Giovanni Grasso
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Giovanni Grasso.
Born: November 11, 1888
Place of Birth: Catania, Italy
Known For
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.
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, the son of an aristocrat, who gets into political trouble and never gets out.
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 own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.
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. However, class conflict isn’t hidden by emotions and characters.
The Age of Indiscretion
In a small provincial Italian town, a fifteen-year-old boy meets and falls in love with a girl.
Easy Years
A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.
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. Salluste disguises Ruy Blas and presents him as Don Cesar. It doesn't take long before Ruy Blas, intelligent, virtuous and generous as he is becomes popular and the Queen, who has fallen in love with him, appoints him Prime Minister. All seems for the best in the best of worlds but Salluste has not forgotten his revenge, far from that ...
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.
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 troubles begins for everyone, in the form of a comic nightmare.
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.
Filmography
as Sindaco
as Il commissario Marzacchi (uncredited)
as Il portiere
as avvocato Benini
as onorevole Mario Rapisarda
as secondo giocatore
as Don Salvatore Morelli
as il presidente del tribunale
as suocero di Stefano
as Ispettore capo della polizia
as venditore di cocomeri
as Saverio Luparello
as Padre Gelsomino
as The brigadier
as Mascoli
as Don Gaspar Guritan
as Il brigante Lazzarini
as Oreste Bellotti
as Frate
as The paralyzed salesman
as Il capo-cuoco
as Carlo
as Donovan
as Don José di Nogueira
as Tishenko
as Stephan Tishenko
as Il dottore
as Il maestro Antonio
as Marco
as Gorman
as Il commissario
as Tabernero
as Il puparo
as Il 'commandante'
as Marco, il capo della piantagione
as Sergente Amato
as Gedeone
as Nunzio the Blind Man
as Alessandro
as Farmer