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Sinfonia fatale (1947)
Character: Sacerdote
An American composer moves to Italy and falls for a local country girl right before the start of World War II.
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Le due tigri (1941)
Character: Sujodana
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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Pietà per chi cade (1954)
Character: avvocato dell'accusa
Carlo Savelli, gone missing after the war, returns to Italia after many years. His wife Anna, believing him dead, has established a romance with Andrea, and in order to keep him happy, she follows him to Venice.
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Ha da venì... don Calogero! (1952)
Character: Disoccupato
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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Ripudiata (1955)
Character: N/A
A young countess is wrongly accused of adultery and shunned by her husband. She leaves and becomes a successful opera singer and when war comes returns to face her accusers, see her son and clear her name.
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Canzone appassionata (1953)
Character: Lorenzo Parodi
Lucia Spinelli, orphaned by both parents, is taken as a housekeeper in the house of Mrs. Carla Parodi, when she reaches the age of majority, the young woman is almost forced to marry Mrs. Carla's brother. After the marriage and the birth of the first child, Parodi's intrusions on the life of the two spouses continue.
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Capitan Fantasma (1953)
Character: N/A
A disgraced member of the Spanish Navy must redeem his family's honor after his father betrays his country to the French.
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Ercole e la regina di Lidia (1959)
Character: Oedipus - King of Thebes
En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger.
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Luce nelle tenebre (1941)
Character: Il direttore della profumeria
Alberto Serrani, a mining engineer, meets doctor's daughter Marina, sweet and simple, and the notorious and frivolous Clara who falls for him immediately.
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Non me lo dire! (1940)
Character: Il proprietario del negozio
Italy, early 1940s. A rich and noble man, returning from America, has the unpleasant surprise of being dirt poor. Its magnificent castle is impounded and he agrees to become the guide allowed visitors to admire.
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Caterina Sforza, la leonessa di Romagna (1959)
Character: Tommaso Feo
Giovanni Medici, the future leader of the Black Bands, has a last meeting in a convent with his dying mother Caterina Sforza, listening to the re-enactment of her life.
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La Gorgona (1942)
Character: Pietro Moricone - vescovo
1017 AD. The Republic of Pisa is organizing a fleet to drive out the Saracens who are infesting the Mediterranean. While the forces are away "The Gorgon," the young daughter of a Pisan nobleman who has been heroically killed, comes to be solemnly invested as the figurehead virgin who will maintain a lantern to celebrate the men's victorious return. In charge of the home guard is an ambitious young Florentine who feels deprived of the forthcoming honour and glory, and who seeks revenge by violating the sacred person of the virgin. He gains access to her well guarded quarters, but when the Gorgon falls helplessly in love with him, his desire for vengeance falls away. His plot exposed, he commits suicide rather than invoke the wrath of the Pisans. The Gorgon too takes her life by throwing herself from a high tower. Meanwhile, the victorious Pisan vessels return.
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La fornarina (1944)
Character: Cardinal Bibbiena
During Italian renaissance, young painter Raffaello Sanzio falls in love with Margherita, a maiden of the people, becomes her lover and lives with her. But this relationship arouses the jealousy of a beautiful aristocrat who secretly orders the kidnapping of the girl. Raffaello falls into a state of prostration and does everything he can to find Margherita...
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L'inafferrabile 12 (1950)
Character: N/A
Two twin brothers grew up and never met (due to the fact that the father with the couple would have had 13 children and therefore for superstition he closed one in an orphanage), the one goalkeeper of Juventus and the other employee at the state lottery.
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Gli amori di Ercole (1960)
Character: Eurysteus
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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Canzone d'amore (1954)
Character: N/A
An aspiring singer is torn between the love for a devious ex-flame, the affection of a simple girl and the loyalty to his paralyzed best friend.
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Ai margini della metropoli (1953)
Character: N/A
Based on real events, in Rome a lawyer is not sure whether to accept defending a lower-class worker wrongly accused of the murder of his girlfriend.
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Il re si diverte (1941)
Character: Sgt. Roland
Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful daughter falls in love with the lecherous king.
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L'avventuriera del piano di sopra (1941)
Character: Fioraio
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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Dopo divorzieremo (1940)
Character: Un cliente al night club
Grace Peterson works in department stores "Tutto per Tutti", along with many other young people. His employment contract entitling them to live in a boarding house built specifically for them by the company but on the other hand, forbid them not fall in love or marry under threat of dismissal. Still, Grace falls for Phil Golder, a violinist penniless. The director of the residence will notice and the best friend of the girl impersonate violinist girlfriend to try to save Grace dismissal.
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Siluri umani (1954)
Character: Ammiraglio a Roma
A team of highly trained Italian seamen are taken to the island of Stampalia where there are to take their torpedo-laden attack craft on a daring attack on the port of Suda.
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Letto a tre piazze (1960)
Character: Don Ignazio
Antonio married Amalia and went to fight in Russia during World War II. Since he didn't return Amalia thought he was dead, so she married another man. Many year after the war end, Antonio returned. Amalia has to choose between two husbands.
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I tartassati (1959)
Character: N/A
Mr. Pezzella owns and operates a well-established luxury-clothing store. He does not like and does not consider it right to pay taxes and therefore uses a tax consultant to be able to evade more taxes.
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A noi piace freddo...!! (1960)
Character: Ufficiale tedesco
A farcical account of the happenings in Rome in 1943 when the allied army and the partisans fight the nazis.
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Les Amants de Villa Borghese (1953)
Character: The local manager (segment: Concorso di bellezza) (uncredited)
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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Giulio Cesare il conquistatore delle Gallie (1962)
Character: Caius Opio
In 54 B.C. Julius Caesar seeks to solidify his position in Rome by putting down a rebellion in Gaul led by a tribal chieftain named Vercingetorix. Vercingetorix has rallied many tribes to his cause, including one led by the beautiful Queen Asterid and others who'd once pledged allegiance to Rome.
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La vendetta dei barbari (1960)
Character: Alaric
408 AD. The Visigoths led by Alaric invade northern Italy. At Ravenna, they have to battle, and they are stopped by the power of the Roman legions and the cunning of the emperor's sister, Galla Placidia. As the Goths lose many warriors in the cruel battle, Alaric vows bloody revenge.
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L'assedio di Siracusa (1960)
Character: Padre di Archimede (uncredited)
Syracuse lies between the warring nations of Rome and Carthage; as long as the balance of power between the nations remains intact, both nations are willing to preserve the neutrality of Syracuse. However, Rome has now gotten the upper hand in its struggle for power. The fate of Syracuse lies in the hands of its leader, the famed inventor and scientist Archimedes.
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Il testimone (1946)
Character: Il padrone dell' osteria
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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La prigioniera della torre di fuoco (1953)
Character: Lorenzo Pepli
Italy, 15th century: Marco and Cesco, two youths from rival families are friends but become enemies when they both fall in love with the same girl, Germana, who is kept prisoner by Cesco's family in a tower. Germana is however in love with Marco and Cesco, feeling betrayed, has Marco imprisoned. During a battle Marco proves however his loyalty to his friend, who falls unfortunately deadly wounded.
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Camicie rosse (1952)
Character: Il Generale Oudinot
The story of Giuseppe Garibaldi's 1849 campaign to free Italy from Austrian domination.
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Il trionfo di Maciste (1961)
Character: Agadon
The evil Queen Tenefi demands that a steady supply of young women be sacrificed to the God of Fire. Maciste intervenes and saves from this sacrifice a village's women including the beautiful Antea. Maciste then becomes involved in an effort to restore to the throne of Memphis its rightful ruler, Prince Iram.
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Amori e veleni (1950)
Character: Principe Spada
Christina of Sweden, in exile in Rome, takes a handsome Italian officer as her lover. But he is in love with the very young wife of an elderly count. After many adventures, duels, settling of old scores, the officer and the countess get married. Former Queen Christina finds herself another captain of the guard.
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La rivale (1956)
Character: Medico
The love triangle between a Countess, a soldier and a younger woman.
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La Gerusalemme liberata (1957)
Character: Aladino
The Mighty Crusaders (Italian: La Gerusalemme liberata) is a 1957 film about the First Crusade, based on the 16th-century Italian poem Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso. This film was directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia.
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Fifa e arena (1948)
Character: Un torero
In Napoli, Nicolino Capece, a truthful pharmacist clerk becomes erroneously recognized as a dangerous Spanish criminal and decides to escape to Spain. In Siviglia, he is blackmailed by the bandit Cast who wants him to marry the rich Patricia Cotten and then kill her. So Nicolino play the bull fighter and heads to the arena....
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Cartagine in fiamme (1960)
Character: Assian
Historical drama depicting the last of the Punic Wars between the Roman Republic and Carthage.
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Noi peccatori (1953)
Character: L'ingegnere Viscardi (uncredited)
A man and a woman love each other, but they can’t marry because he’s ashamed of his unjustly incarcerated mother. What’s more, he loses his eyesight in an accident.
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I moschettieri del mare (1962)
Character: Padre Milita
Three pirates are saved from a shipwreck and seize a galleon bound for Maracaibo, where they will save the governor from a conspiracy. Italian adventure movie directed by Steno.
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Anna perdonami (1953)
Character: N/A
After years of imprisonment in the U.S., an Italian man comes back to Rome to live with his sister.
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La Regina di Saba (1952)
Character: Sadock
The Queen of Sheba falls in love with the King of Israel. The King of Israel, however, is in love with someone else.
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Orlando e i Paladini di Francia (1956)
Character: Agramante
In this sword-and-sandal saga set on the steppes of Asia, Roland, leader of the Paladin troops, who must proves his mettle against the dreaded Saracen invaders, and withstand their evil plots
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