Sergio Fantoni

Sergio Fantoni

Born: August 7, 1930
Died: April 17, 2020
in Rome, Lazio, Italy
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Sergio Fantoni, (born 7 August 1930) is an Italian actor.

He was born in Rome, the son of actor Cesare Fantoni (1905 - 1963). In films from the late 1940s, he has worked mainly in his own country but made several appearances in American films in the 1960s, most notably opposite Frank Sinatra in the war film Von Ryan's Express, made in 1965. Among his TV roles, he appeared alongside Anglo-Italian actress Cherie Lunghi in the Channel 4 series The Manageress.

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Title: Inspector Montalbano
Character: Maestro Cataldo Barbera
Released: May 6, 1999
Type: TV
Inspector Montalbano is an Italian television series produced and broadcast by RAI since 1999, based on the detective novels of Andrea Camilleri. The protagonist is Commissario Salvo Montalbano, and the stories are set in the imaginary town of Vigata, Sicily. In 2012 the series generated a prequel, Il giovane Montalbano.
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Title: A che punto è la notte
Character: Ingegner Musumanno
Released: December 14, 1994
Type: TV
In Turin, a priest is killed by the explosion of a candle and Commissioner Santamaria has to unravel the problem.
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A che punto è la notte
Title: A che punto è la notte
Character: Ingegner Musumanno
Released: April 7, 1994
Type: Movie
In Turin, a fanatic priest dies falling from the pulpit, killed by the explosion of a candle. A second assassination, that of a Carabinieri Marshal, complicates the investigation - but before he died, the Marshal managed to wrote down the word "Topos". Commissioner Santamaria now has to unravel the problem.
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Title: Charlemagne
Character: Papst Hadrien
Released: February 28, 1993
Type: TV
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval is a 1993 television miniseries about the life of Charlemagne. It consists of five episodes and covers the period from the death of his father, Pepin the Short in AD 768 until Charlemagne's corronation as the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, AD 800. However, there is a minor chronological anachronism: in an earlier episode, we see Widukind, the king of the Saxons surrender and convert to Christianity, which didn't happen until AD 803. This program was directed by Clive Donner and based primarily on the contemporary biography of Charlemagne written by Einhard, who knew Charlemagne personally.
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Per non dimenticare
Title: Per non dimenticare
Released: October 1, 1992
Type: Movie
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Title: Mission: Eureka
Character: Petrinelli
Released: October 9, 1989
Type: TV
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Zeno's Conscience
Title: Zeno's Conscience
Character: Dottor S.
Released: April 14, 1988
Type: Movie
La coscienza di Zeno is a TV adaptation of the 1923 novel by Italo Svevo. It was broadcasted by RAI in 1988.
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Una vittoria (TV)
Title: Una vittoria (TV)
Released: February 7, 1988
Type: Movie
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Private Affairs
Title: Private Affairs
Character: Dirigente Rai
Released: December 29, 1987
Type: Movie
Romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the fashion and television world of Rome.
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The Belly of an Architect
Title: The Belly of an Architect
Character: Io Speckler
Released: September 23, 1987
Type: Movie
The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures. Tirelessly dedicated to the project, Kracklite's marriage quickly dissolves along with his health.
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Title: Le Tiroir secret
Character: Franco Pinelli
Released: December 5, 1986
Type: TV
Le Tiroir secret is a 1986 French family drama TV mini-series directed by Michel Boisrond, Edouard Molinaro, Nadine Trintignant and Roger Gillioz. The screenplay was written by Danièle Thompson, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Patrick Besson and Roger Grenier. The music score is by Vladimir Cosma. It was released on DVD in France on 18 October 2006. It tells the story of a woman who suspects that her husband had in fact led a double life.
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The Fifth Missile
Title: The Fifth Missile
Character: Pietro
Released: February 23, 1986
Type: Movie
The crew of a Polaris submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken by toxic poisoning. One of the poison's effects is to make its victims hallucinate, and the sub's captain imagines that he has been given an order to actually attack Russia. He prepares to do exactly that.
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Love Lies
Title: Love Lies
Character: Carniato
Released: March 19, 1983
Type: Movie
After a harrowing breakup, Marcel returns to his favorite hotel to find his room occupied by a journalist, whom he attempts to impress.
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Un reietto delle isole
Title: Un reietto delle isole
Released: October 31, 1980
Type: Movie
TV-adaptation of Joseph Conrad's "Outcast of the Islands".
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Candida
Title: Candida
Character: Morell
Released: April 5, 1980
Type: Movie
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L'inconveniente
Title: L'inconveniente
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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Title: The Green Trail
Character: Thomas Norton
Released: December 21, 1975
Type: TV
Set in the USA, the plot concerns Thomas Norton, a researcher in the field of lie detection, who provides his services to courts and private industry. One day he idly attaches electrodes to a plant in his office, and is surprised to find it responds with recognisable emotional reactions to the stimuli he gives it. He pursues this research, and keeps a plant wired up in his lab. When a woman who lives in his building is mysteriously murdered in his lab, the plant is the only witness to the crime.
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Title: Anna Karenina
Character: Constantino Levin
Released: November 10, 1974
Type: TV
A miniseries based on the novel by Leo Tolstoi.
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Chance and Violence
Title: Chance and Violence
Character: Inspecteur Tanner
Released: February 4, 1974
Type: Movie
A sociologist specialising in criminology moves to a peaceful residence on the Côte d’Azur so that he can concentrate on writing a thesis. When he is attacked by a karate fanatic, he decides not to press charges. He refuses help from the police, preferring to take care of himself...
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Una chica y un señor
Title: Una chica y un señor
Character: El Señor
Released: January 7, 1974
Type: Movie
The life of a young attractive singer in search of success changes when he meets an accomplished lawyer, considerably older than her. Their romance will lead to a love story in which the age difference will add to the couple a relationship problem…
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The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun
Title: The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun
Character: Andrei
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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The Bloody Hands of the Law
Title: The Bloody Hands of the Law
Character: Musante
Released: March 11, 1973
Type: Movie
When a crime boss is murdered while in hospital, a young woman sees the killers, but her room mate convinces her not to tell the police, fearing the consequences. Unfortunately the murderers realize that they have been seen, and kill both women. Catching the killers proves difficult as anyone who knows anything dies in unexplained circumstances. It becomes evident that a large and powerful criminal organization is behind the murders, and that they have links within the police force. It is up to Lt. Carmine to see that justice prevails, using any means necessary.
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Bad Man's River
Title: Bad Man's River
Character: Colonel Enrique Fierro
Released: December 3, 1971
Type: Movie
Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government of one million dollars.
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Sacco & Vanzetti
Title: Sacco & Vanzetti
Character: Consul Giuseppe Andrower
Released: March 16, 1971
Type: Movie
Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.
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Hornets' Nest
Title: Hornets' Nest
Character: Von Hecht
Released: September 8, 1970
Type: Movie
An American commando who's the sole survivor of a parachute jump into WWII-era Italy leads a group of children in a campaign of sabotage against the Nazis.
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Oliver Cromwell: Ritratto di un dittatore
Title: Oliver Cromwell: Ritratto di un dittatore
Released: February 4, 1969
Type: Movie
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Diabolically Yours
Title: Diabolically Yours
Character: Fréderic Launay
Released: December 22, 1967
Type: Movie
A wealthy amnesiac begins to suspect that his devoted wife is not really his wife and that he is not the man people keep telling him he is.
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What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
Title: What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
Character: Captain Oppo
Released: August 31, 1966
Type: Movie
A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way. Because of aerial reconnaissance, they must look like they are fighting. To sort this out an intelligence officer is sent in. Meanwhile the festival gets complicated with the Mayors daughter.
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Do Not Disturb
Title: Do Not Disturb
Character: Paul
Released: December 22, 1965
Type: Movie
American Mike Harper, sent to do business in England, moves there with his wife, Janet. But she soon becomes convinced that Mike is carrying on with his attractive new assistant, Claire. Mike also has been spending a considerable amount of time with his British bachelor buddies. Vexed and lonely, Claire hires charming antiques expert Paul to decorate the Harper home and maybe make Mike jealous in the process.
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Von Ryan's Express
Title: Von Ryan's Express
Character: Captain Oriani
Released: June 23, 1965
Type: Movie
Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
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Corpse for the Lady
Title: Corpse for the Lady
Character: Commissario
Released: August 19, 1964
Type: Movie
Laura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and Giovanna in the meantime become a nun to collect the amount requested.
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High Infidelity
Title: High Infidelity
Character: Luigi
Released: January 22, 1964
Type: Movie
Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.
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The Prize
Title: The Prize
Character: Carlo Farelli
Released: December 25, 1963
Type: Movie
A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living. Craig, who is infamous for his drinking and womanizing, formulates a wild theory that physics prize winner Dr. Max Stratman has been replaced by an impostor, embroiling Craig and his chaperone in a Cold War kidnapping plot.
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The Mystery of the Indian Temple
Title: The Mystery of the Indian Temple
Character: Ram Chand
Released: November 20, 1963
Type: Movie
Doctor Palmer, wrongly accused of the murder of a British officer, is a prisoner of the Maharajah of Hasnabad. Doctor Palmer and Gopal, his devoted assistant, escape with the complicity of Amrita
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Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance
Title: Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance
Character: Ram Chand
Released: November 6, 1963
Type: Movie
At the end of the 19th century, during the British rule of India, the goddess Kali commits a number of murders, among which the man who was conducting a cargo of serum to a village infected with disease. Worried with the vast number of fatalities that will result from stopping this shipment, Dr. Palmer asks for help from Major Talbot. The Major suspects about the murderer turn onto the doctor, and he must take refuge in the jungle, after faking his own death by a tiger. Help does come in the shapely form of Amrita, a native dancer, who will give him shelter, and will even free him from a gang of robbers. Dr. Palmer still has a number of real and fantastic adventures until he sees an end to his tribulations...
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The Shortest Day
Title: The Shortest Day
Character: Aiutante del colonnello (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
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Catherine of Russia
Title: Catherine of Russia
Character: Orloff
Released: January 12, 1963
Type: Movie
Caterina finds out that her husband Peter Tzar of Russia, is plotting to kill her. She sets Count Orlov free from prison, Peter's sworn enemy, becomes empress of Russia and leads the Cossacks army against him.
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Ten Italians for One German
Title: Ten Italians for One German
Character: Gilberto di San Severino
Released: December 31, 1961
Type: Movie
A cinematographic account of the reprisal ordered by the ruthless Austrian colonel Kappler in 1944 in Rome. In Via Rasella (Rasella Street) ten Italian civilians were sentenced to death for each German soldier killed in a partisan attempt.
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It's Called Love
Title: It's Called Love
Character: Fabrizio
Released: June 22, 1961
Type: Movie
Story of heavy drinking poet Dichter Albert, who being worn out by much younger Fanny. At the same time Elise, the writer's wife, tries to capture the young Beau Fabrizio, who shows no interest in her.
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Gioventù di notte
Title: Gioventù di notte
Character: Commissario
Released: May 31, 1961
Type: Movie
Elio is a member of a group of youngsters, all from good families, who have fun spending their days taking on silly challenges and perpetrating illicit activities. Their actions escalate and lead them to commit a robbery. Unfortunately, the robbery ends badly and a death ensues, leaving the group implicated in a murder. The police are groping in the dark due to the complexity of the investigation. Meanwhile, Elio meets and falls in love with a nightclub stripper, Suzette. The rest of the group, after a while, think they've got away with it, but make a reckless mistake that allows the police to track them down and arrest them.
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Pigeon Shoot
Title: Pigeon Shoot
Character: Nardi
Released: May 25, 1961
Type: Movie
Young man Marco Laudato, after the '8/9/1943's WW2 armistice, enlists in the Italian Social Republic army, attending the last days of the old regime in decay.
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Blood Feud
Title: Blood Feud
Character: Riccardo
Released: March 11, 1961
Type: Movie
An industrial overpowered by debts decides to kill his creditor. Not having the courage to do it in person, he hired his former employee who needs money.
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Il peccato degli anni verdi
Title: Il peccato degli anni verdi
Character: marito di Giulia Giordani
Released: December 21, 1960
Type: Movie
Released from a boarding school of nuns in Como, the seventeen-year-old Milanese Elena Giordani manages to convince her parents to let her spend the summer holidays together with her Genoese friend Diana D'Aquino in her villa in Rapallo.
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Esther and the King
Title: Esther and the King
Character: Haman
Released: November 18, 1960
Type: Movie
Recently widowed Persian King Ahasuerus wants to marry the beautiful Esther. But Esther is a Jewess, and Haman, the king's evil minister, is spreading hatred against the Jews.
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Escape by Night
Title: Escape by Night
Character: Don Valiero
Released: October 7, 1960
Type: Movie
In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major.
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The Dolphins
Title: The Dolphins
Character: Dr. Mario Corsi
Released: October 5, 1960
Type: Movie
An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly unpleasant group of mostly rich youngsters in a small Adriatic coast city.
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Atom Age Vampire
Title: Atom Age Vampire
Character: Pierre Mornet
Released: August 16, 1960
Type: Movie
When a singer is horribly disfigured in a car accident, a scientist develops a treatment which can restore her beauty by injecting her with a special serum. While performing the procedure, however, he falls in love with her. As the treatment begins to fail, he determines to save her appearance, regardless of how many women he must kill for her sake.
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L'impiegato
Title: L'impiegato
Character: Sergio Jacobetti
Released: January 20, 1960
Type: Movie
Nando is dissatisfied with his repetitive and mortifying work. He manages to escape from daily mediocrity only at night, when he enters his fantasy world.
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The Giant of Marathon
Title: The Giant of Marathon
Character: Teocrito
Released: December 3, 1959
Type: Movie
A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.
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The Night of the Great Attack
Title: The Night of the Great Attack
Character: Marco
Released: October 29, 1959
Type: Movie
In 15th century Romagna rules violence and fright. Cesare Borgia wants to incorporate the duchy of Catherine Sforza. But in between is the independent county Fabis, which he wants to bring into his possession.
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Caterina Sforza, the lioness of Romagna
Title: Caterina Sforza, the lioness of Romagna
Released: June 20, 1959
Type: Movie
Giovanni Medici, the future leader of the Black Bands, has a last meeting in a convent with his dying mother Caterina Sforza, listening to the re-enactment of her life.
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Hercules Unchained
Title: Hercules Unchained
Character: Eteocle
Released: February 14, 1959
Type: Movie
En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger.
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Hell in the City
Title: Hell in the City
Character: Giudice instruttore
Released: January 29, 1959
Type: Movie
A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.
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Senso
Title: Senso
Character: Luca
Released: December 30, 1954
Type: Movie
A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.
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Io sono la Primula Rossa
Title: Io sono la Primula Rossa
Released: December 20, 1954
Type: Movie
Comedy with Renato Rascel
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Ghost Captain
Title: Ghost Captain
Released: November 10, 1953
Type: Movie
A disgraced member of the Spanish Navy must redeem his family's honor after his father betrays his country to the French.
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Wonderful Adventures of Guerrin Meschino
Title: Wonderful Adventures of Guerrin Meschino
Character: Selim
Released: February 13, 1952
Type: Movie
A young man is a servant in the court of a great king of Dalmatia.He was bought when he was still a child ,but he is a high-born gentleman.
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Il leone di Amalfi
Title: Il leone di Amalfi
Released: October 11, 1950
Type: Movie
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Paolo e Francesca
Title: Paolo e Francesca
Character: Servitore (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1950
Type: Movie
The tragic love story, already narrated by Dante in his Inferno, of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Polenta. Francesca is married to Paolo's brother, Gianciotto an old and crippled man and secretly Paolo's mistress. When Gianciotto finds out tragedy ensues.