Mario Brega

Mario Brega

Born: March 25, 1923
Died: July 23, 1994
in Rome, Lazio, Italy
Mario Brega (25 March 1923 – 23 July 1994) was an Italian character actor. His heavy build meant that he regularly portrayed a thug in his films, particularly earlier in his career in westerns. Later in his career, however, he featured in numerous Italian comedy films. Brega stood at 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and well over 250 pounds (110 kg) at his heaviest but after the 1960s slimmed down significantly.

Brega was born in Rome. He was a butcher before he drifted into acting, where his heavy physique ensured him a plethora of character roles. Debuting with director Dino Risi, he then played some minor roles in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western movies: A Fistful of Dollars, as Chico; For a Few Dollars More, as Niño; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as Corporal Wallace; and also as a gangster in Once Upon a Time in America. He appeared in many other Spaghetti Westerns, including Death Rides a Horse, The Great Silence, and My Name is Nobody. Later in his career he had comical roles with director Carlo Verdone, such as in Un sacco bello and Talcum Powder.

He died of heart attack in Rome in 1994.

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Crack
Title: Crack
Released: September 6, 1991
Type: Movie
Although the drug is present in this film, the Crack this movie is about is, metaphorically, the crack in society which all the protagonists inhabit in a rundown neighborhood in Rome.
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Montecarlo Gran Casinò
Title: Montecarlo Gran Casinò
Character: Cesare
Released: December 23, 1987
Type: Movie
The misadventures of different Italian rascals who came to the famous Montecarlo Gran Casinò to get lucky.
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Detective School Dropouts
Title: Detective School Dropouts
Released: August 7, 1986
Type: Movie
Two bumbling private detectives get themselves hired to find a missing person. They find themselves in the middle of a mob war when it turns out that the missing person is somebody the mob wants to stay missing.
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Troppo forte
Title: Troppo forte
Character: Sergio
Released: January 30, 1986
Type: Movie
Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and consequently injures a young actress, then tries to limit the damage by taking the girl to his home.
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Amarsi un po'...
Title: Amarsi un po'...
Character: Padre di Marco
Released: October 5, 1984
Type: Movie
In an accident the young mechanic Marco Coccia meets Cristiana. The two fall in love with one another. Cristiana confesses only later that she is a genuine princess. For Marco it is not a problem, but for Cristiana's parents it is a very big problem. The two must separate. When one evening Cristiana calls Marco and lets him know about her forthcoming wedding, Marco with the car races toward Paris and has an accident...
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Once Upon a Time in America
Title: Once Upon a Time in America
Character: Mandy
Released: May 23, 1984
Type: Movie
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
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Christmas Holidays
Title: Christmas Holidays
Character: Arturo Marchetti
Released: December 22, 1983
Type: Movie
Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has not much money, falls in love with the American Samantha, the girlfriend of hypochondriac Roberto. Billo, a singer and a playboy, meets Ivana: she's married with a rich man, Donatone, but in the past she had a flirt with Billo, who wants to reignite the flame.
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Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio
Title: Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio
Character: Alberigo (episodio "Il mago")
Released: November 30, 1983
Type: Movie
The film is divided into two episodes, The Hair of Disgrace and The Magician, both focusing on the theme of the occult and beliefs.
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Talcum Powder
Title: Talcum Powder
Character: Augusto
Released: January 22, 1982
Type: Movie
Sergio Benvenuti is a shy seller of contracts for a Roman company of music, but because of his character he cannot find even a customer, so he asks for help from a fellow named Nadia.
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Pierino the Pest to the Rescue
Title: Pierino the Pest to the Rescue
Character: Giulio
Released: January 9, 1982
Type: Movie
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Una vacanza del cactus
Title: Una vacanza del cactus
Character: Zio Michele
Released: August 16, 1981
Type: Movie
A group of five people is going to vacation on the island of Rhodes: among them is the good-natured Augusto, who intends to bring a cactus to the grave of his uncle Michael.
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Bianco, rosso e Verdone
Title: Bianco, rosso e Verdone
Character: Er Principe
Released: February 20, 1981
Type: Movie
Three Italians travel to their hometown to vote for elections: Pasquale is a Southern immigrant living in Munich who's genuinely happy to come back to Italy, even if just for a few days, but the country he dreams of is far from reality; Furio travels to Rome with his family, but his niggling attitude threatens to push his wife Magda over the edge; young Mimmo is also going to Rome, but the trip is repeatedly interrupted by worries about his grandma's health.
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Fun Is Beautiful
Title: Fun Is Beautiful
Character: Mario
Released: January 19, 1980
Type: Movie
Three stories set in summer Rome, three characters all played by Verdone: an awkward young man meets a Spanish tourist; another one plans a trip towards East with a suitcase full of stockings and biro pens; a hippie is visited by his father, who tries to convince him to get back home.
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A Dangerous Toy
Title: A Dangerous Toy
Character: Uomo dello Slavo
Released: February 21, 1979
Type: Movie
A meek accountant buys himself a gun and finds out he's a natural marksman. After the friend who introduced him to shooting is killed by gangsters, he seeks revenge.
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Destruction Force
Title: Destruction Force
Character: Questore Alberti
Released: October 1, 1977
Type: Movie
A shoot out after a robbery ends with the death of the Chief of Police. Police detective Ghini goes in search of a suspect, Lanza, to avenge the death of his boss. Ghini's search leads him to Belli, a Sicilian gangster and 'Trashy', the dirty leader of a gang of killers. The action is violent as both police and criminals track down Belli who still finds some time to attempt a couple of robberies...
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The Cat
Title: The Cat
Character: Rosario Calascibetta, a killer
Released: April 27, 1977
Type: Movie
Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium. They want to sell it, but before they have to evict all the tenants. Of course, these don't want to leave at all. The cat (Il Gatto), mascot and beloved by all, dies and this gives the two an excuse to enter the tenants' life. Amedeo starts to court the young Wanda and Ofelia seduces the priest Don Pezzolla. In the meantime police is looking for the cat killer...
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The Last Round
Title: The Last Round
Character: Bobo Belmondo
Released: December 30, 1976
Type: Movie
Stelvio Massi's crime thriller centers on a drifter who sets out to help blue-collar workers rise up against the two powerful families who are exploiting them. After settling in an industrial town and witnessing the cruelty of the factory owners, ex-mercenary Marco (Carlos Monzón) assumes the role of union agitator. When a violent confrontation erupts, the labor leader is driven to bring down the corrupt clans.
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A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Title: A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Character: Coach Driver
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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Two hearts, a Chapel
Title: Two hearts, a Chapel
Character: Il Macellaio
Released: October 2, 1975
Type: Movie
Aristide receives a big inheritance from his mother, but when he meets a beautiful redhead at the cemetery, his life changes unexpectedly.
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Convoy Buddies
Title: Convoy Buddies
Released: July 20, 1975
Type: Movie
Toby and Butch are a couple of bumbling crooks who get a truck driving job hauling insecticide from Italy to France. Unbeknownst to the clueless duo, they're really smuggling guns. A group of equally inept mobsters try to steal the guns to no avail.
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Seven Savage Men
Title: Seven Savage Men
Character: Tornado
Released: March 29, 1975
Type: Movie
The Cooper gang is terrorizing the town of Stanton with heinous crimes. When the gang rapes and murders an innocent young widow, the sheriff teams up with a notorious gunslinger, the brother of the murdered widow, in order to enact vengeance and justice. Because the lawman's and the gunfighter's methods are so different, two more innocent deaths occur, a friend of the sheriff and a lady friend of the gunfighter ...How will this end?
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How Beautiful Is Bernarda, All Black, All Hot
Title: How Beautiful Is Bernarda, All Black, All Hot
Character: Mirafiore
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: Movie
A wizard of the Middle Ages, while exorcising a girl, swallows eggnog and tells two suckers various Boccaccio stories.
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Charleston
Title: Charleston
Character: Barman
Released: September 10, 1974
Type: Movie
This film has the typical air of Italian action/gangster comedies from that period - it is a perfectly charming and funny sort of comedy. The cliches of black and white are wonderfully maintained in this movie as the good guys are clever and witty and the bad ones are bad and pretty dumb. The "Shakespearian" dream of the "good" Mafioso a bit stupid but then a film like that seems in need of a few blunders.
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Basta con la guerra... facciamo l'amore
Title: Basta con la guerra... facciamo l'amore
Character: Garozzi
Released: April 24, 1974
Type: Movie
A comedy directed by Andrea Bianchi.
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My Name Is Nobody
Title: My Name Is Nobody
Character: Pedro
Released: December 13, 1973
Type: Movie
Jack Beauregard, an ageing gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe. But a young gunfighter, known as "Nobody", who idolizes Beauregard, wants him to go out in a blaze of glory. So he arranges for Jack to face the 150-man gang known as The Wild Bunch and earn his place in history.
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Da Scaramouche or se vuoi l'assoluzione baciar devi sto... cordone!
Title: Da Scaramouche or se vuoi l'assoluzione baciar devi sto... cordone!
Character: Quattropalle
Released: May 31, 1973
Type: Movie
Scaramouche, a skilled swordsman, goes to the Este court to steal a letter.
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Sotto a chi tocca!
Title: Sotto a chi tocca!
Character: Fregonese the Tyrant
Released: October 24, 1972
Type: Movie
Straccio, a young acrobat, wants to free his beloved Julia, held prisoner in the tyrant's castle. He designs a good plan, and develops it with the help of his three friends, Pietro, Bitonto, and Gatto Mammone. When he thinks he achieved both his ends - overthrowing Fregonese from power, and winning Julia's love - he finds that his countrymen cupidity for the tyrant's gold is more difficult to deal with.
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Decameron II
Title: Decameron II
Character: Ferondo
Released: March 17, 1972
Type: Movie
During a banquet, the diners begin to tell various stories to be happy. All the novels speak of betrayals and erotic adventures
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The Lusty Wives of Canterbury
Title: The Lusty Wives of Canterbury
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
The writer, Geoffrey Chaucer, finds himself in an inn, together with pilgrims who are going to Canterbury. Since the bad weather prevents departure, the men entertain themselves by telling each other spicy stories.
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A Girl in Australia
Title: A Girl in Australia
Character: cameriere italiano a Brisbane
Released: December 22, 1971
Type: Movie
The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's , who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.
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Why
Title: Why
Character: Detenuto amico di Scalia (uncredited)
Released: October 27, 1971
Type: Movie
Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?
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Finders Killers
Title: Finders Killers
Character: Grendel
Released: March 27, 1971
Type: Movie
A farmer returns home from the forest to find his family butchered. He decides to hunt down the murderers.
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Cose di Cosa Nostra
Title: Cose di Cosa Nostra
Released: January 8, 1971
Type: Movie
A young man unwantedly gets caught up in an international gang war in this humorous crime farce!
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Il divorzio
Title: Il divorzio
Character: giornalaio
Released: April 20, 1970
Type: Movie
Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life.
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El Puro
Title: El Puro
Character: Tim
Released: December 22, 1969
Type: Movie
An alcoholic gunman, hunted down by five pitiless bounty hunters, is sheltered by a saloon dancer. When his enemies kill the girl the outlaw pulls himself together and faces his adversaries and takes his revenge in a final showdown. An interesting take on the reluctant gunfighter theme contains some truly surprising twists.
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Death Knocks Twice
Title: Death Knocks Twice
Character: Riccardo
Released: November 25, 1969
Type: Movie
When private detective Bob Martin looking for a stolen diamond necklace, he also has a clever serial killer on the trail ...
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No Room to Die
Title: No Room to Die
Character: Brandon's Partner
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Mexican's are being smuggled over the border to work as cheap labour for wealthy land baron Fargo. His gang is made up of known criminals with bounties on their heads, this greatly interests two bounty hunters who may have to team up to achieve their goals.
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The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
Title: The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
Character: il mutilato
Released: September 26, 1968
Type: Movie
Childhood friends Franco and Jolanda accidentally meet again after 15 years and both know it is love. This comedy traces their troubled relationship.
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Man Who Cried for Revenge
Title: Man Who Cried for Revenge
Character: Dirty
Released: July 28, 1968
Type: Movie
A Civil War veteran is amnesic after being shot in the head. When he returns to his hometown, he finds out that he has been declared a deserter. The local judge offers him a chance to clear his name, but he only wants to send him against some dangerous outlaw and his gang.
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The Great Silence
Title: The Great Silence
Character: Martin
Released: February 21, 1968
Type: Movie
A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters.
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A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
Title: A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
Character: Kraut
Released: February 8, 1968
Type: Movie
A famous gunman decides to change his life around and turn himself in when amnesty is declared by the new governor of the New Mexico Territory, but a vindictive sheriff sets out to stop him from reaching the Territory.
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Halleluja for Django
Title: Halleluja for Django
Character: Andreas / Yanaro
Released: October 28, 1967
Type: Movie
After robbing $500,000, the Jarret gang hides in a small isolated western town, where they are waiting for a scout to take them through the desert to Mexico. But the unresolved conflicts between Jarret and El Santo, the brains of the bandits, who has also an eye on Jarret's girlfriend, become a problem amongst the bandits. And there is also an underestimated scalawag named Billy Rum and his friend Mark, who are trying to help the captured citizens.
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Death Rides a Horse
Title: Death Rides a Horse
Character: One-Eye (Paco)
Released: August 31, 1967
Type: Movie
Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself continually sparring and occasionally cooperating with Ryan, a gunfighter on his own quest for vengeance, who knows more than he says about Bill's tragedy.
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No Diamonds for Ursula
Title: No Diamonds for Ursula
Character: Sansone
Released: August 6, 1967
Type: Movie
A beautiful, but naive, young woman kills a rapist in self defense. But her degenerate, crippled uncle, senses an opportunity and weaves a complex web of blackmail around her to steal a stash of diamonds.
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Date for a Murder
Title: Date for a Murder
Character: Mario Galante
Released: May 17, 1967
Type: Movie
Two friends from America come together by chance in the Italian countryside. They decide to meet in Rome after both have done private deals. When one then not show up in Rome starts the other one become suspicious and fearful that something has happened to him. He begins to investigate the case himself and ends up in a spiral of industrial espionage, blackmail, and cold-blooded murder ...
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Title: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Character: Corporal Wallace
Released: December 22, 1966
Type: Movie
While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.
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The Ugly Ones
Title: The Ugly Ones
Character: Miguel Cortinas
Released: November 4, 1966
Type: Movie
Escaped outlaw Jose Gomez returns to his home town pursued by bounty killer Luke Chilson. The towns people protect Gomez, unaware, at first, that he is now a changed and dangerous man.
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An Angel for Satan
Title: An Angel for Satan
Character: Carlo Lionesi
Released: May 4, 1966
Type: Movie
At the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake an old statue is recovered. Soon a series of crimes start and the superstitious people of the village believe that the statue carries an ancient malediction.
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For a Few Dollars More
Title: For a Few Dollars More
Character: Niño, Member of Indio's Gang
Released: December 18, 1965
Type: Movie
Two bounty hunters are in pursuit of "El Indio," one of the most wanted fugitives in the western territories, and his gang.
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Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West
Title: Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West
Character: Donaldson
Released: November 19, 1964
Type: Movie
Colonel William Cody, alias Buffalo Bill, intends to put an end to the dishonest relations between a gang of white swindlers and the Indian, Yellow Hand. So he goes to the chief of Yellow Hand's tribe, Wise Fox, and tries to convince him to sign a peace treaty with the Federal troops. In order to avoid this, Yellow Hand abducts Wise Fox's daughter, pretending that the soldiers have done it.
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A Fistful of Dollars
Title: A Fistful of Dollars
Character: Chico
Released: September 12, 1964
Type: Movie
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
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Two Gangsters in the Wild West
Title: Two Gangsters in the Wild West
Character: man with Rio
Released: June 30, 1964
Type: Movie
In the late 1800's, Sicilians Franco and Ciccio are serving 20 years of prison for stealing two mules, when they are helped to escape by an American who says he is a friend of their grandfathers, who were killed in Texas by a gang of bandits who wanted to take over their gold mine. The two friends travel to America to take posses of the gold mine, but they soon discover that they are not the only ones who want it.
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Let's Talk About Women
Title: Let's Talk About Women
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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The Monsters
Title: The Monsters
Character: Rocchetti (segment "La nobile Arte")
Released: October 30, 1963
Type: Movie
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
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The Hours of Love
Title: The Hours of Love
Released: March 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Gianni and Marietta get along wonderfully as lovers, but not as a couple. Despite being married, they agree to become lovers again.
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The Strange Type
Title: The Strange Type
Character: benzinaio
Released: February 28, 1963
Type: Movie
Peppino, a slow-witted local villager of the Italian resort town of Amalfi, is bribed to impersonate famed rock and roll star Adriano Celentano for autographs and personal appearances. While Celentano tries to romance Emanuela Mazzolani, the daughter of a well-to-do resident who dissaproves of the union between his daughter and the man he thinks of as a "punk", Peppino, unaware of the true nature of his job to impersonate Celentano, tries to deal with his girlfriend's newborn baby which gets switched around between him and Celentano.
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March on Rome
Title: March on Rome
Character: Mitraglia
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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I motorizzati
Title: I motorizzati
Character: Edoardo
Released: November 30, 1962
Type: Movie
A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with new car owners as protagonists. Episodic comedy.
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Eighteen in the Sun
Title: Eighteen in the Sun
Character: Gennarino
Released: August 11, 1962
Type: Movie
An Italian variation on the Frankie & Annette-Gidget beach party movies that were all the rage in North America in the early 60s. Nicole Molino (Catherine Spaak) and Nicola Molino (Gianni Garko) are not related to one another. In fact, they don’t even know each other until both are inadvertently assigned the same hotel room on the island of Ischia. Nicole isn’t interested in any hanky-panky, so Nicola reluctantly promises to keep his hands to himself.
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Cronache del '22
Title: Cronache del '22
Character: Panza
Released: November 23, 1961
Type: Movie
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Day by Day, Desperately
Title: Day by Day, Desperately
Character: infermiere
Released: November 23, 1961
Type: Movie
The mental illness affecting young Dario, one of the two sons of the Dominici family living in a council building in Rome, disrupts the lives of all its members.
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Gli scontenti
Title: Gli scontenti
Released: March 11, 1961
Type: Movie
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Il mondo dei miracoli
Title: Il mondo dei miracoli
Character: L'uomo con un occhio nero (uncredited)
Released: June 25, 1959
Type: Movie
An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.
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Man of Straw
Title: Man of Straw
Character: Uomo che blocca Andrea davanti al tassista (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1958
Type: Movie
Andrea Zaccardi has returned home from hunting. He and his wife Luisa are very close. Their young son Giulio develops a cough. The doctor recommends the seaside. Luisa leaves with Giulio for several weeks. Andrea stays to work at the metal shop.
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The Mascot of the Blue Devils
Title: The Mascot of the Blue Devils
Released: September 15, 1947
Type: Movie
An Italian child becomes blind due to an accident with German cavalrymen during an American bombing, but regains his sight thanks to American physicians.