Known for Acting
Marino Masé (born 21 March 1939) is an Italian actor. He has appeared in more than 70 films since 1961. Masé was born in Trieste. While still a teenager, he joined the laboratory for young actors of the production company Vides by Franco Cristaldi and studied acting under Alessandro Fersen. He made his stage debut in 1960 in L'arialda, directed by Luchino Visconti, and his film debut in the 1961 adventure Romulus and the Sabines by Richard Pottier. He had several leading roles in the first half of the 1960s, including Marco Bellocchio's Fists in the Pocket and Jean-Luc Godard's Les Carabiniers, then he was mainly cast in supporting roles. Masé is also active in the adaptation of the dialogues for dubbing. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marino Masé, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
March 21, 1939
Died
May 28, 2022 (age 83)
Birthplace
Triestre, Italy
Filmography
69 films, 7 shows


FantastiCozzi
2016 · 1h 10m
country: Brazil
A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obsession with Science Fiction and Fantasy.


Ginostra
2003 · 2h 15m
country: France
An FBI Agent from America and his bride and young child travel to the Sicilian island of Ginostra to solve the murder of a key witness.
Autunno
Autunno
1999 · 1h 35m
country: Unknown
Three stories that provide an irony-laden analysis of the Neapolitan bourgeoisie and of small-time intellectualism and aspiration.


Nicholas’ Gift
1998 · 1h 30m
country: United States
Fact based drama about an American couple on vacation in Italy in 1994 with their two children who are attacked and shot by highway bandits. Shortly they discover that their son is brain dead. The parents are then faced with the hard decision to donate the boy's organs which ultimately led to saving the lives of seven seriously ill Italian patients.


The Eighteenth Angel
1997 · 1h 28m
country: United States
Mythology and religious dogma are slowly revealed when an attractive young woman is approached by a modeling agency that pulls her into an underworld of priests that are not Christian but rather want to resurrect Satan by collecting the souls of 18 beautiful children.


Doublecross on Costa's Island
1997 · 1h 28m
country: Italy
Six years after stopping a multi-national arms deal that would have wiped out Los Angeles, Agent Enrico Costa (Franco Columbu) is tracked down at his home halfway around the world. Through revenge and deception, from Sardinia to Beverly Hills, Costa must ready for a final showdown by finding his way through an intricate web of double crosses, while meeting up with old friends and enemies. If Costa wants to survive and save his home, and island, he will have to fight his way out!


Bits & Pieces
1996 · 1h 46m
country: Italy
Dive into the Eternal City – see Rome like you’ve never seen it before. Storefront robberies, bizarre murders, career dreamers, and cameos from Italy's foremost directors and actors feature in this star-studded omnibus tale about life and love.


Venti dal Sud
1993 · 1h 30m
country: Austria
A young woman flees her unhappy marriage for South America. There, she meets another man. They both get caught in the middle of an indigenous uprising against an exploitative German.


The Raffle
1991 · 1h 33m
country: Italy
Struggling with a financial crisis, a good-looking widow decides to put herself up for grabs. However, going through with it becomes almost impossible with a new love and the legal system thrown into the mix.


The Godfather Part III
1990 · 2h 42m
country: United States
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.


Senza scrupoli 2
1990
country: Italy


The Palermo Connection
1990 · 1h 40m
country: France
Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon. In his hotel, he meets Il Principe, a Sicilian prince who has spent years confined to the hotel because he crossed the Mafia. Amid the beauties of Sicily Carmine discovers that men of power will stop at nothing to prevent the legalization of drugs, which threatens their business.


Summer Temptations
1988 · 1h 22m
country: Italy
Young widow Vanessa lives with stepdaughters Kikki and Vivi on island villa. She invites former lover Roberto, now professor, to tutor girls. Tensions arise between Vanessa, stepdaughters, and Roberto in isolated luxury setting.


Phantom of Death
1988 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
Police Comissioner Datti is investigating the murder of a female doctor whose murderer seems to be a thirty-fivish year old man. Soon another murder follows: Pianist Robert Dominici's girlfriend is found killed. The killer also challenges Datti on the phone and says he can't be caught since he has a secret which makes him invulnerable. In the meantime the clues seems to point in strange directions...


The Belly of an Architect
1987 · 1h 58m
country: Italy
Stourley Kracklite, a driven, detail-obsessed architect, travels from America to Rome with his much younger wife, Louisa, to oversee an architectural homage to a personal hero, 18th-century master builder Etienne-Louis Boullée. En route by train, Stourley and Louisa conceive a much-wanted child — but Stourley's obsession with his wife's expanding belly, her perceived infidelity, and his own recurrent bouts of abdominal pain reach epic and dangerous proportions.


Top Model
1987 · 1h 21m
country: Italy
Nadine is a breathtaking and astonishingly sensual fashion photographer who gets lured into accepting a lingerie photo-shoot in the villa of the mysterious Victor Schneider. After the models and the crew leave the villa, only Nadine and Victor stay behind. As the night shrouds the villa with its thick shadows, Victor offers Nadine a weird proposal. Would she dare to put her own life at stake in a chess game? If he wins, she loses every right over her body and life. If Nadine does, Victor will kill himself. Thus begins a long night of sex, lust, desire, fear and. death.


The Professor
1986 · 2h 51m
country: Italy
Young Franco is imprisoned for murder and rises to become the feared and powerful 'Professor', taking control of Naples' underworld from behind bars.


Peep Show
1986 · 1h 29m
country: Italy
A distinguished surgeon, married to a beautiful woman, has the habit of watching his wife in secret. The man decides to grant his wife to the owner of a refined brothel to be able to observe her from behind a mirror.


The Repenter
1985 · 2h
country: Italy
A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But things aren't quite what they seem.


Embassy
1985 · 1h 44m
country: Unknown
US ambassador in Rome must protect US interests and secrets from mob, spies and curious girlfriends who may be more than what they seem.


King David
1985 · 1h 54m
country: United Kingdom
This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.


A Viso Coperto
1985
country: Italy


Tenebre
1982 · 1h 41m
country: Italy
A razor-wielding serial killer is on the loose, murdering those around Peter Neal, an American mystery author in Italy to promote his newest novel.


The Secret Nights of Lucrezia Borgia
1982 · 1h 25m
country: Spain
On the way to Rome, a thief captures the Duke of Riviera y Fuentes and decides to take advantage of the opportunity to impersonate him. The thief makes his way to Rome in the duke’s place and seduces the mysterious Lucrecia Borgia who always wears a mask. He’s in for an erotic time at Lucrecia’s palace.


Looking for Jesus
1982 · 1h 44m
country: France
An average Joe becomes the poster boy for a book about Jesus due to his Christ-like appearance, but his meek and good-hearted nature ends up clashing with the publisher's earthly-minded motives.


A Gun for a Cop
1981 · 1h 33m
country: Italy
A family of farmers wage war against a group of unscrupulous, corrupt speculators who are trying to get their hands on their land.


The Salamander
1981 · 1h 43m
country: Italy
An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at each murder scene is a drawing of a salamander. The policeman begins to suspect these murders are linked to a plot to seize control of the government.


Contamination
1980 · 1h 35m
country: Germany
A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
Nora Helmer's Final Scene in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House
Nora Helmer's Final Scene in Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House
1980
country: Unknown
Adaptation of the play A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen.


Assassination on the Tiber
1979 · 1h 38m
country: Italy
A black-out occurs during the meeting of a gang of criminals. When the light is back one of them is found killed with a stab on his back and all the clues point to a penniless man who had an argument with the victim a short time before the murder.


Play Motel
1979 · 1h 27m
country: Italy
The motel has a special room designed for sexual activities. It also has a habit of photographing sex act engines and extorting the parties concerned. One day a mysterious killer with black gloves up and the situation is changing.


Mother and Daughter
1978 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
In a wealthy Italian home, the daughter of the family is trying to cut her mother's apron strings. Not only is she having difficulty with this, for her mother is extremely protective, but she cannot even cut vegetables skillfully. Despite that, she wants to go out and party, mother or no mother.


Emanuelle Around the World
1977 · 1h 42m
country: Italy
The increasingly politicised Emanuelle gets deeper into fighting an international trade composed of sex, violence and high profile players.


A Matter of Time
1976 · 1h 37m
country: Italy
During a press conference, international star Nina remembers simpler times, flashing back to her days as a maid in a run-down Italian hotel. As a young woman, Nina befriends Contessa Sanziani, an elderly woman who entertains Nina with memories of her vibrant, wealthy life with Count Sanziani. Inspired by her tales of success, young Nina fantasizes about her own adventures and seeks to find the same excitement in her life.


A Sold Life
1976
country: Italy
Two members of the fascist legion GOD WANTS IT, Michele and Luigi, both from Sicily, met in Malaga and became friends in the course of the 1936-39 counter revolution. Based upon the short story by Leonardo Sciascia.


Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man
1976 · 1h 36m
country: Italy
Fred and Tony are members of an elite “special squad” of police in Rome who are undercover, licensed to kill, and love to live dangerously.


A Virgin Named Mary
1975 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
A second coming? This time our savior chose a shantytown outside Turin, in the north of Italy, overcrowded by poor families coming from the south in search of a job in a factory, or less legal ways to survive. Young Maria (Cinzia De Carolis) can predict the future during her epileptic seizures, or at least that's what everyone believes, and her mother (Clelia Matania) sells her predictions and responses to the superstitious neighbors, after inducing her "trance" with electricity. One night the shock is too strong, and Maria seems to die: when she wakes up, she is found pregnant. And being a honest unmarried girl from the south, she is obviously still virgin... Notwithstanding the opposition of the local priest (Turi Ferro), everyone, including her, believes in the miracle, and prepares for a second coming, in a crescendo of fanaticism that is soon noticed by the press, and by the official church..


Calling All Police Cars
1975 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
Story about a young girl, the daughter a prominent doctor. When the girl goes missing her father gets the police to jump into action because of his class status and wealth.


Kidnap Syndicate
1975 · 1h 40m
country: Italy
After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that his rash actions will bring about for his child and another kidnapped boy, the son of a poor mechanic.


Zorro
1975 · 1h 58m
country: France
A newly arrived governor finds his province under the control of the corrupt Colonel Huerta. To avoid assassination by Huerta, he pretends to be weak and indecisive so Huerta will believe he poses no threat. But secretly he masquerades as Zorro, and joins the monk Francisco and the beautiful aristocrat Hortensia in their fight for justice against Huerta and his soldiers.


One Woman's Lover
1974 · 1h 33m
country: France
Ottavia is left completely alone this summer, but not for long. Walter, who is to change her entire life, now come into it. He is very young, very good looking and cruel.


Identikit
1974 · 1h 42m
country: Italy
A mentally disturbed woman arrives in Rome to find a city fragmented by autocratic law, leftist violence, and her own increasingly unhinged mission to find the most dangerous liaison of all.


The Night Porter
1974 · 1h 58m
country: Italy
A concentration camp survivor discovers her former torturer and lover working as a porter at a hotel in postwar Vienna. When the couple attempt to re-create their sadomasochistic relationship, his former SS comrades begin to stalk them.


Massacre in Rome
1973 · 1h 39m
country: France
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders of SS-Lieutenant Colonel Kappler.


The Bloody Hands of the Law
1973 · 1h 28m
country: Italy
When a crime boss is murdered while in hospital, a young woman sees the killers, but her room mate convinces her not to tell the police, fearing the consequences. Unfortunately the murderers realize that they have been seen, and kill both women. Catching the killers proves difficult as anyone who knows anything dies in unexplained circumstances. It becomes evident that a large and powerful criminal organization is behind the murders, and that they have links within the police force. It is up to Lt. Carmine to see that justice prevails, using any means necessary.


Family Killer
1973 · 1h 53m
country: Italy
Stefano, son of the Mafia Don Angelino Ferrante, is killed by Gaspare Ardizzone (John Saxon) for refusing to sell some valuable land. The old don sends for Ferrante Santino Billeci from America, in the hope that he'll be able to help in getting revenge. But Gaspar, meanwhile, is becoming the most powerful and ruthless boss of the area...


The Boss
1973 · 1h 49m
country: Italy
A hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians.


The Red Queen Kills Seven Times
1972 · 1h 40m
country: Germany
After the death of their grandfather, two sisters inherit their family castle, which is said to be haunted by the Red Queen, whom legend says claims seven lives every hundred years. When a mysterious woman in a red cloak starts targeting their circle of friends, the sisters begin to suspect there might be some truth to the legend.


N.P. - The Secret
1972 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
An engineer invents a revolutionary machine capable of automating all industrial production, thereby eliminating the need for human labor. His groundbreaking innovation, intended to free humanity from work, instead leads to his abduction and brainwashing by unknown forces. He is then left to wander the city, stripped of his memories and identity.


Lady Frankenstein
1971 · 1h 39m
country: Italy
When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant continue his experiments.


Policeman
1971 · 1h 36m
country: Italy
In order not to go hungry, as has happened to his family members, a young southern man enlists in the police where he learns to use violence and to hate anyone who opposes the established order. But his girlfriend does not share his ideas and abandons him.


Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You
1970 · 1h 40m
country: United States
An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage.


The 5-Man Army
1969 · 1h 45m
country: Italy
At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat styles to help him rob a Mexican Army train carrying $500,000 in gold.


Detective Belli
1969 · 1h 43m
country: Italy
A crooked detective begins investigating a situation on behalf of a friend and gets involved in murder, deception and double-cross.


The Year of the Cannibals
1969 · 1h 28m
country: Italy
On the streets of a damp metropolis lie the corpses of hundreds and hundreds of boys and girls. No one can give them a resting place because of a law enacted by a repressive State. But the young Antigone, with the help of a foreigner, Tiresias, violates this rule in the name of pietas, undermining the established order.


Commandos
1968 · 1h 52m
country: Germany
Sgt. Sullivan puts together a group of Italian-Americans into disguise as Italian soldiers in order to infiltrate a North African camp held by the Italians. After the soldiers have knifed the Italians in their beds, they find a hooker living at the camp. Sullivan's commandos are to hold this camp and its weaponry until an American battalion arrives, all the while these Italian-Americans pretend to be Italian soldiers, often hosting the enemy. Lt. Valli is a young, "green," by-the-book officer who constantly argues with Sgt. Sullivan, who tells his superior that he has no idea what he is doing. One man on the base, probably a touch from Argento, is an entomologist who is needlessly killed. Things go terribly wrong after that.


The Vatican Affair
1968 · 1h 38m
country: Germany
A blind professor masterminds the theft of treasure from St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.


The Spy Who Loved Flowers
1966 · 1h 33m
country: Italy
Three enemy agents lead a government security man on a perilous trail as the hunter becomes the hunted.


The Gendarme in New York
1965 · 1h 35m
country: France
Sergeant Cruchot and his faithful comrades have been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.


Fists in the Pocket
1965 · 1h 50m
country: Italy
A deeply disturbed and epileptic young man benignly decides to murder other members of his dysfunctional family for altruistic reasons.


Nightmare Castle
1965 · 1h 45m
country: Italy
A sadistic count tortures and murders his unfaithful wife and her lover, then removes their hearts from their bodies. Years later, the count remarries and the new wife experiences nightmares and hauntings.


Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus
1965 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
Goliath (Peter Lupus) comes to the aid of the former King Selim in order to regain his throne and rescue his daughter (Anna Maria Polani).


One Million Dollars
1964 · 1h 44m
country: Italy
Don Giuliano Niccolini Borges, Roman prince and member of the Pontifical Noble Guard, is very much attracted to Jane, an English girl accompanying him on a pleasure trip to Switzerland. He has plans for hanky-panky along the way, but Jane has her own motives as she's only with him because his car has a special-identification license plate and can go through customs without inspection.


Love and Marriage
1964 · 1h 46m
country: Italy
An anthology comedy with segments about love and marriage.


The Monsters
1963 · 2h 3m
country: France
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.


A Sentimental Attempt
1963 · 1h 32m
country: France
Carla and Dino, both in a matrimonail crisis, fall in love. But life will not help this love story.


The Carabineers
1963 · 1h 20m
country: France
During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits.


The Leopard
1963 · 3h 6m
country: France
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life.


Romulus and the Sabines
1961 · 1h 38m
country: France
The classic story from the early days of Rome where there are no women. Romulus, the founder of Rome, finds women to be wives from Sabina where there are a lot of women. The Sabine men, of course, attack Rome to get their wives and daughters back.