Orazio Orlando

Orazio Orlando

Born: June 14, 1937
Died: December 18, 1990
in Naples, Italy
Orazio Orlando (14 June 1933 – 18 December 1990) was an Italian film, stage and television actor.

He is best remembered for his film roles in Elio Petri's Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) and Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973), Pupi Avati's Help Me Dream (1981) and Alberto Bevilacqua's Woman of Wonders, or La donna delle meraviglie (original title) (1985).

At 57 years old, he died of a heart attack on the Teatro Flaiano stage in Rome during the rehearsal of the play Ad Eva aggiungi Eva.

Movies for Orazio Orlando...

Title: Le Roi mystère
Character: Le Comte Teramo
Released: April 23, 1991
Type: TV
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Title: Il ricatto
Character: Il sottosegretario
Released: April 23, 1989
Type: TV
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The Shatterer
Title: The Shatterer
Released: June 13, 1987
Type: Movie
Following the opening of a Japanese auto factory in Sicily, the head of the company is kidnapped by Sicilian mobsters. This was a co-production between Italy and Japan's Toho Studios.
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Woman of Wonders
Title: Woman of Wonders
Character: Ulisse
Released: September 6, 1985
Type: Movie
In a straightforward yet unexceptional rendering of the life and loves of Alberto (Ben Gazzara), a writer/director approaching the hill though not yet over it, director Alberto Bevilacqua has used his own experiences to fashion a conventional tale about a search for the "perfect woman." His mettlesome neighbor Luisa (Lina Sastri) just will not leave him alone; she was the reason why he ended his marriage to Maura (Claudia Cardinale), but Alberto considers their affair dead and buried. Recently, an anonymous "dream woman" has been calling him for some seductive phone exchanges. As he searches out the identity of the mystery caller he is also distracted by Luisa who starts to insinuate herself back into his affections. Sooner or later, Alberto will just have to decide how to handle his love life, which in the end may only be mesmerizing to himself alone.
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Title: The Octopus
Character: Annibale Corvo
Released: March 11, 1984
Type: TV
An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.
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Unfaithfully Yours
Title: Unfaithfully Yours
Character: Tullio
Released: May 4, 1982
Type: Movie
An omnibus of two different stories: In the first a divorced couple (actress wife and director husband) refresh their old passions via their common flat. In the second a well-to-do dentist-wife is attacked by her petty bourgeois family when she writes a sex novel.
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Help Me Dream
Title: Help Me Dream
Character: Guido
Released: March 26, 1981
Type: Movie
In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the villa she finds her childhood friends and her old love Guido, who has not forgotten her. Francesca has a passion for everything that comes from America, like music and cinema. She even tells her daughters that her husband who died in the war would actually leave for the USA, where he would live.
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Speed Driver
Title: Speed Driver
Character: Napoli
Released: December 4, 1980
Type: Movie
Rudi is forced into racing for a kingpin drug dealer, but after the murder of his brother he swears revenge.
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Tigers in Lipstick
Title: Tigers in Lipstick
Character: Fioroni / The Arab
Released: March 16, 1979
Type: Movie
8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.
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Traffic Jam
Title: Traffic Jam
Character: Ferreri
Released: January 12, 1979
Type: Movie
A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in a massive Roman traffic jam are told.
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Corleone
Title: Corleone
Character: Pubblico Ministero
Released: November 10, 1978
Type: Movie
Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia shadow?
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Highway Racer
Title: Highway Racer
Character: Silicato
Released: October 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Maurizio Merli stars as a hot-shot police driver who has more guts than brains, often landing him in hot water with his middle-aged mentor, who was once a legendary police interceptor responsible for numerous large scale arrests.
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Latin Male Wanted
Title: Latin Male Wanted
Character: Gennarino
Released: February 28, 1977
Type: Movie
A film in 5 segments. The first is about a trafficker who takes a German tourist to an illegal sex market in a working-class neighborhood. The second involves an elderly man courting a young adult film star. The third, a thief seduces a man's wife. The fourth involves an Italian immigrant in Germany who is fired and subsequently offered work as a porn actor. Finally the last segment involves a baron who convinces his wife into a swinging.
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Il mostro
Title: Il mostro
Character: Pisani
Released: January 10, 1977
Type: Movie
A low rank journalist at Tribuna Sera newspaper receives a letter one day. His correspondence contains a serial killer's letters, which he exploits.
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Evil Thoughts
Title: Evil Thoughts
Character: avvocato Borderò
Released: October 26, 1976
Type: Movie
Mario Marani is a well-respected lawyer in late 70s Milan, with a wonderful wife and a high social life. But Mario has a problem: every time he sees his wife talking to one of their friends he immediately visualises them in a hot affair. His jealousy spirals out of control, until a young man who hides inside their flat crosses his path.
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Stream Line
Title: Stream Line
Character: Amedeo
Released: May 6, 1976
Type: Movie
Rome, October 16, 1943. The Germans deport the relatives and friends of the little Giacomo Treves who fortunately escapes capture. The child is entrusted by a priest, Don Luigi.
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Italy is Rotten
Title: Italy is Rotten
Character: Oronzo
Released: April 13, 1976
Type: Movie
Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to return to their native land. Along for the ride with them is Domenica, a beautiful girl from Veneto, who had arrived in Turin in search of work, but due to a number of setbacks, had been forced into prostitution.
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The Flower in His Mouth
Title: The Flower in His Mouth
Character: Pretore Occhipinti
Released: October 30, 1975
Type: Movie
A female school teacher is implicated in a murder in a Sicilian town only hours after her arrival. The dead man insulted her on the bus on the way into town. As the mystery unfolds, it becomes clear that the town is hiding some very sinister secrets.
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Policewoman
Title: Policewoman
Character: Pretore Patanè
Released: October 24, 1974
Type: Movie
A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.
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Lovers and Other Relatives
Title: Lovers and Other Relatives
Character: Renzo
Released: June 6, 1974
Type: Movie
Sandro dreams about a woman older than himself. He works as a lifeguard at the beach and at the same time he's caring for a large number of sexually unsatisfied women who are coming for the weekend without their husbands.
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The Handsome Devil
Title: The Handsome Devil
Character: Avv. Pantaleo Fortis
Released: June 4, 1974
Type: Movie
Deep South Italian seventies. The performing and penniless sales representative "Tano" Avallone, fell in love with the beautiful Mariangela, sixteen-year-old daughter of the widowed lawyer "Totonno" Fortis Pantaleo. In order to approach the girl, he enters the graces of the professional, posing as his childhood friend and saying he is willing to eliminate the elderly Donna Mercedes, mother of these, so that he can inherit the substances. Guest of the family, Tano finds himself involved in a whirlwind of feminine attentions, including the free-range governess Immaculate, unnecessarily coveted by the lawyer, and the servant Sisina, desired by the parish priest.
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The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Title: The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Character: Nicola
Released: March 29, 1974
Type: Movie
Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.
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Brigitte, Laura, Ursula, Monica, Raquel, Litz, Florinda, Barbara, Claudia, e Sofia le chiamo tutte... anima mia
Title: Brigitte, Laura, Ursula, Monica, Raquel, Litz, Florinda, Barbara, Claudia, e Sofia le chiamo tutte... anima mia
Character: Franco Donati
Released: January 24, 1974
Type: Movie
Insatiable playboy Marco Donati decides to marry his latest flame, the beautiful Francesca. When the news gets into local newspapers, many of his former lovers are annoyed.
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Property Is No Longer a Theft
Title: Property Is No Longer a Theft
Character: Brigadier Pirelli
Released: October 3, 1973
Type: Movie
A young bank teller, literally allergic to paper money, becomes the worst nightmare of his best customer, a wealthy butcher who manages his business unscrupulously.
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Amore mio, uccidimi!
Title: Amore mio, uccidimi!
Character: Riccardo
Released: August 20, 1973
Type: Movie
Manny Baxter is furious: his wife has run away with her lover Guido. Manny is rich and jealous and will use all the power of his money to prevent his wife Laureen and Guido from being happy together. And, first things first, he will keep them from leaving Manila where they are now for Bangkok as they are planning.
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Title: Qui squadra mobile
Character: Fernando Solmi
Released: May 8, 1973
Type: TV
Qui squadra mobile is an Italian television series.
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It Was I
Title: It Was I
Character: Commissioner
Released: March 15, 1973
Type: Movie
A humble Milanese window-cleaner with dreams of magazine and TV fame accuses himself of the murder of a soprano from La Scala.
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Orders are Orders
Title: Orders are Orders
Character: Amedeo
Released: April 13, 1972
Type: Movie
Giorgia, an unhappy housewife tired of marriage with her husband Amedeo, starts to hear a voice that orders her to perform actions out of the ordinary.
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Title: The Adventures of Pinocchio
Character: Maresciallo
Released: April 8, 1972
Type: TV
Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastero Cherry, he decides to build himself a puppet to make him company.
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The Boxer
Title: The Boxer
Character: Mike Durrell / Mike Dugall
Released: February 2, 1972
Type: Movie
Boxer Teddy Wilcox leaves his manager and relocates. He finds Nick, a manager/trainer. Before Wilcox's first fight, Nick receives a threat-- Wilcox loses, or Nick will die.
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The Superwitness
Title: The Superwitness
Character: Charlot, il secondino capo
Released: March 16, 1971
Type: Movie
Comedy about a man who is sentenced to life imprisonment mainly because of a woman's testimony, but she later marries him during his sentence
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Waterloo
Title: Waterloo
Character: Constant
Released: October 26, 1970
Type: Movie
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
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Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Title: Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Character: Biglia
Released: October 16, 1970
Type: Movie
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.
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The Conjugal Debt
Title: The Conjugal Debt
Character: Romolo
Released: September 28, 1970
Type: Movie
Romolo, a man lazy and devoid of any interest, has been married for ten years with Ines, the owner of a small service station. Tired of supporting his despotic and demanding wife, Romolo searches for a way out and finds it when Orazio, a former fellow soldier, who lives by his wits, invites him to roam freely with him around the world.
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The Trojan Women
Title: The Trojan Women
Character: Taltibio
Released: February 17, 1967
Type: Movie
In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio Cetrangolo, but creates an original way of film adaptation, inspired by the Brechtian conception of staging the ancient theater. He does not use costume or set design, but is based only on the simple performance of the actors, highlighted by the shooting technique. The absolute sense of tragedy is perceived by the public through emotional engagement and imagination. So, the Trojan war is all the wars and the pain of the Trojan women is the pain of all the victims of any war.
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The Dolls
Title: The Dolls
Character: Richetto, amante (segment "La minestra")
Released: January 27, 1965
Type: Movie
This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise on Eugenics", written by Tullio Pinelli from a story by Luciano Salce and Steno, directed by Luigi Comencini. "The Soup", written by Rodolfo Sonego and Luigi Magni, directed by Franco Rossi. "Monsignor Cupid", written by Leo Benvenuti and Piero de Bernardi from a story by Boccaccio, directed by Mauro Bolognini.
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Un'ombra su Maigret
Title: Un'ombra su Maigret
Character: Gerard Pardon
Released: December 27, 1964
Type: Movie
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Mia famiglia
Title: Mia famiglia
Released: April 15, 1964
Type: Movie
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La paura numero uno
Title: La paura numero uno
Character: Antonio
Released: March 18, 1964
Type: Movie