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Aroldo Tieri
Aroldo Tieri (28 August 1917 – 28 December 2006) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1939 and 1969. Life and career Born in Corigliano Calabro, son of the journalist and playwright Vincenzo Tieri, Aroldo Tieri moved in Rome at 18 to study law at university, and in the meanwhile approached acting and enrolled the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico. Graduated in 1938, he almost immediately made his debut in theater and in film. Soon Tieri became one of the most popular and appreciated young actors, with a predisposition to the comic genre. In cinema Tieri specialized in roles on jealous, irascible, nervous boyfriends, and this characterization limited his career and caused his retirement from films in the late 1960s. His versatility was revealed especially on stage and on television, that at the end of the 1950s gave him notoriety with a successful adaptation of the Charles Dickens, Dickens' novel ''Nicholas Nickleby'' and then ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Due Mafiosi
'' I due mafiosi'' ( es, Dos de la mafia, literally "Two Mafiamen") is a 1964 Italian-Spanish crime comedy film directed by Giorgio Simonelli and starring the comedy duo Franco and Ciccio. It is a parody of Alberto Lattuada's ''Mafioso (film), Mafioso''.Franco e Ciccio Superstar", ''Cine70'', Volume 4, Coniglio Editore, 2003. Plot Cast * Franco Franchi as Franco Fisichella * Ciccio Ingrassia as Ciccio Spampinato * Aroldo Tieri as Commissioner Dupont * Mischa Auer as Mischa * Gino Buzzanca as Don Calogero Sparatore * José Riesgo as Don Fifì, aka the Moroccan * Moira Orfei as Claudette * Isabella Biagini as Jacqueline * Silvia Solar as Clementine * Mario Frera as Director * Pino Renzi as Rosario * Piero Gerlini as French Customs Officer * Nino Fuscagni as Lido's Waiter References External links * Films directed by Giorgio Simonelli 1960s crime comedy films Italian crime comedy films Films with screenplays by Giovanni Grimaldi 1964 comedy films 1964 films 196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
What A Distinguished Family
''What a Distinguished Family'' (Italian: ''Che distinta famiglia!'') is a 1945 Italian " white-telephones" comedy film directed by Mario Bonnard and starring Gino Cervi, Assia Noris and Aroldo Tieri.Moliterno p.227 The film's art direction was by Gastone Medin Gastone Medin (1905–1973) was an Italian art director.Anile p.132 He worked on more than a hundred and fifty films during his career. Selected filmography * ''Figaro and His Great Day'' (1931) * '' Lowered Sails'' (1931) * ''The Table of the P .... Due to the events of 25 July 1943, the making of the film was interrupted or temporarily suspended. The film was only released in public cinemas at the end of 1945. Cast References Bibliography * Moliterno, Gino. ''Historical Dictionary of Italian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2008. External links * 1945 films 1940s Italian-language films Italian comedy films 1945 comedy films Films directed by Mario Bonnard Italian black-and-white films 1940s Italian f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Song Of Spring (1950 Film)
''Song of Spring'' (Italian: ''Canzone di primavera'') is a 1950 Italian melodrama film directed by Mario Costa and starring Leonardo Cortese, Delia Scala and Tamara Lees.Sorrenti p.21 The film's sets were designed by Alberto Boccianti. Partial cast *Leonardo Cortese as Mario * Delia Scala as Rosetta * Tamara Lees as Evi * Claudio Villa as Himself * Laura Gore as Maria * Aroldo Tieri as Nino * Ludmilla Dudarova as Elena * Checco Durante as Pippo * Dante Maggio as Gigetto * Paola Borboni as Lidia * Arturo Bragaglia * Piero Lulli as Ugo * Enrico Glori * Franco Pesce * Jone Morino as Fanny * Felice Romano * Giuseppe Pierozzi * Aldo Silvani * Vittorio Sanipoli Vittorio Sanipoli (1915–1992) was an Italian stage, film and television actor. He appeared in around a hundred films and television series between 1942 and 1980. Life and career Born Luciano Sanipoli in Genoa, he made his acting debut in 1939 ... as Max References Bibliography * Pasquale So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beauties On Bicycles
''Beauties on Bicycles'' (Italian: ''Bellezze in '') is a 1951 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Campogalliani and starring Silvana Pampanini and Delia Scala.Parish p.142 It was filmed at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome with sets designed by Alfredo Montori. The film was one of the more popular productions released that year and was a financial success. Two young women travelling towards Milan to try to secure roles in a new musical comedy show enjoy a series of adventures which involve pretending to be soldiers and taking party in a bicycle race. Partial cast *Silvana Pampanini as Silvana *Delia Scala as Delia *Franca Marzi as Maria *Peppino De Filippo as First thief *Renato Rascel as The mechanic's son *Aroldo Tieri as Aroldo *Carlo Ninchi as The manager * Carlo Croccolo as Pinotto *Arnoldo Foà as The sergeant *Luigi Pavese as Reporter *Dante Maggio as Second thief *Carlo Romano as Darelli Manager *Renato Valente as Giulio Darelli * Oscar Andriani *Nico Pepe *Nerio Berna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto Looks For A Wife
''Toto Looks for a Wife'' (Italian: ''Totò cerca moglie'') is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Totò, Ave Ninchi and Marisa Merlini.Moliterno, Gino. ''The A to Z of Italian Cinema''. Scarecrow Press, 2009. p. 316. . The film's art director was Alberto Boccianti. Plot In 1950 in Australia, Aunt Agatha writes to her nephew Toto, informing him she won't send him more money to live Italy until he gets married. Toto is in fact a happy bachelor who dabbles in sculpture and lives in luxury off his aunt's money. Now Toto's lifestyle is threatened and he's forced to find a partner before his aunt comes to Rome to meet the new couple. Thanks to a friend (Aroldo Tieri), Toto is helped, but the women are horrible or already ammogliate, which causes many misunderstandings. At the end bull is mistaken for a delinquent because of mistaken identity and misunderstanding continues when they come into the house of Toto's aunt and the new "wife", or a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto The Sheik
''Toto the Sheik'' ( it, Totò sceicco) is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò.Curti p.145 It is a parody of desert films such as ''The Son of the Sheik'' and ''Siren of Atlantis''. Plot Antonio is the humble servant of a rich family, governed by the Marquis Gastone. Gastone is a young man madly in love with Lulu, but she betrays him, and he desperately enlist in the French Foreign Legion. The old Marchesa, his mother, persuades Antonio to enlist to watch over Gastone, and so he arrives in Arabia. There Antonio is led with barrel (because enlistment is secret), and is exchanged by Arabs for their sheikh, who came to lead the revolt against the western invaders. The vicissitudes follow one another, especially when the rebels discover that Antonio is not the Sheikh, and so, having also escaped a death sentence, Antonio ends up in a secret passage, in the lost city of Atlantis, where he meets the beautiful Queen Antinea. Cast * Totò as Antonio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Taxi
''Night Taxi'' (Italian: ''Taxi di notte'') is a 1950 French-Italian comedy film about a taxicab driver, directed by Carmine Gallone and starring Beniamino Gigli, Danielle Godet and Philippe Lemaire.Apra p.93 After finding a baby left abandoned in his cab, a singing taxi driver tries to find its mother. Cast *Beniamino Gigli as Nello Spadoni *Danielle Godet as Laura Morani *Philippe Lemaire as Alberto Franchi * Virginia Belmont as Luisa Forenti *Carlo Ninchi as Forenti l'Industriale *William Tubbs as Mr. William Simon *Jone Morino as Signora Forenti *Aroldo Tieri as Conte Tattini *Giuseppe Varni as Major Domo *Giuseppe Rinaldi as Il raggionere, inamorato di Luisa *Renzo De Luca as Il piccolo abandonato in taxi *Giulio Battiferri *Franco Coop *Peppino Spadaro * Edda Soligo * Ciro Berardi * Gustavo Serena * Nico Pepe * Pina Piovani Pina Piovani (20 March 1897 – 2 January 1955) was an Italian stage and film actress An actor or actress is a person who portrays a characte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Transporter (1950 Film)
''The Transporter'' (Italian: ''La bisarca'') is a 1950 Italian comedy science fiction film directed by Giorgio Simonelli and starring Peppino De Filippo, Silvana Pampanini, Lída Baarová and Aroldo Tieri. It is based on a radio program with the same name. It was shot at the Farnesina Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alberto Boccianti. It earned 182 and a half million lira at the Italian box office.Chiti & Poppi p.63 Synopsis A barber is engaged to a manicurist working in the shop, but he grows jealous and picks a quarrel with one of the customers. Struck on the head he crashes into a radio playing a serial programme. Knocked unconscious he begins to have bizarre dreams about a deluge and a car transporter which functions as a Noah's Ark. Production The film was based on the homonymous radio broadcast by Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini, broadcast for two seasons from 1949 to 1951. A theatrical magazine was also taken from the radio b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Elusive Twelve
''The Elusive Twelve'' (Italian: ''L'inafferrabile 12'') is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Walter Chiari, Silvana Pampanini and Isa Barzizza. It was shot at the Farnesina Studios of Titanus in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Piero Filippone. It earned 400 million lira at the domestic box office.Chiti & Poppi p.189 Plot When his wife gives birth to twin boys, her husband sends one to the orphanage as they already have eleven children and thirteen would be unlucky. The two boys grow up completely apart, one becoming a professional footballer for Juventus and the other an employee of the state lottery. Without meeting, the two now keep accidentally crossing paths. The second man is mistaken for the first man by his girlfriend, and ends up playing in a football match in place of his twin. Cast * Walter Chiari as Carletto Esposito\Brandoletti * Silvana Pampanini as Clara * Isa Barzizza as Teresa * Carlo Campanini as Bepp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto Looks For A House
''Toto Looks for a House'' ( it, Totò cerca casa) is a 1949 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli and Steno. The film is stylistically related to Italian neorealism, though it can be seen as a parody. It was a commercial success, being the second most popular film at the box office that year.Bondanella p.113 Plot In an afterwar Italy the problem for every citizen is to find a comfortable place to live. Beniamino Lomacchio (Totò) is one of the many people without a home and, together with his family, he's been living in a school. He cannot live there much longer, though, because school re-opens in September. Beniamino is a poor clerk and does not know what to do; he just hopes he'll find a comfortable apartment with a landlord who doesn't ask for too much rent. One day, however, Beniamino finds a place to move into: a cemetery caretaker's house. Not all the family is convinced it's a great idea. They stay there for a short while, fleeing when they think they see a gh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sicilian Uprising
''Sicilian Uprising'' or ''Sicilian Vespers'' (Italian: ''Vespro siciliano'') is a 1949 Italian historical drama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Marina Berti, Clara Calamai and Roldano Lupi.Gesù p.315 The film is set in 1282, showing the events leading up to the War of the Sicilian Vespers. It is based on the libretto of the Verdi opera ''I vespri siciliani'', which was itself based on an earlier play written by Eugène Scribe and Charles Duveyrier. Cast * Marina Berti as Laura * Clara Calamai as Elena Di Caltabellotta * Roldano Lupi as Giovanni Da Procida * Steve Barclay as Capitaine Drouet * Paul Muller as Duke de Saint-Rémy, Governor of Palermo * Ermanno Randi as Ruggero * Aldo Silvani as Abbot of Santo Spirito * Carlo Tamberlani as Tommaso * Aroldo Tieri as Folco * Gabriele Ferzetti * Gianni Glori * Felice Minotti Felice Minotti (19 November 1887 – 21 March 1963) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 91 films between 1908 and 1963. Selected f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Little Lady
''Little Lady'' ( it, Signorinella) is a 1949 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Gino Bechi, Antonella Lualdi and Aroldo Tieri. It was shot at the Farnesina Studios in Rome and location shooting, on location around Introdacqua in Province of L'Aquila, L'Aquila. The film's sets were designed by the art director Mario Rappini. It earned around 66 million Italian lira, lira at the box office.Chiti & Poppi p.338 Plot Two young steal a car and drive up into the hills of Abruzzo. There they are mistaken by the inhabitants of a town as the wealthy cousins of a young woman who lives there Maria. Cast * Gino Bechi as Don Cesare Balestri * Antonella Lualdi as Maria Censi * Aroldo Tieri as Un ladro * Ave Ninchi as Iris * Aldo Silvani as Ernesto De Blasi * Dina Sassoli as Carmela * Vinicio Sofia as Modesto Rinaldi * Ughetto Bertucci as Un ladro * Aldo Bufi Landi as Bruno de Blasi * Ada Dondini as Cesira, la governante * Enzo Garinei as Assistante del notaio * Inga Go ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |