Armando Brancia
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Armando Brancia.
Born: September 9, 1917
Place of Birth: Napoli, Italy
Known For
Amarcord
In an Italian seaside town, young Titta gets into trouble with his friends and watches various local eccentrics as they engage in often absurd behavior. Frequently clashing with his stern father and defended by his doting mother, Titta witnesses the actions of a wide range of characters, from his extended family to Fascist loyalists to sensual women, with certain moments shifting into fantastical scenarios.
Grand Hotel Excelsior
Taddeus is the manager of the Grand Hotel Excelsior. The Summer season begins in May and since then many odd persons frequent the hotel. There is Ilde Vivaldi, in love with Taddeus and the boxer Pericle Coccia who has an important match and falls in love with Maria. There is the Mago di Segrate trying to win world fame by levitating thirty meters high. And there is the waiter Egisto whose daughter is in a Swiss College believing her father is a man of importance.
The Cat
Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium. They want to sell it, but before they have to evict all the tenants. Of course, these don't want to leave at all. The cat (Il Gatto), mascot and beloved by all, dies and this gives the two an excuse to enter the tenants' life. Amedeo starts to court the young Wanda and Ofelia seduces the priest Don Pezzolla. In the meantime police is looking for the cat killer...
Cocktail Molotov
"Cocktail Molotov" is the story of the adventures of this threesome, who reach Venice only to learn of the outbreak of the May 1968 disturbances at home. Once again, Anne, Frederic and Bruno realize that the important things of their time are happening somewhere where they are not. Swindled out of their car and virtually broke, they hitchhike back to Paris, hoping to arrive in time for some of the excitement.
A Common Sense of Modesty
The film is divided into four episodes that blends sex and comedy.
Policewoman
A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.
Cream Horn
Mariana and Domenico are on the run from her jealous boyfriend who just happens to be an over-jealous professional football player.
Wifemistress
A vineyard's manager marries the owner's very young daughter; father dies. Deceit, infidelity. The husband is forced to watch from a distance as his wife blossom socially in his absence; then the plot thickens.
To Forget Venice
Nicky and Anna, brother and sister, reunite in their childhood home in the Venetian countryside. Accompanied by Anna's lover, Claudia, and Nicky's partner, Picchio, they plan to spend a Sunday together when fate intervenes.
Ante Up
In Luino, on Lake Maggiore, during the fascist twenty years, a group of friends belonging to the bourgeoisie spend the nights in the underground gambling den of the Metropolitan Hotel between poker games, gossip, manly goliards and escapades to the house of tolerance.
Filmography
as Self
as Capece
as Cav. Remondini
as Bertolazzi
as Gaetano Salvemini
as Cardinale Libotte
as Frederic's father
as Owner of restaurant
as Il prete
as Police Chief
as Head Doctor
as Bernasconi, President (Segment "La Squadra Di Calcio")
as Giancarlo Rossetti
as (uncredited)
as Don Pezzotta
as Inspector Carrara
as Mazzaturconi
as Senatore Giuseppe Brembani
as Commendatore
as Zevi
as Aurelio Biondi
as Billings
as Background