Benito Stefanelli

Benito Stefanelli

Born: September 2, 1928
Died: December 18, 1999
in Rome, Lazio, Italy
Benito Stefanelli (2 September 1928 – 18 December 1999) was an Italian film actor, stuntman and weapons master who made over 60 appearances in film between 1955 and 1991.

Movies for Benito Stefanelli...

The Pit and the Pendulum
Title: The Pit and the Pendulum
Character: Executioner
Released: June 27, 1991
Type: Movie
Set during the height of Spanish Inquisition. The beautiful and kind-hearted Maria is arrested as a witch when she inadvertently cries out in horror at the public whipping of a child. As Maria’s husband Antonio tries to save her, Torquemada, the Grand Inquisitor, determines to punish Maria with torture for the desire she inflames in him. Loosely based on Edgar Allen Poe's classic short story.
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Transformations
Title: Transformations
Character: Vapes
Released: September 2, 1988
Type: Movie
Wolfgang is traveling in outer space when a monster, which he sees as a beautiful woman, appears in his spaceship and makes love with him. Then the ship is forced to land on a planet which is a penal colony. Here he meets Miranda who falls in love with him. A group of prisoners uses him and his spaceship to fly away from the planet. But the monster which is by now inside Wolfgang arouses and only Miranda's love can save him.
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Phantom of Death
Title: Phantom of Death
Released: March 11, 1988
Type: Movie
Police Comissioner Datti is investigating the murder of a female doctor whose murderer seems to be a thirty-fivish year old man. Soon another murder follows: Pianist Robert Dominici's girlfriend is found killed. The killer also challenges Datti on the phone and says he can't be caught since he has a secret which makes him invulnerable. In the meantime the clues seems to point in strange directions...
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Cobra Verde
Title: Cobra Verde
Character: Pedro Vicente
Released: December 3, 1987
Type: Movie
A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octávio Countinho. Not knowing that his new guest is the notorious bandit and impressed by his ruthless ways, Don Octávio hires Cobra Verde to oversee his slaves. But when Cobra Verde impregnates Don Octávio’s three daughters, the incensed plantation owner exiles the outlaw to Africa where he is expected to reopen the slave trade. Following his trans-Atlantic journey, Cobra Verde exploits tribal conflicts to commandeer an abandoned fortress and whips an army of naked warriors into a frenzied bloodlust as he vies for survival.
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The Barbarians
Title: The Barbarians
Character: Greyshaft
Released: March 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Orphaned brothers Kutchek and Gore are adopted by a tribe led by Canary the owner of a powerful jewel. The evil Kadar wants both Canary and the jewel. Attacking the tribe he kidnaps Canary but the stone eludes him. The brothers are taken to be trained as gladiators and years later have grown to be VERY big. They escape and set off on a quest to find the jewel and rescue Canary.
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Warbus
Title: Warbus
Character: Debrard (as Steve Eliot)
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
The plot concerns a small group of people who are forced to flee from their base (which happens to be a Mission) in an old school bus when the VC launch a vicious assault upon it. Along the way they are joined by a group of three battle hardened American Special Forces soldiers and together they desperately fight to make it to safety.
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Ladyhawke
Title: Ladyhawke
Character: Bishop's Guard
Released: March 27, 1985
Type: Movie
Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day. Together, with the thief Philippe Gaston, they must try to overthrow the corrupt Bishop and in doing so break the spell.
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Ironmaster
Title: Ironmaster
Character: Iksay
Released: March 10, 1983
Type: Movie
A tale that takes place at the dawn of history. The movie tells the story of a tribe that discovers how to fashion weapons out of iron and use them for their own survival. However, the creation of iron also causes the tribe to battle for possession of the new weapons.
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Pumaman
Title: Pumaman
Character: Rankin - Kobras' Lieutenant
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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Macho Killers
Title: Macho Killers
Released: May 12, 1977
Type: Movie
El Macho is forced to impersonate a dead outlaw killed while stealing a gold shipment. With the help of Kelly he’s able to locate Hidalgo and his outlaw gang.
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Hit Squad
Title: Hit Squad
Character: Lawyer Gorniani
Released: October 29, 1976
Type: Movie
A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the wealthy Mr. Douglas, the thieves are beginning to die.
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Crimebusters
Title: Crimebusters
Released: June 17, 1976
Type: Movie
Major Paolo Altieri of the Paratroopers Corps foils the kidnapping of child, but becomes the victim himself of a violent assault by the bandits. He realises that the criminals have used an experimental machine gun that's used only in his own Corps. Altieri begins to take part in police raids on criminal activities, and ultimately discovers a conspiracy to overthrow the democratic government.
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The Cop in Blue Jeans
Title: The Cop in Blue Jeans
Character: Shelley's Henchman
Released: March 11, 1976
Type: Movie
A top undercover cop finds and arrests a series of purse snatchers until he discovers an American at the top of an evil ring of thieves.
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A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Title: A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
Character: Mortimer
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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White Fang to the Rescue
Title: White Fang to the Rescue
Character: Jackson
Released: February 9, 1975
Type: Movie
Set at the end of the 19th century in Canada's gold rush Klondike area, wolf-dog White Fang teams up with a prospector when his master is killed. Together they try to avenge his death.
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My Name Is Nobody
Title: My Name Is Nobody
Character: Porteley
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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Battle of the Amazons
Title: Battle of the Amazons
Character: Erno
Released: August 11, 1973
Type: Movie
A tribe of vicious female warriors terrorizes the countryside, and especially the males, until one day the men and some local villagers decide to fight back.
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A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die
Title: A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die
Character: Piggott
Released: December 27, 1972
Type: Movie
A dishonored Union Army officer leads a group of convicts to retake Fort Holman from the Confederate Army.
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So Sweet, So Dead
Title: So Sweet, So Dead
Character: Lilly's husband
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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Trinity Is Still My Name
Title: Trinity Is Still My Name
Character: Stingary Smith
Released: October 21, 1971
Type: Movie
The two brothers Trinity and Bambino are exchanged by two federal agents and take advantage of the situation to steal a huge booty hidden in a monastery by a gang of outlaws.
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Duck, You Sucker
Title: Duck, You Sucker
Released: October 20, 1971
Type: Movie
At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.
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The Story of Romance and Knife
Title: The Story of Romance and Knife
Character: Alfredo Di Lorenzo
Released: September 18, 1971
Type: Movie
The story of fish-monger Nino of Rione Borgo. Nino is in love with Rosa but he always manages to postpone their wedding.
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Night of the Serpent
Title: Night of the Serpent
Character: Pancho
Released: December 23, 1969
Type: Movie
Hernandez, the sheriff of a small Mexican village, joins a group of townsmen with the intention of killing young orphan Manuel and robbing him of his inheritance. Killer Luke, now an alcoholic for having murdered his own son by mistake, who is chosen for the task, instead decides to take the defence of the poor child.
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The Price of Power
Title: The Price of Power
Character: Sheriff Jefferson
Released: December 18, 1969
Type: Movie
In 1881 Dallas, an ex-Union soldier attempts to expose a conspiracy of Southerners that killed his father, his friend and President James A. Garfield.
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Cemetery Without Crosses
Title: Cemetery Without Crosses
Character: Ben Caine
Released: January 25, 1969
Type: Movie
Maria seeks revenge on the killers of her husband. She enlists the help of her husband's best friend, Manual, a reluctant, but skilled, gunfighter.
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A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof
Title: A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof
Released: August 14, 1968
Type: Movie
The bandit Pratt, looking for Tim, who is responsible for the death of his two sons, attacks a caravan killing all the passengers. Harry, the vagabond, after having robbed the dead, casually meets Tim and they become friends. Running away together from Pratt, they reach Harry's farm, but their hiding place is soon discovered.
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Gunman Sent by God
Title: Gunman Sent by God
Released: February 29, 1968
Type: Movie
Anthony Steffen, as a young gunman who works as a circus performer, witnesses the killing of some outlaws, carried out by their leader and is credited with the deed. Steffen suffers from a complex which blocks him in front of any violence and makes him appear cowardly, so when a young boy is kidnapped he must find a way to regain his composure.
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Day of Anger
Title: Day of Anger
Character: Owen White
Released: December 19, 1967
Type: Movie
A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.
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Kill the Wickeds!
Title: Kill the Wickeds!
Character: Mexican Bandit (uncredited)
Released: August 15, 1967
Type: Movie
A robber decides to hide his loot in a ghost town, helped by his girlfriend and his one remaining man. Keeping it though may be a problem, with the lone inhabitant, an old lady, a mysterious stranger, a recent widow and a former gang member all more or less plotting against the bandits.
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Gentleman Killer
Title: Gentleman Killer
Character: Larry
Released: August 14, 1967
Type: Movie
In a disputed border town, the US Army waits for word from Washington as to the rightful country it belongs, while dealing with a rowdy pack of Mexican soldier/bandits. Into the mix rides seemingly mysterious stranger Anthony Steffan, who looks like a dandy but has a few deadly tricks up his sleeve.
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Wanted
Title: Wanted
Character: Billy Baker
Released: March 22, 1967
Type: Movie
A local sheriff is unjustly accused of murder in a small town and forced to flee. He gets rid of his enemies one by one and tries to prove his innocence.
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The Big Gundown
Title: The Big Gundown
Character: Jess
Released: March 3, 1967
Type: Movie
Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.
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The Hellbenders
Title: The Hellbenders
Character: Slim
Released: February 2, 1967
Type: Movie
A Southern Colonel, his three sons, and a card shark embark on an odyssey through the Southwest carrying a coffin full of stolen money with which the Colonel plans to revive the Confederacy.
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Title: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Character: Member of Angel Eyes' Gang
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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For a Few Extra Dollars
Title: For a Few Extra Dollars
Character: Juko
Released: October 7, 1966
Type: Movie
Near the end of the Civil War, an imprisoned Confederate raider is sent under guard to warn both his men and the Army at Fort Yuma that an impending rebel raid is really nothing but a ruse by scoundrels from both sides, in cahoots to take the fort's gold for themselves during the chaos. Soon he slips his treacherous escort and attempts to complete the mission himself.
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Ypotron: Final Countdown
Title: Ypotron: Final Countdown
Character: Il sicario Dwan
Released: August 28, 1966
Type: Movie
Agent Lemmy Logan is investigating the case of a missing NASA scientist and discovers that an ex nazi is developing a new super weapon.
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Dollars for a Fast Gun
Title: Dollars for a Fast Gun
Character: Donovan, Foreman
Released: March 10, 1966
Type: Movie
In a desert region, Martin, bound to a wheelchair, is served by a gang of desperados to collect rents and kill anybody who resists. Then Lassiter arrives, telling Martin that he knows where Frank is, the man who made him a cripple. A reward is promised for his head. Then Frank smells danger... Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net
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The Upper Hand
Title: The Upper Hand
Released: March 2, 1966
Type: Movie
In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. And an undercover US Treasury Department agent is trying to infiltrate the smuggling business.
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Secret Agent Super Dragon
Title: Secret Agent Super Dragon
Character: Kirk
Released: February 17, 1966
Type: Movie
A series of murders in Michigan lead an American secret agent to Amsterdam, where he uncovers a plot to imperil the world with a potent new drug.
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For a Few Dollars More
Title: For a Few Dollars More
Character: Luke 'Hughie'
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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Blood for a Silver Dollar
Title: Blood for a Silver Dollar
Character: James
Released: August 8, 1965
Type: Movie
Two brothers part company only to be reunited when one is hired to stop a thief who turns out to be his sibling.
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La vendetta dei gladiatori
Title: La vendetta dei gladiatori
Character: Gladiator Ardenzio
Released: December 31, 1964
Type: Movie
The mighty Gladiator is captured after freeing the misguided emperor's daughter. The girl surrenders herself for his freedom but is again freed by the Gladiator.
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A Fistful of Dollars
Title: A Fistful of Dollars
Character: Rubio
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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Massacre At Grand Canyon
Title: Massacre At Grand Canyon
Character: un uomo di Dancer
Released: May 25, 1964
Type: Movie
After a search for his father's killers, Wes Evans returns home only to find himself involved in a bloody land dispute.
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Hercules Against the Barbarians
Title: Hercules Against the Barbarians
Character: Dying Mongol Captain (uncredited)
Released: April 16, 1964
Type: Movie
The eternal Hercules in this film has gone way beyond his usual time and place in ancient Greece and is now helping Poland free itself of Mongol invaders in the 12th century. Mark Forest is the star of this peplum epic, Hercules Against The Barbarians.
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Castle of Blood
Title: Castle of Blood
Character: William Blackwood
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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Die for a Dollar in Tucson
Title: Die for a Dollar in Tucson
Character: Charlie
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
A gang of bandits takes control of Tucson in preparation for the arrival of a consignment of gold, with only a band of voluntary soldiers trying to outwit them and save the town.
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Rocambole
Title: Rocambole
Released: May 3, 1963
Type: Movie
In London in 1903, during a reception at the German embassy, the legendary swindler Rocambole, thought to have died in the penal colony, helps the British secret service compromise a Prussian diplomat. His mission completed, Rocambole, under the identity of the Comte de Chamery, returns to Paris, where Baron Keller, an arms manufacturer in the service of the Kaiser, entertains the famous prima ballerina Cléo Santelli at Maxim's every evening, with whom he is madly in love. Despite her attentions, the young dancer falls in love with the false Chamery, who seems to have sworn the Baron's doom and ridicules him in the salons.
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A Queen for Caesar
Title: A Queen for Caesar
Character: Commerciante #2 (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1962
Type: Movie
Story of the power struggle between Egyptian queen Cleopatra and her brother Ptolemy, and how a common soldier risks his life to serve her.
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The Avenger
Title: The Avenger
Character: Niso
Released: November 28, 1962
Type: Movie
Aeneas leads escapees from the Trojan war to new land in Italy, and must deal with new threats to his people.
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The Slave
Title: The Slave
Released: August 24, 1962
Type: Movie
The decurion Randus holds himself so well in the command of his troops, that Caesar promotes him to centurion. He is subsequently sent to Egypt, to keep Cesar informed on the actions and intentions of co-triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus - a man too rich, and ambitious, for Caesar's comfort. A fateful sea trip from Egypt to Rome forces Randus in captivity by mercenary troops, and leads a revolt by which he gets freedom for himself, and all the other slaves. Through an amulet he received from his late mother, a man who had fought by Spartacus' side, identifies the young man as Spartacus' and Varinia's son. At first reluctant to accept this story about his origins, Randus will be forced by the circumstances to repeat the feat of his father, twenty years later.
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Messalina
Title: Messalina
Released: March 12, 1960
Type: Movie
Messalina was the Roman noblewoman who inveigled ageing emperor Claudio into marriage. Once ensconced on the throne, Messalina launched a reign of terror that shook the empire to its very foundations. The subject of countless film treatments, Rome's most villified empress is herein played by British actress Belinda Lee.
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Terror of the Red Mask
Title: Terror of the Red Mask
Released: January 23, 1960
Type: Movie
In 16th century Italy, mercenary Marco is hired by cruel duke Astolfo whose unjust reign is threatened by the notorious outlaw the Red Mask.
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The Sheriff
Title: The Sheriff
Character: Fulton
Released: August 15, 1959
Type: Movie
A gang of outlaws terrorizes Rio Ciuccio. When they kill the sheriff his wife, an old neapolitan lady, takes his place.