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Ergastolo (1952)
Character: professor Arlotta
Rosa Lulli, has an illegitimate 20-year-old son, named Stefano, who lives with her in the house of Professor Arlotta. Stefano is in love with Lydia, the granddaughter of the professor. The couple has a gambling addiction: the need to obtain a large sum to meet gambling debts, which pushes him to accept the loving invitation of Jeannette, owner of a dance school, where Stefano goes to play.
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Centomila dollari (1940)
Character: Michele Zilay
On a whim, an American man offers a girl the sum of $100,000 if she will marry him.
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In cerca di felicità (1944)
Character: Brocca
Two young people fall in love and run away from home. They soon run out of money and he, who has a decent voice, finds work in a low-class variety show, where he is captivated by the charms of a dancer.
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Brivido (1941)
Character: Isidoro Janosky
A crime novel writer is experiencing writer's block while writing his latest book. Then a woman is murdered in his home, and this crime gives him inspiration to finish his novel. Without noticing, he even founds the real culprit.
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Prima comunione (1950)
Character: L'invitato anziano
The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock.
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Lo scocciatore (1953)
Character: Cesare
A bored civil servant accepts an invitation to visit a glamorous young lady. When she doesn't answer the door, then is later found murdered he panics!
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Vivere in pace (1947)
Character: Grandfather
An American prisoner, hidden by some Umbrian farmers, meets, drunk, with a German soldier who is also drunk. The two believe that the war is over and embrace each other emotionally. But it is not so and soon the cannon will thunder. Uncle Tigna, who was hiding the prisoner and two of his companions, will fall victim to the Nazis.
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Ai vostri ordini, signora... (1939)
Character: Lorot, impiegato del notaio
The young and poor Pietro Haguet accepts a job offer from the rich Marion, who wants to free herself from the suffocating presence of so many suitors, evidently interested only in her assets. Pietro's job therefore consists in posing as her boyfriend. Then things change and the two fake boyfriends discover that they are really in love with each other.
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Campane a martello (1949)
Character: Il Possidente
Agostina is a maid turned prostitute during World War II. She sends all the money she makes to the local priest in her home village for safekeeping. After the war is over Agostina and her friend Australia plan to open a clothing store so they return to her home island to collect the money from the priest. But after arriving there Agostina learns in shock that the priest has been dead for more than a year and that his eccentric successor mistook the received money for donations and spent all of it on building a new orphanage for war orphans. To make matters even worse, other islanders think that Agostina is now a millionaire and beg her to help them financially.
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La figlia del capitano (1947)
Character: Savelich
A peasant leader under the enlightened despotism of Empress Catherine the Great, and a love story.
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L'avventuriera del piano di sopra (1941)
Character: Cesare, il padre di Biancamaria
A comedy in which a young lawyer, with a very jealous wife, ends up hosting a woman from his building for a night, with strange consequences
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Quel fantasma di mio marito (1950)
Character: Zio Villa
Gianni Alberti is a journalist who is sent to Palestine. He decides to fake a fatal accident so he can then return home as a hero. But things don't turn out as planned, Gianni end up coming back to Italy, but only as a ghost.
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Destinazione Piovarolo (1955)
Character: Ernesto
Antonio La Quaglia becomes the railroader in Piovarolo during 1922 meanwhile the fascism is raising. Later he marries a jewish woman. He has career ambitions but can not reach them.
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Anni difficili (1948)
Character: Il nonnino
Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.
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Giorno di nozze (1942)
Character: Zio dello sposo
A daughter discovers her parents are far from being the rich bourgeois she thought they were.
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L'onorevole Angelina (1947)
Character: Luigi
A rowdy woman is so forceful that she outdoes her husband in a loud cry against speculators who refuse poor people entrance to a block of new apartments, built after WW2. Without noticing it, she starts a people's movement, and leads a march to the capital. She returns to her village a winner, an honourable MP. Yet, she is still the same simple, fiery woman, able to get in a hair-pulling brawl with the local barmaid for the affection of her man.
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Amanti in fuga (1946)
Character: Vecchietto sulla diligenza
After an astrologer has foretold him he will die at an early age if he does not avoid a romantic entanglement, Alessandro Stradella, a well-known composer decides to leave Rome for the North of Italy. Written by Guy Bellinger
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Passaporto rosso (1935)
Character: L'addetto ai passaporti clandestini
Based on fact, Passaporto Rosso (Red Passport) details the plight of a group of poor Italian immigrants who are hired as railroad workers in turn-of-the-century South America. In addition to facing poverty, deprivation, and prejudice, the immigrants are also bedeviled by a raging fever epidemic. Finally achieving a measure of prosperity, the Italians are forced to confront tragedy once more when their grown children march off to WWI. Though Isa Miranda is top-billed, she has very little to do in comparison with male lead Filippo Scelso. Passaporto Rosso was released in the U.S. as Destiny Unknown.
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Il testimone (1946)
Character: Giuseppe Marchi, il testimone
A man, standing trial for robbery with murder, faces the death penalty. The testimony of an old civil servant may give him a reprieve but not peace of mind.
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Guardie e ladri (1951)
Character: Il padre di Esposito
Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.
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Lo sceicco bianco (1952)
Character: Dottore Fortuna, the Photonovel's Director
In Italy, small-town newlyweds Wanda and Ivan Cavalli embark on their honeymoon in the big city of Rome. Ivan dutifully wants to keep appointments with family and church, but Wanda is only interested in meeting her favorite photo-strip star known as "The White Sheik". While Wanda impetuously sneaks away to locate the object of her affections, disconsolate Ivan tries his hardest to keep up appearances with the couple's relatives.
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Cento anni d'amore (1954)
Character: Antonio Bianchi (segment "Nozze d'Oro")
Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.
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Botta e risposta (1950)
Character: Colonel
Good-natured and devout, a French house painter takes the train to Rome, where he has decided to go on a pilgrimage. There he meets a scatterbrained dresser who has been assigned by a music hall star to bring her the gown she is to wear on stage. The two men get stolen by Cleo, a charming thief. Once in Rome, the painter finds himself penniless and the dresser without the gown...
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I pompieri di Viggiù (1949)
Character: Uno spettatore
In the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, inviting all the celebrities known at that time.
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Una romantica avventura (1940)
Character: Berni
At the end of the 19th century, a middle-class woman explains why she cannot get along with her husband, a good man but a little rough around the edges: she cannot forget that during the Risorgimento she fell in love with a noble conspirator. Now, however, she realizes that her true love is her husband.
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Signori, in carrozza! (1951)
Character: professor Busi Migliavacca
Vincenzo, a railwayman who works on the Rome-to-Paris line, has a wife in Italy and a mistress in France: Ginette, a widow with a four-year-old daughter. When he's offered a job in Paris he decides to move, but unfortunately his wife and petulant brother-in-law insist on accompanying him to Paris, and he must decide between the two women in his life.
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Totò e i re di Roma (1952)
Character: il Padreterno
An aging, down-and-out public employee must face the primary school examination.
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Imputato, alzatevi! (1939)
Character: André Copersche, il presidente del tribunal
Cipriano Duval is an Italian who has emigrated to Paris, where he works in a pediatric clinic as a nurse.
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Il coraggio (1955)
Character: Salvatore Esposito
A wealthy trader saves the life of a poor suicidal man who then decides that his savior has the responsibility of taking care of him and his family.
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Cuori senza frontiere (1950)
Character: nonno Sebastian
Following World War II, the Allies designate that an unidentified town in the Trieste area as being partly Yugoslavian and partly Italian. A white line of demarcation splits the town in half and the townspeople are given just a short time to decides on which side of the line they will live. This leads to the dividing of homes, friends, families and the church and tensions run high.
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