List of Italian films of 1973
Table:
Italian films released in 1973

Title

Director

Cast

Genre

Notes

...All the Way, Boys!
Giuseppe Colizzi
Terence Hill, Bud Spencer
action-comedy

Amarcord
Federico Fellini
Magali Noël, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Alvaro Vitali
comedy-drama
David di Donatello winner. Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film 1974, 3 Oscar nominations.

Amore e ginnastica
Luigi Filippo D'Amico
Lino Capolicchio, Senta Berger
comedy

Anna, quel particolare piacere
Giuliano Carnimeo
Edwige Fenech, John Richardson, Richard Conte
drama

Anything for a Friend
Demofilo Fidani
Ettore Manni, Bud Randall, Sleepy Warren
Western
[1]

The Assassination of Matteotti
Florestano Vancini
Mario Adorf, Franco Nero, Vittorio De Sica
historical drama
Entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival

Bad Kids of the West
Tonino Ricci
Andrea Balestri, Cristiana, Mirko Ellis
Western
[1]

Bawdy Tales
Sergio Citti
Franco Citti, Ninetto Davoli
comedy

The Big Family
Tonino Ricci
Raymond Pellegrin, Simonetta Stefanelli
Crime

Black Holiday
Marco Leto
Adolfo Celi, John Steiner
Drama

Black Magic Rites
Renato Polselli
Mickey Hargitay, Rita Calderoni, Raoul Lovecchio
Horror
[2]

The Bloody Hands of the Law
Mario Gariazzo
Philippe Leroy, Silvia Monti, Klaus Kinski
Crime

Il Boss
Fernando Di Leo
Richard Conte, Henry Silva
—
[3]

A Brief Vacation
Vittorio De Sica
Florinda Bolkan, Renato Salvatori, Adriana Asti
drama

Brothers Blue
Luigi Bazzoni
Guido Mannari, Tina Aumont, Jack Palance
Western
Italian-French co-production[1]

Charity and the Strange Smell of Money
Italo Alfaro
Robert Malcolm, Piero Vida, Rosalba Neri
Western
[1]

Chino
John Sturges, Diulio Coletti
Charles Bronson, Jill Ireland, Marcel Bozzuffi
Western
Italian-Spanish-French co-production[1][4]

Colt in the Hand of the Devil
Gianfranco Baldanello
Robert Woods, William Berger, George Wang
Western
[1]

Come Home and Meet My Wife
Mario Monicelli
Ugo Tognazzi, Ornella Muti, Michele Placido
Commedia all'italiana

Counselor at Crime
Alberto De Martino
Tomas Milian, Martin Balsam, Francisco Rabal
Crime
[5]

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Giuseppe Colizzi ( 1925 , Rome , Italy - 23 August 1978 , Rome , Italy ) was an Italian film director , writer and producer . He is best known for his spaghetti westerns starring Bud Spencer and Terence Hill .
Terence Hill ( born Mario Girotti ; 29 March 1939 ) is an Italian actor , film director , screenwriter and film producer . Hill started his career as a child actor and went on to multiple starring roles in action and comedy films , many with longtime film partner and friend Bud Spencer . During the height of his popularity Hill was among Italy 's highest-paid actors . Hill 's most widely seen films include comic and standard Westerns all´Italiana ( Italian-style Westerns , colloquially called Spaghetti Westerns ) , some based on popular novels by German author Karl May about the American frontier . Of these , the most famous are Lo chiamavano Trinità ( They Call Me Trinity , 1970 ) and Il mio nome è Nessuno ( My Name Is Nobody , 1973 ) , co-starring Henry Fonda . His film Django , Prepare a Coffin , shot in 1968 by director Ferdinando Baldi , and co-starring Horst Frank and George Eastman , was featured at the 64th Venice Film Festival in 2007 . Hill , whose stage name was the product of a publicity stunt by film producers , also went on to a successful television career in Italy .
Carlo Pedersoli ( 31 October 1929 - 27 June 2016 ) , known professionally as Bud Spencer , was an Italian actor , professional swimmer and water polo player . He was known for action-comedy and Spaghetti Western roles with his long-time film partner Terence Hill . The duo garnered world acclaim and attracted millions to theater seats . Spencer and Hill appeared in , produced and directed over 20 films together . A successful swimmer in his youth , he obtained a law degree and registered several patents . Spencer also became a certified commercial airline and helicopter pilot , and supported and funded many children 's charities , including the Spencer Scholarship Fund .
Amarcord ( Italian : [ amarˈkɔrd ] ) is a 1973 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Federico Fellini , a semi-autobiographical tale about Titta , an adolescent boy growing up among an eccentric cast of characters in the village of Borgo San Giuliano ( situated near the ancient walls of Rimini ) in 1930s Fascist Italy . The film 's title is a univerbation of the Romagnolo phrase a m'arcôrd ( I remember ) . The title then became a neologism of the Italian language , with the meaning of 'nostalgic revocation ' . Titta 's sentimental education is emblematic of Italy 's lapse of conscience . Fellini skewers Mussolini 's ludicrous posturings and those of a Catholic Church that imprisoned Italians in a perpetual adolescence by mocking himself and his fellow villagers in comic scenes that underline their incapacity to adopt genuine moral responsibility or outgrow foolish sexual fantasies . The film won the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film , and was nominated for two more Academy Awards : Best Director and Best Original Screenplay .
Federico Fellini , Cavaliere di Gran Croce OMRI ( Italian : [ fedeˈriːko felˈliːni ] ; 20 January 1920 - 31 October 1993 ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter . Known for his distinct style that blends fantasy and baroque images with earthiness , he is recognized as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers of all time . His films have ranked , in polls such as Cahiers du cinéma and Sight & Sound , as some of the greatest films of all time . Sight & Sound lists his 1963 film 8½ as the 10th-greatest film of all time . In a career spanning almost fifty years , Fellini won the Palme d'Or for La Dolce Vita , was nominated for twelve Academy Awards and won four in the category of Best Foreign Language Film , the most for any director in the history of the Academy . At the 65th Annual Academy Awards in Los Angeles , he received an honorary award for Lifetime Achievement . Besides La Dolce Vita and 8½ , his other well-known films include La Strada , Nights of Cabiria , Juliet of the Spirits , Satyricon , Amarcord and Fellini 's Casanova .
Magali Noëlle Guiffray ( 27 June 1931 - 23 June 2015 ) , better known as Magali Noël , was a French actress and singer .
Bruno Zanin ( born 9 April 1951 in Vigonovo , Northern Italy ) is an Italian film , theatre and TV actor and writer .
Pupella Maggio born Giustina Maggio ( 24 April 1910 - 8 December 1999 ) was an Italian film actress .
Armando Brancia ( 9 September 1917 - 20 June 1997 ) was an Italian film and television actor .
Alvaro Vitali ( Italian pronunciation : [ alˈvaːro viˈtaːli ] ; born 3 February 1950 ) is an Italian actor . He was an electrician until he was discovered by Federico Fellini and played a small part in Satyricon ( 1969 ) , it led to other roles , notably in the movie Amarcord ( 1973 ) , becoming the only actor in the world who participated in four Fellini films . In the 1970s , Vitali became one of the most charismatic actors in the commedia erotica all'italiana ( erotic comedy ) genre . He was very popular in Spain as well . He recently worked for the satirical TV show Striscia la notizia in a parody of Ferrari manager Jean Todt .
Amore e ginnastica ( Love And Gymnastics ) is a 1973 comedy film directed by Luigi Filippo D'Amico . It is based on a novel with the same name written by Edmondo De Amicis .
Luigi Filippo D'Amico ( 9 October 1924 - 28 April 2007 ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter . His 1974 film Il domestico was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival .
Lino Capolicchio ( born 21 August 1943 ) is an Italian actor , screenwriter , and film director . He won a special David di Donatello acting award for his role in Vittorio de Sica 's 1970 film , The Garden of the Finzi-Continis . Capolicchio was a well-known television actor before breaking into film with an uncredited role in Franco Zeffirelli 's The Taming of the Shrew in 1967 . He has appeared in over seventy films and television dramas . In 1995 he wrote and directed Pugili , an award-winning film about the world of boxing . For three seasons , Lino Capolicchio provided the voice for Bo Duke in the Italian broadcasts of The Dukes of Hazzard .
Senta Berger ( German pronunciation : [ ˈzɛnta ˈbɛʁɡɐ ] ( listen ) ; born 13 May 1941 ) is an Austrian film , stage and television actress , producer and author . She received many award nominations for her acting in theatre , film and television ; her awards include three Bambi Awards , two Romys , an Adolf Grimme Award , both a Deutscher and a Bayerischer Fernsehpreis , and a Goldene Kamera .
Anna , quel particolare piacere ( internationally released as Anna : the Pleasure , the Torment and Secrets of a Call Girl ) is a 1973 Italian drama film directed by Giuliano Carnimeo . It was referred as a film with a good cinematography and actors appropriate to their roles but unbalanced between its parts .
Giuliano Carnimeo ( 4 July 1932 - 10 September 2016 ) was an Italian director and screenwriter , sometimes credited as Anthony Ascott .
Edwige Fenech ( French : [ ɛdviʒ fənɛʃ ] , [ citation needed ] Italian : [ edˈviʒ feˈnɛk , - ˈfɛːnek ] ; born Edwige Sfenek on 24 December 1948 ) is an Italian actress and film producer . She is mostly known as the star of a series of commedia sexy all'italiana and giallo films released in the 1970s , which turned her into a sex symbol .
John Richardson ( born 19 January 1934 ) is an English former actor who appeared in movies from the late 1950s until the early 1990s . He was a male lead in Italian genre films , most notably Mario Bava 's Black Sunday ( 1960 ) with Barbara Steele , but he is best known for playing the love interest of Ursula Andress in She ( 1965 ) and then of Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C . ( 1966 ) .
Richard Conte ( born Nicholas Peter Conte ; March 24 , 1910 - April 15 , 1975 ) was an American actor . He appeared in more than 100 films from the 1940s through 1970s , including I 'll Cry Tomorrow , Ocean 's 11 , and The Godfather .
Demofilo Fidani ( born February 8 , 1914 on a steamship bound for Cagliari ; died April 4 , 1994 ) was an Italian film director ( 24 films ) , set designer ( more than 200 films ) , painter , and a regarded medium and author . As director , Fidani specialized in spaghetti westerns and used many different pseudonyms including Miles Deem , Lucky Dickinson , Alex Demos , and Danilo Dani . Many of the films were westerns , in which he used the names of well-known characters such as Butch Cassidy , Macho Callahan , Django and Sartana , as well as titles that were variations of popular titles . Besides his westerns , he directed crime films , sex comedies , and a giallo . Fidani 's regular actors included Jack Betts ( also known as Hunt Powers ) , Gordon Mitchell , Jeff Cameron and Klaus Kinski . [ citation needed ]
Ettore Manni ( 6 May 1927 - 27 July 1979 ) was an Italian film actor . He appeared in 107 films between 1952 and 1979 .
The Assassination of Matteotti ( Italian : Il delitto Matteotti ) is a 1973 Italian historical drama film directed by Florestano Vancini . The film tells the events that led to the tragic end of Giacomo Matteotti and to the establishment of the dictatorship of Benito Mussolini in Italy . It was awarded with the Special Jury Prize at the 8th Moscow International Film Festival .
Florestano Vancini ( Ferrara , 24 August 1926 - Rome , 18 September 2008 ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter . He directed over 20 films since 1960 . His 1966 film Le stagioni del nostro amore , starring Enrico Maria Salerno , was entered into the 16th Berlin International Film Festival . His 1973 film The Assassination of Matteotti was entered into the 8th Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Special Prize . In 1999 he was a member of the jury at the 21st Moscow International Film Festival .
Mario Adorf ( born 8 September 1930 ) is a German actor , considered to be one of the great veteran character actors of European cinema . Since 1954 , he has played both leading and supporting roles in over 200 film and television productions , among them the 1979 Oscar-winning film The Tin Drum . He is also the author of several successful mostly autobiographical books .
Francesco Clemente Giuseppe Sparanero ( born 23 November 1941 ) , better known by his stage name Franco Nero , is an Italian actor . He is best known for his breakthrough role as the title character in Sergio Corbucci 's Spaghetti Western film Django ( 1966 ) , a role that he reprised in Nello Rossati 's Django Strikes Again ( 1987 ) . Since then , he has performed over 200 leading and supporting roles in a wide variety of films and television programmes in both Italy and abroad , in genres ranging from poliziotteschi , to action , to drama , to war , and musicals . These include The Bible : In the Beginning . ( 1966 ) , Camelot ( 1967 ) , The Day of the Owl ( 1968 ) , The Mercenary ( 1968 ) , Battle of Neretva ( 1969 ) , Tristana ( 1970 ) , Compañeros ( 1970 ) , Confessions of a Police Captain ( 1971 ) , Keoma ( 1976 ) , Hitch-Hike ( 1977 ) , Force 10 from Navarone ( 1978 ) , Enter the Ninja ( 1981 ) , Die Hard 2 ( 1990 ) , Letters to Juliet ( 2010 ) and John Wick : Chapter 2 ( 2017 ) . He also played the narrator in the film Rasputin ( 2010 ) , directed by Louis Nero , and voiced the character of Uncle Topolino in the animated film Cars 2 ( 2011 ) directed by John Lasseter and co-directed by Brad Lewis . In 2012 , Nero made a cameo appearance in Quentin Tarantino 's Django Unchained . According to Deadline Hollywood , Nero is expected to appear in the dark comedy feature film The Immortalist in 2020 , along with Sherilyn Fenn , Paul Rodriguez , Aries Spears , and Jeff DuJardin . directed by Vlad Kozlov . Nero is known for his ties to the Redgrave family , and has had a long-standing relationship with Vanessa , which began during the filming of Camelot . They were married in 2006 .
Vittorio De Sica ( /də ˈsiːkə/ də SEE-kə , Italian : [ vitˈtɔːrjo de ˈsiːka ] ; 7 July 1901 - 13 November 1974 ) was an Italian director and actor , a leading figure in the neorealist movement . Four of the films he directed won Academy Awards : Sciuscià and Bicycle Thieves ( honorary ) , while Yesterday , Today and Tomorrow and Il giardino dei Finzi Contini won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film . Indeed , the great critical success of Sciuscià ( the first foreign film to be so recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ) and Bicycle Thieves helped establish the permanent Best Foreign Film Award . These two films are considered part of the canon of classic cinema . Bicycle Thieves was cited by Turner Classic Movies as one of the 15 most influential films in cinema history . De Sica was also nominated for the 1957 Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for playing Major Rinaldi in American director Charles Vidor 's 1957 adaptation of Ernest Hemingway 's A Farewell to Arms , a movie that was panned by critics and proved a box office flop . De Sica 's acting was considered the highlight of the film .
Tonino Ricci ( 23 October 1927 - 9 March 2014 ) , sometimes credited as Anthony Richmond , was an Italian film director and screenwriter . Ricci was born Teodoro Ricci in Rome on October 23 , 1927 . He began working in film as an assistant director in the early 1960s and is credited in such films as The Mercenaries ( 1961 ) , Sword of the Conqueror ( 1961 ) , and Superargo and the Faceless Giants ( 1968 ) . He made his directorial debut with the 1969 war film The Liberators . Ricci died March 9 , 2014 in Rome .
Andrea Balestri ( born 1 September 1963 ) is an Italian film actor .
Cristiana is an Italian and Portuguese given name , from Cristiano . It is also a feminine given name in Romania , being the feminine form of Cristian .
Mirko Ellis ( 4 September 1923 - 11 September 2014 ) was a Swiss-Italian film , stage and television actor . Born Mirko Korcinsky in Locarno to a family of Lithuanian origin , Ellis moved , after his studies , to Italy , where he made his film debut in 1946 , in a critically acclaimed role in Aldo Vergano 's neorealist drama Il sole sorge ancora . One year later , he debuted on stage in the theatrical company of Maria Melato . He later alternated important roles and character roles , in genre films and television productions . Ellis was married to fellow actress Esther Maring , with whom he lived in Alghero , Sardinia . On 11 September 2014 , Ellis fell from the balcony of his fourth-floor apartment and died . Police believe his death was a suicide .
Storie scellerate , internationally released as Bawdy Tales , is a 1973 Italian comedy film directed by Sergio Citti .
Sergio Citti ( 30 May 1933 - 11 October 2005 ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter , born in Rome . He often worked with Pier Paolo Pasolini , but also worked for others such as Ettore Scola . His own films include We Free Kings , for which he won a Silver Ribbon for Best Original Story . His 1981 film Il minestrone was entered into the 31st Berlin International Film Festival . His 1977 film Beach House was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival . He died in 2005 of a heart attack . He was the brother of actor Franco Citti .
Franco Citti ( Italian pronunciation : [ ˈfraŋko ˈtʃitti ] ; 23 April 1935 - 14 January 2016 ) was an Italian actor . He came to fame at the age of 26 , playing the title role in Pier Paolo Pasolini 's film Accattone . In 1967 , he appeared in the title role in Pasolini 's version of Oedipus Rex . He is perhaps best known to non-Italian audiences as Calò in The Godfather and The Godfather : Part III and uttering the line In Sicily , women are more dangerous than shotguns . His brother was the director and screenwriter Sergio Citti . He died in Rome on 14 January 2016 , at the age of 80 .
Giovanni Ninetto Davoli ( born 11 October 1948 ) is an Italian actor who became known through his roles in several of Pier Paolo Pasolini 's films .
The Big Family ( Italian : L'onorata famiglia - Uccidere è cosa nostra ) is a 1973 Italian mafia film written and directed by Tonino Ricci and starring Raymond Pellegrin , Simonetta Stefanelli and Richard Conte .
Raymond Pellegrin ( 1 January 1925 - 14 October 2007 ) was a French actor . Born in Nice , Pellegrin made his screen debut in the 1945 French feature Naïs . He was also famous in France for dubbing Jean Marais for the voice of Fantômas in the eponymous film trilogy . He married actress Dora Doll on 12 July 1949 ; the couple had a daughter named Danielle , and divorced in 1955 . He married actress Gisèle Pascal on 8 October 1955 ; on 12 September 1962 , the couple had a daughter , Pascale Pellegrin , now also an actress . In his films , he is sometimes credited as Raymond Pellegrini . He died in Garons .
Simonetta Stefanelli ( Italian pronunciation : [ simoˈnetta steːfaˈnɛlli ] ; born 30 November 1954 ) is an Italian actress , entrepreneur and fashion designer . Internationally , she is best known for her performance as Apollonia Vitelli-Corleone in the 1972 film The Godfather , directed by Francis Ford Coppola . Her other roles include appearances in Moses the Lawgiver , Scandal in the Family and Three Brothers . In 1992 , Stefanelli made her last film appearance in the drama Le amiche del cuore ( Close Friends ) directed by her then husband Michele Placido .
Black Holiday ( Italian : La villeggiatura ) is a 1973 Italian political drama film directed by Marco Leto and starring Adolfo Celi .
Marco Leto ( 18 January 1931 - 21 April 2016 ) was an Italian film and television director and screenwriter . Born in Rome , Leto started his career in the 1950s as an assistant director in a large number of films . In 1965 he started a collaboration with RAI TV , for which he directed several serials and TV movies . After signing some screenplays , Leto made his film directorial debut in 1973 , with the critically appreciated Black Holiday . In the following years he kept active both in cinema and in television .
Adolfo Celi ( Italian pronunciation : [ aˈdolfo ˈtʃɛːli ] ; 27th July 1922 - 19 February 1986 ) was an Italian film actor and director . Born in Curcuraci , Messina , Sicily , Celi appeared in nearly 100 films , specialising in international villains . Although a prominent actor in Italian cinema and famed for many roles , he is best remembered internationally for his portrayal of Emilio Largo in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball . Celi later spoofed his Thunderball role in the film OK Connery ( aka Operation Double 007 ) opposite Sean Connery 's brother , Neil Connery .
John Steiner ( born 7 January 1941 in Chester , Cheshire ) is an English actor . Tall , thin and gaunt , Steiner attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art , worked for a few years at the BBC and later appeared mostly in Italian films .
Black Magic Rites ( Italian : Riti , magie nere e segrete orge nel Trecento . ) is a 1973 Italian film directed by Renato Polselli . Produced under the title of La reincarnazione , the film was shot between December 1971 and January 1972 in Italy . It was originally submitted for review for Italian Film censorship board twice in 1972 when it was eventually passed in November 11 . The film was released on home video as The Reincarnation of Isabel and Black Magic Rites .
Renato Polselli was an Italian film director and writer . Born in Arce , Lazio on 26 February 1922 , Polselli began directing films in Italy in the early 1950s . He is best known for directing and writing the film The Vampire and the Ballerina . Polselli 's film work since the 1970s was sporadic , and included work on horror film productions that remained unfinished . His later film works were often pornography made with his frequent collaborator Bruno Vanni . Polselli died in Italy on 1 October 2006 .
Miklós Mickey Hargitay ( January 6 , 1926 - September 14 , 2006 ) was a Hungarian-American actor and the 1955 Mr. Universe . Born in Budapest , Hargitay moved to the United States in 1947 , where he eventually became a citizen . He was married to actress Jayne Mansfield , and is the father of actress Mariska Hargitay . During their marriage , Hargitay and Mansfield made four movies together : Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter ? ( 1957 ) , The Loves of Hercules ( 1960 ) , Promises ! Promises ! ( 1963 ) , and L'Amore Primitivo ( 1964 ) .
Rita Calderoni ( born 22 February 1951 ) is an Italian actress . Mainly active in the 1970s in Italy , she is known for her roles in many B movies of the time .
The Bloody Hands of the Law ( Italian : La mano spietata della legge ) is a 1973 Italian crime film directed by Mario Gariazzo and starring Klaus Kinski . [ dead link ]
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Philippe Leroy , full name Philippe Leroy-Beaulieu ( born 15 October 1930 ) is a French film actor . He has appeared in over 150 films since 1960 . Leroy has been living mostly in Italy since the 1960s and has worked extensively in Italian cinema , as well as in his native country . He is sometimes credited under his full name .
Silvia Monti ( born as Silvia Cornacchia on 23 January 1946 in Venice ) , is an Italian actress . She is mostly known for the female lead role , Sofia Scannapieco , mafioso Frankie Scannapieco 's sister , in the 1969 Gérard Oury caper film Le Cerveau ( aka The Brain ) . In the movie she has a spectacular scene where she gets down from a balcony using a rope on a song by Caterina Caselli , Cento Giorni . She stopped her career in 1974 . She is currently married to Carlo De Benedetti
Klaus Kinski ( born Klaus Günter Karl Nakszynski ; 18 October 1926 - 23 November 1991 ) was a German actor . He appeared in more than 130 films , and was a leading role actor in the films of Werner Herzog , including Aguirre , the Wrath of God ( 1972 ) , Nosferatu the Vampyre ( 1979 ) , Woyzeck ( 1979 ) , Fitzcarraldo ( 1982 ) , and Cobra Verde ( 1987 ) . He also appeared in many Spaghetti Westerns , such as For a Few Dollars More ( 1965 ) , A Bullet for the General ( 1966 ) , The Great Silence ( 1968 ) , And God Said to Cain ( 1970 ) , Shoot the Living and Pray for the Dead ( 1971 ) and A Genius , Two Partners and a Dupe ( 1975 ) . Kinski was a controversial figure , and some of his tantrums on set were filmed in Herzog 's documentary My Best Fiend . He is the father of Pola , Nastassja , and Nikolai Kinski , born of three different marriages . They have all become actors and have worked in Germany and the United States , in film and TV .
Il Boss ( En . The Boss ) is a poliziottesco film written and directed by Fernando Di Leo in 1973 . It is the final part of Di Leo 's Milieu Trilogy , also consisting of Milano calibro 9 and La mala ordina , both released in 1972 .
Fernando Di Leo ( 11 January 1932 - 2 December 2003 ) was an Italian film director and script writer born in San Ferdinando di Puglia , Italy . During his career from 1964 to 1985 , Di Leo directed 20 films and was involved in the writing process in 43 . His films influenced many popular contemporary directors , such as Quentin Tarantino and John Woo . Di Leo started his career mostly writing scripts for spaghetti westerns . He worked on the script for Per un pugno di dollari ( A Fistful of Dollars , 1964 ) and later as assistant director and assistant to Sergio Leone in Per qualche dollaro in più ( For a Few Dollars More , 1965 ) . Later , he wrote scripts for such westerns as Navajo Joe ( 1966 ) and Johnny Yuma ( 1967 ) . Di Leo is now best remembered for his poliziotteschi films , especially the Milieu Trilogy , which he both wrote and directed . The trilogy contains Caliber 9 ( 1972 ) , La mala ordina ( Manhunt , 1972 ) and Il Boss ( The Boss , 1973 ) .
Henry Silva ( born September 15 , 1928 ) is a retired American film and television actor . A prolific character actor , Silva has been a regular staple of international genre cinema often as a criminal or gangster . Notable film appearances include Ocean 's 11 ( 1960 ) , The Manchurian Candidate ( 1962 ) , Johnny Cool ( 1963 ) , Sharky 's Machine ( 1981 ) , and Ghost Dog : The Way of the Samurai ( 1999 ) .
A Brief Vacation ( Italian : Una breve vacanza ) is a 1973 Italian melodrama directed by Vittorio de Sica . The script , written by Cesare Zavattini , was inspired by an Apollinaire adage ( Sickness is the vacation of the poor ) .
Florinda Bolkan ( born Florinda Soares Bulcão ; 15 February 1941 ) is a retired Brazilian actress and model .
Renato Salvatori ( 20 March 1933 - 27 March 1988 ) was an Italian multi-purpose character actor . He was born in Seravezza , Province of Lucca . Salvatori acting career began as a teenager playing juvenile romantic roles . After working with a series of major directors , including Luchino Visconti , Roberto Rossellini and Vittorio De Sica , in the 1960s , he developed into one of Italy 's strongest characters actors in grim and realistic drama . He met French actress Annie Girardot on the set of the 1960 movie Rocco and His Brothers and married her on 6 January 1962 . In sharp contrast to their off-camera relationship , in the movie Salvatori played a boxer-turned-thug who viciously rapes Annie , who played a prostitute . They had a daughter , Giulia ; later they separated but never divorced . Salvatori died in Rome of cirrhosis of the liver .
Adriana Asti ( born 30 April 1931 ) is an Italian theatre , film , and voice actress . On stage , she starred in Saint Joan by George Bernard Shaw , Happy Days by Samuel Beckett , The Mistress of the Inn by Carlo Goldoni , and Three Men for Amalia . She won the SIAE prize in 1990 , and the Duse prize in 1993 . In 1999 , she wrote and starred in Alcohol . In 2000 , she starred in French Ferdinand . She was first married to Bernardo Bertolucci .
Brothers Blue ( Italian : Blu Gang - E vissero per sempre felici e ammazzati ) is a 1973 Italian spaghetti western film directed by Luigi Bazzoni . For this film Tony Renis won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Score .
Luigi Bazzoni ( 25 June 1929 - 1 March 2012 ) was an Italian director and screenwriter . Born in Salsomaggiore Terme , Italy , Bazzoni was the elder brother of the film director and cinematographer Camillo Bazzoni and a cousin of the Academy Award winner Vittorio Storaro . He began his career as assistant director of Mauro Bolognini . Later he became director of films and short films , gaining critical attention for two spaghetti westerns , L'Uomo , l'orgoglio , la vendetta and Blu Gang - Vissero per sempre felici e ammazzati . His short film Di Domenica achieved a Special Mention at the 1963 Cannes Film Festival .
Guido Mannari ( 13 December 1944 - 10 July 1988 ) was an Italian actor of film and television .
Maria Christina Aumont ( 14 February 1946 - 28 October 2006 ) was an American actress , born in Hollywood , California , to French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont , and Dominican actress Maria Montez . She married actor and film director Christian Marquand in 1963 , at the age of 17 . She was billed as Tina Marquand ( her married name ) in four films , including Joseph Losey 's Modesty Blaise ( 1966 ) . She was photographed by Angelo Frontoni ( it ) in 1968 , when she had ankle/floor length hair , of which some semi-nude pictures were published in a pictorial of her in Playboy in 1969 . She worked in Italian cinema with , among others , Alberto Sordi ( Scusi , lei è favorevole o contrario ? , 1966 ) , Tinto Brass ( The Howl , 1970 and Salon Kitty , 1975 ) , Sergio Martino ( Torso , 1973 ) , Mauro Bolognini ( Drama of the Rich , 1974 ) , Francesco Rosi ( Illustrious Corpses , 1975 ) , and Federico Fellini ( Fellini 's Casanova , 1976 ) . She also played Lonetta , the Indian maiden , in Texas Across the River ( 1967 ) , Luciana in Malicious ( 1973 ) and Valentina in A Matter of Time ( 1976 ) starring Liza Minnelli . She starred in Lifespan ( 1975 ) with Klaus Kinski .
Jack Palance ( /ˈpæləns/ PAL-əns ; born Volodymyr Palahniuk ( Ukrainian : Володимир Палагню́к ) ; February 18 , 1919 - November 10 , 2006 ) was an American actor of Ukrainian and Polish descent . He was nominated for three Academy Awards , all for Best Actor in a Supporting Role , receiving nominations for his roles in Sudden Fear ( 1952 ) and Shane ( 1953 ) , and winning the Oscar almost 40 years later for his role in City Slickers ( 1991 ) .
Robert Malcolm ( born 12 November 1980 in Glasgow , Scotland ) is a Scottish former football player and current assistant manager of Lowland league team Kelty Hearts under Barry Ferguson . Malcolm played as a centre back or defensive midfielder for Rangers , Derby County , Queens Park Rangers ( on loan ) , Motherwell , Brisbane Roar , Dundee and Cowdenbeath . He also represented Scotland in under-21 and ' B ' team international matches . Since retiring as a player , Malcolm has worked as a coach . He assisted Barry Ferguson during his time as manager of Blackpool and Clyde .
Piero Vida ( 5 August 1938 - 1987 ) was an Italian film actor . He appeared in 52 films between 1959 and 1987 . He was born in Venice , Italy and died in Rome , Italy .
Rosalba Neri ( born 19 June 1939 in Forlì , Italy ) is a retired Italian actress .
Chino ( Italian : Valdez , il mezzosangue , UK theatrical title : Valdez the Half Breed ) is a 1973 Italian Western film starring Charles Bronson , Jill Ireland , Marcel Bozzuffi , and Vincent Van Patten . The original English language title shown at the beginning of the film was The Valdez Horses , the same title that the novel on which the movie is based . It was an Italian-Spanish-French co-production filmed in Spain , with Italian and French funding .
John Eliot Sturges ( /ˈstɜːrdʒɪs/ ; January 3 , 1910 - August 18 , 1992 ) was an American film director . His movies include Bad Day at Black Rock ( 1955 ) , Gunfight at the O.K . Corral ( 1957 ) , The Magnificent Seven ( 1960 ) , The Great Escape ( 1963 ) , and Ice Station Zebra ( 1968 ) . In 2013 , The Magnificent Seven was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being culturally , historically , or aesthetically significant . He was not related to director Preston Sturges .
Charles Bronson ( born Charles Dennis Buchinsky ; Lithuanian : Karolis Dionyzas Bučinskis ; November 3 , 1921 - August 30 , 2003 ) was an American actor . He was often cast in the role of a police officer , gunfighter , or vigilante in revenge-oriented plot lines , had long-term collaborations with film directors Michael Winner and J. Lee Thompson , and appeared in fifteen films with his second wife Jill Ireland . At the height of his fame in the early 1970s , he was the world 's No . 1 box office attraction . commanding $ 1 million per film .
Jill Dorothy Ireland ( 24 April 1936 - 18 May 1990 ) was an English actress and singer . She collaborated in fifteen films with her second husband , Charles Bronson .
Marcel Bozzuffi ( 28 October 1928 - 1 February 1988 ) was a French film actor , perhaps best remembered for his role as a brutal hitman in the Oscar-winning American film The French Connection . In 1963 , he married French actress Françoise Fabian .
Colt in the Hand of the Devil ( Italian : Una colt in pugno al diavolo , also known as Devil Was an Angel and An Angel with a Gun Is a Devil ) is a 1967 Italian Spaghetti Western film written and directed by Sergio Bergonzelli . The theme song The Devil Was an Angel is performed by Mino Reitano . It was shot in Sardinia .
Gianfranco Baldanello ( born 13 November 1928 ) is an Italian film director , screenwriter and second unit director . He sometimes used the alias Frank G. Carroll . Baldanello is the son of actors Emilio Baldanello and Vanda Vianello ( also known as Vanda Baldanello ) . In 1965 Baldanello directed his first film , 30 Winchester per El Diablo ( also known as Gold Train ) , a western for which he also wrote the screenplay . He followed this in 1966 with a second Western , Kill Johnny Ringo . In 1967 he directed three movies , the comedy I Do Not Ever Say Goodbye , the spy film Danger ! ! Death Ray , and another Western , Long Days of Hate .
Robert Woods , sometimes credited as Robert Wood , ( born July 19 , 1936 , in Colorado ) is a film and television actor . He is noted for extensive work in Spaghetti Westerns and in the European film industry from the 1960s to present day . He began his film career after being selected by George Hamilton to be his stand-in in Where the Boys Are ( 1960 ) where he had an uncredited role . Woods ' numerous credits include parts in over 50 films , including 42 in which he was top-billed .
William Berger , also known as Bill Berger and Wilhelm Berger , born Wilhelm Thomas Berger ( June 20 , 1928 - October 2 , 1993 ) was an Austrian American actor , mostly associated with Euro and spaghetti Westerns , as well as travel documentaries .
George Wang ( born Wang Yie , 12 November 1918 - 27 March 2015 ) was a Taiwanese actor and producer who appeared in a multitude of Italian films .
Romanzo popolare ( internationally released as Come Home and Meet My Wife ) is a 1974 Italian comedy drama film directed by Mario Monicelli . The film won the David di Donatello for Best Script .
Mario Monicelli ( Italian : [ ˈmaːrjo moniˈtʃɛlli ] ; 16 May 1915 - 29 November 2010 ) was an Italian director and screenwriter and one of the masters of the Commedia all'Italiana ( Comedy Italian style ) . He was nominated six times for an Oscar .
Ugo Tognazzi ( Italian pronunciation : [ ˈuːɡo toɲˈɲattsi ] ; 23 March 1922 - 27 October 1990 ) was an Italian film , TV , and theatre actor , director , and screenwriter .
Ornella Muti ( born Francesca Romana Rivelli ; 9 March 1955 ) is an Italian actress .
Michele Placido ( Italian : [ miˈkɛːle ˈplaːtʃido ] ; born 19 May 1946 ) is an Italian actor and director . He is best known for the role of Corrado Cattani in the TV series La piovra .
Commedia all'italiana ( i.e . Comedy in the Italian way ; pronounced [ komˈmɛːdja all itaˈljaːna ] ) or Italian-style comedy is an Italian film genre . It is widely considered to have started with Mario Monicelli 's I soliti ignoti ( Big Deal on Madonna Street ) in 1958 and derives its name from the title of Pietro Germi 's Divorzio all'italiana ( Divorce Italian Style , 1961 ) . Rather than a specific genre , the term indicates a period ( approx . from the late fifties to the early seventies ) in which the Italian film industry was producing many successful comedies , with some common traits like satire of manners , farcical and grotesque overtones , a strong focus on spicy social issues of the period ( like sexual matters , divorce , contraception , marriage of the clergy , the economic rise of the country and its various consequences , the traditional religious influence of the Catholic Church ) and a prevailing middle-class setting , often characterized by a substantial background of sadness and social criticism that diluted the comic contents .
Counselor at Crime ( Italian : Il consigliori , also known as The Counsellor ) is an Italian-Spanish crime film directed by Alberto De Martino .
Alberto De Martino ( 12 June 1929 - 2 June 2015 ) was an Italian film director and screenwriter . Born in Rome , De Martino started as a child actor and later returned to the cinema where worked as a screenwriter , director and dubbing supervisor . De Martino 's films as a director specialised in wellcrafted knock-offs of Hollywood hit films . These films were specifically created films in Western , horror and mythology genres which were developed for the international market . The Telegraph stated that his best known of these film was probably The Antichrist . The Antichrist capitalized on the box-office appeal of The Exorcist ( 1973 ) and in its first week in the United States earned a greater box office than Jaws .
Tomas Milian ( born Tomás Quintín Rodriguez-Varona Milian Salinas De La Fé y Alvarez De La Campa ; 3 March 1933 - 22 March 2017 ) was a Cuban American actor and singer with Italian citizenship , known for the emotional intensity and humour he brought to roles in European genre films . A student of Lee Strasberg , Milian studied method acting at the Actors Studio in New York City . In Italy , he was discovered by director Mauro Bolognini and appeared in supporting roles in several drama films during the late-1950s and early-1960s , including as Raphael in Carol Reed 's The Agony and the Ecstasy ( 1965 ) . Throughout the late-1960s and early-1970s , Milian established himself as a dynamic leading actor in a series of Spaghetti Western films , most notably The Big Gundown ( 1966 ) and Django Kill . If You Live , Shoot ! ( 1967 ) . Following a decline in the popularity of Spaghetti Westerns , Milian transitioned to roles in poliziottesco films . After receiving acclaim for his performance as a psychotic killer in Almost Human ( 1974 ) , he made appearances in Emergency Squad ( 1974 ) , The Tough Ones ( 1976 ) and The Cynic , the Rat and the Fist ( 1977 ) . After returning to the United States in 1985 , Milian continued to perform supporting roles in film productions , including JFK ( 1991 ) , Amistad ( 1997 ) , Traffic ( 2000 ) and The Lost City ( 2005 ) . Milian died in 2017 .
Martin Henry Balsam ( November 4 , 1919 - February 13 , 1996 ) was an American character actor . He is best known for a number of renowned film roles , including detective Milton Arbogast in Alfred Hitchcock 's Psycho ( 1960 ) , Arnold Burns in A Thousand Clowns ( 1965 ) ( for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor ) , Juror # 1 in 12 Angry Men ( 1957 ) , and Mr. Green in The Taking of Pelham One Two Three ( 1974 ) , as well as for his role as Murray Klein in the television sitcom Archie Bunker 's Place ( 1979-1983 ) .
Francisco Rabal Valera ( 8 March 1926 - 29 August 2001 ) , better known as Paco Rabal , was a Spanish actor , director , and screenwriter born in Águilas , a town in the south-western part of the province of Murcia , Spain . Throughout his career , Rabal appeared in around 200 films working with directors including Francesc Rovira-Beleta , Luis Buñuel , José Luis Sáenz de Heredia , Carlos Saura , Pedro Almodóvar , William Friedkin , Michelangelo Antonioni , Claude Chabrol , Luchino Visconti , and Gillo Pontecorvo . Paco Rabal was recognized both in his native Spain and internationally , winning the Award for Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival for Los Santos Inocentes and a Goya Award for Best Actor for playing Francisco de Goya in Carlos Saura 's Goya en Burdeos . One of Spain 's most loved actors , Rabal also was known for his commitment to human rights and other social causes .