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Le Calde Notti Di Poppea
''Poppea's Hot Nights'' ( it, Le calde notti di Poppea) is a 1969 Italian comedy film set in Ancient Rome. It was written and directed by Guido Malatesta and stars Olga Schoberová (credited as Olinka Berova) and Brad Harris in the main roles.Michele Giordano. ''Giganti buoni''. Gremese Editore, 1998. . Plot Cast * Olinka Berova as Poppaea Sabina * Brad Harris as Claudius Valerius * Gia Sandri as Lucretia * Howard Ross as Marco * Femi Benussi as Livia * Sandro Dori as Nero * Daniele Vargas as Druso * Carla Calò as Calpurnia * Nello Pazzafini as Father Colonnius * Tullio Altamura as Seneca the Younger * Silvio Bagolini as Maestro Lepido * Elisa Mainardi as Dionisia * Ignazio Balsamo as Tarquinio * Demeter Bitenc as Tigellino * Franco Pasquetto as Leander * Fortunato Arena as the Legionary * Marco Tulli as the Priest * Alberto Sorrentino Alberto Sorrentino (16 February 1916 – 31 January 1994), was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 89 films between 1943 an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guido Malatesta
Guido Malatesta (1919 – 14 June 1970), born in Gallarate, Italy, was a film director and screenwriter. He began working as a professional journalist. After he moved to Rome, he was drawn to cinema, as creator of treatments, then scriptwriter and assistant director, and finally becoming director in 1957 with the film ''The Billionaires''. He continued to make films until a few days before his death in 1970. He was known for his Peplum movies and having a simple fun style without being overdone by plot. His most popular of the present remains ''Colossus and the Headhunters'' and ''Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules''. The former is notable for having no monsters which went against the tradition of the sword and sandal genre as well as being the subject of a 1994 episode of the popular movie-mocking television show ''Mystery Science Theater 3000''. He wrote the story and screenplay of ''Devil of the Desert Against the Son of Hercules''. In the sixties, following the fas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carla Calò
Carla Calò (21 September 1926 – 29 December 2019) was an Italian actress. Life and career Born in Palermo, Calò started her career on stage, notably starring in Luigi Squarzina's ''Il berretto a sonagli'', and also being active in dialectal theatre and avanspettacolo. She made her film debut in 1949, in Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia's ''Il falco rosso''. During the early part of her film career Calò played several main roles, then, from the second half of the 1950s, she became one of the most active character actresses in Italian cinema. She was sometimes credited as Carrol Brown. Calò died in December 2019 at the age of 93. Selected filmography * ''Il falco rosso'' (1949) - Marfa * ''Totò Le Mokò'' (1949) - Suleima * '' The Iron Swordsman'' (1949) - Haidée * '' The Fighting Men'' (1950) - Rosa * '' The Treasure of Bengal'' (1953) - Surama * ''La pattuglia dell'Amba Alagi'' (1953) - Elena * ''Mystery of the Black Jungle'' (1954) - Sulima * ''La vendetta dei Tughs'' (1954 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1969 Comedy Films
This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to London's Gatwick Airport, killing 50 of the 62 people on board and two of the home's occupants. * January 14 – An explosion aboard the aircraft carrier USS ''Enterprise'' near Hawaii kills 27 and injures 314. * January 19 – End of the siege of the University of Tokyo, marking the beginning of the end for the 1968–69 Japanese university protests. * January 20 – Richard Nixon is sworn in as the 37th President of the United States. * January 22 – An assassination attempt is carried out on Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev by deserter Viktor Ilyin. One person is killed, several are injured. Brezhnev escaped unharmed. * January 27 ** Fourteen men, 9 of them Jews, are executed in Baghdad for spying for Israel. ** Rever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Historical Comedy Films
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Alberto Sorrentino
Alberto Sorrentino (16 February 1916 – 31 January 1994), was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 89 films between 1943 and 1988. He was born in La Spezia, Italy. Selected filmography * '' The Last Wagon'' (1943) - Un passante * '' I cadetti di Guascogna'' (1950) - Il comico * ''Totò Tarzan'' (1950) - L'usciere * ''I'm the Capataz'' (1951) - Un rivoluzionario * '' Arrivano i nostri'' (1951) - Guido, il morto di fame * '' Milano miliardaria'' (1951) - Oscar, il fotografo * '' Accidents to the Taxes!!'' (1951) - Arturo * ''Toto the Third Man'' (1951) - Giovannino - Il giornalista * ''Seven Hours of Trouble'' (1951) - Raffaele * ''Il padrone del vapore'' (1951) - Il disegnatore * '' My Heart Sings'' (1951) - 'Signorina' * ''Stasera sciopero'' (1951) * '' Tizio, Caio, Sempronio'' (1951) * ''Viva il cinema!'' (1952) - Giovanni * '' Vendetta... sarda'' (1952) - Narciso Bellezza * ''Abracadabra'' (1952) - Fernando, detto Fefè * ''Maschera nera'' (1952) * ''Beauties in Capri'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marco Tulli
Marco Tulli (20 November 1920 – 20 March 1982) was an Italian character actor, probably best known in the role of "Smilzo" in the Don Camillo film series. Born in Rome, Tulli debuted as actor while he was still a university student, at the end of the Second World War. He was a prolific character actor in comedy films, often playing roles of curious and nosy persons. He was also very active on stage, in which he worked with Giorgio Strehler Giorgio Strehler (; ; 14 August 1921 – 25 December 1997) was an actor, Italian opera and theatre director. Biography Strehler was born in Barcola, Trieste; His father, Bruno Strehler, was a native of Trieste with family roots in Vienna and died ... and Luciano Lucignani, and as television actor. Selected filmography References External links * Italian male film actors 1920 births Male actors from Rome Italian male television actors Italian male stage actors 1982 deaths 20th-century Italian male actors People of Lazia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fortunato Arena
Fortunato Arena (23 May 1922 – 7 March 1994) was an Italian stuntman and actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1954 to 1989. Selected filmography * ''Blood for a Silver Dollar'' (1965) * '' Conqueror of Atlantis'' (1965) * '' 008: Operation Exterminate'' (1965) * '' Erik, the Viking'' (1965) * ''Seven Dollars on the Red'' (1966) * '' Django Shoots First'' (1966) * ''Killer's Carnival'' (1966) * ''The Great Silence'' (1968) * '' Long Days of Hate'' (1968) * '' Day After Tomorrow'' (1968) * ''Sartana the Gravedigger'' (1969) * '' I quattro del pater noster'' (1969) * '' I Am Sartana, Trade Your Guns for a Coffin'' (1970) * ''Adiós, Sabata'' (1970) * ''The Last Traitor'' (1971) * ''Trinity Is Still My Name'' (1971) * ''Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead'' (1971) * ''Two Sons of Trinity'' (1972) * '' Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why?'' (1972) * '' Return of Shanghai Joe'' (1975) * ''A Special Cop in Action'' (1976) * ''Confessions of a Lady Cop ''La pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Pasquetto
Franco may refer to: Name * Franco (name) * Francisco Franco (1892–1975), Spanish general and dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975 * Franco Luambo (1938–1989), Congolese musician, the "Grand Maître" Prefix * Franco, a prefix used when referring to France, a country * Franco, a prefix used when referring to French people and their diaspora, e.g. Franco-Americans, Franco-Mauritians * Franco, a prefix used when referring to Franks, a West Germanic tribe Places * El Franco, a municipality of Asturias in Spain * Presidente Franco District, in Paraguay * Franco, Virginia, an unincorporated community, in the United States Other uses * Franco (band), Filipino band * Franco (''General Hospital''), a fictional character on the American soap opera ''General Hospital'' * Franco, the Luccan franc, a 19th-century currency of Lucca, Italy * ''Franco, Ciccio e il pirata Barbanera'', a 1969 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Amendola * ''Franco, ese hombre'', a 1964 documentary fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demeter Bitenc
Demeter Bitenc (21 July 1922 – 22 April 2018) was a Slovenian film actor. He appeared in more than 150 films and television shows from 1953 to 2018. He was born in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Selected filmography * ''Sinji galeb'' (1953) * ''Pulverschnee nach Übersee'' (1956) - John Meredith (uncredited) * ''Dobri stari pianino'' (1959) - Nemski oficir * ''Akcija'' (1960) - Gestapovec * ''Flitterwochen in der Hölle'' (1960) - José Antonio García * ''Island of the Amazons'' (1960) - Leblanc * ''Das Mädchen mit den schmalen Hüften'' (1961) - Stefan * '' Dancing in the Rain'' (1961) - Profesor * ''The Festival Girls'' (1961) - Member of Jury * ''Treibjagd auf ein Leben'' (1961) - Coco * ''Fire Monsters Against the Son of Hercules'' (1962) - Dorok - Father of Aydar * ''Minuta za umor'' (1962) * ''The Triumph of Robin Hood'' (1962) - Sigmund (uncredited) * ''Il bandito della luce rossa'' (1962) * ''Colossus and the Headhunters'' (1963) - Ariel * ''The Saracens'' (1963) - Rabanec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ignazio Balsamo
Ignazio Balsamo (25 October 1912 – 7 August 1994) was an Italian film and stage actor. Life and career Born in Catania, Balsamo began his career on stage, being part of several Sicilian language theatrical companies. Discovered by Pietro Germi, who offered him a role of weight in the film '' In the Name of the Law'', following the success of the film Balsamo moved to Rome where he had a long film career as a character actor, mainly cast in roles of Sicilian criminals and villains. He also worked as a production coordinator and a production runner for the companies Fortunia Film and Romana Film. Balsamo was also author of two plays in Sicilian language, ''Casa Cantoniera'' and ''Tila di ragnu''. Selected filmography * '' In the Name of the Law'' (1949) - Francesco Messana * ''Outlaw Girl'' (1950) - Ciro Sollima * '' The Fighting Men'' (1950) - Antonio Schepisi * '' Il caimano del Piave'' (1951) - Sergente siciliano al fronte * '' Behind Closed Shutters'' (1951) - Mi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisa Mainardi
Elisa Mainardi (27 July 1930 – 8 May 2016) was an Italian stage, film, and television actress. Life and career Born in Rome, Mainardi studied at the acting school of Peter Sharoff, and debuted on stage in 1956, in Ottavio Spadaro's ''Corruzione a palazzo di giustizia'' alongside Salvo Randone, immediately receiving critical acclaim for her performance. Shortly later she became lead actress in ''Il sorriso della Gioconda'' directed by Ernesto Grassi and in ''La penna'' directed by Lucio Chiavarelli, and the absolute protagonist in Luciano Salce's ''Colombe di Anouilh''. Her stage works include main roles in works directed by Luchino Visconti, Giorgio De Lullo, Silverio Blasi and Alessandro Fersen. Mainardi was also active on television and in films, in which she worked several times with Federico Fellini. Selected filmography * ''La Vendetta'' (1962) * ''Hercules and the Black Pirates'' (1964) * ''I figli del leopardo'' (1965) * ''Night of Violence'' (1965) * ''Fellini Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvio Bagolini
Silvio Bagolini (4 August 1914 – 26 September 1976) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1936 and 1973. Life and career Born in Bologna, Bagolini studied architecture at the Bologna University, without graduating. He made his acting debut with a leading role in a 1934 experimental amateur film, ''Verde nei prati''. Moved to Rome, he enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In 1936 he made his professional debut in the film ''La danza delle lancette'', and from then he started an intense career as a character actor, often cast in humorous roles. Also active on stage and on television, in the 1970s he abandoned his career to become manager of a spinning mill. Selected filmography * ''Cavalry'' (1936) * '' The Dance of Time'' (1936) *''The Castiglioni Brothers'' (1937) * '' It Was I!'' (1937) * '' The Former Mattia Pascal'' (1937) * ''Pietro Micca'' (1938) * ''Happy Days'' (1942) * '' The Jester's Supper'' (1942) * '' Hand of D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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