Giovanni Grasso

AKA: Giovanni Grasso jr., Giovanni Grasso junior
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1888-11-11

Catania, Italy

Biography

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Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {52}

1951-08-09 0

Serenata tragica

Genre :

il presidente del tribunale

1952-09-28 5.1

Times Gone By

A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories. ...
Genre :Comedy

Il 'commandante'

1939-01-30 0

The Little Adventurers

During the Ethiopian war, thirteen boys embark clandestinely on a merchant ship bound for Africa. Following the shipwreck, they are castaway on a desert island... ...
Genre :Adventure

Saverio Luparello

1950-11-01 4

The Fighting Men

Saverio Luparello is the manager of Sicilian baron Occipinti's estate. The cunning greedy man intentionally lets the land turn into a wasteland, hoping that his employer, discouraged by its low return ...
Genre :Drama

Il brigante Lazzarini

1947-10-22 4.7

Il passatore

The story of the most infamous bandit in Romagna, who robbed from the rich to give to the poor. ...
Genre :Drama, Adventure

Il puparo

1939-04-17 0

Terra di nessuno

Genre :Drama

Liborio, il capitano siciliano

1940-05-19 0

Mare

Genre :Drama

Mascoli

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

1910-01-01 0

Muerte civil

A man sentenced to life imprisonment who escaped from prison, commits suicide so as not to be an obstacle for his wife and daughter, who had built a new life. ...
Genre :

Il dottore

1942-01-26 0

I Live as I Please

A young farmer, with a magnificent voice, receives an invitation to present himself in a large theater to be hired. In reality, the invitation is a joke made by his cousin. ...
Genre :Comedy

Il capo-cuoco

1943-05-31 5.8

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

avvocato Benini

1954-01-09 4.5

In amore si pecca in due

Luisa Galli moves to Rome in search of a respectable job, but instead just finds a job as a waitress for the lawyer Giorgi ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

1950-02-22 4.3

Margaret of Cortona

A Tuscan peasant girl in the 13th century overcomes sexual harassment, and the skepticism of her fellow citizens, as she saves plague victims, works miracles, and eventually becomes a saint. ...
Genre :Drama, History

Maresciallo Grandi

1949-01-01 0

Vento d'Africa

Genre :Drama

venditore di cocomeri

1951-12-20 6.6

La famiglia Passaguai

When Passaguai family patriarch Giuseppe (Fabrizi) decides to take advantage of a corporate discount to bring his wife (Ninchi) and children to spend a Sunday at the beach of Fiumicino, a series of tr ...
Genre :Comedy

Nicola Bellamonte

1934-01-01 10

Port

Directed by Amleto Palermi ...
Genre :Drama

1950-09-29 6.1

First Communion

The daughter of Signor Carloni is about to take her first communion. A problem arises when the dressmaker spends too much time working on the girl's communion frock. ...
Genre :Comedy

Sergente Amato

1937-01-02 3.2

Sentinels of Bronze

A few months before the Ethiopian war. The Abyssinian army lays siege to a fort where the leaders of the tribes loyal to the Italians have taken refuge. The commander of the fort must hold out, and th ...
Genre :Drama, War

Il maestro Antonio

1941-10-23 0

Il vetturale del San Gottardo

Genre :Drama

Don José di Nogueira

1942-10-04 6.5

Don Cesare of Bazan

In Barcelona, in 1650, Count Don Cesare di Bazan tries to foil, with the help of an actress, a plot hatched against the king by the French ambassador. ...
Genre :Comedy

1952-12-16 5

Melodie immortali - Mascagni

Genre :Music, Drama

Il commissario

1939-11-26 4.8

Retroscena

Called to perform at the Scala, a young baritone begins a transatlantic romance with a famous pianist. The singer, having been skewered by a critic after his last performance in Milan, attempts to fin ...
Genre :Comedy, Romance, Music

onorevole Mario Rapisarda

1953-11-12 6.8

Easy Years

A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption. ...
Genre :Comedy

1957-04-27 0

Onore e sangue

A humble clerk is forced to take on debts to cure his mother. ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

suocero di Stefano

1952-04-27 0

Gli innocenti pagano

Back from the war, a man discovers that his daughter has died and his wife has left their house. He searches for the girlfriend of a fellow soldier and falls for her. ...
Genre :Drama

Marco

1941-01-10 0

Ragazza che dorme

In a village, rumours spread that a treasure is hidden nearby. To finance the search, a farmer sells a 14th-century painting of the Madonna, leaving it with a master restorer. The farmer's daughter, w ...
Genre :Drama

The paralyzed salesman

1945-02-16 6.7

The Gate of Heaven

Episodic film with flashbacks about the lives of some sick and infirm people travelling on the same train, making a pilgrimage to the shine of Our Lady of Loreto. ...
Genre :Drama

Il commissario Marzacchi (uncredited)

1955-03-02 6.5

Toto and Carolina

During a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent, a widower named Antonio Caccavallo, stays to get better acquainted with the young Carolina. ...
Genre :Comedy

The brigadier

1950-02-15 5.813

Welcome Reverend!

A disguised thief talks himself into a countryside class fight immediately after WWII. ...
Genre :Comedy

1953-07-11 0

Cuore di spia

"Spy Heart" - A fisherman is seduced by a young spy who has helped his brother, blind from birth, to get a job as a singer on the radio. But the young man is not satisfied with that relationship and r ...
Genre :Drama

Nunzio the Blind Man

1914-11-01 0

Lost in the Dark

Paolina is the illegitimate daughter of the Duke of Vallenza, and lives as a beggar. She meets with Nunzio, a blind man who plays violin, exploited by his stepfather, and the two fall in love. The old ...
Genre :Drama

Gedeone

1932-07-31 0

The operator

Two different couples on blind dates get mixed up when they pick the same location to meet. ...
Genre :Comedy

Marco, il capo della piantagione

1938-01-08 0

Under the Southern Cross

Two partners return from the war to find their coffee plantation in the hands of an unscrupulous overseer. One is attracted to an exotic native girl that the overseer has at the plantation. ...
Genre :Adventure

Don Salvatore Morelli

1952-10-29 0

Melody of Love

A comedy with lots of Neapolitan songs and shots of the Bay of Naples finds Maria Morelli unable to marry her singing sailor/lover, Giacomo because her father, Don Salvatdore Morelli objects. She can' ...
Genre :Drama, Romance, Music

Alessandro

1912-01-01 7

Un amore selvaggio

A countryside adventure: two siblings, ill at ease in a subordinate social position, challenge the owner Alessandro; Giuseppe doesn’t want to work for him, while Carmela wants to force him to love her ...
Genre :Drama

Don Gaspar Guritan

1948-02-17 6.9

The Queen's Lover

Exiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the Queen. One day he meets Ruy Blas, a young student who happens to be a lookalike of Don Cesar, his nephew ...
Genre :Drama

secondo giocatore

1953-08-23 7

The Age of Indiscretion

In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl. ...
Genre :Comedy

Stephan Tishenko

1942-09-14 8.2

We the Living, Part One

At 18, the beautiful and intelligent Kira comes to Petersburg as the Communists consolidate power. She rebuffs a cousin who rises in the Party and may remember the slight. She falls in love with Leo, ...
Genre :Adventure, Drama, Romance

Sindaco

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

Tishenko

1942-09-15 9

We the Living, Part Two

After having been captured in a Crimea during a failed attempt to flee overseas, Leo returns in Petersburg for Kira. ...
Genre :Drama

Tabernero

1939-10-20 5.9

Los hijos de la noche

A marginal group celebrates Christmas Eve singing and dancing in the street while a millionaire celebrates the feast offering a great dinner to his friends. The millionaire receives a telegram from hi ...
Genre :Comedy

Carlos Aguilera

1942-11-23 0

Madrid de mis sueños

Genre :Comedy

Oreste Bellotti

1947-03-21 0

The Great Dawn

Genre :Drama

1924-01-01 0

Cavalleria rusticana

Genre :

1923-01-01 0

L' ospite sconosciuta

Genre :

Il portiere

1954-02-03 6.458

Of Life and Love

A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law cou ...
Genre :Comedy

Ispettore capo della polizia

1952-04-18 0

Fugitive in Trieste

An Italian Air Force officer is pursued and captured by the Allied police and is charged with the bombing of a hospital ship. Through the efforts of his sweetheart, a witness is found who proves the b ...
Genre :Drama

1949-09-15 0

Attendimi - Sono io l'assassino

Genre :Drama

Carlo

1943-02-01 0

Buongiorno, Madrid!

Genre :Comedy

Frate

1945-04-18 0

All'ombra della gloria

Genre :

Padre Gelsomino

1950-04-30 0

Il principe ribelle

Genre :Drama, History

Donovan

1942-12-24 0

Il fanciullo del West

Comedy Western ...
Genre :Comedy, Western