Giancarlo Badessi
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.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5796 |
| Birthday | 1928-09-22 |
| Place of Birth | Lecco, Lombardy, Italy |
| Also Known As | Giancarlo Badese, Badessi Giancarlo, |
1979
Caligula
5.974/976
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravit...
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Caligula
1972
The Grand Duel
5.982/111
A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.
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The Grand Duel
1977
A Man Called Magnum
5.313/16
A drug deal goes bad and the heroin is stolen. One mob boss doesn't have his drugs and the other doesn't get his money. People are going to die until...
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A Man Called Magnum
1982
Tiger Joe
5.8/5
On one of his last trips before retirement, a plane of an illegal gunrunner in Vietnam is shot down where he hooks up Annie Belle, a humanitarian rebe...
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Tiger Joe
1975
How to Kill a Judge
7.25/14
A filmmaker's popular movie about a corrupt judge who is killed by the Mafia seemingly foretells the murder of a magistrate who orders the film's seiz...
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How to Kill a Judge
1975
Amore vuol dir gelosia
4.917/6
A dentist is married to frigid Licia, has two daughters and three other women.
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Amore vuol dir gelosia
1975
A Virgin Named Mary
6/3
A second coming? This time our savior chose a shantytown outside Turin, in the north of Italy, overcrowded by poor families coming from the south in s...
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A Virgin Named Mary
1969
Where Are You Going All Naked?
4.964/14
Totally drunk, a young banker marries a girl who has strange habits: she walks around the house completely naked.
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Where Are You Going All Naked?
1969
Night of the Serpent
5.7/10
Hernandez, the sheriff of a small Mexican village, joins a group of townsmen with the intention of killing young orphan Manuel and robbing him of his...
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Night of the Serpent
1978
The Son of the Sheik
5.938/8
The old Emir of the Qudmar discovers he has a natural son in Italy. Secret agents and oil companies involve the man, an aspiring gas station, in the f...
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The Son of the Sheik
1968
Gangsters '70
7.333/6
An elderly gangster just released from prison plans one last job, and gathers a small crew to do the job, but the plan goes sour when one of the crew...
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Gangsters '70
1970
Satiricosissimo
5.607/14
Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not understand him.
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Satiricosissimo
1968
Ace High
6.532/218
After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy of a lot of money and steals their hor...
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Ace High
1972
Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
4/9
Ottone and Savio work hard to keep each other out of trouble with the Roman Centurions while scraping together food and drink with various scams. Empe...
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Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor
1974
The Profiteer
6/10
In the city of Ostuni in Puglia, the mute seminarian Ercole is designated to be the driver and nurse of Parsifal, the paraplegic son in a rich and san...
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The Profiteer
1972
Aretino's Blue Stories
4.25/4
Madonna Violante goes to Rome to find the three Armida daughters, Lorenza and Vanna, who she has not seen for many years; but first she stops by her f...
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Aretino's Blue Stories
1972
Secret Confessions in a Cloistered Convent
4.8/5
A young libertine after a series of love affairs, to escape the wrath of the betrayed husband disguises himself as a monk and hides in a convent where...
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Secret Confessions in a Cloistered Convent
1977
The Swindle
6.431/36
A rude Roman policeman Nico Giraldi and an English detective team up in search of a gang that has carried out an enormous fraud against the Lloyd's of...
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The Swindle
1980
Action
4.6/19
Z-movie actor Bruno Martel has hero syndrome, often quarrelling with directors. He meets fellow actor Doris, who is obsessed with Ophelia but cannot g...
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Action
1971
Roma bene
6/13
A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.
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Roma bene
1977
Black Journal
5.45/20
A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow ten...
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Black Journal
1975
Silent Action
5.412/17
A number of unexplained military deaths hit Italy and are ruled to be accidental or suicides, but police inspector Giorgio Solmi suspects otherwise. W...
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Silent Action
1969
Tepepa
6.518/56
The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro.
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Tepepa
1976
Salon Kitty
5.6/145
In Nazi Germany, Kitty runs a brothel where the soldiers come to 'relax'. Recording devices have been installed by a power-hungry official who plans t...
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Salon Kitty
1976
Povero Cristo
7.5/2
A provincial young man with aspirations of becoming a private investigator is approached by a stranger that promises 100 million lire if he provides e...
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Povero Cristo
1973
Halleluja to Vera Cruz
7/1
Two American bandits disguise themselves as priests in order to work undetected in Mexico during the revolution.
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Halleluja to Vera Cruz
1974
Vermisat
3.333/3
Luigi Tagrana, a hopeless social outcast living on the industrial outskirts of northern Italy, scrapes together a meager living by gathering worms to...
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Vermisat
1976
One Way or Another
7.625/172
Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, cl...
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One Way or Another
1974
Innocence and Desire
4.725/20
A young man is temporarily home from a Seminary, but eventually falls in love with his father's young new wife.
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Innocence and Desire
1976
Hit Squad
6.598/41
A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the wealthy Mr. Douglas, the thieves are beginning to die.
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Hit Squad
1969
Coup D'Etat
8/3
Italy, 1972. Political elections are taking place and Christian Democrat victory is expected; but the electronic computer of the Ministry of the Inter...
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Coup D'Etat
1972
What Have You Done to Solange?
6.7/149
After several Catholic school pupils are murdered, a teacher who is having an affair with one of his students becomes a suspect. When other gruesome m...
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What Have You Done to Solange?
1974
What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
7.128/90
An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been murdered....
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What Have They Done to Your Daughters?
1972
Great Treasure Hunt
7/5
This dark, dusty western concerns a wealthy criminal, a blind man, and four mercenaries. The blind man wants to get his mitts on the crooks' gold. He...
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Great Treasure Hunt
1974
Il trafficone
4.625/8
Neapolitan Vincenzo LoRusso lives of expedients in Rome, as he tries to sell at an intersection a faux suede jacket, accidentally meets Laura, a beaut...
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Il trafficone
1972
The Big Deal
6.8/2
Three clumsy thieves come up with a robbery scheme against the "Grandi Magazzini Romani". They call to their aid a skilled "only by reputation" French...
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The Big Deal
1971
Confessions of a Police Captain
6.814/43
A police captain arranges the release of a criminally insane prisoner, who soon winds up dead. When the District Attorney takes on the case, he uncove...
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Confessions of a Police Captain
1969
The Conspiracy of Torture
6.405/42
In 1599 Italy, Beatrice Cenci is the teenage daughter of the crazed landowner and nobleman Francesco Cenci who keeps her locked up in the dungeon of h...
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The Conspiracy of Torture
1973
Daniele and Maria
10/1
Directed by the Oscar-winning screenwriter Ennio De Concini, Daniele e Maria (1973) is the tale of a forbidden romance between a rich and reclusive bo...
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Daniele and Maria
2009
Behind The Scenes of Caligula
0/0
Extra from The Imperial Edition featuring extensive behind the scenes look at the production and setting up the sets accompanied by the score from the...
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Behind The Scenes of Caligula
1967
Anyone Can Play
4.563/8
In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.
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