Franco Volpi

Franco Volpi

Movies for Franco Volpi...

Johnny Stecchino
Title: Johnny Stecchino
Character: Ministro
Released: October 24, 1991
Type: Movie
Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.
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Title: A come Andromeda
Character: Generale Watling
Released: January 4, 1972
Type: TV
TV mini series based on the Sci-fi novel "A Is for Andromeda" by Fred Hoyle and John Elliot.
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Title: Il segno del comando
Character: Raimondo Anchisi
Released: May 16, 1971
Type: TV
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Perched on a Tree
Title: Perched on a Tree
Character: Mazzini
Released: April 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Henry Roubier, a French promoter, and Enrico Mazzini, an Italian, have signed an agreement guaranteeing them a stranglehold on European highways. While driving on the roads of the south, Roubier takes two young hitchhikers, but an unfortunate swerve the car rushes by Henri and its occupants on the top of a pine tree onto the side of a cliff.
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The One Man Band
Title: The One Man Band
Character: Le marquis
Released: September 18, 1970
Type: Movie
Evan Evans, the director of a ballet troupe, is rehearsing his next show in Monaco, in preparation for a worldwide tour. When one member of his troupe leaves to get married, Evans imposes a regime of strict discipline on his remaining dancers. The latter get their revenge by presenting Evans’ nephew Philippe, the only male member of the group, with a baby and a note claiming he is the father…
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Title: Melissa
Character: Dr. Norman Swanson
Released: November 23, 1966
Type: TV
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Title: Le inchieste del commissario Maigret
Character: Il giudice Comeliau
Released: December 27, 1964
Type: TV
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Title: La Cittadella
Character: Charles Ivory
Released: February 9, 1964
Type: TV
La Cittadella is a 1964 Italian miniseries based on A. J. Cronin's 1937 novel, The Citadel, and produced by Radiotelevisione Italiana. It was directed by Anton Giulio Majano and stars Alberto Lupo as Dr. Manson and Anna Maria Guarnieri as his wife, Christine. Other television versions include an American, another Italian, and two British adaptations.
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Le tardone
Title: Le tardone
Character: Claudio Cianci (episode "L'armadio")
Released: January 29, 1964
Type: Movie
A collection of five episodes dealing with aging women.
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I terribili sette
Title: I terribili sette
Character: l'avvocato, padre di Cervellone
Released: July 4, 1963
Type: Movie
Some kids find by chance an infant in swaddling clothes left in a meadow. Initially, after having led in their lair, they think of selling it to a caravan of gypsies.
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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: Apollodorus
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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Lo smemorato di Collegno
Title: Lo smemorato di Collegno
Character: pubblico ministero
Released: September 7, 1962
Type: Movie
A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic, suffering from amnesia. After seeing his photo in the newspaper, Mrs. Ballerini realizes that he is her husband and brings him home; then Mrs. Polacich recognizes him as her husband.
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Duel of the Titans
Title: Duel of the Titans
Character: Amulio
Released: December 6, 1961
Type: Movie
Twin brothers were raised by wolves, revolt against tyranny in pre-Roman Italy and then come to a parting of the ways as they lead their people toward the founding of a new city, the founders of Rome.
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Pastasciutta nel deserto
Title: Pastasciutta nel deserto
Character: seniore della M.V.S.N.
Released: December 1, 1961
Type: Movie
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South Wind
Title: South Wind
Character: Guido Lo Gozzo
Released: January 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Antonio Spagara, a young Sicilian worker, has been assigned by the Mafia to murder a nobleman, Marquis Macri. But at the last minute Antonio reneges on his commitment and instead of killing the father, he flees to Palermo with Grazia, his daughter. Life is not a bed of roses in the Sicilian capital, as the young man must impose himself to face his godfather and Grazia's despotic sister Dorotea. To make matters worse, the Mafia is not going to tolerate Antonio's desertion...
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L'importanza d'essere Franco
Title: L'importanza d'essere Franco
Character: Giovanni Worthing
Released: August 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Italian version of the Oscar Wilde play The Importance of Being Earnest
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Villini a sorpresa
Title: Villini a sorpresa
Released: February 19, 1958
Type: Movie
A door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman finds himself caught up in a surreal misdeed, which takes place inside a cottage where the man has gone to introduce the product to a potential customer.
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Title: Orgoglio e Pregiudizio
Character: Signor Darcy
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
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Il mago per forza
Title: Il mago per forza
Released: November 22, 1951
Type: Movie
In the prison of San Vittore there is, among other detainees, a strange type that they call "Il Cavaliere". The latter suffers a conviction for theft and his fellow prisoners have a certain respect for him.