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Steffen Zacharias
Steffen Zacharias (April 11, 1927 – June 6, 1989) was a German-born Greek American character actor known for his roles in films and television in America and Italy. Biography Born in Germany to Greek parents, Zacharias grew up in the United States, where he worked in New York City as a stage director, before making his acting debut in '' The Reporter''. He migrated to Italy in 1967, and quickly gained a reputation as a reliable performer of character roles in genre films, including several appearances alongside Terence Hill and Bud Spencer. In the late 1970s, he went back to the U.S., where he continued to play occasional supporting roles until his death from cancer in 1989. Partial filmography * '' Gammera the Invincible'' (1966) - Sen. Billings * '' Catch as Catch Can'' (1967) - Police Inspector * ''Italian Secret Service'' (1968) - Dr. Wollenkampf (uncredited) * ''Sardinia Kidnapped'' (1968) - Santulus Surgiu * ''Ace High'' (1968) - Harold * ''Colpo di stato'' (1969) - ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sardinia Kidnapped
''Sardinia Kidnapped'' ( it, Sequestro di persona, "Kidnapped"), also known as ''Ransom in Sardinia'', ''Island of Crime'' and ''Unlawful Restraint'', is a 1968 Italian poliziotteschi film directed by Gianfranco Mingozzi and starring Franco Nero, Charlotte Rampling and Frank Wolff. Plot University student Francesco is kidnapped by bandits in Sardinia. His English tourist friend, Christina, a powerless witness to the kidnapping, rushes off to warn the family. Gavino, a childhood friend of Francesco's, advises Christina against talking to the police, but she does and the police begin searching for the kidnappers. In a firefight between gangsters and police, Francesco is killed, but the bandits hide his body. Meanwhile, Francesco's father offers to sell his lands to Osilio, a wealthy landowner, to get the money needed to pay the ransom for his son. Later, Gavino lets himself be seized by the bandits, and he convinces them that their leader is betraying and exploiting them. The ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beatrice Cenci (1969 Film)
''The Conspiracy of Torture'' ( it, Beatrice Cenci) is a 1969 Italian historical drama film directed by Lucio Fulci, starring Adrienne La Russa and Tomas Milian. The shooting title was originally ''La vera storia di Beatrice Cenci''. It depicts the real life events of Francesco Cenci and his daughter Beatrice, emphasizing the more horrific elements of the story. Plot In the year 1599 in Italy, the entire Cenci family awaits their fates on the morning of their execution for murder. The events leading up to this day are presented in a series of overlapping flashbacks. Four years earlier, Francesco Cenci is a rich landowner and nobleman, but is hated by everyone, including his entire family. He's a vicious, conniving, cynical tyrant of the household and a domestic abuser to his wife and children. He also has made numerous enemies within the close-knit halls of the Catholic Church and the state. Francesco's beautiful teenage daughter, Beatrice, confides in her mother that she inte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Infamous Column
''The Infamous Column'' ( it, La colonna infame, also known as ''Pillar of Shame'') is a 1973 Italian historical drama film directed by Nelo Risi. Plot It is 1630, and a devastating plague has descended upon the city of Milan. Guglielmo Piazza and Giacomo Mora are depicted as two city's artisans (really only Mora, a barber, was an artisan while Piazza was a sanity officer). One day a woman accuses Piazza of being an ''untore'' (i.e. a ''greaser''): a spreader of disease by anointing walls and furnitures with a pestiferous ointment. According to a superstitious belief held by the people, these ''untori'' were in league with the Devil, and were responsible for the spread of the pestilence. Immediately the Church and the Inquisition scapegoat the two artisans for the outbreak, and subject them to trial by torture, despite the protests of Cardinal Borromeo. Innocent victims of a panic which has gripped the populace, Piazza and Mora are found guilty of the imaginary crime of smeari ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Even Angels Eat Beans
''Even Angels Eat Beans'' (Italian: ''Anche gli angeli mangiano fagioli'') is a 1973 Italian comedy film written and directed by Enzo Barboni with Giuliano Gemma and Bud Spencer. It was awarded with the Golden Screen Award in 1974. The film produced a sequel in 1974, ''Charleston'' (''Anche gli angeli tirano di destro''), still directed by Enzo Barboni. Spencer refused to reprise his role, and was replaced with Ricky Bruch. Plot New York, 1930s. Sonny is a former ice cream man who fell on hard luck. While working as a cleaner in a gym, he meets Charlie Smith, a wrestler. The two become fast friends, although they have very different characters, Charlie being blunt and aloof, and Sonny being narcissistic and too prone to womanizing. One day they get hired by a mobster, Angelo, to hit a gambler but they erroneously beat up a US Senator instead, who in turns declares a war towards the underworld. To save them from the heat, Angelo sends Charlie and Sonny to little Italy to work ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sicilian Connection
''The Sicilian Connection'' ( it, Afyon oppio, french: Action héroïne, also known as ''The Opium Connection'' and ''La filière'') is a 1972 Italian- French crime-thriller film directed by Ferdinando Baldi. Plot The Italian-American Joseph Coppola wants to start trafficking drugs from Turkey to the United States and calls for the support of the Sicilian Mafia, who would protect him from the Marseilles Clan. In the U.S., however, he appears to forget the chords. Greed or double play? Cast * Ben Gazzara as Joseph Coppola * Silvia Monti as Claudia * Fausto Tozzi as Don Vincenzo * Jess Hahn as Sacha * José Greci as Lucia * Malisa Longo as Rosalia Calogero * Luciano Catenacci as Tony Nicolodi * Mario Pilar as Ibrahim * Luciano Rossi as Dr. Hans * Corrado Gaipa as Don Calogero * Bruno Corazzari Bruno Corazzari (born 30 December 1940) is an Italian film, television and stage actor. Life and career Born in Castellarano, Reggio Emilia, Corazzari started his caree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Of La Mancha (film)
''Man of La Mancha'' is a 1972 film adaptation of the Broadway musical ''Man of La Mancha'' by Dale Wasserman, with music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion. The musical was suggested by the classic novel ''Don Quixote'' by Miguel de Cervantes, but more directly based on Wasserman's 1959 non-musical television play ''I, Don Quixote'', which combines a semi-fictional episode from the life of Cervantes with scenes from his novel. Though financed by Italian producer Alberto Grimaldi and shot in Rome, the film is in English, with all principal actors either British or American, excepting Loren. (Gino Conforti, the Barber, is an American of Italian descent.) The film was released by United Artists and is known in Italy as ''L'Uomo della Mancha''. Produced and directed by Arthur Hiller, the film stars Peter O'Toole as both Miguel de Cervantes and Don Quixote, James Coco as both Cervantes' manservant and Don Quixote's "squire" Sancho Panza, and Sophia Loren as scullery maid and pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Man Of The East
Man of the East ( it, E poi lo chiamarono il magnifico) is a 1972 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Enzo Barboni starring Terence Hill. The film is set in the Wild West during the time of the railway construction. A recurring theme is the always progressing modernisation which some of the protagonists are trying to escape. Plot The young English nobleman Sir Thomas Fitzpatrick Phillip Moore (Terence Hill) arrives in the West following the wish of his late father who years earlier had to leave England due to an affair. The trouble led to a conflict with "Vicci Windsor". In the West, the young man joins up with his father's former pals, the stagecoach robbers Monkey (Dominic Barto), Holy Joe ( Harry Carey Jr.) and Bull (Gregory Walcott). The characters are introduced as time moves on during Tom's journey, beginning with Bull who works at a stagecoach station disguised as a mute man. After Bull has listened in on the conversation of two headhunters and found out about ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Return Of Sabata
''Return of Sabata'' ( it, È tornato Sabata ... hai chiuso un'altra volta, lit=Sabata is back ... you're finished again) is a 1971 Spaghetti Western film directed by Gianfranco Parolini. The third film in ''The Sabata Trilogy'', it features the return of Lee Van Cleef as the title character, which he had played in the first film, '' Sabata'', but was replaced by Yul Brynner in the second film, ''Adiós, Sabata'', due to a scheduling conflict. ''Return of Sabata'' was listed in the 1978 book ''The Fifty Worst Films of All Time''. Plot Sabata, a former Confederate army officer and steely eyed, quick-drawing, impossibly accurate gunman with a trick gun, is working for a travelling circus as a stunt marksman. The circus comes to a small Texas town, where a former subordinate officer, a lieutenant from the army is running a crooked casino. The man owes Sabata $5,000 from sometime ago. Then the circus manager runs off with the circus funds, so Sabata decides to stay in town and try to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vengeance Is A Dish Served Cold
''Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold'' ( it, La vendetta è un piatto che si serve freddo), also known as ''Death's Dealer'', is a 1971 Italian Western film directed by Pasquale Squitieri and starring Klaus Kinski. Plot Jeremias was 12 years old when an onslaught on his parents' ranch made him an orphan. He has fought Indians ever since because he considers them responsible for this atrocity. One day, he captures Tune, a young squaw in the wilderness. He brings her to the next city because he plans to sell her as a slave to the highest bidder. Before she is passed on to a buyer, a racist mob tries to lynch her. Jeremias foils this attempts but is taken by surprise later on. Two bandits abduct Tune and leave Jeremias for dead. As soon as he has recovered sufficiently he pursues the misdoers. When he gets at them, it turns out they are associated with a so-called friend of his late father. Jeremias discloses that this presumed friend did not only deceive George Bridger, but also hi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blonde In The Blue Movie
''The Blonde in the Blue Movie'' ( it, Il vichingo venuto dal sud, also known as ''No One Will Notice You're Naked'' and ''The Viking Who Came from the South'') is a 1971 Italian comedy film directed by Steno. Cast * Lando Buzzanca: Rosario Trapanese * Pamela Tiffin: Karen * Gigi Ballista: Silvio Borelon * Renzo Marignano: Gustav Larsen * Rita Forzano: Ilse * Ferdy Mayne: Professor Grutekoor * Steffen Zacharias: Bosen * Dominique Boschero: Priscilla * Elizabeth Turner: Eva Gret * Victoria Zinny: Luisa * Nino Terzo Nino Terzo (22 May 1923 – 8 May 2005) was an Italian actor. Life and career Born in Palermo as Antonino Terzo, he worked intensively in the avanspettacolo and revue theater, entering the stage companies of Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Franco ...:Man at sexy-shop See also * List of Italian films of 1971 References External links * 1971 films Italian comedy films 1971 comedy films Films directed by Stefano Vanzina Films scored by Armando T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terrible Day Of The Big Gundown
''Terrible Day of the Big Gundown'' ( it, Quel maledetto giorno della resa dei conti, also known as ''Vendetta at Dawn'') is a 1971 Italian Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Garrone (here credited as Willy S. Regan). Cast * George Eastman: Dr. George Benton * Ty Hardin: Jonathan Benton * Bruno Corazzari: Rod Fargas * Laura Troschel: Lorry Baxter Benson * Steffen Zacharias: Gregory * Guido Lollobrigida: Sheriff Jed * Federico Boido: Peter Fargas * Dominic Barto: Carl Fargas * Nello Pazzafini Nello Pazzafini (15 May 1933 – 9 January 1996) was an Italian actor who appeared in a very large number of Peplum movies, Spaghetti Westerns and Poliziotteschi. He was an ex-bodyguard and often played a "tough guy" character. Partial filmo ...: Convict References External links * 1971 films Films scored by Francesco De Masi Spaghetti Western films 1971 Western (genre) films 1970s Italian-language films 1970s Italian films {{1970s-Western-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
They Call Me Trinity
''They Call Me Trinity'' ( it, Lo chiamavano Trinità...) is a 1970 Italian Spaghetti Western comedy film written and directed by Enzo Barboni (under the pseudonym of E.B. Clucher) and produced by Italo Zingarelli. The film stars Terence Hill and Bud Spencer as two brothers, Trinity and Bambino, who help defend a Mormon settlement from Mexican bandits and the henchman of the land-grabbing Major Harriman. It was filmed on location in Lazio, Italy, with financial backing from West Film. The sequel, ''Trinity Is Still My Name'', was even more successful than ''They Call Me Trinity''. In 1995, '' Sons of Trinity'', starring Heath Kizzier and Keith Neubert, was released as a continuation of the Trinity series. Plot Trinity, a lazy, ne'er-do-well gunfighter with unnaturally fast drawing ability and marksmanship, is dragged on a travois by his horse to a way station and restaurant. There, he encounters a pair of bounty hunters with an injured Mexican prisoner. Trinity calmly takes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
