Vittorio Gassman

Vittorio Gassman

Born: September 1, 1922
Died: June 29, 2000
in Genoa, Liguria, Italy
Vittorio Gassman Knight Grand Cross OMRI (Italian pronunciation: [vitˈtɔːrjo ˈɡazman]; born Gassmann; 1 September 1922 – 29 June 2000), popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian actor, director and screenwriter.

He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors, whose career includes both important productions as well as dozens of divertissements.

Gassman's debut was in Milan, in 1942, with Alda Borelli in Niccodemi's La Nemica (theatre). He then moved to Rome and acted at the Teatro Eliseo joining Tino Carraro and Ernesto Calindri in a team that remained famous for some time; with them he acted in a range of plays from bourgeois comedy to sophisticated intellectual theatre. In 1946, he made his film debut in Preludio d'amore, while only one year later he appeared in five films. In 1948 he played in Riso amaro.

It was with Luchino Visconti's company that Gassman achieved his mature successes, together with Paolo Stoppa, Rina Morelli and Paola Borboni. He played Stanley Kowalski in Tennessee Williams' Un tram che si chiama desiderio (A Streetcar Named Desire), as well as in Come vi piace (As You Like It) by Shakespeare and Oreste (by Vittorio Alfieri). He joined the Teatro Nazionale with Tommaso Salvini, Massimo Girotti, Arnoldo Foà to create a successful Peer Gynt (by Henrik Ibsen). With Luigi Squarzina in 1952 he co-founded and co-directed the Teatro d'Arte Italiano, producing the first complete version of Hamlet in Italy, followed by rare works such as Seneca's Thyestes and Aeschylus's The Persians.

In cinema, he worked frequently both in Italy and abroad. He met and fell in love with American actress Shelley Winters while she was touring Europe with fiancé Farley Granger. When Winters was forced to return to Hollywood to fulfill contractual obligations, he followed her there and married her. With his natural charisma and his fluency in English he scored a number of roles in Hollywood, including Rhapsody with Elizabeth Taylor and The Glass Wall before returning to Italy and the theatre.

On 29 June 2000, Gassman died of a heart attack in his sleep at his home in Rome at the age of 77. He was buried at Campo Verano.

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Movies for Vittorio Gassman...

We Are Cinema
Title: We Are Cinema
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 16, 2021
Type: Movie
An Italian documentary about Italian cinema.
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Trintignant by Trintignant
Title: Trintignant by Trintignant
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 11, 2021
Type: Movie
A portrait of a man of rare elegance and enigmatic charm, versatile and successful: Jean-Louis Trintignant, one of the most critically acclaimed French actors of the last sixty years, known for his numerous roles on stage and screen.
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Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Title: Cinecittà, de Mussolini à la Dolce Vita
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 16, 2021
Type: Movie
Cinecitta is today known as the center of the Italian film industry. But there is a dark past. The film city was solemnly inaugurated in 1937 by Mussolini. Here, propaganda films would be produced to strengthen the dictator's position.
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Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
Title: Sono Gassman! - Vittorio re della commedia
Character: Self
Released: October 21, 2018
Type: Movie
This brisk, engaging documentary surveys the life, work, and legacy of Vittorio Gassman, the Italian screen icon who began his illustrious career as a serious dramatic stage actor before going on to subvert that image in classic works of commedia all’italiana by Mario Monicelli (Big Deal on Madonna Street), Dino Risi (Il Sorpasso), and Ettore Scola (We All Loved Each Other So Much). Through a wealth of interviews, film clips, and archival footage, Sono Gassman! reveals how Gassman’s comedic screen persona cannily reflected and critiqued mid-20th-century Italian society, while shedding light on the complex inner life of the man himself.
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Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant
Title: Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant
Character: Self
Released: January 14, 2015
Type: Movie
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Marcello Mastroianni: The Ideal Italian
Title: Marcello Mastroianni: The Ideal Italian
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 2014
Type: Movie
A documentary about Marcello Mastroianni.
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Close Up
Title: Close Up
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 30, 2012
Type: Movie
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and 2002. Presented the first time in 2012 (ten years after the last shooting) in Napoli Film Festival and in 2013 at the Art Institute of California in Santa Ana. An anthropological experiment on the facial expressions of famous people showing the human being aspect. All original footage from Mel Gibson to Peter Jackson, from George Lucas to Catherine Deneuve, from Michael Douglas to Giancarlo Giannini and many others.
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Monicelli: La versione di Mario
Title: Monicelli: La versione di Mario
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 30, 2012
Type: Movie
The life and work of master Italian filmmaker Mario Monicelli (1915-2010).
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Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Title: Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne
Title: Dino Risi, le pessimiste joyeux de la comédie italienne
Character: Self
Released: May 3, 2007
Type: Movie
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Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
Title: Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 19, 2006
Type: Movie
italian documentary
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La bomba
Title: La bomba
Character: Don Vito Bracalone
Released: October 22, 1999
Type: Movie
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Luchino Visconti
Title: Luchino Visconti
Character: Self
Released: September 6, 1999
Type: Movie
A chronological look at the creative life of Luchino Visconti (1906-1976). It examines his theatricality, role in the neorealist movement, use of melodrama, and relation to decadence. It touches on the impact of a fabulously wealthy childhood, his writing for "Cinema," his politics, his work with Renoir, his appreciation of Thomas Mann, and his deep knowledge of literature and the arts. Visconti moves constantly between film and the theater, staging plays provocatively, working with Maria Callas at La Scala, and shooting films in theaters. Clips from his films and interviews with actors, crew members, and critics provide details for this portrait of creativity.
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The Dinner
Title: The Dinner
Character: maestro Pezzullo
Released: September 3, 1998
Type: Movie
An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in -- large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single -- to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make confessions; to overhear other people's discussions, to interrupt them, to sing, listen to music, and enjoy life. The camera, just like the people, moves constantly from table to table, into the kitchen and the back room to observe the staff's petty jealousies and frustrations -- until two hours later it's time for everybody to go home.
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Title: Desert of Fire
Character: Tareq
Released: October 19, 1997
Type: TV
A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculously survives. Emir Tafud, who has no children of his own, brings the child up as his successor. When Ben is 25 years old he decides to set off in search of his true parents.
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Desert of Fire
Title: Desert of Fire
Character: Tareq
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculously survives. Emir Tafud, who has no children of his own, brings the child up as his successor. When Ben is 25 years old he decides to set off in search of his true parents. In Casablanca he meets French crook Jacquot, who takes him with him to Monte Carlo. They both actually manage to find Ben's mother Christine. She tells Ben that his father was a scientist on a secret mission to Africa. Christine wants Ben to stay in Monte Carlo and take over her firm, but Ben has his heart set on living in Belem with his adored Amina. But now Ben gradually unearths a dreadful secret: Christine's second husband François was responsible for the death of his father, who had discovered valuable minerals in the Sahara. After a bitter struggle, Ben finally succeeds in saving his homeland from Western greed.
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Sleepers
Title: Sleepers
Character: King Benny
Released: October 18, 1996
Type: Movie
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
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Once a Year, Every Year
Title: Once a Year, Every Year
Character: Giuseppe
Released: October 13, 1994
Type: Movie
A man enters a restaurant in Trastevere, in the suburbs of Rome, and asks the owner to cook him the superb bass he has just been given. He wants it served at the dinner gathering like every year the group of inseparable friends he is a member of. The others join him. The last to come is a lawyer who has just liquidated the succession of the one that will be missing tonight. The deceased leaves them an estate in Umbria provided they live there in community. What will the friends decide during this dinner like no other?
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Abraham
Title: Abraham
Character: Terach
Released: December 12, 1993
Type: Movie
Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mankind... A man of great faith, Abraham continues to believe in God even when He seems to have abandoned him.
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The Long Winter
Title: The Long Winter
Character: Claudio, El Mayordomo
Released: February 15, 1992
Type: Movie
In 1939, Ramón was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and his family fled into exile ahead of Franco's troops. Now it is many years later, and he has come back to see how his old homestead fared in the intervening years. The only person he can find who is able to remember those years clearly is his family's old butler Claudio.
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Quando eravamo repressi
Title: Quando eravamo repressi
Character: The Sexologist
Released: January 24, 1992
Type: Movie
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Rossini ! Rossini !
Title: Rossini ! Rossini !
Character: Ludwig van Beethoven
Released: September 12, 1991
Type: Movie
An funny, witty and bright biopic by the master of italian comedy Mario Monicelli about the famed italian composer Gioacchino Rossini, here portrayed in a wonderful way by famed actor and later director Sergio Castellitto.
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I'll Be Going Now
Title: I'll Be Going Now
Character: Augusto Scribani
Released: February 8, 1991
Type: Movie
After eighteen years of psychiatric care, the former bank manager Augusto Scrivani returns home from his daughter-in-law Carla. Dino Risi directs a melancholy and scratchy Gassman.
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The Amusements of Private Life
Title: The Amusements of Private Life
Character: Marquis
Released: November 9, 1990
Type: Movie
Italian-French costume dramedy that takes place in France in the end of 18th Century during the French Revolution. It is "The Marriage of Figaro" meets "The Dangerous Liaisons" and it tells the story of two women, Mathilde Seurat, the actress and Julie Renard, the aristocratic wife and a mother (Delphine Forest plays both) with the same face who came from the different parts of society and at one point exchanged their identities and their lives. The movie also features Giancarlo Giannini and great Vittorio Gassman.
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1001 Nights
Title: 1001 Nights
Character: Sinbad
Released: April 11, 1990
Type: Movie
Sheherazade has been married to a ruler who wants many wives, but only one at a time. Consequently, as soon as he has bedded them, he has them put to death. In most retellings, the girl staves off this unfortunate conclusion by putting off the connubial event for a thousand and one nights, telling irresistible stories instead. In this one, she gets hold of a magic lamp.
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The Palermo Connection
Title: The Palermo Connection
Character: Il principe
Released: February 2, 1990
Type: Movie
Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon. In his hotel, he meets Il Principe, a Sicilian prince who has spent years confined to the hotel because he crossed the Mafia. Amid the beauties of Sicily Carmine discovers that men of power will stop at nothing to prevent the legalization of drugs, which threatens their business.
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The Sleazy Uncle
Title: The Sleazy Uncle
Character: Zio Luca
Released: October 27, 1989
Type: Movie
A businessman has trouble reuniting with his roguish con-artist uncle, especially when the uncle propositions school-age girls and comes on to his nephew's mistress.
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Mortacci
Title: Mortacci
Character: Domenico
Released: February 24, 1989
Type: Movie
Before finally entering the afterlife, the dead spend a period in a limbo from which they depart only when, among the living, there is no one who remembers them. Under the care of the salacious Domenico the visitors of a small cemetery recount how they arrived at eternal peace.
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L'altro enigma
Title: L'altro enigma
Character: Il padre / Sofocle
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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I picari
Title: I picari
Character: Marquis Felipe de Aragona
Released: December 18, 1987
Type: Movie
The adventures of a couple of scoundrels in the Spain of the 16th century.
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The Family
Title: The Family
Character: Carlo as a man / Carlo's grandfather
Released: January 20, 1987
Type: Movie
"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late.
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Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
Title: Big Deal on Madonna Street 20 Years Later
Character: Peppe
Released: December 25, 1985
Type: Movie
Fresh out prison, Tiberio reconnects with his old partners in crime, Michele Ferribote and Peppe the Panther, only to realise that a lot has changed--including crime--after twenty years. Can he cope with this new reality?
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Power Of Evil
Title: Power Of Evil
Character: Gottfried
Released: August 1, 1985
Type: Movie
An unsuspecting student thinks that the wife of an arms dealer is unhappy, but in reality she appears as cynical as her capitalist man.
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To Be Hamlet
Title: To Be Hamlet
Character: Vittorio Gassman
Released: January 19, 1985
Type: Movie
Documentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the part discuss Hamlet's personality, Shakespeare's play, and the enduring popular fascination it has inspired. The actors interviewed are Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Richard Burton, Nicol Williamson, Ben Kingsley, Jean Louis Barrault, Vittorio Gassman, Maximilian Schell, Innocenti Smoktunovsky, and Mandy Patinkin. Includes excerpts from various film and television versions of Hamlet, featuring these actors and others.
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Benvenuta
Title: Benvenuta
Character: Livio
Released: September 7, 1983
Type: Movie
A passionate affair set against the intense encounter between a film-maker and a novelist. The story begins with young scriptwriter François tracking down the author of a once-scandalous novel. His aim is to adapt the work for the screen but several elements of the novel he finds difficult to comprehend. The author, Jeanne, is initially cautious of relaying information, insisting the presumably autobiographical book in no way relates to her personal life. However, eventually she takes the man into confidence to tell the background of Benvenuta.
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Life Is a Bed of Roses
Title: Life Is a Bed of Roses
Character: Walter Guarini
Released: April 20, 1983
Type: Movie
In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school conference; and a fantasy sparked by F/X pioneer Georges Méliès.
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Count Tacchia
Title: Count Tacchia
Character: Prince Torquato Terenzi
Released: December 23, 1982
Type: Movie
In 1900 in Rome, the poor carpenter Francesco, by a twist of fate, is recognized component of a noble family in the process of decay. Francesco knows the cynical and ruthless Prince Torquato Terenzi, disappointed by life and progress, and also falls in love with the beautiful Duchess Elisa. When Prince Terenzi dies, Francesco realizes that he's not enriched for nothing with the inheritance, because the noble family is broke; so he enlistes himself for the war in Libya, but quickly returnes to Italy, disgusted by the atrocities of the fighting. His dream is to be a singer, and so he goes to America with the Duchess Elisa.
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Tempest
Title: Tempest
Character: Alonzo
Released: August 13, 1982
Type: Movie
A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek island where he hopes to conjure meaning into his life - trying the patience of his new girlfriend and angst-ridden teenage daughter.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Di padre in figlio
Title: Di padre in figlio
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
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Sharky's Machine
Title: Sharky's Machine
Character: Victor Scorelli
Released: December 18, 1981
Type: Movie
Police officer Tom Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Sharky's new 'machine' gathers evidence while Sharky falls in love with a woman he has never met.
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Il turno
Title: Il turno
Character: Ciro Coppa
Released: September 18, 1981
Type: Movie
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Hotel Room
Title: Hotel Room
Character: Achille Mengaroni
Released: February 12, 1981
Type: Movie
A couple of young movie makers have secretly filmed for over a year what was going on in a hotel room, trying to realize a "live act" of common people living their life. They get in touch with old and money-tight producer Mengaroni to edit their movie, but while they contact the accidental actors for gathering authorization, he starts to manipulate their work.
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The Nude Bomb
Title: The Nude Bomb
Character: Sauvage / Nino Salvatori Sebastiani
Released: May 9, 1980
Type: Movie
When KAOS develops a bomb that can dissolve all clothing, Maxwell Smart is brought in to foil the evil plot.
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I'm Photogenic
Title: I'm Photogenic
Character: Vittorio Gassman (uncredited)
Released: March 21, 1980
Type: Movie
Antonio Barozzi moves from Lago Maggiore to Rome to become an actor. He does not realize his agent and acting coach are only manipulating him to further their own careers.
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The Terrace
Title: The Terrace
Character: Mario
Released: February 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-to-gather. They discuss about their past, present and future.
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Dear Father
Title: Dear Father
Character: Albino Millozza
Released: April 11, 1979
Type: Movie
In Caro papá, Dino Risi is telling the story of the decadent lifestyle, and dysfunctional family, of a wealthy businessman (played to perfection by Risi's favorite leading man, Vittorio Gassman). Risi paints his portrait against a backdrop of an Italy where the new permissiveness has run rampant, traditional socio-cultural values have been usurped by consumerism, and the streets have become an open battleground for politically extremist groups (the '70s were dubbed "The Years of Lead" due to the great number of terrorist acts, and politically motivated assassinations).
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Quintet
Title: Quintet
Character: Saint Christopher
Released: February 9, 1979
Type: Movie
During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Quintet. For one small group, this obsession is not enough. They play the game with living pieces, and only the winner survives.
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Two Pieces of Bread
Title: Two Pieces of Bread
Character: Pippo Mifà
Released: January 26, 1979
Type: Movie
Two minstrels singing for their supper in Rome discover they've both been lovers to the same woman, and one of them is the father of her infant son; a privilege neither is willing to concede.
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A Wedding
Title: A Wedding
Character: Luigi Corelli
Released: August 29, 1978
Type: Movie
Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up as the Corelli Italian connection is suspect, security guards watch the gifts rather over-zealously, and Dino's grandma expires in bed just as the reception starts. Could be quite an occasion.
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The New Monsters
Title: The New Monsters
Character: il cardinale/il cameriere/il marito/il commissario/il padre di famiglia
Released: December 15, 1977
Type: Movie
15 years after the monumental "I mostri" which was a great example of Italian sketch comedy, 3 of the greatest Italian directors ever (Risi, Monicelli, Scola) the best Italian writers ever (Age, Scarpelli) the best Italian actors ever (Tognazzi, Gassmann, Sordi) one of the most beautiful woman in the world (Ornella Muti) participate to this great tribute.
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Edipo Re
Title: Edipo Re
Character: Edipo
Released: December 11, 1977
Type: Movie
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Lost Soul
Title: Lost Soul
Character: Fabio Stolz
Released: January 20, 1977
Type: Movie
Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion, and it's soon become obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.
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The Desert of the Tartars
Title: The Desert of the Tartars
Character: Filimore
Released: October 29, 1976
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.
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Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Title: Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen
Character: Ispettore Tuttunpezzo / Allievo
Released: October 28, 1976
Type: Movie
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel.
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Pure as a Lily
Title: Pure as a Lily
Character: Anthony M. Wilson
Released: March 11, 1976
Type: Movie
Anthony M. Wilson is an English gentleman. He has a string of restaurants in London plus a beautiful house decorated with all the trendy art he can get.
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The Career of a Chambermaid
Title: The Career of a Chambermaid
Character: Franco Denza
Released: February 6, 1976
Type: Movie
This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around the bourgeoisie) were in vogue gives Agostina Belli her best role – an ambitious Venetian girl that goes from chambermaid to prostitute to singer to film-star to mistress of ‘Il Duce’! – for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.
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Title: Babau
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: TV
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E il Casanova di Fellini?
Title: E il Casanova di Fellini?
Character: Self
Released: May 6, 1975
Type: Movie
During his preparation for his film on Casanova Fellini asks a number of renowned actors to give him their view on the character of Casanova.
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The Immortal Bachelor
Title: The Immortal Bachelor
Character: Andrea Sansoni
Released: February 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Tina is on trial for the murder of her lover, Gino. The violent nature of their relationship, revealed in the trial, seems to make obvious that she accidentally killed him during a fight. The lone female jury member compares her life to Tina's and, believing her to be innocent, sets out on her own to find a missing witness that can prove Tina's innocence.
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Title: Apostrophes
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 1975
Type: TV
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
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We All Loved Each Other So Much
Title: We All Loved Each Other So Much
Character: Gianni Perego
Released: December 21, 1974
Type: Movie
Three partisans bound by a strong friendship return home after the war, but the clash with everyday reality puts a strain on their bond.
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Scent of a Woman
Title: Scent of a Woman
Character: Fausto Consolo
Released: December 20, 1974
Type: Movie
An army cadet accompanies an irascible, blind captain on a week-long trip from Turin to Naples.
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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La Tosca
Title: La Tosca
Character: Scarpia
Released: March 23, 1973
Type: Movie
Rome, 1800. Napoleon threatens the power of the Church and executions of Jacobins are constant. Angelotti, the most famous of them all has escaped from prison and the chief of police is on his tail. Angelotti is being helped by a painter, lover of "La Tosca", a famous singer. The police chief suspects the truth and tries to arouse the jealousy of "La Tosca" to catch the escapee.
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What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
Title: What Am I Doing in the Middle of the Revolution?
Character: Guido Guidi
Released: December 19, 1972
Type: Movie
In the beginning of the 20th. century Italian actor Guido Guidi, more enthusiastic than talented, and his ensemble tour Texas. The mysterious and obviously rich Peppino Garibaldi gives them an offer, they can’t deny: For a large amount of dough they should play “Richard III.” in the Mexican town Vera Cruz. But Peppino is not really interested in cultural affairs: He supports “La Revolución” and “General” Carasco, who utilizes the feastful premiere of “Richard III.” to raid Vera Cruz for Comandante Zapata. But shortly after the Mexican Army shows up with some canons in tow to sort things out. Guidi and Padre Albino, Italian like him, succeed to flee and save Carasco accidentially from the firing squad. Whereas the latter coninues his revolutionary fight, Guidi and Albino start an odyssey through the struggling Mexico, which lets them fall one time in the hands of Carasco the other time in those of Herrera or even in the clutches of “hand-taking” bandidos.
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The Audience
Title: The Audience
Character: Principe Donati
Released: March 31, 1972
Type: Movie
Caustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve the audience with the Pope.
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Without Family
Title: Without Family
Character: Armando Zavanatti
Released: March 30, 1972
Type: Movie
Released from the orphanage at the age of thirty, a man dreams of finding his mother.
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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In the Name of the Italian People
Title: In the Name of the Italian People
Character: Lorenzo Santenocito
Released: December 18, 1971
Type: Movie
An obscure Italian magistrate suspects that a well-known industrialist commited murder, and decides to investigate him, and bring him to court, whatever it takes. But - will the magistrate have it in him to go against impossible odds, in the name of the Italian people he represents?
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Scipio the African
Title: Scipio the African
Character: Catone il Censore
Released: March 3, 1971
Type: Movie
Years after the Second Punic War, Scipio Africanus finds himself generally unliked, despite his defeat of Hannibal Barca. He and his brother, Scipio Asiaticus, are accused by Marcus Porcius Cato of the theft of 500 talents intended for Rome.
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Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
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Brancaleone at the Crusades
Title: Brancaleone at the Crusades
Character: Brancaleone Da Norcia
Released: December 24, 1970
Type: Movie
After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades.
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Il divorzio
Title: Il divorzio
Character: Leonardo Nenci
Released: April 20, 1970
Type: Movie
Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life.
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Let's Have a Riot
Title: Let's Have a Riot
Character: Riccardo
Released: March 19, 1970
Type: Movie
Episodes centering on different aspects of early-1970s Italian life, set in a television studio, a factory, a university, and a Catholic parish.
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The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
Title: The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
Character: L'uomo dal fiore in bocca
Released: March 6, 1970
Type: Movie
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Twelve Plus One
Title: Twelve Plus One
Character: Mario Beretti
Released: October 7, 1969
Type: Movie
Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money. Afterwards he gets to know that one of them contains documents worth a lot of money. So he begins an adventurous trip to regain possession of the chair. On the way he meets many strange people who would like to help or to swindle him.
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Where Are You Going All Naked?
Title: Where Are You Going All Naked?
Character: Rufus Conforti
Released: September 12, 1969
Type: Movie
Young bank employee is very surprised by his bride behavior...
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The Archangel
Title: The Archangel
Character: Furio Bertuccia
Released: July 2, 1969
Type: Movie
Furio Bertuccia, a corruptible lawyer who defends lost causes, is hired by the glamorous model Gloria Bianchi to defend her from the alleged murder of her lover.
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Alibi
Title: Alibi
Character: Vittorio
Released: February 13, 1969
Type: Movie
Three friends meeting after the absence of one of them for 15 years out of the country. This sudden gathering give them the opportunity to examine their life, to criticize one another on their achievements.
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The Black Sheep
Title: The Black Sheep
Character: Mario Agasti / Filippo 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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The Prophet
Title: The Prophet
Character: Pietro Breccia
Released: February 15, 1968
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a guru’s groupie plans to seduce him so she can number him among her many conquests.
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Ghosts, Italian Style
Title: Ghosts, Italian Style
Character: Pasquale Lojacono
Released: December 23, 1967
Type: Movie
Pasquale and Maria, husband and wife, live in a palace supposedly haunted by ghosts and pay no rent. When Pasquale finds some food in the cupboard he thinks the ghosts are at work.
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Catch As Catch Can
Title: Catch As Catch Can
Character: Bob Chiaramonte
Released: October 26, 1967
Type: Movie
Bob is a successful actor, but his career gets doomed by a strange phenomenon: the animal kingdom is taking on him!
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Woman Times Seven
Title: Woman Times Seven
Character: Cenci
Released: September 29, 1967
Type: Movie
Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession," a wayward widow at her husband's funeral; "Amateur Night," angry wife becomes streetwalker out of revenge; "Two Against One," seemingly prudish girl turns out otherwise; "Super Simone," wife vainly attempts to divert her over-engrossed writer husband; "At the Opera," a battle over a supposedly exclusive dress; "Suicides," a death pact; "Snow," would-be suitor is actually a private detective hired by jealous husband.
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The Tiger and the Pussycat
Title: The Tiger and the Pussycat
Character: Francesco Vincenzini
Released: April 29, 1967
Type: Movie
A middle-aged businessman finds himself in thirst for romance adventure, and it seems that a proper partner is not far away.
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The Devil in Love
Title: The Devil in Love
Character: Belfagor
Released: December 21, 1966
Type: Movie
Two devils from Hell are sent to Earth to cause trouble. Belfagor and his faithful sidekick Adramalek must start a war between Rome and Florence in 1478.
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Pleasant Nights
Title: Pleasant Nights
Character: Bastiano da Sangallo
Released: September 23, 1966
Type: Movie
A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages.
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For Love and Gold
Title: For Love and Gold
Character: Brancaleone da Norcia
Released: April 7, 1966
Type: Movie
A group of rogues steal a scroll granting its bearer the property of the land of Aurocastro in Apulia, a province in the south of Italy. They elect a shaggy knight, Brancaleone from Norcia, as their leader, and decide to get possession of this supposedly wealthy land. Many adventures will occurr during the journey.
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I Knew Her Well
Title: I Knew Her Well
Character: Vittorio Gassman - in Film Clip (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.
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A Maiden for the Prince
Title: A Maiden for the Prince
Character: Principe Vincenzo Gonzaga
Released: October 26, 1965
Type: Movie
Young Prince Vincenzo Gonzaga, rejects his first wife Margherita Farnese, obtaining the annulment of the union and, at the same time, raising strong doubts about her virginity
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Snow Job
Title: Snow Job
Character: Lucio Ridolfi
Released: September 24, 1965
Type: Movie
Lucio sees his holiday on the Italian Alps interrupted when he is suddenly and unwillingly involved in an International plot involving fake dollar bills.
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The Dirty Game
Title: The Dirty Game
Character: Perego / Ferrari
Released: June 23, 1965
Type: Movie
A U.S. intelligence general recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet, French and Italian spies.
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One Million Dollars
Title: One Million Dollars
Character: Giuliano
Released: December 29, 1964
Type: Movie
Don Giuliano Niccolini Borges, Roman prince and member of the Pontifical Noble Guard, is very much attracted to Jane, an English girl he has met that is accompanying him on a pleasure trip to Switzerland. He has some plans for hanky-panky on their various stops along the route, but Jane has other plans as she is only with him because his car has a special-identification license plate and can go through customs without inspection. The car clears customs as does the stolen million dollars she is smuggling. Sandro, her former boyfriend is following and plans to hi-jack the loot, leaving Jane empty handed.
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Il gaucho
Title: Il gaucho
Character: Marco Ravicchio
Released: September 18, 1964
Type: Movie
An italian film producer travels to Argentina with part of the crew to a Film Festival contest.
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Let's Talk About Women
Title: Let's Talk About Women
Character: Straniero / Practical Joker / Cliente / Amante / Amante impaziente / Cameriere / Fratello timido / Rigattiere / Prigioniero
Released: March 28, 1964
Type: Movie
Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general.
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Summer Frenzy
Title: Summer Frenzy
Character: Cap. Nardoni
Released: February 4, 1964
Type: Movie
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The Monsters
Title: The Monsters
Character: The Actor (segment "La Raccomandazione") / Policeman (segment "Il Mostro") / Production Assistant & Movie Director (segment "Presa dalla Vita") / Nicola (segment "Che Vitaccia!") / Blonde Latin Lover (segment "Latin Lovers-Amanti latini") / Defence Layer D'Amore (segment "Testimone volontario") / Richetto (segment "I due Orfanelli") / Roberto (segment "Il Sacrificato") / Elisa (segment "La Musa") / The Road Hog (segment "La Strada è di Tutti") / The Friar (segment "Il Testamento di Francesco") / Artemio Altidori (segment "La nobile Arte")
Released: October 30, 1963
Type: Movie
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
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Il successo
Title: Il successo
Character: Giulio Ceriani
Released: September 24, 1963
Type: Movie
Giulio has a faithful wife and a true friend, but he is convinced that only with money can one be happy. So he devotes himself to dangerous real estate speculation in Sardinia, even though he does not have the capital to deal with it. To find the necessary money, he is willing to give up even his dignity. And slowly, he alienates his most beloved ones from himself....
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The Eye of the Needle
Title: The Eye of the Needle
Character: Giorgio Mazzanò, lawyer
Released: September 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who in the meantime has fallen in love with the victim.
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Sex Can Be Difficult
Title: Sex Can Be Difficult
Character: L'avvocato (segment "L'avaro")
Released: December 24, 1962
Type: Movie
A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldier tries to approach a widow on a train. A German couple looking for adventure mistakingly aim for the wrong target, yet find love.
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March on Rome
Title: March on Rome
Character: Domenico Rocchetti
Released: December 20, 1962
Type: Movie
March on Rome (Italian: La marcia su Roma) is a 1962 comedy film by Dino Risi with Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi, aimed at describing the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini's black shirts from the point of view of two newly recruited, naïve black shirts
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Il Sorpasso
Title: Il Sorpasso
Character: Bruno Cortona
Released: December 5, 1962
Type: Movie
Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into their daily lives though, the pair’s newfound friendship is tested.
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Title: The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson is a talk show hosted by Johnny Carson under The Tonight Show franchise from 1962 to 1992. It originally aired during late-night. For its first ten years, Carson's Tonight Show was based in New York City with occasional trips to Burbank, California; in May 1972, the show moved permanently to Burbank, California. In 2002, The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was ranked #12 on TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time.
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Title: The Merv Griffin Show
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 1962
Type: TV
The Merv Griffin Show is an American television talk show, starring Merv Griffin. The series ran from October 1, 1962 to March 29, 1963 on NBC, September 20, 1965 to August 15, 1969 in first-run syndication, from August 18, 1969 to February 11, 1972 at 11:30 PM ET weeknights on CBS and again in first-run syndication from February 14, 1972 to September 5, 1986.
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Dark Soul
Title: Dark Soul
Character: Adriano Zucchelli
Released: August 12, 1962
Type: Movie
A man with a past gets married and it seems that he will be able to start a new life, but an unexpected inheritance gets in the way and deteriorates the relationship with his wife.
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Barabbas
Title: Barabbas
Character: Sahak
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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A Difficult Life
Title: A Difficult Life
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: December 19, 1961
Type: Movie
Silvio refuses to fight for the fascists and joins the resistance with Elena. After the war, his vitriolic newspaper articles cause him to be sentenced to imprisonment.
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Seduction Of The South
Title: Seduction Of The South
Character: O Caporale
Released: December 16, 1961
Type: Movie
Based on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one of the sides to victory.
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The Last Judgment
Title: The Last Judgment
Character: Cimino
Released: October 26, 1961
Type: Movie
The Last Judgement (Italian: Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France. It has an all-star Italian and international cast, including Americans Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; Greek Melina Mercouri and French Fernandel, Anouk Aimée and Lino Ventura. The film was a huge flop, massacred by critics and audiences when it was released. It was filmed in black and white, but the last sequence, the dance at theatre, is in color.
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Ghosts of Rome
Title: Ghosts of Rome
Character: Il Caparra
Released: April 1, 1961
Type: Movie
An old prince lives in his ancient palace in Rome together with the ghosts of his ancestors. For years he has proudly rejected huge offers by a real estate group seeking to buy the palace and build a department store in its place, but when he suddenly dies his nephew signs the deal. The palace seems lost, but the ghosts forge a plan to save it from destruction.
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...And Suddenly It's Murder!
Title: ...And Suddenly It's Murder!
Character: Remo
Released: December 13, 1960
Type: Movie
Three couples are involved in a murder at Montecarlo.
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Love and Larceny
Title: Love and Larceny
Character: Gerardo Latini
Released: February 11, 1960
Type: Movie
Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.
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Fiasco in Milan
Title: Fiasco in Milan
Character: Giuseppe "Peppe er Pantera" Baiocchi
Released: December 19, 1959
Type: Movie
The usual gang of robbers are hired by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will hinder the success of the operation.
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La cambiale
Title: La cambiale
Character: Michele
Released: November 19, 1959
Type: Movie
The Posalaquaglia cousins are two small scammers and make a living of expedients: Dante receives as recognition for Tommaso a bill of one hundred thousand lire from the famous financier Bruscatelli, who ends up in prison immediately afterwards.
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The Miracle
Title: The Miracle
Character: Guido
Released: November 12, 1959
Type: Movie
A novice leaves a Spanish convent to follow a 19th-century British soldier she loves.
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The Great War
Title: The Great War
Character: Giovanni Busacca
Released: October 28, 1959
Type: Movie
Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.
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Tempest
Title: Tempest
Character: Prosecutor
Released: December 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at a remote outpost. During a blinding snowstorm he comes upon a stranger who was caught in the storm and is near death from freezing. He rescues the man and eventually brings him back to health. When the man is well enough to travel, the two part company and the man vows to repay the officer for saving his life. Soon after he arrives at his new post, a revolt by the local Cossacks breaks out and the fort is besieged by the rebels. The young officer is astonished to find out that the leader of the rebellious Cossacks is none other than the stranger whose life he had saved during the storm.
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Big Deal on Madonna Street
Title: Big Deal on Madonna Street
Character: Peppe il pantera
Released: July 26, 1958
Type: Movie
Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.
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The Love Specialist
Title: The Love Specialist
Character: Piero di Montalcino
Released: December 20, 1957
Type: Movie
A Texas girl wins a trip to Italy where she meets a prince who's afraid to admit that he's flat broke (so is she). They strike up an affair, but things come to a crazy conclusion when he tries to bribe a horse to win a race at the Palio racing grounds.
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Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
Title: Kean: Genius or Scoundrel
Character: Edmund Kean
Released: March 4, 1957
Type: Movie
England, first half of the 19th century. Edmund Kean is a celebrated theatre actor, notorious for his tumultuous private life. He is in love with the beautiful countess Koefeld, wife of the Danish ambassador, to the consternation of his friend, the Prince of Wales. He is also hounded by Anna Damby, who wants to become an actress to escape a marriage to Lord Mewill.
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The Violent Patriot
Title: The Violent Patriot
Character: Giovanni De Medici
Released: September 14, 1956
Type: Movie
The legendary John of the Black Bands begins a romantic relationship with a beautiful girl without revealing his identity. The girl unconsciously discovers the truth and retires to a convent. She thinks that John is guilty of the death of her family, and cannot continue to love him. He remains wounded in battle.
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Defend My Love
Title: Defend My Love
Character: Giovanni Marchi
Released: September 12, 1956
Type: Movie
As part of a story, a reporter goes to meet Elisa, a young woman he met a few years ago on a trial on which she was finally exonerated.
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War and Peace
Title: War and Peace
Character: Anatol Kuragin
Released: August 21, 1956
Type: Movie
Napoleon's tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families.
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Beautiful But Dangerous
Title: Beautiful But Dangerous
Character: Prince Sergei
Released: October 21, 1955
Type: Movie
Lina, a music hall singer, has fallen in love with Sergei, a Russian prince. Maestro Doria, who gives her voice lessons and who hopes to make her his mistress, takes her to Paris where she becomes the star of the "Folies-Plastiques".
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Amleto
Title: Amleto
Character: Amleto
Released: July 19, 1955
Type: Movie
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Mambo
Title: Mambo
Character: Mario Rossi
Released: September 18, 1954
Type: Movie
A young and poor Venetian woman is invited to a masquerade ball by a charming count.
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Rhapsody
Title: Rhapsody
Character: Paul Bronte
Released: April 16, 1954
Type: Movie
A rich, young beauty, Louise Durant, follows the man she loves and hopes to marry to Zurich where he studies violin at the conservatory. A piano student at the conservatory falls madly in love with Louise. The violinist loves his music first and Louise second. The pianist loves Louise first and his music second. Louise must ultimately choose which man she wants.
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Cry of the Hunted
Title: Cry of the Hunted
Character: Jory
Released: May 8, 1953
Type: Movie
A prison convict escapes through the Louisiana swamps.
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Sombrero
Title: Sombrero
Character: Alejandro Castillo
Released: April 22, 1953
Type: Movie
Mexican love stories follow a dying man, a bullfighter's sister and lovers from feuding villages.
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The Glass Wall
Title: The Glass Wall
Character: Peter Kuban
Released: March 19, 1953
Type: Movie
Peter Kuban, a Hungarian refugee, is about to be deported after jumping ship in New York harbor. He needs to find an ex-G.I. named Tom whom he helped during the war, as Tom can prove Peter's right to legal entry into the United States. If he can't find Tom within 24 hours and prove his case, he will be branded a fugitive and will be permanently disqualified for U.S. citizenship.
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Girls Marked Danger
Title: Girls Marked Danger
Character: Michele
Released: September 25, 1952
Type: Movie
A police officer meets a girl who is near to falling into the net of shady individuals. To prevent this, he invites her into the police station and tells her a story.
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The Dream of Zorro
Title: The Dream of Zorro
Character: Don Juan Antonio
Released: March 26, 1952
Type: Movie
An old gentleman, a direct descendant of Zorro, has a single son named Raimundo in whom there is no trace of proud pride.
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Anna
Title: Anna
Character: Vittorio
Released: December 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Anna is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring the same trio as Bitter Rice: Silvana Mangano as Anna, the sinner who becomes a nun; Raf Vallone as Andrea, the rich man who loves her; and Vittorio Gassman as Vittorio, the wicked waiter who sets Anna on a dangerous path.
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Black Crown
Title: Black Crown
Character: Mauricio
Released: May 23, 1951
Type: Movie
A woman suffers from amnesia after killing her husband, who was just about to demand a divorce for having found her engaging in an affair with a lover, who is only interested in her to find where some precious jewels are hidden.
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Double Cross
Title: Double Cross
Character: Renato Salvi
Released: April 10, 1951
Type: Movie
A businessman is wrongly accused and convicted for the murder of his associate.
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Il leone di Amalfi
Title: Il leone di Amalfi
Released: October 11, 1950
Type: Movie
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Lo sparviero del Nilo
Title: Lo sparviero del Nilo
Character: Yussuf
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
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The Outlaws
Title: The Outlaws
Character: Turi
Released: June 9, 1950
Type: Movie
Turi, having returned to Sicily from abroad, learns that his sister Maruzza is the lover of Cosimo Barrese, a militant of the Movement for the Independence of Sicily, who, abandoned by everyone, has become a bandit. The two would like to get married, but life as an outlaw seems an insurmountable obstacle. Turi asks for revenge on the bandit who has dishonored the family and uses a shady and devious lawyer to drive him into a trap.
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Streets of Sorrow
Title: Streets of Sorrow
Character: Giorgio
Released: January 19, 1950
Type: Movie
A magistrate saves a young woman from drowning and they fall in love.
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Lure of the Sila
Title: Lure of the Sila
Character: Pietro Campolo (as Vittorio Gassmann)
Released: December 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Returning home after a night of love spent in a woodman's hut with Orsola, Pietro is arrested by the police for a crime he did not commit. His mother and youngest sister, Rosaria, go to Orsola begging her to provide Pietro with the alibi that will clear him. But Rocco, Orsola's brother, dreading a family scandal, constrains Orsola to silence. Condemned despite his innocence, Pietro escapes from prison, but the police track him down and kill him, and his mother, before the eyes of Rosaria. Years pass, and one day Rocco stumbles upon a half-frozen young woman lying in the snow. He takes her home and confides her to the care of Orsola. Later, yielding to the pleas of Orsola, Rocco and Rocco's son, Salvatore, the girl stays on in the house, and Salvatore falls in love with the beautiful stranger, who is careful to keep the family members from learning she is Rosaria, the grown up sister of Pietro seeking revenge for the deaths of her brother and mother.
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Bitter Rice
Title: Bitter Rice
Character: Walter
Released: September 30, 1949
Type: Movie
Francesca and Walter are two-bit criminals in Northern Italy, and, in an effort to avoid the police, Francesca joins a group of women rice workers. She meets the voluptuous peasant rice worker, Silvana, and the soon-to-be-discharged soldier, Marco. Walter follows her to the rice fields, and the four characters become involved in a complex plot involving robbery, love, and murder.
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The Mysterious Rider
Title: The Mysterious Rider
Character: Giacomo Casanova, cavaliere di Seingalt
Released: November 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Giacomo Casanova returns to Venice, to help his brother, falsely accused of robbery.
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L'ebreo errante
Title: L'ebreo errante
Character: Mathieu Blumenthal
Released: January 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Matthew, a rich nationalist Jew and a contemporary of Jesus, regards the latter as an obstacle in this struggle to free their people from the Roman yoke by means of revolt.
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The Captain's Daughter
Title: The Captain's Daughter
Character: Svabrin
Released: October 8, 1947
Type: Movie
A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.
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Daniele Cortis
Title: Daniele Cortis
Character: Daniele Cortis
Released: May 6, 1947
Type: Movie
The film follows the struggles of an idealistic Catholic politician.
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The Adventures of Pinocchio
Title: The Adventures of Pinocchio
Character: Hässlicher Fischer / Il Pescatore verde
Released: April 17, 1947
Type: Movie
This is an Italian live action film with Alessandro Tomei as Pinocchio.
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Preludio d'amore
Title: Preludio d'amore
Released: January 1, 1946
Type: Movie
After returning from the war Davide, a fisherman from Liguria, discovers that his girl Anna has been courted and compromised by a sailor named Rocco. Rocco’s other girl, Tea, takes revenge by denouncing him to the police. In remorse she commits suicide by drowning herself.
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Incontro con Laura
Title: Incontro con Laura
Released: January 1, 1945
Type: Movie