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I sogni nel cassetto (1957)
Character: The Neurology Professor
The difficulties of a young married couple, since the husband has to prepare for his examinations during his wife's pregnancy.
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Non è vero... ma ci credo! (1952)
Character: Il gobbo
A young man in love with a girl whose father--his employer--does not approve of him, disguises himself as a hunchback to get into the father's good graces.
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I morti non pagano tasse (1952)
Character: Raffaele
The accountant Marco Vecchietti, a modest civil servant, leads a miserable life amidst the ferocious jokes of his colleagues, the reproaches of his mother-in-law, taxes, debts and citations.
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Abracadabra (1952)
Character: Nicola Caiazzo
Three crooks scheme to swindle a wealthy widow out of her fortune, but their plans are thwarted by the sudden return of her husband who is far from dead.
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Cantate con noi (1955)
Character: Nicola Scannicchi
The old friends Nicola and Pasquale meet in the city after many years. The two, now married and with their children, try to marry their four children, but it soon becomes more difficult than expected.
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Serenatella Sciuè Sciuè (1958)
Character: N/A
Two women, Tina, who is a pizza chef, and Lisa, who runs a shop, can't stand each other, but they have a nephew and a daughter respectively, who love each other.
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Finalmente libero (1953)
Character: N/A
Enrico Rossi is accused of polygamy for having married six different women over the years.
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Cantando sotto le stelle (1956)
Character: Guglielmo Traversa
A man finds out that he won the lottery and travels to Rome to retrieve the other half of his winning ticket.
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Il microfono è vostro (1951)
Character: Commissario Venditi
Bored with her bourgeois life, the young Maria Variani, daughter of a professor, meets Bruno, who is part of an amateur jazz group, and allows herself to be persuaded to join the band that plays during the radio program "The microphone is yours".
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Madonna delle rose (1953)
Character: Don Giovanni
A young couple, Renato and Maria, struggle to provide for their young daughter Pia.
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...e Napoli Canta! (1953)
Character: N/A
Giorgio with some friends rehearses a show of Neapolitan songs financed thanks to an elderly artist. Having come to quarrel with the landlady, Giorgio rented a room with a good woman who lives with her beautiful daughter Maria. Love soon arises between the two.
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È arrivato l'accordatore (1952)
Character: N/A
Achille Scorzella, a poor, unemployed and hungry devil, having been mistaken for a piano tuner, happens in the home of some new riches.
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Auguri e figli maschi! (1951)
Character: N/A
Three friends, a mechanic, a clockmaker, and a night warden are engaged to three sisters but are broke and cannot get married and pay the rent. They convince their future father-in-law to buy three little flats for them but the man buys them from a swindler and the friends run the risk of going to prison.
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Saluti e baci (1953)
Character: N/A
Carlo Mastelli, the young radio presenter of "New Voices" has run short of ideas and his program is likely to be suspended from the radio schedule if he does not find any new ones.
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Anni facili (1953)
Character: capo divisione al ministero
A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.
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Il bigamo (1956)
Character: Don Vincenzino
A traveling salesman is sent to prison after being accused of bigamy, while his wife and son are forced to consider leaving him permanently.
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Ladro lui, ladra lei (1958)
Character: Cavalier Lauricella
Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over.
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6-dagesløbet (1958)
Character: N/A
Semi documentary on a famous cycle race in Copenhagen. The story is about the competition between the riders as well as about their private and marital struggles.
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Vacanze a Ischia (1957)
Character: Another judge
Intersecting lives on an island holiday: A lawyer anxious he caused a youth's death.An engineer suspecting his wife after being teased by pranksters.A young man falling for a nurse.A Frenchman seeing his wife wooed by a local.
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Fermi tutti... arrivo io! (1953)
Character: proprietario Hotel Santiago
A private detective and a girl obsessed with thriller novels investigate the murder of a rich entrepreneur.
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3 straniere a Roma (1958)
Character: Commendador Michele
Three girls from Milan dreaming of a holiday in Rome arrive in the city by train and decide to pretend to be rich Danish girls to attract three nice guys... Three guys looking for easy-going girls offer them a guided tour through the most beautiful places of the city. The girls accept and make the guys spend a fortune, but one evening they get drunk and one of them incidentally reveals she's just from Milan. The guys get upset and set up a sort of revenge, but in the end they make it up.
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Lo sai che i papaveri... (1952)
Character: N/A
A high school girl, enamored by her young teacher, follows him and discovers that his home life holds many secrets.
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Marisa la civetta (1957)
Character: N/A
For the 17-year-old Mariza, there is no other house than the train station in Civitavecchia. Here, an orphaned girl lives early after the death of her father, a railwayman; here she earns additionally at the station buffet, selling ice cream to passengers of passing trains. Beautiful and brisk, she was accustomed to the admiration of others and perfectly mastered the art of coquetry, but Marise’s heart remains calm until the young sailor Angelo, who is in a hurry on her first voyage, leaves the train on the platform on a sunny Sunday morning.
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Accidenti alle tasse!! (1951)
Character: Il capitano del panfilo
Count Borraccilo lives in luxury but does not pay taxes and for this he is targeted by the tax agent Gaetano Pellecchia, who asks his friend Mario for help.
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Les Amants de Villa Borghese (1953)
Character: Benjamin's uncle (segment: Il paraninfo)
Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.
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Il padrone del vapore (1951)
Character: Lo scenografo
A rich American arrives in a little village in the mountains because he wants to advertise a drink he produces. In the village there are also two men from Rome who are at logger-heads with the locals. The coming of the American complicates matters.
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Tormento del passato (1952)
Character: Giacomo
A gangster comes back to Rome after many years and meets his old flame and their daughter.
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Era lui, sì, sì! (1951)
Character: Vannozzi
Fernando, owner of a large chain store, suffers from worrying dreams: he seems to successfully court saucy women, but just as he is about to win them over, a youngster comes on the scene and steals them from under his nose.
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Un turco napoletano (1953)
Character: Carpenter of the prison (uncredited)
Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime.
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Arrivano i nostri (1951)
Character: Brigadiere Vitali
A ruthless businessman wants to bring a penniless nobleman financially on his knees because he wants to marry the man's daughter. It is the family chauffeur who puts things right.
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The Sicilian (1987)
Character: Don Arzana of Plani dei Greci
Egocentric bandit Salvatore Giuliano fights the Church, the Mafia, and the landed gentry while leading a populist movement for Sicilian independence.
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Totò all'inferno (1955)
Character: Il cavalier Scartaccio
After several attempts at suicide, depressed thief Antonio Marchi accidentally drowns in a river and ends up in hell.
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Totò terzo uomo (1951)
Character: Renato
In a small village two twin brothers are of opposite characters. One is mayor of the town, gruff and precise. The other is totally different from his brother and loves the good life and beautiful women.
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Due soldi di felicità (1955)
Character: don Girolamo
A country boy moves to the city to attempt a singing career and gets seduced by a soubrette.
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Le Confident de ces dames (1959)
Character: N/A
A veterinarian in Figarolo, Giuliano Goberti has also been providing care to the villagers since the death of Dr. Lofal, but the arrival of a luscious replacement for the vacant doctor precipitates events. While she prescribes drugs, Giuliano orders the bedridden Countess to eat well and exercise. A Roman journalist reports on the miraculous results. Soon the quiet little Italian town is invaded by a motley crew of imaginary patients, who have to bring an animal with them to save the vet from trouble for practicing medicine illegally. In the end, the brave Giuliano marries the lovely doctoress, thus curing their celibacy.
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Anema e core (1951)
Character: brigadiere Bichetti
Two two-bit singers become thieves to make ends meet. One day during a theft in the house of a music impresario they hear Marco an electrician gifted with a beautiful voice and give him some money to help for his debut as a singer.
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Totò a colori (1952)
Character: Il giardiniere
In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.
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Carovana di canzoni (1955)
Character: Direttore d'albergo
In a luxury hotel in Miramare, a competition is organized between pop music singers. Famous celebrities and famous singers are invited.
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Vendetta... sarda (1952)
Character: cavalier Rossetti
A cook from Sardinia who had emigrated to Milan goes back to his native island thinking he has inherited some money with his uncles death. He finds out he has to avenge his death instead.
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