Known for Acting
Born
December 20, 1927
Died
May 14, 1991 (age 63)
Birthplace
Muggiò, Lombardia, Italy
Filmography
47 films, 10 shows


Saremo felici
1989 · 1h 31m
country: Unknown
Ensemble comedy about four friends in their 40s.


Strada Senza Uscita
1986
country: Unknown
A crime-fiction writer walks into a police station claiming responsibility for three murders. Is he telling the truth, or is he merely trapped in the fantasies of his troubled mind?


Don't Shoot on Children
1978 · 1h 35m
country: Italy
Dino and Marco are two brothers who live alone with their sick father. Marco is on drugs, and Dino becomes involved with a gang of dangerous criminals and is roped into pulling a bank heist with them.


Suggestionata
1978 · 1h 24m
country: Italy
An engineer and former fascist comes back to Italy to resume possession of his own lands. A widower with his sons and daughter befriends a girl who happens to be slightly nuts, the girl, influenced by the speeches of her own father which she had listened to when she was younger succeeds to isolate herself with her lover's sons and pulls them into a dark dimension of madness and murder.


Chiunque Tu Sia
1977 · 3h
country: Unknown
Arrived in Naples to work in the Doumenec family's factories, engineer Stefano Mascardi meets Rita, wife of Junio Doumenec, eldest son of the industrialist Alfredo Doumenec, founder of the factory of the same name. A liking is born between the two but, soon, Stefano learns that Rita is involved in shady deals. The woman is in fact the lover of an unscrupulous man, Mr. Detoledo and, in agreement with him, has recently stolen an important industrial formula from Doumenec. When Mr. Detoledo is found killed, Stefano receives a mysterious phone call. A woman arranges to meet him in the very place where Detoledo's body is found by the police. It's a trap? Maybe... But in the meantime, next to Mr.'s body. Detoledo, a photograph portraying three girls is found. One of these is Rita Doumenec..


The Gang
1977 · 1h 40m
country: France
In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang". The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last?


Dove volano i corvi d'argento
1977
country: Italy
Former shepherds return to Sardinia from Milan in order to avenge a brother wantonly killed by bandits. In describing the grinding contrasts between places and personages of old and new Sardinia, director Piero Livi does not falter, photographing faithfully a desolated land, stuck in the past but alienated from traditional beliefs.


Gangsters
1977 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
A man gets caught up in a criminal organization and finds that once in, you can't get out.


The Last Round
1976 · 1h 35m
country: Argentina
Stelvio Massi's crime thriller centers on a drifter who sets out to help blue-collar workers rise up against the two powerful families who are exploiting them. After settling in an industrial town and witnessing the cruelty of the factory owners, ex-mercenary Marco (Carlos Monzón) assumes the role of union agitator. When a violent confrontation erupts, the labor leader is driven to bring down the corrupt clans.


Mark Strikes Again
1976 · 1h 42m
country: Italy
A murderous drug dealer breaks his partner out of police custody. An undercover cop is assigned to track down the two killers and bring them in.


Rome, Armed to the Teeth
1976 · 1h 34m
country: Italy
A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.


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.


Holy Year
1976 · 1h 25m
country: France
Two bank robbers, an old and a young, escape from prison to get to the hidden loot.


Flic Story
1975 · 1h 52m
country: France
The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.


Blood, Sweat and Fear
1975 · 1h 30m
country: Italy
Police believe that a respectable industrialist is actually the head of drug smuggling ring in Milan.


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.


The Suspects
1974 · 1h 30m
country: France
In the south of France, the body of a 22-year-old American tourist, Candice Strasberg, is discovered in the middle of the scrubland. Two days of rain prior to the discovery of the body made it difficult to collect evidence at the scene, as the rain had washed away the footprints. Using the victim’s diary, the police are attempting to piece together her movements. The investigation is entrusted to Gaston Delarue, the public prosecutor of Tarascon; Gérard Souffries, the investigating judge; Commissioner Bonetti of the Marseille police; and Divisional Commissioner Bretonnet of the Paris police. Among the six suspects is Bernard Vauquier, the son of the President of the Senate. The investigation proves to be as complicated as it is sensitive. But who murdered or killed Candice Strasberg? Screenplay adapted from ‘La Pieuvre’, a novel by Paul Andreota, published in 1970.


The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun
1974 · 2h
country: Italy
A war film based on the novel "Journey into the Vertigo" by Evgenija Solomonovna Ginzburg


7 Hours of Violence
1973 · 1h 33m
country: Italy
A former hitman is blackmailed into doing one more job. But the hit doesn't go as planned and he winds up with the police and a gang of Chinese hitmen hunting him down. A beautiful young woman helps to hide him until he can figure out a way to elude his pursuers.


La rosa rossa
1973
country: Unknown
A former General comes back to Trieste to live with his cousins.


Halleluja to Vera Cruz
1973 · 1h 42m
country: Italy
Two American bandits disguise themselves as priests in order to work undetected in Mexico during the revolution.


Pinocchio
1972 · 1h 33m
country: Italy
The film was directed by Giuliano Cenci with assistance from his brother Renzo. During production, Carlo Collodis grandchildren Mario and Antonio Lorenzini were consulted. The subtle movements made by fidgeting children whilst speaking or under scrutiny were incorporated into Pinocchios movements, particularly when he lies to the Fairy with the Turquoise Hair over the fate of his gold coins. For the design of the Fairy, Italian portrayals of the Blessed Virgin Mary in art were used as starting points.


The Case of the Bloody Iris
1972 · 1h 34m
country: Italy
A high-rise apartment populated by models, nightclub dancers and call girls becomes the focus of a mysterious serial killer. When a young model named Jennifer and her friend Marilyn move into one of the victims' former apartments, Jennifer becomes the next target and the pair try to identify the killer.


Storia di confine
1972
country: Switzerland
At the end of World War II, a village witnesses and participates in the conflict between border guards and smugglers. Between good and bad deals, hypocrisy, zest for life, self-serving love affairs, and existential doubts, the story, which offers a fresh and realistic glimpse into rural life, ends in tragedy.


Return of Sabata
1971 · 1h 45m
country: France
A quick draw, master gunslinger traveling with a circus rides into a small town and helps the citizens free themselves from a crooked politician.


Many Wars Ago
1970 · 1h 41m
country: Italy
Time after time, soldiers of the Italian Army are forced to leave their mountain trenches in attempts to storm an enemy fortress, always with the same disastrous results. As casualties mount, indignation spreads among the rank and file. Disturbed by his superiors' decisions, Lieutenant Sassu is led to question the purpose of war and reconsider where his real duties lie.


On Asphalt at Full Speed!
1970 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
Italian racing film


Burn!
1969 · 2h 9m
country: Italy
The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.


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 Black Sheep
1968 · 1h 50m
country: Italy
The Honourable Mario Agosti, incorruptible politician, has a twin brother, Filippo, hedonist and swindler, the true black sheep of the family. Posing as the illustrious brother, Filippo comes into contact with the world of politics and finance, and is not slow to profit from the powerful characters whom he gets to know. Mario will have to serve the paradoxical consequences.


Summit
1968 · 1h 18m
country: Unknown
Paolo, a special guest of an Italian newspaper, leaves for Paris to attend an international conference, a summit meeting, the 'summit' of hope. He subordinates all his interests - work, the newspaper, friends - to the urgent task of winning back Annie, with whom he had previously had an affair.


Gangsters '70
1968 · 1h 50m
country: Italy
An elderly gangster just released from prison plans one last job, and gathers a small crew to do the job, but the plan goes sour when one of the crew betrays the details of the operation to a rival gangster.


A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
1968 · 1h 58m
country: Italy
A famous gunman decides to change his life around and turn himself in when amnesty is declared by the new governor of the New Mexico Territory, but a vindictive sheriff sets out to stop him from reaching the Territory.


Italian Secret Service
1968 · 1h 48m
country: Italy
A war hero turned unemployed is hired by a British man whose life he saved during the war, for a secret mission: to kill a neo-nazi.


Eat It
1968 · 1h 24m
country: Italy
An industrialist tries to find an advertising gimmick for his canned meat product "Eat it!". In the fields he finds a savage individual who has reduced himself to two functions only: eating huge amounts of food and making love. So he uses this savage man for his advertising purposes by making the public believe that his meat is an aphrodisiac. Some time later the strange being loses his "gifts". The industrialist tries to replace him, but the incredible amounts of meat he eats turns him into a cow! (Digitmovies)


The Head of the Family
1967 · 1h 46m
country: France
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.


Tiffany Memorandum
1967 · 1h 25m
country: France
A journalist and secretary get involved in espionage.


Please Don't Shoot Your Gun
1967 · 1h 31m
country: Italy
A criminal organization commits to the highly skilled thief Paul Lefèvre the theft of a revolutionary invention.


Seven Golden Men Strike Again
1966 · 1h 32m
country: Spain
Armed with gadgets and an atomic sub, a crook (Philippe Leroy) and his gang target a Latin dictator and Soviet gold.


Made in Italy
1965 · 2h 6m
country: France
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.


La strada più lunga
1965 · 1h 17m
country: Italy
Michele, a bourgeois intellectual, adhered to fascism for years. After fighting abroad, he returns home in 1943, but is now tired and refuses to join the Republic of Salò. His comrades still want him with them, but this Social Republic, imposed by the SS arms, does not convince him. The war continues and the situation does not allow one to remain neutral.


Thrilling
1965 · 1h 49m
country: Italy
A black comedy anthology about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes: a teacher, obsessed with the idea that his wife is unfaithful, goes to a shrink; a wife has her husband dress himself with a comic character costume; and a man has to spend the night in a mysterious hotel after his car breaks down.


Seven Golden Men
1965 · 1h 35m
country: Italy
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.


It's a Hard Life
1964 · 1h 39m
country: Italy
Luciano Bianchi lives with his wife and son in the small town of Guastalla. As an intellectual and bibliophile, he works as head of cultural initiatives at a mining plant.


Pariahs of Glory
1964 · 1h 40m
country: France
During World War II a young Frenchmen sees his brother killed in Alsace by a German officer. He vows revenge on all Germans, but after the War he is conscripted into the French Army and sent to Indochina. There he meets his brother's killer under strange circumstances.


The Organizer
1963 · 2h 10m
country: France
In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory in Turin, Italy.


March on Rome
1962 · 1h 34m
country: Italy
March on Rome (Italian: La marcia su Roma) is a 1962 comedy film by Dino Risi with Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi, aimed at describing the March on Rome of Benito Mussolini's black shirts from the point of view of two newly recruited, naïve black shirts