Dino Galvani

Dino Galvani

Born: October 27, 1890
Died: October 27, 1960
in Milan, Italy

Movies for Dino Galvani...

Danger Within
Title: Danger Within
Character: Commandante Arletti
Released: February 17, 1959
Type: Movie
Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.
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Second Fiddle
Title: Second Fiddle
Character: Dino
Released: June 10, 1957
Type: Movie
Deborah and Charles, young executives at the thriving Pontifex Advertising Agency, are very much in love. Deborah is recognised by her employers as the most brilliant TV executive in the country, while Charles is regarded as 'thoroughly reliable'. But there is one hard-and-fast rule at the agency: the board of directors will not allow any married women on their staff; as soon as a girl marries, she must resign!
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The Case of The Smiling Widow
Title: The Case of The Smiling Widow
Character: Director of Cellini Gallery in Rome
Released: January 1, 1957
Type: Movie
From the case files of Scotland Yard, detectives investigate the mysterious death of Peter Adams, artist and possible forger.
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Checkpoint
Title: Checkpoint
Character: Hotel Hall Porter
Released: December 25, 1956
Type: Movie
Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However, when opening a safe containing the plans, he triggers an alarm leading to a gun battle where he kills a number of people. James Robertson Justice, alarmed by the scandal surrounding the killings, orders his agent be killed surreptitiously to hide his involvement with the plot. The film uses original footage from the Mille Miglia , an Italian open-road endurance race, featuring classic period racing cars.
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Title: The Buccaneers
Character: Dr. Francisco Gonzales
Released: September 19, 1956
Type: TV
The adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.
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Fun at St. Fanny's
Title: Fun at St. Fanny's
Character: Prof. Stromboli
Released: December 15, 1955
Type: Movie
Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny's School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster Dr. Jankers (music hall favourite Fred Emney) is in the toils of shady bookmaker Harry the Scar (boxer Freddie Mills) and has so-far kept his golden goose perched firmly at the bottom of the class. Blissfully unaware of nefarious intrigue around him, Cardew continues to flirt coyly with the French mistress and gamble for school dinners on the form room roulette wheel. But canny Scots solicitor McTavish has been sent to investigate... Featuring television's Billy Bunter, Gerald Campion, gorgeous Vera Day, Will Hay cohort Claude Hulbert, muddle-mouthed Stanley Unwin, a young Ronnie Corbett, and enough old jokes to fill a Christmas Cracker factory.
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Malaga
Title: Malaga
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: June 24, 1954
Type: Movie
A female former OSS agent is sent to Tangiers, Morocco, to infiltrate and destroy an international smuggling ring.
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Father Brown
Title: Father Brown
Character: Italian Professor
Released: June 8, 1954
Type: Movie
Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
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Quo Vadis
Title: Quo Vadis
Character: Senator (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1951
Type: Movie
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
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Three Steps North
Title: Three Steps North
Character: Massina
Released: June 28, 1951
Type: Movie
An ex-American GI returns to Italy to find some money he stashed before doing a prison term. He discovers his cash is now gone and quickly sets off on a manhunt to find out who stole his buried fortune.
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Shadow of the Eagle
Title: Shadow of the Eagle
Character: Russian Ambassador
Released: September 11, 1950
Type: Movie
During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.
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Paul Temple's Triumph
Title: Paul Temple's Triumph
Character: Van Draper
Released: May 31, 1950
Type: Movie
A husband-and-wife detective team look into the murder of one of her friends, whose father--a prominent scientist--has been kidnapped. They find themselves up against a sinister crime organization headed by a mysterious figure known only as "Z".
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Fugitive Lady
Title: Fugitive Lady
Character: Giuseppe
Released: May 8, 1950
Type: Movie
A man drives his car off a cliff in an apparent suicide. One insurance investigator is not so sure it was an accident or suicide and gets 48 hours to prove his case.
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Sleeping Car to Trieste
Title: Sleeping Car to Trieste
Character: Pierre
Released: October 6, 1948
Type: Movie
Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
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Strange Boarders
Title: Strange Boarders
Character: uncredited
Released: May 1, 1938
Type: Movie
Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.
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Midnight Menace
Title: Midnight Menace
Character: Tony, Slender Henchman
Released: May 4, 1937
Type: Movie
When a reporter is killed under mysterious circumstances, the political cartoonist on his paper begins to investigate on his own. He finds that a vengeful industrialist may be trying to manipulate an international peace conference to stage a bombing attack on London.
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Crime Over London
Title: Crime Over London
Released: October 21, 1936
Type: Movie
With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
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Beloved Impostor
Title: Beloved Impostor
Character: Manager of Cabaret
Released: July 20, 1936
Type: Movie
A British musical film directed by Victor Hanbury
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Ball at Savoy
Title: Ball at Savoy
Character: Manager
Released: January 9, 1936
Type: Movie
A British diplomat falls in love with a famous singer when he meets her in Cannes.
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The Queen's Affair
Title: The Queen's Affair
Released: March 1, 1934
Type: Movie
'Ruritania. Incognito president falls in love with incognito queen he deposed.' (British Film Catalogue)
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Heads We Go
Title: Heads We Go
Released: July 28, 1933
Type: Movie
A model inherits a great deal of money and pretends to be a movie star.
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The Silver Greyhound
Title: The Silver Greyhound
Character: Valdez
Released: September 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A British crime thriller film directed by William C. McGann
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In a Monastery Garden
Title: In a Monastery Garden
Character: Cesare Bonelli
Released: March 11, 1932
Type: Movie
An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a prince.
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Once bitten
Title: Once bitten
Character: Mario Fideli
Released: March 1, 1932
Type: Movie
A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
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The Missing Rembrandt
Title: The Missing Rembrandt
Character: Carlo Ravelli
Released: February 12, 1932
Type: Movie
Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist.
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Chin Chin Chinaman
Title: Chin Chin Chinaman
Character: Dolange
Released: September 1, 1931
Type: Movie
A crime film directed by Guy Newall.
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Black Coffee
Title: Black Coffee
Character: Dr. Carelli
Released: August 24, 1931
Type: Movie
Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.
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The Chance of a Night Time
Title: The Chance of a Night Time
Character: Boris Bolero
Released: May 15, 1931
Type: Movie
Bashful lawyer Henry cannot attend his fiancée's birthday party because of a business engagement. However, farcical circumstances find him mistaken for the dance partner of a professional lady hired to entertain a country house party at which his fiancée is a guest.
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The Price of Things
Title: The Price of Things
Character: Hunya
Released: July 2, 1930
Type: Movie
Courtenay John Dayre is drugged by a jealous spy on the night before his loveless marriage to Anthea. His twin, John Courtenay Dayre, reluctantly agrees to impersonate his brother at the wedding, only to discover a genuine affection for his accidental wife. Meanwhile, Courtenay begins to understand the price of things when he realises that his affair has allowed a valuable military secret to be stolen.
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Life's a Stage
Title: Life's a Stage
Character: Michael Standing
Released: May 12, 1930
Type: Movie
A busker confesses to shooting a seducer to save his amnesiac film-star daughter.
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The Dizzy Limit
Title: The Dizzy Limit
Character: Pierpoint
Released: February 1, 1930
Type: Movie
A jewel thief kidnaps a conjurer's assistant to win a prize for a box trick.
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Those Who Love
Title: Those Who Love
Character: Frenchman
Released: November 26, 1929
Type: Movie
'An author marries an already-married prostitute because she resembles his dead fiancée.' (British Film Institute)
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Atlantic
Title: Atlantic
Character: Steward
Released: November 15, 1929
Type: Movie
A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.
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Kitty
Title: Kitty
Character: Alex's Ukulele Tutor
Released: June 15, 1929
Type: Movie
Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comforted by sensitive shop assistant Kitty, and the two fall in love, marrying before Alex is sent to the front. But his snobbish mother disapproves of the match, and when Alex returns home paralysed and in a cataleptic state, Mrs. St. George plots to keep him from his wife until she can arrange an annulment. But the determined Kitty has plans of her own....
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The Vagabond Queen
Title: The Vagabond Queen
Character: Ilmar
Released: May 11, 1929
Type: Movie
The Vagabond Queen is a 1929 British comedy film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Betty Balfour, Glen Byam Shaw and Ernest Thesiger. It was the final film directed in Britain by Bolváry before he returned to Germany. A young woman takes the place of a Princess who is a target for an assassination. This film was released in May 1929 as a silent film and re-released with synchronized music and sound effects in August 1930.
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Adventurous Youth
Title: Adventurous Youth
Character: Don Esteban
Released: December 1, 1928
Type: Movie
In Mexico, an Englishman saves a banker's daughter from a revolutionary but surrenders to save a church from destruction
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Paradise
Title: Paradise
Character: Manager
Released: September 10, 1928
Type: Movie
The daughter of a poor clergyman wins £500 and goes to find happiness on the Riviera.
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Adam's Apple
Title: Adam's Apple
Character: Crook
Released: September 3, 1928
Type: Movie
An American on his honeymoon in Paris, organises the kidnapping of his interfering mother-in-law.