Gianfranco Barra
Acting
Biography
Gianfranco Barra was born on April 5, 1940 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor, known for Le talentueux Mr. Ripley (1999), Heaven (2002) and Avanti! (1972).
Born: April 6, 1940
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Known For
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.
Love and Anarchy
Set in Fascist Italy before the outbreak of World War II, the story centers on Tunin, a farmer turned anarchist who stays in a brothel while preparing to kill Benito Mussolini.
Tre donne - La sciantosa
La Sciantosa is part of a project created by writer/director Alfredo Gianetti for the Italian TV. The objective was to portrait a hundred years of Italian history through three movies, all of them with Anna Magnani. The other two are "1943: un incontro" and "L'autmobile". In this first movie, La Magnani is Flora Torres, a "sciantosa" (kind of a small stage diva) who is forgotten during the WWI, living only to remember her past glory. One day she receives a letter to present herself to the high command. There, Flora is called to go to the front and entertain the troops. Along with her maid Cristina, Flora goes to the front. There they are welcomed by the young private Tonino (Massimo Ranieri). Flora starts to act like a prima donna, making absurd demands to everyone. But when she is about to present herself, the vision of the wounded soldiers makes her change her way
Lion of the Desert
This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya during the second Italo-Senussi War. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.
Don't Torture a Duckling
A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.
Why
Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Swiden, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?
Giovanni Falcone
The story of the first ever "anti-mafia judges pool" established in the '80s at the Palermo Courthouse, in Sicily, in the '80s, while two mafia families started a 10-year-long war to obtain the complete control of smuggles.
Bread and Chocolate
An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.
The Seduction of Mimi
Voting against the Mafia in what he thinks is a secret ballot costs Sicilian laborer Mimi his livelihood. He leaves his wife, flees to Turin and romances a Communist organizer – but he just can’t shake the Mafia. When they lure Mimi back to Sicily with a better job, he must keep his lover – and love child – under wraps. That’s when his wife announces she’s pregnant.
Filmography
as Dottore
as Il Padre
as Professore
as Direttore di redazione
as Corrado
as Arturo
as don Vincenzo
as Onorevole
as The Lieutenant
as Osvaldo Pignatti
as Peppino
as Desk Manager Aldo
as Guido Puccini
as Don Paolo
as Giudice
as Prof. Lamberti (italiano)
as Avvocato
as on. Proietti
as Danieli Concierge
as Marrari
as Vincenzo Geraci
as Sparafico
as Porter
as Mazza - scriptwriter
as Marco Mazzone
as Ministro Difesa
as Manolo
as Biagio
as ispettore sanitario
as Sodomite
as Antonio Pinardi
as Professor Giandomenico Gelmetti
as Antonio
as Gianfranco
as Maralli - the Lawyer
as The Police Commissioner
as fotografo Perginetti
as funzionario del Totocalcio
as Torcillo
as Ispettore Patanè
as Professore agli esami
as Commissario di Polizia
as Commissario
as Abdul
as Dante Romani
as Commissario di Polizia
as Giudice
as Commissioner Nardecchia
as Lester
as Dottor Busatti
as Cantalamessa
as il mafioso
as Minatore
as Alberto Scapicolli
as Franco Corradini (segment "La squadra di calcio")
as Nocella, il piantone (uncredited)
as Preside
as Neighbour of Carminati
as De Luca
as Brigadier Caputo
as il portiere
as Dottor Gargiulo
as The turk
as cliente hotel
as Un agente
as Policeman Barra
as Bruno
as Impallomeni (uncredited)
as Carabiniere
as Fish Seller
as Agente Esposito
as Brigadiere Amilcare Finocchiaro
as Interrogation Officer (uncredited)
as Dr. Sandolini