Giancarlo Badessi

Giancarlo Badessi

Born: September 22, 1928
Died: December 6, 2011
in Lecco, Lombardy, Italy
Giancarlo Badessi (1928 – 2011) was an Italian actor.

Born in Lecco, at the age of almost 40 Badessi gave up his daily job as an accountant to embrace the theatre, making his debut in a stage play directed by Giancarlo Cobelli. He was also active in cinema and on television, often playing character roles.

Badessi died in Rome at the age of 83 from a heart attack, on 6 December 2011.

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Movies for Giancarlo Badessi...

Tiger Joe
Title: Tiger Joe
Character: Bronski
Released: August 12, 1982
Type: Movie
On one of his last trips before retirement, a plane of an illegal gunrunner in Vietnam is shot down where he hooks up Annie Belle, a humanitarian rebel.
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Action
Title: Action
Character: gay nella sauna
Released: January 4, 1980
Type: Movie
Bruno is an idealistic hero who questions the meaning of life in this confusing and sometimes hallucinatory erotic drama. After a night in jail, he is gang-raped by punk rockers in a garbage dump. He later saves an old man who believes he is Garibaldi and a woman he believes is Ophelia. Bruno watches helplessly as she later jumps from a window.
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Caligula
Title: Caligula
Character: Claudius
Released: August 14, 1979
Type: Movie
The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome's mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his fiendishly inventive means of disposing those who would oppose him, and more.
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The Son of the Sheik
Title: The Son of the Sheik
Character: Barnas, il mediatore
Released: February 25, 1978
Type: Movie
The old Emir of the Qudmar discovers he has a natural son in Italy. Secret agents and oil companies involve the man, an aspiring gas station, in the fight for the succession to the emirate.
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Black Journal
Title: Black Journal
Character: Lisa's Friend
Released: November 24, 1977
Type: Movie
A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow tenants in a 1938 Italian apartment building.
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The Swindle
Title: The Swindle
Character: Barrufaldi
Released: November 18, 1977
Type: Movie
A rude Roman policeman Nico Giraldi and an English detective team up in search of a gang that has carried out an enormous fraud against the Lloyd's of London.
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A Man Called Magnum
Title: A Man Called Magnum
Character: Attorney Cerullo
Released: August 7, 1977
Type: Movie
A drug deal goes bad and the heroin is stolen. One mob boss doesn't have his drugs and the other doesn't get his money. People are going to die until they discover who double-crossed them. Into this backdrop, Inspector Dario Mauri arrives from Milan to help clean-up Naples. His mission – find the drugs and stop the killing.
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Hit Squad
Title: Hit Squad
Character: Maniac
Released: October 29, 1976
Type: Movie
A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the wealthy Mr. Douglas, the thieves are beginning to die.
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One Way or Another
Title: One Way or Another
Character: Ventre
Released: April 30, 1976
Type: Movie
Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.
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Salon Kitty
Title: Salon Kitty
Character: Officer with Projector
Released: March 2, 1976
Type: Movie
Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl named Margherita discovers the little ploy and with Kitty's help plans to take on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.
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Povero Cristo
Title: Povero Cristo
Character: Theatre Director
Released: January 3, 1976
Type: Movie
A provincial young man with aspirations of becoming a private investigator is approached by a stranger that promises 100 million lire if he provides evidence of the existence of Jesus Christ.
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Amore vuol dir gelosia
Title: Amore vuol dir gelosia
Character: Don Ciro
Released: October 9, 1975
Type: Movie
A dentist is married to frigid Licia, has two daughters and three other women.
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A Virgin Named Mary
Title: A Virgin Named Mary
Released: September 11, 1975
Type: Movie
A second coming? This time our savior chose a shantytown outside Turin, in the north of Italy, overcrowded by poor families coming from the south in search of a job in a factory, or less legal ways to survive. Young Maria (Cinzia De Carolis) can predict the future during her epileptic seizures, or at least that's what everyone believes, and her mother (Clelia Matania) sells her predictions and responses to the superstitious neighbors, after inducing her "trance" with electricity. One night the shock is too strong, and Maria seems to die: when she wakes up, she is found pregnant. And being a honest unmarried girl from the south, she is obviously still virgin... Notwithstanding the opposition of the local priest (Turi Ferro), everyone, including her, believes in the miracle, and prepares for a second coming, in a crescendo of fanaticism that is soon noticed by the press, and by the official church..
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Silent Action
Title: Silent Action
Character: Vittorio Chiarotti
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: Movie
A number of unexplained military deaths hit Italy and are ruled to be accidental or suicides, but police inspector Giorgio Solmi suspects otherwise. When a mysterious wealthy electrician is seemingly murdered by a female escort, a sinister plot slowly begins to unravel.
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How to Kill a Judge
Title: How to Kill a Judge
Character: Onorevole Derrasi
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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Il trafficone
Title: Il trafficone
Character: sindaco in Versilia
Released: November 28, 1974
Type: Movie
Neapolitan Vincenzo LoRusso lives of expedients in Rome, as he tries to sell at an intersection a faux suede jacket, accidentally meets Laura, a beautiful woman who invites him to her house.
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Vermisat
Title: Vermisat
Character: Medico del pronto soccorso
Released: October 19, 1974
Type: Movie
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What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
Title: What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
Character: Paglia's Lawyer (uncredited)
Released: August 10, 1974
Type: Movie
An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been murdered. A peeping tom is caught with photos of her having sex with a teenage drop-out but he is later released due to lack of evidence. The investigation, conducted by Inspector Silvestri and the assistant public prosecutor Vittoria Stori, focuses on the girl's parents. It transpires that a private detective, Ruggero Pollente, was hired by Silvia's mother because the latter was concerned about her activities. As a conspiracy begins to emerge, Pollente's body is found dismembered and his girlfriend is subsequently attacked by a machete-wielding killer clad in motorcycle gear...
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Innocence and Desire
Title: Innocence and Desire
Character: il rettore
Released: March 21, 1974
Type: Movie
A young man is temporarily home from a Seminary, but eventually falls in love with his father's young new wife.
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The Profiteer
Title: The Profiteer
Character: Priest
Released: March 20, 1974
Type: Movie
In the city of Ostuni in Puglia, the mute seminarian Ercole is designated to be the driver and nurse of Parsifal, the paraplegic son in a rich and sanctimonious family of landowners. Ercole soon becomes the lover of his master's wife, the beautiful Baroness Clotilde. In a familial and social context where only money, sex and power count, everyone tries to take advantage of everyone, but the real saprophyte turns out to be Ercole.
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Halleluja to Vera Cruz
Title: Halleluja to Vera Cruz
Released: March 2, 1973
Type: Movie
Two American bandits disguise themselves as priests in order to work undetected in Mexico during the revolution.
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The Grand Duel
Title: The Grand Duel
Character: Blindfolded Innkeeper
Released: December 29, 1972
Type: Movie
A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.
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Aretino's Blue Stories
Title: Aretino's Blue Stories
Character: Il precettore
Released: December 26, 1972
Type: Movie
Madonna Violante goes to Rome to find the three Armida daughters, Lorenza and Vanna, who she has not seen for many years; but first she stops by her friend Antonia from whom he learned many unseemly things about them.
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Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
Title: Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
Released: November 21, 1972
Type: Movie
Ottone and Savio work hard to keep each other out of trouble with the Roman Centurions while scraping together food and drink with various scams. Emperor Nero's wife, the beautiful Poppea, takes an interest in Ottone, who after a short stint as a gladiator gets a region to manage and an army of his own to command, all the while assisted by his best friend and partner in crime Savio.
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The Big Deal
Title: The Big Deal
Released: March 31, 1972
Type: Movie
Three clumsy thieves come up with a robbery scheme against the "Grandi Magazzini Romani". They call to their aid a skilled "only by reputation" French burglar, Pierre Le Compte.
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What Have You Done to Solange?
Title: What Have You Done to Solange?
Character: Mr. Erickson
Released: March 23, 1972
Type: Movie
After several coeds are murdered at a college, a professor who is having an affair with one of his students becomes a suspect. When other gruesome murders start occurring shortly thereafter, the teacher suspects that he may be the cause of them.
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Great Treasure Hunt
Title: Great Treasure Hunt
Character: General El Supremo
Released: February 7, 1972
Type: Movie
This dark, dusty western concerns a wealthy criminal, a blind man, and four mercenaries. The blind man wants to get his mitts on the crooks' gold. He can't do it alone, so he hires the quartet of soldiers-of-fortune to help him. There's bloodshed in abundance in pursuit of that goal.
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Secret Confessions in a Cloistered Convent
Title: Secret Confessions in a Cloistered Convent
Character: Strangolagalli
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A young libertine after a series of love affairs, to escape the wrath of the betrayed husband disguises himself as a monk and hides in a convent where one immediately realizes how much his presence is very welcome.
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Roma bene
Title: Roma bene
Character: Rossi
Released: October 8, 1971
Type: Movie
A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.
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Confessions of a Police Captain
Title: Confessions of a Police Captain
Released: March 26, 1971
Type: Movie
A police captain arranges the release of a criminally insane prisoner, who soon winds up dead. When the District Attorney takes on the case, he uncovers corruption in the department and vows to take down the man who's responsible.
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Satiricosissimo
Title: Satiricosissimo
Character: Nerone
Released: January 21, 1970
Type: Movie
Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not understand him.
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Night of the Serpent
Title: Night of the Serpent
Character: Ignacio
Released: December 23, 1969
Type: Movie
Hernandez, the sheriff of a small Mexican village, joins a group of townsmen with the intention of killing young orphan Manuel and robbing him of his inheritance. Killer Luke, now an alcoholic for having murdered his own son by mistake, who is chosen for the task, instead decides to take the defence of the poor child.
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The Conspiracy of Torture
Title: The Conspiracy of Torture
Character: Officer
Released: November 14, 1969
Type: Movie
In 1599 Italy, Beatrice Cenci is the teenage daughter of the crazed landowner and nobleman Francesco Cenci who keeps her locked up in the dungeon of his castle where he sexually abuses her. Beatrice plots with her stepmother, her besotted servant Olimpio, as well as a local bandit, named Catalano to plan Francesco’s murder.
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Where Are You Going All Naked?
Title: Where Are You Going All Naked?
Character: Waiter
Released: September 12, 1969
Type: Movie
Young bank employee is very surprised by his bride behavior...
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Coup D'Etat
Title: Coup D'Etat
Character: Man offering party
Released: March 15, 1969
Type: Movie
Italy, 1972. Political elections are taking place and Christian Democrat victory is expected; but the electronic computer of the Ministry of the Interior reveals that the party with the highest number is the Italian Communist Party.
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Tepepa
Title: Tepepa
Character: Sergeant
Released: January 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro.
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Ace High
Title: Ace High
Character: Man with Moustache Promoting the Black Boxer (uncredited)
Released: October 2, 1968
Type: Movie
After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy of a lot of money and steals their horses. This results in a merry chase and Stevens and Bessy become unwilling allies in Cacopoulus' revenge against the people who deserted him and framed him to get their money back.
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Gangsters '70
Title: Gangsters '70
Released: April 29, 1968
Type: Movie
An elderly gangster just released from prison plans one last job, and gathers a small crew to do the job, but the plan goes sour when one of the crew betrays the details of the operation to a rival gangster.