Umberto Spadaro
Acting
Biography
Umberto Spadaro (8 November 1904 – 12 October 1981) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in around 95 films between 1940 and 1979. His brother Peppino Spadaro was also an actor.
Born: November 8, 1904
Place of Birth: Ancona, Italy
Known For
A Very Handy Man
In late 19th century Sicily, handsome free-spirit Liolà wanders into town, where he encounters an old flame now married to a wealthy landowner.
Bicycle Thieves
Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.
A Fistful of Dollars
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter. When a regiment of Mexican soldiers bearing gold intended to pay for new weapons is waylaid by the Rojo brothers, the stranger inserts himself into the middle of the long-simmering battle, selling false information to both sides for his own benefit.
Difficult Years
Aldo Piscitello, a minor government clerk, is forced in 1934 to join the Fascist party. When the war comes, he finds himself able only to talk ineffectually in secret against Mussolini, even as his own son Giovanni is sent into battle. By the end of the war, Aldo has found the courage to stand up for his beliefs, but by then it is too late.
Seduced and Abandoned
The film presents the tale of Agnese Ascalone, daughter of prominent miner Vincenzo Ascalone, and takes place in a small town in Sicily. Agnese is seduced by her sister Matilde's fiancé, and has a tryst with him for which she confesses and tries to repent, only to be discovered by her mother and father.
Hell in the City
A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.
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.
Don Camillo's Last Round
Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him.
The Best Part
Philippe Perrin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps. Like all the men who work on the building site, he gives the best part of himself. Unfortunately, his health deteriorates but he refuses to follow the doctor's orders as well as the advice of Micheline, a young nurse who has fallen in love with him. However, driven by the evolution of his illness, Philippe finally makes up his mind to go down to the valley for a treatment. On the very day of his departure though, a young Arab worker gets killed in a rock crusher...
Outlaw Girl
Beppe Musolino is falsely accused of murder. He is tried and once found guilty is imprisoned. Unexpectedly he escape from prison and to survive he start living like an outlaw brigand. He falls in love for Mara, a village girl, and with her help he hunts down all of the witnesses who lied about him at the trial.
Filmography
as Doctor
as Doctor
as The Father
as Suocero di Bertolazzi
as Don Serafino
as Darmon Henchman
as Miguel - Rojo Gunman (uncredited)
as Nonno
as il cugino di Ascalone
as Don Luigino Trizzini
as L'ortolano
as Telegrapher
as Direttore del carcere
as Antonio
as Don José
as Gaspare Puggioni, 1st Coast Guard Officer
as Valero
as Gino
as Bezzi, il contadino
as Don Puglisi
as Don Vincenzo Benetti
as Capitano del battello
as Uncle Brasi
as commissario
as (uncredited)
as Don Antonio Percucoco
as cappellano
as Padre putativo di Jolanda
as Achille Buongiorno
as Comisario Barreiro
as Il maestro di musica
as don Filippo
as colonnello Grimaldi
as maresciallo della legione straniera
as Detective Pietrangeli
as Gustavo Castelli
as Torquato Merumi
as Commissario capo
as Luccio
as Doctor Micheli
as Spada
as don Ciccio Balestrieri
as Ciccio
as Don Gennaro
as Aldo Piscitello
as (uncredited)
as cantante
as Rocco
as il gobbo
as Lo stregone
as Mucugno
as Cameriere