Giancarlo Badessi
Birthday: 1928-09-22
Place of Birth: Lecco, Lombardy, Italy
Biography: Giancarlo Badessi (1928 – 2011) was an Italian actor. Born in Lecco, at the age of almost 40 Badessi gave up his daily job as an accountant to embrace the theatre, making his debut in a stage play directed by Giancarlo Cobelli. He was also active in cinema and on television, often playing character roles. Badessi died in Rome at the age of 83 from a heart attack, on 6 December 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Giancarlo Badessi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Caligula
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The Grand Duel
A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who wa...
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A Man Called Magnum
A drug deal goes bad and the heroin is stolen. One mob boss doesn't have his drugs and the other doe...
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Tiger Joe
On one of his last trips before retirement, a plane of an illegal gunrunner in Vietnam is shot down ...
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How to Kill a Judge
A filmmaker's popular movie about a corrupt judge who is killed by the Mafia seemingly foretells the...
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Amore vuol dir gelosia
A dentist is married to frigid Licia, has two daughters and three other women....
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A Virgin Named Mary
A second coming? This time our savior chose a shantytown outside Turin, in the north of Italy, overc...
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Where Are You Going All Naked?
Totally drunk, a young banker marries a girl who has strange habits: she walks around the house comp...
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Night of the Serpent
Hernandez, the sheriff of a small Mexican village, joins a group of townsmen with the intention of k...
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The Son of the Sheik
The old Emir of the Qudmar discovers he has a natural son in Italy. Secret agents and oil companies ...
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Gangsters '70
An elderly gangster just released from prison plans one last job, and gathers a small crew to do the...
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Satiricosissimo
Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not...
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Ace High
After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and ...
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Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
Ottone and Savio work hard to keep each other out of trouble with the Roman Centurions while scrapin...
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The Profiteer
In the city of Ostuni in Puglia, the mute seminarian Ercole is designated to be the driver and nurse...
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Aretino's Blue Stories
Madonna Violante goes to Rome to find the three Armida daughters, Lorenza and Vanna, who she has not...
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Secret Confessions in a Cloistered Convent
A young libertine after a series of love affairs, to escape the wrath of the betrayed husband disgui...
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The Swindle
A rude Roman policeman Nico Giraldi and an English detective team up in search of a gang that has ca...
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Action
A failed actor, broken by violence and rejection, finds refuge among outcasts and forms an unconvent...
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Black Journal
A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering a...
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Silent Action
A number of unexplained military deaths hit Italy and are ruled to be accidental or suicides, but po...
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Tepepa
The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro....
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Salon Kitty
Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been...
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Povero Cristo
A provincial young man with aspirations of becoming a private investigator is approached by a strang...
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Halleluja to Vera Cruz
Two American bandits disguise themselves as priests in order to work undetected in Mexico during the...
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One Way or Another
Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it...
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Innocence and Desire
A young man is temporarily home from a Seminary, but eventually falls in love with his father's youn...
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Hit Squad
A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the wealthy...
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Coup D'Etat
Italy, 1972. Political elections are taking place and Christian Democrat victory is expected; but th...
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What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia ...
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What Have You Done to Solange?
After several Catholic school pupils are murdered, a teacher who is having an affair with one of his...
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Great Treasure Hunt
This dark, dusty western concerns a wealthy criminal, a blind man, and four mercenaries. The blind m...
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Il trafficone
Neapolitan Vincenzo LoRusso lives of expedients in Rome, as he tries to sell at an intersection a fa...
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The Big Deal
Three clumsy thieves come up with a robbery scheme against the "Grandi Magazzini Romani". They call ...
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Confessions of a Police Captain
A police captain arranges the release of a criminally insane prisoner, who soon winds up dead. When ...
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The Conspiracy of Torture
In 1599 Italy, Beatrice Cenci is the teenage daughter of the crazed landowner and nobleman Francesco...
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Daniele and Maria
Directed by the Oscar-winning screenwriter Ennio De Concini, Daniele e Maria (1973) is the tale of a...
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Behind The Scenes of Caligula
Extra from The Imperial Edition featuring extensive behind the scenes look at the production and set...
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