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Complete Filmography
L'incoronazione di Carlo Magno
1968
as Il primicerio Pasquale

The Trojan Women
1967
as Poseidone
In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the classical Italian translation by Enzio Cetrangolo...

L'Attaque de Fort Adams (Une aventure de Buffalo Bill)
1965

Revenge of The Gladiators
1964
as Valentiniano III
The mighty Gladiator is captured after freeing the misguided emperor's daughter. The girl surrenders herself for his freedom but is again freed by the...

Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West
1964
as Colonel Peterson
Colonel William Cody, alias Buffalo Bill, intends to put an end to the dishonest relations between a gang of white swindlers and the Indian, Yellow Ha...

Hero of Rome
1964
as Porsenna
In ancient Rome, the people finally oust their despised king, Tarquinius, and declare the city a republic. Tarquinius makes an alliance with the Etrus...

Hercules Against the Barbarians
1964
as Genghis Khan
The eternal Hercules in this film has gone way beyond his usual time and place in ancient Greece and is now helping Poland free itself of Mongol invad...

Avenger of the Seven Seas
1962
as Redway
It's 1790 and British Naval Commander Redway is driven by greed for money and will stop at nothing to get it. His second in command, David Robinson, q...

The Count of Monte Cristo
1961
as Morrel
Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, ...

The Giant of Metropolis
1961
as King Yotar
Obro the muscleman goes to Atlantis and sinks a death-ray king who knows the secret of immortality.

The Mongols
1961
as Genghis Khan
During the Mongol invasion of Poland, a conflict between Mongol Emperor Genghis Khan and his oldest son Ogotai ensues when the former aims for peace a...

The Seven Revenges
1961
as Grande Khan
The leaders of Circassians and Kyrgyz face off in a tournament divided into seven challenges: only one will gain the supremacy.

Lui, lei e il nonno
1959
as John

The Case of Poisons
1955
as Lesage
Madame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set eyes on a younger beauty, Marie-Angélique Scorailles...

Il vetturale del Moncenisio
1954
as Jean Claude Thibaud
During the first Napoleonic expedition into Italy, Thibaud is seriously injured before being caught up in a mystery involving his wife, her rightful i...

The Queen of Babylon
1954
as Assur
In this Biblical epic, a brave Chaldean rebel takes on his evil nemesis, a cruel Assyrian king. En route to his fateful meeting, the rebel hides in th...

House of Ricordi
1954
as Domenico Barbaja
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other histo...

The Contessa's Secret
1954
as Orsini
The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life.

Crossed Swords
1954
as Pavoncello
Nobleman Rainiero, Sidonia's duke son, comes back home with his friend Renzo. Soon after arrival, Renzo will get in a big trouble and he will be force...

La campana di San Giusto
1954
as Stella
The adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One.

Koenigsmark
1953
as Le grand-duc Frédéric de Lautenburg
A young French, Vignerte, is hired in the court of Lautenberg, an imaginary land, as the young Prince's private teacher and as the Grand Duchess' read...

Times Gone By
1952
as Antonio Serra
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.

Il segreto delle tre punte
1952
as duca di Melia

Wolves Hunt at Night
1952
as Miguel
A secret agent is summoned by the head of a counter espionage organization, to Trieste where he is to unmask a potential enemy operating in Venice.

Duel Without Honor
1950
Bianca, a rich heiress, being an orphan, lives in her palace with her guardian uncle and cousin Olga.

Sicilian Uprising
1949
as Giovanni Da Procida
Sicilian Uprising or Sicilian Vespers is a 1949 Italian historical drama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Marina Berti, Clara Calamai and...
The Za-Bum Circus
1949
as (segments "Contatto telefonici", "Gelosia", ...)
Anthology comedy/romance film

Altura
1949
as Efisio Barra

L'uomo dal guanto grigio
1948
A famous painting by Antonello da Messina, "the man with a gray glove", has been entrusted to an old restorer. When, subsequently, the painting is wit...

Cab Number 13
1948
To secure her fortune with Monsieur Vaudieu de la Tour, the Machiavellian Claudia kills her lover's elder brother and steals his child. The boy is ado...

Lovers Without Love
1948
as Piero Leonardi
This flashback heavy melodrama is a loose adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata named after the Beethoven piece. The story concerns...
Giudicatemi!
1948
as Giorgio Cantori

The White Devil
1947
In the Caucasus a rebel fighter battles against the rule of an oppressive Russian Governor, although he is in real life a prince who pretends to be a ...

Flesh Will Surrender
1947
as Giulio Wanzer
Giovanni used to be a humble, mild-mannered government clerk whose life was turned upside down when he met Giulio, a notorious forger who at once set ...
Pian delle stelle
1946
as Commander Wolf
Italian fugitives from German war camps unite to form "Lupo", a partisan brigade which uses their knowledge of the countryside to wage their own perso...

The Adulteress
1946
as Tarquinio

The Testimony
1946
as Pietro Scotti
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...

Umanità
1946
as Antonio
The meritorious assistance of a US institution, towards the inhabitants of a refugee camp, in the Italian post-war period, among the protagonists a do...

La freccia nel fianco
1945
as Luigi Barbano
Started in the summer of 1943 by Lattuada and , the because of the war that raged in Italy at the time, the shooting was interrupted several times onl...
Vivere ancora
1945

The Gate of Heaven
1945
as Giovanni Brandacci, the pianist
Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our Lad...

Il cappello da prete
1944
as Baron Carlo di Santafusca
The baron of Santafusca, descended from a noble family, leads a dissipated life. To pay debts he is forced to sell his house. He tries to steal from t...

Addio, amore!
1943
as Cesare Dias
Naples, 1880. Two young sisters from a noble family, after losing their parents, get taken in by a friend of their family.

Jealousy
1942
as Marchese Antonio di Roccaverdina
A film based on the book Il marchese di Roccaverdina by Luigi Capuana about a marquis who is in love with his servant Agrippina but is unable to marry...

Jealousy
1942
Screenplay
A film based on the book Il marchese di Roccaverdina by Luigi Capuana about a marquis who is in love with his servant Agrippina but is unable to marry...