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Renato Mori
Renato Pietro Mori (29 May 1935 – 22 August 2014) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Mori was born in Milan in 1935. He started his career in the 1950s, appearing on several television series and acting on stage. Starting from the 1970s, he was often cast in roles of inspectors, police commissioners and men in uniform in poliziotteschi and crime films and TV-series, notably '' Il marsigliese'' and '' La piovra''. Mori was also very active as a voice actor and a dubber. A co-founder of Sefit, the largest Italian company of dubbing, he was the official Italian voice of Morgan Freeman as well as often dubbing James Earl Jones and John Rhys-Davies, among other actors. He also substituted for his colleague Sergio Fiorentini as the Italian voice of Gene Hackman. Personal life Mori was the father of Simone Mori, who is also an actor and voice actor. Death Mori died in Rome on 22 August 2014, at the age of 79, after a long illness which caused him to retire fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Marsigliese
''Il marsigliese'' is a 1975 Italian miniseries produced by Radiotelevisione Italiana. It was directed by Giacomo Battiato and stars Marc Porel as Pierre Toril and Lina Polito as Vicenzina Sannataro. The miniseries tells about events linked to the fight for the control of cigarette smuggling between the Neapolitan, Sicilian and Marseilles crime families in Naples in the 1970s. Cast * Marc Porel: as Pierre Toril * Lina Polito: as Vicenzina Sannataro * Vittorio Mezzogiorno: as Nino Sannataro * Agla Marsili: as Nino Sannataro's wife * Patrizio Esposito: as Nino Sannataro's son * Renato Mori: as Ciccio Navarra * Isa Danieli: as Maria, Navarra's wife * Corrado Gaipa: as Tanino Sciacca * Guido Cerniglia: as the Magistrate * Nando Murolo: as Vito Amarillo * Giuseppe Anatrelli: as Pascalino Agnone * Ida Di Benedetto: as Agnone's wife * Biagio Pelligra Biagio Pelligra (born 24 June 1937, in Comiso) is an Italian stage, film and television actor. Life and career Born in Co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assassinio Sul Tevere
''Assassinio sul Tevere'' (''Assassination on the Tiber'') is a 1979 Italian "poliziottesco"-comedy film directed by Bruno Corbucci. It is the sixth chapter in the Nico Giraldi film series starred by Tomas Milian. Cast * Tomas Milian: Nico Giraldi * Marina Ripa Di Meana (credited as Marina Lante della Rovere): Eleonora Ruffini * Angelo Pellegrino: Prosecutor Luciano Canuti * Roberta Manfredi: Angela Santi * Bombolo: Venticello * Marino Masé: Nardelli * Enzo Liberti: Otello Santi * Massimo Vanni: Gargiulo * Renato Mori Renato Pietro Mori (29 May 1935 – 22 August 2014) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Biography Mori was born in Milan in 1935. He started his career in the 1950s, appearing on several television series and acting on stage. Starting from ...: Galbiati * Marcello Martana: Trentini References External links * 1979 films Films directed by Bruno Corbucci Films scored by Carlo Rustichelli Italian crime comedy films Poliziotteschi films F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pagemaster
''The Pagemaster'' is a 1994 American live-action/animated fantasy adventure film starring Macaulay Culkin, Christopher Lloyd, Whoopi Goldberg, Patrick Stewart, Leonard Nimoy, Frank Welker, Ed Begley Jr., and Mel Harris. The film was produced by Turner Pictures and Hanna-Barbera and released by 20th Century Fox on November 23, 1994. Culkin stars as a timid boy who uses statistics as an excuse to avoid anything he finds uncomfortable in life. But after reluctantly undertaking an errand for his father, he gets caught in a storm, which forces him to seek refuge in a library. He then finds himself trapped inside the library, where he must battle his way through literary classics come to life if he is to find his way home. The film was written for the screen by David Casci, based on a six-page pitch by writer Charles Pogue entitled "Library Days", presented to Casci by producer David Kirschner. The film was directed by Joe Johnston (live-action) and Pixote Hunt and Glenn Chaika (a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long John Silver
Long John Silver is a fictional character and the main antagonist in the 1883 novel '' Treasure Island'' by Robert Louis Stevenson. The most colourful and complex character in the book, he continues to appear in popular culture. His missing leg and parrot, in particular, have greatly contributed to the image of the pirate in popular culture. Profile Long John Silver is a cunning and opportunistic pirate who was quartermaster under the notorious Captain Flint. Stevenson's portrayal of Silver has greatly influenced the modern iconography of the pirate. Long John Silver has a parrot, named Captain Flint in honor—or mockery—of his former captain,Stevenson (1883), "The Voyage" h. 10 pp. 80f. who generally perches on Silver's shoulder, and is known to chatter pirate or seafaring phrases like " Pieces of Eight", and "Stand by to go about". Silver uses the parrot as another means of gaining Jim's trust, by telling the boy all manner of exciting stories about the parrot's buccan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Season (2006 Film)
''Open Season'' is a 2006 American animated adventure comedy film directed by Jill Culton and Roger Allers from a screenplay by Nat Mauldin, Steve Bencich and Ron J. Friedman, and features the voices of Martin Lawrence, Ashton Kutcher, Gary Sinise, and Debra Messing. Produced by Columbia Pictures and Sony Pictures Animation (as its first feature film), and distributed by Sony Pictures Releasing, the plot follows Boog, a domesticated grizzly bear, who is let go into the woods, and teams up with a one-antlered mule deer named Elliot to return to his old home before open season starts. ''Open Season'' premiered at the Greek Theatre on September 25, 2006, and was released in theaters in the United States on September 29. It received mixed reviews from critics and was a box office success, earning $201 million against an $85 million budget. The first in the ''Open Season'' film series, it was followed by '' Open Season 2'' (2008), '' Open Season 3'' (2010), and '' Open Season ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bender's Big Score
''Futurama: Bender's Big Score'' (or ''Bender's Big Score'') is a 2007 American animated science fiction comedy film based on the animated series ''Futurama''. It was released in the United States on November 27, 2007. It was the first ''Futurama'' production since the original series finale "The Devil's Hands are Idle Playthings". ''Bender's Big Score'', along with the three follow-up films, comprise season five of ''Futurama'', with each film being separated into four episodes of the broadcast season. ''Bender's Big Score'' made its broadcast premiere on Comedy Central on March 23, 2008. The film was written by Ken Keeler, based on a story by Keeler and David X. Cohen, and directed by Dwayne Carey-Hill. Special appearances include Coolio as Kwanzaa-bot, Al Gore as himself, Mark Hamill as Chanukah Zombie, Tom Kenny as Fry's older brother Yancy, and Sarah Silverman returning as Fry's ex-girlfriend Michelle (having previously voiced the role in "The Cryonic Woman"). Plot Two ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watership Down (film)
''Watership Down'' is a 1978 British animated adventure-drama film, written, produced and directed by Martin Rosen and based on the 1972 novel by Richard Adams. It features the voices of John Hurt, Richard Briers, Harry Andrews, Simon Cadell, Nigel Hawthorne and Roy Kinnear, among others, and was the last film work of Zero Mostel, as the voice of Kehaar the gull. It was financed by a consortium of British financial institutions and was distributed by Cinema International Corporation in the United Kingdom. Released on 19 October 1978, the film was an immediate success and it became the sixth-most popular film of 1979 at the UK box office. Plot In Lapine language mythology, the world was created by the god Frith. All animals were grass eaters, living harmoniously. The rabbits multiplied, and their appetite led to a food shortage. Frith ordered the rabbit prince, El-Ahrairah, to control his people, but was scoffed at. In retaliation, Frith gave special gifts to every animal, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Happily Ever After (1990 Film)
''Happily Ever After'' (originally released as ''Snow White: The Adventure Continues'' in the Philippines) is a 1989 animated musical fantasy film directed by John Howley, and starring the voices of Dom DeLuise, Malcolm McDowell, Phyllis Diller, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Ed Asner, Sally Kellerman, Irene Cara, Carol Channing and Tracey Ullman. The film serves as a direct sequel to the ''Snow White'' fairy tale, wherein the titular heroine and the Prince are about to be married, but a new threat appears in the form of the late Evil Queen's vengeful brother, Lord Maliss. The plot replaces the Dwarfs with female cousins called the Dwarfelles, who aid Snow White against Maliss. ''Happily Ever After'' is unrelated to Filmation's fellow '' A Snow White Christmas'', a 1980 TV special in which continuity is deliberately and consequently ignored. Following extensive legal troubles with The Walt Disney Company, it had a poor financial and critical reception following its wide release in 1993. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Magic Mirror (Snow White)
"Snow White" is a German fairy tale, first written down in the early 19th century. The Brothers Grimm published it in 1812 in the first edition of their collection ''Grimms' Fairy Tales'', numbered as Tale 53. The original title was ''Sneewittchen'', which is a partial translation from Low German. The modern spelling is ''Schneewittchen''. The Grimms completed their final revision of the story in 1854, which can be found in the 1857 version of ''Grimms' Fairy Tales''. The fairy tale features elements such as the magic mirror, the poisoned apple, the glass coffin, and the characters of the Evil Queen and the seven Dwarfs. The seven dwarfs were first given individual names in the 1912 Broadway play ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs'' and then given different names in Walt Disney's 1937 film ''Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs''. The Grimm story, which is commonly referred to as "Snow White", should not be confused with the story of " Snow-White and Rose-Red" (in German ""), anothe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jungle Cubs
''Jungle Cubs'' is an American animated series produced by Walt Disney Television Animation for ABC in 1996, serving as the prequel to the 1967 film ''The Jungle Book'' as it's set in the youth of the animal characters years before the events of the film. A critical success, the show ran for two seasons on ABC from 1996 to 1998 before its syndication in re-runs on the Disney Channel. The show was broadcast on Toon Disney, but was taken off the schedule in 2001. Re-runs aired on Disney Jr. in the US from 2012 to 2013. The show also aired in the United Kingdom on Disney Cinemagic and in Latin America. The show's theme song is a hip hop version of the song, " The Bare Necessities" performed by Lou Rawls. ''Jungle Cubs'' was animated by Walt Disney Television Animation (Australia) Pty. Ltd., Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd., Thai Wang Film Productions Co., Ltd., Toon City Animation, Inc., and Sunmin Image Pictures Co., Ltd., with Studio B Productions, as the animation pre-prod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Jungle Book 2
''The Jungle Book 2'' is a 2003 animated adventure film produced by the Australian office at DisneyToon Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures and Buena Vista Distribution. The film was released in France on February 5, 2003, and released in the United States on February 14. The film is a sequel to Walt Disney's 1967 film ''The Jungle Book'', and stars Haley Joel Osment as the voice of Mowgli and John Goodman as the voice of Baloo. The film was originally produced as a direct-to-video film, but was released theatrically first, similar to the ''Peter Pan'' sequel '' Return to Never Land''. It is the fourth animated Disney sequel to have a theatrical release rather than going direct-to-video after '' The Rescuers Down Under'' (1990), ''Fantasia 2000'' (1999), and '' Return to Never Land'' (2002) and the last one until ''Ralph Breaks the Internet'' (2018). The film is not based on '' The Second Jungle Book'', but they do have several characters in common. The film received ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hathi
Hathi is a fictional character created by Rudyard Kipling for the Mowgli stories collected in ''The Jungle Book'' (1894) and '' The Second Jungle Book'' (1895). Hathi is an elephant that lives in the Seeoni jungle. Kipling named him after ''hāthī'' (), the Hindi word for "elephant". Kipling's character Hathi is head of the elephant troop. He is one of the oldest animals of the jungle and represents order, dignity and obedience to the Law of the Jungle. Hathi is famed for his patience and never hurries unnecessarily. In "How Fear Came" at the time when the water truce occurred, he tells Mowgli and the jungle animals' creation myth and describes Tha, the first of elephants and how the first tiger broke the first law by slaying a man thus condemning the animals to being prey for humankind. He told this after Shere Khan the tiger had boasted about killing a man purely for sport. In the story " Letting In the Jungle", Mowgli reveals that Hathi once destroyed a human village in rev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
