Marco Guglielmi (6 October 1926 – 28 December 2005) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and author.

Life and career

Born Augusto Guglielmi in

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, he graduated from ragioneria, then he enrolled at the university in the faculty of economics and business, though without finishing his studies. Guglielmi later attended the

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in Rome, graduating in 1953, despite having participated in 1951–52 in a few films in minor roles. He then started a busy acting career on stage, television and cinema, even if often cast in supporting and

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s. Guglielmi also worked in

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for the magazine ''Sogno''. He was also active as screenwriter and novelist; his novel, "Er più de Roma", co-written by Lucio Mandarà, was adapted into the film ''Il principe fusto'', directed by

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and released in 1960.

Selected filmography

* ''Eran trecento... (La spigolatrice di Sapri)'' (1952) - L'alfiere * ''Nessuno ha tradito'' (1952) * '' Er fattaccio'' (1952) - Tarmato * ''

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'' (1954) - Kadis * ''

The Art of Getting Along ''The Art of Getting Along'' ( it, L'arte di arrangiarsi) is a 1954 in film, 1954 comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Alberto Sordi. Following ''Difficult Years'' and ''Easy Years'', it is the third and final chapter in the trilogy ab ...

'' (1955) - L'avvocato Giardini * '' The Abandoned'' (1955) - Scattered soldiers' officer * '' Folgore Division'' (1955) - 1st Lieutnant Corsini * ''

Destinazione Piovarolo ''Destination Piovarolo'' ( it, Destinazione Piovarolo) is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Domenico Paolella. Plot summary In 1922, during Fascism, Antonio La Quaglia accepts the assignment to the station master in a remote town called P ...

'' (1955) * ''Andrea Chenier'' (1955) * ''Una voce, una chitarra, un po' di luna'' (1956) - Don Pietro * ''Dimentica il mio passato'' (1957) * ''

Engaged to Death ''Engaged to Death'' (Italian: ''I fidanzati della morte'') is a 1957 Italian sports drama film directed by Romolo Marcellini and starring Rik Battaglia, Sylva Koscina and Margit Nünke.Rondolino p.183 The veteran German star Hans Albers appears i ...

'' (1957) * ''El Alamein'' (1957) - Tenente Santi * ''La canzone del destino'' (1957) - Cesare Marini * ''La canzone più bella'' (1957) * ''Pezzo, capopezzo e capitano'' (1958) - Alberto * ''

Adorabili e bugiarde ''Adorabili e bugiarde'' (also known as ''Adorable and a Liar'') is a 1958 Italian comedy film directed by Nunzio Malasomma. Plot Three beautiful girls, a model, a journalist and a painter, eager for celebrity at all costs, decide to stage a fa ...

'' (1958) - Nando * '' Maid, Thief and Guard'' (1958) - Franco * ''Vite perdute'' (1959) - Toni * ''Pensione Edelweiss'' (1959) - Le peintre * ''

The Black Chapel ''The Black Chapel'' (German: ''Geheimaktion schwarze Kapelle'') is a 1959 political thriller film directed by Ralph Habib and starring Dawn Addams, Peter van Eyck and Ernst Schröder. It is based on the novel ''Die schwarze Kapelle'' by Olav ...

'' (1959) - Pater Orlando * ''

Terror of the Red Mask ''Terror of the Red Mask'' ( it, Il terrore della maschera rossa) is a 1960 Italian swashbuckler film co-written and directed by Luigi Capuano and starring Lex Barker and Chelo Alonso. It was shot at the De Paolis Studios in Rome. The film's ...

'' (1960) - Ivano * ''

The Savage Innocents ''The Savage Innocents'' is a 1960 adventure film directed and co-written by Nicholas Ray. Anthony Quinn and Yoko Tani star, with Lee Montague, Marco Guglielmi, Carlo Giustini, Anthony Chinn, and Michael Chow in supporting roles, alongside ...

'' (1960) - Missionary * ''Il principe fusto'' (1960) * ''Gli avventurieri dei tropici'' (1960) * ''

The Night They Killed Rasputin ''The Night They Killed Rasputin'' ( it, L'ultimo zar, french: Les nuits de Raspoutine), also known as ''Nights of Rasputin'', is a 1960 Italian-French historical adventure film co-written and directed by Pierre Chenal, and starring Edmund Pur ...

'' (1960) * ''

Mill of the Stone Women ''Mill of the Stone Women'' ( it, Il mulino delle donne di pietra) is a 1960 Italian horror film directed by Giorgio Ferroni, starring Pierre Brice and Scilla Gabel. It follows a journalist writing a story on a sculptor in 19th-century Holland w ...

'' (1960) - Ralf * ''Cavalcata selvaggia'' (1960) * ''

The Story of Joseph and His Brethren ''The Story of Joseph and His Brethren'' (Italian: ''Giuseppe venduto dai fratelli'') is a 1961 Yugoslavian/Italian film directed by Irving Rapper and Luciano Ricci. The film is also known as ''Joseph Sold by His Brothers'', ''Joseph and His Bre ...

'' (1961) - Judah, Joseph's Brother * '' Planets Against Us'' (1962) - Capt. Carboni * ''The Carpet of Horror'' (1962) - Inspector Webster * ''

Family Diary ''Family Diary'' ( it, Cronaca familiare) is a 1962 Italian film directed by Valerio Zurlini and based on the novel by Vasco Pratolini. It tells the story of two brothers (played by Marcello Mastroianni and Jacques Perrin) who are brought up ap ...

'' (1962) * ''

Seven Seas to Calais ''Seven Seas to Calais'' (in Italy ''Il dominatore dei sette mari'') is a 1962 Italian adventure film in Eastmancolor and CinemaScope, produced by Paolo Moffa, directed by Rudolph Maté (his final film) and Primo Zeglio, that stars Rod Taylor, K ...

'' (1962) - Fletcher * '' Imperial Venus'' (1962) - Junot * ''Tempo di credere'' (1962) * ''Luciano, una vita bruciata'' (1962) * ''Noche de verano'' (1963) - Enrique * '' The Visit'' (1964) - Police Officer Chesco (uncredited) * ''Una sporca guerra'' (1965) * ''Berlino appuntamento per le spie (Operazione Polifemo)'' (1965) - Kurt * ''

Secret Agent Super Dragon ''Secret Agent Super Dragon'' (Italian: ''New York chiama Superdrago'') is a 1966 international co-production Eurospy film directed by Giorgio Ferroni and starring Ray Danton as the titular secret agent. Plot The plot centers on a secret agen ...

'' (1966) - Professor Kurge * ''Si muore solo una volta'' (1967) - John Malsky * ''

The Looters ''The Looters'' is a 1967 French film starring Jean Seberg, Serge Gainsbourg and Frederick Stafford Frederick Stafford (11 March 1928 – 28 July 1979) was a Czechoslovak-born actor. Born Friedrich Strobel von Stein, he spoke fluent Czech, Ger ...

'' (1967) - Dietrich * ''

The Stranger Returns ''The Stranger Returns'' (Italian: ''Un uomo, un cavallo, una pistola'', lit. ''A Man, a Horse, a Gun'') also known as ''Shoot First... Laugh Last!'', is a 1967 Italian-German-American Spaghetti Western film directed by Luigi Vanzi. It is a seque ...

'' (1967) - The Preacher * ''

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'' (1967) - Kramer * ''

Anyone Can Play ''Anyone Can Play'' ( it, Le dolci signore) is a 1968 Italian comedy film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring two Bond girls Ursula Andress and Claudine Auger. Cast * Ursula Andress as Norma * Virna Lisi as Luisa * Claudine Auger as Esmerelda ...

'' (1968) - Berto, Esmerelda's husband * ''

Run, Man, Run ''Run, Man, Run'' ( it, Corri uomo corri, also known as ''Big Gundown 2'') is an Italian- French Zapata Western film. It is the second film of Sergio Sollima centred on the character of Cuchillo, again played by Tomas Milian, after the two-years e ...

'' (1968) - Colonel Michel Sévigny * '' The Battle of El Alamein'' (1969) - Capt. Hubert * ''Plagio'' (1969) * ''Probabilità zero'' (1969) - Captain Kreuz * ''Revenge'' (1969) - Philip * ''

Un gioco per Eveline ''Un gioco per Eveline'' () is a 1971 Italian film directed by Marcello Avallone. Production Director Marcello Avallone described his original desire for the film to make a film related to "the Fantastic, I wrote a 'noir', a genre we rarely did in ...

'' (1971) - Phillipe Giraud * ''Our Lady of Lust'' (1972) - Prof. Paolo * ''The Godfather's Advisor'' (1973) - Don Calogero Micheli * ''Società a responsabilità molto limitata'' (1973) - Commissario di polizia * ''24 ore... non un minuto di più'' (1973) - General Perez * ''

Last Days of Mussolini ''Last Days of Mussolini'' (Italian: ''Mussolini: Ultimo atto'') is a 1974 Italian historical drama film co-written and directed by Carlo Lizzani and starring Rod Steiger, Franco Nero and Lisa Gastoni. The film depicts the days leading up to the d ...

'' (1974) * ''

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'' (1974) - Massimo Sanna * '' How to Kill a Judge'' (1975) - State Prosecutor Alberto Traini-Luiz * ''

Nick the Sting ''Nick the Sting'' ( it, Gli amici di Nick Hezard) is a 1976 Italian film directed by Fernando Di Leo. It stars actor Gabriele Ferzetti. Cast * Luc Merenda as Nick Hezard *Lee J. Cobb as Robert Clark *Gabriele Ferzetti as Maurice *Luciana Paluzzi ...

'' (1976) - Will Leffern (uncredited) * ''

The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist ''The Cynic, the Rat and the Fist'' ( it, Il cinico, l'infame, il violento, lit=The Cynic, the Infamous, the Violent) is an Italian ''poliziotteschi'' film directed in 1977 by Umberto Lenzi and third entry into the Tanzi/Moretto/Monnezza shared un ...

'' (1977) - Marchetti * ''

The Greatest Battle ''The Greatest Battle'' ( it, Il grande attacco, lit=The Great Attack) is a 1978 Euro War, Euro War film co-written and directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring an all-star ensemble cast, including Giuliano Gemma, Helmut Berger, Stacy Keach, Ray Lov ...

'' (1978) - Capt. Fitzpatrick * ''

Candido Erotico ''Candido Erotico'' (also known as ''Copenhagen Nights'', ''The Exhibitionist'', ''A Man for Sale'' and ''Look at Me'') is a 1978 Italian erotic romance-drama film written and directed by Claudio Giorgi (here credited as Claudio De Molinis). Lui ...

'' (1978) - Paul / Husband * ''La guerra sul fronte Est'' (1981) * ''Canto d'amore'' (1982) * ''Un uomo di razza'' (1989) - Tommasi * ''Blu notte'' (1992) - (final film role)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Guglielmi, Marco 1926 births 2005 deaths Italian male film actors Italian male television actors Italian male stage actors People from Sanremo 20th-century Italian male actors Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia alumni