Umberto Spadaro

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1904-11-08

Ancona, Italy

Biography

Umberto Spadaro (8 November 1904 – 12 October 1981) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in around 95 films between 1940 and 1979. His brother Peppino Spadaro was also an actor.

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Gegè

1948-03-27 0

I cavalieri dalle maschere nere (I beati paoli)

Sicily, 17th Century. When his fiancée is kidnapped, a young man sets out to find her. ...
Genre :Adventure

1956-12-24 0

Bitterly

Genre :Drama, Romance

cappellano

1953-08-20 0

Riscatto - Tu sei il mio giudice

Roberto Biasetti and a friend are unjustly sentenced to sixteen years in prison for murder. The true perpetrator of the crime is a man named Maremmano, who happens to be in the same cell. Released aft ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

1947-09-05 5.8

Fumeria d’oppio

A young woman is murdered and robbed in broad daylight. A young man is arrested, in possession of some of the jewels of the victim. The passionate protests of his sister arouse the compassion of Za la ...
Genre :Thriller, Crime, Mystery

(uncredited)

1953-10-22 6.3

The Vanquished

Three tales of privileged youth entangled in murder: French students kill for money, an Italian student smuggles cigarettes, and an English poet exploits a grim discovery. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Aldo Piscitello

1948-12-28 7.7

Difficult Years

Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his ow ...
Genre :Drama

1955-03-08 0

Scampolo 53

A young girl meets by chance an engineer who lives with an unbearable mistress. After abandoning his mistress, the engineer has to leave for Sardinia. He decides to take the girl with him, who has bee ...
Genre :Comedy

Doctor

1975-12-05 4.2

Il gatto mammone

Lando Buzzanca plays a man desperate to father a male heir. However, his wife (Roseanne Podesta) is apparently barren. They decide to use a surrogate mother, which, since this was in the days before a ...
Genre :Comedy

Gaspare Puggioni, 1st Coast Guard Officer

1957-11-22 6

The Wide Blue Road

Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against harsh living conditions, a scarcity of fish in ne ...
Genre :Drama

Achille Buongiorno

1953-01-01 0

Lasciateci in pace

A mild-mannered man is mistaken for a subversive. ...
Genre :Comedy

Lo stregone

1943-05-31 5.656

Totò nella fossa dei leoni

The explorer Smith leaves with Laura, a beautiful but naive girl, in search of Professor Berti, who mysteriously disappeared in Africa in the midst of one of his researches. ...
Genre :Comedy

1940-11-24 0

Senza cielo

Genre :Drama, Adventure

Don Luigino Trizzini

1963-09-14 7.2

The Eye of the Needle

Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who in the meantime has fallen in love with the victim. ...
Genre :Comedy

Doctor

1975-12-08 5.4

Smell of Flesh

Domenico Modguno is a horn dog who loves looking up skirts and travels back to Italy to stay with his brother and wife. His brothers stepdaughter is hot and he spends most of the movie forcing himself ...
Genre :Comedy

Gustavo Castelli

1952-01-04 3.5

A Woman Has Killed

In 1951, two years after the “scandal” of the Fiamma che non si spegne, Cottafavi got the opportunity to work on a film with a small production company, Novissima Film. With little means, a number of ...
Genre :Romance, Crime, Drama

Doctor Micheli

1950-12-06 6.5

Outlaw Girl

Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he start living like an outlaw brigand. He falls in love ...
Genre :Drama

Cameriere

1942-09-28 6

Giorno di nozze

Genre :Comedy

1944-03-02 0

Vietato ai minorenni

Genre :Comedy

Detective Pietrangeli

1952-01-10 6

Appointment for Murder

A woman has jumped or been pushed from five stories of an apartment house. The detective on the case lives there, and he discovers that the woman's estranged husband does also. ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime, Drama

Don Antonio Percucoco

1953-08-22 5.4

A Husband for Anna

Anna Zaccheo is a beautiful young woman from a working class Neapolitan family. Her main concern is to find herself a suitable husband. She meets a young sailor Andrea one day and gets engaged to him. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

L'ortolano

1962-08-31 6

The Four Monks

Four petty criminals pretend to be friars escaped from communist Hungary and go and live in a Sicilian convent ...
Genre :Comedy

The Father

1973-08-05 4

The City of the Sun

1600, Southern Italy is under the Spanish Government. A few years before an attempt at rebellion, inspired by the preaching of the philosopher and monk Tommaso Campanella, is severely quelled by the G ...
Genre :Drama, TV Movie

1974-02-01 4.429

The Governess

Catania, Italy. The Platania family hires a new French governess, the beautiful Caterina. The life of the whole family will be soon turned upside down. ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

cantante

1947-10-24 6

Tombolo, paradiso nero

Genre :Drama

maresciallo della legione straniera

1952-05-02 6

The Eternal Chain

As the Legion Etrangère puts in at Napoli, legionnaire Walter escapes from the ship to meet a woman he still loves ,in spite of his five years away from home. ...
Genre :Drama

colonnello Grimaldi

1952-09-26 0

Il segreto delle tre punte

Genre :Adventure

Antonio

1958-12-19 5.9

Love and Troubles

Three vignettes about couples trying to get together and the problems that continue to keep them apart. ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance

1955-11-10 6.2

Headlines of Destruction

Released from prison after two years, Michel Gérard sets out to find his wife Alice. Alice, luxuriously maintained by her lover, Jacques Rupert, editor-in-chief of a major newspaper, rejects him. Shor ...
Genre :Crime

Rocco

1947-05-02 0

Furia

Melodrama of sexual cravings: The bored wife of a horse breeder is the object of attention by both a stud keeper and a half idiot stable hand.The young daughter of the household is later added to this ...
Genre :Drama

1964-01-23 9

A Very Handy Man

In late 19th century Sicily, handsome free-spirit Liolà wanders into town, where he encounters an old flame now married to a wealthy landowner. ...
Genre :Comedy

1948-03-20 0

Il corriere di ferro

Genre :

Don Vincenzo Benetti

1954-12-28 0

Lacrime d'amore

Genre :Comedy, Music

(uncredited)

1948-07-21 8.176

Bicycle Thieves

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can f ...
Genre :Drama

don Ciccio Balestrieri

1950-06-09 6

The Outlaws

Turi, having returned to Sicily from abroad, learns that his sister Maruzza is the lover of Cosimo Barrese, a militant of the Movement for the Independence of Sicily, who, abandoned by everyone, has b ...
Genre :Drama

il cugino di Ascalone

1964-01-30 7.59

Seduced and Abandoned

The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiancé, and has a try ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Commissario capo

1951-02-01 0

Lebbra bianca

Genre :Drama

Bezzi, il contadino

1955-09-29 7.2

Don Camillo's Last Round

Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against ...
Genre :Comedy, History

Scoppola - the killer

1950-01-11 0

Pact with the Devil

The title of this Italian melodrama translates to Pact with the Devil. However, His Satanic Majesty does not appear in the film. Rather, this expensively produced period piece is more along the lines ...
Genre :Drama

Padre putativo di Jolanda

1953-02-05 6.2

Jolanda, the Daughter of the Black Corsair

Collected at the age of two, under extreme conditions, by a company of Gypsies, Jolly grew up among them, together with the man who accompanied her. ...
Genre :Adventure

Valero

1957-06-07 6

Manos sucias

Miguel is a truck driver who dreams of owning a service station. To raise money he agrees to sabotage a truck of his boss' rival, which results in the death of its driver. Miguel gets his station but ...
Genre :Drama

1973-03-03 5.75

The Big Family

Two mafia bosses, Don Antonio Marchesi and Don Peppino Scalise, battle over building contracts in Palermo. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime

Don Gennaro

1950-04-08 0

Angelo

An Italian man is released from prison after World War II, excited to meet the son his late wife had while he was away, only to be shocked when he discovers that the son is half-black, the result of a ...
Genre :War

Luccio

1950-12-31 0

Il nido di falasco

A young cabaret trainer, Viola, who has just compromised herself in a case, flees. On the train, she meets Dominique, who lives in a cabin in Tuscany, on the edge of the marshes. Dominique and Viola s ...
Genre :Drama

Gino

1955-12-30 6.8

The Best Part

Philippe Perrin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps. Like all the men who work on the building site, he gives the best part of himself. U ...
Genre :Drama

1952-04-16 5

The Man in My Life

L'homme de ma vie stars Madeleine Robinson as Madeleine, who after being abandoned by her lover is forced to raise her baby all by herself. Supporting herself and her child as a prostitute, Madeleine ...
Genre :Drama

Uncle Brasi

1954-01-14 3

Fatal Desire

In Pietro Mascagni's tragic opera, a soldier returns home from war to reclaim his former fiancée, only to find that she's married someone else in his absence, leading to jealousy, betrayal, and murder ...
Genre :Drama, Music, Romance

1975-12-11 0

The Barons

Leopoldo Lalumera, grandson of a wealthy eighty-four-year-old baron, infuriated during a galactic convention with a prosaic maid, discovers, on the eve of the wedding with his cousin Mariantonia, that ...
Genre :Comedy

Mucugno

1943-05-01 0

Sempre più difficile

Sicily, early 1900s. An impoverished prince settles into the house of a rich shipowner and becomes his counselor. ...
Genre :

Miguel - Rojo Gunman (uncredited)

1964-09-12 7.828

A Fistful of Dollars

The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold i ...
Genre :Western

Darmon Henchman

1964-10-15 6.5

Lost Treasure of the Incas

A cowboy goes to help out his friend, who has been falsely accused of murder. The two find themselves in the rugged and mysterious Pallidi Mountains, where they come up against an outlaw gang that is ...
Genre :Western, Adventure

Spada

1950-10-17 5

Angel in the crowd

Genre :Drama

Direttore del carcere

1959-01-29 7.3

Hell in the City

A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison lif ...
Genre :Drama

Don Puglisi

1955-03-22 0

Magic Village

Robert and his fiancée Lucienne were due to go on vacation together to a tented village in Sicily. Robert is forced to postpone his trip and only joins Lucienne a few days later, taking advantage of t ...
Genre :Comedy

Nonno

1964-08-27 5.2

Le ore nude

In this sex-charged character study, a woman's husband persuades her to share in his predilection for group sex. Later, she meets a student and has a one-day affair with him. ...
Genre :Drama

Don José

1958-11-24 0

Ya tenemos coche

Don Jose is a good family man and a model employee. He lives in his house as a King with his wife and children who make him happy. His only enemy is Dona Rosa, her mother, who has the habit of saying ...
Genre :Comedy

Capitano del battello

1954-03-04 0

Non vogliamo morire

Genre :Drama

don Filippo

1952-10-15 0

Dogs and Cats

In a village, the pharmacist and the innkeeper have an intense rivalry fuelled by the fact that they were once romantically involved many years before. To spite her rival, the innkeeper arranges to ha ...
Genre :Comedy

il gobbo

1946-12-12 6

Malacarne

A film that is going to be viewed on Filmoteca ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

commissario

1953-11-20 0

Passionate song

Lucia Spinelli, orphaned by both parents, is taken as a housekeeper in the house of Mrs. Carla Parodi, when she reaches the age of majority, the young woman is almost forced to marry Mrs. Carla's brot ...
Genre :Drama, Music, Romance

Il maestro di musica

1952-11-21 0

Serenata amara

Mario and Fabrizio are two boxer friends who fall for the same girl and become enemies because of her. As time goes by things get better between the two men but... tragedy looms behind the corner. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Comisario Barreiro

1953-01-01 0

Siempre Carmen

Genre :Adventure

Ciccio

1950-04-30 0

Il principe ribelle

Genre :Drama, History

Torquato Merumi

1951-08-10 0

Buon viaggio, pover'uomo

A put upon, middle-aged employee receives a small sum of money as a gift and uses it to take a trip to Rome. ...
Genre :

1965-09-15 6.45

I Spy

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

Suocero di Bertolazzi

1970-04-19 0

FBI – Francesco Bertolazzi investigatore

FBI – Francesco Bertolazzi investigatore is an Italian television series. ...
Genre :Crime