Andrea Checchi
Birthday: 1916-10-21
Place of Birth: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Biography: Andrea Checchi (21 October 1916 – 29 March 1974) was an Italian actor. Checchi appeared in over 150 films in his lengthy career, which spanned from 1934 to his death in 1974.
Movies
Blood and Defiance
In a Latin American country, a rebel frees the prisoners of the local tyrant. Some traitors cause th...
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Long Night in '43
1943. The affair between Anna, unhappily married to wheelchair-bound Pino, and deserter Franco unfol...
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Challenge of the Gladiator
Treacherous Roman senator Lucius Quintilius plans a secret journey into Thrace to recover a legendar...
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1860
The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garib...
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Two Women
A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural...
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Black Sunday
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begi...
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Manon Lescaut
Manon escapes with the young nobleman Des Grieux, then becomes a high-class courtesan and finally fo...
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The Anatomy of Love
Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom....
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The Walls of Malapaga
A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughte...
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The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw t...
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Lo smemorato di Collegno
A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic, suffering from amnesia. After seeing his photo in th...
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Attention! Bandits!
During the winter of 1944, the partisans stationed in the Ligurian Apennines must go to a factory in...
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The Lady Without Camelias
A Milanese shop assistant becomes an overnight film sensation when fate lands her the leading role i...
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Mid-Century Loves
Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients...
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Good night… lawyer!
A lawyer, married but temporarily alone at home, finds himself in the house a beautiful lady who tri...
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Getting Away with It the Italian Way
Orazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a quarrel between husband ...
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Erik the Conqueror
In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by th...
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Gold of Rome
Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering th...
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The Intruder
A doctor saves a girl from suicide and marries her out of pity. Soon the evil man who had pushed her...
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Tripoli, bel suol d'amore
The young Alberto Ruotolo leave the country cottage to go for the sharpshooter. But the command does...
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La campana di San Giusto
The adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One....
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Two Anonymous Letters
When her sweetheart Bruno joins the Italian army, Gina, bored by her lack of social life, weds Tulli...
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Schoolgirl Diary
In a girls' school, Maria, a student, is accused of having an affair with the young professor Marini...
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Malombra
A nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, c...
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Attack and Retreat
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during...
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Ten Italians for One German
A cinematographic account of the reprisal ordered by the ruthless Austrian colonel Kappler in 1944 i...
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Revenge of The Gladiators
The mighty Gladiator is captured after freeing the misguided emperor's daughter. The girl surrenders...
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Human Torpedoes
A team of highly trained Italian seamen are taken to the island of Stampalia where there are to take...
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La strada finisce sul fiume
An American journalist, Barbara, goes to Italy to interview Roi, the country's most notorious outlaw...
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Akiko
The quaint life of Ottavia, a widow living in Rome, is turned upside down when a young and pretty Ja...
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Don Camillo: Monsignor
Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle thei...
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The Siege of the Alcazar
Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to ...
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Blood Feud
An industrial overpowered by debts decides to kill his creditor. Not having the courage to do it in ...
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The Accusation
A luckless young teacher it's suspected of committing two murders. When his lover begins to have dou...
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The Assassin
Suave antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police with no justification. At the prec...
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The Constancy of Reason
Florence, early 1960s. Bruno aspires to be hired at a prestigious factory, but his Communist ideals ...
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Amore
It is only the prospect of having a child that eventually draws otherwise strictly urban new wife Su...
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The Verona Trial
This film is the moving story of Edda Ciano, the daughter of Italian dictator Mussolini, who was una...
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Tragic Night
Released from jail, Nanni punches prison guard Stefano who has denounced him. In order to take reven...
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Paolo e Francesca
The tragic love story, already narrated by Dante in his Inferno, of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da...
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Albergo Luna, camera 34
A young music teacher, after her house is burned down by a raid, has to go to a refugee camp with he...
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Bloody Che Contra
The story of Che Guevara's desperate attempt to escape the mountains of Bolivia. Pursued by an elite...
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Luciano Serra, Pilot
Successful WWI pilot Luciano Serra has problems adjusting to an ordinary life in peace, so he leaves...
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Cronaca nera
A mob boss seeks refuge from the police at the home of an ordinary family....
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My Wife's Enemy
Marco and Luciana are married and in love, but the passion of Marco for football distract him, and m...
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Pietà per chi cade
Carlo Savelli, gone missing after the war, returns to Italia after many years. His wife Anna, believ...
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Passionately
"Elena" cannot marry the man she loves, so enters into a loveless marriage with the wealthy "Andrea"...
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Rommel's Treasure
The underworld of Cairo is alerted to certain moves of various people in the search for Rommel's tre...
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Parola di ladro
Desiderio is a gentleman thief who steals jewelry. Without him knowing, he is hired as a manager in ...
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Department Store
In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also...
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Everybody's Woman
Gaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't live...
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Goliath and the Barbarians
When barbarians invade his village and kill his father, a local man wages a one-man war against them...
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Ragazza che dorme
In a village, rumours spread that a treasure is hidden nearby. To finance the search, a farmer sells...
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Tragic Hunt
Immediately after the war, bandits attack a truck that is transporting newlyweds Michele and Giovann...
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Montevergine
A blacksmith from Montevergine, accused of murder, flees to Argentina. Years later, a mute witness t...
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Old Guard
There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly...
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Money
On the theme "money is the driving force that drives man to commit follies to conquer them", this fi...
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È sbarcato un marinaio
In a sea port, where he has landed after a long voyage, a sailor meets a girl. To overcome her reluc...
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Four of the Thundering Jet
In post-war Italy, some pilots of the Air Force, despite the difficulties in which they are forced t...
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A Bullet for the General
El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries....
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I piaceri dello scapolo
Two middle-aged bachelors use the same apartment for their romantic meetings....
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Il mio amico Benito
A clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and tries to...
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The Earth Cries Out
Two Jews and their former British comrade land on opposite sides of the Palestine issue following Wo...
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Torpedo Bay
An Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters while being stalked by a...
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Night Train to Milan
A thriller with Jack Palance as a nazi doctor hiding after the war. While riding on a train, he is r...
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The Sewer Rats
A crippled loner's car breaks down near an isolated town inhabitated by several killers....
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Sul ponte dei sospiri
Coming of age, a girl is told the truth about her dead father: he is alive, but imprisoned for sever...
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Life of Dante
3-part biopic of Dante Alighieri made for Italian public television. Mixes reenacted scenes of Dante...
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The Seven Cervi Brothers
The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism durin...
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The Employee
Nando is dissatisfied with his repetitive and mortifying work. He manages to escape from daily medio...
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Made in Italy
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants....
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Me, Me, Me... and the Others
Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and ...
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Robbery Roman Style
After scoring big in a high-profile bank robbery, a gang of Milanese criminals has to hide in a mona...
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War of the Zombies
A fantastic yarn about a plot to conquer the world with an army of zombies!...
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Mattino di primavera
Two teenagers are late for school so they decide to spend the day together....
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Family Killer
Stefano, son of the Mafia Don Angelino Ferrante, is killed by Gaspare Ardizzone (John Saxon) for ref...
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Rome: Free City
In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who r...
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The Conquest of the Air
This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archiva...
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Tristi amori
Emma, who is married to lawyer Giulio Scarli, is secretly in love with Fabrizio Arcieri, who works w...
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Under the Southern Cross
Two partners return from the war to find their coffee plantation in the hands of an unscrupulous ove...
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City of Violence
Amore e sangue (released in the U.S. as "City of Violence"), the 1951 Marino Girolami (billed as "Jo...
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I Kill, You Kill
Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it....
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The Maids
Gabriella, a maid, wears a jewel at a dancing party which belongs to her mistress, and when it is st...
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Il sentiero dell'odio
A love story along the lines of Romeo and Juliet, set in Calabria: two young lovers belong to two fa...
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One Appreciated Professional of Sure Future
The young lawyer Vincenzo, Lucetta's new husband, daughter of a building speculator, discovers, on t...
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Operazione notte
An unemployed young man has a relationship with the mistress of a rich industrialist. In order to es...
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Il nero
The events in Naples of a few ‘figli della Madonna’ (Madonna’s sons), young people born between 1945...
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Thrill
A crime novel writer is experiencing writer's block while writing his latest book. Then a woman is m...
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Il mondo dei miracoli
An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter...
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The Brothers Karamazov
When a tragedy strikes father Fyodor Karamazov, the wretched relation with his three sons reveals it...
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Giù il sipario
A playwright, a troop of actors, a director, and the playwright's uncle scheme against each other fo...
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Supreme Confession
The wife of a conductor with a stormy past agrees to meet a blackmailer in a small hotel....
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Ettore Fieramosca
ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in...
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Biraghin
Birdaghin is a dancer at La Scala in Milan whose rapid success also quickly goes to her head. Fortun...
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