Known for Acting
Erno Crisa (10 March 1914 – 4 April 1968) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1944 and 1968. His last film was the spaghetti western Sugar Colt. Source: Article "Erno Crisa" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Born
March 10, 1914
Died
April 5, 1968 (age 54)
Birthplace
Biserta, Tunisia
Filmography
56 films, 2 shows


The Diabolikal Super-Kriminal
2007 · 1h 15m
country: United States
A documentary on the controversial 1960s Italian photo novels known as Killing, aka Satanik in France and Sadistik in America. Also the basis for the Turkish cult film series shot as Kilink. Includes interviews with the original actors who were familiar faces from spaghetti westerns, splatter films and historical dramas from the 1960s and 70s.


Angelique and the Sultan
1968 · 1h 45m
country: France
Angélique is in a North African Muslim kingdom where she is now part of the Sultan's harem. She refuses to be bedded as her captors try to beat sense into her. She finally decides to escape with the help of two Christian prisoners.


Sugar Colt
1967 · 1h 46m
country: Italy
In order to avenge a friend and to fulfill his last wish, Rocco has to find out what happened to an army corps that has mysteriously disappeared. He therefore puts on the disguise of a doctor and starts investigating in a somewhat uncomfortable town


Pecos Cleans Up
1967 · 1h 43m
country: Italy
Three musicians arrive in a Mexican village destroyed by El Supremo and learn, from the only survivor, of the lost treasure of Montezuma hidden in an Aztec temple. Along comes Pecos and the search is on. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net


Death Is Nimble, Death Is Quick
1966 · 1h 35m
country: Austria
In Ceylon, American Babs Lincoln, daughter of US Ambassador Jefferson Lincoln, is kidnapped. At the same time, an employee of the US Embassy in Colombo is murdered. The crimes bring Joe Louis Walker, alias Inspector X, and Tom Rowland onto the scene, who quickly realize that the cases are connected.


Erik the Viking
1965 · 1h 35m
country: Italy
Viking chief Thorvald dies from a mortal combat wound. He realizes his son Erloff is not a worthy successor, but his will divides his property equally between him and Erik, the valiant son of his sister, who also gets his weapons and the mission to lead a sea-faring expedition to find new land for a settlement, crucial as their Scandinavian home village won't be able to resist the might of the Danish kingdom.


Seven Rebel Gladiators
1965 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
The ruthless Roman tribune, Vadio, joins forces with the evil Morakeb to take over the throne of Aristea, usurping King Krontal and stealing away his lovely daughter in the process. Meanwhile, Marco Aulo, now a Roman centurion, comes to Aristea to learn where his legions war funds have gone. Vadio has him framed for treason and is thrown into the arena to fight a group of six formidable gladiators. During the fights, Marco refuses to kill those he defeats until finally, he himself loses after exhaustion takes its toll. Admiring this man, the six warriors join him and together they escape Vadio's clutches and plot to free the kingdom from the two conspiring killers. Edited from Mole Men Against the Son of Hercules


Sexy Show
1964 · 31m
country: Italy
Short film made by Elio Belletti.


Brennus, Enemy of Rome
1963 · 1h 27m
country: Italy
This film features a colossal clash between a mass of invaders and the faithful Roman soldiers who must fight to defend the Roman Empire.


Goliath and the Sins of Babylon
1963 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
Goliath battles for the freedom of the Babylonian people.


Duel in the Moonlight
1963 · 1h 42m
country: Iran
Yasamin returns to Iran after many years from Europe; Because her father died suspiciously and his mother is ill. Ahmad, Yasamin's cousin who lives with Farideh, shows himself interested in Yasamin.


Colossus of the Arena
1962 · 1h 38m
country: Italy
A powerful man posing as a gladiator in Rome's fourth century discovers a plan to put the beautiful Queen in prison, which he thwarts by exposing a sinister duke as a traitor.


Le due leggi
1962
country: Unknown


Plains of Battle
1962 · 1h 36m
country: France
Despite the disagreement of their mother, the sons of old Taras Bulba are taken to the Dnieper camp on their return from a Kiev seminary, to teach them how to become real Cossacks.


Caesar Against the Pirates
1962 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
Julius Caesar flees Rome because of a conspiration against him and takes refuge by the king of Bitinia. He finds a woman there and while he escorts her to Rhodes their ship is attacked. Caught by the pirates he asks for help to get back to Rome.


Samson Against the Sheik
1962 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
In the late 1500s, forces of the Duke of Malaga topple the Sacred Obelisk in the North African city of Melida before they're defeated by the local Sheik. The Shiek's men then sail to Spain and kidnap the Duke's daughter, Isabella.


Taras Bulba
1962 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
Italian adaptation of the historical novella of the same name by Nikolai Gogol.


Questi fantasmi
1962
country: Italy
A husband is persuaded to move his new bride into an old palace that is supposedly haunted. But the so called ghost is really the bride's former lover, who is stalking her on the premises.


Canzoni di ieri, canzoni di oggi, canzoni di domani
1962
country: Unknown


Passport for a Corpse
1962 · 1h 33m
country: Italy
When a robbery goes wrong the only survivor tries to smuggle himself across the border by hiding in a coffin. When he gets out of the coffin he finds himself locked in a morgue freezer with three dead bodies. While trying to escape the morgue and his isolation he slowly starts going mad and hallucinating. Throughout the film he is haunted or menaced by a woman who may or may not be real. Unique and strange film that gets more and more weird as it goes along.


The Bacchantes
1961 · 1h 42m
country: France
The god Dionysus decides to pay a visit to the city of Thebes. Dionysus wants to be the worshiped by the masses, but the kingdom is suffering a horrific drought and the king Pentheus wants instead to sacrifice a virgin to the God Demeter.


Cleopatra's Daughter
1960 · 1h 49m
country: France
The beautiful young Sushila is forced into a political marriage with young Pharaoh Nemorat in order to consolidate power. However, the young Pharaoh is beset with mental illness and the marriage becomes dangerous, all the while the chief advisor Kefren and his scheming mistress plot to destroy the unstable pair.


Purple Noon
1960 · 1h 58m
country: France
Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.


The Cossacks
1960 · 1h 45m
country: France
Set in the 1850s in Czar Alexander II's Russia, this drama and adventure film focuses on the strife between the Circassian Muslims, led by Shamil and Czar Alexander.


Carthage in Flames
1960 · 1h 47m
country: France
Historical drama depicting the last of the Punic Wars between the Roman Republic and Carthage.


I mafiosi
1959
country: Unknown


Two Savages at Court
1959 · 1h 27m
country: Unknown
Marco Venier comes back to his father's home town with his servant Kato.


The Black Archer
1959 · 1h 28m
country: Italy
A mysterious archer who dresses in black is out for revenge against the bandits who killed his father.


Caterina Sforza, the lioness of Romagna
1959 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
Giovanni Medici, the future leader of the Black Bands, has a last meeting in a convent with his dying mother Caterina Sforza, listening to the re-enactment of her life.


Fire in the Flesh
1958 · 1h 33m
country: France
Physicist Theodore Heldt, his young daughter Fern and his assistant Larry Gordon, on board a ship for a scientific expedition, are shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean after a terrible storm. They find themselves safe and sound on an exotic desert island paradise. Several years pass, the professor dies and Fern and Larry, long in love and alone in the world, are united. One day, the ship they'd been waiting for appears, but the sailors are three smugglers who, instead of representing salvation, pose a threat to the young couple.


Don Juan
1956 · 1h 33m
country: France
Don Juan is arrested during one of his raids loving, just as he intended to seduce the daughter of the Governor, who was about to marry. His faithful servant, too accustomed to be all sticks, passed by him to save his skin, a situation that will allow you to win the love of a beautiful comic. Meanwhile, the real Don Juan is reduced to the status of servant.


Lady Chatterley's Lover
1955 · 1h 39m
country: France
After a crippling injury leaves her husband impotent, Lady Chatterly is torn between her love for her husband and her physical desires. With her husband's consent, she seeks out other means of fulfilling her needs.


La Tierra del Fuego se apaga
1955 · 1h 35m
country: Argentina
In the faraway lands of the south of the Patagonia, in a town made up of wrongdoers and thieves, a mysterious and solitary man takes a prostitute to live with him at his ranch. However, her past follows her, and he is forced to face it head on.


The Gold of Naples
1954 · 2h 11m
country: Italy
A tribute to Naples, this film presents six episodes: a clown exploited by a gangster, a pizza seller losing her husband’s ring, a child's funeral, a gambler beaten by a kid, a prostitute's unusual wedding, and a "wisdom seller" offering advice.


These Phantoms
1954 · 1h 34m
country: Italy
A young husband is persuaded to move his new bride into an old palace that is supposedly haunted.But the so called ghost is really the bride's former lover who is stalking her on the premises.


Reeds and Mud
1954 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
Province of Valencia, Spain, 19th century. Tonet lives an intense love story with Neleta, whom he has known since childhood, but is forced to leave her to serve in the war in Cuba.


Mata Hari's Daughter
1954 · 1h 38m
country: France
In this espionage film, Mata Hari's daughter takes the mantle from her notorious mother and entangles her self in an Asian web of intrigue and war.


Violenza sul lago
1954 · 1h 28m
country: Italy


Di qua, di là del Piave
1954
country: Unknown


Cavalcade of Song
1953
country: Italy


Jealousy
1953 · 1h 26m
country: Italy
A Sicilian nobleman is very jealous of his mistress and when she gets married flies off his handle and commits a murder of which an innocent man is accused. He is however tormented by his conscience.


Sunday Heroes
1952 · 1h 38m
country: Italy
Gino Bardi is a centre-forward in a football team which is about to be relegated to the second division. Just before a very important match a girl he has a relationship with proposes him to rig it. He refuses the offer but he actually begins playing like an amateur and the crowd begin to smell something fishy going on.


La colpa di una madre
1952
country: Unknown


Half a Century of Song
1952
country: Italy
Through a series of scenes inspired by famous songs, various episodes of Italian life in the last fifty years are recalled.


The Affairs of Messalina
1951 · 1h 49m
country: France
A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.


The Last Sentence
1951 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
Piero is the leader of a group of university students who lead a carefree life. Finding himself in trouble and in need of money, he turns to criminal means—receiving aid from Daniela, the daughter of a rigid magistrate.


The Counterfeiters
1951 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
Producers of phony currency become the object of a crackdown by law enforcement agencies.


The White Line
1950 · 1h 22m
country: Italy
Following World War II, the Allies designate that an unidentified town in the Trieste area as being partly Yugoslavian and partly Italian. A white line of demarcation splits the town in half and the townspeople are given just a short time to decides on which side of the line they will live. This leads to the dividing of homes, friends, families and the church and tensions run high.


Scandal
1948 · 1h 30m
country: France
A young woman who inherits her uncle's nightclub, invents a gangster husband in order to gain respect.


The Figurehead
1948 · 1h 30m
country: Unknown
At sea, sailors have got to make do with what they have. François is in love with.... the figurehead, the bust of a gorgeous woman.


Christine se marie
1946 · 1h 28m
country: Unknown
In order to engage in life experiences, Christine takes the civil status of her three sisters to marry as many times.


The Last Judgment
1945 · 1h 45m
country: France
In Central Europe, resistance to the Germans in growing. But the partisan leader is denounced and killed. His daughter and the son of the traitor love each other. Condemned by his comrades, the informer commits suicide in front of the young couple.


St. Val's Mystery
1945 · 1h 42m
country: France
Désiré Le Sec has just won the "amateur policeman contest" and he is so glad he 's telling all the people around.He is an insure agent ,and his boss,his uncle,is annoyed :a man took out a big life insurance and died soon afterward.


Hoboes in Paradise
1945 · 1h 25m
country: France
In a Provençal village, two jolly good fellows, Boule and Pons, decide to dress as Saint Anthony and Saint Nicholas for the distribution of presents to the children on the feast of Saint Nicholas. They unfortunately get killed by a cart and find themselves in Hell where Lucifer and his demons duly torment them. They are saved by a prayer which helps them to climb the stairway to Paradise. Saint Peter, taken in by the applicants' disguise, lets them in. When the two true Saints show up, trouble follows. Luckily, thanks to the intervention of the Virgin Mary, the two friends are acquitted at their celestial trial and allowed to return to Earth.


Coup de tête
1944 · 1h 39m
country: France
A sporty and chivalrous young man creates, with some comrades, a society whose goal is to protect honest people against rogues. He finds himself thrown into unforeseen adventures, at the end of which he will discover love.


Sideral Cruises
1942 · 1h 28m
country: France
Robert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to Venus, they return home, but have only aged 15 days whereas 25 years have passed on Earth.