Biography
Venantino Venantini (17 April 1930 – 9 October 2018) was an Italian film actor. He was the father of Victoria Venantini and Luca Venantini and appeared in more than 140 films between 1954 and 2018. He made his debut in the cinema with an appearance in Un giorno in pretura under the direction of Steno and he had his first important role in Odissea Nuda (1961), directed by Franco Rossi. Among the almost 150 films he performed in, some became cult favorites such as Les Tontons flingueurs, Amore li...
Known For
Complete Filmography

All You Ever Wished For
2018
as Old Gypsy
A young New York fashion executive's trip to Milan takes a bad turn when he is kidnapped and whisked off to an Alpine village to be held for ransom mo...

Vive la crise !
2017
as Luigi Pirandello
In a futuristic France, computers decide the fate of the unemployed and the homeless.

Marseille
2016
as Giovanni
Faced with the insistence of his brother Joseph, whom he has not seen for 25 years, Paolo resolves to give up his calm and harmonious life in Canada, ...

The Very Private Life of Mister Sim
2015
as Monsieur Matteotti
Mister Sim is of no concern whatsoever. At least, this is what he thinks about himself. His wife has left him, his job has left him, and when goes to ...

Un + une
2015
as Henri
A successful film composer falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet.

Michel Audiard : J'parle pas aux cons, ça les instruit
2015
as Self

Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant
2015
as Self

Phantasmagoria
2014
as GrandPa (segment "My Gift to You")
Three shocking tales of horror that will get you beyond fear. From the mind of the filmmaker Domiziano Cristopharo (House of Flesh Mannequins, Bloody ...

P.O.E. Pieces of Eldritch (P.O.E. 3)
2014
In this award-winning anthology, several international directors take on the most macabre stories of all, from the master of horror, Edgar Allen Poe.

Hyde's Secret Nightmare
2012
An erotic horror movie dedicated to Joe D Amato, Hyde's Secret Nightmare combines the two genres and mixes them in equal parts. Cross-cut erotic and h...

Bloody Sin: Abonimations of the Third Reich
2011
A team of researchers investigates a European castle that was used for sadistic tortures during the inquisition, as well as horrifying and abominable ...

The Museum Of Wonders
2010
as Master of Ceremonies
When the beautiful dancer Salome learns that the dwarf circus owner Marcel has just received an inheritance, she marries the lovesick, diminutive perf...

22 Bullets
2010
as Padovano
A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.

À deux c'est plus facile
2009
In order not to be thrown from his big Parisian apartment by his sister, the idiosyncratic pensioner Joseph takes the 20-year-old farmer's daughter Ma...

School's Out
2008
as Marcello, in love with Adèle
A few days before the baccalaureate, a high school student decides to settle accounts with the most cowardly teacher in the school.

I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
2008
as Joe
Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they migh...

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1
2008
as Self
This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answ...

The Hideout
2007
as Installatore telefonico
A mystery-thriller about an Italian woman who moves to Davenport to open a restaurant. After her husband commits suicide, she spends fifteen years rec...

Could This Be Love?
2007
as Della Ponte
Lucas, a wealthy, 43 year-old divorced businessman, is irresistibly attracted to Elsa, a 38 year old renowned sculptor from whom he has commissioned a...

Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour
2006
as Le Tailleur
Jeanne Poisson, the headstrong, ambitious, witty and erudite, catches the eye and heart of French King Louis XV at a costumed ball. She masters the ar...

The Return of James Battle
2004
as Matt Kelso
James Bataille is in love. He attempts to stage an elaborate motorcycle stunt to impress the girl, but when it goes sour, he ends up in prison with a ...

Ho visto le stelle
2003
as Duilio Masera
The young Antonio wants to participate in a reality show and leaves Naples for Milan with his best friend Eugenio.

Fallait pas buter mémé!
2003
On one side, the last representatives of a gangster family. On the other side, Choubert, the new pope of high tech grocery. They have decided to elimi...

Toni
1999
as Minelli
Toni is a mob movie combined with an urban love story and reflections about one's roots. The protagonist, Toni, is a young man from a small village in...

The Dinner
1998
An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in -- large and small, young an...

Le faremo tanto male
1998
as Pietro
Two brothers kidnap a has-been actress who makes a living doing TV commercials for a fur-clothing company and demands that all animals be freed and bu...

L'amico di Wang
1997
as Ezio
Paolo invites his American friend Sam to Rome with the promise of a film to direct, but it takes a lot of money to make it, and they plan to steal a M...

The Eighteenth Angel
1997
as Clockmaker
Mythology and religious dogma are slowly revealed when an attractive young woman is approached by a modeling agency that pulls her into an underworld ...

Giovani e belli
1996
as Buby
Luca, a young man from a rich family, travels to Rome. Here he encounters Gino, who makes a living with petty theft.

Fair Game
1994
as Claudio
It is 1970, there is World Cup and General Election fever. Marco, a wealthy Italian has come to England to discover his true identity. Carl, a student...

Test of Memory
1993
Fifteen years after being the cause of an alleged love suicide there, writer Paul Herzog returns to Prague where he meets Clarissa, the sister of the ...

Crazy Underwear
1992
as Alessia's father
Alessia, a TV showgirl, tries to win the favor of an official. Amalia, a morning show host, satisfies the masochistic director in order to go to prime...

The King's Whore
1990
as Luis De Arragon
Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire co...

Death Has A Bad Reputation
1990
as Umberto Aidoni
A British agent is chasing after famous terrorist Carlos when he resurfaces in Europe.

Vanille fraise
1989
as Anselmo
Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner.

Madame, nuda è arrivata la straniera
1989
as Fisher
In order to correct inaccuracies that appeared after her tragic experience in New York, fashion designer Madame Fisher tells her life story to a journ...

Love & Passion
1987
as Alfredo
After the renewed flings with their former lovers prove to be disastrously unlike the romantic memories, an unfaithful couple returns to each other.

Aladdin
1986
as Puncher
A teenager in modern-day Miami finds a magic lantern and out pops a genie, who's been asleep for 200 years and in his gratitude grants the boy several...

The Repenter
1985
A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But ...

The Lion's Share
1985
An Italian cop returns to his birthplace of South Africa to investigate his father's death

The Adventures of Hercules
1985
as High Priest
Hercules searches for the Seven Thunderbolts of Zeus, which have been stolen by renegade gods.

The Erotic Dreams of Cleopatra
1985
as Dolabella
Caesar brings the Egyptian queen Cleopatra to Rome, but their intense passion for each other has started to cool. As others prepare seek to bring abou...

Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
1985
The true story of Bill Johnson, the first US men's skiing gold medal winner, whose Olympics dreams were threatened by his rebellious attitude.

The Assisi Underground
1985
as Pietro
This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.

Liberté, égalité, choucroute
1985
as Un sans-culotte
A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, where he decides to visit the Executionner equipmen...

Ladyhawke
1985
as Bishop's Secretary
Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his...

Final Justice
1984
as Palermo
Due to his violent past, Deputy Sheriff Thomas Jefferson Geronimo III has been transferred to a rural outpost. When two thugs kill the sheriff, Geroni...

Windsurf - Il vento nelle mani
1984
as Walter
A romantic comedy about teen surfers.

My Other Husband
1983
as Nino
A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.

Exterminators of the Year 3000
1983
as John
It's the year 3000 and a nuclear war has turned the earth into a desert wasteland. A group of survivors living in a cave run out of water and desperat...

Emanuelle's Perverse Outburst
1983
as Giorgio Rivetti (archive footage) (uncredited)
Investigative journalist Emanuelle breaks into a home to find a microfilm, which leads her to an "international expedition" in Hong Kong. This film wa...

The New Barbarians
1983
as Father Moses
Two mercenaries help wandering caravans fight off an evil and aimless band of white-clad bikers after the nuclear holocaust.

God Makes and Then Pairs Them Up
1982
as Occhipinti, il proprietario della discoteca
At carnival, a girl disguised as a devil seduces the parish priest of a village. She becomes pregnant, but the priest can not support his intention to...

Sesso e volentieri
1982
as l'uomo al cinema che adesca la donna procace (episodio L'avventura)
Ten segments, all starring Johnny Dorelli and all having sex and sexual perversions as main theme.

Giggi il bullo
1982
as Don Salvatore
Giggi is a city boy convinced that "in life you must always hit first". And, good or bad, he gains a certain popularity between beatings, dates and bl...

Cannibal Ferox
1981
as Sgt. Ross
Three friends out to disprove cannibalism meet two men on the run who tortured and enslaved a cannibal tribe to find emeralds, and now the tribe is ou...

Longshot
1981
as Henri Bresson
When one of the foosball team members is injured, a 14-year-old girl takes the champion's place.

City of the Living Dead
1980
as Mr. Ross
A woman seemingly dies of fright after participating in a séance where she sees a vision of a Dunwich priest hanging himself in a church cemetery. New...

Contraband
1980
as Captain Tarantino
Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler.

Cannibal Apocalypse
1980
as Lieutenant Hill
Released from captivity in Vietnam, two American Army officers return to civilian life and discover they have acquired an insatiable taste for human f...

Beast in Space
1980
as Juan Cardoso
In the future the struggle for space superiority has forced humanity to search the cosmos for a rare element called Antallum that is the key ingredien...

Flatfoot in Egypt
1980
as Ruotolo
Inspector Rizzo and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing.

The Terrace
1980
as un'ospite
Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-together. They discuss about their past, present and future.

Flying Sex
1980
as Mr. Murphy
An ice queen takes a plane ride and discovers that flying is her g-spot, or least the gateway to sexual inhibition.

Terror Express
1980
as Mike
Three thugs commandeer a couple of cars on a moving train and spread terror among the passengers.

Sesso profondo
1980
as istruttore capo Martin Murphy

Riavanti… Marsch!
1979
as Sergeant Sconocchia
Five forty-year-old boys, who had been soldiers together, find themselves, once again in uniform, for a forty-day update period, during which they sho...

Hot Dogs On Ibiza
1979
as Norbert
Bored with life in Paris, Christian takes off for a once-in-a-lifetime trip to sunny Ibiza. Once there he is rejuvenated by the beautiful bronzed topl...

Three Under the Sheets
1979
Film in three episodes, entitled Sabato mattina, L'omaggio and No, non è per gelosia, which see as protagonists Andrea, Giorgio and Mr. Sgarbozzi, mar...

Gardenia
1979
as Nocita
A businessman comes into conflict with a gangster when he refuses to allow drugs to be sold through his restaurant.

From Corleone to Brooklyn
1979
as Commissario Danova
Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the line to transport a witness from Corleone to New York Ci...

The Humanoid
1979
Hoping to overthrow his brother as ruler of the planet Metropolis, the evil Graal enlists the help of the insane Dr. Kraspin, who has invented a chemi...

Cop or Hood
1979
as Mario, shot of 'L'Auvergnat'
When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situatio...

Concorde Affair
1979
as Forsythe
A reporter tries to stop the crash of an aircraft after uncovering an airline's plot to save their business by sabotaging Concorde flights and have th...

First Love
1978
as Emilio
Ugo is an old actor who feels too young to be in an "old actor's house". He just can't stand the rules of the other old people so he escapes with a yo...

La Cage aux Folles
1978
as Le chauffeur de Charrier
Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conce...

The War of the Robots
1978
as Paul
An alien civilization, which facing eminent extinction, kidnaps two famous genetic scientists from Earth. A troop of soldiers is dispatched to combat ...

Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade
1978
as Giorgio Rivetti
Emanuelle returns to Kenya, trying to get an interview with a foreign gangster who's taken refuge in the African countryside while still operating an ...

The Biggest Battle
1978
as Michael
A story of how World War II affected the lives of a German family and an American family, both of whom had sons and fathers fighting in the war.

The Rip-Off
1977
as The Frenchman
Crime Comedy starring Walter Chiari, Maurizio Arena and Ettore Manni. Directed by Luciano Ercoli in 1977, but shelved when producer Niccolo De Nora wa...

L'altra metà del cielo
1977
as Mr. Rickie
Don Vincenzo, a priest sent to a mining village in Australia, seeks to redeem the Sicilian Susanna.

Rene the Cane
1977
as Carlo
"René la Canne" was the second collaboration between Francis Girod and Ennio Morricone, coming after "Le Trio Infernal" (1974) and before "La Banquièr...

Nine Guests for a Crime
1977
as Walter
Nine members of an extremely rich and hateful family have decided to have a reunion on a remote island in the Mediterranean. No sooner than their arri...

Young, Violent, Dangerous
1976
as Sign. Morandi
Paul, Joe and Louie are three young men from good families who decide to go on a bloodthirsty and pointless crime spree, much to the dismay of paul’s ...

C'è una spia nel mio letto
1976
as Roger, capo della CIA

Emanuelle in Bangkok
1976
as David
A reporter travels the world's hot spots, looking for lurid stories that usually involve her sexual participation in gaining those behind-the-scenes e...

The Kisser
1976
as Giusy
Raffaele is a man who decides to change his life: he manages to get noticed by a beautiful girl.

Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman
1975
as The Polo Player
Emmanuelle returns to her husband in Hong Kong and proceeds to have several extramarital affairs -- with his knowledge, of course. Her husband's lover...

Black Emanuelle
1975
as William Meredith
Internationally-renowned photographer Mae Jordan, professionally known as 'Emanuelle', is hired by a wealthy British expat to go to Nairobi to shoot t...

Sex Diary
1975
as amico di Luca
The Don Juan of a small provincial town saves from suicide a young American girl who falls in love with him. The citizens, after having discovered tha...

Heat in the Suburbs
1975
as Santuzzo
Ciccio Zannone, a insignificant little man, but who is very successful with women, wants to join the "family" of Don Calogero Lentini, the mafia "boss...

Free Love
1974
as Chavad
An engineer named Francesco arrives on Emerald Island in the Seychelles and is instantly smitten with the local girl Jeanine, whose sister ran off wit...

The Fuhrer Runs Amok
1974
as Valet italien
France and Germany are at war. Adolf Hitler challenges the Allies to seal the fate of the war by playing a football match.

The Magnificent Dare Devil
1973
as Piero Albertini
A race-car driver must elude the police and two rival criminal organizations as he tries to locate a suitcase full of heroin and absolve himself of mu...

A Way of Being a Woman
1973
as Simone
Italian drama

The Police Serve the Citizens?
1973
as Mancinelli
In Genoa, the Commissioner Sironi has identified the leader of the ferocious racket that controls the port activities. But the law restrains his actio...

Number One
1973
as a
This raw Italian political melodrama investigates the underbelly of Rome in the early '70s, exposing drugs, crime, and sexual scandals.

Profession: Adventurers
1973
as Pablo
Henry, a rich Londoner bored, shipwrecked in the Atlantic and ends up in San Francisco. The adventure has just begun. From the novel "Naufrage en eaux...

Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eyes
1973
as Father Robertson
In a small Scottish village, horribly murdered bodies keep turning up. Suspicion falls upon the residents of a nearby castle that is haunted by a curs...

Lady Dynamite
1973
Donna Costanza is married to a New Jersey mafia boss. During their 10 year wedding anniversary party he is shot and killed. His dying words to her are...

Master of Love
1972
as Soldier from Sicily
The wise and experienced maestro in the arts of love imparting his knowledge and techniques to a younger man before he dies.

The Beguines
1972
as Max
Hélène, a fragile and romantic teenager, discovers that her father, a rich business man, has a mistress. Curious, she decides to go and meet this woma...

The Red Headed Corpse
1972
as Mr. Gonzales
An alcoholic artist, who may in fact have been driven to murder, seeks inspiration from a mannequin.

There Once Was a Cop
1972
as Felice, killer
Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the id...

Delusions of Grandeur
1971
as Marquis del Basto
Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the pe...

Conquest
1971
as Pedro de Valdivia
La Araucana is a Chilean film based on an epic poem in Spanish about the Spanish conquest of Chile, by Alonso de Ercilla; it is also known in English ...

Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot?
1971
as Commissioner
Roger Blanchard has a busy life. On the family side, he is married and has two children, aged ten and fifteen. On the work side, he holds an important...

Troubleshooters
1971
as Tosca
The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the ...
Macédoine
1971
as Brian Goffy
The tale of a young pretty girl's rise to a top model and her finding of emptiness in her life after success.

Per amore o per forza
1971
as Jane's father

The Priest's Wife
1970
as Maurizio
After discovering her boyfriend is married, a young woman attempts suicide but survives and falls for the priest who took her call, leading to complic...

Quella chiara notte d'ottobre
1970
as Killer
A unhappily married woman tries to find happiness with a former lover, but when they witnesses crime, it leads them down a path of self-destruction

The War Devils
1969
as Heinrich Meinike
A German Captain and an American Captain help each other survive the North African desert during WWII. They meet again a year later during combat oper...

Playgirl 70
1969
Italian comedy.

Erotissimo
1969
as Sylvio
Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner and general manager of a dynamic company. Under the de...

Hate Is My God
1969
as Sweetley
A young man returns to his village, and with the help of a black-clad stranger, seeks revenge for the murder of his brother against three men who are ...

The Libertine
1968
as Aurelio
A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own s...

Emma Hamilton
1968
as Prince Carraciola
In the second half of the 18th century, the young shepherdess Emma accidentally catches the eye of the English painter George Romney. She becomes his ...

Anzio
1968
as Capt. Burns
American troops land unopposed on Italian beaches during World War II, but instead of pushing on to Rome, they dig in and the Germans fight back feroc...

Love in the Night
1968
as Bollert
Bourgoin uses Philippe to attract customers from another establishment to the nightclub he wants to open in Pigalle.

The Killer Likes Candy
1968
as Costa
Shrewd and evasive ex-Nazi and top assassin Oscar Snell is determined to rub out the King of Kafiristan. Snell's sole weakness is his sweet tooth; he ...

Bandidos
1967
as Billy Kane
Renowned gunman Richard Martin is traveling on a train, held up by Billy Kane, a former student of Martin's. Kane spares Martin, but only after shooti...

The Big Grasshopper
1967
as Vladimir
While he is trying to escape from a hit man, Carl is setting up a kidnapping in Beirut. He gets lost on his way, falling in love with Salène, a.k.a. "...

The Restaurant
1966
as Henrique, chef de la sécurité du président Novalès
A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.

Balearic Caper
1966
as Giuliano
A scepter is stolen, and it's hunted for by various groups of international robbers and spies, for various reasons - in a parody of 007 movies.

Galia
1966
as Greg
Newly arrived in Paris, Galia lives in a small apartment near Notre-Dame cathedral. One evening, whilst walking along the banks of the River Seine, sh...

The Agony and the Ecstasy
1965
as Paride de Grassis
During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes ...

The Agony and the Ecstasy
1965
as Paris De Grassis
During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes ...

The Sucker
1965
as Mickey, 'le bègue'
In this Franco-Italian gangster parody, a shopkeeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash that totals his car. The culprit can only compen...

La Celestina P… R…
1965
as Carlo

Fantasmagorie
1964
as The vampire
In 1743, in the French countryside, a strange epidemic deserted the region. 200 years later, a young woman wakes curiously languid after a restless ni...

Dandelions by the Roots
1964
as Pierre Michon, theater actor
Jockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the gangster's knife attack backstage at a theatre an...

Un momento muy largo
1964
as Andrea Masi
The romance between a nuclear physicist and a translator for the United Nations.

Crooks in Clover
1963
as Pascal
An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo k...

Warriors Five
1962
as Alberto
World War II Italy...1943. After parachuting behind enemy lines on an espionage mission, an American soldier is imprisoned by the enemy. He escapes wi...

Escapade in Florence
1962
as Lorenzo
American students, Tommy and Annette, find themselves in a heap of trouble when they accidentally discover an art forgery ring in Florence, Italy.

Pastasciutta nel deserto
1961
as Malapaga

Odissea nuda
1961
as Film director
A director arrives in Tahiti to make a film, but soon he lets himself be captured by the exotic charm of the local places and beauties. with E. Salern...

No Sun in Venice
1957
Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very rich but undesirable fellow named Eric vo...

A Day in Court
1954
A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.