Gianni Solaro

Gianni Solaro

Born: August 11, 1926
Died: August 12, 2006
in Rome, Lazio, Italy

Movies for Gianni Solaro...

Last Feelings
Title: Last Feelings
Character: medico ospedaliero
Released: February 24, 1978
Type: Movie
Diego is a troubled runaway who tries to make something out of himself by joining a swimming team and competing in national tryouts and champion races which takes a turn when he is struck by a terminal illness and attempts to find a way to beat it.
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My Sister in Law
Title: My Sister in Law
Character: Magni, Amorini's lawyer
Released: November 5, 1976
Type: Movie
Intransigent magistrate Viola Orlando is targeted by her rivals who set her twin sister Rosa — a high-class prostitute and pornographic photo-novel star — up to impersonate Viola and demolish her reputation. To complicate things even further, Viola is torn between enforcing the law or giving up her seat on the bench to marry her childhood friend.
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Rome, the Other Face of Violence
Title: Rome, the Other Face of Violence
Released: July 27, 1976
Type: Movie
Four bandits commit a robbery in a villa. The maid calls the police and Commissioner Carli immediately orders patrols to chase them.
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La clinica dell'amore
Title: La clinica dell'amore
Character: Angelo Bortolotti
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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Policewoman
Title: Policewoman
Character: procuratore capo
Released: October 24, 1974
Type: Movie
A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.
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Il generale dorme in piedi
Title: Il generale dorme in piedi
Character: Ufficiale in Africa
Released: October 5, 1974
Type: Movie
A colonel in the Army has a problem: when resting lying starts screaming anarchist and antimilitarist phrases. Because of his fitful sleep is therefore forced to sleep standing up.
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The Assassination of Matteotti
Title: The Assassination of Matteotti
Character: procuratore generale Crisafulli
Released: September 13, 1973
Type: Movie
How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.
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Studio legale per una rapina
Title: Studio legale per una rapina
Character: Victor
Released: June 27, 1973
Type: Movie
Maurice Poitier, a disbarred lawyer, is dumped in prison. In prison, he learns of a plan of robbery worth millions from a dying inmate: once released, will begin to put together a group of bandits to pull this off. But not everything goes as hoped.
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We Want the Colonels
Title: We Want the Colonels
Character: On. Cicero
Released: March 2, 1973
Type: Movie
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!
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Slap the Monster on Page One
Title: Slap the Monster on Page One
Character: prof. Italo Martini
Released: October 19, 1972
Type: Movie
1972, Milan. Just a few days before the general elections, a young girl from an esteemed family is raped and murdered. Bizanti, editor-in-chief of a conservative newspaper, tries to derail the official police investigation in order to help the right-wing candidates supported by his boss to win the elections.
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Oplà, noi viviamo
Title: Oplà, noi viviamo
Character: Vecchio generale
Released: March 31, 1972
Type: Movie
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Execution Squad
Title: Execution Squad
Released: February 25, 1972
Type: Movie
Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to control his vengeful co-workers, homicide-chief Bertone has his hands full
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Il divorzio
Title: Il divorzio
Character: Manager in Erecting Yard
Released: April 20, 1970
Type: Movie
Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life.
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Paths of War
Title: Paths of War
Character: Colonnello Foster
Released: March 26, 1970
Type: Movie
Two Sicilian royalist soldiers flee the island in a trunk at the arrival of Garibaldi's republican troops. They end up in the Far West with the army fighting the Indians and with their ineptitude they contribute to the army's defeat.
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La resa dei conti: dal Gran Consiglio al processo di Verona
Title: La resa dei conti: dal Gran Consiglio al processo di Verona
Character: Generale Puntoni
Released: April 8, 1969
Type: Movie
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Temptation
Title: Temptation
Released: January 29, 1969
Type: Movie
The young architect Guido maintains a relationship with Carla, wife of industrialist Veraldi that despite being aware of her infidelity does nothing to prevent it.
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Ciccio Forgives, I Don't
Title: Ciccio Forgives, I Don't
Character: il colonnello
Released: September 26, 1968
Type: Movie
Franco and Ciccio are small time horse thieves who get involved with the bandit, El Diablo, and two former members of his gang who are after his gold. Fortunately two pretty, sharp shooting saloon girls come to the bumbling duo's rescue.
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All on the Red
Title: All on the Red
Released: May 25, 1968
Type: Movie
With the help of two accomplices an underhanded gambler prepares a rigged roulette wheel with which they quickly accumulate money hand over fist. But then greed forges a wall between the three and the intrusion of ruthless competitors result in a massacre.
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A Devil Under the Pillow
Title: A Devil Under the Pillow
Character: Don Ernesto
Released: February 26, 1968
Type: Movie
Anselmo is a young anthropologist who is tormented by jealousy, and although his wife Camilla does not give reasons, keeps a close eye on her. After consulting a psychiatrist, the doctor says the problem is him and not his wife. So he plots to verify, once and for all, if his suspicions are true. By chance he meets an old friend, Lotario, who seems the ideal person to carry out his plans. What Anselmo does not know is that his friend is a real womanizer who ends seducing his wife.
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L'incoronazione di Carlo Magno
Title: L'incoronazione di Carlo Magno
Character: Stefano
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
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Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold
Title: Kill Me Quick, I'm Cold
Released: September 7, 1967
Type: Movie
Giovanna and Franco are lovers pretending to be brother and sister in order to con unsuspecting marks while staying in the most luxurious locales throughout Europe. In their travels, they come across the beautiful Christina, a girl who is being threatened by her brother, Sergio, in order to get the family fortune. But as Giovanna and Franco delve into their story, the double-crossing begins, and no one is sure who is getting tricked.
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Days of Violence
Title: Days of Violence
Character: Man from Boston
Released: August 10, 1967
Type: Movie
During the last months of the Civil War, Joe's brother is killed unjustly by Clifford, a captain in the Northen army. Joe decides to join a group of Southerners determined to resist till the end. Joe is considered an outlaw and a reward is posted for his capture. When the war ends, Joe returns to the farm where he used to work only to find Christine, the owner's daughter and his sweetheart, engaged to the hated Captain Clifford.
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The Oldest Profession
Title: The Oldest Profession
Character: A Guest (segment "Nuits romaines") (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1967
Type: Movie
A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.
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Untamable Angelique
Title: Untamable Angelique
Character: Knight at auction (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Angelique goes in search of her husband Joffrey de Peyrac who did not die on the stake.
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Title: Melissa
Character: James Coburn
Released: November 23, 1966
Type: TV
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Black Box Affair
Title: Black Box Affair
Released: October 7, 1966
Type: Movie
An airplane crashes in Spain. The Russian as well as the Chinese government take care of the events because on board there was a "black box" containing precious and dangerous devices for the whole world.
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Star Pilot
Title: Star Pilot
Character: The Director of the Research Institute (uncredited)
Released: October 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Aliens from the constellation Hydra crash-land on the island of Sardinia. A prominent scientist, his daughter, several young technicians, and a pair of Oriental spies are taken hostage by the beings so they can use them to repair their spaceship's broken engine. With that done, they take off towards their home planet, taking the earthlings with them. However, the humans attempt to mutiny against their captors, inadvertently sending their tiny spaceship hurtling into the infinite beyond...
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Man From Nowhere
Title: Man From Nowhere
Character: Banker
Released: August 27, 1966
Type: Movie
Arizona Colt heads for Blackstone City where Gordon is planning a robbery. When one of Gordon's henchmen murders a saloon girl, Arizona offers to hunt down the killer.
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Johnny Yuma
Title: Johnny Yuma
Character: Hans Vander Oder
Released: August 11, 1966
Type: Movie
Infidelity, murder, and betrayal lies at the center of this violent Spaghetti western. A scheming wife does away with her husband, causing the man's heir to seek revenge. A number of double-crosses and bloody gun battles follow, eventually driving the woman to flee into the desert.
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The Beckett Affair
Title: The Beckett Affair
Character: Col. Segura (as John Writting)
Released: July 29, 1966
Type: Movie
Rod Cooper, an American agent of the CIA, is sent to Paris to discover if colonel Segura, head of a clandestine organization which proclaims itself anti-Castroist, is playing a double game at the expense of the United States. He first tries to make contact with Ms Beckett, who should tell him. Segura's intentíons, but the woman is found killed. Subsequently, Rogerson, another American, presents Cooper to Segura himself and so Rod can enter his organization. Here he discovers that the colonel tries to attract a certain number of Americans to use them in an attack against the president of a state of southern America and thus promote communist expansion. Segura soon discovers Rod's real identity and tries to get rid of him; but the agent manages to reverse the situation and kills Segura in a shoot-out.
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Adultery Italian Style
Title: Adultery Italian Style
Character: pappagallo #2
Released: March 25, 1966
Type: Movie
To get her husband more interested in her, the wife invents a lover. The husband will collect every hint trying to figure out who is the lover.
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M.M.M. 83
Title: M.M.M. 83
Character: Fiksch
Released: February 25, 1966
Type: Movie
A secret agent works with a scientist to recover documents outlining a new formula to make fuel.
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Five for Revenge
Title: Five for Revenge
Character: Gonzalez
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Jim Latimore's ranch is a thorn in the side of the ruthless Gonzales brothers and his marriage to their cousin Rosaria rankles even more. Bandit chief El Matanza is hired to rid them of Latimore and his baby son is taken to be raised as a Gonzales. Three years later five of Latimore's friends arrive to reclaim the boy, replace Rosaria in her home and avenge their murdered compadre.
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Agent X1-7
Title: Agent X1-7
Character: C.I.A. Manager
Released: December 7, 1965
Type: Movie
A Scientist that developed a formula to increase the world's food supply, is captured by enemies that don't want this to happen. George Collins, Agent X 1-7 is assigned to rescue him from a castle where he is held hostage.
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Hercules the Avenger
Title: Hercules the Avenger
Character: Teseo
Released: August 13, 1965
Type: Movie
Reg Park returns to his antics of old as the man of iron in HERCULES THE AVENGER. The Son of Jove undertakes another journey into the nether realms battling zombies and monsters in order to rescue his son, allowing goddess Gia an opportunity to place her own slacker son in Hercules' sandals. There's something for everyone: ghouls, dragons, sweating men and girls in skimpy outfits.
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The Revenge of the Gladiators
Title: The Revenge of the Gladiators
Character: Senatore Flacco
Released: September 24, 1964
Type: Movie
La vendetta di Spartacus (US title: Revenge of the Gladiators) is a 1965 Italian film directed by Michele Lupo. It was shot back to back with Seven Slaves Against the World.
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The Two Gladiators
Title: The Two Gladiators
Character: Tarrunius Cassus
Released: July 10, 1964
Type: Movie
The twins of the recently departed Marcus Aurelius fight it out to see who will become emperor of Rome.
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Messalina Against the Son of Hercules
Title: Messalina Against the Son of Hercules
Character: Cassius Chaerea
Released: June 27, 1964
Type: Movie
While fighting in Britain, Roman forces commanded by Caligula capture the noble warrior, Glaucus. Seeing in him gladiator material, Caligula takes Glaucus back to Rome along with other hostages including Glaucus's girlfriend, Ena. A man seeking to restore the Roman Republic then assassinates Caligula after which Claudius is proclaimed emperor. Messalina -- Claudius's beautiful but evil wife -- then maneuvers to replace Claudius with her lover, Silio. She forces Glaucus to help her in this quest by threatening to harm the enslaved Ena. Written by dinky-4 of Minneapolis
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Sword of Damascus
Title: Sword of Damascus
Character: Tibullo
Released: February 19, 1964
Type: Movie
Thieves collude against the governor of Syria and the power of Rome while robbing everyone.
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Title: La Cittadella
Character: Sutton
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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The Secret Seven
Title: The Secret Seven
Character: Nakassar
Released: October 31, 1963
Type: Movie
Greece is under the power of Rabirius, from which rise a few patriots led by Axel. He is taken prisoner and condemned to die of hunger and thirst. But his brother Leslio, who fears no one, makes him free. The next step Leslio takes, is to dissolve a group of mercenaries, without listening to his brother, who begs her to join the fight for freedom.
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Torpedo Bay
Title: Torpedo Bay
Character: Admiral Mendoza
Released: September 21, 1963
Type: Movie
An Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters while being stalked by a British warship. They both make it to the neutral port of Tangiers where they agree a truce.
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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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Catherine of Russia
Title: Catherine of Russia
Character: capitano Shvering
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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The Triumph of Robin Hood
Title: The Triumph of Robin Hood
Character: Guzman
Released: September 14, 1962
Type: Movie
Adventure film about the popular hero Robin Hood, and how he and his partisans take on the defence of King Richard Lion-Heart's interests against his brother John, while the former is in the Holy Land.
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Gladiator of Rome
Title: Gladiator of Rome
Character: Senator Macrino
Released: September 13, 1962
Type: Movie
A warrior protecting a slave girl, who is really a princess, winds up as a gladiator in the Roman arenas.
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Attack of the Normans
Title: Attack of the Normans
Character: King Dagobert
Released: August 23, 1962
Type: Movie
An evil duke kidnaps the good king and tries to make the virtuous queen his bride and the peasants take arms.
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Redhead
Title: Redhead
Released: June 29, 1962
Type: Movie
Bored with her marriage, Franziska decides to travel to Venice.
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Ursus in the Valley of the Lions
Title: Ursus in the Valley of the Lions
Released: December 21, 1961
Type: Movie
Bodybuilder Ed Fury stars as the legendary Ursus in this above-average sword-and-sandal adventure from veteran director Carlo Campogalliani. The plot concerns Ursus' attempts to rescue his kidnapped fiancee, aided by a pretty blind slave girl. Now an evil queen, Ursus' former love throws him into a gladiatorial arena with a bull, which manages to smack the slave girl in the head and restore her eyesight before Ursus defeats it and his enemies. The bullfight is particularly well-staged, and this exciting spectacle may be the highlight of Fury's erratic screen career. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi
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Erik the Conqueror
Title: Erik the Conqueror
Character: Ranco
Released: December 7, 1961
Type: Movie
In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks out between Britian and the Vikings for control of England.
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Queen of the Seas
Title: Queen of the Seas
Character: governatore della Florida
Released: December 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Redhead Mary is a girl who dresses like a man to better approach, and rob the jewels worn by the pretty ladies of her time.
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The Centurion
Title: The Centurion
Character: Caesar
Released: October 20, 1961
Type: Movie
A Roman soldier falls in love with the daughter of a Greek city's anti-Roman leader.
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Rome, 1585
Title: Rome, 1585
Released: August 9, 1961
Type: Movie
The leader of a gang of Spanish mercenaries falls for a beautiful princess. Thing get dicey, however, when an imprisoned leader is freed and comes calling.
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Rocco e le sorelle
Title: Rocco e le sorelle
Released: May 5, 1961
Type: Movie
A Sicilian leaves for Milan, in search of fortune, with the four sisters he supervises fiercely.
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Sword in the Shadows
Title: Sword in the Shadows
Character: Capitano delle guardie
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Sword in the Shadows (Italian: Una spada nell'ombra) is a 1961 Italian swashbuckler film directed by Luigi Capuano and starring Tamara Lees and Livio Lorenzon.
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Il corazziere
Title: Il corazziere
Released: December 21, 1960
Type: Movie
In fascist Italy, Urbano Marangoni aspires to become Corazziere, like his late father, but it is a dream destined not to come true because of his short stature.
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Pirates of the Coast
Title: Pirates of the Coast
Character: LaMotte
Released: November 30, 1960
Type: Movie
Luis de Monterey is a ship captain who is pitted against a crafty pirates.
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The Traffic Policeman
Title: The Traffic Policeman
Character: Il comandante dei vigili
Released: November 16, 1960
Type: Movie
An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.
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The Queen of the Pirates
Title: The Queen of the Pirates
Character: Riko
Released: August 18, 1960
Type: Movie
In 16th century Italy, on the Adriatic coast, the duchy of Doruzza is governed by a tyrannical duke, Zulian, and his haughty daughter, Isabella. When they commit a great injustice, a ship's captain and his daughter turn pirate to fight back for the people.
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Knight of 100 Faces
Title: Knight of 100 Faces
Released: August 10, 1960
Type: Movie
Two knights, the honorful Riccardo and the sinister Fosco, are rivalling for damsel Zuela.
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Five Branded Women
Title: Five Branded Women
Released: March 15, 1960
Type: Movie
Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by the Yugoslav partisans but they take up arms to fend for themselves.
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Noi duri
Title: Noi duri
Released: February 24, 1960
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Bombardone is in Paris to wipe out a gang of drug traffickers.
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Ben-Hur
Title: Ben-Hur
Character: Galley Officer (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1959
Type: Movie
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
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Son of the Red Corsair
Title: Son of the Red Corsair
Character: Captain of Spanish Ship
Released: June 23, 1959
Type: Movie
Enrico di Ventimiglia, the Son of the Red Corsair, travels through the Spanish conquests of Central America in search of the stepsister he has never met.