Virgilio Riento
Acting
Biography
No biography available for Virgilio Riento.
Born: November 29, 1889
Place of Birth: Roma, Italy
Known For
Miseria e Nobiltà
If I Was Honest
The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and messes that ends out well.
Miracle in Milan
Once upon a time a wise and kind old woman discovers a baby in her cabbage patch. She brings up the child and, when she dies, the boy, Totò, enters an orphanage. Totò leaves the orphanage a happy young man, and looks for work in post-war Milan. He ends up with the homeless and organizes them to build a shanty town in a vacant lot. But when greedy developers threaten the community’s land, Totò will need all the help he can get in order to find an impossible way out.
Totó in color
In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.
Frisky
The relationships between a veteran marshal, his bride-to-be, a rookie and his fiancée are severely tested when the young carabiniere is temporarily sent to a distant town.
Doctor and the Healer
Francesco, a young doctor, is appointed doctor to the imaginary village of Pianetta in the province of Avellino, but is immediately in competition with Don Antonio, a so-called "healer".
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.
There's Room Up Ahead
A witty tram driver helps out a jobless girl in wartime Rome.
È l'amor che mi rovina
A naive clerk finds himself involved in the theft of a ring containing a dangerous liquid.
Io sono il capataz
The young Uguccione is mistaken for Rascelito Villa called "C6", a dangerous revolutionary, and then immediately sent to Parazuela where he leads the insurrectionist troops.
Filmography
as Onofrio
as Oscaretto - il suggeritore
as maresciallo
as Gaspare
as Salvatore Scuoffolo
as El cura
as Eugenio
as Achille, padre di Aldo
as Umberto
as Giovanna's father
as Rocco, chitarrista
as Nicola, zio di Donatella
as Brother Serafino
as Virgilio
as Il portiere del collegio
as Don Emidio
as Beniamino
as Pasquale
as Angelino
as Il dottor Marini
as Padre di Agnese
as Don Emidio
as Nicola
as Commissario Zannini
as The Police Commissioner (segment "Nozze d'Oro")
as Virgilio
as Don Emidio
as Zio Angelino
as Gambalesta
as Cavalier Barbacane
as Dovelli
as Bartolomeo Porretti
as Anturio
as Il brigadiere Sante
as Ambrogio
as Tiburzi
as Cosimo Pedrozza
as Matteo
as Caio
as Il contadino alla bilancia
as Cameriere
as maresciallo
as Barsilio, guardiano in seconda
as maggiordomo
as Enrico
as Proprietario Negozio
as Il Guardiano
as Il padre di Marco
as Il sergente delle guardie
as Cav. Brusaglia
as Il capo della banda di Arcachon
as Brother Marco
as Angelo Danati
as Pietro
as Scipione
as Don Nicola
as Gaetano Schioppa
as Roberto
as L'industriale
as Matteo Boccaloni
as Il padre di Roberto
as Pacini, il maresciallo della sussistenza
as Pallone, il bidello
as Il controllore
as il cugino Michele
as Virgilio, l'usciere
as direttore del carcere
as Antonio Perticone
as Il trovarobe
as Lotteringhi, il bottaro
as Don Felice
as Uomo sul treno
as Gaetano
as Il cavaliere
as Pasqualino Pappalardo
as Pasquale
as Pepe