Acting
Franco Fantasia
Born March 5, 1924 · Rhodes, Italy [now Rhodes, Dodecanese, South Aegean, Greece]
Died November 10, 2002 · aged 78
No biography available.
Known For
Ben-Hur · 1959Ben-Hur
★ 7.91959
MovieHistoryDrama
In ancient Judea, a Jewish aristocrat opposing Roman occupation of his homeland reunites with his childhood friend, now a Roman commander — setting in motion a saga of betrayal, adventure, tragedy, revenge, and faith.
Street People · 1976Street People
★ 5.01976
MovieDramaAction
A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The lawyer also enlists the aid of his best friend, a grand prix driver with an adventurous streak.
Slave of the Cannibal God · 1978Slave of the Cannibal God
★ 5.21978
MovieAdventureHorror
A woman and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle.
Incontri proibiti · 1998Incontri proibiti
★ 5.11998
MovieDramaComedy
Armando Andreoli, a well-known engineer of almost 80 years, is approached by Federica, an assistant nurse who then invites him to his hotel room. In the morning, Federica's boyfriend arrives in the room, suspecting a relationship that has never existed.
El Cid · 1961El Cid
★ 6.91961
MovieActionDrama
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
Eaten Alive! · 1980Eaten Alive!
★ 5.21980
MovieAdventureHorror
A woman's search for her missing sister leads her to the jungles of New Guinea, where she and an expatriate guide encounter a cult leader and flesh-hungry natives.
Quo Vadis · 1951Quo Vadis
★ 7.11951
MovieDramaHistory
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Justine de Sade · 1972Justine de Sade
★ 4.31972
MovieDrama
Therese, a beautiful but naive young girl, who finds herself being passed around from depraved pervert to depraved pervert, enduring just about every kind of sexual degradation there is while still believing that some kind stranger will eventually help her.
Movies
Ben-Hur · 1959Ben-Hur
★ 7.91959
MovieHistoryDrama
In ancient Judea, a Jewish aristocrat opposing Roman occupation of his homeland reunites with his childhood friend, now a Roman commander — setting in motion a saga of betrayal, adventure, tragedy, revenge, and faith.
Street People · 1976Street People
★ 5.01976
MovieDramaAction
A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The lawyer also enlists the aid of his best friend, a grand prix driver with an adventurous streak.
Slave of the Cannibal God · 1978Slave of the Cannibal God
★ 5.21978
MovieAdventureHorror
A woman and her brother fly to New Guinea to look for a lost expedition, led by her husband, which has vanished in the great jungle.
Incontri proibiti · 1998Incontri proibiti
★ 5.11998
MovieDramaComedy
Armando Andreoli, a well-known engineer of almost 80 years, is approached by Federica, an assistant nurse who then invites him to his hotel room. In the morning, Federica's boyfriend arrives in the room, suspecting a relationship that has never existed.
El Cid · 1961El Cid
★ 6.91961
MovieActionDrama
Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without compromising his strict sense of honour, still succeeds in taking the initiative and driving the Moors from Spain.
Eaten Alive! · 1980Eaten Alive!
★ 5.21980
MovieAdventureHorror
A woman's search for her missing sister leads her to the jungles of New Guinea, where she and an expatriate guide encounter a cult leader and flesh-hungry natives.
Quo Vadis · 1951Quo Vadis
★ 7.11951
MovieDramaHistory
After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Justine de Sade · 1972Justine de Sade
★ 4.31972
MovieDrama
Therese, a beautiful but naive young girl, who finds herself being passed around from depraved pervert to depraved pervert, enduring just about every kind of sexual degradation there is while still believing that some kind stranger will eventually help her.
Waterloo · 1970Waterloo
★ 7.11970
MovieHistoryDrama
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
Lion of the Desert · 1981Lion of the Desert
★ 7.31981
MovieHistoryWar
Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces of Benito Mussolini highlights the struggle for Libyan independence and the harsh tactics utilised by the colonisers.
Zombie Flesh Eaters · 1979Zombie Flesh Eaters
★ 6.71979
MovieHorror
After an abandoned boat sails into New York harbor with a zombie aboard, a reporter teams up with the daughter of the boat's missing captain to investigate the island where he was last seen conducting research—the site of an alleged zombie outbreak.
Black Demons · 1991Black Demons
★ 4.11991
MovieHorror
Three American college students, Dick, his sister Jessica, and her British boyfriend Kevin, are traveling through Brazil on vacation when Dick, after attending a bizarre voodoo ceremony, develops strange powers. When their jeep breaks down near a small plantation in the jungle outside Rio, the site of a former slave rebellion 150 years ago, Dick uses his powers to raise the dead of six executed Negro slaves whom target the college kids and the residents of the plantation to seek revenge for their deaths
Liberté, égalité, choucroute · 1985Liberté, égalité, choucroute
★ 5.91985
MovieComedy
A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, where he decides to visit the Executionner equipment exhibition.
The Egyptian · 1954The Egyptian
★ 6.51954
MovieHistoryDrama
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.
Hands of Steel · 1986Hands of Steel
★ 5.31986
MovieActionScience Fiction
A story about a cyborg who is programmed to kill a scientist who holds the fate of mankind in his hands.
On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... · 1967On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...
★ 4.61967
MovieRomanceAdventure
A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.
Blood for a Silver Dollar · 1965Blood for a Silver Dollar
★ 6.71965
MovieWesternAction
Two brothers part company only to be reunited when one is hired to stop a thief who turns out to be his sibling.
Constantine and the Cross · 1961Constantine and the Cross
★ 5.31961
MovieAdventureDrama
Constantine is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way to Rome, he falls in an ambush planned by Maxence, who wants to become emperor.
From Hell to Victory · 1979From Hell to Victory
★ 6.31979
MovieWar
In 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same spot after the end of WW2.
Seven Blood-Stained Orchids · 1972Seven Blood-Stained Orchids
★ 6.21972
MovieHorrorMystery
A maniac on the loose is committing savage acts of slaughter, and one survivor may be the only key to unmasking the serial slayer known as the Half-Moon Killer. The mysterious half-moon lockets he leaves with his victims could be the only key to unraveling his sinister motives, but will that be enough before he completes his ice-cold plot to claim his intended seven victims?
Man from Deep River · 1972Man from Deep River
★ 5.61972
MovieAdventureHorror
A photographer in the rain forest is captured by wild natives, and after months of living with them, he marries the chief's daughter and helps protect the village from a vicious cannibal tribe.
Return of Sabata · 1971Return of Sabata
★ 5.91971
MovieWestern
Master gunslinger Sabata arrives in Hobsonville, a town completely owned by McIntock, a robber baron who is taxing the inhabitants for the cost of future improvements to the town. Or that's what McIntock says he'll do with the money...
Adiós, Sabata · 1970Adiós, Sabata
★ 6.31970
MovieWestern
Set in Mexico under the rule of Emperor Maximilian I, Sabata is hired by the guerrilla leader Señor Ocaño to steal a wagonload of gold from the Austrian army. However, when Sabata and his partners Escudo and Ballantine obtain the wagon, they find it is not full of gold but of sand, and that the gold was taken by Austrian Colonel Skimmel. So Sabata plans to steal back the gold.
Jeremiah · 1998Jeremiah
★ 6.81998
MovieAdventureDrama
The young Jeremiah grows up in a priest's family in the village of Anathoth, near Jerusalem. God appears to Jeremiah in different human guises on several occasions, and makes it clear that he has been selected to announce God's message to the people of Jerusalem.
TV Shows
The Odyssey · 1968The Odyssey
★ 8.91968
SeriesDrama
Odysseus' journey, told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka.
Marco Polo · 1982Marco Polo
★ 6.71982
SeriesDrama
The life of the 13th-century Venetian explorer who sought to connect the civilizations of China and Europe through trade.
Sandokan · 1976Sandokan
★ 7.11976
Series
In this mini-series in six parts from 1976 the Indian actor Kabir Bedi plays the lead role. Carol Andre plays Lady Marianna Guillonk and as Sandokans best friend Yanez de Gomera we see Phillipe Leroy. The noble prince Sandokan is a fighter of the first rank who are cruel to their enemies, but always loyal to his friends.