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Stelio Candelli
Stelio Candelli (born 28 March 1931) is an Italian film, stage and television actor. Life and career Born in Trieste, the son of civil servants, in 1954 Candelli enrolled at the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica in Rome, graduating in 1957. The same year he made his film debut in Alberto Lattuada Alberto Lattuada (; 13 November 1914 – 3 July 2005) was an Italian film director. Career Lattuada was born in Vaprio d'Adda, the son of composer Felice Lattuada. He was initially interested in literature, becoming, while still a student, a ...'s '' Guendalina''. Especially in the 1960s and in the 1970s Candelli got main roles in numerous genre films, often credited as Stanley Kent. He was also active on stage and on television, and is best remembered for his role as Danny Scipio, a former Mafia member turned crime investigator, in the BBC TV series ''Vendetta'' (1966-68). Filmography References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Candelli, Stelio 1931 births Actors fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trieste
Trieste ( , ; sl, Trst ; german: Triest ) is a city and seaport in northeastern Italy. It is the capital city, and largest city, of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia, one of two autonomous regions which are not subdivided into provinces. Trieste is located at the head of the Gulf of Trieste, on a narrow strip of Italian territory lying between the Adriatic Sea and Slovenia; Slovenia lies approximately east and southeast of the city, while Croatia is about to the south of the city. The city has a long coastline and is surrounded by grassland, forest, and karstic areas. The city has a subtropical climate, unusual in relation to its relatively high latitude, due to marine breezes. In 2022, it had a population of about 204,302. Capital of the autonomous region of Friuli Venezia Giulia and previously capital of the Province of Trieste, until its abolition on 1 October 2017. Trieste belonged to the Habsburg monarchy from 1382 until 1918. In the 19th century the m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Life Is Tough, Eh Providence?
''Life Is Tough, Eh Providence?'' ( it, La vita a volte è molto dura, vero Provvidenza?, also known as ''Sometimes Life Is Hard - Right, Providence?'') is a 1972 Italian-Spanish Spaghetti Western comedy film directed by Giulio Petroni. The film was a box office success and generated an immediate sequel, ''Here We Go Again, Eh Providence?'' (''Ci risiamo, vero Provvidenza?''). Cast * Tomas Milian: Provvidenza * Gregg Palmer: Hurricane Kid Smith * Janet Agren: Stella * Dieter Eppler: Sheriff Howard Pendleton * Maurice Poli: Sheriff von Keensburg * Giovanni Cianfriglia Giovanni Cianfriglia (born 5 April 1935) is an Italian film actor. He has appeared in more than 100 films since 1958. Born in Anzio, Cianfriglia debuted as the body double of Steve Reeves in ''Hercules'', then he started appearing, often uncr ...: The Challenger (credited as ''Ken Wood'') * Paul Muller: Mr. Summitt * Mike Bongiorno: Mike Goodmorning * Gabriella Giorgelli: Sister * Horst Janson: Sheriff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1931 Births
Events January * January 2 – South Dakota native Ernest Lawrence invents the cyclotron, used to accelerate particles to study nuclear physics. * January 4 – German pilot Elly Beinhorn begins her flight to Africa. * January 22 – Sir Isaac Isaacs is sworn in as the first Australian-born Governor-General of Australia. * January 25 – Mohandas Gandhi is again released from imprisonment in India. * January 27 – Pierre Laval forms a government in France. February * February 4 – Soviet leader Joseph Stalin gives a speech calling for rapid industrialization, arguing that only strong industrialized countries will win wars, while "weak" nations are "beaten". Stalin states: "We are fifty or a hundred years behind the advanced countries. We must make good this distance in ten years. Either we do it, or they will crush us." The first five-year plan in the Soviet Union is intensified, for the industrialization and collectivization of agriculture. * February 10 †... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mean Tricks
''Mean Tricks'' (original name: ''Hornsby e Rodriguez - Sfida criminale'') is a 1992 crime thriller film produced in Italy and directed by Umberto Lenzi. Released in 1992, it starred Charles Napier, David Warbeck and Stefano Sabelli. It was shot between Kinepolis Studios in Rome, Santo Domingo and Miami. Plot Hornsby, a recently retired FBI agent (Charles Napier) goes to South America to find his old partner because rumor has it that his old partner has become a criminal. When the former partner is killed, Hornsby alters the crime scene to make it appear that his ex-partner killed the gunman himself. The rest of the movie follows Hornsby as he tries to discover who killed his partner and why. Cast * Charles Napier as Brian Hornsby * Stefano Sabelli as Rodriguez * Iris Peynado as Candelaria * David Brandon as Jimmy Gandelman / Cobra * David Warbeck as Frank Mendoza * Bettina Giovannini * Stelio Candelli * Salvatore Lago * Italo Clemente * Marco Felicioli * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Of The Sharks
''Night of the Sharks'' ( it, La notte degli squali) is a 1988 Italian-Spanish-Mexican film directed and co-written by Tonino Ricci. The film's story takes place in Miami, Florida and Cancún, Mexico, although it was filmed in the Dominican Republic. Plot James Ziegler has spent five years of his life planning the perfect crime, bugging the communication devices of Rosentski, an influential and rich businessman. His dream finally comes through when he records a sensitive conversation between Rosentski and the President of the United States; so sensitive that he demands $2 million in diamonds from Rosentski for a disc of the recording. Rosentski decides to pay Ziegler for the disc but instead sends his enforcer to retrieve it. The enforcer tries to kill Ziegler but fails and Ziegler successfully escapes with the disc and the diamonds. Ziegler goes to hide out with his brother David, who lives as a beach bum and shark hunter on the coast outside of Cancún. David lives with his fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Demons (1985 Film)
''Demons'' ( it, Dèmoni) is a 1985 Italian horror film directed by Lamberto Bava, produced by Dario Argento, and starring Urbano Barberini and Natasha Hovey. Its plot follows two female university students who, along with a number of random people, are given complimentary tickets to a mysterious movie screening, where they soon find themselves trapped in the theater with a horde of ravenous demons. The story was originally planned to be part of a three-story horror anthology film written by Dardano Sacchetti, but Bava took interest in the story more than the others, so he and Sacchetti began developing it into a separate feature. Argento, beginning to be interested in producing films, would contribute to the screenplay with Franco Ferrini, who was brought in by Argento. Filming took place in Berlin and Rome in the summer of 1985. The film features an instrumental score composed by Claudio Simonetti, as well as a soundtrack that includes songs by such artists as Mötley Crüe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hercules (1983 Film)
''Hercules'' is a 1983 Italian-American science fantasy adventure film written and directed by Luigi Cozzi and starring Lou Ferrigno. The film is based on Greek mythology and follows the exploits of Hercules. Ferrigno repeated his role in the 1985 sequel, ''The Adventures of Hercules''. Plot The film is a retelling of the story of Hercules (Lou Ferrigno) battling the wizard King Minos ( William Berger), who uses "science" in an attempt to take over the world. Hercules must stop him and rescue his princess love in the process. Cast Additional Cast *Giovanni Cianfriglia *Mindi Miller Production ''Variety'' announced in 1982 that actor Lou Ferrigno would play the title role in ''Hercules'' and budgeted the film at $6 million. The film was based on a screenplay by Ricardo Ghione. Principal photography was scheduled to begin May 1982 in Rome, Italy while ''The Hollywood Reporter'' named Claudio Fragasso as screenwriter, and Ennio Morricone as music composer and conductor. Neither ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Winds Of War (miniseries)
''The Winds of War'' is a 1983 miniseries, directed and produced by Dan Curtis, that follows the 1971 book of the same name written by Herman Wouk. Just as in the book, in addition to the lives of the Henry and Jastrow families, much time in the miniseries is devoted to the major global events of the early years of World War II. Adolf Hitler and the German General Staff, with the fictitious general Armin von Roon as a major character, is a prominent subplot of the miniseries. ''The Winds of War'' also includes segments of documentary footage, narrated by William Woodson, to explain major events and important characters. It was followed by a sequel, '' War and Remembrance,'' in 1988, also based on a novel written by Wouk and also directed and produced by Curtis. With 140 million viewers of part or all of ''Winds of War'', it was the most-watched miniseries at that time. Plot The film follows the plot of Wouk's novel closely, depicting events from March 1939 until the entry of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Cage Aux Folles II
''La Cage aux Folles II'' is a 1980 French comedy film and the sequel to 1978's '' La Cage aux Folles''. It is directed by Édouard Molinaro and stars Michel Serrault as Albin (stage name ZaZa), the female impersonator star of a gay night-club revue, and Ugo Tognazzi as Renato, his partner of over 20 years. Plot A spy plants a capsule of microfilm on Albin and from then on spies and government agents pursue him. Albin and Renato travel to Italy to hide at Renato's mother's farm. At each point along the way, we see the straight world's reaction to Albin. Cast * Michel Serrault as Albin Mougeotte/ZaZa Napoli * Ugo Tognazzi as Renato Baldi * Marcel Bozzuffi as Broca, chief of the government agents * Michel Galabru as Simon Charrier * Paola Borboni as Mrs. Baldi, Renato's mother * Benny Luke as Jacob, Renato and Albin's housekeeper * Giovanni Vettorazzo as Milan * Glauco Onorato as Luigi * Roberto Bisacco as Ralph * Gianrico Tondinelli as Walter * Giorgio Cerioni as Gunther * Nazz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
From Hell To Victory
''From Hell to Victory'' (Italian: ''Contro 4 bandiere'', French: ''De l'enfer à la victoire'', Spanish: ''De Dunkerke a la victoria'') is a 1979 Euro War film directed by Umberto Lenzi and produced by Edmondo Amati. The international cast stars George Peppard, George Hamilton, Horst Buchholz, Anny Duperey, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Ray Lovelock, Sam Wanamaker, and Capucine. The screenplay by frequent Lenzi collaborators Gianfranco Clerici and José Luis MartÃnez Mollá is based on a story co-authored by the director. The film was a co-production between Italy, Spain, and France. The plot follows a group of six friends of different nationalities who are forced apart on different sides during World War II. It depicts a number of historical wartime episodes including the Battle of Dunkirk and the Liberation of Paris. Plot On August 24, 1939, six friends take drinks in a suburb of Paris; Americans Brett Rosson and Ray MacDonald, the French Maurice Bernard and Fabienne Bodin, German ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nude For Satan
''Nude for Satan'' ( it, Nuda per Satana) is a 1974 Italian horror film directed by Luigi Batzella. Plot Late at night, Dr. Benson drives through the countryside and stumbles upon a car crash where he finds a wounded young woman named Susan. Dr. Benson gets Susan in his car and seeks shelter for the two in a nearby castle. He is greeted at the door by Evelyn, who looks exactly like Susan, and is invited to stay the night. Dr. Benson soon meets his own doppelgänger named Peter. When in the castle, Dr. Benson discovers that time and space do not follow ordinary logic in Satan's world. Style Film historian Roberto Curti described ''Nude for Satan'' as walking a thin edge between erotic horror and pornography as other films of the period did. Curti described the film as "tempted to jump to the other side of the fence but still retaining some prudish reservation". Production Rita Calderoni claimed that director Luigi Batzella had cast her in the film after seeing her in ''Black Magic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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