Sandro Merli
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Sandro Merli.
Born: February 4, 1931
Place of Birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Known For
The Reluctant Saint
Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired hand, overcoming his intellectual and social challenges with a pure heart and a simple faith. God performs a miracle through him, quite literally raising him to sainthood.
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.
Be Sick… It's Free
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
Let's Have a Riot
Episodes centering on different aspects of early-1970s Italian life, set in a television studio, a factory, a university, and a Catholic parish.
The Boom
Sweet-sour comedy on Italy's 1950s rage to get rich as fast as possible! The businessman wants to satisfy his wife's craving for luxury and a "respectable life" so he becomes heavily indebted. In desperation he agrees to sell a precious part of his body for a large sum of money. But just before the crucial operation he panics...
Medicine Italian Style
Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.
Caprice Italian Style
The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
A Matter of Honor
Efisio Mulas is a meek laborer who lives with occasional work, especially in Don Leandro Sanna's salon, and rounds up the slim balance by betting with colleagues in strength with the game "head against head". In the village the Sanna and Porcu families' conflict has lasted over a century.
Rugantino
A beautiful girl Rosina lives In Rome. Her husband is strong as a bull and jealous as Shakespeare's Othello. Once the husband of Rosina kills a wealthy aristocrat, who sang the serenade to his wife, and now he is hiding from justice.
Giovannona Long-Thigh
When a judge shuts down a high profile cheese factory for violating pollution standards, the owner bribes a monsignor to fix the problem. After they discover the judge has a predilection for married women, the owner employs a prostitute to pose as his wife in an attempt to seduce the judge.
Filmography
as Tenente Cicuta
as innkeeper
as Mons. Alatri
as dottor Drufo
as Dr. Drufo
as Porter
as Sandro
as Wachtmeister Vaccaro
as Dronazzi
as The Motorcyclist in the Road Accident
as capo dell'officina