Ivo Garrani
Acting
Biography
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Born: February 6, 1924
Known For
The Betrothed
Renzo Tramaglino and Lucia Mondella are two poor farmers who are in love, but they are hampered by the wickedness of the powerful Don Rodrigo, who secretly loves Lucia. The two run away from Lake Como where they live, and take refuge inland.
The Leopard
As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi, to marry Angelica, the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.
South Wind
Antonio Spagara, a young Sicilian worker, has been assigned by the Mafia to murder a nobleman, Marquis Macri. But at the last minute Antonio reneges on his commitment and instead of killing the father, he flees to Palermo with Grazia, his daughter. Life is not a bed of roses in the Sicilian capital, as the young man must impose himself to face his godfather and Grazia's despotic sister Dorotea. To make matters worse, the Mafia is not going to tolerate Antonio's desertion...
Caliber 9
Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss. Caliber 9 is the first part in Di Leo's "Milieu" Trilogy of poliziotteschi films. It was followed by "The Italian Connection" (1972) and "The Boss" (1973).
General Della Rovere
The Gestapo forces con man Victorio Bardone to impersonate a dead partisan general in order to extract information from his fellow inmates.
Black Sunday
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
Adua and Her Friends
When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business running a restaurant. They discover they cannot escape their past.
Liberation: The Fire Bulge
The "Fiery Arc" tells of a grandiose battle on the Kursk Bulge in the summer of 1943. Here was the largest tank battle in the history of World War II. Along with the personal fate of the heroes, the film shows battle scenes, the activities of headquarters and intelligence, those who worked at the front and in the rear.
Aphrodite, Goddess of Love
The construction of great temple dedicated to the goddess Aphrodite, followed by new and high taxes and the arrival of a plague, create discontent in the population, and threatens the love between a sculptor and a slave.
Special Section
In Nazi-occupied France, a German officer is assassinated. The Germans demand justice, and the Vichy government is quick to capitulate. Unable to apprehend the actual culprits, Minister of Justice Joseph Barthélémy decides the execution of token Frenchmen will suffice, but the problem is finding judges and jurors eager to participate in a sham trial of innocent men. The solution is a Special Section, a court comprised of individuals handpicked for this exact purpose.
Filmography
as Prete
as Judge Gaetano Costa
as Umberto Curti
as Ettore
as Monsignor Fantazzini
as Capo di Stato Maggiore della Difesa
as Colonnello
as Boss Michele Ferro
as Prime Minister
as Salvatore Francesco
as L'amiral François Darlan
as Lucetta's father
as Nicola Lombardo
as Don Vincenzo
as Attorney General
as Maddalena's husband
as Marshal Soult
as Mussolini
as Mussolini
as Benito Mussolini
as il Barone Nardò
as Mussolini
as Leon
as Duca Pandolfo
as Scevola
as avvocato
as Gedeone / Gideon
as Il Babbo
as Laubardemont
as L'Innominato
as Possamai
as Colonel Pallavicino
as Roberto Farinacci
as Erede siciliano (uncredited)
as Mavroti
as Colonel Dionne
as Julius Caesar - Roman Triunvir
as Giovanni Ferroni
as Andrea
as Re di Megara
as Moretti
as Governor Don José Guzman
as avvocato
as Inspector Brochard
as Prince Vajda
as Vincent Micocci
as Thala
as Creuso
as Partisan chief (uncredited)
as Belar
as Narrator (voice)
as Monsieur Moulinet
as Silver John
as Padrino
as Professor Herbert Weisse
as Antigono
as Un dottore
as Pelias, King of Iolcus
as Carlo Magno
as Secondo ufficiale inquirente
as Il medico