''The Spy with Ten Faces'' (aka it, Upperseven, l'uomo da uccidere/ ''Upper Seven, the Man to Kill''), or german: Der Mann mit den tausend Masken/''The Man of a Thousand Masks'') is a 1966 Italian-West German
Eurospy film
Eurospy film, or Spaghetti spy film (when referring to Italian-produced films in the genre), is a genre of spy films produced in Europe, especially in Italy, France, and Spain, that either sincerely imitated or else parodied the British James Bo ...
written and directed by
Alberto De Martino.
Plot
Paul Finney aka Upperseven; played by Paul Hubschmitt, is a master of disguise by the use of masks. His task is to secure a transport of credit money for the union of some African states. An international gang manages to steal this money and wants to use it to build a missile base. Part of the film takes place in
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Cast
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Paul Hubschmid
Paul Hubschmid (; 20 July 1917 – 31 December 2001) was a Swiss actor. He was most notable for his role as Henry Higgins in a production of ''My Fair Lady''. In some of his Hollywood films he used the name Paul Christian. He appeared in dozens ...
as Paul Finney, the Upperseven
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Karin Dor
Karin Dor (, born Kätherose Derr; 22 February 1938 – 6 November 2017) was a German actress. She was famous to international audiences for her role as Bond girl Helga Brandt in the James Bond film '' You Only Live Twice'' (1967) and her appea ...
as
CIA
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agent Helen Farheit
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Vivi Bach
Vivi Bach (3 September 1939 – 22 April 2013) was a Danish film actress. She appeared in 48 films between 1958 and 1974. Bach was born as Vivi Bak in Copenhagen, Denmark, and died on Ibiza, Spain, where she lived with her husband, the Aus ...
as Birgit
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Nando Gazzolo
Ferdinando "Nando" Gazzolo (16 October 1928 – 16 November 2015) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Savona, the son of the actor and voice actor Lauro Gazzolo and EIAR radio announcer Aida Ottaviani Piccolo, Gazzolo debuted ...
as Kobras
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Rosalba Neri
Rosalba Neri (born 19 June 1939) is a retired Italian actress.
Early life
Born in Forlì, Emilia-Romagna, Italy, Neri was regarded for her beauty even in youth, winning a beauty pageant when she was still young. Eventually pursuing an acting ca ...
as Pauline
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Guido Lollobrigida
Guido Lollobrigida (1927–2013) was an Italian actor and race car driver, usually credited in movies as Lee Barton or Lee Burton.
He was a cousin of actress Gina Lollobrigida.
Life and career
Born in Rome, after graduating as a technical engin ...
as Santos
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Tom Felleghy
Tom Felleghy (born Tamás Fellegi; 26 November 1921) is a Hungarian-born Italian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films since 1958.
Filmography
References
External links
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1921 births
Possibly living people
Hungarian ma ...
as Gibbons
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Tullio Altamura
Tullio Altamura (born 18 July 1924) is an Italian actor, best known for his roles in Spaghetti Western, spaghetti westerns and action films in the 1960s.
Life and career
Born in Bologna, the son of a career officer in the Kingdom of Italy, It ...
as Bank director
Release
''The Spy with Ten Faces'' was released in West Germany on April 22, 1966.
References
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1966 films
1960s spy thriller films
1960s action films
Italian spy thriller films
Italian action films
1960s Italian-language films
Films directed by Alberto De Martino
German spy thriller films
German action films
West German films
1960s Italian films
1960s German films
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