Leo Gullotta

Leo Gullotta

Born: January 9, 1946
in Catania, Sicily, Italy
Salvatore Leopoldo "Leo" Gullotta (born 9 January 1946) is an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian and writer.

Born in Catania and the last of six children, Gullotta started his career as an extra in Teatro Massimo Bellini. In his long career as actor, Gullotta has starred in about 100 films and has participated in numerous shows and drama series for television. In 1987 he won his first David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor for his role in Il Camorrista by Giuseppe Tornatore, and later worked with Tornatore four more times. In 1997 and 2000 he won two more David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor, for the Maurizio Zaccaro films Il carniere and Un uomo perbene. He has also won two Silver Ribbon for Best supporting Actor, in 1984 for Mi manda Picone by Nanni Loy and in 2001 for Vajont by Renzo Martinelli.

Gullotta has starred in many theatrical plays and dramas, and was part of the theater company "Il Bagaglino". He won the Flaiano Prize as stage actor of the year in 2010. He celebrated fifty years of activity that same year.

Gullotta is also a well known voice actor, among others. He was the Italian voice of Manny in the first three films of the Ice Age film series. He reprised this role in short films and video games. He also dubbed Burt Young in Rocky, Joe Pesci in Once Upon a Time in America, Moonwalker, My Cousin Vinny and The Irishman, and the robot Johnny 5 in Short Circuit. He also became the new Italian voice of Woody Allen after the death of Oreste Lionello in 2009.

In 1998 Gullotta debuted as writer with the book Mille fili d'erba (Di Renzo Editore, ISBN 88-86044-87-9).

Gullotta is openly gay. He did not reveal his sexuality to the public until 1995. In 2019, he married his partner of 32 years. Gullotta is discreet about the details of his husband.

Source: Article "Leo Gullotta" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies for Leo Gullotta...

So tutto di te
Title: So tutto di te
Released: July 25, 2023
Type: Movie
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Quel posto nel tempo
Title: Quel posto nel tempo
Released: November 27, 2022
Type: Movie
Mario, a retired conductor, spends his days in a luxury resort in the south of England. He has been suffering from Alzheimer's for some time and is often assailed by sudden memories that he then he, punctually, he forgets. He lives with the fear that illness can erase his past, made up of fame and success. But above all of the love of his wife Amelia, who died years earlier, and of his daughter Michela who one day hopes to find again in a place far from time ...
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Vecchio
Title: Vecchio
Character: Vecchio
Released: January 3, 2022
Type: Movie
Aldo lives as a guest in an RSA. Every day he waits for his loved ones looking out the window of his room. On his birthday there will be a surprise to cut through his loneliness.
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Title: Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery
Character: il Procuratore Nicolosi
Released: January 1, 2022
Type: TV
After two hapless TV technicians stumble upon a murder scene, every step they take to avoid becoming suspects lands them in deeper trouble.
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The Great Wave
Title: The Great Wave
Released: November 9, 2020
Type: Movie
The entrepreneurial turning point of one of the most heinous and powerful criminal organizations on the planet: the 'Ndrangheta, told through the life and death of an ordinary man.
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Il delitto Mattarella
Title: Il delitto Mattarella
Character: Rosario Nicoletti
Released: July 2, 2020
Type: Movie
January 6, 1980. President of the Sicily Piersanti Mattarella is going to Mass with his family when a young man approaches his car and shoots him in cold blood, killing him. The young Deputy Prosecutor on duty that day is Pietro Grasso, future General Anti-Mafia Prosecutor and President of the Italian Senate. His investigations are continued by Giovanni Falcone, who uncovers dangerous connections between the Mafia, the ruling Christian Democratic Party, neo-fascist terrorists, and secret services.
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Sono solo fantasmi
Title: Sono solo fantasmi
Character: Signore distinto
Released: November 14, 2019
Type: Movie
Three brothers pretend they're ghost hunters to inherit from their father.
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I futurieri
Title: I futurieri
Character: Voce narrante
Released: August 1, 2019
Type: Movie
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La stella di Andra e Tati
Title: La stella di Andra e Tati
Character: Giovanni Bucci (voice)
Released: April 13, 2018
Type: Movie
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The Red Tree
Title: The Red Tree
Character: Narrator
Released: March 13, 2018
Type: Movie
A powerful and poetic short film that tells the little known history of Italian gay men being arrested and exiled to a remote island during Mussolini’s Fascist regime.
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It’s the Law
Title: It’s the Law
Character: Don Raffaele
Released: January 19, 2017
Type: Movie
A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems.
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In arte Nino
Title: In arte Nino
Character: Prof. Giuffrida
Released: December 7, 2016
Type: Movie
Biopic about Italian actor Nino Manfredi, focusing on the period between 1939 and 1959, depicting his difficult beginnings, his passion for acting and the encounter with the love of his life, Erminia.
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Title: Catturandi - Nel Nome del Padre
Character: Ruggero Mazzamuto
Released: September 12, 2016
Type: TV
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Italo
Title: Italo
Character: Italo (voce)
Released: January 15, 2015
Type: Movie
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L'ultimo metro di pellicola
Title: L'ultimo metro di pellicola
Character: Self
Released: November 1, 2014
Type: Movie
A compassionate look at the way the digital revolution has affected the Sicilian movie theater industry.
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La missione di 3P
Title: La missione di 3P
Character: Padre Pino Puglisi (voice)
Released: April 10, 2014
Type: Movie
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Giovanni e Paolo e il mistero dei pupi
Title: Giovanni e Paolo e il mistero dei pupi
Character: Salvatore (voice) / Lisca (voice)
Released: June 24, 2010
Type: Movie
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The Father and the Foreigner
Title: The Father and the Foreigner
Character: Santini
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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Baaria
Title: Baaria
Character: Liborio
Released: September 24, 2009
Type: Movie
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.
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Di Che Peccato Sei?
Title: Di Che Peccato Sei?
Character: Antonio Bertolacci
Released: January 9, 2007
Type: Movie
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La stella dei re
Title: La stella dei re
Character: Melkhior
Released: January 7, 2007
Type: Movie
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Leo the Lion
Title: Leo the Lion
Character: Cobo (voice)
Released: June 17, 2005
Type: Movie
It’s a hard life for young Leo: his family just doesn’t understand why he’s a vegetarian lion. His solitude ends when he meets Avoria, the elephant queen, who has recently given birth to two calves with braided tails. Mysteriously widowed, Avoria is courted by dapper Zanco. By a series of misfortunes she is separated from her young. Leo steps in to take care of them: thus begins his search for legendary Milk Lake, during which he experiences all sorts of incredible adventures. This fable with a happy ending handles the themes of diversity and racism with engaging originality.
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Fatti della banda della Magliana
Title: Fatti della banda della Magliana
Character: Il giudice
Released: May 27, 2005
Type: Movie
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Incidenti
Title: Incidenti
Character: giornalista
Released: March 25, 2005
Type: Movie
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Title: The Heart in the Well
Character: Don Bruno
Released: February 6, 2005
Type: TV
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The Heart in the Well
Title: The Heart in the Well
Character: Don Bruno
Released: February 6, 2005
Type: Movie
Istria, 1944. A small community is shaken by the entry of Tito's partisans. Novak, his commander, is a man who years ago had a child with a local woman and now houses the secret intention of finding them. But Giulia, the mother of the child, will hide him in the orphanage who runs Mr. Bruno, the local priest. But Novak does not give up, so I Bruno decides to take him away, starting a chase up to the Italian borders.
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Domani è un'altra truffa
Title: Domani è un'altra truffa
Released: January 25, 2005
Type: Movie
The plot focuses on the classic "Italian scams", where those who deceive are in turn duped by other individuals. The amount lost increases from time to time and from the initial thousand euros it reaches a figure equal to two million.
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In questo mondo di ladri
Title: In questo mondo di ladri
Character: Leonardo
Released: October 29, 2004
Type: Movie
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Guardiani delle nuvole
Title: Guardiani delle nuvole
Character: La Rocca
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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Vajont
Title: Vajont
Character: Mario Pancini
Released: October 12, 2001
Type: Movie
On October 9th, 1963, at 10:39 pm, 260 million cubic meters of rock fell down from Mount Toc to the artificial lake formed by the Vajont dam, the higher dam in the world. The landslide formed a 250-meters wave and 50 million cubic meters of water completely destroied all the below towns, killing more than 2000 people. Planned by engineer Semenza, Vajont dam (263 meters) had to carry the electricity in all the houses of the country. Tina Merlin, a journalist from 'L'Unitá', tried for years to denounce the danger to build a dam near the Mount Toc and expecially to denounce all the omissions by the corrupted politicians and workers in charge of the dam construction. They preferred to trust in old geologist Dal Piaz instead to hear engineer Semenza young son's alarming analysis. No one seemed to understand the high danger until that October fatal night.
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Territori d'ombra
Title: Territori d'ombra
Released: September 3, 2001
Type: Movie
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Scarlet Diva
Title: Scarlet Diva
Character: Dr. Vessi
Released: May 26, 2000
Type: Movie
A young Italian actress embarks on a self-destructive spree of sex, drugs and other excess while doing some soul searching to find the path for redemption.
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Operazione Odissea
Title: Operazione Odissea
Character: Michele Sinatra
Released: February 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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Title: C'è posta per te
Released: January 12, 2000
Type: TV
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The Prince of the Dinosaurs
Title: The Prince of the Dinosaurs
Character: Sluggard (voice)
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Join Rakhal, Prince of the Land of Ice, and his five dinosaur friends on a journey to find the meaning of an ancient parchment. The friends must free Princess Aura and bring peace back to the land in this high quality animated feature.
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Villa Ada
Title: Villa Ada
Released: November 10, 1999
Type: Movie
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Un uomo perbene
Title: Un uomo perbene
Character: Giovanni Pandico
Released: October 1, 1999
Type: Movie
In June 1983 the journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora was arrested on charges of drug trafficking and belonging to the Camorra.
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Cristallo di rocca - Una storia di Natale
Title: Cristallo di rocca - Una storia di Natale
Character: Don Anselmo
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
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Title: Ciao Darwin
Character: Capitano Meridionali
Released: October 3, 1998
Type: TV
Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.
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Ladri si diventa
Title: Ladri si diventa
Character: Perini
Released: May 27, 1998
Type: Movie
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Simpatici & antipatici
Title: Simpatici & antipatici
Character: Gigetto
Released: February 20, 1998
Type: Movie
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La missione
Title: La missione
Released: February 4, 1998
Type: Movie
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Oltremare - Non è l'America
Title: Oltremare - Non è l'America
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
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The Game Bag
Title: The Game Bag
Character: Carlo Gabbiadini
Released: March 14, 1997
Type: Movie
In late summer 1991, three Italians reach a hunting reserve in Croatia with a station wagon. They go to deer, but, unaware of what's in store for months, they do not decipher the enigmatic signs that surround them. One of the three is suddendly wounded in the knee by a bullet of unknown provenance, and they end up in a hotel targeted by snipers night and day.
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Ladri si nasce
Title: Ladri si nasce
Character: The professor
Released: January 13, 1997
Type: Movie
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Gli Inaffidabili
Title: Gli Inaffidabili
Character: Bostik
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
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3
Title: 3
Character: Vescovo di Pisa
Released: October 4, 1996
Type: Movie
At the end of the 18th century, a couple of libertine Tuscan aristocrats welcome in their villa (and into their bedroom) an handsome young revolutionary, hoping to rekindle their marriage.
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Bruno aspetta in macchina
Title: Bruno aspetta in macchina
Character: Ziino
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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Snowball
Title: Snowball
Character: Sidik
Released: December 21, 1995
Type: Movie
Snowball, a dolphin, gets into trouble when it swallows a bottle with the records of pension payments owed to Billy Bolla, an aged cruise ship entertainer. If the performer cannot quickly catch Snowball and induce him to produce the papers, he will have no retirement.
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Savages
Title: Savages
Character: Luigi Pinardi
Released: December 15, 1995
Type: Movie
A group of Italian tourists on a Caribbean holiday finds itself stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash.
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The Star Maker
Title: The Star Maker
Character: Vito
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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Men Men Men
Title: Men Men Men
Character: Tony
Released: March 2, 1995
Type: Movie
Four homosexual men in their 40s have issues and no small degree of self hatred. Yet, can laugh at themselves and their comrades and often do.
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Title: A che punto è la notte
Character: Priotti
Released: December 14, 1994
Type: TV
In Turin, a priest is killed by the explosion of a candle and Commissioner Santamaria has to unravel the problem.
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A che punto è la notte
Title: A che punto è la notte
Character: Priotti
Released: April 7, 1994
Type: Movie
In Turin, a fanatic priest dies falling from the pulpit, killed by the explosion of a candle. A second assassination, that of a Carabinieri Marshal, complicates the investigation - but before he died, the Marshal managed to wrote down the word "Topos". Commissioner Santamaria now has to unravel the problem.
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The Escort
Title: The Escort
Character: Polizzi
Released: April 15, 1993
Type: Movie
The film shows the difficulties of an honest, imperiled judge and his bodyguard of four men, trying to clean up a Sicilian town. Corrupt local politicians, working hand-in-hand with the Mafia, will stop at nothing to prevent exposure of their rackets.
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Package, Double Package and Counterpackage
Title: Package, Double Package and Counterpackage
Character: Il frodatore fiscale contro terzi
Released: January 22, 1993
Type: Movie
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Gole ruggenti
Title: Gole ruggenti
Character: Edoardo Lasagnetta - scriptwriter
Released: June 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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Everybody's Fine
Title: Everybody's Fine
Character: L'homme armé sur le toit d'un immeuble de Naples
Released: September 19, 1990
Type: Movie
Matteo Scuro is a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, a widower with five children, all of whom live on the mainland and hold responsible jobs. He decides to surprise each with a visit and finds none as he imagined.
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In The Rose Garden
Title: In The Rose Garden
Character: Armando
Released: September 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A successful businessman is haunted by the memories of his mother.
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L'insegnante di violoncello
Title: L'insegnante di violoncello
Character: Leo
Released: November 4, 1989
Type: Movie
Leo is a street vendor who, always accompanied by his dog Cagliostro, he entertains shoppers on the beach telling stories more or less agreeable to a group of guys who are really too busy to look for adventures chasing the tourists. Meanwhile Mario, a boy on vacation with his father, falls in love with his beautiful cello teacher but this, of course, prefers the father.
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Scugnizzi
Title: Scugnizzi
Character: Fortunato
Released: October 12, 1989
Type: Movie
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Title: Il ricatto
Character: Carla
Released: April 23, 1989
Type: TV
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Sinbad of the Seven Seas
Title: Sinbad of the Seven Seas
Character: Nadir
Released: April 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Sinbad returns from the sea to find his country subjected to the will of two unscrupulous sorcerers.
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Cinema Paradiso
Title: Cinema Paradiso
Character: Ignazio, usher
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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Italiani a Rio
Title: Italiani a Rio
Released: April 22, 1987
Type: Movie
A bank sends three prize-winning employees on a vacation to Rio.
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Blue Tango
Title: Blue Tango
Character: Fior da Fiore
Released: February 2, 1987
Type: Movie
Tango blu is a night club in Milan where various bizarre characters meet. Among them a womanizing photographer and a porter who works in a slaughterhouse.
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The Professor
Title: The Professor
Character: Jervolino
Released: September 12, 1986
Type: Movie
An imprisoned murderer carries out a violent bid for control of Naples' underworld crime syndicate.
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Department Store
Title: Department Store
Character: Simoni, agente teatrale
Released: June 6, 1986
Type: Movie
A series of skits involving customers and store personnel from several departments of the big department store.
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Il Bi e il Ba
Title: Il Bi e il Ba
Character: Gaetano
Released: March 7, 1986
Type: Movie
A man goes to Rome because he wants a magician to solve his problem: dandruff.
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Mezzo destro mezzo sinistro - 2 calciatori senza pallone
Title: Mezzo destro mezzo sinistro - 2 calciatori senza pallone
Character: allenatore Juan Carlos Fulgencio
Released: October 10, 1985
Type: Movie
The "Marchigiana" soccer team has been promoted to the Serie A of the national championship, but it is the last in the standings due mainly to two players, Gigi and Andrea.
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Where's Picone?
Title: Where's Picone?
Character: Sgueglia
Released: January 12, 1984
Type: Movie
During a debate in Naples' town hall in the early 1980s, Pasquale Picone, a former steel-worker who has recently lost his job, sets himself on fire in front of the Municipal Council.
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Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Title: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Character: Walter
Released: December 26, 1982
Type: Movie
Two back-to-back stories that deals with two "taboo" themes, the celibacy of the clergy in the episode of Renato Pozzetto and the homosexuality in the one with Nino Manfredi.
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Stormtroopers II
Title: Stormtroopers II
Character: Recluta
Released: December 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A group of misfits form an army in an absurd war.
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Spaghetti House
Title: Spaghetti House
Character: Salvatore Manzilla
Released: October 22, 1982
Type: Movie
Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.
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The Paramedic
Title: The Paramedic
Character: Sostituto Procuratore
Released: February 7, 1982
Type: Movie
At work, Mario Millio is the only male nurse not on strike. At home, his wife is more interested in calling the hot-line of a local TV-doctor. When Mario wins 15 million Lire in the lottery, he buys himself a new car and starts to live out his dreams in secret. All goes well until a criminal steals the car and Mario is blamed for the car thief's crimes
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Miss Right
Title: Miss Right
Character: Benito
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
After falling for Juliette, the woman of his dreams, a womanizing journalist in Rome must dump his numerous female lovers one by one.
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L'esercito più pazzo del mondo
Title: L'esercito più pazzo del mondo
Character: trasformista
Released: October 30, 1981
Type: Movie
In an unnamed village there is a barracks where improbable soldiers have been recruited, who are up to all sorts of things. From a completely wrong flag-raising to a kidnapping, we certainly won't get bored: the two kidnappers ask for an escape route to the Caribbean, where they can move with the blackmail money, but things don't go as planned.
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I carabbimatti
Title: I carabbimatti
Character: Ceci
Released: October 14, 1981
Type: Movie
Two fools eventually become Carabinieri, and jump from a trash situation to another.
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The Honorable with His Lover under the Bed
Title: The Honorable with His Lover under the Bed
Character: Secretary Sgarbozzi / Honorable Sgarbozzi
Released: August 13, 1981
Type: Movie
An unemployed teacher asks for help from her lover, an MP, and finds out that he is married.
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I Carabbinieri
Title: I Carabbinieri
Character: Salvatore Caruso
Released: April 24, 1981
Type: Movie
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Teste di quoio
Title: Teste di quoio
Character: Carrisi
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
A group of clumsy terrorists hold a strange group of inhabitants of a compartment block hostage.
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Stark System
Title: Stark System
Character: Schioppa
Released: March 14, 1980
Type: Movie
Armenia Balducci's film, featuring Gian Maria Volontè as Stark, a cop-movie actor that falls prey to paranoia because he fears his latest movie will be a failure.
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Cafè Express
Title: Cafè Express
Character: Vincenzo Imbastaro
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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Rock 'n Roll
Title: Rock 'n Roll
Character: Il vigile
Released: December 23, 1978
Type: Movie
Passionate rock'n roll dancer, Rodolfo has his partner Ornella as a partner. Frozen by the frivolous behavior of the boy, however, the young girl no longer wants to learn to dance with him. Finally, when Rodolfo had lost all hope of replacing it, Ornella, who has meanwhile accepted the court of a ballroom impresario, returns to her decision.
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The Swindle
Title: The Swindle
Character: Tarcisio Pollaroli "Er Fibbia"
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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The Nurse on a Military Tour
Title: The Nurse on a Military Tour
Character: Captain Lopez - doctor
Released: September 2, 1977
Type: Movie
Army Doctor Eva Marini wants to join a regiment to secure equal rights for women. So her commanding officer sends her off to a boot camp led by Renzo Montagnani, where only the most unruly soldiers end up.
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Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
Title: Ride bene... chi ride ultimo
Character: "Ifigenia", domestico omossessuale
Released: August 25, 1977
Type: Movie
Misadventures of a sacristan with three eager tourists, a commendatore with a sheikh, a worker who is passionate about hunting with a wife too good and an appearance mistaken for a priest with a patrician family.
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Sad Letters
Title: Sad Letters
Character: Father
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A father writes down in a letter to his daughter how he feels about his Alzheimer's disease.
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I siciliani
Title: I siciliani
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie