Pier Paolo Capponi

Pier Paolo Capponi

Born: June 9, 1938
Died: February 15, 2018
in Subiaco, Rome, Italy
Pier Paolo Capponi (9 June 1938 – 15 February 2018) was an Italian actor and screenwriter.

Born in Subiaco, after his studies Capponi attended a theater school and later was chosen by director Vittorio De Seta for an important role in Un uomo a metà. His film career was divided equally between auteur films (with, among others, Paolo e Vittorio Taviani, Valerio Zurlini, Gérard Corbiau, Francesco Rosi and Nelo Risi) and genre films, in which he was sometimes credited as Norman Clark. On the big screen with some regularity for a decade, after 1977 Capponi focused his appearances on TV series and on stage.

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The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
Title: The Bankers of God: The Calvi Affair
Character: Roberto Rosone
Released: March 7, 2002
Type: Movie
A reconstruction of the bankruptcy of the Banco Ambrosiano bank and its liaisons with the Vatican and the Masonry through its president Roberto Calvi, notoriously found dead under the Blackfriars Bridge in London in June 1982.
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Heart and Sword
Title: Heart and Sword
Character: Dinas
Released: November 22, 1998
Type: Movie
After the death of his father, prince Tristan is living in Cornwall at the court of his uncle, King Marke, who treats him like a son. When the Irish king sends his son Morold over to demand high tax payments, Tristan challenges him to combat. He manages to kill Morold but is very badly injured, and is placed in a boat to be healed by the magic powers of the sea, which takes him across to Ireland.
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Title: L'avvocato delle donne
Character: Giudice
Released: February 14, 1997
Type: TV
L'avvocato delle donne is an Italian television series.
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Farinelli
Title: Farinelli
Character: Broschi
Released: December 1, 1994
Type: Movie
The life and career of Italian opera singer Farinelli, considered one of the greatest castrato singers of all time.
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Uno a me, uno a te e uno a Raffaele
Title: Uno a me, uno a te e uno a Raffaele
Character: The Lawyer
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
An American independent director comes to Italy to shoot a film. But inconveniences and obstacles stand in the way at every step. These are the years in which “Tangentopoli” rages and the golden rule of officials and collaborators is “one (bribe) to you, one to me, one to Raffaele”.
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Fiorile
Title: Fiorile
Character: Duilio
Released: June 6, 1993
Type: Movie
The Benedetti family's wealth comes from gold stolen from the French army during the 18th century. When Jean (Michael Vartan), the lieutenant guarding the coins -- and lover of Elisabette Benedetti (Galatea Ranzi) -- is executed for a crime he did not commit, Elisabette curses the family. Bad luck travels from generation to generation. As the latest Benedettis tell their children about their eccentric grandfather, the children worry that the family curse will be passed on.
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Au nom du père et du fils
Title: Au nom du père et du fils
Released: February 26, 1992
Type: Movie
Patrice's father was murdered in 1978. Time has done nothing to erase the pain, the anger, the questions and the regrets caused by the tragedy. Twelve years later, Patrice enrolls his son with him on a search about his past and his roots.
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A Season of Giants
Title: A Season of Giants
Character: Burchard
Released: November 4, 1990
Type: Movie
At the turn of the sixteenth century, Michelangelo (Mark Frankel), Raphael (Andrea Prodan), and Leonardo Da Vinci (John Glover) create their masterpieces, while dealing with religious persecution, political turmoil, and the discovery of America.
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Champagne Charlie
Title: Champagne Charlie
Character: M. de Ghuilain
Released: April 12, 1989
Type: Movie
This is the story of the Charles Heidsieck who opened the market for Champagne sales in America just prior to the American Civil War. He is a reluctant French spy and is captured and spends time in a Union prison. There are two parallel love stories (he is French) and some battles with his uncle for control of the family vineyard (because his father married his mother who the uncle also loved).
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Bankomatt
Title: Bankomatt
Character: Impiegato banca
Released: February 13, 1989
Type: Movie
With three of his companions in a fatal gas-station robbery drowned while evading a police roadblock, the surviving young thug has no reason to turn himself in to the police, since they don't know about his existence. At least, that's the way his rescuer Bruno (Bruno Ganz) sees it. Besides, Bruno needs such an overly enterprising fellow to help him pull off a really big heist that he's been planning for a long time. It takes some doing, but the boy and his girlfriend are recruited by the older man, who has been keeping a low profile by working as a gardener.
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Title: Race for the Bomb
Character: Enrico Fermi
Released: February 1, 1987
Type: TV
A dramatization of the human, scientific and historical aspects leading to the development of the first atomic bomb.
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Mussolini and I
Title: Mussolini and I
Character: Don Chiot
Released: April 14, 1985
Type: Movie
A compelling drama/documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce himself, from his days as a terrorist to his alliance with Hitler to the betrayal of his son-in-law and untimely demise.
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L'enigma delle due sorelle
Title: L'enigma delle due sorelle
Character: Il Giudice
Released: January 27, 1980
Type: Movie
Rome, Nora Mariani, an established photographer at an advertising agency, Signal, is haunted by strange phone calls in which a female voice tells her that she is her sister Claudia, who died following a road accident that occurred two years earlier in Germany, in which Nora, who was driving the car, and a German hitchhiker, to whom the two had given a lift, had also been involved; Because of that trauma, Nora was no longer able to drive. The phone calls are increasingly frequent and insistent, so much so that Nora becomes convinced that her sister is still alive.
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Blood and Diamonds
Title: Blood and Diamonds
Character: Tony
Released: March 17, 1978
Type: Movie
A man is arrested and condemned to five years in jail for robbery. After serving his term, he is out for revenge on the gang members he considers were to blame for his arrest. The prize for this deadly fight is a large cache of diamonds.
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Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
Title: Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
Released: February 6, 1977
Type: Movie
Antonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist tribunals, relives the stages of his political career and private life.
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Title: Dov'è Anna?
Character: Commissario Bramante
Released: January 13, 1976
Type: TV
Italian mini series
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The Last Desperate Hours
Title: The Last Desperate Hours
Character: The Inspector
Released: November 28, 1974
Type: Movie
Paolo Mancuso is a gang boss whose rivals want dead. During a failed assassination attempt, he is bitten by an infected lab rat. In the short time he has left to live, he tracks down his enemies and kills them one by one.
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Title: Il giovane Garibaldi
Released: February 10, 1974
Type: TV
Miniseries about the early life of Garibaldi.
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Three Cheers for Us
Title: Three Cheers for Us
Character: Rufo
Released: January 19, 1974
Type: Movie
A story about ten year old Enrico who spends the summer in the village mostly playing Indians with his friends.
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The Castro's Abbess
Title: The Castro's Abbess
Character: Francesco Cittadini
Released: January 2, 1974
Type: Movie
A young woman is forced into a convent. However, due to her nobility she rises to be an abbess. She has to deal with corruption in the church.
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The Author's Crime
Title: The Author's Crime
Character: Marco Girardi
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Against the wishes of her Aunt Valeria, attractive Milena travels to Milan in order to secretly marry Marco Giraldi. Three years later, Milena returns to her hometown Fermo, where her husband's shoe business is in financial difficulties. Shortly afterwards, she is abducted, a valuable painting is stolen and Aunt Valeriais murdered. Two young villains, who carried out the dirty work, are then killed...
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The Boss
Title: The Boss
Character: Cocchi
Released: February 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians.
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The Nun and the Devil
Title: The Nun and the Devil
Character: Don Carlos
Released: January 25, 1973
Type: Movie
It's 1577. The Mother Superior at the convent of Archangel is seriously ill. The determined and calculating Mother Giulia plots to become the next Mother Superior. She receives tough competition from tormented lesbian Sister Chiara and the lusty Sister Carmela.
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Valerie Inside Outside
Title: Valerie Inside Outside
Character: David Rocchi
Released: May 30, 1972
Type: Movie
The story of a young. beautiful and very frustrated woman screwing everything in sight in every possible location. She is married to a famous choreographer. She has everything material she wants: clothes, a fancy home, jewelry, servants. Except one thing: her husband refuses to have sex with her because she wants to get pregnant and have a child.
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Seven Blood-Stained Orchids
Title: Seven Blood-Stained Orchids
Character: Inspector Vismara
Released: February 24, 1972
Type: Movie
A maniac on the loose is committing savage acts of slaughter, and one survivor may be the only key to unmasking the serial slayer known as the Half-Moon Killer. The mysterious half-moon lockets he leaves with his victims could be the only key to unraveling his sinister motives, but will that be enough before he completes his ice-cold plot to claim his intended seven victims?
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There Once Was a Cop
Title: There Once Was a Cop
Character: Ugo (uncredited)
Released: February 11, 1972
Type: Movie
Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving husband with child - something that is not so easy for a confirmed single like Campana. Unfortunately American killers chase behind the Nice mafia clan too, in order to get control of French drug trades to USA.
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Sergeant Klems
Title: Sergeant Klems
Character: Mohamed Abdel Krim
Released: December 3, 1971
Type: Movie
A man masquerading as a dead soldier seeks to desert his post and join the enemy in their struggle.
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Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
Title: Tre donne - 1943: Un incontro
Released: October 3, 1971
Type: Movie
This vehicle for the great actress Anna Magnani was one of the four made for Italian television and shown in 1971-1972 at the end of her career. The other three were "La sciantosa," "Correva l'anno di grazia 1870," and "L'automobile" and were all directed by Alfredo Giannetti.
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A Season in Hell
Title: A Season in Hell
Released: September 10, 1971
Type: Movie
The tumultuous life of Arthur Rimbaud, the cursed poet, who completed his masterwork at the age of twenty, became an arms dealer and died at thirty-seven; and his passionate relationship with Paul Verlaine, full of wanderings, storms and falling out.
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The Cat o' Nine Tails
Title: The Cat o' Nine Tails
Character: Police Supt. Spini
Released: February 12, 1971
Type: Movie
A reporter and a blind, retired journalist try to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to experiments by a pharmaceutical company in secret research. The two end up becoming targets of the killer.
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The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion
Title: The Forbidden Photos of a Lady Above Suspicion
Character: Peter
Released: November 27, 1970
Type: Movie
The wife of a financially struggling businessman is blackmailed by a mysterious man into having a sadistic relationship with him, or he will release damning evidence that suggests that her husband is a murderer.
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Defeat of the Mafia
Title: Defeat of the Mafia
Character: Scott Luce
Released: November 20, 1970
Type: Movie
At the Rome airport two men are taken into custody. Inspector Scott Luce thinks their two suit-cases are full of drugs, but the suit-cases contains only white powder. Afterwards the corpse of Susan Palmer is found. She was a drug runner for the Cosa Nostra boss Frankie Agostino. Susan's friend, Jenny Ryan, meets a mysterious man from America, Arthur Ardigan, supposedly her cousin. In the meantime Inspector Luce is investigating.
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Many Wars Ago
Title: Many Wars Ago
Character: Lt. Santini
Released: September 17, 1970
Type: Movie
Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the same disastrous results. As casualties mount, indignation spreads among the rank and file. Disturbed by his superiors' decisions, Lieutenant Sassu is led to question the purpose of war and reconsider where his real duties lie.
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Black Lemons
Title: Black Lemons
Character: Francesco Macaluso
Released: April 23, 1970
Type: Movie
Rosario Inzulìa, a young man involved with the Mafia, was sentenced to labor camp, forced to pay also for crimes he didn't commit. After eight long years of imprisonment he's finally released. Rosario goes back to Sicily, where he learns that his wife died in an accident. He tries to rebuild his life, but when he finds out that his wife was murdered, he decides that it's time to take action: alone against the Mafia!
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Nailed Lips
Title: Nailed Lips
Character: Francesco
Released: February 12, 1970
Type: Movie
A young commissioner investigates the murder of a Sicilian criminal with the help of a social worker.
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Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It
Title: Kill the Fatted Calf and Roast It
Character: The Private Detective
Released: February 2, 1970
Type: Movie
After many years of living abroad, a troubled young man returns home due to the death of his father (who he suspects was actually murdered). He attempts to untangle that mystery while still carrying an unhealthy obsession toward his mother, who committed suicide ten years ago. This obsession then draws in his attractive cousin and takes a sexual turn.
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Naked Violence
Title: Naked Violence
Character: Marco Lamberti
Released: November 10, 1969
Type: Movie
Some youngsters rape and kill their teacher; but they won't tell their motivation. The police detective on the case feels some sinister influence behind the young murderers.
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The Lady of Monza
Title: The Lady of Monza
Character: Count Taverna
Released: February 26, 1969
Type: Movie
A true story taken from the archives of the archdiocese of Milan. Based on the life of Marianna De Leyva, better known as "The Nun of Monza," a 17th century nun accused of and tried by the church for breaking celibacy and plotting murder.
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Bandits in Rome
Title: Bandits in Rome
Character: Director of Supermarket
Released: November 20, 1968
Type: Movie
After professional stickup man Mario Corda is jailed, his young, ambitious partner -- who covets both Corda's life and his wife -- cuts loose, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.
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Commandos
Title: Commandos
Character: Corbi
Released: November 19, 1968
Type: Movie
Sgt. Sullivan puts together a group of Italian-Americans into disguise as Italian soldiers in order to infiltrate a North African camp held by the Italians. After the soldiers have knifed the Italians in their beds, they find a hooker living at the camp. Sullivan's commandos are to hold this camp and its weaponry until an American battalion arrives, all the while these Italian-Americans pretend to be Italian soldiers, often hosting the enemy. Lt. Valli is a young, "green," by-the-book officer who constantly argues with Sgt. Sullivan, who tells his superior that he has no idea what he is doing. One man on the base, probably a touch from Argento, is an entomologist who is needlessly killed. Things go terribly wrong after that.
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Il gatto selvaggio
Title: Il gatto selvaggio
Released: October 2, 1968
Type: Movie
A typical 1968 film, it is directed in an elliptical style by the author, who builds a political theorem on the link between violence and revolution.
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Black Jesus
Title: Black Jesus
Character: Officer
Released: May 16, 1968
Type: Movie
A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ-like leader determined to save his people, by passive resistance, from the dictatorial regime propped up by European colonialists, is imprisoned and tortured, along with a thief who comes to a greater understanding through his contact with Lalubi.
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Frame Up
Title: Frame Up
Character: O'Neil
Released: April 13, 1968
Type: Movie
Henry Silva is the police inspector Sterling who is devastated when a gang of robbers kill his son. He then becomes accused of having killed a police informer and is kicked out of the police department. His life seems ruined. To clear his name he will have to take the law into his own hands, and excitement will ensue!
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Avenger X
Title: Avenger X
Character: Mister X
Released: May 13, 1967
Type: Movie
A retired ex-criminal, the notorious Mister X, must clear his name when an up-and-comer commits a heinous copycat crime.
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My Name Is Pecos
Title: My Name Is Pecos
Character: Joe Kline
Released: December 22, 1966
Type: Movie
Pecos Martinez rides into Houston looking to settle an old score with gang leader Clane, who is after the money that disappearred from a recent robbery. The hunt for the loot and Pecos' quest become intertwined with the efforts of the locals to stay alive long enough for help to arrive. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
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King of Hearts
Title: King of Hearts
Character: Un officier anglais
Released: December 21, 1966
Type: Movie
An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.
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Almost a Man
Title: Almost a Man
Character: Ugo
Released: September 22, 1966
Type: Movie
A young writer descends into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Michele retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to the brink of suicide before being sent to an asylum for shock therapy. Escaping from the asylum, Michele returns to his boyhood home, where he learns the reasons for his present mental state.
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Our Man in Casablanca
Title: Our Man in Casablanca
Character: Hermann von Heufen
Released: August 19, 1966
Type: Movie
A man whose hand has been replaced by a steel one finds that his new hand has the ability to retain enough electricity so he can kill his enemies, which is exactly what he starts to do.
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The 10th Victim
Title: The 10th Victim
Character: Terrace Snack Bar Manager (uncredited)
Released: December 2, 1965
Type: Movie
In the near future, big wars are avoided by giving individuals with violent tendencies a chance to kill in the Big Hunt. The Hunt is the most popular form of entertainment in the world and also attracts participants who are looking for fame and fortune. It includes ten rounds for each competitor, five as the hunter and five as the victim.