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L'imbranato
''L'imbranato'' (''The bumbling man'') is a 1979 Italian comedy film written and directed by Pier Francesco Pingitore. Plot Pippo Sperandio is an employee of an Italian electronics company in direct contact with his boss, the pleasure-seeker Dr. Maramotti, who never misses an opportunity to have relationships with different types of women including Laura, his secretary. However, when he needs to be replaced during a holiday in Sardinia he calls and sends Pippo Sperandio to his place who - as Doctor Maramotti - will have to deal with a hectic holiday full of sport and goliardic parties, typical of the tourist villages of those years, which he is not used to. Cast * Pippo Franco: Pippo Sperandio * Laura Troschel: Laura * Bombolo: Bombolo Cicerchia * Luciana Turina: Poldina Sperandio * Duilio Del Prete: Dr. Felice Maramotti * Oreste Lionello: "Man-i-drake" * Enzo Cannavale: The man who laughs * Teo Teocoli: Teo * Sergio Leonardi: Bandit * Giancarlo Magalli: Capo animatore * Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enzo Cannavale
Vincenzo "Enzo" Cannavale (5 April 1928 – 18 March 2011) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films since 1949, including ''Cinema Paradiso'', which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards in 1990. He was awarded the Nastro d’Argento for Best Supporting Actor in ''32 dicembre'' (''December 32nd'') by Luciano De Crescenzo. Selected filmography * ''Yvonne la Nuit'' (1949) - Il maggiordomo (uncredited) * ''Sogno di una notte di mezza sbornia'' (1959) - Fish-monger * ''Leoni al sole'' (1961) - Il commissario * '' The Four Days of Naples'' (1962) - Partigiano (uncredited) * ''Treasure of San Gennaro'' (1966) - Gaetano * '' More Than a Miracle'' (1967) * ''Stasera mi butto'' (1967) - Waiter * ''Chimera'' (1968) - Porter in Capocabana Hotel * ''Operazione ricchezza'' (1968) * ''Zum Zum Zum - La canzone che mi passa per la testa'' (1969) - Filippo - Brother of Tosca * ''Zum zum zum n° 2'' (1969) - Valerio * '' Il suo n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franca Scagnetti
Franca Scagnetti (17 May 1924 – 1 November 1999) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in over 80 films between 1969 and 1999. She was born and died in Rome, Italy. Selected filmography * ''Ehi amigo, sei morto!'' (1970) - Nathaniel's Wife (uncredited) * ''Trastevere'' (1971) - Andrea's wife * ''I due assi del guantone'' (1971) - Mother of a Boxer (uncredited) * ''In the Name of the Italian People'' (1971) - Porter * ''Siamo tutti in libertà provvisoria'' (1971) - Woman Looking for Judge Stammati (uncredited) * ''Senza famiglia, nullatenenti cercano affetto'' (1972) - Woman in Hospital (uncredited) * '' Il sindacalista'' (1972) - Worker (uncredited) * ''Le notti peccaminose di Pietro l'Aretino'' (1972) - Villager (uncredited) * ''Crime Boss'' (1972) - Don Faiena's Maid (uncredited) * ''Girolimoni, il mostro di Roma'' (1972) - (uncredited) * ''Alfredo, Alfredo'' (1972) - Maid (uncredited) * ''The Scientific Cardplayer'' (1972) - Pasqualina * ''Meo Patacca'' (1972) - Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Troschel
Laura Troschel (3 November 1944 – 29 September 2016) was an Italian actress, singer and model. Life and career Born in Varese, Troschel made her debut in cinema in a role of weight in ''The Sex of Angels'' (1968), by Ugo Liberatore. Later, she appeared in some movies as Constanza Spada, until she became the wife of comedian Pippo Franco and resumed her original name. Between the 1970s and 1980s she participated with her husband in a number of comedy films. She was also active in television, as a presenter of some popular shows with Pippo Franco and as an actress in several miniseries. Selected filmography * '' The Sex of Angels'' (1968) * '' Four Flies on Grey Velvet'' (1971) * '' Terrible Day of the Big Gundown'' (1971) * '' Furto di sera bel colpo si spera'' (1973) * '' Nerone'' (1977) * ''L'imbranato'' (1979) * ''Ciao marziano'' (1980) * '' Il ficcanaso'' (1981) * '' The Trap'' (1985) * '' Raul: Straight to Kill'' (2005) Discography ; Albums * 1979 - ''C'era una volta R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alessandro Alessandroni
Alessandro Alessandroni (18 March 1925 – 26 March 2017) was an Italian musician and composer. He played multiple instruments, including the guitar, mandolin, mandolincello, sitar, accordion and piano, and composed more than 40 film scores and countless library music. Biography Alessandroni collaborated with his childhood friend Ennio Morricone on a number of soundtracks for Spaghetti Westerns. Morricone's orchestration often calls for an unusual combination of instruments, voices, and whistling. Alessandroni's twangy guitar riff is central to the main theme for ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly''. Alessandroni can be heard as the whistler on the soundtracks for Sergio Leone's films, including ''A Fistful of Dollars'', '' For a Few Dollars More'', ''Once Upon a Time in the West'', and '' Pervirella''. He also collaborated with Morricone in scoring the 1974 film '' Around the World with Peynet's Lovers''. Alessandroni founded the octet vocal group ' (English: ''The Modern Choris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bombolo
Franco Lechner, best known as Bombolo (22 May 1931 – 21 August 1987), was an Italian character actor and comedian. Life and career Born in Rome into a humble family, a former peddler of dishes, Lechner was discovered in a tavern by Franco Castellacci and Pierfrancesco Pingitore, who entered him in their cabaret company "Il Bagaglino". He got a large popularity in cinema as the sidekick of Tomas Milian in a successful series of half-serious poliziottesco films directed by Bruno Corbucci. He was also partner of Enzo Cannavale in a number of comedy films. He died at age 56 as a result of complications following a major surgical operation. Decades later, his characteristic slang, and particularly his distinctive "tze tze", remain popular among the younger generations. Partial filmography * ''Remo e Romolo (Storia di due figli di una lupa)'' (1976) - Pappo * ''La prima notte di nozze'' (1976) * '' Hit Squad'' (1976) - Er Trippa * '' Nerone'' (1977) - Roscio * '' Il marito ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duilio Del Prete
Duilio Del Prete (25 June 1938 – 2 February 1998) was an Italian actor, dubber and singer-songwriter. Del Prete was born at Cuneo, Piedmont. As a singer-songwriter, he wrote political songs and recorded an album of Jacques Brel's covers; he also wrote songs for several artists. As an actor, he participated to several films of the ''commedia all'italiana'', including '' My Friends'' and ''Alfredo, Alfredo'', both by Pietro Germi, and '' Sessomatto''. He also played in several foreign films, including two for director Peter Bogdanovich, ''Daisy Miller'' (1974) and '' At Long Last Love'' (1975). Del Prete died in Rome of cancer in 1998. Filmography * ''The Seven Cervi Brothers'' (1968) as Dante Castellucci * ''Commandos'' (1968) as Bruno * '' Tribuna Padronale'' (1971) as palazzinaro immaginario * ''The Assassination of Trotsky'' (1972) as Felipe * '' Alfredo Alfredo'' (1972) as Oreste * '' Il caso Pisciotta'' (1972) as Agent Sciurti * '' D'amore si muore'' (1972) * ''The Nun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oreste Lionello
Oreste Lionello (18 April 1927 – 19 February 2009) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Lionello was born in Rhodes (which was then a possession of Italy), to Calabrian parents, and grew up in Reggio Calabria. He began his career as a theatre actor, and was considered amongst the founders of Italian cabaret. In 1953 he entered the Musical Theatrical Company of RAI (Italian state TV) and the following year he debuted in television with ''Marziano Filippo'', a boys' show. In the 1960s, he was one of the founders of the Bagaglino comic theatre and TV company and he had found success as an entertainer on Italian TV in the 1970s and 1980s. As an actor, Lionello acted in over 56 feature films and several television shows. He appeared in five episodes of ''Le avventure di Laura Storm'' and he made his debut film appearance in ''The Cheerful Squadron''. As a voice actor, Lionello was the official Italian voice of Woody Allen. Other actors he dubbed included Charlie Chaplin, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pippo Franco
Pippo Franco (pseudonym of Franco Pippo) was born 2 September 1940 and is an Italian actor, comedian, television presenter, and singer. He made his name first as a musician in the early 1960s, and in the late 1960s began a career in film, starring in a great number of ''commedia sexy all'italiana'', the "sexy comedy" subgenre of Italian comedy. In the 1970s he expanded into television, acting in TV movies and presenting variety shows. His type of comedy borrows heavily from cabaret. Throughout his career he continued to sing, appearing many times at the Sanremo Festival. He has made children's music as well, and has co-written three books on (linguistic) humor. Biography Franco was born in Rome to an Irpinian family, who had moved to Rome from Vallata, in the Province of Avellino. Cinema Franco's first role in a box office hit was 1969's ''Nell'anno del Signore'', directed by Luigi Magni and starring "an exceptional cast of actors" including Franco, Nino Manfredi and Claudia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teo Teocoli
Antonio "Teo" Teocoli (born 25 February 1945) is an Italian actor, TV conductor, singer and writer appearing in about 30 mostly Italian productions since 1975. Selected filmography * ''Paolo e Francesca'' (1971) * ''The Boss and the Worker'' (1975) * ''L'Italia s'è rotta'' (1976) * '' Sturmtruppen'' (1976) * ''Valentina, una ragazza che ha fretta'' (1977) * ''L'inquilina del piano di sopra'' (1978) * ''Il balordo'' (1978) * ''L'imbranato'' (1979) * ''Saxophone'' (1979) * ''Liquirizia'' (1979) * ''Profumo di classe'' (1979) * ''Ciao marziano'' (1980) * '' L'onorevole con l'amante sotto il letto'' (1981) * '' Spaghetti a mezzanotte'' (1981) * ''Una vacanza bestiale'' (1981) * ''Tutto compreso'' (1981) * ''Si ringrazia la regione Puglia per averci fornito i milanesi'' (1982) * ''Stormtroopers II'' (1982) * '' Eccezzziunale... veramente'' (1982) * '' Drive in'' (1983) * ''Diego al 100%'' (1984) * ''Grand Hotel'' (1985) * ''Grandi magazzini '' (1986) * ''Missione eroica – I po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergio Leonardi
Sergio Leonardi (born 26 March 1944) is an Italian singer and actor. Life and career Born in Rome, Leonardi started performing as an impersonator and singer at 16 years old. Noted by producer and songwriter Enrico Polito, he made his professional debut in the mid-1960s with the single "Capri mon Capri".Fabrizio Zampa. "Leonardi, Sergio". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. Among his major hits, "Non ti scordar di me", a cover version of a famous Beniamino Gigli song, "Bambina", which won the Verde section at the 1968 Festivalbar, and "Whisky", the theme song of the TV-series '' Sheridan, squadra omicidi'', later included in the musical score of '' The Sunday Woman''.Fabrizio Zampa. "Leonardi, Sergio". Gino Castaldo (edited by). ''Dizionario della canzone italiana''. Curcio Editore, 1990. Starting from early 1970s Leonardi gradually focused into acting, joining the stage company Il Bagaglino and appearing in several fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Italian Films Of 1979
A list of films produced in Italy in 1979 (see 1979 in film): References Footnotes Sources * * * * * External linksItalian films of 1979at the Internet Movie Database {{DEFAULTSORT:Italian Films Of 1979 1979 Films A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere ... Lists of 1979 films by country or language ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Films Directed By Pier Francesco Pingitore
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmosphere through the use of moving images. These images are generally accompanied by sound and, more rarely, other sensory stimulations. The word "cinema", short for cinematography, is often used to refer to filmmaking and the film industry, and to the art form that is the result of it. Recording and transmission of film The moving images of a film are created by photography, photographing actual scenes with a movie camera, motion-picture camera, by photographing drawings or miniature models using traditional animation techniques, by means of computer-generated imagery, CGI and computer animation, or by a combination of some or all of these techniques, and other visual effects. Before the introduction of digital production, series of still imag ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
