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Mario Castellani
Mario Castellani (24 November 190625 April 1978) was an Italian comic actor, best known as the sidekick of famous comic actor Antonio De Curtis (Totò). He appeared with the latter in all his major movies, as well as many of Totò's theatre productions. Filmography Below is a partial list of his films— External links * Two sketches of ocanale RAIYouTube YouTube is a global online video sharing and social media platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the second mo ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Castellani, Mario 1906 births 1978 deaths Italian male comedians Male actors from Rome 20th-century Italian male actors Italian male film actors Italian male stage actors Italian male television actors 20th-century Italian comedians ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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 filmography * ''Before the Jury'' (1931) - Marcello Barra, il guardacaccia * ''Mother Earth'' (1931) - Il commandatore Bordani * ''La stella del cinema'' (1931) * ''La scala'' (1931) - Avvocato Giulio Terpi - suo marito * ''Il solitario della montagna'' (1931) * ''La Wally'' (1932) - Hagenbach * ''Red Passport'' (1935) - Un passeggero sul 'Santa Fe' * ''I Love You Only'' (1936) - Cesare Baldi * '' Conquest of the Air'' (1936) - Gabriele Adanti di Perugia (uncredited) * '' Scipio Africanus: The Defeat of Hannibal'' (1937) - Lelius * ''Cavalleria rusticana'' (1939) - Alfio * ''La conquista dell'aria'' (1939) - Gabriello Danti * '' Dora Nelson'' (1939) - Giovanni Ferrari * ''Scandalo per bene'' (1940) - Marco Alviano, mercante di vetri * ''L'uomo del ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stefano Vanzina
Steno, the artistic name of Stefano Vanzina (19 January 1917 – 13 March 1988), was an Italian film director, screenwriter and cinematographer. Two of his films, ''Un giorno in pretura'' (1954) and ''Febbre da cavallo'' (1976), were shown in a retrospective section on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. Selected filmography * '' Abandonment'' (1940) * '' In High Places'' (1943) * '' Two Hearts Among the Beasts'' (1943) * ''Annabella's Adventure'' (1943) * '' Black Eagle'' (1946) * ''The Courier of the King'' (1947) * ''The Captain's Daughter'' (1947) * ''Fear and Sand'' (1948) * ''The Wolf of the Sila'' (1949) * '' Toto Looks for a House'' (1949) * '' A Night of Fame'' (1949) * ''A Dog's Life'' (with Mario Monicelli, 1950) * '' The Knight Has Arrived!'' (with Mario Monicelli, 1950) * ''Her Favourite Husband'' (1950) * ''The Elusive Twelve'' (1950) * ''The Ungrateful Heart'' (1951) * '' Cops and Robbers'' (with Mario Monicelli, 1951) * ''Toto in Color' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primo Zeglio
Primo Zeglio (8 July 1906 – 30 October 1984) was an Italian film director and writer. Selected filmography * ''The Mask of Cesare Borgia'' (1941) *'' Accadde a Damasco'' (1943) *''Febbre'' (1943) *'' Genoveffa di Brabante'' (1947) *'' Nerone e Messalina'' (1949) *'' Revenge of the Pirates'' (1951) *''La figlia del diavolo'' (1952) *'' Captain Phantom'' (1953) *'' Dimentica il mio passato'' (1956) * '' The Son of the Red Corsair'' (1959) *''Morgan, the Pirate'' (1960) *''The Seven Revenges'' (1961) *'' Seven Seas to Calais'' (1962) *'' Slave Queen of Babylon'' (1962) *''I am Semiramis'' (1963) *''Texas Ranger'' (1964) *''The Relentless Four'' (1965) *''Killer Adios'' (1967) *''Mission Stardust ''Mission Stardust'' ( it, ...4...3...2...1...Morte) is a 1967 science fiction film based on the early novels of the popular German ''Perry Rhodan'' series by K.H. Scheer and Walter Ernsting. Plot In a quest to find a source of radioactive mate ...'' (1967) References External ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Vendetta Del Corsaro
''Revenge of the Pirates'' ( it, La vendetta del corsaro) is a 1951 Italian adventure film directed by Primo Zeglio. It was the last movie of Maria Montez. It is also known as ''The Pirates Revenge'' and ''Duel Before the Mast''. Plot In 1675, Enrico di Roccabruna turns pirate to avenge his father's death. Cast * Jean-Pierre Aumont as Enrico di Roccabruna * Maria Montez as Consuelo * Milly Vitale as Luana * Roberto Risso as Miguel * Paul Muller as Espinosa * Franca Tamantini as Conchita * Saro Urzì as Aguirre * Mimì Aylmer as Isabella * Mario Castellani as Armagnac * Sidney Gordon as Van Hiess * Enrico Glori as Governor * Franca Marzi Franca Marzi (18 August 1926 – 6 March 1989) was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 80 films between 1943 and 1977. Life and career Born in Rome as Francesca Marsi, after working in the revue, Marzi made her film debut in her early ... Production The film was shot in Rome. Jean Pierre Aumont says he and Montez c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto The Third Man
''Toto the Third Man'' ( it, Totò terzo uomo) is a 1951 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò. Plot In a small village Peter and Paul (both starring Toto), twin brothers of opposite characters, Peter, mayor of the town, is gruff, precise, picky all of a piece and never lets talk about his wife (Bice Valori), is totally different from his brother Paul, who loves the good life and beautiful women, such as the innkeeper's wife Oreste (Carlo Campanini) at the expense of his wife. The dispute between the two brothers is affecting the whole country, because the construction of the new prison, which will give bread and work for all, will be built on land owned by Paul and despite already there is a municipal resolution acquisition of land by part of the town, Peter refuses to carry out the transaction with his brother, blocking the start of work, because they are afraid you might think that makes favoritism to his brother. A groped to take advantage of the s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
47 Morto Che Parla
''47 morto che parla'' is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia. The film stars Totò and Silvana Pampanini. Plot The story is set in a small town near Naples in early 1900. Baron Antonio Peletti is a stingy and cruel man who thinks only of spending the bare minimum needed for his son and future daughter-in-law, even though he lives in a luxurious house. The servant Contrado is forced to go hungry because of the miser. In fact, every time Antonio has to spend even a penny to buy something, he complains of unnecessary waste, exclaiming: "And I pay, and I pay!!" But one day his son wants to steal a box full of gold coins that Antonio hid under the bed, as a way of revenge. But in order to steal the gold, the son needs the complicity of all higher institutions in the city, including the mayor, one of the most bitter enemies of Antonio. The mayor wants to build a primary school for the children of the village, but the cruel Antonio prevents the funding becau ... [...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 Anton ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Figaro Here, Figaro There
''Figaro Here, Figaro There'' (Italian: ''Figaro qua, Figaro là'') is a 1950 Italian historical comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Totò and Isa Barzizza. The title and the plot allude to ''The Barber of Seville''.Bìspuri pp. 84–85 It was made at Scalera Studios in Rome. Set design was by Alberto Boccianti. Plot The film is set in the eighteenth century. The protagonist is Figaro, the Sevillian barber, who is likely to be arrested because he operates his shop on Sundays, which is forbidden. Figaro is a friend of a nobleman who fell in love with Rosina, his friend and daughter of the governor. But Rosina's father does not agree to their marriage. One day Rosina, through her maid Dove, tells the Count that one night she is staying at the inn "of four bulls". The Count and Figaro go with a friend to the inn before they get to Rosina and her court. Their plan is to replace the host, pose as their owners of the inn and abduct Rosina. But unfortunately n ... [...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] |
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia
Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia (8 July 1894 – 4 January 1998) was an Italian film director whose career spanned from the 1930s to the mid-1960s. He mainly directed adventure pictures and popular comedies, including some starring Totò. His 1942 film ''Non ti pago!'' was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. Biography Bragaglia was born in Frosinone, Latium, and was a veteran of World War I. He was wounded in action, and subsequently received a medal. Upon his discharge, Bragaglia and his brother Arturo began to experiment with photography. He later connected with Anton Giulio, another brother, to found the Casa d'arte Bragaglio. The establishment quickly became a popular attraction for Rome artists. Bragaglio then founded an independent theater and launched his theatrical career. As with his earlier photography, he was primarily interested in the avant-garde. Bragaglia's father was the technical head of Cines Studios ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Totò Le Mokò
''Totò Le Mokò'' is a 1949 Italian comedy film. The title alludes to the French film ''Pépé le Moko''. Synopsis The mobster Pepé Le Mokò dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relative of his from Naples: Antonio Lumaconi (Totò Le Mokò), a street musician. Cast * Totò: Antonio Lumaconi, Totò Le Mokò * Gianna Maria Canale: Viviane de Valance * Carlo Ninchi: Pepè le Mokò * Carla Calò: Suleima * Elena Altieri: Nancy Cleim * Marcella Rovena: Sara, l'indovina * Franca Marzi: Odette * Luigi Pavese: Francois * Mario Castellani: Za La Mortadelle * Enzo Garinei: La Tulipe * Armando Migliari: Claude Cleim * 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 film, peplum films, ...: la guida nella Casbah External links * 1940s Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |