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In Prison Awaiting Trial
''In Prison Awaiting Trial'' () is a 1971 Italian drama film directed by Nanni Loy. It was entered into the 22nd Berlin International Film Festival where Alberto Sordi won the Silver Bear for Best Actor award. Plot Roman surveyor Giuseppe Di Noi, who has emigrated in Sweden marrying a local woman and becoming a respected citizen, decides to take his family on holiday in Italy. At the Italian border he is stopped and arrested without explanation. After three days in jail in Milan, he learns – through the efforts of a guard – that he has been charged with "involuntary manslaughter" of a German citizen. Having ignored the arrest warrant (as he lived abroad) Giuseppe is deemed a "fugitive" and thus ineligible for house arrest; he is instead transferred from prison to prison until he reaches the imaginary town of Sagunto (near Salerno), where he gets placed in solitary confinement. Di Noi undergoes a genuine judicial ordeal, full of humiliations. He is unwillingly involved in a r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nanni Loy
Nanni Loy (born Giovanni Loi; 23 October 1925 – 21 August 1995) was an Italian film, theatre and TV director. Specifically, Nanni Loy was Sardinian people, Sardinian, and one of several notable Sardinian film makers, including Franco Solinas. Biography Loy was born in Cagliari, Sardinia: his father was Guglielmo Loy-Donà, a lawyer issue from a distinguished Sardinian-Venetian family, and his mother was the noblewoman Donna Anna Sanjust of the Marquesses of Neoneli. Rosetta Loy, an Italian novelist, is his sister-in-law. He became famous for introducing in Italy the ''Candid Camera, candid camera'' with his show ''Specchio segreto'' (Secret mirror) in 1965. His 1962 film ''The Four Days of Naples (film), The Four Days of Naples'' was nominated for two Academy Awards. It also won the International Federation of Film Critics, FIPRESCI Prize at the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival in 1963. His 1971 film ''In Prison Awaiting Trial, Detenuto in attesa di giudizio'' was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elga Andersen
Elga Andersen (née Helga Hymen or Hymmen) (2 February 1935 – 7 December 1994) was a German actress and singer. She starred in more than one dozen French films in the 1950s and 1960s and also debuted as a recording artist in the 1950s. She performed the songs "" and "" in the 1961 film '' The Guns of Navarone'', and co-starred in the 1971 Steve McQueen film ''Le Mans''. Together with her second husband, Peter Gimbel, she embarked on a 1981 diving expedition of the sunken . Early life She was born Helga Hymen (or Hymmen) in Dortmund, Germany. She was the only child of her parents; her father was a civil engineer. Her father enlisted with the Wehrmacht two weeks before World War II ended and was dispatched to the Russian front; he was never heard from again. Hymen dropped out of high school at age 16 and worked as an English and French interpreter to help support her and her mother. When she was 18 she moved to Paris and worked as a model. Film career She made her acting debut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1971 Films
The year 1971 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1971 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events *February 8 - Bob Dylan's hour-long documentary film, ''Eat the Document'', premieres at New York's Academy of Music. The film includes footage from Dylan's 1966 UK tour. *April 23 - Melvin Van Peebles film '' Sweet Sweetback's Baadasssss Song'' becomes the highest-grossing independent film of 1971. *May - The first permanent IMAX projection system begins showing at Ontario Place's "Cinesphere" in Toronto. *May 10 - Frank Yablans becomes President of Paramount Pictures. *Britain's National Film School begins operation at Beaconsfield Film Studios. Awards Palme d'Or (Cannes Film Festival): :'' The Go-Between'', directed by Joseph Losey, United Kingdom Golden Bear (Berlin Film Festival): :''The Garden of the Finzi-Continis'' (''Il Giardino dei Finzi-Contini''), directed by Vittorio De Sic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Giuseppe Anatrelli
Giuseppe Anatrelli (3 January 1925 – 29 November 1981), also known as Geppino Anatrelli, was an Italian film, stage and television actor. Born in Naples, he was part of the Eduardo De Filippo Eduardo De Filippo OMRI (; 26 May 1900 – 31 October 1984), also known simply as ''Eduardo'', was an Italian actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright, best known for his Neapolitan language, Neapolitan works ''Filumena Marturano'' and ... theatrical company between 1953 and 1959. Later he starred again with De Filippo in the 1963 television series ''Peppino Girella'', and rejoined his company in the early 1970s. His film works span different genres, but he's probably best known for his portrait of "Geometra Luciano Calboni" in the first three chapters of the Fantozzi film series. Filmography References External links * * Massimo Colella, ''Profilo biografico di attori partenopei del XX secolo: VII. Giuseppe Anatrelli'', 2022 (https://www.centrostuditeatro.it/2022 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mario Brega
Mario Brega (25 March 1923 – 23 July 1994) was an Italian character actor. His heavy build meant that he regularly portrayed a thug in his films, particularly earlier in his career in westerns. Later in his career, however, he featured in numerous Italian comedy films. Brega stood at and well over at his heaviest but after the 1960s slimmed down significantly. Biography Brega was born in Rome. He was a butcher before he drifted into acting, where his heavy physique ensured him a plethora of character roles. Debuting with director Dino Risi, he then played some minor roles in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western movies: ''A Fistful of Dollars'', as Chico; ''For a Few Dollars More'', as Niño; ''The Good, the Bad and the Ugly'' as Corporal Wallace; and also as a gangster in ''Once Upon a Time in America''. He appeared in many other Spaghetti Westerns, including ''Death Rides a Horse'', '' The Great Silence'', and '' My Name is Nobody''. Later in his career he had comical roles w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nazzareno Natale
Nazzareno Natale (4 April 1938 – 21 June 2006) was an Italian actor. He played Rojo Gang Member in '' Per un pugno di dollari'', Paco in ''For a Few Dollars More'' (1965), and Bountyhunter in '' Il buono il bruto il cattivo'' (1966), by Sergio Leone, and Wylie in '' Taste for Killing'' (1966) and Wild Jack's Man in ''Day of Anger ''Day of Anger'' ( , lit. "The Days of Wrath") is a 1967 Spaghetti Western film directed and co-written by Tonino Valerii and starring Lee Van Cleef and Giuliano Gemma, and features a musical score by Riz Ortolani. The film credits the novel ' ...'' (1967), by Tonino Valerii. He also appeared in '' Giù La Testa'' (1971). Selected filmography References Bibliography * * External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Natale, Nazzareno 1938 births 2006 deaths 20th-century Italian male actors 21st-century Italian male actors Male Spaghetti Western actors Italian male film actors Italian male television actors Male actors from Calabria ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Silvio Spaccesi
Silvio Spaccesi (1 August 1926 – 2 June 2015) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Born in Macerata, Spaccesi studied in a Salesians of Don Bosco School, and made his official theatrical debut with the stage company held by Angelo Perugini. After moving to Rome, he formed at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts. He was best known for the musical comedy '' Forza venite gente'', in which he played the role of Pietro di Bernardone, Francis of Assisi's father. Spaccesi was also active as a voice actor and a dubber. He voiced Yoda in the Italian versions of the ''Star Wars'' original trilogy and Santa Claus in '' The Nightmare Before Christmas''. He was also the Italian voice of Orville in the 1977 Disney film '' The Rescuers'' and the second voice of Barney Rubble in '' The Flintstones''. Spaccesi often dubbed actors such as Gustav Knuth, Charles Durning, Frank Oz and Jack Warden in a select number of their films. Death Spaccesi died in Rome on June ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gianni Bonagura
Gianfelice "Gianni" Bonagura (27 October 1925 – 8 October 2017) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Life and career Born in Milan, Bonagura was active on film, stage, television and radio. He appeared in 40 films between 1950 and 2001. He arrived at the threshold of a degree in philosophy, then in 1946 he abandoned his studies to attend the Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts. Essentially a stage actor, Bonagura became popular in the second half of the fifties as a radio actor, protagonist of vignettes together with Nino Manfredi and Paolo Ferrari. In cinema and television, he was only used as a character actor, with the exception of the role of Dr. Watson in the 1968 RAI television series ''Sherlock Holmes''. Bonagura also worked as a voice actor. He occasionally dubbed over the voices of Danny DeVito, Mel Brooks and Ian Holm for Italian-language versions of foreign films. One of his most popular dubbing roles includes providing the Italian voice of Pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luca Sportelli
Luca Sportelli (11 March 1927 – 29 August 1999) was an Italian actor who appeared in more than one hundred films from 1964 to 1991. Selected filmography References External links * 1927 births 1999 deaths Italian male film actors {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fulvio Mingozzi
Fulvio Mingozzi (6 October 1925 – 19 September 2000) was an Italian actor. Active from 1966 as a character actor, he acted, albeit in brief and marginal roles and cameos, in all the films of Dario Argento ranging from '' The Bird with the Crystal Plumage'' (1970) to ''Phenomena'' (1985). References Italian male film actors {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tano Cimarosa
Tano Cimarosa, (real name Gaetano Cisco; 1 January 1922 – 24 May 2008) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He participated in more than fifty movies. He played the "Blacksmith" in the Oscar-winning film ''Cinema Paradiso'' from 1988. He is known to ''giallo'' film fans for directing ''Reflections in Black'' in 1975. Selected filmography *'' The Eye of the Needle'' (1962) as Umberto *'' Mad Sea'' (1963) *'' The Two Parachutists'' (1965) as Garcia's aide *'' Due mafiosi contro Al Capone'' (1966) as Gangster *'' I nostri mariti'' (1966) as The Sicilian Neighbour of Attilia (segment "Il marito di Attilia") (uncredited) *'' The Long, the Short, the Cat'' (1967) as Il metronotte *'' The Day of the Owl'' (1968) as Zecchinetta *'' May God Forgive You... But I Won't'' (1968) as Chico *'' Suicide Commandos'' (1968) as Calleya *'' Be Sick... It's Free'' (1968) as Salvatore Laganà-Father of 9 children *'' La morte sull'alta collina'' (1969) as General Valiente *'' Bootl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michele Gammino
Michele Gammino (born 16 June 1941) is an Italian actor, voice actor and television presenter. Biography Born in Rome to parents who originated from Palermo, Gammino began his career during the early 1970s. For his work on Italian television, Gammino has become famous on a number of occasions but mostly as presenter of ''Giochi senza frontiere'', the Italian edition of ''Jeux sans frontières'', which he co-hosted with Ettore Andenna and Milly Carlucci between 1979 and 1982. He also commentated for Italy at the 1980 Eurovision Song Contest. Gammino continued to act for television, he provided newly restored voices in a series of Italian films which include '' Le ragazze di Piazza di Spagna'', ''Carabinieri 7'', '' Una donna per amico'', '' Linda e il brigadiere'', ''Un medico in famiglia'' and the third season of ''I Cesaroni''. Gammino is probably best known in Italy for his roles in dubbing films into the Italian language. He is the primary Italian voice actor of Harrison F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |