Acting

Fausto Tozzi

Born October 29, 1921 · Roma, Italy

Died December 10, 1978 · aged 57

Fausto TozziFausto Tozzi (29 October 1921 – 10 December 1978) was an Italian film actor and screenwriter. He appeared in 70 films between 1951 and 1978. He wrote the script for The Defeated Victor, which was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. He also directed one film, Trastevere. Born in Rome, after graduating in accountancy Tozzi made several humble jobs, including peddler…

Known For

El Cid

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.

The Black Stallion

The Black Stallion · 1979

The Black Stallion

MovieFamilyAdventure

While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the horse to race against the fastest ones in the world.

The Agony and the Ecstasy

The Agony and the Ecstasy · 1965

The Agony and the Ecstasy

MovieDramaHistory

During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.

The Odyssey

The Odyssey · 1969

MovieAdventureDrama

After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Ithaca. [Theatrical version of the 1968 mini-series.]

Street People

Street People · 1976

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.

Commando

Commando · 1962

A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.

Scheherazade

Scheherazade · 1963

MovieDramaAdventure

Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy Land. When the Sultan's underling saves her from certain death, she falls madly in love with her hero.

The Wonders of Aladdin

The Wonders of Aladdin · 1961

The Wonders of Aladdin

MovieAdventureFantasy

Young Aladdin has a series of wild adventures after he discovers a magic lamp containing a genie.

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El Cid

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.

Dolfos

The Black Stallion

The Black Stallion · 1979

The Black Stallion

MovieFamilyAdventure

While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the horse to race against the fastest ones in the world.

Rescue Captain

The Agony and the Ecstasy

The Agony and the Ecstasy · 1965

The Agony and the Ecstasy

MovieDramaHistory

During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.

Foreman

The Odyssey

The Odyssey · 1969

MovieAdventureDrama

After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Ithaca. [Theatrical version of the 1968 mini-series.]

Menelaus

Street People

Street People · 1976

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.

Luigi Nicoletta

Commando

Commando · 1962

A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel leader. He gathers in his old unit, most of whom are no longer in top form. One is having nightmares of past indiscretions, another is now drinking, another has lost his nerve. He takes them in captures the leader, but then is unable to make it to the pick up. He encounters a rebel patrol and is trapped unless they can escape before their water runs out.

Brascia

Scheherazade

Scheherazade · 1963

MovieDramaAdventure

Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy Land. When the Sultan's underling saves her from certain death, she falls madly in love with her hero.

Barmak

The Wonders of Aladdin

The Wonders of Aladdin · 1961

The Wonders of Aladdin

MovieAdventureFantasy

Young Aladdin has a series of wild adventures after he discovers a magic lamp containing a genie.

Grand Vizier

Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?

Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù? · 1971

Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?

During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...

Il marito eschimese

The Valachi Papers

The Valachi Papers · 1972

The Valachi Papers

MovieCrimeDrama

When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred code of silence.

Albert Anastasia

The Visit

The Visit · 1964

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she was driven out of town. By her own wit and cunning, she has returned as a multi-millionaire for a visit. The town lays out the red carpet expecting big things from Carla, only to learn that her sole purpose is to see Serge Miller killed...

Darvis (uncredited)

Constantine and the Cross

Constantine and the Cross · 1961

Constantine and the Cross

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.

Hadrian

Mercenaries of the Rio Grande

Mercenaries of the Rio Grande · 1965

Mercenaries of the Rio Grande

MovieAdventureWestern

Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter from U.S. President Lincoln to the nationalist Mexican president Benito Juarez.

Benito Juarez

Oh, Serafina!

Oh, Serafina! · 1976

MovieComedyDrama

Augusto Valle is a successful young industrialist who weds Palmira, the girl working in his factory, and the two have a child despite the infant's uncertain legitimacy. Scheming to control her husband's fortune, Palmira has affairs with both the mayor and the judge to have Augusto committed to a mental institution. While there, he falls in love with Serafina Vitali, a young woman who was also put away.

Carlo Vigeva

The Valdez Horses

The Valdez Horses · 1973

The Valdez Horses

MovieWesternAction

Chino Valdez is a loner horse breeder living in the old west. Partly a loner by choice, and partly because, being a 'half-breed', he finds himself unwelcome almost everywhere he goes. One day, a young runaway named Jimmy shows up at his door looking for work and a roof over his head. Reluctantly, Chino agrees to take him in and teach him the art of raising, breaking and breeding horses, until the pair finally begin to accept each other.

Cruz

The Return of Dr. Mabuse

The Return of Dr. Mabuse · 1961

The Return of Dr. Mabuse

MovieCrimeThriller

The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe Police Inspector Lohmann, a dauntless girl reporter, and an American - who may be an FBI agent, or maybe a Chicago mobster - investigate a series of gruesome murders connected to a maximum security prison and involving a minister who has written a book called "The Anatomy Of The Devil".

Warden Wolf

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony · 1973

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony

MovieComedyCrime

There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he'll have the perfect alibi when the bodies start piling up. But it turns out his enemies have enough juice to keep him in prison, his associates start dying and the attempts on his life start. Cue Tony Breda, a wannabe wiseguy, who has a plan to spring Frankie from jail.

Massara

The Deserter

The Deserter · 1970

MovieActionWestern

A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not properly protecting the outpost, so becomes a deserter and an avenger, stalking and killing Indians without warning.

Orozco

The Shortest Day

The Shortest Day · 1963

The Shortest Day

MovieComedyHistory

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

Soldato combattente (uncredited)

Divisione Folgore

Divisione Folgore · 1954

Divisione Folgore

In the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, a group of young paratroopers from the Folgore Division, after having been subjected to a long and tiring training in Italy, was transported by air to the Libyan desert to cover the Italian-German front.

Sergente Turchi

Crazy Joe

Crazy Joe · 1974

MovieCrimeDrama

The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy" Joey Gallo.

Frank

The Appointment

The Appointment · 1969

The Appointment

MovieDramaMystery

Lawyer Federico Fendi has reasons to suspect that his fashion model wife Carla is secretly one of Rome's highest paid call-girls.

Renzo

Fear in the City

Fear in the City · 1976

Fear in the City

MovieCrimeAction

The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night picking off various informers and people they don't like. Murri investigates; hooking up with one of the criminal's nieces along the way. He uses his own methods; which mostly involve breaking all the rules, and thus comes under a lot of scrutiny from his superiors who don't take too kindly to the cop's way of working.

Warrant Officer Esposito

The Sailor from Gibraltar

The Sailor from Gibraltar · 1967

The Sailor from Gibraltar

MovieDramaRomance

Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who's searching for a sailor she had known many years before. Alan and Anna begin the search on board a yacht bound for Greece, but they don't find the sailor. After a stop in Africa, Louis de Mozambique joins the party and suggests that the sailor may never have existed other than in Anna's mind.

Captain

I Spy

SeriesAction & Adventure

A pair of intelligence agents posing as a tennis pro and his coach go on secret missions around the world.

The Odyssey

The Odyssey · 1968

SeriesDramaAction & Adventure

Odysseus' journey, told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus spends years trying to return home to Itaka.

Menelaus

Origins of the Mafia

Origins of the Mafia · 1976

Origins of the Mafia

SeriesCrimeDrama

Journey back more than 400 years to 16th century Sicily, where the small Italian islands have fallen victim to corruption, intimidation, extortion, and brutality.

Nicu Borello