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Gianni Rizzo
Gianni Rizzo (1925–1992) was an Italian film actor. Between 1944 and 1986 he appeared in over seventy films and television productions, in a variety of supporting roles. His screen roles included parts in a number of peplum films, such as '' The Vengeance of Ursus'' (1961).Hughes, p. 16 He also appeared in Italian spy films, spaghetti westerns, and played the villain in the 1967 Perry Rhodan movie, ''Mission Stardust''. He died in 1992 at age 66. Selected filmography * ''Macario contro Zagomar'' (1949) * ''City of Pain'' (1949) - Sergio * ''A Night of Fame'' (1949) - Max * '' Totò Le Mokò'' (1949) - Cicerone, Casbah tourguide (uncredited) * '' The Crossroads'' (1951) - Beppe detto il Curato * '' Three Steps North'' (1951) - The Greek * ''Wolves Hunt at Night'' (1952) - Le commissaire italien * ''Una madre ritorna'' (1952) - Ex-amante di Elena * ''Una croce senza nome'' (1952) * '' Serenata amara'' (1952) - Peppe * '' Il moschettiere fantasma'' (1952) - Pierre de La Tour * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brindisi
Brindisi ( , ) ; la, Brundisium; grc, Βρεντέσιον, translit=Brentésion; cms, Brunda), group=pron is a city in the region of Apulia in southern Italy, the capital of the province of Brindisi, on the coast of the Adriatic Sea. Historically, the city has played an important role in trade and culture, due to its strategic position on the Italian Peninsula and its natural port on the Adriatic Sea. The city remains a major port for trade with Greece and the Middle East. Its industries include agriculture, chemical works, and the generation of electricity. The city of Brindisi was the provisional government seat of the Kingdom of Italy from September 1943 to February 1944. Geography Brindisi is situated on a natural harbour, that penetrates deeply into the Adriatic coast of Apulia. Within the arms of the outer harbour islands are Pedagne, a tiny archipelago, currently not open and in use for military purposes (United Nations Group Schools used it during the interventio ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Moschettiere Fantasma
''The Phantom Musketeer'' (Italian: ''Il Moschettiere fantasma'') is a 1952 Italian historical adventure film directed by Max Calandri and starring Vasito Bastino, Tamara Lees, Rossana Podestà and Clara Calamai. Dalmonte & Baroni p.90 The film's sets were designed by the art director Nino Maccarones. Cast * Vasito Bastino as Claudio Venier * Tamara Lees as Sibilla * Rossana Podestà as Ornella * Clara Calamai as Marina Venier * Elio Steiner as inquisitore Badoero * Isa Pola as contessa Ferrer * Gianni Rizzo as Pierre de La Tour * Carlo Ninchi Carlo Ninchi (31 May 1896 – 27 April 1974) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1931 and 1963. He was born in Bologna, Emilia-Romagna, and died on 27 April 1974 in Milan, Lombardy, Italy. Selected filmogra ... as doge Donato * Inge Borg as suor Angelica References Bibliography * Chiti, Roberto & Poppi, Roberto. ''Dizionario del cinema italiano: Dal 1945 al 1959''. Gremese Editore, 1991. * D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Triumph Of The Ten Gladiators
''Triumph of the Ten Gladiators'' ( it, Il trionfo dei dieci gladiatori is a 1964 ''peplum'' film written and directed by Nick Nostro and starring Dan Vadis. It is the sequel of Gianfranco Parolini's '' The Ten Gladiators'', and it was followed by ''Spartacus and the Ten Gladiators''.Michele Giordano. ''Giganti buoni''. Gremese Editore, 1998. . Plot When the ten gladiators arrive in Antioch they are approached by a man disguised as a beggar, who throws a bag of gold at them saying a man has got work for them and they should follow him, not too closely, to the man's house. The owner of the house introduces himself as Publius Quintilius Rufus, pro consul of the emperor in Syria, and offers them a contract to put on a series of spectacles at the court of queen Moluya of Arbela. Arbela is now a neutral kingdom between Roman territory and Parthia, Rome's bitterest enemies, and queen Moluya's prime minister has concluded a pact with the Parthian king to allow his armies to pass across ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mission To Hell
''Mission to Hell'' (german: Die Diamantenholle am Mekong, french: Les diamants du Mekong, it, La sfida viene da Bangkok) is a 1964 German-French-Italian spy film written and directed by Gianfranco Parolini and starring Paul Hubschmid. One of the first Eurospy productions, it was a box office success. Plot Cast References External links *''Mission to Hell''at Variety Distribution Variety Distribution is an Italian-based film distribution company. It distributes Italian films worldwide, produced from the 1930s onward. History Variety Distribution (formerly Variety Film and Variety Communications) has been in the film p ... 1964 films 1960s spy thriller films West German films German spy thriller films French spy thriller films Italian spy thriller films Films directed by Gianfranco Parolini Films shot in Bangkok 1960s German-language films Thai-language films 1960s English-language films 1960s German films 1960s Italian films 1960s French films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sword In The Shadows
''Sword in the Shadows'' ( it, Una spada nell'ombra) is a 1961 Italian swashbuckler film directed by Luigi Capuano and starring Tamara Lees and Livio Lorenzon. Plot Cast *Tamara Lees as Countess Ottavia della Rocca *Livio Lorenzon as Captain Mellina * Gabriella Farinon as Lavinia (credited as Gaby Farinon) * Mario Valdemarin as Fabrizio *Germano Longo as Braccio * Pina Cornel as Iolanda *Gianni Rizzo as Giorgio * Lydia Johnson as Marta *Loris Gizzi as Zio Roger *Gianni Solaro as Capitano delle guardie * Diego Michelotti as Fabio *Tullio Altamura as Duke Ercole Altavilla *Ugo Sasso as Baccio's Servant * Gianni Baghino as Zingano *Ignazio Balsamo as Zingano *Piero Pastore Pietro Mario Pastore, also known as Piero Pastore (3 April 1908, in Padua – 8 January 1968, in Rome) was an Italian professional footballer who played as a striker; he later became an actor. Football career Pastore was the youngest ever playe ... as Guard References Extern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ten Gladiators
''The Ten Gladiators'' ( it, I dieci gladiatori) is a 1963 Italian film directed by Gianfranco Parolini. Plot summary Roccia and a band of fellow gladiators join forces with a patrician named Glaucus Valerius to replace Nero, (and his evil henchman, Tigelinus), with a new emperor: Servius Galba. During the course of this bloody struggle, the gladiators lose their mentor and trainer - Resius - and then must rescue Lidia, Resius' beautiful niece, from death on the cross. Cast * Roger Browne as Glaucus Valerius * José Greci (a.k.a. Susan Paget) as Lidia *Dan Vadis as Roccia *Franca Parisi (a.k.a. Margaret Taylor) as Poppea *Gianni Rizzo as Claudius Nero *Mimmo Palmara (aka Dick Palmer) as Tigelinus *Ugo Sasso as Resius *Mirko Ellis as Servius Galba *Gianfranco Parolini as Livius Verus *Vassili Karis as Epaphrodito * Emilio Messina as Gladiator Leptus *Giuseppe Mattei (aka Pino Mattei) as Gladiator Methodius *Pietro Torrisi as Gladiator * Aldo Canti as Gladiator *Giancarlo Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Am Semiramis
''Io Semiramide'' (AKA: ''I Am Semiramis'', AKA: ''Slave Queen of Babylon'', AKA: ''Duelo de Reyes'') is a 1963 film about Semiramis, a queen of the Neo-Assyrian Empire. It was directed by Primo Zeglio. The legends are in part based on the historical Shammuramat, queen consort of Shamshi-Adad V and regent for her son Adad-nirari III. Plot During the reign of Semiramis, the beautiful queen of the Assyrian people, Assyria reaches one of the periods of greatest splendour, and to crown her successes she gives the order to build the great city of Babylon. A young woman of the court of great political ambition, Semiramis falls in love with Kir, a prince enslaved who reciprocates. Kir, king of the Dardanians, is defeated in combat by General Onnos during a military campaign launched by the latter against Nineveh in Assyria. Reduced to slavery, Kir is taken with other slaves to the capital where the general presents his prizes to King Minurte. Semiramis persuades Minurte to offer him ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zorro And The Three Musketeers
''Zorro and the Three Musketeers'' ( it, Zorro e i tre moschettieri, also known as ''Mask of the Musketeers'' and ''Zorro vs. the Three Musketeers'') is a 1963 Italian comedy-adventure film directed by Luigi Capuano and starring Gordon Scott. Plot In the 17th century, Zorro joins forces with the Three Musketeers to rescue a princess kidnapped by a Spanish emissary. Cast * Gordon Scott as Zorro * José Greci as Isabella * Giacomo Rossi Stuart as Athos * Livio Lorenzon as Porthos * Roberto Risso as Aramis * Nazzareno Zamperla as D'Artagnan * Franco Fantasia as Count of Sevilla * Nerio Bernardi as Cardinal Richelieu * Gianni Rizzo as King Philip * Maria Grazia Spina as Manuela * Mario Pisu as Count of Tequel * Ignazio Leone as Sancho * Giuseppe Addobbati * Ignazio Balsamo * Enzo Maggio * Renato Malavasi * Ugo Sasso * Bruno Scipioni * Charles Fawcett * Benito Stefanelli * Nando Tamberlani Nando Tamberlani (1896–1967) was an Italian film actor. A c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lo Smemorato Di Collegno
''Lo smemorato di Collegno'' (Italian for "The Collegno amnesiac") is a 1962 commedia all'italiana film directed by Sergio Corbucci. It is loosely based on the Bruneri-Canella case. Plot A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic, due to a memory loss. After the publication of his photography on a newspaper three people claim to have recognized him: Miss Ballarini and Miss Polacich, who both claim that he is their husband, and a fraudster, who accuses the amnesiac of being his disappeared accomplice. Cast *Totò: The Amnesiac *Nino Taranto: Professor Ademaro Gioberti *Erminio Macario: Nicola Politi *Aroldo Tieri: Dr. Alessandro Zannini *Andrea Checchi: Lawyer Rossetti *Yvonne Sanson: Linda Ballarini * Franco Volpi: Prosecutor *Mario Pisu: Ballarini's Lawyer *Elvy Lissiak: Miss Polacich *Riccardo Billi: Fernando Meniconi *Enrico Viarisio: Minister *Franco Giacobini: Journalist *Gisella Sofio: Milanese Journalist *Pietro Carloni: Francesco Ballerini *Mario Castellani: Gi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pirate And The Slave Girl
''The Pirate and the Slave Girl'' ( it, La scimitarra del Saraceno, also known as ''The Pirate's Captive'') is a 1959 Italian adventure film written and directed by Piero Pierotti and starring Lex Barker. Plot Captain Drakut, called the "Dragon", is a ruthless Saracen pirate who makes the Mediterranean unsafe with his ship. On his forays he hijacks ships and kidnaps the women captured on the ships in order to later sell them as slaves to Turkish human traffickers in North Africa. The rogue pirate only becomes weak when it comes to one woman: the glow-eyed princess Miriam, ruler of a desert tribe of Arabs. One day, Drakut makes a crucial mistake when he raids the "San Luca" and kidnaps Bianca, who is traveling with him. She is the daughter of the governor of Rhodes, which currently belongs to the Republic of Venice. There were also several secret papers from the Doge of Venice on board. The governor is in dire need, as he has to assume that his Bianca could also be bartered away ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Head Of A Tyrant
''Head of a Tyrant'' or ''Judith and Holofernes'' (Italian:''Giuditta e Oloferne'') is a 1959 Italian-French historical film directed by Fernando Cerchio and starring Massimo Girotti, Isabelle Corey and Renato Baldini.Parish p.53 It is part of the boom in Sword-and-sandal productions during the late 1950s. The film is based on the story of Judith Beheading Holofernes. A 1929 film '' Judith and Holofernes'' was also inspired by the tale. Cast * Massimo Girotti as Holophernes * Isabelle Corey as Judith * Renato Baldini as Arbar * Yvette Masson as Rispa * Gianni Rizzo as Ozia * Camillo Pilotto as Belial * Lucia Banti as Servant Girl * Ricardo Valle as Isaac * Leonardo Botta as Gabriele * Franco Balducci as Galaad * Luigi Tosi as Irasa * Gabriele Antonini as Brother * Daniela Rocca as Naomi * Enzo Doria as Daniel See also * ''Judith of Bethulia ''Judith of Bethulia'' (1914) is an American film starring Blanche Sweet and Henry B. Walthall, and produced and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pirate Of The Half Moon
''Il corsaro della mezzaluna'', internationally released as ''Pirate of the Half Moon'', is a List of Italian films of 1957, 1957 Italian adventure film directed by Giuseppe Maria Scotese and starring John Derek. Plot In sixteenth century Italy, a poet turns pirate after a traitor gains control of his homeland. Cast * John Derek: Paolo Di Valverde/Nadir El Krim * Gianna Maria Canale: Infanta Caterina * Ingeborg Schöner: Angela * Alberto Farnese: Alonzo De Carmona Allias Ugo Van Berg * Camillo Pilotto: Barone Alfonso Di Camerlata * Raf Mattioli: Vasco * Paul Muller (actor), Paul Muller: Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, Carlo V * Gianni Rizzo: Visconte Di Gand * Yvette Masson: Rosa * Ignazio Leone: Nicola * Carlo Hintermann: Il Ticinese References External links * 1957 films 1950s adventure drama films Italian adventure drama films Pirate films Films set in the Mediterranean Sea Films directed by Giuseppe Maria Scotese Films set in the 16th century 1957 dram ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
