
Birthday:
10-27-1890
Deathday:
10-27-1960 (70 years)
Birthplace:
Milan, Italy
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Black Coffee
Act like Dr. Carelli
event1931 star_border 6
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Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.
The Queen's Affair
event1934
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'Ruritania. Incognito president falls in love with incognito queen he deposed.' (British Film Catalogue)
Father Brown
Act like Italian Professor
event1954 star_border 6.3
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Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.
Three Steps North
Act like Massina
event1951 star_border 5.1
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An ex-American GI returns to Italy to find some money he stashed before doing a prison term. He discovers his cash is now gone and quickly sets off on a manhunt to find out who stole his buried fortune.
Kitty
Act like Alex's Ukulele Tutor
event1929 star_border 4
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Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comforted by sensitive shop assistant Kitty, and the two fall in love, marrying before Alex is sent to the front. But his snobbish mother disapproves of the match, and when Alex returns home paralysed and in a cataleptic state, Mrs. St. George plots to keep him from his wife until she can arrange an annulment. But the determined Kitty has plans of her own....
The Vagabond Queen
Act like Ilmar
event1929
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The Vagabond Queen is a 1929 British comedy film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Betty Balfour, Glen Byam Shaw and Ernest Thesiger. It was the final film directed in Britain by Bolváry before he returned to Germany. A young woman takes the place of a Princess who is a target for an assassination. This film was released in May 1929 as a silent film and re-released with synchronized music and sound effects in August 1930.
Midnight Menace
Act like Tony, Slender Henchman
event1937 star_border 6.5
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When a reporter is killed under mysterious circumstances, the political cartoonist on his paper begins to investigate on his own. He finds that a vengeful industrialist may be trying to manipulate an international peace conference to stage a bombing attack on London.
Fun at St. Fanny's
Act like Prof. Stromboli
event1955 star_border 5.3
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Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny's School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster Dr. Jankers (music hall favourite Fred Emney) is in the toils of shady bookmaker Harry the Scar (boxer Freddie Mills) and has so-far kept his golden goose perched firmly at the bottom of the class. Blissfully unaware of nefarious intrigue around him, Cardew continues to flirt coyly with the French mistress and gamble for school dinners on the form room roulette wheel. But canny Scots solicitor McTavish has been sent to investigate... Featuring television's Billy Bunter, Gerald Campion, gorgeous Vera Day, Will Hay cohort Claude Hulbert, muddle-mouthed Stanley Unwin, a young Ronnie Corbett, and enough old jokes to fill a Christmas Cracker factory.
Quo Vadis
Act like Senator (uncredited)
event1951 star_border 7.1
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After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.
Fugitive Lady
Act like Giuseppe
event1950 star_border 4
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A man drives his car off a cliff in an apparent suicide. One insurance investigator is not so sure it was an accident or suicide and gets 48 hours to prove his case.
Strange Boarders
Act like uncredited
event1938
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Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.
Those Who Love
Act like Frenchman
event1929
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'An author marries an already-married prostitute because she resembles his dead fiancée.' (British Film Institute)
Second Fiddle
Act like Dino
event1957 star_border 5.6
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Deborah and Charles, young executives at the thriving Pontifex Advertising Agency, are very much in love. Deborah is recognised by her employers as the most brilliant TV executive in the country, while Charles is regarded as 'thoroughly reliable'. But there is one hard-and-fast rule at the agency: the board of directors will not allow any married women on their staff; as soon as a girl marries, she must resign!
Adam and Evelyne
Act like Luigi (uncredited)
event1949 star_border 6.6
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A handsome gambler unwittingly becomes guardian of an orphaned, teenaged girl.
In a Monastery Garden
Act like Cesare Bonelli
event1932
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An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a prince.
Heads We Go
event1933
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A model inherits a great deal of money and pretends to be a movie star.
The Viper
Act like The Viper
event1938
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Crime comedy sequel to The Vulture (1937). Amateur sleuth, Cedric Gull, takes on another case.
The Man Who Made Diamonds
event1937
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“Professor Calthrop, actuated only by scientific motives, and his assistant, out for his own gain, have invented a system for the manufacture of diamonds.” - BFI.
Adventurous Youth
Act like Don Esteban
event1928
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In Mexico, an Englishman saves a banker's daughter from a revolutionary but surrenders to save a church from destruction
The Price of Things
Act like Hunya
event1930
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Courtenay John Dayre is drugged by a jealous spy on the night before his loveless marriage to Anthea. His twin, John Courtenay Dayre, reluctantly agrees to impersonate his brother at the wedding, only to discover a genuine affection for his accidental wife. Meanwhile, Courtenay begins to understand the price of things when he realises that his affair has allowed a valuable military secret to be stolen.
Chin Chin Chinaman
Act like Dolange
event1931
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A crime film directed by Guy Newall.
The Dizzy Limit
Act like Pierpoint
event1930
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A jewel thief kidnaps a conjurer's assistant to win a prize for a box trick.
Life's a Stage
Act like Michael Standing
event1930
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A busker confesses to shooting a seducer to save his amnesiac film-star daughter.
The Chance of a Night Time
Act like Boris Bolero
event1931
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Bashful lawyer Henry cannot attend his fiancée's birthday party because of a business engagement. However, farcical circumstances find him mistaken for the dance partner of a professional lady hired to entertain a country house party at which his fiancée is a guest.
Paradise
Act like Manager
event1928
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The daughter of a poor clergyman wins £500 and goes to find happiness on the Riviera.
The Missing Rembrandt
Act like Carlo Ravelli
event1932
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Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist.
Once bitten
Act like Mario Fideli
event1932
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A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott
Atlantic
Act like Steward
event1929 star_border 4.9
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English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic". The main plotline revolves around a man who has a shipboard affair with a fellow passenger, which is eventually discovered by his wife. The ship also has aboard an elderly couple, the Rools, who are on their anniversary cruise. Midway across the Atlantic Ocean, the "Atlantic" strikes an iceberg and is damaged to the point where it is sinking into the Atlantic.
The Silver Greyhound
Act like Valdez
event1932
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A British crime thriller film directed by William C. McGann
Ball at Savoy
Act like Manager
event1936 star_border 6
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A British diplomat falls in love with a famous singer when he meets her in Cannes.
Beloved Impostor
Act like Manager of Cabaret
event1936
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A British musical film directed by Victor Hanbury
Adam's Apple
Act like Crook
event1928
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An American on his honeymoon in Paris, organises the kidnapping of his interfering mother-in-law.
Crime Over London
event1936 star_border 6
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With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.
Shadow of the Eagle
Act like Russian Ambassador
event1950 star_border 6.3
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During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.
Malaga
Act like Hotel Clerk
event1954 star_border 4.2
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A female former OSS agent is sent to Tangiers, Morocco, to infiltrate and destroy an international smuggling ring.
Sleeping Car to Trieste
Act like Pierre
event1948 star_border 6.7
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Spies pursue a stolen diary aboard the Orient Express.
Danger Within
Act like Commandante Arletti
event1959 star_border 6.2
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Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.
Paul Temple's Triumph
Act like Van Draper
event1950
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A husband-and-wife detective team look into the murder of one of her friends, whose father--a prominent scientist--has been kidnapped. They find themselves up against a sinister crime organization headed by a mysterious figure known only as "Z".
Checkpoint
Act like Hotel Hall Porter
event1956 star_border 5.3
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Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However, when opening a safe containing the plans, he triggers an alarm leading to a gun battle where he kills a number of people. James Robertson Justice, alarmed by the scandal surrounding the killings, orders his agent be killed surreptitiously to hide his involvement with the plot. The film uses original footage from the Mille Miglia , an Italian open-road endurance race, featuring classic period racing cars.
The Case of The Smiling Widow
Act like Director of Cellini Gallery in Rome
event1957
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From the case files of Scotland Yard, detectives investigate the mysterious death of Peter Adams, artist and possible forger.
The Buccaneers
Act like Dr. Francisco Gonzales (1 ep.)
event1956 star_border 5.5
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The adventures of privateer Captain Dan Tempest and his crew of former pirates as they make their way across the seven seas in The Sultana.
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