# Ernesto Colli

Ernesto Colli (16 May 1940 – 19 November 1982) was an Italian film, television and stage actor.

## Life and career

Born in Biella, Colli graduated from liceo classico, then he started acting in some amateur dramatics and starred in two lost Super 8 films. After one year of university he decided to abandon his studies to enroll the Fersen drama school in Rome.
A real life friend of Vittorio Gassman, Colli often acted alongside him, especially on stage, and he made his film debut playing a small role in the Gassman's film The Devil in Love. He then appeared in a large number of movies and TV-series, even if usually in character roles. He was a character actor who acted actively especially during the seventies.
Equipped with a particularly disturbing face, Ernesto Colli always recited customized roles for him, from the crazy to the delinquent and from the possessed to the weird man; probably the films where he had a most significant part was The Pleasure Shop on 7th Avenue and in Deadly Inheritance .
The last role he played was that of a porter of a stable in Rome, in the movie Pierino La Peste Alla Riscossa!, shot a few months before his death and in which he already appeared with the face and the physique excavated by disease.

## Selected filmography

* Il morbidone (1965) - Uomo del monsignore (uncredited)
* Pleasant Nights (1966) - Baccio
* The Devil in Love (1966)
* Deadly Inheritance (1968) - Janot
* Lucrezia (1968) - Valetto ambasciatore
* Spirits of the Dead (1968) - One of the Manetti brothers - director (segment "Toby Dammit") (uncredited)
* Faustina (1968) - Vespasiano - Lover of Faustina's mother
* Italiani! È severamente proibito servirsi della toilette durante le fermate (1969)
* The Conspiracy of Torture (1969) - Chief Guard (uncredited)
* Belle d'amore (1970) - Magnaccia (uncredited)
* Quella chiara notte d'ottobre (1970)
* La califfa (1970) - Un operaio
* La Poudre d'escampette (1971)
* Er Più – storia d'amore e di coltello (1971) - Gigi
* Per amore o per forza (1971)
* Maddalena (1971)
* Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte (1971) - Parking Attendant
* Caliber 9 (1972) - Alfredo Bertolon
* Bronte: cronaca di un massacro che i libri di storia non hanno raccontato [it] (1972)
* Hai sbagliato... dovevi uccidermi subito! (1972) - Dr. Torres
* Decameron nº 3 - Le più belle donne del Boccaccio (1972) - Renutio (segment "The Mummy")
* Winged Devils (1972) - Leutnant Ernesto del Prete
* The Infamous Column (1972) - Judge
* Rugantino (1973)
* Torso (1973) - Gianni Tomasso, the scarf vendor
* Non ho tempo (1973)
* Hospitals: The White Mafia (1973) - Patient on the bus
* Seven Hours of Violence (1973) - Tomassian
* Buona parte di Paolina (1973)
* Claretta and Ben (1974) - Remengo
* The Antichrist (1974) - Possessed Man
* Bello come un arcangelo (1974) - Cicillo, Sacristan
* Autopsy (1975) - Ivo
* The Suspect (1975) - Party Functionary in Paris
* Giubbe rosse (1975) - Photographer (uncredited)
* The Peaceful Age (1975) - Imbianchino
* Go Gorilla Go (1975) - The Watchman of Builder's Yard (uncredited)
* Illustrious Corpses (1976) - Detective on night duty
* Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976) - Roschetto
* Meet Him and Die (1976) - Settecapelli
* Puttana galera! (1976)
* Io tigro, tu tigri, egli tigra (1978) - Conduttore del telegiornale (uncredited)
* Il Porno Shop Della Settima Strada (1979) - Bob
* Switch (1979) - Il Malato
* Pierino la Peste Alla Riscossa! (1982) - portiere di via Piccolomini
* Porca vacca (1982) - (final film role)