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Le due tigri (1941)
Character: Il taverniere
Darma, Tremal Naik's daughter is kidnapped by the thugs and secluded in a temple in the jungle. The religious sect want her to become the priestess of the goddess Kali. Sandokan will set her free, and Surama the legitimate heiress to the throne of Lahore.
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La vena d'oro (1955)
Character: N/A
Jealous of his widowed mother's new lover, a boy does everything to separate them. Then, after he realizes their profound feelings for each other, he tries to reunite them.
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Il prigioniero di Santa Cruz (1941)
Character: L'impiegato dell'agenzia marittima
A sea captain forbids his daughter to marry the man whose father he had killed many years before.
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La carne e l'anima (1945)
Character: N/A
This melodrama was directed by an émigré Russian from a story by Corrado Alvaro and Emanuele Caracciolo. The latter was murdered by the Nazis in the Fosse Ardeatine massacre, before the film’s post-war release. Featuring Miranda and Girotti prior to neo-realist stardom.
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Il romanzo di un giovane povero (1958)
Character: N/A
Massimo Odiot, Marquis of Champcey d'Hauterive, has inherited his father's high-sounding title and a sea of debt. To earn a living and support his little sister at boarding school, he is forced to accept a job as administrator for a wealthy bourgeois family, the Laroques. In his new environment, the young man exerts a charm that is not lost on Marguerite, the beautiful and proud heir of the new masters. She falls in love with Massimo, but the Count of Bellavan, who wants to marry her to get his hands on her wealth, makes her believe that Massimo is cheating on her.
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Gente felice (1957)
Character: Tanino, oste e postino
Tanino, who lives in a village without a cemetery, goes to a deputy to obtain the land necessary for the cemetery.
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Addio, giovinezza! (1940)
Character: Marco
A university student falls in love with a seamstress. But one day he meets a beautiful woman and things become complicated.
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Centomila dollari (1940)
Character: Paul
On a whim, an American man offers a girl the sum of $100,000 if she will marry him.
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Quel tesoro di papà (1959)
Character: Panunzio
A young girl finds out that her father, an impoverished Baron, actually works as a stage actor.
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Non canto più (1945)
Character: Il commissario
A woman, a theatrical impresario, simulates the theft of a precious necklace for marketing purposes. A young singer living in the province is believed to be responsible for the theft and is arrested.
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Vogliamoci bene! (1950)
Character: Il sindaco
The historic clock of a small town needs to be repaired but there is no money in the town coffers to pay for it. Don Paolo (Peppino Spadaro), the Priest, raises the money by lottery and thinks the surplus should go to the poor. The Communists and Socialists object because they are afraid the priest will get the credit and they claim it as "the people's money." The democratic mayor (Arturo Brogaglia) can think of no solution other than organizing committees and sub-committees. Finally, Rocchetti (Paola Stoppi), the town mechanic who has no answers for town problems and hates the clergy and politicians alike, comes forward and repairs the clock for the sheer joy of work.
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Rascel-Fifì (1957)
Character: il Professore
Renato and Gedeon have just opened a nightclub in a disreputable area of New York, triggering the hostility of Gionata, a gang leader and owner of the nightclub across the street. Helped by the hoods of his gang, Gionata uses a couple of tricks to try and ruin his competitors. To begin with, he induces his friend Barbara, a vamp, to perform in a hot number in Renato and Gedeon's joint, so that the police intervene and close the club. The move fails, so Gionata decides to have Renatino, Renato's son, kidnapped by his men, which proves another flop. To make matters worse for Gionata, Michaela, his own daughter, has fallen in love with Renato, and sides with him and his partner...
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Canto per te (1954)
Character: N/A
A famous tenor pawns valuables too often. His strange behavior arouses the suspicions of a detective. The situation is complicated by the fact that both the tenor and the detective are in love with the same woman. Attempts at infidelity, revenge, and spying ensue. In the end, love conquers all.
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Ha da venì... don Calogero! (1952)
Character: Messo comunale
A good-natured priest inherits a large sum of money from a former student at his elementary school and must decide wisely on how to use it best.
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Valeria ragazza poco seria (1958)
Character: N/A
Two young men love the same girl and decide to fight for her. The winner realizes, however, that his feelings are not returned.
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Cantando sotto le stelle (1956)
Character: Cav. Borbonzola
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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Orient Express (1954)
Character: N/A
On December 24th the Orient Express gets snowbound near a little mountain village and its passengers are forced to spend some time there, mingling with the local people, upsetting their usually monotonous daily lives.
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Albergo Luna, camera 34 (1946)
Character: N/A
A young music teacher, after her house is burned down by a raid, has to go to a refugee camp with her old and sick mother. She is forced to sell everything she owns, while she is looking for a job as a singer. One night, tired and frustrated, she meets a man who invites her out for a drink. She accepts the invitation, stunned by the bunch of banknotes in his wallet. The man takes her to his room at the hotel Luna and seduces her. Before leaving, she robs him of his money and then walks hastily home, but in the meantime her mother has died. She meets a young maestro, who wants her to sing his songs. She seems to begin a happy, though hard, life together with the young maestro who wishes to marry her. The wicked man suddenly reappears and menaces to reveal their old encounter and that she is a thief, but he is later killed. The unfortunate lady is suspected of the crime, but at the end she is cleared of it and she can happily marry her maestro
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Cose da pazzi (1954)
Character: Un pescatore
When young Dalia is mistakenly admitted to a mental institution, she is declared sane - but by a truly mad person pretending to be a doctor. The real doctor thinks she is insane - how can she escape this madness?
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Buongiorno primo amore! (1957)
Character: Saturnino
Michele and Valentina are about to get married despite the financial problems that threaten to make the first years of their marriage very difficult. Valentina wishes she could skip the first five years of marriage and find herself at a point in her life where all the difficulties have been resolved. A mysterious man who has overheard everything grants her wish, and the couple reunites in Spain, where he is a successful singer but the couple feels uneasy.
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La maestrina (1942)
Character: costumista
In a small mountain town, a new teacher arrives, Maria Bini, who, with her extreme confidentiality, arouses people's curiosity and gossip. The young mayor of the village feels attracted to the girl and begins to court her.
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Amori di mezzo secolo (1954)
Character: Alberto's Uncle (uncredited)
Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients' infidelities. Expectant father is sent to fight in WWI. A 1920s fascist enjoys Rome's nightlife. WWII airman falls for a girl in Naples.
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Amore e chiacchiere (1958)
Character: N/A
Maria and Paul love them, but they are very young and, moreover, Maria is the daughter of the municipal sweeper while Paul is the lawyer Bonelli, vice mayor and head of the opposition. To complicate the story there is the reconstruction of a hermitage destroyed during the war. Reconstruction would take the view of the Paseroni villa, big industrial and political traffic. Bonelli's lawyer, a great speaker, becomes a mayor for the death of his predecessor and is bought by Paseroni, while rejecting the love of Paul and Mary for social differences and why Paul should stay behind Doddy Paseroni. At this point, Paul and Mary flee to kill, just as Bonelli has to hold a talk on the radio for the inauguration of Paseroni's villa ...
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I mariti (1941)
Character: N/A
In Naples in the second half of the nineteenth century, a young noblewoman falls in love with a nobleman of ill repute.
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Saluti e baci (1953)
Character: Salvatore
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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È arrivato il Cavaliere (1950)
Character: Buchs
A strange vagrant makes repeated attempts to rescue land inhabited by hawkers from being taken over by building development and a subway installation.
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Gli amori di Ercole (1960)
Character: Iolaus
Hercules decides to avenge the death of his wife, murdered at the hands of Éurito, king of Ecalia, but everything is a plot of an ambitious courtier. Hercules ends up falling in love with Deyanira, who is now a good queen.
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I due marescialli (1961)
Character: Don Nicola
September 1943: in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes and roles.
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Sambo (1950)
Character: Il medico dell'ospedale psichiatrico
A fallen nobleman convinces a Roman coachman that he has found the way to win at Sambo, a Brazilian game of chance. Sent a messenger to Brazil to gamble, the two men go wild and run up debts. When they realize they have won nothing, they initially fall into total despair; however the coachman had played a coupon from the football pools on his own account. He will win and make things right.
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4 passi fra le nuvole (1942)
Character: The nervous traveler
Travelling family man Paolo agrees to pose as husband to an unwed pregnant girl he meets on a train. However, once faced with her father, things do not go as planned.
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Sette canzoni per sette sorelle (1957)
Character: Tancredi Bragaglia
The six daughters of the mayor are not concerned with their six boyfriends because they are all infatuated with Claudio Villa. When this really comes to the village, everything happens, but as in Cinderella's fable, Claudio Villa falls in love with the seventh daughter, who is actually a child, and everything settles.
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Nel segno di Roma (1959)
Character: Nobleman (uncredited)
Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops, but she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer Marco Valerio.
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Miracolo a Milano (1951)
Character: Alfredo
Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.
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Tuppe tuppe, Marescià! (1958)
Character: il sindaco
A landowner pretends he's in love with a provocative bar owner to make his fianceè jealous. She has fallen for a marshal.
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Una famiglia impossibile (1940)
Character: Povero
A wealthy young woman falls in love with a radio singer without ever having seen him. She forces her strange family (forgetful father, mother with ideas of grandeur, three sisters with a passion for singing and another who takes care of abandoned children) to go to the EIAR headquarters to be able to meet him.
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Il mio amico Jekyll (1960)
Character: Perimetri
Professor Fabius has found a way of transferring his personality to another person and he transfers his to the body of Giacinto Floria, a nice teacher in a women's college. Poor Giacinto becomes a sex maniac to the puzzlement of his girlfriend Mafalda.
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Caporale di giornata (1958)
Character: N/A
A young woman brings a baby to some military barracks. There is a note on the child - it says that the baby is hers and a soldier called Felice.
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Follie per l'opera (1948)
Character: Il 'nuovo' cameriere
This story took place during World War II. A group of Italians living in London are raising funds to rebuild a Catholic cathedral that was bombed by the Nazis. To this end, they organized a concert, the proceeds of which would go toward the construction. The project was led by journalist Carlo Scala. He faced and overcame many difficulties in organizing the event, but he handled them with honor, and the performance by leading Italian singers took place. He was assisted in this by the incomparable Dora Scala.
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Bellissima (1952)
Character: Photographer
Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà, hoping she’ll be selected and become a star. She is ready to sacrifice anything for little Maria.
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Totò, Vittorio e la dottoressa (1957)
Character: Il signore al comizio (uncredited)
The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the two aunts are unaware of the fact. While investigating, Mike and his assistant Johnny discover Brigitte with a prospective patient, the marquis De Vitti who was shot by the husband of the woman he tried to seduce. Afterwards Spillone finds her with her husband who he believes to be her lover.
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47 morto che parla (1950)
Character: Il sindaco
Greedy Baron Antonio Peletti refuses to give to his town the heredity left by his father, a box full of precious jewels, which he keeps for himself. The major and the rest of the townspeople therefore organize a trick at his expense: they'll make him believe he is dead, and, in a fake "afterlife", they'll try to convince him to finally show them where the money is hidden to save his soul.
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Il terrore della maschera rossa (1960)
Character: N/A
In 16th century Italy, mercenary Marco is hired by cruel duke Astolfo whose unjust reign is threatened by the notorious outlaw the Red Mask.
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Marinai, donne e guai (1958)
Character: cameriere del bar
Four sailors are off duty in Barcelona. Capo Campana ordered them to remain together when in the city. But Mario, one of them, falls for Manuela and leaves the other three.
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La cento chilometri (1959)
Character: Corridore nostalgico fascista
During a 100km marathon in Rome, some of the runners get involved in comical and paradoxical situations
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Se io fossi onesto (1942)
Character: conte Stefano Englesh
The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and messes that ends out well.
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Totò nella fossa dei leoni (1943)
Character: Il dottor Palozzi
The explorer Smith leaves with Laura, a beautiful but naive girl, in search of Professor Berti, who mysteriously disappeared in Africa in the midst of one of his researches.
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Carne de horca (1953)
Character: Párroco
Andalusia, Spain, 19th century. The roads are infested with bandits who sow panic among travelers. Although most of them are ruthless killers, Lucero is a true champion of the disinherited.
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La vita è bella (1943)
Character: Commissario
Count Alberto has lost his wealth at the gaming table, he wants to commit suicide but is stopped by a doctor who offers him an exchange, a week of life with how much money he wants and then be a guinea pig for a new drug (and maybe die).
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Teresa Venerdì (1941)
Character: Creditore #1
A comedy of errors where floundering pediatrician Pietro takes a job as an orphanage health inspector to pay for the debts of his high-spending girlfriend Loletta, only to end up mistakenly engaged with Lilli, the daughter of a wealthy businessman, and pursued by lovestruck 18-year-old orphan Teresa Venerdì.
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La rivale (1956)
Character: Giuseppe
The love triangle between a Countess, a soldier and a younger woman.
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L'impiegato (1960)
Character: N/A
Nando is dissatisfied with his repetitive and mortifying work. He manages to escape from daily mediocrity only at night, when he enters his fantasy world.
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I misteri di Parigi (1957)
Character: Pipelet
Paris 1838, Prince Rodolphe vows on the deathbed of his friend Matilde to find Germain, the woman's son kidnapped by his father at birth. Disguised as a tramp, he wanders the city's slums encountering various characters who either help or hinder him.
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Il mago per forza (1951)
Character: N/A
In the prison of San Vittore there is, among other detainees, a strange type that they call "Il Cavaliere". The latter suffers a conviction for theft and his fellow prisoners have a certain respect for him.
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Beatrice Cenci (1941)
Character: Don Lorenzo
Italian historical drama portraying the story of the sixteenth century Italian noblewoman Beatrice Cenci.
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Le sei mogli di Barbablù (1950)
Character: Alvaro (uncredited)
Young swain Toto Esposito tries to abduct his beloved to marry her, but he makes a mistake: he kidnaps an ugly woman named Carmela, who loves him--and chases him when he escapes.
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Cameriera bella presenza offresi... (1951)
Character: Zio Matteo
Maria is a housmaid and she is being engaged to Berto for fifteen years. Berto has not a lasting job so he is waiting for the death of his uncle Matteo to come into an inheritance. In the meantime Maria goes on with her work, first in the house of an unfaithful wife; then for an actor and his wife on the verge of leaving each other and last for Raffaele who wants to marry her. At last uncle Matteo dies...
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Imputato, alzatevi! (1939)
Character: Il proprietario del tabarin 'Mariette'
Cipriano Duval is an Italian who has emigrated to Paris, where he works in a pediatric clinic as a nurse.
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Le avventure di Giacomo Casanova (1954)
Character: conte di Chatillon
1760 Spain provides the setting for Giacomo Casanova's romantic escapades, every woman he encounters unable to resist his disarming charm, be they single, engaged, or even married.
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Maddalena... zero in condotta (1940)
Character: Prof. Sila
A young woman teaches commercial writing and makes her students practice by writing letters addressed to an imaginary recipient from Vienna. One day, the love letter the woman writes to this non-existent man is accidentally sent by one of her students –and falls into the hands of a real person.
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Le cameriere (1959)
Character: brigadiere
Gabriella, a maid, wears a jewel at a dancing party which belongs to her mistress, and when it is stolen she is accused of the theft and sent to jail. Some other maids organize a search party for the real thief who seems to be a moustached youth who continually sings a popular song.
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Le Retour de Don Camillo (1953)
Character: Il cantoniere
Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.
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Mio figlio Nerone (1956)
Character: A Senior Senator
Nero is on holiday at the seaside. Poppea, Seneca and many other guests are with him. Nero is preparing a great show where he will be the star. When Agrippina, his mother, arrives with her German praetorians and decides Nero has to conquer Britain, she is asking for trouble. Many attempts of murder and poisoning will happen on the eve of his great show.
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Sette ore di guai (1951)
Character: Arturo
Totò is a tailor but not a great tailor. He is married and his son is to be baptized and Totò hopes that his grand-mother will be moved by the baptism, so moved to help him. Unfortunately his wet nurse Maria loses his son in the garden. Totò doesn't lose heart and rents Rita's daughter and leaves looking for his son. Many adventures are awaiting for him.
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La danza dei milioni (1940)
Character: N/A
A young man, despite his qualification, can not find work and, after several attempts, asks a classmate, who is secretary of the President of an important Hungarian bank, to make him have a desk in his room and to do so pass for an employee.
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Cuore (1948)
Character: Honorable Antonio Pestelli
A young student of an upper-class background who is surrounded by classmates that are of working-class backgrounds, after a novel in diary format by Enrico Bottini.
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