Luciano Salce
Directing
Biography
Luciano Salce (25 September 1922 – 17 December 1989) was an Italian film director, comedian, television host, producer, actor and lyricist. His 1962 film Le pillole di Ercole was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival. As a writer of pop music, he used the pseudonym Pilantra. During World War II, he was a prisoner in Germany. He later worked for several years in Brazil.
Born: September 25, 1922
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Known For
Coup D'Etat
Italy, 1972. Political elections are taking place and Christian Democrat victory is expected; but the electronic computer of the Ministry of the Interior reveals that the party with the highest number is the Italian Communist Party.
The Fascist
1944. Primo Arcovazzi is a fanatical and dim-witted Fascist Party militiaman who accepts to escort an opponent of the regime to Rome in the hope of be promoted — still oblivious as ever to the forthcoming fall of the regime.
Vieni avanti cretino
Pasquale Baudaffi, on amnesty, comes out of prison and starts looking for a job with the help of his cousin Gaetano. But first he goes to what was once a brothel, but, unbeknownst to our hapless hero, has been taken over and rented as a dental office. Pasquale finds himself at the center of endless misunderstandings. He tries to be a gamekeeper but that's not okay, he tries to be a waiter in a bar: he immediately gets his orders wrong and he is fired. His performance as a garage keeper was negative. The very latest experience is in an electronics company but its insertion into the futuristic mechanism triggers the craziest complications. The encounter with a lost dog allows him to get to know his mistress and thus discover the woman of his life.
Maid, Thief and Guard
Otello, an amateur thief, tries a burglary on New Year Eve but he finds the maid Adalgisa in the supposedly empty house. Adalgisa likes Otello who, all things considered, is a good guy, unlike Amerigo the night watchman who tries to profit from the situation.
Hospitals: The White Mafia
A famous surgeon earns enormous amounts of money by speculating on patients, although he is generally considered a great man and an excellent doctor. Only one of his colleagues rebels against the situation and tries to reveal the truth. But during a dramatic operation, the famous surgeon forces him to turn accomplice and the doctor must keep quiet. Not for long, however.
Piccola posta
Polish countess Lady Eva is the authoritative signature of the correspondence of an Italian women's magazine; behind the fascinating name hides a Roman girl whose advice will create a series of tangled and comic situations.
Kiss the Other Sheik
Italian comedy film in three segments
The Shortest Day
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Tipi da spiaggia
Four penniless friends wich Belong to a small commedy theatre go to taormina a famous Italian beach resort willing to marry Barbara a famous multimillionaire cosmetic firm owner and forget their troubles. After a series of adventures the four youths go back to Rome with four new girlfriends.
City Under Siege
A string of violent jewel robberies force Police Inspector Parrino to get rough with the city’s criminal scum. Things take a turn for the worse when he’s confronted with the murder of an prostitute.
Filmography
as Erotic Film Director
as Marchand
as Marchand
as Se stesso (uncredited)
as Paolo Lavetti
as Santucci
as Lucio Sartori
as Il matto
as Dino / Amilcare Severi
as Bortignon
as maresciallo dei carabinieri/Bepi Pastorino
as col. Guido Fiasconi
as Prof. Eduardo Settebeni
as Giorgio
as barone Alfonso Lamia
as Leonardo
as Carlo Foschini
as Paolo Ferrero
as The Director
as On. Luigi Colacioppi
as Carlo Foschini
as The Bishop
as Don Vittorio
as monsignore
as Enrico
as Maresciallo Dorigo
as Mercurio
as Achille Lampugnani
as Damiano Liguori
as Il critico d'arte
as Farfarello
as Monsignor Torelli
as Carlo Valcini
as Self (uncredited)
as Psychiater
as Arturo Rossi
as Ufficiale tedesco (uncredited)
as La Psicanalista
as Tenente Rudolf (uncredited)
as prete
as il colonnello
as dottor Ionescu
as Von Braut
as Il conte Tedesco
as Proprietario del cane Wotan