Gianni Solaro
Acting
Biography
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Born: August 11, 1926
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Known For
Ben-Hur
In 26 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
Slap the Monster on Page One
Days before the general election, after a girl from a rich family is murdered in an attempted rape, the editor-in-chief of a conservative tabloid tries to derail the police investigation in order to help the right-wing candidates supported by his bosses.
The Traffic Policeman
An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.
The Beckett Affair
Rod Cooper, an American agent of the CIA, is sent to Paris to discover if colonel Segura, head of a clandestine organization which proclaims itself anti-Castroist, is playing a double game at the expense of the United States. He first tries to make contact with Ms Beckett, who should tell him. Segura's intentíons, but the woman is found killed. Subsequently, Rogerson, another American, presents Cooper to Segura himself and so Rod can enter his organization. Here he discovers that the colonel tries to attract a certain number of Americans to use them in an attack against the president of a state of southern America and thus promote communist expansion. Segura soon discovers Rod's real identity and tries to get rid of him; but the agent manages to reverse the situation and kills Segura in a shoot-out.
La Cittadella
La Cittadella is a 1964 Italian miniseries based on A. J. Cronin's 1937 novel, The Citadel, and produced by Radiotelevisione Italiana. It was directed by Anton Giulio Majano and stars Alberto Lupo as Dr. Manson and Anna Maria Guarnieri as his wife, Christine. Other television versions include an American, another Italian, and two British adaptations.
Execution Squad
Bertone is a moderately honest homicide cop. Unfortunately, the court system is so inept and corrupt that many more-or-less honest policemen have begun taking the law into their own hands. Between his efforts to thwart the growth of crime and to control his vengeful co-workers, homicide-chief Bertone has his hands full
We Want the Colonels
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!
The Assassination of Matteotti
How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.
Noi duri
Lieutenant Bombardone is in Paris to wipe out a gang of drug traffickers.
Untamable Angelique
Angelique goes in search of her husband Joffrey de Peyrac who did not die on the stake.
Filmography
as medico ospedaliero
as Magni, Amorini's lawyer
as Mr. Laurenti (uncredited)
as Angelo Bortolotti
as procuratore capo
as Ufficiale in Africa
as procuratore generale Crisafulli
as Victor
as On. Cicero
as Italo Martini
as Vecchio generale
as Manager in Erecting Yard
as Colonnello Foster
as Generale Puntoni
as il colonnello
as Don Ernesto
as Man from Boston
as A Guest (segment "Nuits romaines") (uncredited)
as Knight at auction (uncredited)
as James Coburn
as The Director of the Research Institute (uncredited)
as Banker
as Hans Vander Oder
as Col. Segura (as John Writting)
as pappagallo #2
as Fiksch
as Gonzalez
as Quinion
as C.I.A. Manager
as Franz Müller
as Teseo
as Flavio
as Senatore Flacco
as Tarrunius Cassus
as Cassius Chaerea
as Tibullo
as Sutton
as Nakassar
as Admiral Mendoza
as Captain Serpieri
as capitano Shvering
as Guzman
as Senator Macrino
as King Dagobert
as Ranco
as governatore della Florida
as Caesar
as Capitano delle guardie
as LaMotte
as Il comandante dei vigili
as Riko
as Galley Officer (uncredited)
as Captain of Spanish Ship