Acting

Gianni Garko

Born July 15, 1935 · Zara, Dalmatia, Italy [now Zadar, Croatia] (age 91)

Born in Zadar, Dalmatia (then Italy, now part of Croatia), he moved to Trieste in 1948 to attend the acting school of the Piccolo Teatro di Trieste, and then to Rome to enter the Accademia nazionale d'arte drammatica. Garko began his career in the 1950s playing roles of various genres, especially in westerns and Italian-style comedies; in his later years he devoted himself to films for RAI televis…

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Waterloo

Waterloo · 1970

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.

Saul and David

Saul and David · 1964

MovieAdventureDrama

David of Bethlehem slays the giant and becomes a rival to King Saul.

The Psychic

The Psychic · 1977

MovieHorrorMystery

A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband.

Hercules

Hercules · 1983

MovieActionAdventure

Hercules, a semi-divine being, squares off against King Minos, who is attempting to use science to gain power and take over the world. With the help of a benevolent sorceress, Circe, Hercules tries to save his beloved Cassiopeia from being sacrificed by Minos, and struggles against laser-breathing creatures and an evil sorceress.

If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death

If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death · 1968

If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death

After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of surprise attacks and murderous double-crosses, leaves the coach's strongbox in the hands of the killer Lasky. It is up to the legendary hero Sartana to track down the missing money and determine just who is ultimately behind the grisly robberies and killings.

Bad Man's River

Bad Man's River · 1971

Bad Man's River

Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government of one million dollars.

Skipper

Skipper · 1987

MovieAdventureThriller

Skipper Alex Grimaldi has two weaknesses: his daughter, born from a previous relationship, and, obviously, his boat. Always with a Tuscan cigar in his mouth, Fabio Testi’s sailor embarks on real seaside adventures because of his clients who are often dangerous criminals.

Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria

Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria · 1977

Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria

Otto runs a hotel for tourists in Tyrol but has troubles both with the economy and with his wife Olga. After a trip to Stockholm he imports three Swedish blondes who eventually save Otto from disaster, both marital and financial.

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Waterloo

Waterloo · 1970

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.

Drouot

Saul and David

Saul and David · 1964

MovieAdventureDrama

David of Bethlehem slays the giant and becomes a rival to King Saul.

David

The Psychic

The Psychic · 1977

MovieHorrorMystery

A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband.

Francesco Ducci

Hercules

Hercules · 1983

MovieActionAdventure

Hercules, a semi-divine being, squares off against King Minos, who is attempting to use science to gain power and take over the world. With the help of a benevolent sorceress, Circe, Hercules tries to save his beloved Cassiopeia from being sacrificed by Minos, and struggles against laser-breathing creatures and an evil sorceress.

Valcheus

If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death

If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death · 1968

If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death

After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of surprise attacks and murderous double-crosses, leaves the coach's strongbox in the hands of the killer Lasky. It is up to the legendary hero Sartana to track down the missing money and determine just who is ultimately behind the grisly robberies and killings.

Sartana

Bad Man's River

Bad Man's River · 1971

Bad Man's River

Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government of one million dollars.

Ed Pace

Skipper

Skipper · 1987

MovieAdventureThriller

Skipper Alex Grimaldi has two weaknesses: his daughter, born from a previous relationship, and, obviously, his boat. Always with a Tuscan cigar in his mouth, Fabio Testi’s sailor embarks on real seaside adventures because of his clients who are often dangerous criminals.

Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria

Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria · 1977

Three Swedish Girls in Upper Bavaria

Otto runs a hotel for tourists in Tyrol but has troubles both with the economy and with his wife Olga. After a trip to Stockholm he imports three Swedish blondes who eventually save Otto from disaster, both marital and financial.

Otto Gruber

Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming

Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming · 1970

Light the Fuse… Sartana Is Coming

Wily roving gunslinger Sartana arrives in a small town and tries to find a hidden fortune of half a million dollars in gold and two million dollars in counterfeit money. Naturally, a bunch of other treacherous folks who include conniving widow Senora Manassas, shrewd fellow gunslinger Grand Full, and the vicious and unhinged General Monk are also looking to get their greedy hands on said fortune.

Sartana

Monster Shark

Monster Shark · 1984

MovieActionHorror

A marine biologist, a dolphin trainer, a research scientist, and a local sheriff try to hunt down a large sea monster, a shark/octopus hybrid, that is devouring swimmers and fishermen off a south Florida coast.

Sheriff Gordon

Crazy Desire

Crazy Desire · 1962

MovieRomanceComedy

A middle-aged businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one, named Francesca.

Piero

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.

Uomo alla stazione (uncredited)

Heads or Tails?

Heads or Tails? · 2025

Heads or Tails?

MovieWesternComedy

When cowboy Billi and his sweetheart Rosa run away together, he is accused of her husband's death and becomes the symbol of a local uprising. Everyone wants his head and only Rosa knows the secret that could finally set them free.

Mr. Rupè

The Boss

The Boss · 1973

MovieCrimeAction

A hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians.

Police Commissioner Torri

Tower of the First Born

Tower of the First Born · 1998

Tower of the First Born

MovieActionTV Movie

Despite her friends' warnings, a woman travels to the Sahara, determined to find her missing archaeologist father and the magical tower he was searching for. Aided by a mysterious prince, she battles outlaws and the desert's harsh conditions.

Commander

The Heroes

The Heroes · 1973

Four soldiers and a beautiful Greek nurse, thrown together in North Africa during World War II, team up to pull off a heist of two-million pounds in boxes marked "plasma."

Schreiber

Joy of Flying

Joy of Flying · 1977

The young wife Silvia is neglected by her husband Kurt. She dreams during the flight to a psychoanalyst Congress similarly Jong's heroine Isadora while reading a novel called emancipatory joy of flying in a world of its own. Then she has an affair with the businessman Jörg. It recognizes that the total of all sexual acting out day and night dreams anyone yet alone makes to a free people.

Jörg Bronner

$10,000 for a Massacre

$10,000 for a Massacre · 1967

$10,000 for a Massacre

After being hired to free a landowner's kidnapped daughter, a bounty hunter double-crosses his employer and joins the kidnapper's gang.

Django

One Night at the Beach

One Night at the Beach · 1961

One Night at the Beach

Un soir sur la plage is relatively interesting; the cast includes highly talented Jean Dessailly, Martine Carol, a cast against type Michel Galabru as the cop.The biggest surprise is sixties starlet Daliah Lavi as a simple-minded nymphomaniac girl who is murdered on the beach. The story is essentially a whodunit: in Martine Carol's house, there are many people (too many people actually) and they all have a reason to get rid of her.

Heinrich

I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death

I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death · 1969

I Am Sartana Your Angel of Death

MovieWesternMystery

Sartana is falsely accused of robbing a bank, and must find the real robbers and clear his name.

Sartana

The Mongols

The Mongols · 1961

MovieActionAdventure

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 and the latter itches for war and conquest.

Henry de Valois

Kapo

Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessly guard other prisoners.

Karl

The New Godfathers

The New Godfathers · 1979

The New Godfathers

A revolution in Iran halts a heroin shipment, but an alliance of crime families is set on getting it to the US. They decide to run the drug through an unsuspecting network of good-natured, local smugglers in Naples, while an international anti-narcotics agent rushes to shut their operation down. Betrayals and divided loyalties lead to a final, bloody confrontation in America.

Capitano Ivano Radovich

Lo scugnizzo

Lo scugnizzo · 1979

Gennarino is a Neapolitan orphan boy. He lives with Angela, his adoptive mother, a former famous singer now fallen on hard times. She has a serious illness, and they together try to get the money, necessary for her right care, by singing around. But one day Angela is obliged by the illness to stop her activity, and Gennarino decides to join a pilferers gang.

Space: 1999

Space: 1999 · 1975

SeriesSci-Fi & Fantasy

The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.

Tony Cellini

Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends

Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends · 2016

Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends

SeriesComedyKids

Originally polar opposites, an American fashion student and the daughter of an industry mogul form an everlasting bond and start a rock band in Milan, Italy.

Tancredi Lombardi

I promessi sposi

I promessi sposi · 1989

I promessi sposi

Set between 1629 and 1631. Renzo Tramaglino and Lucia Mondella are Lombard peasants forced to separate and endure a thousand vicissitudes because of the bullying of the squire Don Rodrigo. However, during their journey they will find various people willing to help them, from Friar Cristoforo to the Innominato, from Federigo Borromeo to Donna Prassede.

fratello gentiluomo

the famous escapes

the famous escapes · 1972

the famous escapes

SeriesDocumentary

From Bonaparte to Casanova, history is cast in the light of famous escapes from various European countries.

Benvenuto Cellini

L'isola del tesoro

L'isola del tesoro · 1959

L'isola del tesoro

SeriesAction & Adventure

Harry

Italian Restaurant

Italian Restaurant · 1994

Italian Restaurant

Henken

Morte a passo di valzer

Morte a passo di valzer · 1979

Morte a passo di valzer

Italian TV adaptation of John Dickson Carr's mystery novel Fire, Burn! (1957).

Jack Cheviot

Vivere

SeriesSoapDrama

Pierfrancesco Moretti