Turi Pandolfini
Acting
Biography
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Born: November 10, 1883
Place of Birth: Catania, Italy
Known For
Rome, Open City
During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a means of escape.
In the Name of the Law
A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.
100 Years of Love
Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.
Empty Eyes
A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman.
La moglie è uguale per tutti
Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going wrong. So when his nephew calls on him asking for his approval to his marriage, Antonio suggests to him to spend a day in his office to see what marriage really is.
The Dollars Are Coming!
A widow goes to Italy from South Africa to find out whether or not her late husband's five nephews are worthy of his inheritance...
Easy Years
A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.
The Art of Getting Along
In this comedy Alberto Sordi plays Rosario Scimoni, known as Sasà, an opportunistic and unscrupulous guy, nephew of the mayor of Catania, and he's always ready to take sides with anyone who can help him. He switches from socialism to fascism; he changes his political faith the same way he changes women. He even tries to found his own party.
Mi permette babbo!
While Rodolfo tries to become a lyric singer, his lifestyle deeply annoys his father-in-law.
It Happened at the Police Station
Everyday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, however, the chief of police has bought his first car and he has decided to test it with his wife going to Ostia. But first a theatrical company sent out of the theatre, last Alfredo Todini arrested while walking wearing a gown and in the mean a series of human cases, ranging from the pathetic to the funny one, get in the way of his wish.
Filmography
as senatore Bucci
as Turiddu
as sindaco
as Professor Avallone
as Il nonno di Gianni
as Grandfather of Gabriella
as The Bespectacled Customer at Barber's (uncredited)
as Beretta
as detenuto
as nonno di Bianca Maria
as Detenuto
as Salvatore Serafini
as Cannizzaro, il vecchio della penna
as cancelliere del tribunale
as Scandurra, il professore di Storia
as Passeggero dell'autobus
as Veterinario di Monterotondo (segment "Garibaldina")
as Zi' Dima, mastro del paese
as Il cancelliere
as Pawnbroker (uncredited)
as Macaluso
as Gennaro
as Cavalier Terzetti
as Il collega vecchio
as Il parroco
as Ragioniere Filippetti
as Don Fifì
as Grandfather (uncredited)
as Don Ignazio D'Azevegno
as un altro cittadino siciliano