Max Turilli
Acting
Biography
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Born: November 18, 1928
Known For
Il Mistero di Bellavista
A doorman and a street cleaner, intrigued by the passage of Halley's Comet, ask Professor Bellavista if they can observe the sky through his telescope. The two, instead of observing the comet, end up framing a window of the apartment opposite and believe they have discovered a crime. So they set out in search of the body.
Quel giorno Dio non c'era (Il caso Defregger)
Based on a real WW2 episode. In 1944 in a small village in the Italian Appenines several inhabitants are executed in reprisal for a partisan attack on the German occupying troops. The lieutenant responsible for the execution becomes a priest and then a bishop and several years later he is put on trial for the killings.
Trastevere
A retired actor's search for his stray pet strings together this episodic portrait of the ancient Roman quarter.
Dark Eyes
Aboard a ship early in the 20th-century, a middle-aged Italian tells his story of love to a Russian.
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 Devil's Brigade
At the onset of World War II, American Lt. Col. Robert Frederick is put in charge of a unit called the 1st Special Service Force, composed of elite Canadian commandos and undisciplined American soldiers. With Maj. Alan Crown leading the Canadians and Maj. Cliff Bricker the acting head of the American contingent, there is initial tension -- but the team comes together when given a daunting mission that few would dare to attempt.
Galileo
A humble scientist from Padua proves that the Earth revolves and that it is not the center of the universe.
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.
Meo Patacca
Adapted from the mock-heroic poem in Roman dialect, tells the misadventures of the young trasteverino Bartolomeo Patacca that, because of the ambition of his woman, is having to train a group of beggars to go fight in defense of Christianity in Vienna, besieged by the Turks.
The Payoff
Sasà Jovine (Nino Manfredi) is a self-styled lawyer involved in petty businesses with Neapolitan mobsters (camorristi). When one of his clients, don Michele Miletti (Paolo Stoppa) offers him a huge bribe (mazzetta) to search for his daughter who disappeared mysteriously taking with her some hot documents, Sasà finds himself trapped into a spiral of homicides.
Filmography
as Innkeeper
as giocatore di poker che sfida Oscar e il Barone Duroc
as Bruno Kaiser
as SS Sgt. Zeller
as Prison Guard
as Ermete Luparelli
as Frank Footter
as turista tedesco
as Anselmo Marcucci, il testimone
as Jemar
as General 'Castigo di Dio'
as Prete
as Gestapo Agent
as professore
as Angelo
as Von Kaiser
as Baron von Horn
as Colonnello Turzilli
as capitano guardie svizzere
as German Tour Guide (uncredited)
as Col. Weede
as Marshal Schafer
as Acquapendente
as The German Commander
as ufficiale tedesco
as Strauss
as Segretario dell'ambasciatore
as Soldato tedesco sulle scale (uncredited)