Tano Cimarosa
Acting
Biography
Tano Cimarosa, real name Gaetano Cisco, (1 January 1922 – 24 May 2008) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He participated in more than fifty movies. He played the "Blacksmith" in the Oscar-winning film Cinema Paradiso from 1988. He is known to horror film fans for directing Reflections in Black in 1975. Source: Article "Tano Cimarosa" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Born: January 1, 1922
Place of Birth: Messina, Sicily, Italy
Known For
Cinema Paradiso
A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
Una storia qualunque
A Pure Formality
Onoff is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. In an isolated, rural police station, the Inspector tries to establish the events surrounding a killing, to reach a startling resolution.
Why
Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Swiden, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?
Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in Russia, in the city of Leningrad. Other people (who were around when she died) also learn about it. Thus several people arrive in Leningrad trying to find the treasure, each one for himself/herself. What's worse - the only information they have is that the treasure is under a lion - and it's in Leningrad, a city known by its numerous statues of lions. The story gets even more interesting when the soviet militia (police) learns about the whole thing and send an undercover agent...
The Eye of the Needle
Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who in the meantime has fallen in love with the victim.
Bread and Chocolate
An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly menial jobs in order to do it. He attempts to fit into his new home and society but fails at every turn. Unable to go home again, will his tenacity and optimism be enough to live on?
Between Miracles
Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The people of his village attribute that to a miracle and made him undergo a strict religious upbringing. That fact will determine his life, which will be affected by inner torment caused by the confrontation between sexual desires and sacrifices of faith, sin and grace.
The Day of the Owl
Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small island town to look into the death of a construction supplier. Once there he is shocked by the influence the Mafia has over the people and even himself.
The Star Maker
The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s Sicily pretending to work for the big film studios in Rome.
Filmography
as Comunista Cimarosa
as Custode
as Venditore ambulante
as Venditore ambulante
as Carmelo Frasca
as Richard
as Grandpa Bordonaro
as Servant
as Don Mimì Cantalamessa, boss mafioso
as Site Manager
as Fabbro, blacksmith
as il boss
as Polfer Marshal Panepino
as Il ricattatore
as Sebastiano Colicchia
as Tano
as Il padre incestuoso
as Cravatta
as Pantò
as Pasqualino Mosco
as Turi Randazzo
as Tano Barra - l'assistente di parcheggio
as Gigi
as Rosario Agrò
as Chaco
as Puddu Campolia
as Nino Balsamo
as Chaco, Gang Boss
as John Lacey
as emigrato italiano da Gela
as Agente del carcere di Sagunto
as Italian soldier on the beach
as commissario di polizia
as Zi' Checco
as Greedy friar
as Gaetano Cimarosa
as Agente Cariddi
as Cartana
as Mancho
as General Valiente
as Salvatore Laganà
as Calleya
as Zecchinetta
as Netturbino
as Sicilian (segment "La siciliana") (uncredited)
as Garcia's aide
as uno dei mafiosi