
Birthday:
08-07-1930
Deathday:
04-17-2020 (89 years)
Birthplace:
Rome, Lazio, Italy
Biography
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Sergio Fantoni, (born 7 August 1930) is an Italian actor.
He was born in Rome, the son of actor Cesare Fantoni (1905 - 1963). In films from the late 1940s, he has worked mainly in his own country but made several appearances in American films in the 1960s, most notably opposite Frank Sinatra in the war film Von Ryan's Express, made in 1965. Among his TV roles, he appeared alongside Anglo-Italian actress Cherie Lunghi in the Channel 4 series The Manageress.
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Sergio Fantoni, (born 7 August 1930) is an Italian actor.
He was born in Rome, the son of actor Cesare Fantoni (1905 - 1963). In films from the late 1940s, he has worked mainly in his own country but made several appearances in American films in the 1960s, most notably opposite Frank Sinatra in the war film Von Ryan's Express, made in 1965. Among his TV roles, he appeared alongside Anglo-Italian actress Cherie Lunghi in the Channel 4 series The Manageress.
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The Prize
Act like Carlo Farelli
event1963 star_border 6.8
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A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living. Craig, who is infamous for his drinking and womanizing, formulates a wild theory that physics prize winner Dr. Max Stratman has been replaced by an impostor, embroiling Craig and his chaperone in a Cold War kidnapping plot.
Von Ryan's Express
Act like Captain Oriani
event1965 star_border 7.1
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Von Ryan's Express stars Frank Sinatra as a POW colonel who leads a daring escape from WWII Italy by taking over a freight train, but he has to win over the British soldiers he finds himself commanding.
Atom Age Vampire
Act like Pierre Mornet
event1960 star_border 4.2
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When a singer is horribly disfigured in a car accident, a scientist develops a treatment which can restore her beauty by injecting her with a special serum. While performing the procedure, however, he falls in love with her. As the treatment begins to fail, he determines to save her appearance, regardless of how many women he must kill for her sake.
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
Act like Captain Oppo
event1966 star_border 6
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A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way. Because of aerial reconnaissance, they must look like they are fighting. To sort this out an intelligence officer is sent in. Meanwhile the festival gets complicated with the Mayors daughter.
Diabolically Yours
Act like Fréderic Launay
event1967 star_border 6
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A wealthy amnesiac begins to suspect that his devoted wife is not really his wife and that he is not the man people keep telling him he is.
Senso
Act like Luca
event1954 star_border 7.2
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A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.
Do Not Disturb
Act like Paul
event1965 star_border 5.6
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American Mike Harper, sent to do business in England, moves there with his wife, Janet. But she soon becomes convinced that Mike is carrying on with his attractive new assistant, Claire. Mike also has been spending a considerable amount of time with his British bachelor buddies. Vexed and lonely, Claire hires charming antiques expert Paul to decorate the Harper home and maybe make Mike jealous in the process.
The Belly of an Architect
Act like Io Speckler
event1987 star_border 6.8
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The American architect Kracklite arrives in Italy, supervising an exhibiton for a French architect, Boullée, famous for his oval structures. Tirelessly dedicated to the project, Kracklite's marriage quickly dissolves along with his health.
Hercules Unchained
Act like Eteocle
event1959 star_border 5
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En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger.
The Giant of Marathon
Act like Teocrito
event1959 star_border 5.2
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A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.
Hornets' Nest
Act like Von Hecht
event1970 star_border 5.5
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An American commando who's the sole survivor of a parachute jump into WWII-era Italy leads a group of children in a campaign of sabotage against the Nazis.
Escape by Night
Act like Don Valiero
event1960 star_border 6.9
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In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major.
The Bloody Hands of the Law
Act like Musante
event1973 star_border 6.7
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When a crime boss is murdered while in hospital, a young woman sees the killers, but her room mate convinces her not to tell the police, fearing the consequences. Unfortunately the murderers realize that they have been seen, and kill both women. Catching the killers proves difficult as anyone who knows anything dies in unexplained circumstances. It becomes evident that a large and powerful criminal organization is behind the murders, and that they have links within the police force. It is up to Lt. Carmine to see that justice prevails, using any means necessary.
The Fifth Missile
Act like Pietro
event1986 star_border 6
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The crew of a Polaris submarine, on a training mission simulating an attack on Russia, is stricken by toxic poisoning. One of the poison's effects is to make its victims hallucinate, and the sub's captain imagines that he has been given an order to actually attack Russia. He prepares to do exactly that.
Ghost Captain
event1953 star_border 2
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A disgraced member of the Spanish Navy must redeem his family's honor after his father betrays his country to the French.
A che punto è la notte
Act like Ingegner Musumanno
event1994 star_border 6.8
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In Turin, a fanatic priest dies falling from the pulpit, killed by the explosion of a candle. A second assassination, that of a Carabinieri Marshal, complicates the investigation - but before he died, the Marshal managed to wrote down the word "Topos". Commissioner Santamaria now has to unravel the problem.
Esther and the King
Act like Haman
event1960 star_border 5.4
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Recently widowed Persian King Ahasuerus wants to marry the beautiful Esther. But Esther is a Jewess, and Haman, the king's evil minister, is spreading hatred against the Jews.
Ten Italians for One German
Act like Gilberto di San Severino
event1961 star_border 7
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A cinematographic account of the reprisal ordered by the ruthless Austrian colonel Kappler in 1944 in Rome. In Via Rasella (Rasella Street) ten Italian civilians were sentenced to death for each German soldier killed in a partisan attempt.
Kali-Yug, Goddess of Vengeance
Act like Ram Chand
event1963 star_border 4
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At the end of the 19th century, during the British rule of India, the goddess Kali commits a number of murders, among which the man who was conducting a cargo of serum to a village infected with disease. Worried with the vast number of fatalities that will result from stopping this shipment, Dr. Palmer asks for help from Major Talbot. The Major suspects about the murderer turn onto the doctor, and he must take refuge in the jungle, after faking his own death by a tiger. Help does come in the shapely form of Amrita, a native dancer, who will give him shelter, and will even free him from a gang of robbers. Dr. Palmer still has a number of real and fantastic adventures until he sees an end to his tribulations...
Corpse for the Lady
Act like Commissario
event1964 star_border 5.1
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Laura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and Giovanna in the meantime become a nun to collect the amount requested.
Catherine of Russia
Act like Orloff
event1963 star_border 5
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Caterina finds out that her husband Peter Tzar of Russia, is plotting to kill her. She sets Count Orlov free from prison, Peter's sworn enemy, becomes empress of Russia and leads the Cossacks army against him.
Blood Feud
Act like Riccardo
event1961 star_border 7
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An industrial overpowered by debts decides to kill his creditor. Not having the courage to do it in person, he hired his former employee who needs money.
The Dolphins
Act like Dr. Mario Corsi
event1960 star_border 6.5
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An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly unpleasant group of mostly rich youngsters in a small Adriatic coast city.
Io sono la Primula Rossa
event1954
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Comedy with Renato Rascel
Il peccato degli anni verdi
Act like marito di Giulia Giordani
event1960 star_border 5
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Released from a boarding school of nuns in Como, the seventeen-year-old Milanese Elena Giordani manages to convince her parents to let her spend the summer holidays together with her Genoese friend Diana D'Aquino in her villa in Rapallo.
Una chica y un señor
Act like El Señor
event1974 star_border 4.7
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The life of a young attractive singer in search of success changes when he meets an accomplished lawyer, considerably older than her. Their romance will lead to a love story in which the age difference will add to the couple a relationship problem…
The Night of the Great Attack
Act like Marco
event1959 star_border 4
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In 15th century Romagna rules violence and fright. Cesare Borgia wants to incorporate the duchy of Catherine Sforza. But in between is the independent county Fabis, which he wants to bring into his possession.
The Mystery of the Indian Temple
Act like Ram Chand
event1963 star_border 4.3
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Doctor Palmer, wrongly accused of the murder of a British officer, is a prisoner of the Maharajah of Hasnabad. Doctor Palmer and Gopal, his devoted assistant, escape with the complicity of Amrita
Love Lies
Act like Carniato
event1983 star_border 1.5
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After a harrowing breakup, Marcel returns to his favorite hotel to find his room occupied by a journalist, whom he attempts to impress.
Bad Man's River
Act like Colonel Enrique Fierro
event1971 star_border 4.4
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Robber Roy King loses his wife, Alicia, to revolutionary Montero. Despite their rivalry they collaborate in an attempt to rob the Mexican government of one million dollars.
Chance and Violence
Act like Inspecteur Tanner
event1974 star_border 3.7
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A sociologist specialising in criminology moves to a peaceful residence on the Côte d’Azur so that he can concentrate on writing a thesis. When he is attacked by a karate fanatic, he decides not to press charges. He refuses help from the police, preferring to take care of himself...
Pigeon Shoot
Act like Nardi
event1961 star_border 7.2
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Young man Marco Laudato, after the '8/9/1943's WW2 armistice, enlists in the Italian Social Republic army, attending the last days of the old regime in decay.
It's Called Love
Act like Fabrizio
event1961
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Story of heavy drinking poet Dichter Albert, who being worn out by much younger Fanny. At the same time Elise, the writer's wife, tries to capture the young Beau Fabrizio, who shows no interest in her.
Zeno's Conscience
Act like Dottor S.
event1988 star_border 6.2
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La coscienza di Zeno is a TV adaptation of the 1923 novel by Italo Svevo. It was broadcasted by RAI in 1988.
Private Affairs
Act like Dirigente Rai
event1987
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Romantic comedy set against the backdrop of the fashion and television world of Rome.
Un reietto delle isole
event1980
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TV-adaptation of Joseph Conrad's "Outcast of the Islands".
Gioventù di notte
Act like Commissario
event1961
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Elio is a member of a group of youngsters, all from good families, who have fun spending their days taking on silly challenges and perpetrating illicit activities. Their actions escalate and lead them to commit a robbery. Unfortunately, the robbery ends badly and a death ensues, leaving the group implicated in a murder. The police are groping in the dark due to the complexity of the investigation. Meanwhile, Elio meets and falls in love with a nightclub stripper, Suzette. The rest of the group, after a while, think they've got away with it, but make a reckless mistake that allows the police to track them down and arrest them.
Sacco & Vanzetti
Act like Consul Giuseppe Andrower
event1971 star_border 7.6
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Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchist political beliefs.
Paolo e Francesca
Act like Servitore (uncredited)
event1950
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The tragic love story, already narrated by Dante in his Inferno, of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da Polenta. Francesca is married to Paolo's brother, Gianciotto an old and crippled man and secretly Paolo's mistress. When Gianciotto finds out tragedy ensues.
Oliver Cromwell: Ritratto di un dittatore
event1969
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Television movie about Oliver Cromwell.
High Infidelity
Act like Luigi
event1964 star_border 5.3
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Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.
The Employee
Act like Sergio Jacobetti
event1960 star_border 5.8
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Nando is dissatisfied with his repetitive and mortifying work. He manages to escape from daily mediocrity only at night, when he enters his fantasy world.
Wonderful Adventures of Guerrin Meschino
Act like Selim
event1952 star_border 5.5
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A young man is a servant in the court of a great king of Dalmatia.He was bought when he was still a child ,but he is a high-born gentleman.
Caterina Sforza, the lioness of Romagna
event1959 star_border 7
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Giovanni Medici, the future leader of the Black Bands, has a last meeting in a convent with his dying mother Caterina Sforza, listening to the re-enactment of her life.
The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun
Act like Andrei
event1974
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A war film based on the novel "Journey into the Vertigo" by Evgenija Solomonovna Ginzburg
Hell in the City
Act like Giudice instruttore
event1959 star_border 7.4
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A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.
The Shortest Day
Act like Aiutante del colonnello (uncredited)
event1963 star_border 6.2
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Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Provincia Segreta
Act like Zagato
event1998
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Two provincial stories, murky, mysterious and disturbing that shed a new light on apparent "small and sincere" paradises far from the metropolises and their devastating existences and instead so tangled and full of pitfalls.
Inspector Montalbano
Act like Maestro Cataldo Barbera (1 ep.)
event1999 star_border 8.3
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Inspector Montalbano is an Italian television series produced and broadcast by RAI since 1999, based on the detective novels of Andrea Camilleri. The protagonist is Commissario Salvo Montalbano, and the stories are set in the imaginary town of Vigata, Sicily. In 2012 the series generated a prequel, Il giovane Montalbano.
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval
Act like Papst Hadrien (3 ep.)
event1994 star_border 8.5
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Charlemagne, le prince à cheval is a 1993 television miniseries about the life of Charlemagne. It consists of five episodes and covers the period from the death of his father, Pepin the Short in AD 768 until Charlemagne's corronation as the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas Day, AD 800. However, there is a minor chronological anachronism: in an earlier episode, we see Widukind, the king of the Saxons surrender and convert to Christianity, which didn't happen until AD 803.
This program was directed by Clive Donner and based primarily on the contemporary biography of Charlemagne written by Einhard, who knew Charlemagne personally.
Anna Karenina
Act like Constantino Levin (6 ep.)
event1974 star_border 2.5
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A miniseries based on the novel by Leo Tolstoi.
The Green Trail
Act like Thomas Norton (3 ep.)
event1975 star_border 5.8
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Set in the USA, the plot concerns Thomas Norton, a researcher in the field of lie detection, who provides his services to courts and private industry. One day he idly attaches electrodes to a plant in his office, and is surprised to find it responds with recognisable emotional reactions to the stimuli he gives it. He pursues this research, and keeps a plant wired up in his lab. When a woman who lives in his building is mysteriously murdered in his lab, the plant is the only witness to the crime.
Le Tiroir secret
Act like Franco Pinelli (1 ep.)
event1986 star_border 3.5
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Le Tiroir secret is a 1986 French family drama TV mini-series directed by Michel Boisrond, Edouard Molinaro, Nadine Trintignant and Roger Gillioz. The screenplay was written by Danièle Thompson, Jean-Patrick Manchette, Patrick Besson and Roger Grenier. The music score is by Vladimir Cosma. It was released on DVD in France on 18 October 2006. It tells the story of a woman who suspects that her husband had in fact led a double life.
A che punto è la notte
Act like Ingegner Musumanno (2 ep.)
event1994
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In Turin, a priest is killed by the explosion of a candle and Commissioner Santamaria has to unravel the problem.
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