Sergio Tofano

Sergio Tofano

Born: August 20, 1883
Died: October 28, 1973

Movies for Sergio Tofano...

Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis
Title: Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis
Character: Giuseppe Parini
Released: December 21, 1973
Type: Movie
Based on the epistolary work by Ugo Foscolo.
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Rugantino
Title: Rugantino
Character: Michele Sacconi
Released: October 25, 1973
Type: Movie
A beautiful girl Rosina lives In Rome. Her husband is strong as a bull and jealous as Shakespeare's Othello. Once the husband of Rosina kills a wealthy aristocrat, who sang the serenade to his wife, and now he is hiding from justice.
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La colonna infame
Title: La colonna infame
Character: Il presidente del senato
Released: April 19, 1973
Type: Movie
Historical drama, based upon the novel by Alessandro Manzoni.
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Let's Have a Riot
Title: Let's Have a Riot
Character: il vescovo
Released: March 19, 1970
Type: Movie
Episodes centering on different aspects of early-1970s Italian life, set in a television studio, a factory, a university, and a Catholic parish.
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Oh, Grandmother's Dead
Title: Oh, Grandmother's Dead
Character: Grandfather
Released: October 9, 1969
Type: Movie
Relatives brawl over the estate of a deceased grandmother who owned an insecticide factory.They stop at nothing, including bumping each other off.
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Partner
Title: Partner
Character: Professor Petrushka
Released: October 25, 1968
Type: Movie
The story of a young man who meets his own likeness and uses him to fulfill his dreams.
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The Head of the Family
Title: The Head of the Family
Character: Amedeo, padre di Marco
Released: September 29, 1967
Type: Movie
A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fatherhood. As time progresses along, the family grows larger with each successive child and the father feels his importance in the family has been lessened with all the children. This man's quiet desperation to hold onto his position is an interesting lesson in the family dynamic and how everyone is an important part of the whole.
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Don Giovanni
Title: Don Giovanni
Character: Don Luigi
Released: May 5, 1967
Type: Movie
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The Constancy of Reason
Title: The Constancy of Reason
Released: November 27, 1964
Type: Movie
Florence, early 1960s. Bruno aspires to be hired at a prestigious factory, but his Communist ideals — instilled by Millo, a father figure and family friend in love with Bruno's widowed mother Ivana — are an obstacle. His relationship with Lori, a beautiful and tormented young woman who has just returned from Milan, reshapes his convictions. Freely adapted from a minor novel by Vasco Pratolini.
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Black City
Title: Black City
Character: Il contente Pignatelli
Released: September 16, 1961
Type: Movie
A charming rogue, the self-proclaimed leader of Naples, locks horns with an American Army general and a police inspector.
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Title: The Idiot
Character: Ljebedev
Released: September 26, 1959
Type: TV
Italian televison adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of the same name. Although it is to all intents and purposes a television miniseries, the rhythm of the acting is typically theatrical: the long dialogues, the acting style and the actorly interpretation make it a true example of episodic television theatre.
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L'avaro
Title: L'avaro
Character: Arpagone
Released: November 22, 1957
Type: Movie
An adaptation of Molière's play.
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Title: Orgoglio e Pregiudizio
Character: Signor Bennet
Released: September 21, 1957
Type: TV
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I sogni nel cassetto
Title: I sogni nel cassetto
Character: Lucia's Father
Released: September 1, 1957
Type: Movie
The difficulties of a young married couple, since the husband has to prepare for his examinations during his wife's pregnancy.
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Porta un bacione a Firenze
Title: Porta un bacione a Firenze
Character: maggiordomo
Released: December 22, 1955
Type: Movie
After a difficult eye operation, Simonetta, an Italian-American girl, returns for a vacation in Florence, the home town of her family. Here he meets Alberto, a sculptor.
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La bella di Roma
Title: La bella di Roma
Character: Agostino
Released: October 4, 1955
Type: Movie
Nannina is engaged to a sleazy, unruly boxer who ends up in jail after a fight with a traffic policeman.
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Le souffle de la liberté
Title: Le souffle de la liberté
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
In 1789, French poet André Chénier struck up a romance with a young aristocrat.
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Il cardinale Lambertini
Title: Il cardinale Lambertini
Character: Canonico Peggi
Released: December 23, 1954
Type: Movie
Papal aspirant "Cardinal Lamberti" has to tread a fine line between the powerful Duke of Montimar and doing the right thing by a young couple in love in late 1730s Bologna.
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House of Ricordi
Title: House of Ricordi
Character: Cesarini Sforza
Released: December 1, 1954
Type: Movie
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
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Puccini
Title: Puccini
Character: Giulio Ricordi
Released: April 29, 1953
Type: Movie
Produced in Italy in breathtaking Technicolor, this biographical story of Puccini (played by L'avventura's Gabriele Ferzetti) spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including a sexy, beautiful singer (Two for the Road's Nadia Gray) whom he drops for a small town girl (Sirocco's Marta Toren), and a servant girl who commits suicide over him. Well-selected excerpts from Manon, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly and Turandot are featured along with other Puccini music, including the voice of Beniamino Gigli. Sets, costumes and production values are first class, all sumptuously filmed by Claude Renoir.
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Guilt Is Not Mine
Title: Guilt Is Not Mine
Released: November 28, 1952
Type: Movie
Carlo, a young doctor, occasionally meets Anna, the daughter of professor Valli. Carlo falls in love with Anna, who returns his feelings; but her father longs a brilliant marriage for her.
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Times Gone By
Title: Times Gone By
Character: il nonno di Guido
Released: September 28, 1952
Type: Movie
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
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Napoleone
Title: Napoleone
Character: Vignon
Released: April 17, 1951
Type: Movie
A historical farce about Napoleon.
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Il cavaliere del sogno
Title: Il cavaliere del sogno
Character: Zingarelli
Released: September 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Luisa's dreams of love comes true in a hotel in the mountains.
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Il fidanzato di mia moglie
Title: Il fidanzato di mia moglie
Character: giudice Torriani
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
Enrico breaks up his marriage to Renata because he discovers that in the registry office she is already married to a certain Giulio, an inhabitant of a country town. The couple leaves in search of the mysterious Giulio who is about to marry Marcella, but her wedding also ends.
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Quarta pagina
Title: Quarta pagina
Character: Professore zoologo
Released: December 17, 1942
Type: Movie
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La maschera e il volto
Title: La maschera e il volto
Released: December 1, 1942
Type: Movie
A husband states that a possible betrayal of his wife, he would kill her without mercy. The case is that his hypothesis turns into a presumed reality.
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Anime in tumulto
Title: Anime in tumulto
Character: Perego
Released: April 4, 1942
Type: Movie
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Turbamento
Title: Turbamento
Character: Antonio, il padre di Silvia
Released: March 1, 1942
Type: Movie
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If I Was Honest
Title: If I Was Honest
Character: Vittorio, il maggiordomo
Released: February 12, 1942
Type: Movie
The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and messes that ends out well.
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Princess Cinderella
Title: Princess Cinderella
Character: Il dottore
Released: December 4, 1941
Type: Movie
Cinderella manages to marry the prince and move to the palace, where she is well-liked and loved by everyone. However, her evil stepsisters devise a way to get her kicked out.
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Il signore a doppio petto
Title: Il signore a doppio petto
Character: Bisacca
Released: March 13, 1941
Type: Movie
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Una famiglia impossibile
Title: Una famiglia impossibile
Character: Maggiordomo
Released: December 1, 1940
Type: Movie
A wealthy young woman falls in love with a radio singer without ever having seen him. She forces her strange family (forgetful father, mother with ideas of grandeur, three sisters with a passion for singing and another who takes care of abandoned children) to go to the EIAR headquarters to be able to meet him.
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Validità giorni dieci
Title: Validità giorni dieci
Character: Maurizio
Released: August 3, 1940
Type: Movie
After finding a train ticket on the ground, the young Paolo decides to go by train to Venice, where he meets Clara, a beautiful girl.
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Giù il sipario
Title: Giù il sipario
Character: Capocomico
Released: April 20, 1940
Type: Movie
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Il socio invisibile
Title: Il socio invisibile
Character: L'affarista in Borsa
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
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Follies of the Century
Title: Follies of the Century
Character: Il barone Giorgio
Released: September 10, 1939
Type: Movie
An aging count courts a beautiful singer who is also wooed by his son-in-law.
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Papà per una notte
Title: Papà per una notte
Character: Edmondo Fontages
Released: August 7, 1939
Type: Movie
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Le sorprese del divorzio
Title: Le sorprese del divorzio
Released: March 30, 1939
Type: Movie
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I figli del marchese Lucera
Title: I figli del marchese Lucera
Character: Vigna
Released: January 1, 1939
Type: Movie
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Inventiamo l'amore
Title: Inventiamo l'amore
Character: Borghetti
Released: December 30, 1938
Type: Movie
A young man from the provinces who inherited a certain sum, decides to go to Rome to devote himself to the cinematographic activity.
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Jeanne Doré
Title: Jeanne Doré
Character: Fanard
Released: November 30, 1938
Type: Movie
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Tonight at Eleven
Title: Tonight at Eleven
Character: Colonnello Muffon
Released: December 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A comedy poking fun at earlier 1930s American crime films: A society lady goes after a gang of outlaws and lands up becoming involved romantically with a gangster.
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Lohengrin
Title: Lohengrin
Character: Giulio
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
The monotonous life of a bourgeois family is disturbed by the announcement of the imminent return from America of Mr. Lohengrin, who had left Italy years earlier, leaving behind the reputation of being an irresistible womanizer. Lohengrin's cousin, worried about the stability of his marriage, convinces some relatives who live in the countryside to welcome the dreaded guest into their home and then, to avoid meeting him, leaves. Meanwhile, in the country house everyone eagerly awaits Lohengrin, and envy and spite are unleashed during the wait. In particular, while the young landlady prepares the house, the woman's husband begins to be tormented by jealousy. But the arrival of the long-awaited guest will be a huge disappointment for everyone: the once seductive man is now just an aged, with glasses and a prominent belly.
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Seconda B
Title: Seconda B
Character: Professore Monti
Released: December 31, 1934
Type: Movie
A school teacher falls in love with one of his female colleague, who teaches gymnastics. She returns his love, but this discovered by his students who try and sabotage their relationship.
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Paprika
Title: Paprika
Released: November 1, 1933
Type: Movie
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The operator
Title: The operator
Character: tenore Alfredo Bàttigo
Released: July 31, 1932
Type: Movie
Two different couples on blind dates get mixed up when they pick the same location to meet.
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The Private Secretary
Title: The Private Secretary
Character: L'usciere Otello
Released: December 31, 1931
Type: Movie
During hard times, a vivacious girl looks for an office job in the hope of landing a rich man.The director of the bank she works at flirts with her while not at first revealing his identity so she rejects him.