Venantino Venantini

Venantino Venantini (17 April 1930 – 9 October 2018) was an Italian film actor. He was the father of Victoria Venantini and and appeared in more than 140 films between 1954 and 2018.
He made his debut in the cinema with an appearance in Un giorno in pretura under the direction of Steno and he had his first important role in (1961), directed by Franco Rossi. Among the almost 150 films he performed in, some became cult favorites such as Les Tontons flingueurs, Amore libero - Free Love, Black Emanuelle and City of the Living Dead.
He acted with actors such as Lino Ventura, Yves Montand, Alain Delon and Gérard Depardieu and for directors such as Ettore Scola, Luciano Salce and Dino Risi and for French film directors such as Georges Lautner, Gérard Oury and Claude Lelouch.
Selected filmography
A Day in Court (1954) - Ufficiale al varietà (uncredited)
No Sun in Venice (1957)
Ben Hur (1959) - Palefrenier de la course de chars (uncredited)
Odissea nuda (1961) - Film Maker
Pastasciutta nel deserto (1961) - Malapaga
La guerra continua (1962) - Alberto
The Captive City (1962) - Gen. Ferolou
Les Tontons flingueurs (1963) - Pascal
Il vuoto (1964) - Andrea Masi
Salad by the Roots (1964) - Pierre Michon
Le conseguenze (1964) - Valerio
La Celestina P... R... (1965) - Carlo
Le Corniaud (1965) - Mickey dit le bègue ou la souris
The Agony and the Ecstasy (1965) - Paris De Grassis
Galia (1966) - Greg
Balearic Caper (1966) - Giuliano
Le Grand Restaurant (1966) - Henrique
La grande sauterelle (1967) - Vladimir
Round Trip (1967) - Marc Daumel
Bandidos (1967) - Billy Kane
The Killer Likes Candy (1968) - Costa
Love in the Night (1968) - Bollert
Anzio (1968) - Capt. Burns
Emma Hamilton (1968) - Le prince Carraciola
The Libertine (1968) - Aurelio
Hate Is My God (1969) - Sweetley
Erotissimo (1969) - Sylvio
Playgirl 70 (1969)
The War Devils (1969) - Heinrich Meinike
Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot? (1970) - Ministre
The Priest's Wife (1970) - Maurizio
Quella chiara notte d'ottobre (1970)
Macédoine (1971) - Brian Goffy
Laisse aller... c'est une valse (1971) - Tosca
La araucana (1971) - Pedro de Valdivia
Per amore o per forza (1971) - Padre di Jane
Delusions of Grandeur (1971) - Del Basto
Il était une fois un flic... (1972) - Felice - le tueur
La rossa dalla pelle che scotta (1972)
Le Rempart des béguines (1972) - Max
Racconti proibiti... di niente vestiti (1972) - Soldier from Sicily
Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye (1973) - Father Robertson
Profession: Aventuriers (1973) - Pablo
Number One (1973) - Rudy
The Police Serve the Citizens? (1973) - Mancinelli
Un modo di essere donna (1973) - Simone
Troppo rischio per un uomo solo (1973) - Piero Albertini
Le führer en folie (1974) - Italian waiter / valet
And Now My Love (1974) - Very Italian Italian Man
Amore libero - Free Love (1974) - Chavad
Black Emanuelle (1975) - William Meredith
Emmanuelle 2 (1975) - The Polo Player
Calore in provincia (1975) - Santuzzo
Il letto in piazza (1976) - 'Bogart'
Emanuelle in Bangkok (1976) - David
A.A.A. cercasi spia... disposta spiare per conto spie (1976) - Roger, Capo della CIA
Young, Violent, Dangerous (1976) - Sign. Morandi
Il pomicione (1976) - Renato
Nine Guests for a Crime (1977) - Walter
Rene the Cane (1977) - Carlo
L'altra metà del cielo (1977) - Mister Rickie
La Bidonata (1977) - The Frenchman
La bravata (1977) - Walter
The Greatest Battle (1978) - Michael
Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade (1978) - Giorgio Rivetti
War of the Robots (1978) - Paul
First Love (1978) - Emilio, TV channel owner
La Cage aux Folles (1978) - Le chauffeur de Charrier
The Concorde Affair (1979) - Forsythe
Cop or Hood (1979) - Mario
The Humanoid (1979)
From Corleone to Brooklyn (1979) - Lt. Danova
Gardenia (1979) - Nocita
On est venu là pour s'éclater (1979) - Norbert
Tre sotto il lenzuolo (1979)
Riavanti... Marsch! (1979) - Sergeant Sconocchia
Terror Express (1980) - Mike
Sesso profondo (1980) - Mr. Murphy
La terrazza (1980) - Un ospite
Flatfoot in Egypt (1980) - Ruotolo
Beast in Space (1980) - Juan Cardoso
La padrina (1980)
Cannibal Apocalypse (1980) - Lieutenant Hill (uncredited)
Contraband (1980) - Captain Tarantino
City of the Living Dead (1980) - Mr. Ross
Cannibal Ferox (1981) - Sgt. Ross
Longshot (1981) - Henri Bresson
Giggi il bullo (1982) - Don Salvatore
Sesso e volentieri (1982) - Man in the cinema
Dio li fa poi li accoppia (1982) - Occhipinti
The New Barbarians (1982) - Father Moses
Exterminators of the Year 3000 (1983) - John
Attention une femme peut en cacher une autre! (1983) - Nino
Le bon roi Dagobert (1984) - Demetrius, marchand
Windsurf - Il vento nelle mani (1984) - Walter
Ladyhawke (1985) - Bishop's Secretary
Liberté, égalité, choucroute (1985) - Un sans culotte
The Adventures of Hercules (1985) - High Priest
The Assisi Underground (1985) - Pietro
Final Justice (1985) - Joseph Palermo
Sogni erotici di Cleopatra (1985) - Dolabella (uncredited)
De flyvende djævle (1985) - Luigi
The Lion's Share (1985) - Enzo Gatti
Il pentito (1985)
Superfantagenio (1986) - Puncher
Capriccio (1987) - Alfredo
Madame, nuda è arrivata la straniera (1989) - Fisher (uncredited)
Vanille fraise (1989) - Anselmo
The King's Whore (1990) - Luis de Arragon / Louis d'Aragon
Mutande pazze (1992) - Alessia's Father
Madrugada de sangue (1992)
Il respiro della valle (1992)
Blu notte (1992) - Father
Giovani e belli (1996) - Buby
L'amico di Wang (1997) - Ezio
The Eighteenth Angel (1997) - Clockmaker
We'll Really Hurt You (1998) - Pietro
The Dinner (1998)
Toni (1999) - Minelli
Livraison à domicile (2003) - Giuseppe, le père de Thomas
Ho visto le stelle (2003) - Duilio Masera
Atomik Circus - Le retour de James Bataille (2004) - Matt Kelso
Could This Be Love? (2007) - Della Ponte
I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster (2007) - Joe
The Hideout (2007) - Telephone Installer
Nos 18 ans (2008) - Marcello
The Museum of Wonders (2010) - Master of Ceremonies
22 Bullets (2010) - Padovano
Bloody Sin (2011) - Il prelato
Hyde's Secret Nightmare (2011) - Barman
Phantasmagoria (2014) - Grandpa (segment "My Gift to You")
P.O.E. Pieces of Eldritch (P.O.E. 3) (2014)
Papa lumière (2015) - Le gérant de l'hôtel
Un plus une (2015) - Henri
The Very Private Life of Mister Sim (2015) - Monsieur Matteotti père
Marseille (2016) - Giovanni
Vive la crise (2017) - Luigi Pirandello
Maryline (2017) - Elio, le patron du restaurant
References
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1930 births
2018 deaths
Italian male film actors
People from the Province of Ancona
Nastro d'Argento winners
20th-century Italian male actors
21st-century Italian male actors