Adolfo Celi

AKA: آدولفو چلی

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1922-07-27

Messina, Sicily, Italy

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Adolfo Celi (27 July 1922 –19 February 1986) was an Italian film actor and director.

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Emilio Largo

1965-12-11 6.7

Thunderball

A criminal organization has obtained two nuclear bombs and are asking for a 100 million pound ransom in the form of diamonds in seven days or they will use the weapons. The secret service sends James ...

Genre :Adventure, Action, Thriller

Konsul

1972-03-03 7

Brother Sun, Sister Moon

In his delirium from his return from war, Francesco Bernardone goes back in his memories to the days when he lived for parties and carnal pleasures. He slowly recovers, but after the illness he is no ...

Genre :Drama, History

Señor Mario De Castro

1964-02-05 7.4

That Man from Rio

French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, ...

Genre :Adventure, Action, Comedy

Ralph Valmont

1968-01-24 6.4

Danger: Diabolik

International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while European cops led by Inspector Ginko and envious mobsters led by Ralph Valmont are closing i ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Thriller

General André Salvé

1974-09-24 5.7

And Then There Were None

Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer? ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery, Horror

Agostini Manetta

1966-12-21 7.2

Grand Prix

The most daring drivers in the world have gathered to compete for the 1966 Formula One championship. After a spectacular wreck in the first of a series of races, American wheelman Pete Aron is dropped ...

Genre :Action, Drama

Il Professor Sassaroli

1975-10-24 8.1

My Friends

Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them. ...

Genre :Comedy

The Doctor

1974-09-10 7.4

The Phantom of Liberty

This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely relate ...

Genre :Comedy

Battaglia

1965-06-23 7.1

Von Ryan's Express

Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commandin ...

Genre :War, Action, Adventure, Thriller

Gustav

1981-12-18 6.6

Madly in Love

Cristina is a rich, spoiled princess visiting Rome with her royal parents. The mission of their visit is to marry her off to a super-wealthy corporate type and thereby start to turn around the losses ...

Genre :Comedy

Professeur Sassaroli

1982-12-22 7.621

My Friends Act II

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they rec ...

Genre :Comedy

Professor Sassaroli

1985-06-06 6.4

My Friends Act III

This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone ...

Genre :Comedy

Sandri

1969-09-11 3.3

A Man for Emmanuelle

Genre :Drama

Giovanni de' Medici

1965-09-16 7.1

The Agony and the Ecstasy

During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in ...

Genre :Drama, History

Inspector Rizzi

1967-05-21 6.4

The Honey Pot

A millionaire fakes a terminal illness to fleece his former girlfriends. ...

Genre :Comedy, Mystery, Crime

Don Vito Tressoldi

1972-09-02 6.991

The Italian Connection

When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thie ...

Genre :Crime, Action

Inspector Vidocq

1971-07-21 5.1

Murders in the Rue Morgue

In Paris, in the beginning of the Twentieth Century, Cesar Charron owns a theater at the Rue Morgue where he performs the play "Murders in the Rue Morgue" with his wife Madeleine Charron, who has drea ...

Genre :Crime, Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Romance

General Hans Krebs

1973-04-19 6.1

Hitler: The Last Ten Days

Hitler: The Last Ten Days takes us into the depths of der Furher’s Berlin bunker during his final days. Based on the book by Gerhard Boldt, it provides a bleak look at the goings-on within, and withou ...

Genre :Drama, War, History

Avvocato Fontana

1969-09-06 5.2

Detective Belli

A crooked detective begins investigating a situation on behalf of a friend and gets involved in murder, deception and double-cross. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Re Boemondo

1970-12-24 7.2

Brancaleone at the Crusades

After saving an infant of royal blood, knight Brancaleone forms a new army and sets out to return the baby to his father: a prince fighting in the Crusades. ...

Genre :Comedy, Adventure

Goncalvo Gherardeschi

1984-02-16 6.925

Cinderella '80

A feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her irascible stepmother and vain stepsisters. On the way, she meets and falls in love with, globetrotting bagpack ...

Genre :Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Music

Don Carmelo

1972-08-11 0

The Long Arm of the Godfather

A treacherous low-level mafioso greedily rips off a shipment of arms from his powerful godfather and tries to sell them to an especially dubious group of Arabs ...

Genre :Crime, Action

Frank

1972-03-24 5.591

Eye in the Labyrinth

Julie is disturbed by the disappearance of her psychiatrist boyfriend Luca following a bizarre dream where she witnessed him murdered. She travels to a seaside village where he might be and encounters ...

Genre :Horror, Thriller

Signor Bardoni

1970-09-03 5.9

Fragment of Fear

Reformed drug addict Tim Brett (David Hemmings) is vacationing in Italy with his aunt. When she is murdered, he tries to investigate. Soon his whole life spins out of control. ...

Genre :Thriller, Crime, Mystery

Mark Milford

1967-09-28 7.1

Grand Slam

Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to put together a team to pull off a diamond heist dur ...

Genre :Crime

Le commissaire divisionnaire

1970-10-05 6.4

The Cop

A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge against villainous drug dealers. Word comes down from above that the United States feels French authorit ...

Genre :Drama, Crime, Thriller

Al Sharif

1976-11-10 4.364

The Next Man

Khalil is an Arab diplomat who wants to not only make peace with Israel, but admit the Jewish state as a member of OPEC. This instantly makes him a target for a series of ingeniously conceived assassi ...

Genre :Action, Thriller

Polizeichef

1976-03-11 6.1

Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man

Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy who are licensed-to-kill, undercover cops and who love to live dangerously. ...

Genre :Action, Crime

Giovanni Nosferatu

1971-07-02 6.321

They Have Changed Their Face

A mid-level automotive company employee is summoned to the mountain villa of owner Giovanni Nosferatu, only to discover a glossy netherworld where capitalism is the new vampirism, and escape may be im ...

Genre :Mystery, Horror

Grande Concho

1966-08-25 5.3

Yankee

A man referred to only as "Yankee" rides into a dying, desolate town in frontier New Mexico which is completely controlled by a man called the "Grand Cougar." Almost immediately, a battle for dominanc ...

Genre :Western

Friar Baldwin

1968-01-01 6.4

Death Sentence

Four men killed Django's brother a long time ago. A withdrawn rancher, a notorious card player, a despotic priest and a crazy albino with an obsession for gold. The relentless Django seeks for revenge ...

Genre :Western

Mr. Thai - 'Beta'

1967-04-20 4.4

Operation Kid Brother

The evil crime syndicate Thanatos is bent on taking over the world, using a magnetic wave generator that will cause all metal-based machinery to grind to a halt. However, the well-known British secret ...

Genre :Action, Thriller

Commissario Lo Gallo

1976-12-04 6.2

Merciless Man

The city suffers and succumbs unarmed, but an ex secret agent succeeds in winning the struggle against the gangsterism. Intrigue and violence grip a society victim of the crime. ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller

Sir Harold Boyd

1978-11-24 4.8

The Perfect Crime

The death of a multinational company’s chairman induces the three candidates for the chairmanship to plot against one another for control of the business. ...

Genre :Crime, Thriller, Mystery

"der Professor"

1969-11-25 3.95

Death Knocks Twice

When private detective Bob Martin looking for a stolen diamond necklace, he also has a clever serial killer on the trail ... ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller

Me Desbordes

1973-06-14 4.7

Le Mataf

When intruders interfere in the robbery of Le Mataf (Michel Constantin) and his gang and a girl is murdered, they are set up for blackmail by an underworld figure who wants them to do a job for him... ...

Genre :Thriller

Hermes

1970-08-06 0

The Night of the Assassin

During the civil war in Cyprus, an island nation split between the Greeks and the Turks, a British peacekeeping officer is trying to prevent a Greek guerrilla fighter from escalating the violent situa ...

Genre :Drama, Thriller, War

Cardinal Vinci

1982-10-22 4.2

Monsignor

The vows of an ambitious young American priest are tested during World War II. Not only does Father John Flaherty get involved with the black market to raise money for the Vatican, he also falls in lo ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, War

Francisco Carbonell

1967-03-31 6

The Bobo

Unsuccessful singing bullfighter Juan arrives in Barcelona to try his luck in a big town. He finally persuades a devious local impresario to book him, but only on the condition that Juan first manages ...

Genre :Comedy

Gefängnisdirektor

1968-04-25 6.8

Seven Times Seven

A gang of prison inmates escape to do a job at the Royal Mint, with only the time of the Cup Final to get back into the Scrubs. ...

Genre :Crime, Comedy

Felice Valente - Libera's father

1975-03-21 5.3

Libera, My Love

A strong-willed woman risks everything to support the cause of anti-fascism in World War II Italy. ...

Genre :Drama

César Martín de Valdés 'Duque'

1971-08-06 2.667

Una chica casi decente

Cesar Martin, better known as El Duque, is an elegant, charming and intelligent man, who has been obliged to be known by heart the Penal Code, as their profession is the scam. Cesar has another weakne ...

Genre :Comedy

Professor Della Porta

1964-12-26 6.7

Beautiful Families

The film's theme is four episodes that offer the public a glimpse into the lives of rich and poor families in Italy in the 1960s. ...

Genre :Comedy

Henry Perkins

1966-09-29 6.1

Target for Killing

A secret agent is charged with preventing a crime syndicate's plot to assassinate a young heiress. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Thriller

Bernardozzo

1966-10-12 6.3

Pleasant Nights

A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages. ...

Genre :Comedy

Eugenio - the president

1978-09-07 5.9

Le braghe del padrone

The young Vittorio Pieroni throws himself from a railway overpass when a train is passing by; escaped suicide and rescued by an ambulance, remembers the circumstances that led him to commit that gestu ...

Genre :Comedy

Tom

1946-09-07 0

Un americano in vacanza

Genre :Romance, Comedy

General Ferranti

1969-05-07 3.6

Midas Run

A veteran secret service officer from Britain hijacks a government shipment of $15 million of gold out of an irritation for never being knighted. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Comedy, Romance

Msgr. Radini Tedeschi

1965-11-19 6.3

A Man Named John

Based on the diary Pope John XXIII kept between the ages of 14 and 18, his lifelong concern for tolerance, the underprivileged, and world peace is told. Rod Steiger, in the central role, acts as "inte ...

Genre :Drama, History

Father Borelli

1974-11-22 5.056

The Tempter

A young writer is invited to stay in a religious hostel run by a sinister, manipulative nun who plays deadly psychological games with the inhabitants. ...

Genre :Drama

Aristide Bertelli

1977-11-09 3.8

Pane, burro e marmellata

Bruno De Santis, successful TV presenter, was left by his wife Sofia. One day he decides to call her to convince her to come back but her device is broken. By a strange twist of fate, it happens in th ...

Genre :Comedy

Max

1969-11-01 4.429

In Search of Gregory

Young Catherine Morelli, who lives in Rome, goes to Geneva to find romance at her father's wedding. There she begins a near nymphomaniac pursuit of a mystery man called Gregory. ...

Genre :Romance, Drama

Luc Rollman

1967-09-21 5.2

Dirty Heroes

Set near the end of World War II in the Netherlands, Dirty Heroes concerns a group of ex-convicts recruited into the U.S. Army to recover Dutch jewels originally stolen by the Nazis as well as confisc ...

Genre :War, Action

Bayon / Guinet

1968-08-10 5

It's Your Move

A criminal plots a bank robbery hinging on doubles of the employees. ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Carcamano

1978-03-25 4.9

Professor Kranz german in Germany

The story of a German scientist/stage magician eking out a miserly life in Rio de Janeiro's favelas until getting involved in an improbable kidnapping and ransom plot. ...

Genre :Comedy

Polizeipräsident

1980-04-17 6.6

Carnapping - Ordered, Stolen and Sold

When designer Robert Meering returns from vacation, he discovers the company he worked for unexpectedly went bankrupt so he decides to visit his old boss. His former employer Banninger liquidated the ...

Genre :Thriller, Action, Drama

Don Miguel de las Cuevas

1966-08-15 5

El Greco

Greek painter Domenikos Theotokopoulos (Mel Ferrer) woos a beauty (Rosanna Schiaffino) and faces the Inquisition in 16th-century Spain. ...

Genre :Drama, History

Antonio

1976-08-04 6.2

Confessions of a Frustrated Housewife

A wealthy man suffers from impotence whenever he tries to make love to his wife. Since Viagara hadn't been invented yet, his swinging liberal doctor instead recommends a strong dose of infidelity. Bef ...

Genre :Drama

Self (archive footage)

2006-02-19 7

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds

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Genre :Documentary

Mr. Bernard

1967-02-23 0

Master Stroke

An actor is approached by a group of men offering him a job posing as an executive at a diamond exchange to help them pull off a robbery. ...

Genre :Crime

Marco Tarocchi Roda

1969-07-02 6

The Archangel

Furio Bertuccia, a corruptible lawyer who defends lost causes, is hired by the glamorous model Gloria Bianchi to defend her from the alleged murder of her lover. ...

Genre :Crime, Comedy

Adolfo

1969-02-13 5

Alibi

Three friends meeting after the absence of one of them for 15 years out of the country. This sudden gathering give them the opportunity to examine their life, to criticize one another on their achieve ...

Genre :Comedy

Commissioner Rizzuto

1973-01-02 7

Holidays

Rossini, history teacher and son of another professor, for his liberal ideas refuses to sign the oath of allegiance to the the fascist regime that Mussolini imposed on the professors university. After ...

Genre :

Riccardo

1965-09-24 6

Snow Job

Lucio sees his holiday on the Italian Alps interrupted when he is suddenly and unwillingly involved in an International plot involving fake dollar bills. ...

Genre :Thriller, Comedy

Boetani

1977-03-09 5.556

The Passengers

A man and his stepson driving across Europe are terrorized by a man following them in a pickup truck. ...

Genre :Thriller

Il professore

1948-09-28 6.5

Emigrantes

Genre :Drama

Dr. Monforte

1974-12-21 7

The Balloon Vendor

A young boy tries to make living out of a puppet show when his mother abandons him and his father. ...

Genre :Drama

Alberto

1964-10-08 5.8

Three Nights of Love

Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaak as "out of place" women longing for love, in a S ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama

1977-12-11 0

Edipo Re

Genre :Drama

Self (archive footage)

2017-10-10 0

Paulo Autran – O Senhor dos Palcos

A portrait of the evolution of theater in the 20th century and a deep reflection on the art of acting through the career of Paulo Autran (1922-2007), one of the greatest actors in Brazil. ...

Genre :Documentary

Karl Maria van Beethoven

1968-09-28 6

Fantabulous Inc.

An ordinary man is snatched off the streets and turned into a man with incredible powers by an insidious company hell bent on world domination. ...

Genre :Action, Science Fiction

The Pole

1973-03-03 0

1931: Once Upon a Time in New York

In 1931, when the late American Prohibition major bosses have now divided the territory to exploit, the family of one of them - killed in a clash - decides to send half a million dollars in Sicily hid ...

Genre :Action, Crime, Drama

President of the Court

1976-10-29 7.351

Horse Fever

Bruno Fioretti, known as "Mandrake", is an inveterate gambler who never misses a day at the horse racing track in Rome. He is doubly unlucky: he bets too much on one horse, and his wife is sleeping wi ...

Genre :Comedy

Chief Inspector Ramacci Pisanelli

1980-02-16 7.037

Café Express

An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train. ...

Genre :Comedy

Taladis

1982-02-04 0

La sconosciuta

The story begins with the mysterious death of a foreigner in Rome. The man, who has just found traces of his wife disappeared four years earlier, is killed. His wife reappears and she is involved in ...

Genre :Crime, TV Movie, Thriller

Vladimiro Palese

1976-10-28 6.667

Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen

An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. ...

Genre :Comedy

Don Pietro Tassinare

1948-09-10 6.9

Guaglio

On his way to Africa, Don Pietro, a young missionary priest has his suitcase stolen in the station of Naples. While trying to retrieve his baggage he realizes how miserable the city of Naples is. Then ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Giudice Damiani

1976-08-07 5.3

The Landlord

Giorgia and her sister inherit a villa and decide to turn it into a pension. When the sister orders the advertising, the brochure, together with the name, Pension Paradise, leads people to believe it ...

Genre :Comedy

James Brooke

1977-12-22 6

The Tiger Is Still Alive: Sandokan to the Rescue

The pirate Sandokan, the Bengal tiger and the East India Company's terror, fighting the British Empire and the ondeskefulla James Brooke, rahjan of Sarawak. ...

Genre :Action, Adventure

John, il sergente americano

1947-12-22 6.6

Christmas at Camp 119

Second World War . Field 119 in California (USA ) . War is long over , but the Italian Prisoners Still waiting to return home , preparing to celebrate , away from families , another sad Christmas. To ...

Genre :Drama, Comedy

Benvenuto

1964-11-04 4.9

Male Companion

A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself. ...

Genre :Comedy

Schottischer Colonel

1966-12-21 6.9

King of Hearts

An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have s ...

Genre :Comedy, Drama, War

Rifai

1976-11-27 4.5

The Big Operator

The aging villain Émile Morland talks his old friend Aristide into helping him with to kidnap the son of a millionaire. ...

Genre :Comedy

Dr. Kerouac

1977-11-25 5.818

Holocaust 2000

An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to be the Anti Christ -- from blowing it up. ...

Genre :Science Fiction, Drama, Horror

L'onorevole

1976-03-11 2

Pure as a Lily

Anthony M. Wilson is an English gentleman. He has a string of restaurants in London plus a beautiful house decorated with all the trendy art he can get. ...

Genre :Comedy, Crime

Self

1982-01-01 4

Di padre in figlio

Genre :Documentary

Mr. Van Willie

1965-02-17 6.5

Crime on a Summer Morning

An ill-assorted group of international criminals executes a tightly-planned ransom sting in Spain. Things go along swimmingly until various tensions within the group come to the fore. ...

Genre :Crime, Drama

Dottore

1977-02-26 0

Che notte quella notte!

Genre :Comedy

Inspector Vezzi

1972-04-15 6.3

Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why?

Carlo, a young photographer, is making love with his girlfriend at the beach when he witnesses a murder being feebly staged to look like a car accident. Carlo takes incriminating shots of the murdere ...

Genre :Thriller

Serafian

1972-05-12 6.365

Who Saw Her Die?

Between a four-year gap in the murder of a young girl, the daughter of a well-known sculptor is discovered dead, and her parents conduct an investigation, only to discover they are in over their heads ...

Genre :Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Horror

Inspector Huber

1972-05-29 5.8

Naked Girl Killed in the Park

Johan Wallenberger, a rich financier, is killed in the House of Horrors at an amusement park in Madrid. His insurance company assign Chris Buyer, one of their best agents, to investigate because a few ...

Genre :Horror, Mystery, Thriller

1994-08-03 0

O Construtor de Sonhos

Genre :Documentary

Sir Henry

1982-03-04 0

L'Occhio di Giuda

The plot revolves around a mysterious murder that occurs during a storm, with the victim found in a room locked from the inside. The investigation focuses on a group of people, each with their own sec ...

Genre :Mystery, Crime, Thriller, TV Movie

1963-11-19 5.1

Sandokan the Great

After the capture of the Sultan of Muluder, Sandokan, the sultan's son, leads a guerilla army through treacherous jungles to free his father and defeat Queen Victoria's army of invaders. ...

Genre :Adventure

James Brooke

1976-01-06 7.133

Sandokan

In this mini-series in six parts from 1976 the Indian actor Kabir Bedi plays the lead role. Carol Andre plays Lady Marianna Guillonk and as Sandokans best friend Yanez de Gomera we see Phillipe Leroy. ...

Genre :Action & Adventure

Rodrigo Borgia

1981-10-14 8

The Borgias

A a serial in ten parts on the lives of one of the most intriguing families in history. ...

Genre :Drama

Don Mariano D'Agrò

1975-11-23 8.2

L'amaro caso della Baronessa di Carini

Sicily 1812: the first liberal constitution shall put an end to the privileges of the feudal lords. Luca Corbara, sent by the Minister of Finance to control the landed properties, begins to suspect th ...

Genre :Drama

Oreste Balestrini

1984-05-06 5.5

T.I.R.

Genre :

Joe Petrosino

1972-10-15 0

Joe Petrosino

Genre :Crime

Goncalvo Gherardeschi

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Cinderella '87

In this contemporary retelling of the Cinderella story, a feisty 18-year-old Italian-American New Yorker named Cindy is sent off to Rome with her irascible stepmother and vain stepsisters. On the way, ...