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Tino Buazzelli
Agostino "Tino" Buazzelli (13 September 1922 – 20 October 1980) was an Italian stage, television and film actor. He appeared in 46 films between 1948 and 1978. After a diploma of education, Buazzelli enrolled the Accademia d'Arte Drammatica in Rome, graduating in 1946. He made his debut the following year, in the stage company Maltagliati-Gassman. He made his film debut in 1948, in Riccardo Freda's '' Il cavaliere misterioso''. Buazzelli's major successes relates to theatre, notably several stage works played in Piccolo Teatro in Milan between fifties and sixties, and his interpretation of Brecht's ''Life of Galileo'' (1963) referred as the peak of his career. Buazzelli had also a significant television success as Nero Wolfe in a series of television films starred between 1969 and 1971. Partial filmography * '' The Mysterious Cavalier'' (1948) - Josef, il servo del conte Ipatieff (uncredited) * '' Guarany'' (1948) * ''The Flame That Will Not Die'' (1949) * ''Vivere a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frascati
Frascati () is a city and ''comune'' in the Metropolitan City of Rome Capital in the Lazio region of central Italy. It is located south-east of Rome, on the Alban Hills close to the ancient city of Tusculum. Frascati is closely associated with science, being the location of several international scientific laboratories. Frascati produces the white wine Frascati (wine), with the same name. It is also a historical and artistic centre. History The most important archeological finding in the area, dating back to Ancient Rome, Ancient Roman times, during the late Republican Age, is a patrician Roman villa probably belonging to Lucullus. In the first century AD its owner was Gaius Sallustius Crispus Passienus, who married Agrippina the Younger, mother of Nero. His properties were later confiscated by the Flavian imperial dynasty (69–96 AD). Consul Flavius Clemens lived in the villa with his wife Domitilla during the rule of Domitian. According to the ''Liber Pontificalis'', in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Totò Tarzan
''Totò Tarzan'' is a 1950 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Totò, Marilyn Buferd and Alba Arnova. It is a parody of Edgar Rice Burroughs's novel ''Tarzan of the Apes''. It was shot at the Farnesina Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Piero Filippone. As with Totò's other films of the era it was a commercial success, taking around 385 million lira at the box office.Chiti & Poppi p.371 Plot Antonio is a foundling who has lived for years in the jungle along with the monkey Bongo. But one day a troop of scouts passed into the forests of the Congo and finds him out. Antonio is well reported in civil society, where he learned, not without many difficulties and funny situations, the usages of men. In addition egl falls also Iva, only girl to truly understand his suffering due to separation from its environment. In fact, Antonio discovers that he also came from a noble family and had inherited a substantial sum of money. This ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Conte Aquila
''Il conte Aquila'' ("Count Aquila") is a 1955 Italian historical drama film directed by Guido Salvini. Inspired to real life events of Italian revolutionary Count Federico Confalonieri, it is based on the drama with the same name by Rino Alessi. Cast *Rossano Brazzi as Count Federico Confalonieri *Valentina Cortese as Teresa Casati *Paolo Stoppa as Prince Klemens von Metternich *Leonardo Cortese as Gabrio Casati *Mario Ferrari as Vitaliano Confalonieri * Elena Zareschi as Austrian Empress *Tino Buazzelli as Judge Menghin *Linda Sini as Marquise Bice * Carlo Tamberlani * Renato De Carmine *Tullio Altamura Tullio Altamura (born 18 July 1924) is an Italian actor, best known for his roles in spaghetti westerns and action films in the 1960s. Life and career Born in Bologna, the son of a career officer in the Italian army, Altamura grew up in Rome, ... References External links * 1955 films 1950s biographical drama films Italian biographical drama films ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toto In Hell
''Toto in Hell'' ( it, Totò all'inferno) is a 1955 Italian fantasy-comedy film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque. Italian cult horror film director Lucio Fulci co-wrote the screenplay. Plot Antonio Marchi, a depressed thief, after several attempts of suicide, accidentally drowns in a river and ends up in hell. Here he is recognized as a reincarnation of Mark Antony and instead of ending the group of Violents is thrown by Belfegor to Cleopatra's arms, in the Lussuriosi group. But the meeting between the two is frowned upon by Satan, who is jealous of the woman, so, Totò, to escape his anger, escapes back to Earth. Cast *Totò as Antonio Marchi * Maria Frau as Cleopatra *Olga Solbelli as Cleopatra's mother *Tino Buazzelli as Devil-secretary *Nerio Bernardi as Satana *Dante Maggio as Pacifico *Mario Castellani as Cri cri / Jealous husband *Fulvia Franco as Dirimpettaia * Franca Faldini as Maria *Galeazzo Benti as Club Singer *Giulio Calì as Charon * Vincent Ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cardinal Lambertini (1954 Film)
''Cardinal Lambertini'' (Italian: ''Il cardinale Lambertini'') is a 1954 Italian historical comedy film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Gino Cervi, Nadia Gray and Arnoldo Foà. It is an adaptation of Alfredo Testoni's 1905 play ''Cardinal Lambertini'', which had previously been turned into a 1934 film adaptation. The film was released by Minerva Film. Interiors were shot at studios in Rome while location shooting took place in Bologna and the small town of Ceri in Lazio. The film's sets were designed by the art director Peppino Piccolo. It earned around 241 million lira at the box office. Plot 1739. Cardinal Prospero Lambertini, very attentive to the political dynamics in Bologna garrisoned by the Bourbon troops and to the sufferings of the Bolognese, did not hesitate to intervene between the Spaniards and an awkward Bolognese nobility, piloted by Countess Gabriella di Roccasibalda, a casual adventurer, and the people, towards which a massacre disguised as an attempte ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Neapolitan Carousel
''Neapolitan Carousel'' ( it, Carosello napoletano) is a 1954 Italian comedy film directed by Ettore Giannini and starring Léonide Massine, Achille Millo and Agostino Salvietti. It was entered into the 1954 Cannes Film Festival, winning its ''International Prize''. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome and on location in Naples. The film's sets were designed by the art director Mario Chiari. Cast * Léonide Massine as Antonio 'Pulcinella' Petito * Achille Millo as Pulcinella's son * Agostino Salvietti as Prompter * Clelia Matania as Donna Concetta * Paolo Stoppa as Salvatore Esposito * Maria Fiore as Donna Brigida * Tina Pica as Capera * Maria-Pia Casilio as Nannina * Giacomo Rondinella as Luigino * Sophia Loren as Sisina * Dolores Palumbo as Sisina's mother * Loris Gizzi as Erik Gustaffson * Alberto Bonucci as Lyricist #1 * Vittorio Caprioli as Lyricist #2 * Carlo Mazzarella as Baron * Vera Nandi as Lilì Kangy * Yvette Chauviré as Margherita * Folco Lulli as Don Ra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Angels Of Darkness
''Angels of Darkness'' (Italian: ''Donne proibite'') is a 1954 Italian melodrama film directed by Giuseppe Amato and starring Linda Darnell, Anthony Quinn and Valentina Cortese. The film's sets were designed by the art director Virgilio Marchi. Plot A brothel is suddenly closed as a prostitute, Tamara, attempts suicide by throwing herself out of the window; she is admitted to the hospital in serious condition. Three of her colleagues, Vally, Franca and Lola, are forced to ask for hospitality from Rosa, who has long since abandoned the profession and now has a nice apartment. Vally wants to change her life and meets Francesco from Abruzzo. They decide to get married, but since the man has to emigrate, they resort to a marriage by proxy. When the young man discovers his troubled past about him, he reproaches it; the woman escapes from despair and goes to meet a tragic death. Tamara, physically damaged, after her hospitalization, has a mystical crisis and will be welcomed in an in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Most Wanted Man
The Most Wanted Man or ''Public Enemy Number One'' (french: L'ennemi public n° 1, it, Il nemico pubblico n° 1) is a 1953 French-Italian comedy film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Fernandel, Zsa Zsa Gabor and Louis Seigner.Higbee & Leahy p.344 It was shot at Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Giordani. It was one of many co-productions between the France and Italy during the postwar era. Synopsis An ordinary American man is mistaken for a public enemy number one after he puts on a gangster's coat. Only with the help of the real gangster's girlfriend, Lola, is he able to bring the criminal to justice and clear his own name. Cast * Fernandel as Joe Calvet * Zsa Zsa Gabor as Lola la Blonde * Louis Seigner as Le directeur de la prison * David Opatoshu as Slim le Tueur * Nicole Maurey as Peggy * Alfred Adam as Le shérif * Jean Marchat as L'attorney general * Saturnin Fabre as W.W. Stone, l’avocat * Paolo Stoppa a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Phantom
''Captain Phantom'' ( it, Capitan Fantasma) is a 1953 Italian historical adventure film directed by Primo Zeglio and starring Frank Latimore, Anna Maria Sandri, Maxwell Reed and Paola Barbara. It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alberto Boccianti. It was distributed by the Italian subsidiary of the Rank Organisation. Plot In the early 1800s, the Spanish regiments are celebrating their victory over the French Legions of Bonaparte. In the midst of the celebration, Miguel, Duke of Canabil, is summoned to his commander's quarters and given the news that his father, and Admiral in the Spanish Navy, has betrayed the crown of Spain by turning his fleet over to the enemy. The stunned Miguel, humiliated and scorned by his regiment, takes a blood oath to find out the truth about his father. His search leads him to the mystery ship "Asuncion", commanded by Ingio de Costa, an unscrupulous, vicious man with a hand for evil. The latter ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Morti Non Pagano Tasse
''I Morti non pagano tasse'' is a 1952 Italian comedy film by Sergio Grieco. Cast * Tino Scotti: Marco Vecchietti / Giovanni Rossi * Titina De Filippo: Geltrude * Carlo Campanini: Il sindaco * Clelia Matania: La signora Vecchietti * Aroldo Tieri: Nicola * Tino Buazzelli: Arturo * Franca Marzi: Mariella * Vinicio Sofia: Il direttore generale * Guglielmo Inglese * Luigi Bonos Luigi Bonos (1910–2000) was an Italian comedian and stage, television and film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1945 and 1992. Born in Berlin, Germany, the son of two Hungarian circus artists, along with his brothers Vitto ... External links * 1952 films 1950s Italian-language films Films directed by Sergio Grieco Italian comedy films 1952 comedy films 1950s Italian films {{1950s-Italy-comedy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tired Outlaw
''The Tired Outlaw'' (Italian: ''Il bandolero stanco'') is a 1952 Italian comedy western film directed by Fernando Cerchio and starring Renato Rascel, Lauretta Masiero and Lia Di Leo.Curti p.77 The film's sets were designed by the art director Gianni Polidori. Synopsis In order to win over the woman he loves, the impoverished Pepito heads to become a gold speculator. Unexpectedly he becomes the richest man in town but also makes several enemies, as well as meeting the sympathetic singer Susana. When Carmen arrives to marry him, he discovers that she is league with the corrupt sheriff. Cast * Renato Rascel as Pepito * Lauretta Masiero as Susana * Franco Jamonte as Fred * Tino Buazzelli as Paco * Lia Di Leo as Carmen * Gigi Bonos as Priest * Silvio Bagolini Silvio Bagolini (4 August 1914 – 26 September 1976) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1936 and 1973. Life and career Born in Bologna, Bagolini studied architecture at the Bolo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Crowd (1951 Film)
''The Crowd'' ( it, La Folla) is a 1951 Italian film. Plot While a director is shooting a film, his aide (aka the assistant director) throws a bomb badly, sending the director, aide, and operator to the other world. Then the director thinks of making a film, which tells the story, highlighting how the crowd makes history. While the crowd raises its idols and then tears them down, the world is full of turncoats, who are serving their interests, deceiving the people. On the screen there are: Pontius Pilate and Jesus, vilified by the crowd. Richelieu, the French Revolution, the First Empire, Garibaldi, Cavour, Napoleon III, the Pope, the Duce, the Germans, the partisans and the armeggione, who juggles between one and the other, always staying afloat. Cast * Marie Glory (as Mary Gloria) * Tino Buazzelli * Gilberto Mazzi * Olinto Cristina Olinto Cristina (5 February 1888 – 17 June 1962) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Florence to actors Raffaello Cri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
