Piero Vida

Piero Vida

Born: August 5, 1938
Died: January 25, 1987
in Mestre, Venice, Veneto, Italy
Piero Vida (5 August 1938 – 25 January 1987) was an Italian actor.

Movies for Piero Vida...

Man on Fire
Title: Man on Fire
Character: Kidnapper #2
Released: September 4, 1987
Type: Movie
Creasy, a traumatized ex-CIA agent, gets a job as a bodyguard for Samantha, the twelve-year-old daughter of a wealthy Italian family living in a swanky villa on the shores of Lake Como.
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StageFright
Title: StageFright
Character: Ferrari
Released: February 8, 1987
Type: Movie
While a group of young actors rehearse a new musical about a mass murderer, a notorious psychopath escapes from a nearby insane asylum.
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Il caso Moro
Title: Il caso Moro
Character: PSI Secretary
Released: November 20, 1986
Type: Movie
On March 16, 1978, far-left terrorists of the Red Brigades kidnap Aldo Moro, leader of the Christian Democracy, the ruling party in Italy since the end of WWII. 55 days later, his body will be found in the trunk of a car. This is a neutral and factual account of what happened in between.
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The Professor
Title: The Professor
Character: Piero Vida
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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Nostalgia
Title: Nostalgia
Released: May 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A Russian poet and his interpreter travel to Italy to research the life of an 18th-century composer.
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Massimamente folle
Title: Massimamente folle
Character: Preside
Released: March 3, 1983
Type: Movie
The film presents a series of unrelated "pictures": a police commissioner who, faced with four friars stripped by two women, must decide whether they are real or false friars (but he can't); a professor who, suffering from acute dysentery, is dismissed for unworthiness by the Institute Council; a football referee trying to escape the ire of angry fans; an endless marathon in Piazza Navona; a true but crazy producer, a not crazy but fake producer and a group of actors who want to take revenge on one and the other; a "club of toasts" that spends its time toasting to this and that, to elect new members and honorary members; finally, a censorship commission that, aboard an old and very battered car, fails to reach his workplace.
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The Knight, Death and the Devil
Title: The Knight, Death and the Devil
Character: Orlok
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A family of the three fall into a dark and disturbing nightmare after meeting the mysterious Orlok and the seductive punk girl Patty. Adapted from the 1926 novella Dream Story by the Austrian writer Arthur Schnitzler.
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Cicciabomba
Title: Cicciabomba
Character: don Lillo
Released: November 28, 1982
Type: Movie
An overweight high school student is relentlessly bullied due to weight. Out of the blue, she wins a trip to New York, where she sheds 80+ pounds and then returns home to take revenge on her tormentors.
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Title: The Charterhouse of Parma
Character: General Fabio Conti
Released: September 12, 1982
Type: TV
Stendhal's epic tale of a young French officer in the Napoleonic wars, and his aunt - a duchess of legendary beauty and resourcefulness.
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Grog
Title: Grog
Released: September 3, 1982
Type: Movie
Two convicts escape from prison and evade the law by taking hostage the middle-class family of a doctor. One of the jailbirds calls the local television station, requesting that they broadcast his demand for a plane so they can escape the country. The television director and his crew show up to film the hostage crisis, and then things get progressively more bizarre and satirical. Not content with the living drama, he directs everyone's actions to make the event more newsworthy.
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Lost in the City of Sarzana
Title: Lost in the City of Sarzana
Character: -
Released: January 9, 1980
Type: Movie
The film is set in the period of fascism and is represented through the story of the general inspector Vincenzo Trani.
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The Return of Casanova
Title: The Return of Casanova
Released: January 6, 1980
Type: Movie
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Tough to Kill
Title: Tough to Kill
Character: Leon
Released: March 15, 1979
Type: Movie
A group of mercenaries escort a man with a million dollar bounty on his head across the African terrain. Double crosses, back stabbing, and gunfire follows.
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1900
Title: 1900
Character: Baroni
Released: August 28, 1976
Type: Movie
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
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Giovannino
Title: Giovannino
Released: May 4, 1976
Type: Movie
Giovannino grows up and seeks his way, exemplary in his total and definitive absence of character. He lets himself be guided a little by everyone, without ever making a decision of his own free will. He first seduces the family servant, then runs away to Rome and tries to marry her unserious daughter to a boarding house owner. But her father arrives from Catania who distrusts her and arranges for him to marry a rich and lame girl.
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A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Title: A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Character: Jacky Roll
Released: December 16, 1975
Type: Movie
Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Indian-hating Major Cabot. Their elaborate plan is full of disguises, double-crosses, and chases, but Joe always seems to know what he's doing.
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Leonor
Title: Leonor
Released: September 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Richard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the family vault, he remarries and has children by his second wife. A mad longing for his first wife Leonor comes over him, and he sells his soul to the devil for a chance to get her back. But when she returns, she is a murderous vampire.
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Deep Red
Title: Deep Red
Character: Fat Cop
Released: March 7, 1975
Type: Movie
One night, musician Marcus Daly, looking up from the street below, witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, he just manages to miss the perpetrator... or so he thinks.
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Year One
Title: Year One
Released: November 15, 1974
Type: Movie
Rossellini’s biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari, who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in the years that followed the fall of fascism.
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The Night Porter
Title: The Night Porter
Character: Day Porter
Released: April 3, 1974
Type: Movie
A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.
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The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun
Title: The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun
Character: Prof. Nikeli Vaks
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A war film based on the novel "Journey into the Vertigo" by Evgenija Solomonovna Ginzburg
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Patroclooo!... e il soldato Camillone, grande grosso e frescone
Title: Patroclooo!... e il soldato Camillone, grande grosso e frescone
Character: Ottavio
Released: December 30, 1973
Type: Movie
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Theft in the Evening, a Big Coup Hopefully
Title: Theft in the Evening, a Big Coup Hopefully
Character: Marcello
Released: December 18, 1973
Type: Movie
A comedy about two friends attempting a heist.
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Charity and the Strange Smell of Money
Title: Charity and the Strange Smell of Money
Character: Bronco Kid
Released: May 4, 1973
Type: Movie
Charity is in charge of delivering the railroad payroll, but some locals and a Mexican gang have their own plans for the money.
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Buona parte di Paolina
Title: Buona parte di Paolina
Released: April 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Paulina, sister of Napoleon I, is married to Camillo Borghese, presented as a helpless coward. She is eager to offer herself to all the young people that propose to her, and performs naked in front of the Roman people flocking to the walls of Villa Borghese, which she turned into a private residence. She also poses half naked for the famous statue of Canova, who is also presented as a effeminate and scoundrel. When her reputation as a depraved spreads, on the advice of the Pope, she is segregated away from all the men. when the French troops deport from Rome the Pope and the cardinals as well, Paulina sees prostitution as the only way to find herself some "fresh meat". Finally after seven years villa Borghese is reopened to the public, as Paulina goes back to Paris, to the great relief of the Roman people and the clerical circles.
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Fiorina the Cow
Title: Fiorina the Cow
Character: Nane, il ruffiano
Released: September 10, 1972
Type: Movie
Plenty of fun erotic stories in the spirit of the "Decameron", united by one constant hero - unlucky cow Fiorina.
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Blessed Are the Rich
Title: Blessed Are the Rich
Character: Prete
Released: August 30, 1972
Type: Movie
Two brothers-in-law, a smuggler and the other traffic policeman, get hold of a large sum of money, destined for illegal exportation to Switzerland, after the courier is killed in a fire fight with the border police. The owners of the money, which occupy an important social position, try in every way to recover it, also leveraging the weakness of the policeman. After the petty betrayal of his brother-in-law, the smuggler decides to keep all the money and flee to Switzerland.
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The Union
Title: The Union
Character: Vezio Bellinelli
Released: August 29, 1972
Type: Movie
A Sicilian worker, a member of the internal commission in a factory in Bergamasco, believes he has won it over the owner because he has obtained important improvements, but the astute employer sells the company to a multinational company.
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Le notti peccaminose di Pietro l'Aretino
Title: Le notti peccaminose di Pietro l'Aretino
Character: Cuor Contento
Released: August 4, 1972
Type: Movie
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Who Saw Her Die?
Title: Who Saw Her Die?
Character: Journalist Cuman
Released: May 12, 1972
Type: Movie
Between a four-year gap in the murder of a young girl, the daughter of a well-known sculptor is discovered dead, and her parents conduct an investigation, only to discover they are in over their heads as the body-count keeps rising.
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Head Down, Feet Up
Title: Head Down, Feet Up
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A serial killer who specialises in killing teachers is on the loose and Andrea becomes accidentally involved when he decides to lend a hand to one of the victims and catches a glimpse of the nocturnal predator.
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Short Night of Glass Dolls
Title: Short Night of Glass Dolls
Character: Kommissar Kierkoff
Released: October 28, 1971
Type: Movie
An American journalist in Prague searches for his girlfriend who has suddenly disappeared.
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In the Name of the Father
Title: In the Name of the Father
Character: Bestia
Released: October 12, 1971
Type: Movie
In 1958 Angelo, a rich and spoiled boy, enters a religious school, where students are tired of its vice-rector, and the strict rules and old-fashioned teaching methods of priests. Soon, Angelo exerts strong leadership among his peers and incites turmoil among them, helped by intellectual Franco and shy Camma. They expel the prefect from the school, organize a Grand Guignol show, and disappear the corpse of an old professor.
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Capricci
Title: Capricci
Character: Policeman
Released: November 15, 1969
Type: Movie
After a fight in their apartment, the story of a writer and a painter are divided. The writer is dedicated with his partner Manon to provoke continuous accidents in a field in which car carcasses abound. The painter is recruited to kill, through a poisoned picture, the old Arden to allow the latter's wife, Alice to live with her lover Mosbie.
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What Did Stalin Do to Women?
Title: What Did Stalin Do to Women?
Character: Director
Released: October 3, 1969
Type: Movie
Two young intellectuals of the PCI, former partisans, enter into a deep ideological crisis after the fall of Stalin. One will volunteer for Vietnam. the other will find in Ho Chi Minh a new myth to be inspired.
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Galileo
Title: Galileo
Character: Papa Urbano VIII
Released: September 7, 1968
Type: Movie
A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe.
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Dead for a Dollar
Title: Dead for a Dollar
Character: Der Portugiese
Released: August 17, 1968
Type: Movie
When the lead robber in their gang steals the money from his two companions, a cat and mouse/back and forth game plays out as the men try to get the money for themselves. But another player, the heir of the sneaky gang leader, is also on the hunt...
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Execution
Title: Execution
Character: Burd
Released: August 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Clips, a bounty killer, is after one John Coler, who has fooled him, keeping all of a loot he should have shared with him. He finally catches his prey only to discover that the man is a Coler all right but not the expected one.
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John the Bastard
Title: John the Bastard
Character: Sacerdote
Released: November 16, 1967
Type: Movie
Johnny Donald, a cynical seducer of women, discovers he is actually the son of Don Diego Tenorio, a wealthy Mexican landowner. Accompanied by his trusty servant Morenillo, he travels south in search of vengeance and riches, but manages to deflower and make enemies all along the way until he finally meets his match in the person of a Mormon assassin and a stone statue.
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Catch As Catch Can
Title: Catch As Catch Can
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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Hate for Hate
Title: Hate for Hate
Character: Sorito
Released: August 18, 1967
Type: Movie
After being captured during a bank robbery, a cowboy is sent to a prison located in a swamp, where he contracts malaria. He soon escapes and, with the help of a Mexican, sets out to track down his partner, who escaped from the bank robbery with all the money.
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Payment in Blood
Title: Payment in Blood
Character: Levasseur
Released: April 14, 1967
Type: Movie
Chamaco finds himself on the wrong end of a firing squad after tracking an ex-Confederate to interrogate him about General Beauregard's missing gold. He's saved by a stranger who calls himself Stuart (Byrnes). Stuart claims to know the location of Beauregard's strongbox, and so Chamaco takes him to Blake's camp. After a sort of initiation by the gang, Stuart leads Blake's men back across the border to Durango to retrieve the gold. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
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Snow Job
Title: Snow Job
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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Who Works Is Lost
Title: Who Works Is Lost
Character: Gianni - L'Amico di Bonifacio
Released: December 5, 1963
Type: Movie
Bonifacio is 27 years old and he is roaming about Venice. He is trying to decide whether to accept a job or not. In so doing, he recalls all his past life: his love story with Gabriella, his old friend Claudio, who had always regarded working as a worthwhile thing, the war, the partisans.
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Challenge the Devil
Title: Challenge the Devil
Character: Padre Peo Remigio
Released: May 28, 1963
Type: Movie
A group of young people happen upon an old man in a castle who turns out to be the devil.
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Cronache del '22
Title: Cronache del '22
Character: venditore ambulante
Released: November 23, 1961
Type: Movie