Armando Francioli

Armando Francioli

Born: October 21, 1919
Died: April 6, 2020
in Rome, Lazio, Italy

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Berlin '39
Title: Berlin '39
Character: Ludwig
Released: June 24, 1993
Type: Movie
A German officer is forced to marry Louise, daughter of a general, hero of the First World War. But Louise maintains lesbian relationships with Margo.
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Stubborn Fate
Title: Stubborn Fate
Character: Butler
Released: May 28, 1992
Type: Movie
Carolina Rambaldi isn't fulfilled by her three children: Marcello, a lazy do-nothing, Lucrezia, a bossy type who produces a TV show, and Cesare, homosexual and malicious, who's a sociologist. When she writes her will, Carolina leaves her property to the one child who's married and had a child in the past year and a half.
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All for the Moral Majority!
Title: All for the Moral Majority!
Character: Enrico Patellaro
Released: December 19, 1984
Type: Movie
The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as usual, very strongly. He orders numberless arrests. But the reaction of counterparts won't take long. In fact his strong energetic manners, drive him unintentionally on the opposite situation. Who is the real guilty the judge or the corrupted Italian society?
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Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot?
Title: Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot?
Released: November 11, 1971
Type: Movie
Roger Blanchard has a busy life. On the family side, he is married and has two children, aged ten and fifteen. On the work side, he holds an important position at the Ministry of Culture. To bolster his social status, he has a mistress to liven up his Saturdays. But nothing is going right. His wife Marion exasperates him, his children irritate him, his job gives him no real satisfaction, his mistress neglects him and his superior, Monsieur Gambaud, gets on his nerves. But when he meets a beautiful young secretary, his life and habits are turned upside down: Blanchard amuses him and gets his way. In revenge, Gambaud warns Blanchard's wife.
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On Asphalt at Full Speed!
Title: On Asphalt at Full Speed!
Character: Father of Gio'
Released: August 8, 1970
Type: Movie
Italian racing film
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The Horse
Title: The Horse
Character: Francis Grutti, a crook
Released: February 22, 1970
Type: Movie
Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Things go awry the day he discovers one of his grandsons is involved in drug traffic. To make matters worse, the reckless youth has hidden the white powder in the Maroilleur farm. Without a moment's hesitation, Auguste gets rid of the toxic substance but, of course, the mob has different views...
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Rebecca (La prima moglie)
Title: Rebecca (La prima moglie)
Character: Franco Crawley
Released: August 26, 1969
Type: Movie
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The Mark of Kriminal
Title: The Mark of Kriminal
Character: Robson
Released: September 14, 1968
Type: Movie
The bandit Kriminal by pure chance finds a fragment of a map in an old porcelain statue indicating the location of two precious paintings hidden by a notorious outlaw before he was executed. Kriminal immediately begins searching for the three other statuettes, similar to the one in their possession, containing the fragments needed to complete the map .
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Tower of Screaming Virgins
Title: Tower of Screaming Virgins
Character: Orsini
Released: September 1, 1968
Type: Movie
King's swordsman Captain Buridan, hero of the Flanders campaign, returns to Paris to find it in a grip of fear -a "vampire/witch" in the "Tower of Sin" is luring young men to their deaths by offering them a night of sexual ecstasy followed by savage slaughter. Buridan is holding secrets of his own and his battle to save France from an evil Chancellor, an impotent King and a lascivious, wanton Queen make the battlefields of war seem like child's play.
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The Man From Mykonos
Title: The Man From Mykonos
Character: Kyriados
Released: July 13, 1966
Type: Movie
In Belgium, Silvio Donati, a young painter, meets Dorothée Yanakov, a rich woman, older than him. Tempted by her money, Silvio marries her. After a time, while in Mykonos for business, Silvio comes across Pascale, his former mistress. Soon, their flame is rekindled and Dorothée instantly becomes a disturbance. The only way out for Silvio is to get rid of his wife...
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The Hawk of the Caribbean
Title: The Hawk of the Caribbean
Character: Esteban
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
In the mid-1500s, a ship containing Spanish prisoners being sent to a Spanish penal colony in the Caribbean sinks at sea, but some of the prisoners manage to survive and make it to shore at a nearby island. They organize themselves under the leadership of Juan Olivares (dynamically played by charismatic singer-actor Johnny Desmond), manage to take over a ship with some cargo that they barter for supplies, and eventually are asked to fight on behalf of the Spanish crown against the English... or is the request sincere?
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The Pharaohs' Woman
Title: The Pharaohs' Woman
Character: Ramses prince of Thebes
Released: December 10, 1960
Type: Movie
A beautiful girl and a young physician fall in love in the midst of a family, and power struggle between rival princes of Upper and Lower Egypt. When all seems to turn to the better, a dejected woman gets her revenge, and the couple's destruction.
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Il piccolo vetraio
Title: Il piccolo vetraio
Character: Enrico
Released: November 28, 1955
Type: Movie
A poor fisherman entrusts his children Piero and Nino for money to the Frenchman Neroni who recruits young men to work in his glass factory.
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Figaro, il barbiere di Siviglia
Title: Figaro, il barbiere di Siviglia
Character: Conte di Almaviva
Released: July 29, 1955
Type: Movie
Cinematic version of Rossini's opera in which Count Almaviva wins the heart of beautiful Rosina with the help of Figaro, the barber of Seville.
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Due soldi di felicità
Title: Due soldi di felicità
Character: Sandro
Released: March 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A country boy moves to the city to attempt a singing career and gets seduced by a soubrette.
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Queen Margot
Title: Queen Margot
Character: Joseph Peyrac La Môle
Released: November 25, 1954
Type: Movie
Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between the League and the Huguenots. In fact, it was an opportunity to bring all the Huguenots to Paris and kill them all at once. King Charles IX fails in his attempt on Coligny's life. Queen Margot tries to save her husband from the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre by preventing the annulment of his marriage, forcing Henri to share her bed. Two knights from opposing camps are wounded and, saved în extremis, are hidden together by the queen and her cousin. Margot falls in love with one of them, but has to run to warn her husband of a new attack and cannot prevent the two knights from being beheaded.
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Il prigioniero del re
Title: Il prigioniero del re
Character: Roland
Released: July 29, 1954
Type: Movie
Giorgio Venturini's take on the classic "Man in the Iron Mask" story.
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Se vincessi cento milioni
Title: Se vincessi cento milioni
Character: Mario (segment "L'indossatrice")
Released: December 1, 1953
Type: Movie
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Farewell, My Beautiful Lady!
Title: Farewell, My Beautiful Lady!
Character: Guido
Released: October 16, 1953
Type: Movie
Guido and Cristina fall in love, but she is betrothed to a solider. When he is reported killed they hope to marry, but his reappearance without his limbs makes matters difficult for all concerned.
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Traviata 53
Title: Traviata 53
Character: Carlo Rivelli
Released: October 7, 1953
Type: Movie
An engineer has a romance with the mistress of a rich banker but she sacrifices herself,returning to the rich man, for the best interests of the lover and his family.
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The Merchant of Venice
Title: The Merchant of Venice
Character: Bassanio
Released: July 12, 1953
Type: Movie
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's father has died and left a very strange will: only the man that picks the correct casket out of three (silver, gold, and lead) can marry her. Bassanio, unfortunately, is strapped for cash with which to go wooing, and Antonio wants to help, so Antonio borrows the money from Shylock, the money-lender. But Shylock has been nursing a grudge against Antonio's insults, and makes unusual terms to the loan. And when Antonio's business fails, those terms threaten his life, and it's up to Bassanio and Portia to save him.
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The Glorious Avenger
Title: The Glorious Avenger
Character: Cap. Maurice Lindet
Released: April 24, 1953
Type: Movie
Il Cavaliere di Maison Rouge is an Italian adventure film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.
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I Piombi di Venezia
Title: I Piombi di Venezia
Character: Tintoretto
Released: February 10, 1953
Type: Movie
An Italian historical melodrama
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Milady and the Musketeers
Title: Milady and the Musketeers
Character: Herbert de la Salle
Released: October 22, 1952
Type: Movie
Very stylish Italian swashbuckler - The Three Musketeers from the viewpoint of Milady de Winter
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Dogs and Cats
Title: Dogs and Cats
Character: Sandro
Released: October 15, 1952
Type: Movie
In a village, the pharmacist and the innkeeper have an intense rivalry fuelled by the fact that they were once romantically involved many years before. To spite her rival, the innkeeper arranges to have her nephew set up a second pharmacy to take business away him. Unbeknownst to them a romance is developing between the younger generation of the families.
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Wife for a Night
Title: Wife for a Night
Character: Enrico Belli
Released: July 12, 1952
Type: Movie
A poor musician hires a courtesan to pose as his wife so he can "give" her to a wealthy count in return for patronage.
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Rome 11:00
Title: Rome 11:00
Character: Romoletto
Released: February 27, 1952
Type: Movie
The story of 5 girls among 200 who answer a wanted ad for a modest secretarial position, which leads to overcrowding in the building and a tragic accident.
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Beauties in Capri
Title: Beauties in Capri
Character: Gennaro
Released: November 10, 1951
Type: Movie
The love story between Don Camillo's protégé and Don Violante's niece adds fuel to the rivalry between the two priests.
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Double Cross
Title: Double Cross
Character: Stefano Soldani
Released: April 10, 1951
Type: Movie
A businessman is wrongly accused and convicted for the murder of his associate.
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Paolo e Francesca
Title: Paolo e Francesca
Character: Paolo Malatesta
Released: February 28, 1950
Type: Movie
The tragic love story, already narrated by Dante in his Inferno, of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Polenta. Francesca is married to Paolo's brother, Gianciotto an old and crippled man and secretly Paolo's mistress. When Gianciotto finds out tragedy ensues.
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Fumeria d’oppio
Title: Fumeria d’oppio
Character: Corrado Vidonis
Released: September 5, 1947
Type: Movie
A young woman is murdered and robbed in broad daylight. A young man is arrested, in possession of some of the jewels of the victim. The passionate protests of his sister arouse the compassion of Za la Mort, who promises to help the girl.
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Aquila Nera
Title: Aquila Nera
Character: Amico di Vladimiro
Released: September 21, 1946
Type: Movie
An evil Czarist landowner had mistreated the father and friends of an officer.The officer wreaks vengeance by committing masked coach robberies and insinuates himself into his enemy's castle by pretending to be a French teacher.
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C'è sempre un ma!
Title: C'è sempre un ma!
Character: Fabrizio
Released: May 26, 1943
Type: Movie
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Don Cesare di Bazan
Title: Don Cesare di Bazan
Character: Un nobile cavaliere
Released: October 4, 1942
Type: Movie