Giovanni Di Benedetto

Giovanni Di Benedetto

Born: December 8, 1920
in Rome, Lazio, Italy

Movies for Giovanni Di Benedetto...

Wild Blood
Title: Wild Blood
Character: Doctor
Released: May 23, 2008
Type: Movie
The bad romance between Luisa Ferida and Osvaldo Valenti, two of the foremost movie stars in Fascist Italy, who were supporters of the regime to the bitter end, and shared its brutal downfall.
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Happiness Costs Nothing
Title: Happiness Costs Nothing
Character: Padre di Sergio
Released: January 31, 2003
Type: Movie
A man in his forties has had enough. He leaves his loveless family, uninspiring job and fake friends and tries to find something more. He meets a young woman he falls for, but she puts him on the test.
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L'attentatuni
Title: L'attentatuni
Character: Paolo Borsellino
Released: May 20, 2001
Type: Movie
The investigations of the Italian Police antimafia Branch searching the murderers of judge Giovanni Falcone.
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Excellent Cadavers
Title: Excellent Cadavers
Character: Michele Greco
Released: October 16, 1999
Type: Movie
Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthless Mafia faction that rules Cosa Nostra with an iron hand, cruelly eliminating all those who dare to oppose its immense power: other criminals, policemen, judges, even innocent civilians. One of them wants revenge, the other wants justice. But only one can survive such an unequal fight.
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Gallo cedrone
Title: Gallo cedrone
Released: October 16, 1998
Type: Movie
The life and times of Armando Feroci, a fortyish year old, who's been everything, a divorced husband, a careless father, an unreliable brother. The story is told in flashback by his friends while Armando has been mysteriously kidnapped in an Arab country by an integralist group and condemned to death.
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The Final Scoop
Title: The Final Scoop
Character: Senior in the sauna
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Marco, a television journalist, reads "red lies" on his teletext system in order to gather material on the homosexual world for a story he's working on. Unfortunately, he is implicated in a series of murders in which the victims are all gay. Marco becomes a suspect and is forced to investigate the crimes himself in order to prove his innocence.
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Time of Indifference
Title: Time of Indifference
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
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Warriors of the Year 2072
Title: Warriors of the Year 2072
Character: Sam
Released: January 28, 1984
Type: Movie
In the future, two television networks compete for ratings by producing violent game shows. One network produces a modern day version of the Roman gladiators, only on motorcycles instead of chariots, and uses convicted murderers as the participants, The network decides it needs a champion for this sport, so they frame a constant winner from another game for murder, and place him on the show.
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Dolce... calda Lisa
Title: Dolce... calda Lisa
Character: Ing. Boschi (as Gianni Di Benedetto)
Released: March 28, 1980
Type: Movie
80's Italian sleaze with the luscious Claudia Rocchi, Italian porno regular Guia Lauri Filzi, and softcore actress Annj Goren. The film is about Lisa, a young pretty wife stuck with an older husband who cannot satisfy her sexually nor in other ways. She becomes bored with her everyday life and cheats on her husband sleeping with another older man. Still not satisfied she hooks up with a rich man (Enzo Fisichella) who introduces her to a young stud (Mario Cutini) and his two lesbian playmates (Guia Lauri Filzi and Annj Goren). At the party Lisa is taken by the young man while the others watch. This seems to do the trick for Lisa. Her curiosity for the young man deepens and she wants to see him again. However, it turns out that he is a very rude partner instead of the gentle lover that she wanted. Shot in Rome, Italy.
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Seagulls Fly Low
Title: Seagulls Fly Low
Character: Dr. Mauro Martini (as Gianni De Benedetto)
Released: November 1, 1978
Type: Movie
An ex-Vietnam vet is forced to become a hit-man and gets caught in the middle of a conspiracy.
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Goodbye & Amen
Title: Goodbye & Amen
Character: Foreign Secretary (as Gianni De Benedetto)
Released: December 23, 1977
Type: Movie
As John Dhannay, a CIA agent stationed in Rome, plans the overthrow of an African government, he discovers one of his men has been in contact with agents from the other side. Before he can confront the traitor, the man seemingly goes crazy, sniping several people before taking an adulterous couple hostage in a hotel room.
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Nazi Love Camp 27
Title: Nazi Love Camp 27
Character: Standartenführer
Released: January 27, 1977
Type: Movie
When World War II breaks out, two German lovers are cruelly separated. While he is sent to fight at the front, she, a Jewish girl, is sent to a concentration camp where humiliation and death have been elevated to a sinister art.
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Title: Extra
Character: Colonnello Mckay
Released: March 6, 1976
Type: TV
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Eye of the Cat
Title: Eye of the Cat
Released: October 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Ras (Eli Wallach) is a ruler or dictator who covets another man's wife (Mariangela Melato) as his own. He gets what he wants, but Ras wants more: in this case, to humiliate Marcello (Nino Manfredi), a dedicated musician whose life he has already ruined by leaving his cat and taking his wife. He forces Marcello to seek an annulment to his marriage through the Vatican. Ras gets everything, but Marcello's wife, Giulia, and Marcello have other ideas.
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Syndicate Sadists
Title: Syndicate Sadists
Character: Police Inspector
Released: August 16, 1975
Type: Movie
A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy and destroying the two families.
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Late Night Trains
Title: Late Night Trains
Character: Intellectual on the Train
Released: April 9, 1975
Type: Movie
A pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize two young girls on a train trip from Germany to Italy.
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Silent Action
Title: Silent Action
Character: General Stocchi
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: Movie
A number of unexplained military deaths hit Italy and are ruled to be accidental or suicides, but police inspector Giorgio Solmi suspects otherwise. When a mysterious wealthy electrician is seemingly murdered by a female escort, a sinister plot slowly begins to unravel.
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Autopsy
Title: Autopsy
Character: Professor Mari
Released: January 18, 1975
Type: Movie
A series of random suicides in Rome, Italy are attributed to a heatwave, but a young pathologist named Simona—who is working on a thesis about murders disguised as suicides—suspects otherwise. When a young girl associated with Simona's playboy father ends up dead in another apparent suicide, Simona teams up with the girl's priest brother to prove she was murdered and track down the unknown serial killer.
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Enter the Devil
Title: Enter the Devil
Character: (as Gianni De Benedetto)
Released: November 6, 1974
Type: Movie
After a female art student purchases a life-size wooden sculpture of a crucifixion from an abandoned church, she has a vision of herself being nailed to a cross and soon becomes sexually tormented by the sculpture when it comes to life.
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Woman Buried Alive
Title: Woman Buried Alive
Character: (as Gianni Di Benedetto)
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Duke Philippe marries Cristina, the daughter of a fisherman. But his brothers, seeing that they would be cut from the family inheritance set to go to Cristina, decide to get rid of her by imprisoning her in a tower and making the duke believe she died.
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The Sicilian Connection
Title: The Sicilian Connection
Released: December 21, 1972
Type: Movie
A small time hood smuggles drugs from Turkey to Italy in an effort to make it into the big time, but along the way everyone has to have their cut.
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Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Title: Four Flies on Grey Velvet
Character: Funeral Exhibition Attendant (uncredited)
Released: December 17, 1971
Type: Movie
Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone is killing all his friends and trying to frame him for the murders.
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A Bullet for a Stranger
Title: A Bullet for a Stranger
Character: Douglas Toland
Released: September 23, 1971
Type: Movie
John and George McIntire are a couple of naive brothers who travel to a lawless western town to see their father. The bumbling siblings get themselves into big trouble after they beat up a member of a gang of extortionists. Fortunately, a mysterious roving gunfighter decides to help the guys out of their jam.
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The Cat o' Nine Tails
Title: The Cat o' Nine Tails
Character: Chief of Police Salmi (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1971
Type: Movie
A reporter and a blind, retired journalist try to solve a series of murders. The crimes are connected to experiments by a pharmaceutical company in secret research. The two end up becoming targets of the killer.
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A Man Called Sledge
Title: A Man Called Sledge
Character: Secondino
Released: November 14, 1970
Type: Movie
James Garner is Luther Sledge, the leader of a pack of rebels who are planning to steal a stash of gold. But after the thieves actually manage to get away with the bounty, they soon discover that the enemy lies within their midst. As they begin to bicker over who should get the biggest cut, the stage is set for a deadly showdown. Claude Akins and John Marley co-star in this Italian Western directed by Vic Morrow.
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The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Title: The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Character: Professor Rinaldi (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1970
Type: Movie
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own investigation despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.
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So Sweet... So Perverse
Title: So Sweet... So Perverse
Character: Monsieur Valmont
Released: October 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Industrialist Jean is living a jet set life in late sixties Paris. He comes to the aid of a frightened young woman (Nicole) who is under the domineering control of her abusive boyfriend, Klaus. Although married, Jean develops a romantic relationship with Nicole. However, he may have gotten himself involved in more than he bargained for.
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The Tough and the Mighty
Title: The Tough and the Mighty
Character: Chief of Police (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1969
Type: Movie
Based on the story of real life Sardinian bandit Graziano Mesina.
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Besieged
Title: Besieged
Character: Commissioner (as Gianni De Benedetto)
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Story of a student in the town of Trieste, shaken up by the economic crisis.
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Bandits in Rome
Title: Bandits in Rome
Released: November 20, 1968
Type: Movie
After professional stickup man Mario Corda is jailed, his young, ambitious partner -- who covets both Corda's life and his wife -- cuts loose, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.
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The Young, the Evil and the Savage
Title: The Young, the Evil and the Savage
Character: Di Brazzi
Released: February 20, 1968
Type: Movie
A woman is strangled in the bath by a black-gloved killer who disposes of her body in a large trunk. The trunk is delivered to St. Hilda College, an exclusive finishing school. Betty-Anne, one of the female students, is strangled in the school cellar. The police, led by Inspector Durand, are called in to investigate. Suspects include La Floret, the voyeuristic gardener; Di Brazzi, the new swimming instructor; Mrs. Clay, the summer school French mistress; an old professor who collects birds; and a philandering young teacher called Richard. The murders continue but Jill, a keen amateur detective, helps the police identify the unlikely killer...
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Django, Prepare a Coffin
Title: Django, Prepare a Coffin
Character: Walcott
Released: January 27, 1968
Type: Movie
A mysterious gunfighter named Django is employed by a local crooked political boss as a hangman to execute innocent locals framed by the boss, who wants their land. What the boss doesn't know is that Django isn't hanging the men at all, just making it look like he is, and using the men he saves from the gallows to build up his own "gang" in order to take revenge on the boss, who, with Django's former best friend, caused the death of his wife years before.
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Vengeance Is Mine
Title: Vengeance Is Mine
Released: November 30, 1967
Type: Movie
Johnny Forest, bounty hunter, attempts to carry out his mother's dying wish that he bring in his outlaw brother, Clint, alive. On the run from Jurago, a former partner he has crossed, Clint accepts Johnny's help, and agrees to surrender ..... for now.
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Hate for Hate
Title: Hate for Hate
Character: Prison Doctor
Released: August 18, 1967
Type: Movie
After being captured during a bank robbery, a cowboy is sent to a prison located in a swamp, where he contracts malaria. He soon escapes and, with the help of a Mexican, sets out to track down his partner, who escaped from the bank robbery with all the money.
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The Bible: In the Beginning...
Title: The Bible: In the Beginning...
Character: Nimrod's Man (uncredited)
Released: September 28, 1966
Type: Movie
Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in the forbidden fruit sees them driven out; Cain murdering his brother Abel; Noah building an ark to preserve the animals of the world from the coming flood; and Abraham making a covenant with God.
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Fury in Marrakesh
Title: Fury in Marrakesh
Released: April 21, 1966
Type: Movie
A contemporary gang of international thieves has found the multi-billion counterfeit money stash that the Nazis produced. They need to dump it all across the world at once. A lower-level dame is spotted distributing some of it, and this sets American agent Bob Dixon (Stephen Forsyth) onto the trail. - msroz on IMDb
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The Hired Killer
Title: The Hired Killer
Character: Andrea Ferri
Released: March 25, 1966
Type: Movie
Hit-man Clint Harris has one more job to do before he can retire. The corporation which hires him demands that Harris "erase" an ex-employee who has become a snitch for the police. At first Harris refuses but when his own brother is assassinated he accepts the job.
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Killers Are Challenged
Title: Killers Are Challenged
Character: Taxi driver
Released: February 24, 1966
Type: Movie
When a trio of scientists who have discovered an alternative energy source starts dying mysteriously Bob Fleming goes to Casablanca to solve the mystery.
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Seven Golden Men Strike Again
Title: Seven Golden Men Strike Again
Character: (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1966
Type: Movie
The Professor and his men are captured by U.S. agents during an attempted train robbery. To avoid jail, they must kidnap a Latin dictator.
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Seven Golden Men
Title: Seven Golden Men
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 20, 1965
Type: Movie
After bungling a job in London, Albert, an international thief, masterminds a plan to rob a Geneva bank of 7 tons of gold. Assisted by the seductive Giorgia, who works from within the bank, and six other accomplices, Albert sets himself up in an expensive hotel with a battery of electronic devices to supervise the operation.
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Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators
Title: Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators
Character: Spartacus (as John Heston)
Released: December 23, 1964
Type: Movie
The story of Spartacus and 10 other gladiators who rebelled against the bloody coliseum sports. They escape and are faced at every turn by Roman soldiers bent on taking them back to the Coliseum - dead or alive!
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Triumph of the Ten Gladiators
Title: Triumph of the Ten Gladiators
Character: Arimandro
Released: November 26, 1964
Type: Movie
The ten gladiators are hired to travel to Arbela, a small country on the outskirts of the Roman Empire to learn if Parthia is planning to war with Rome. Upon arriving, the heroes decide to kidnap the beautiful Parthian queen and spirit her to Syria to serve as a hostage.
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Title: La Cittadella
Character: Socio del club (as Gianni Di Benedetto)
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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Hercules, Samson & Ulysses
Title: Hercules, Samson & Ulysses
Released: December 20, 1963
Type: Movie
Two strongmen set out to hunt down a murderous sea monster. Their ship is wrecked and they end up in the Holy Land where Hercules is assumed to be Samson who is a wanted man. The two team up to survive.
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The Girl Who Knew Too Much
Title: The Girl Who Knew Too Much
Character: Professor Torrani
Released: February 10, 1963
Type: Movie
A tourist witnesses a murder and finds herself caught up in a series of bloody killings.
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Barabbas
Title: Barabbas
Character: Officer (as Gianni Di Benedetto)
Released: December 23, 1961
Type: Movie
Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barabbas or Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiatorial arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons, ultimately becoming a follower of the man who was crucified in his place.
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The Dolphins
Title: The Dolphins
Character: Lacovi, attore romano
Released: October 5, 1960
Type: Movie
An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly unpleasant group of mostly rich youngsters in a small Adriatic coast city.
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Blood and Roses
Title: Blood and Roses
Character: Police Marshal (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1960
Type: Movie
The spirit of a vengeful female vampire is released from her grave and possesses a wealthy young woman of nobility, who preys on other women in her village.
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Nights of the Teddy Boys
Title: Nights of the Teddy Boys
Released: October 3, 1959
Type: Movie
An Italian drama directed by Leopoldo Savona.
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Woman of Rome
Title: Woman of Rome
Character: Il pittore
Released: October 27, 1954
Type: Movie
During the fascist era, Adriana a beautiful young model, becomes a prostitute after a love affair gone wrong. She meets Mino, a partisan who falls in love with her and wants to redeem her.