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Vedi Napoli e poi muori (1924)
Character: N/A
An American director comes to Italy to shoot a film about the beautiful city of Naples, casting Pupatella (Leda Gys), a native of Santa Lucia, the sailors' neighborhood, in the movie. Eager to become a film star, Pupatella returns to America with Billy, but their relationship is destroyed by a misunderstanding.
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Accroche-toi, y'a du vent! (1962)
Character: N/A
A self-taught amateur detective who learned his trade from a book finds himself caught between two gangs in Milan, trying to recover a wooden leg full of drugs. He is accompanied by an unlikely trio: a deaf secretary, an undertaker and a monkey.
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Il bacio del sole (1958)
Character: Raffaele Spada
The story of homeless boys on the streets of Naples and of a priest who uses unusual methods to try to help them.
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Un ladro in paradiso (1952)
Character: Vincenzo De Pretore
After ending up in jail, a thief in Naples with a beautiful fiance and a good friend has to decide which path his life should take.
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Tutta la città canta (1945)
Character: Orazio Babila
A shy and oppressed professor inherits a musical theater show, so he has the opportunity to change is life and find the real love.
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Il barone Carlo Mazza (1948)
Character: Il barone Carlo Mazza
Rosa Pezza, a beautiful young girl, is forced into a thousand maneuvers and subterfuges to gain possession of a rich inheritance. She is ultimately forced to marry the penniless and bizarre baron Carlo Mazza but the baron, tired of his wife's escapades, decides to divorce her...
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Dove Sta Zaza? (1947)
Character: Il Napoletano e Il Americano
The film is set in Naples. Two doubles, an American and a Neapolitan, alternate visiting Zaza, the maid of a magazine company, deceived by their resemblance.
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Pesci d'oro e bikini d'argento (1961)
Character: Vincenzo, il padre in attesa
People who take part in a telephone radio quiz get a golden fish as first prize and a silver bikini as second one.
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Cintura di castità (1950)
Character: Il capocomico
In a castle, some actors are guests of a duke. It happens that a precious chastity belt, family heritage, disappears by a thief.
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Se fossi deputato (1949)
Character: Angelino Angelini
A young dare-devil goes to Rome in search of fortune, with the blessings and money of his loving aunts. While in the city, he is a victim of a series of mishaps. His aunts hear about a man of the same name who is a candidate for Parliament; they think that he is their nephew and organize a series of celebrations. So, the youngster gets the idea of trying to replace the real candidate, but gets found out. The aunts forgive him.
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Vita Napoletana (1933)
Character: N/A
A variety film consisting of 13 solo songs and two musical sketches, one comedic, the other serious, all in the Italian language but made entirely in the USA by members of the Italian-American community in New York. Missed by the American Film Institute and IMDb, information was found in the New York State Archives' files from that state's old censors' office.
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Mi vedrai tornare (1966)
Character: Nostromo Spampinato
A young Italian sailor enrolled in the Italian Navy meets in Rome the Princess Liu, betrothed to a nobleman in Tokyo.
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Una lacrima sul viso (1964)
Character: Prof. Giovanni Todini
The film tells the difficult love-story between Bobby Tonner, an American singer who came to Naples to meet his old music professor, and the charming daughter of the same professor.
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Il ragazzo che sorride (1969)
Character: Filippo Leccisi
Giorgio, a young mining engineer, moved to work in Africa. His wife does not want to follow him and he suspects a betrayal. In the cast also Rocky Roberts singing two songs.
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Assi alla ribalta (1954)
Character: N/A
The director of a detective agency discovers a jewellery thief likes to attends the theatre. So he hires two clumsy and bumbling detectives to guard all the theatres in the area. The two investigators now go from one venue to another attending various Italian magazine shows.
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Te lo leggo negli occhi (1966)
Character: Gennaro
A girl from a country village goes to town and falls in love with a songwriter struggling for success. Soon however their life-paths go different ways and they split. Only for a short time naturally : a song he writes will help them to reunite.
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Che femmina!! E... che dollari! (1960)
Character: N/A
An American millionaire has just died. His sole legatee is a youthful indiscretion, a girl who is currently living in Italy. Two private eye detective agencies, in competition with each other, investigate. Combining business with pleasure, they search sunny Italy, but they only have one clue to find their heiress: she has three moles on the buttock. One of the private eyes falls in love with a gypsy who sings in nightclubs.
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Il ragazzo che sapeva amare (1967)
Character: N/A
Vittorio is a photographer; Roberto, the waiter; Brigitta, the operator; Pannunzio, the porter; Patty, a gold-eyed waitress. All of them live and work at the Europe Palace Hotel in Capri.
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Totò contro Maciste (1962)
Character: Tarantakamen
Totokamen is an entertainer and an illusionist who performs in various Egyptian nightclubs assisted by his manager, Tarantenkamen. Taking advantage of cheesy tricks, Totokamen pretends to be the son of the god Amun.
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È arrivato l'accordatore (1952)
Character: Achille Scozzella
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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Venga a fare il soldato da noi (1971)
Character: Capitano Re
A girl is drafted due to a misunderstanding and this gives her the occasion to check on her boy-friend, whom she believes to be a womanizer.
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L'oro del mondo (1968)
Character: Filippo Pugliese
The son of a rich industrialist forces a woman to become his fiancée by threatening to bankrupt her parents — until an unlikely hero steps in.
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Ferdinando I° Re di Napoli (1959)
Character: Tarantella
The story of "King Lazzarone" Ferdinand I of Bourbon whose pastime was to neglect the government and disguise himself as a poor man and turn to the infamous city premises in search of love adventures. With the De Filippo brothers to complete.
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Pensando a te (1969)
Character: Filippo Puglisi
Carlo is a successful singer, married to Livia; the two also have a son, Maurizio. Carlo decides to accept a tour in the USA but, shortly before departure, together with his agent Puglisi has a sentimental adventure with two women. Livia, having discovered what had happened, leaves home with Maurizio.
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Non son degno di te (1965)
Character: Maresciallo Antonio Todisco
In the sequel of "In ginocchio da te", the engagement of Gianni and Carla is threatened by Giorgio.
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I milanesi a Napoli (1954)
Character: Luigi Martiello
Some Neapolitans help a firm from Milan to establish two factories in Naples: one produces TV dinner pizzas the other manufactures lace. The owner of a pizza joint and a woman who makes lace at home are against the project.
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I 4 monaci (1962)
Character: Fra' Gaudenzio
Four petty criminals pretend to be friars escaped from communist Hungary and go and live in a Sicilian convent
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Anni facili (1953)
Character: Luigi De Francesco
A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.
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Dio, come ti amo! (1966)
Character: Vincenzo Di Francesco
Gigliola is a young and humble Neapolitan swimmer who will compete in a competition in Spain and finds herself falling for the fiance of her best friend. But when they come to visit her in Italy, she pretends to be rich, with the complicity of their parents.
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Nel sole (1967)
Character: Physics Teacher
Aided by a chauffeur and a butler, a student of humble means pretends to be wealthy in order to attract the romantic interest of a rich girl.
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Café Chantant (1954)
Character: Se stesso
Sor Clemente escapes the surveillance of his wife and goes to attend a variety show.
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Totòtruffa '62 (1961)
Character: Camillo
Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in love, the two fathers make peace.
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I 2 colonnelli (1963)
Character: Sergente Quaglia
In WWII Greece, two enemy Colonels, one Italian and the other English, develop a grudging friendship which the war will test.
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I prepotenti (1958)
Character: Domenico Esposito
Cesare, from Rome, and Mimì, from Naples, don't agree with their children marriage, so the young couple runs away from their home.
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Accadde al commissariato (1954)
Character: Il commissario
Everyday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, however, the chief of police has bought his first car and he has decided to test it with his wife going to Ostia. But first a theatrical company sent out of the theatre, last Alfredo Todini arrested while walking wearing a gown and in the mean a series of human cases, ranging from the pathetic to the funny one, get in the way of his wish.
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Franco, Ciccio e le vedove allegre (1968)
Character: Sacristan
A 3-episode film starring popular comedians Franchi and Ingrassia. In the first episode, Carlo and Oreste are married to the same woman; when she delivers twins, they fight for paternity. In the second episode, Celestina needs a heir to receive her dead husband's fortune. In the third episode, young widow Daisy arrives in Italy to meet her deceased much-older husband's family and ends up marrying his great-grandson.
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La moglie è uguale per tutti (1955)
Character: Antonio De Papis
Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going wrong. So when his nephew calls on him asking for his approval to his marriage, Antonio suggests to him to spend a day in his office to see what marriage really is.
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Le vacanze del Sor Clemente (1955)
Character: N/A
Sor Clemente tries to avoid an underwater fishing trip together with his authoritarian wife's friends and pretends to be ill. Left alone in the villa he's left in the company of a friend and a butler.
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Lo smemorato di Collegno (1962)
Character: prof. Ademaro Gioberti
A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic, suffering from amnesia. After seeing his photo in the newspaper, Mrs. Ballerini realizes that he is her husband and brings him home; then Mrs. Polacich recognizes him as her husband.
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Il Monaco di Monza (1963)
Character: Marchese Egidio de Lattanzis
Pasquale takes all of his 12 children and runs away from Monza, looking for a house of a wealthy and generous awning. Having met on the way impoverished peasant, Pasquale takes him also, having granted the rank of "Half-Monk" and thus having gained rustic, but a reliable friend.
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Carosello del varietà (1955)
Character: N/A
A painter gives his daughter a television set for her 18th birthday. On the evening of the party, the family sits in the living room and watches a series of variety shows taken from the sets of theatrical performances and various films recited by the famous Totò,
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I 4 moschettieri (1963)
Character: Frisson
4 con men take the place of the real musketeers and manage to steal the Queen's necklace but then give it back to her, moved by her tears.
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Prepotenti più di prima (1959)
Character: Domenico Esposito
Returning from his honeymoon, Marcella finds out she is pregnant. The to-be grandparents fight on where the baby will be born and on his name. The parents of the baby, tired of those fights, run away to Milan.
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Uno strano tipo (1963)
Character: Cannarulo
Peppino, a slow-witted local villager of the Italian resort town of Amalfi, is bribed to impersonate famed rock and roll star Adriano Celentano for autographs and personal appearances. While Celentano tries to romance Emanuela Mazzolani, the daughter of a well-to-do resident who dissaproves of the union between his daughter and the man he thinks of as a "punk", Peppino, unaware of the true nature of his job to impersonate Celentano, tries to deal with his girlfriend's newborn baby which gets switched around between him and Celentano.
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Stasera mi butto (1967)
Character: Father of Marisa
Summer Late sixties, Want to sing, Of Sun. Of golden skin from tanning. Of endless beaches. And relaxing baths. For everyone: young and old. Singles and couples. In the endless consumption of flirtation and new knowledge, the musical background goes crazy with the famous screamer. Famous personalities like Lola Falana emerge from famous people. They get confused. They are inserted between these alleged stars. But above all, they have fun like crazy ...
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Il suo nome è Donna Rosa (1969)
Character: Antonio Belmonte
Andrea falls in love with the beautiful Rosetta, but the girl's father pushes her into the arms of the rich Giorgio. Al Bano and Romina in a musicarello of extraordinary success.
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Mogli pericolose (1958)
Character: Pirro
Federico, Bruno, Pirro and Benny are married. The first three have beautiful wifes, Benny instead is married to a ugly woman. Ornella is Bruno's wife, she is very jealous and maintains that all men are deceitful, granted the opportunity, while Claudine, Federico's wife, maintains the contrary point of view. So they bet that Tosca, a former dancer, will succeed in seducing Federico.
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Nessuno mi può giudicare (1966)
Character: Antonio Pezzullo
Two youths who work together in a department store love each other but also their supervisor has his eyes on the young girl.
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Perdono (1966)
Character: Antonio
Federico, his girlfriend Laura and her cousin, Caterina, are three young people full of hope, united by a great friendship that seems indissoluble. The three work in a department store but, when Caterina decides to attempt a musical career, given her vocal skills, everything changes. Caterina becomes a successful singer and Federico falls in love with her. Caterina, who however does not want to make her cousin Laura suffer, pretends not to reciprocate the young man by making him put his head in order. Meanwhile, the plots of various secondary characters evolve, in particular the fresh marriage between the security guard Antonio and the secretary of the department stores Adelina.
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Lisa dagli occhi blu (1969)
Character: il generale americano
A university student, Mario Buongiovanni, tries to do various jobs to pay for his studies: selling encyclopedias, singing in night clubs, being a tour guide. He then became a science teacher in a female college, where he met Lisa, the daughter of a Lombard industrialist, whom he fell in love with. But Lisa's father, unfortunately, already has in mind for her a marriage with a very rich suitor ...
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Il trovatello (1938)
Character: Nino
A taxi driver finds a baby in his cab after the mother accidentally leaves him behind.
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Totò contro i 4 (1963)
Character: ispettore Giuseppe Mastrillo
The day of Chief Constable Saracino begins badly when his new car is stolen. Then, in his office, he meets Alfredo Fiori who believes that his wife and her lover, a veterinary, are trying to murder him.
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In ginocchio da te (1964)
Character: Maresciallo Antonio Todisco
During his military service, the young singer Gianni Traimonti falls in love with Carla, the marshal's daughter.
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Botta e risposta (1950)
Character: L'habilleur
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: Nino Taranto
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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Caravan Petrol (1959)
Character: Ciro Cerquetti
A simple barberman from Naples travel to Arabia for search a big fortune that could make him rich.
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Le massaggiatrici (1962)
Character: Professor Gaspare Petroni
Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in touch with a masseuses ring and one of the masseuses is introduced to the president of the catholic association as the wife of one of the managers. During a vice squad roundup, the president is about to be discovered with one of the girls when he dies of a stroke. How will the others try to hide his death?
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Arrivano i dollari! (1957)
Character: Giuseppe Pasti
A widow goes to Italy from South Africa to find out whether or not her late husband's five nephews are worthy of his inheritance...
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Mariti in città (1957)
Character: Giacinto
In the summer, while their wives and children are away, four men try to enjoy their free time.
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Se non avessi più te (1965)
Character: Ten. Antonio Todisco
A young singer secretly gets married since he does not want to let his fans down. After a while the gutter press make up a love story which seriously worries his young bride.
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Rita la zanzara (1966)
Character: Director of education
Rita, a vivacious co-ed is in love with her music teacher, a man who leads a double life - bespectacled professor by day and composer of rock songs by night. Will Rita win his heart?
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Avventura a Capri (1959)
Character: N/A
A young French girl, Yvonne, having won a competition, goes to Capri for a short break. There she meets Baron Vanvutelli, an old-fashioned old man, Mario, a Roman student, who came to spend the Sunday at Capri, along with two friends, Renato and Julius.
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Il giorno più corto (1963)
Character: Mafioso (uncredited)
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
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