swiss-born Italian actress and voice actress.

Born Liliana Campa Capodaglio in Geneva, the nephew of actors Pio Campa and Wanda Capodaglio, Campa studied acting at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating in 1938. Mainly active on stage, she was part, among others, of the theatrical companies of Vittorio Gassman, Andreina Pagnani and Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. She made her film debut at mature age, in 1949, usually cast in character roles, often playing religious figures. Campa was also very active as a voice actress and as a dubber.

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Grog
Title: Grog
Released: September 3, 1982
Type: Movie
Two convicts escape from prison and evade the law by taking hostage the middle-class family of a doctor. One of the jailbirds calls the local television station, requesting that they broadcast his demand for a plane so they can escape the country. The television director and his crew show up to film the hostage crisis, and then things get progressively more bizarre and satirical. Not content with the living drama, he directs everyone's actions to make the event more newsworthy.
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Sweet Dreams
Title: Sweet Dreams
Released: September 10, 1981
Type: Movie
Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 student demonstrations. At the same time, Michele has a creative block and struggles to finish his film titled "Freud’s Mother." Nanni Moretti’s self-inquiry into filmmaking, political ennui, and men’s relations with their mothers.
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Womanlight
Title: Womanlight
Character: Lydia's maid
Released: August 29, 1979
Type: Movie
Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship.
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Malombra
Title: Malombra
Character: Giovanna
Released: May 12, 1974
Type: Movie
Malombra is a 1974 TV film directed by Raffaele Meloni and based on the novel of the same name by Antonio Fogazzaro.
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A Brief Vacation
Title: A Brief Vacation
Character: Nurse Guidotti
Released: July 21, 1973
Type: Movie
Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potential new life — is opened up to her.
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Canterbury proibito
Title: Canterbury proibito
Character: Mother of Santa (segment "Santa del Grande")
Released: October 27, 1972
Type: Movie
Two young boys compete for the same girl - a third enjoys from a distance . Two men are abusing a girl. Three men desires a married woman. Two nuns get out in the nice weather with a bunch of monks.
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Winged Devils
Title: Winged Devils
Released: February 4, 1972
Type: Movie
The real-life courage and audacity of aeronautic acrobats whose ground life is often as exciting as flight maneuvers.
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Easy Down There!
Title: Easy Down There!
Released: August 30, 1971
Type: Movie
A priest gets a little hot under the collar when the wife he thought was dead unexpectedly returns.
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The Fourth Victim
Title: The Fourth Victim
Character: Felicity Downing
Released: March 10, 1971
Type: Movie
A wealthy Englishman finds his third wife dead. After the police discover that his first two wives had also died suddenly, an investigation is launched. Meanwhile, a new neighbor moves in and becomes very interested in him.
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The Priest's Wife
Title: The Priest's Wife
Character: Valeria's Mother
Released: December 22, 1970
Type: Movie
Discovering her boyfriend is married, a young lady attempts to take her life, pausing only to phone a Help Line. Finding herself very much alive in hospital she meets the priest who took the call and, much taken with him, she starts trying to date him. He in turn succumbs to her charms and they soon realise their major problem is his Holy vow of celibacy.
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Title: Tartarino sulle Alpi
Character: Una donna dell'Esercito della Salvezza
Released: September 6, 1968
Type: TV
Tartarin sur les Alpes is a novel written by the French writer Alphonse Daudet in 1885. It is the second part of a trilogy which also includes Tartarin de Tarascon (published in 1885) and Porto Tarascona (published in 1890). Seeing his position as president of the Alpine Club of Tarascon threatened because of his fellow citizen Costecalde, who questions his abilities as a mountaineer, Tartarin travels to the Bernese Alps to accomplish a memorable feat. In 1968, a television transposition of Tartarino sulle Alpi was broadcast by Rai, directed by Edmo Fenoglio, with Tino Buazzelli as the protagonist. The series was broadcast between 06/09/968 and 09/27/1968.
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Il processo di Santa Teresa del bambino Gesù
Title: Il processo di Santa Teresa del bambino Gesù
Character: Suor Maria Gabriella della Concezione
Released: May 16, 1967
Type: Movie
The trial of Saint Teresa de Lisieux.
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Family Diary
Title: Family Diary
Released: September 28, 1962
Type: Movie
Enrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo has died. Enrico recalls their long and difficult relationship; he was brought up by their poor but warm-hearted grandmother, Lorenzo was raised as a gentleman by a wealthy local aristocrat. Reunited in the Florence of the 1930s, Enrico becomes his spoilt brother's keeper, forever haunted by a sense of guilty responsibility towards a man he both hates and loves.
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Barabbas
Title: Barabbas
Released: December 23, 1961
Type: Movie
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.
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Gold of Rome
Title: Gold of Rome
Released: November 26, 1961
Type: Movie
Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering them what seems to be an expensive way out of imprisonment and death.
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The Centurion
Title: The Centurion
Released: October 20, 1961
Type: Movie
A Roman soldier falls in love with the daughter of a Greek city's anti-Roman leader.
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The Bacchantes
Title: The Bacchantes
Character: Agave
Released: March 2, 1961
Type: Movie
The god Dionysus decides to pay a visit to the city of Thebes. Dionysus wants to be the worshiped by the masses, but the kingdom is suffering a horrific drought and the king Pentheus wants instead to sacrifice a virgin to the God Demeter.
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The Dam on the Yellow River
Title: The Dam on the Yellow River
Character: Mary
Released: March 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Anti-Communist propaganda film, in which the victory of Mao Tse-Tung's People's Liberation Army is seen through the eyes of an American journalist reporting from the Nationalists' side.
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The Giant of Marathon
Title: The Giant of Marathon
Character: ancella di Karis
Released: December 3, 1959
Type: Movie
A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.
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Non perdiamo la testa
Title: Non perdiamo la testa
Character: cuoca
Released: April 16, 1959
Type: Movie
A mad scientist pursues a man hoping to study his brain.
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The Overtaxed
Title: The Overtaxed
Character: Fabio Topponi's wife
Released: April 10, 1959
Type: Movie
Mr. Pezzella owns and operates a well-established luxury-clothing store. He does not like and does not consider it right to pay taxes and therefore uses a tax consultant to be able to evade more taxes.
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Cavalier in Devil's Castle
Title: Cavalier in Devil's Castle
Character: Governante
Released: March 21, 1959
Type: Movie
A mysterious horseman, called the Dark Knight, sets himself up as a masked vigilante and decides to free the duchet of Valgrado from the grip of a terrible tyrant.
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Hell in the City
Title: Hell in the City
Character: Ida Maroni
Released: January 29, 1959
Type: Movie
A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.
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Solo Dio mi fermerà
Title: Solo Dio mi fermerà
Released: August 16, 1957
Type: Movie
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Lust of the Vampire
Title: Lust of the Vampire
Character: Signora Robert
Released: April 5, 1957
Type: Movie
A mad scientist captures young women and drains their blood, in order to keep alive an ancient, evil duchess.
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Revelation
Title: Revelation
Released: December 30, 1955
Type: Movie
A young communist discovers the power of faith.
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Roman Tales
Title: Roman Tales
Character: The Maid at Mazzoni Baralla's (uncredited)
Released: December 21, 1955
Type: Movie
Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They need only a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?
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Le signorine dello 04
Title: Le signorine dello 04
Released: February 9, 1955
Type: Movie
The lives and loves of five Italian telephone operators. One is betrayed by her husband, one helps a student who wants to take his life, one changes her boyfriend every other day, one is a single mother and the last one tries to inflame a recent-widower accountant.
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The Two Orphans
Title: The Two Orphans
Released: December 16, 1954
Type: Movie
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Title: Il dottor Antonio
Character: La baronessa Eleonora
Released: November 16, 1954
Type: TV
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Il prigioniero del re
Title: Il prigioniero del re
Released: July 29, 1954
Type: Movie
Giorgio Venturini's take on the classic "Man in the Iron Mask" story.
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The Slave of Sin
Title: The Slave of Sin
Character: madre superiora
Released: May 8, 1954
Type: Movie
A former prostitute and a little Polish girl are survivors of a train crash. The woman wishes to adopt the child, but her past makes that difficult.
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Pietà per chi cade
Title: Pietà per chi cade
Character: Nadia Berruti
Released: March 17, 1954
Type: Movie
Carlo Savelli, gone missing after the war, returns to Italia after many years. His wife Anna, believing him dead, has established a romance with Andrea, and in order to keep him happy, she follows him to Venice.
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I Always Loved You
Title: I Always Loved You
Character: Anna
Released: December 9, 1953
Type: Movie
A landowner loves a good girl, but is ensnared by another richer woman who is actually aiming for her fortune. This she will be able to temporarily make the two young men go away but the man makes his girlfriend understand that her is true love; he realizes that he has been the victim of a scam and will bring the woman he has always loved to the altar.
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The Return of Don Camillo
Title: The Return of Don Camillo
Released: June 5, 1953
Type: Movie
Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.
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La grande rinuncia
Title: La grande rinuncia
Released: September 1, 1951
Type: Movie
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Against the Law
Title: Against the Law
Character: Fidanzata di Marcello
Released: August 9, 1950
Type: Movie
A young bourgeois who launders money for the mafia gets accused of murder.