''Gladiator of Rome'' ( it, Il gladiatore di Roma) is a 1962
Italian
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adventure film directed by
Mario Costa. Co-written by
Gian Paolo Callegari
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Selected fi ...
and
Giuseppe Mariani, it stars
Gordon Scott
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.
[Howard Hughes. ''Cinema Italiano - The Complete Guide From Classics To Cult''. I.B.Tauris, 2011. .]
The film is also known as ''Battles of the Gladiators'' in the
United Kingdom
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Cast
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Gordon Scott
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as Marcus
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Wandisa Guida
Wandisa Guida (born 21 April 1935) is an Italian former film, stage and television actress. She was sometimes credited as Wandisa Leigh.
Born in Trani, Guida took part in the Miss Italia beauty contest in 1954, winning the title of Miss Cinema ...
as Nista
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Roberto Risso
Roberto Risso (22 November 1925 – 16 November 2010) was a Swiss-born Italian film actor.
Life and career
Born Pietro Roberto Strub in Geneva, Risso joined the cinema industry when he was still a university student of architecture, playing a ...
as Valerio Jr.
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Ombretta Colli
Ombretta Colli (born Ombretta Comelli on 21 September 1943) is an Italian singer, actress and politician. She was president of the Province of Milan from June 1999 to June 2004.[Alberto Farnese
Alberto Farnese (3 June 1926 – 2 June 1996) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than 80 films and television shows between 1951 and 1989. He starred in the film ''Whom God Forgives'', which won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize of ...]
as Vezio Rufo
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Gianni Solaro
Gianni Solaro (born Gianni Lorenzon, 11 August 1926 – 12 August 2006) was an Italian film and television actor.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Solaro was a character actor in the Italian film industry for about twenty years, between the late 19 ...
as Macrino
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Charles Borromel as Anio
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Piero Lulli
Piero Lulli (1 February 1923 – 23 June 1991) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 111 films between 1942 and 1977. He was the brother of actor Folco Lulli.
Selected filmography
* ''A Pilot Returns'' (1942) - De Santis
* ''Love Story ...
as Astarte
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Mirko Ellis
Mirko Ellis (4 September 1923 – 11 September 2014) was a Swiss-Italian film, stage and television actor.
Born Mirko Korcinsky in Locarno to a family of Lithuanian origin, Ellis moved, after his studies, to Italy, where he made his film debut i ...
as Frasto
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Pietro De Vico
Pietro De Vico (1 February 1911 – 10 December 1999) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1948 and 1991. He was born in Naples, and died in Rome. He was married, from 1937 until his death in 1999, to actress Anna Campo ...
as Pompilio
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Nando Tamberlani
Nando Tamberlani (1896–1967) was an Italian film actor. A character actor in Italian cinema of the postwar era, he was the brother of actor Carlo Tamberlani. Another brother Ermete Tamberlani was also an actor. He appeared in a number of peplum ...
as Valerio's Father
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Andrea Aureli
Andrea Aureli (5 March 1923 – 5 November 2007) was an Italian actor.
Life and career
Born in Terni, Aureli graduated from the Liceo classico in his hometown, then he enrolled the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, graduating in ...
as Settimio
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Raf Baldassarre
Raf Baldassarre (17 January 1932 - 11 January 1995) was an Italian film actor.
Life and career
Born Raffaele Baldassarre in Giurdignano, Lecce, Apulia, he started his career in the late 1950s, being cast in many peplum and adventure films, a ...
as Gladiator
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Célina Cély
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Pietro Tordi
Pietro Tordi (12 July 1906 – 14 December 1990) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1942 and 1988. He was born in Florence, Italy.
Selected filmography
* '' Doctor Antonio'' (1937) - L'altro conspiratore
* '' Don C ...
as Slaves guard
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Germana Francioli
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Pietro Ceccarelli as Gladiator
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Miranda Campa
Miranda Campa (31 January 1914 – 7 May 1989) was a Swiss-born Italian actress and voice actress.
Life and career
Born Liliana Campa Capodaglio in Geneva, the nephew of actors Pio Campa and Wanda Capodaglio, Campa studied acting at the ...
as Porzia
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Giulio Battiferri
Giulio Battiferri (15 July 1893 – 22 January 1973) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1939 to 1972. He was married to the actress Pina Piovani.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Battiferri started his caree ...
as Spy slave
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Leo Garavaglia
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Eleonora Vargas as Prisca
See also
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1962 in film
The year 1962 in film involved some very significant events, with ''Lawrence of Arabia'' winning seven Academy Awards including Best Picture and Best Director.
Top-grossing films (U.S.)
The top ten 1962 released films by box office gross in No ...
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List of Italian films of 1962
The following is a sortable list of films produced in Italy in 1962.
See also
*1962 in film
Notes
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External linksItalian films of 1962at the Internet Movie Database
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1960s adventure films
1962 films
Films set in ancient Rome
Films set in the Roman Empire
1960s Italian-language films
Peplum films
Sword and sandal films
Films directed by Mario Costa
1960s Italian films
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