Silvano Tranquilli

Silvano Tranquilli

Born: August 23, 1925
Died: May 10, 1997
in Rome, Lazio, Italy
Silvano Tranquilli (23 August 1925 – 10 May 1997) was an Italian stage, television and film actor.

Born in Rome, Silvano Tranquilli attended theater lessons at the Sharoff Academy, and started his stage activity with the theatrical companies of Salvo Randone and Vittorio Gassman. In 1959 he made his television debut, and later acted in more than 100 television productions, achieving his main success with the TV-series I ragazzi di padre Tobia. In the early 1960s he also started a prolific film career as character actor.

He died in Rome, at 71, shortly after his theatrical comeback with the company Stabile del Giallo.

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Odore di spigo
Title: Odore di spigo
Character: L'anziano
Released: December 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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Title: Le Retour d'Arsène Lupin
Character: Freud
Released: November 10, 1989
Type: TV
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Don Bosco
Title: Don Bosco
Released: January 31, 1988
Type: Movie
This film depicts the life of Saint John Bosco, who dedicated his life to rescuing abandoned and exploited street children in Turin.
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L'ultimo giorno
Title: L'ultimo giorno
Character: Carlo Salvi
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
An ailing widower finds a pretty woman willing to take care of his 20-year-old retarded son. One day the father and son are separated and the father gives up looking for the boy and returns home. Upon his arrival he sees the boy waiting for him on the step and he's so shocked he has a heart attack.
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The Women of Quiet Country
Title: The Women of Quiet Country
Character: Il prefetto
Released: March 24, 1980
Type: Movie
Italy, late thirties. The regime of Mussolini in the Prime of their Italian volunteers are sent to the civil war in Spain. On the background of a peaceful village landscapes, behind the walls of the old farmhouses Florianna (Carmen Scarpitta - La Orca) creating its own dictatorship: everything runs her brother Guido, requires unquestioning obedience to his will. He believes all women around their property, and, as a rooster in the hen house, must constantly confirm this action. Its problem - the young son Alberto, all is not similar to the father, who dreams of breaking free from the dictatorial care. When the estate is coming with his beautiful cousin Gloria, between young people flashes novel. Guido learns that my sister is going to bequeath his estate «unworthy» to his son. All the heralds tragic ending
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Pumaman
Title: Pumaman
Character: Dobson
Released: February 14, 1980
Type: Movie
Thousands of years ago, aliens visited Earth and fathered the Pumaman, a man-god with supernatural powers entrusted by a gold mask with the ability to control people's minds, which in present-day London, falls into the wrong hands.
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Agenzia Riccardo Finzi... praticamente detective
Title: Agenzia Riccardo Finzi... praticamente detective
Character: Augusto Moser
Released: December 21, 1979
Type: Movie
After graduating in correspondence detective, Riccardo Finzi arrives in Milan. The first case he deals with is the death of a young maid. Cockpit in a surreal yellow from a novel by Luciano Secchi.
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The Stunt
Title: The Stunt
Character: Dr. Milani
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
While on a joy-ride, a group of kids hijack a car belonging to the mob. Little do they know it, but the trunk contains thousands of dollars of dirty money. The mob boss soon sends out his top thug (played by Venantino Venantini) to locate the missing cash and punish the kids who ripped him off.
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Violent Naples
Title: Violent Naples
Character: Paolo Gervasi
Released: August 7, 1976
Type: Movie
Inspector Betti (Maurizio Merli) is transferred to Naples and immediately after his arrival receives a warm welcome from The Commandante (Barry Sullivan), the city's crime lord. Betti then goes on a personal mission against corruption and organized crime, and tries to force the syndicate out of town with any means necessary.
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Title: Dov'è Anna?
Character: Guido Cesari
Released: January 13, 1976
Type: TV
Italian mini series
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Lips of Lurid Blue
Title: Lips of Lurid Blue
Character: David Levi
Released: October 29, 1975
Type: Movie
Elli and Marco are an unquestionably unusual wedded couple. Due to a damage as a kid, Marco harbors homosexual drives that he represses inside his married life and Elli is a barely surpressed nymphomaniac. The marriage is useful for both of them as it allows them to blend in within the confines of their regular social life in a sanctimonious provincial town. But then a strange woman bursts into their world and Marco's deviant behavior come to light again but now he has a thirst for murder.
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Down the Ancient Stairs
Title: Down the Ancient Stairs
Character: professor Rospigliosi
Released: October 17, 1975
Type: Movie
A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. He is also a very active ladies'man and makes three women benefit from his sexual itch: Francesca the hospital manager's wife, Bianca, his devoted nurse and Carla, a nymphomaniac doctor's wife. His well-ordered universe starts being challenged with the coming of Anna, a trainee psychiatrist, who disapproves of his theory on the origin of madness. Worse, she resists his advances. As Bonaccorsi is more insecure than he looks, what will become of him?
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Syndicate Sadists
Title: Syndicate Sadists
Character: Dr. Marco Marsili
Released: August 16, 1975
Type: Movie
A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy and destroying the two families.
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Violent Rome
Title: Violent Rome
Character: Capo della Squadra mobile
Released: August 13, 1975
Type: Movie
A detective sick and tired of the rampant crime and violence in his city, and constantly at odds with his superiors, is finally kicked out of the department for a "questionable" shooting of a vicious criminal. However, he is soon approached by a representative for a group of citizens who themselves are fed up with what they see as criminals going unpunished, and they make him an offer he may very well not refuse.
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Manhunt in the City
Title: Manhunt in the City
Character: Paolo Giordani
Released: May 8, 1975
Type: Movie
A man's daughter is killed by thieves during a bank robbery. Due to the incompetence of the corrupt authorities, he decides to take to law into his own hands and track down the killers.
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So Young, So Lovely, So Vicious...
Title: So Young, So Lovely, So Vicious...
Character: Dr. Batrucchi
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Angela is not happy about her daddy's choice for a new wife and does everything she can to destroy her stepmother-to-be.
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Title: Das Blaue Palais
Character: Louis Palm
Released: October 15, 1974
Type: TV
Das Blaue Palais is a series of five TV feature films written and directed by German author and filmmaker Rainer Erler. All five stories about the research and findings of an interdisciplinary scientific project have also been published as novels by Goldmann in 1978, 1979 and 1980. The series had an international cast. It was shot in Bavaria, Scotland, USA and Asia.
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Madeline, Study of a Nightmare
Title: Madeline, Study of a Nightmare
Character: Dr. Shuman
Released: May 25, 1974
Type: Movie
A young woman is tormented by nightmares of her miscarriage. She becomes unfaithful to her husband and meets various lovers. Eventually, reality begins to unfurl around her.
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Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
Title: Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
Character: Sylvester
Released: November 23, 1973
Type: Movie
There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he'll have the perfect alibi when the bodies start piling up. But it turns out his enemies have enough juice to keep him in prison, his associates start dying and the attempts on his life start. Cue Tony Breda, a wannabe wiseguy, who has a plan to spring Frankie from jail.
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The Legend of Blood Castle
Title: The Legend of Blood Castle
Character: Médico
Released: September 10, 1973
Type: Movie
Countess Elizabeth Bathory conspires with her husband to acquire the blood of virgins to maintain her youth and beauty.
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Tony Arzenta
Title: Tony Arzenta
Character: Montani, the Interpol officer
Released: August 23, 1973
Type: Movie
A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody shootouts - ensue.
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The Violent Professionals
Title: The Violent Professionals
Character: Gianni Viviani
Released: August 22, 1973
Type: Movie
With or without help from law enforcement officers, a lone individual decides to crack down on the syndicate.
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High Crime
Title: High Crime
Character: Franco Griva
Released: August 12, 1973
Type: Movie
An Italian police inspector matches wits with a powerful European drug ring. As he comes closer to the top of the underworld organization, his odds of survival decrease.
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Happy New Year
Title: Happy New Year
Character: Italian Lover
Released: April 13, 1973
Type: Movie
Released from prison under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season Cannes, but also by a very special someone he met there.
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Love and Death on the Edge of a Razor
Title: Love and Death on the Edge of a Razor
Character: Police Inspector
Released: March 24, 1973
Type: Movie
Stefano, the son of a wealthy businessman, meets a beautiful woman named Lidia while accompanying his father to a meeting with a cardinal. He pursues her through the streets of Venice and a romance develops. Upon returning from an overseas business trip, he is informed that Lidia has been killed in an accident. Soon afterwards, he thinks he recognizes her at a building site, but the woman claims to be a reporter who is obviously involved with gangsters. Furthermore, all evidence of Lidia's death has now been obliterated. Stefano continues to investigate the mystery, uncovering family intrigues
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My Wife, A Body to Love
Title: My Wife, A Body to Love
Character: Paolo
Released: January 26, 1973
Type: Movie
The story of a nymphomaniac model with a somewhat older businessman husband.
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The Art of Love
Title: The Art of Love
Character: Andrea
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A married couple, he a failed intellectual, she completely unsatisfied, try to solve their marital crisis by throwing themselves into the arms of two lovers; he a young Swede, she with a handsome Greek man.
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My Body With Anger
Title: My Body With Anger
Released: December 1, 1972
Type: Movie
"Il mio corpo con rabbia" by Roberto Natale has been credited an uncertain and indefinite status between an art and an exploitation movie. Silvia is a daddy's girl who has wanted to have a drug experience only once, but this was enough for her parents to batten down the hatches, on the advice of a doctor, isolating the girl into a luxurious hotel in Sardinia and being vigilant on her "healing". It's out of season, there're almost no people in the compound. But a strange young man is roaming around there, maybe a fugitive, who Silvia starts to have a relationship with. This young man is the figure by whom Roberto Natale clarifies, using him as a reagent, the real key relation, the core of narration, the focus of the movie, which is the link between Silvia and her father.
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So Sweet, So Dead
Title: So Sweet, So Dead
Character: Paolo Santangeli
Released: July 18, 1972
Type: Movie
A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.
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Smile Before Death
Title: Smile Before Death
Character: Marco
Released: May 3, 1972
Type: Movie
After the death of her mother under strange circumstances, a teenage girl quickly begins to suspect that her recently widowed stepfather may be involved.
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You're Jinxed, Friend, You've Met Sacramento
Title: You're Jinxed, Friend, You've Met Sacramento
Character: Doc O'Donnell
Released: April 13, 1972
Type: Movie
This fast-moving tale revolves around the kidnaping of a boxer's daughter. The boxer pays the ransom money but the girl is still not released. Her boyfriend decides to get her back his own way.
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The Cat in Heat
Title: The Cat in Heat
Character: Antonio
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A man returns home to his wife from a business trip only to find a dead body in their yard.
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The Bloodstained Butterfly
Title: The Bloodstained Butterfly
Character: Inspector Berardi
Released: September 10, 1971
Type: Movie
When a young female student is savagely killed in a park during a thunderstorm, the culprit seems obvious: TV sports personality Alessandro Marchi, seen fleeing the scene of the crime by numerous eyewitnesses. The evidence against him is damning... but is it all too convenient? And when the killer strikes again while Marchi is in custody, it quickly becomes apparent that there's more to the case than meets the eye...
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The Double
Title: The Double
Character: Roger
Released: September 5, 1971
Type: Movie
A man is shot in an underground car-park by a mysterious bearded man. As he dies he recollects the events that led him to this situation, including adulterous liaisons and jealous envy.
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Web of the Spider
Title: Web of the Spider
Character: William Perkins
Released: August 26, 1971
Type: Movie
Alan Foster, a professional American journalist, travels to London to meet with Edgar Allen Poe for an interview. While in London, Alan soon finds himself in the company of Lord Blackwood, and Alan accepts a bet to spend a night in his castle
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The Black Belly of the Tarantula
Title: The Black Belly of the Tarantula
Character: Paolo Zani
Released: August 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.
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The Hideout
Title: The Hideout
Character: Aubrey
Released: July 21, 1971
Type: Movie
A jewel thief hides his loot in a WELL while escaping. He returns several years later only to find there is a Resort on the site and the well is the centerpiece of the place. He then has to find a way to retrieve his haul.
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Black Lemons
Title: Black Lemons
Character: Commissario Modica
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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Sunflower
Title: Sunflower
Character: L'operaio italiano
Released: March 14, 1970
Type: Movie
At the end of World War II, Giovanna, a war bride living near Milan refuses to accept that her husband, Antonio, missing on the Russian front, is dead. There's a flashback to their brief courtship near her hometown of Naples, his 12-day leave to marry her, ruses to keep from deployment, and the ultimate farewell. Some years after the war, still with no word from Antonio, Giovanna goes to Russia to find him, starting in the town near the winter battle when he disappeared. Armed with his photograph, what will she find?
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Lonely Hearts
Title: Lonely Hearts
Character: Diego
Released: January 22, 1970
Type: Movie
The marriage of a bored upper class couple gets in a crisis.
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Quella chiara notte d'ottobre
Title: Quella chiara notte d'ottobre
Character: Marcello
Released: January 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A unhappily married woman tries to find happiness with a former lover, but when they witnesses crime, it leads them down a path of self-destruction
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Unknown Woman
Title: Unknown Woman
Character: Zappengo
Released: November 18, 1969
Type: Movie
When an old lady dies two hours before her life insurance expires, the insurance lawyer suspects something dubious. He begins to investigate and he becomes the lover of the old lady's daughter...
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Help Me, My Love
Title: Help Me, My Love
Character: Valerio Mantovani
Released: October 3, 1969
Type: Movie
Giovanni and Raffaella are happily married from ten years, but their relationship goes into crisis when Raffaella falls in love with Valerio Mantovani, a handsome forty-year-old man she knew during the concerts of chamber music she weekly attends with her mother.
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The Invisible Woman
Title: The Invisible Woman
Character: Andrea
Released: September 4, 1969
Type: Movie
Drama about the fading relationship between a professor and his wife. Based upon a short story by Alberto Moravia.
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Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand
Title: Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand
Character: Il tenente Bertolucci
Released: October 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Stuck in a dream world of his own, Italian sculptor Albert Saporito, sometimes has difficulty separating truth from fiction. When he dreams that his gangster neighbor has been murdered, he reports the crime to the police, only to involve himself in a complicated situation.
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I due sanculotti
Title: I due sanculotti
Released: August 13, 1966
Type: Movie
The brothers Franco and Ciccio La Capra moves to France in the days of the French Revolution, putting themselves in a lot of trouble.
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Castle of Blood
Title: Castle of Blood
Character: Edgar Allan Poe
Released: February 27, 1964
Type: Movie
When a cynical journalist accepts a wager that he won't survive the night in a haunted castle, it unlocks an odyssey of sexual torment, undead vengeance, and a dark seductress who surrenders the gravest of pleasures.
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The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
Title: The Horrible Dr. Hichcock
Character: Dr. Kurt Lowe
Released: August 1, 1962
Type: Movie
The year is 1885, and necrophiliac Dr. Hitchcock likes to drug his wife for sexual funeral games. One day he accidentally administers an overdose and kills her. Several years later he remarries, with the intention of using the blood of his new bride to bring his first wife's rotting corpse back to life.
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I piaceri del sabato notte
Title: I piaceri del sabato notte
Character: Il vice commissario
Released: May 4, 1960
Type: Movie
Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution.
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Perfide.... ma belle
Title: Perfide.... ma belle
Character: The Telephone Technician (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1958
Type: Movie
Michele, a young mechanic, is in love with Angela Antonia, beautiful but capricious: the girl's father, once he learns of the relationship, has him fired from the place where he works and is forced to move to Naples. He asks for hospitality from his aunt Carmela, concierge in a building, but she has no vacancies and arranges him as Donna Tecla, the owner of a pension who, having three young daughters eager to get married, hopes to arrange at least one. But the three girls are not the best of beauty and Michele, gifted with a beautiful voice, agrees to sing in a club on behalf of an impresario who becomes his friend.