Sandro Ruffini

Sandro Ruffini

Born: September 20, 1889
Died: November 29, 1954
in Rome, Lazio, Italy

Movies for Sandro Ruffini...

The Two Orphans
Title: The Two Orphans
Released: December 16, 1954
Type: Movie
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On Trial
Title: On Trial
Character: Le proviseur
Released: June 4, 1954
Type: Movie
Prosecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumptions. He then makes it a point of honor to trace the sources of the case to uncover the truth.
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La campana di San Giusto
Title: La campana di San Giusto
Released: April 1, 1954
Type: Movie
The adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Title: Giuseppe Verdi
Character: Impr. Marelli
Released: December 22, 1953
Type: Movie
The life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of his successful and turbulent life, with more than 20 excerpts from his acclaimed operas.
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Ivan, il figlio del diavolo bianco
Title: Ivan, il figlio del diavolo bianco
Released: December 5, 1953
Type: Movie
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Sunday Heroes
Title: Sunday Heroes
Character: The Doctor
Released: December 30, 1952
Type: Movie
Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like an amateur and the crowd begin to smell something fishy going on.
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Nobody Has Betrayed
Title: Nobody Has Betrayed
Released: May 21, 1952
Type: Movie
A retiring teacher tells a young teacher the story of two old pupils, who once the war begins they will become enemies ...
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Ergastolo
Title: Ergastolo
Character: avvocato Leonardi
Released: May 18, 1952
Type: Movie
Rosa Lulli, has an illegitimate 20-year-old son, named Stefano, who lives with her in the house of Professor Arlotta. Stefano is in love with Lydia, the granddaughter of the professor. The couple has a gambling addiction: the need to obtain a large sum to meet gambling debts, which pushes him to accept the loving invitation of Jeannette, owner of a dance school, where Stefano goes to play.
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Salvate mia figlia
Title: Salvate mia figlia
Character: Chirurgo
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
A farmer steals some jewelry, desperately looking for money to allow his sick daughter to be operated by a famous surgeon.
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The Young Caruso
Title: The Young Caruso
Character: Narratore
Released: October 13, 1951
Type: Movie
This music filled biopic follows the life of the legendary tenor Enrico Caruso from childhood poverty in Naples to the beginning of his rise to fame.
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La grande rinuncia
Title: La grande rinuncia
Released: September 1, 1951
Type: Movie
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Fiamme sulla laguna
Title: Fiamme sulla laguna
Character: Padre di Anna
Released: June 20, 1951
Type: Movie
After the death of his father, Anna starts working in the navy where he falls in love with a navy man.
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Le due sorelle
Title: Le due sorelle
Character: padre Giovanni
Released: December 31, 1950
Type: Movie
A young marquis seduces a farmer's daughter and then leaves her while she's pregnant with his child. Many years later he comes back and seduces the girl's sister.
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Born of Unknown Father
Title: Born of Unknown Father
Character: Henri Mussot
Released: December 12, 1950
Type: Movie
By taking the defense of Raymond Denis, accused of having killed his mistress, when she committed suicide because he did not want to recognize his child, the lawyer Claude Nogent, learns that he himself was born of unknown father.
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Side Street Story
Title: Side Street Story
Character: Narrator
Released: September 21, 1950
Type: Movie
A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis and then the Allies occupation forces. Primary among the citizens is Gennaro Iovine (Eduard De Filippo)who has a penchant for innocently getting into trouble, and his friend Pasquale (Toto.) The latter is a rail-sweeper who becomes a professional stand-in...a corpse used to conceal contraband...serving jail time for those who don't care to spend the time to do the time...a substitute at a political rally when violence threatens the scheduled speaker
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Difficult Years
Title: Difficult Years
Character: Narrator, Italian original version
Released: December 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.
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L'uomo dal guanto grigio
Title: L'uomo dal guanto grigio
Released: November 11, 1948
Type: Movie
A famous painting by Antonello da Messina, "the man with a gray glove", has been entrusted to an old restorer. When, subsequently, the painting is withdrawn from the restorer's studio and exposed, the art critic Drago discovers that it is not the original, but a copy.
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Cab Number 13
Title: Cab Number 13
Released: February 28, 1948
Type: Movie
To secure her fortune with Monsieur Vaudieu de la Tour, the Machiavellian Claudia kills her lover's elder brother and steals his child. The boy is adopted by a coachman, and later, as secretary to the Minister of Justice, discovers the truth, punishes the bad guys, rewards the good ones and marries the daughter of another innocent man, unjustly accused by Claudia.
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The Testimony
Title: The Testimony
Character: Lawyer of defense
Released: February 15, 1946
Type: Movie
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.
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Down with Misery!
Title: Down with Misery!
Character: Porzio Ray
Released: December 27, 1945
Type: Movie
The two drivers Giovanni and Gaetano are friends. Gaetano, bold and ruthless, thrives in the black market, while Giovanni, who is a naive and fundamentally honest worker from the North of Italy, cannot get any profit and his wife, an energetic and talkative Roman woman, can't help blaming him for his poor business skills. Returning from a trip to Naples, he brings home a little hungry orphan, Nello. At first Giovanni's wife doesn't want the boy, but then she begins to like him. The little boy does whatever he can to help the family. Nello's father, who everybody thought to have died during the war, finds his little son and, being a rich business man, he employs the good and generous Giovanni. Meanwhile the former friend Gaetano is caught by the police and convicted for his illegal trades.
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La freccia nel fianco
Title: La freccia nel fianco
Character: Conte Traldi
Released: September 8, 1945
Type: Movie
Started in the summer of 1943 by Lattuada and , the because of the war that raged in Italy at the time, the shooting was interrupted several times only to stop for good in September of the same year. It only resumed after the war, in the spring of 1945, but with Mario Costa as the director instead of Lattuada. It was eventually released in September 1945 with only Lattuada billed as the director. Similarly, the film was started with Vittorio Gassman in the role of Brunello, but when the shooting resumed in 1945 he was replaced by Leonardo Cortese
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Fedora
Title: Fedora
Character: De Sirieux
Released: September 12, 1942
Type: Movie
This film relates the story of Russian Princess Fedora (Louise Ferida), in Czarist times, whose royal lover is assassinated on the eve of their marriage. She pledges vengeance, only to become the victim of her vow when she falls in love again.
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Luck Comes from Heaven
Title: Luck Comes from Heaven
Character: Giovanni Pap
Released: March 26, 1942
Type: Movie
The merchant Giovanni Illes is tracked down by the debtors, but cannot pay his debts. To save her father from bankruptcy, Anna talks to the lawyer, trying to earn an extension. The lawyer grants it to him, but he gets too close, even physically. She wants to defend herself, but his power dominates the impotence of the woman.
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Sancta Maria
Title: Sancta Maria
Released: January 2, 1942
Type: Movie
Nadia, a young Soviet journalist who is passing through Pompeii, discovers the power that comes from the Catholic faith when the painter she loves, Paolo, and who saved her from drowning during the shipwreck of the cruise in which they met, is at the gates of death because of a serious illness whose symptoms are similar to those of leprosy.
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Le due tigri
Title: Le due tigri
Character: Yanez de Gomera
Released: November 29, 1941
Type: Movie
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I pirati della Malesia
Title: I pirati della Malesia
Released: October 18, 1941
Type: Movie
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Thrill
Title: Thrill
Character: Ignazio Usticky
Released: October 12, 1941
Type: Movie
A crime novel writer is experiencing writer's block while writing his latest book. Then a woman is murdered in his home, and this crime gives him inspiration to finish his novel. Without noticing, he even founds the real culprit.
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Beatrice Cenci
Title: Beatrice Cenci
Character: Giudice Moscato
Released: September 9, 1941
Type: Movie
Italian historical drama portraying the story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci.
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Schoolgirl Diary
Title: Schoolgirl Diary
Character: Carlo Palmieri
Released: September 6, 1941
Type: Movie
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I mariti
Title: I mariti
Released: January 10, 1941
Type: Movie
In Naples in the second half of the nineteenth century, a young noblewoman falls in love with a nobleman of ill repute.
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La figlia del corsaro verde
Title: La figlia del corsaro verde
Character: Don Luis, il governatore
Released: December 23, 1940
Type: Movie
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Eternal Melody
Title: Eternal Melody
Character: Gentiluomo
Released: December 3, 1940
Type: Movie
The life of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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L'uomo del romanzo
Title: L'uomo del romanzo
Released: October 18, 1940
Type: Movie
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Abandonment
Title: Abandonment
Character: Pierre Courier
Released: January 10, 1940
Type: Movie
In 1830 Pierre Courier, a rich and elderly shipowner, awaits the return of his son Stefano, who has just returned from a long trip to Trinidad in the ship in which he is captain.
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Cose dell'altro mondo
Title: Cose dell'altro mondo
Character: Jim
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
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Giallo
Title: Giallo
Character: Giorgio
Released: January 31, 1934
Type: Movie
A woman becomes convinced that her husband is an infamous wife-killer intent on adding her to his list of victims.