Ennio Balbo

Ennio Balbo

Born: April 18, 1922
Died: June 18, 1989
in Naples, Italy

Movies for Ennio Balbo...

Saremo felici
Title: Saremo felici
Released: September 7, 1989
Type: Movie
Ensemble comedy about four friends in their 40s.
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Star Odyssey
Title: Star Odyssey
Character: Professor Mauri
Released: October 26, 1979
Type: Movie
Earth is attacked by an intergalactic villain and his army of robotic androids.
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Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
Title: Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti
Character: Theodoto (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.
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Dog Lay Afternoon
Title: Dog Lay Afternoon
Released: November 15, 1976
Type: Movie
A young girl witnesses her mother having sex with the family dog. When her father finds out, he burns the dog alive. She is so traumatized by these incidents that she later turns into a nymphomaniac. She moves to an island and lives there with her own dog, having sex with various guests who visit her.
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Street People
Title: Street People
Character: Continenza
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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Hallucination Strip
Title: Hallucination Strip
Released: December 18, 1975
Type: Movie
The story is about a youth named Massimo Monaldi, who, living in Rome, is a part-time college student who has some involvement in the protests that occur at his university. Massimo is also involved with drugs and he sometimes steals to make a living and support his habit (the theft of a tobacco box is very important to the story). Among his associates are his girlfriend, Cinzia, who comes from a wealthy family, and he has a wealthy male friend named Rudy who is very naive as well as strangely pampered by his overly-doting mother. Both families don't approve of their relationship with Massimo.
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The Left Hand of the Law
Title: The Left Hand of the Law
Character: industriale Lombardi
Released: September 3, 1975
Type: Movie
After a couple of 'special squad' cops are gunned down while chasing some kidnappers, the head of the squad takes it really personally! His violent path to find the kidnappers leads him to the upper echelons of the government. Now, the powers-that-be don't want to be found out and decide it's time to kill one more cop...
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Il fidanzamento
Title: Il fidanzamento
Character: Monsignor Solinas
Released: February 28, 1975
Type: Movie
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How to Kill a Judge
Title: How to Kill a Judge
Character: Il giudice istruttore
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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Year One
Title: Year One
Character: Nenni
Released: November 15, 1974
Type: Movie
Rossellini’s biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari, who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in the years that followed the fall of fascism.
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Pascariello surdato cungedato
Title: Pascariello surdato cungedato
Released: July 11, 1974
Type: Movie
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Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment
Title: Anna: the Pleasure, the Torment
Character: Frossi
Released: November 27, 1973
Type: Movie
A beautiful but poor young girl finds all the money and material goods she never had when she becomes the girlfriend of a crime boss, but soon learns that there is a price to be paid for that kind of life.
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The Great Kidnapping
Title: The Great Kidnapping
Character: Prefetto
Released: November 16, 1973
Type: Movie
In early seventies Italy, plagued by criminality and political terrorism, a fearless police commissioner is sent to restore law and order in a northern industrial town devastated by a recent wave of violence and kidnappings..
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Pinocchio
Title: Pinocchio
Character: Alidoro (voce)
Released: December 20, 1972
Type: Movie
The film was directed by Giuliano Cenci with assistance from his brother Renzo. During production, Carlo Collodis grandchildren Mario and Antonio Lorenzini were consulted. The subtle movements made by fidgeting children whilst speaking or under scrutiny were incorporated into Pinocchios movements, particularly when he lies to the Fairy with the Turquoise Hair over the fate of his gold coins. For the design of the Fairy, Italian portrayals of the Blessed Virgin Mary in art were used as starting points.
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Ninì Tirabusciò:  The Woman Who Invented the Move
Title: Ninì Tirabusciò: The Woman Who Invented the Move
Character: Il generale
Released: December 20, 1970
Type: Movie
Comedy set at the time of King Umberto I of Monza (Italy) about Maria Sarti, aka Ninì Tirabusciò, actress/singer who caused a scandal with her raunchy dancing.
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The Night of the Assassin
Title: The Night of the Assassin
Character: Chief of Police
Released: August 6, 1970
Type: Movie
During the civil war in Cyprus, an island nation split between the Greeks and the Turks, a British peacekeeping officer is trying to prevent a Greek guerrilla fighter from escalating the violent situation even further.
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Django the Bastard
Title: Django the Bastard
Character: Storekeeper
Released: November 8, 1969
Type: Movie
A Confederate soldier returns from the dead to take revenge on three officers who betrayed his unit in battle.
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Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence
Title: Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence
Character: Mocenigo
Released: October 30, 1969
Type: Movie
Through the childhood and adolescence of Signor Giacomo Casanova (from his memoirs), this is a description of how people lived in 18th-century Venice: their customs, habits, medicine, religion, and--most of all--the omnipresence of hypocrisy.
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The Appointment
Title: The Appointment
Released: May 22, 1969
Type: Movie
Lawyer Federico Fendi has reasons to suspect that his fashion model wife Carla is secretly one of Rome's highest paid call-girls.
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The Black Sheep
Title: The Black Sheep
Character: Suocero di Agasti
Released: November 9, 1968
Type: Movie
Mario and Filippo are two twin brothers, the honorable one want to bring morality back into Italian political life, as president of the Commission for the investigation of corruption. The other brother is a cynical trickster.
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Sardinia Kidnapped
Title: Sardinia Kidnapped
Character: Marras
Released: March 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Christina Fisher arrives in Sardinia to spend a holiday with her university friend, Francesco. As they are touring the island, they are trapped by mountain terrorists. Francesco is kidnapped, but Christina is permitted to leave. She is determined to contact the police, but is persuaded not to by Francesco's best friend, Gambino. Together they try to find the kidnappers, but she becomes suspicious of everyone including Gambino. Confused and paranoid, she sets out alone to contact the police.
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Gunman Sent by God
Title: Gunman Sent by God
Released: February 29, 1968
Type: Movie
Anthony Steffen, as a young gunman who works as a circus performer, witnesses the killing of some outlaws, carried out by their leader and is credited with the deed. Steffen suffers from a complex which blocks him in front of any violence and makes him appear cowardly, so when a young boy is kidnapped he must find a way to regain his composure.
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The Day of the Owl
Title: The Day of the Owl
Character: Mobster #1 at Banquet
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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L'incoronazione di Carlo Magno
Title: L'incoronazione di Carlo Magno
Character: Alcuino
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
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Day of Anger
Title: Day of Anger
Character: Turner, Banker
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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Spy Pit
Title: Spy Pit
Character: Papillon
Released: November 22, 1967
Type: Movie
Julien Saint Dominique, an agent of the French counter-espionage service in Berlin, investigates the kidnapping of a functionary taken by German communists into East Germany.
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The Man with the Balloons
Title: The Man with the Balloons
Released: August 8, 1967
Type: Movie
Mario is a Milan industrialist who is constantly testing balloons to see how much air one can take before busting.
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Every Man Is My Enemy
Title: Every Man Is My Enemy
Character: (as William Bosh)
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
When a heist goes wrong, a safe cracker (Robert Webber) looks for the person who's betrayed him...
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Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Title: Pardon, Are You for or Against?
Released: December 23, 1966
Type: Movie
A successful fifty-year-old entrepreneur, Tullio Conforti, opposed to divorce for religious reasons, is in fact separated from his wife and leads a frenetic life divided between numerous lovers.
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Spies Kill Silently
Title: Spies Kill Silently
Released: April 4, 1966
Type: Movie
Professor Freeman is an important English scientist that is investigating a method to treat cancer. His daughter is killed in the swimming pool of a hotel in Beirut. The case is confidential so that the mission is entrusted to the Special Agent Mikel Brown.
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Seven Golden Men Strike Again
Title: Seven Golden Men Strike Again
Character: Police Chief
Released: February 1, 1966
Type: Movie
The Professor and his men are captured by U.S. agents during an attempted train robbery. To avoid jail, they must kidnap a Latin dictator.
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Il caso Fuchs
Title: Il caso Fuchs
Character: Henry Arnold
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
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Oggi, domani, dopodomani
Title: Oggi, domani, dopodomani
Character: Brother of Mohamed (segment "L'uomo dei 5 palloni")
Released: December 28, 1965
Type: Movie
Italian comedy film in three segments
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Seven Golden Men
Title: Seven Golden Men
Character: Police Chief
Released: October 21, 1965
Type: Movie
After bungling a job in London, Albert, an international thief, masterminds a plan to rob a Geneva bank of 7 tons of gold. Assisted by the seductive Giorgia, who works from within the bank, and six other accomplices, Albert sets himself up in an expensive hotel with a battery of electronic devices to supervise the operation.
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From the Orient with Fury
Title: From the Orient with Fury
Character: Professor Franz Kurtz
Released: September 24, 1965
Type: Movie
A scientist who has invented a weapon capable of disintegrating solid matter is kidnapped by a criminal gang, which intends to sell the scientist and his weapon to the highest bidder. A secret agent and the scientist's daughter set out to track down the kidnappers and rescue the scientist.
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The Possessed
Title: The Possessed
Character: Coroner
Released: July 24, 1965
Type: Movie
While visiting his favorite resort village during winter, a writer investigates the apparent suicide of a woman he was infatuated with.
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Terror-Creatures from the Grave
Title: Terror-Creatures from the Grave
Character: Oscar Stinnel
Released: June 23, 1965
Type: Movie
An attorney arrives at a castle to settle the estate of its recently deceased owner. The owner's wife and daughter reveal that he was someone who was able to summon the souls of ancient plague victims and, in fact, his spirit was roaming the castle at that very moment. Soon occupants of the castle begin to die off in gruesome, violent ways.
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Casanova '70
Title: Casanova '70
Character: il giudice
Released: June 15, 1965
Type: Movie
The amorous adventures of Andrea Rossi-Colombotti, an army officer who finds pleasure with beautiful women in life-threatening situations.
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Corruption
Title: Corruption
Character: Morandi
Released: November 22, 1963
Type: Movie
Stefano is a shy and sensitive teenager who has just completed his studies in Switzerland and is considering becoming a monk. But his father, a rich Milanese publisher, who had the ambition to see his son succeed him, refuses and takes him on a cruise with a young woman to take this idea out of his mind...
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Catherine of Russia
Title: Catherine of Russia
Character: conte Panin
Released: January 12, 1963
Type: Movie
Caterina finds out that her husband Peter Tzar of Russia, is plotting to kill her. She sets Count Orlov free from prison, Peter's sworn enemy, becomes empress of Russia and leads the Cossacks army against him.
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A Queen for Caesar
Title: A Queen for Caesar
Character: Theodotus
Released: December 22, 1962
Type: Movie
Story of the power struggle between Egyptian queen Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy, and how a common soldier risks his life to serve her.
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The Police Commissioner
Title: The Police Commissioner
Released: April 21, 1962
Type: Movie
Popular Italian comic Alberto Sordi does an excellent job of creating a bumbling yet effective police inspector by the unlikely name of Dante Lombardozzi, in this entertaining comedy-murder mystery by director Luigi Comencini.
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Antigone
Title: Antigone
Character: Tiresia
Released: December 5, 1958
Type: Movie