Romano Puppo

Acting

Romano Puppo

Born 1933-03-25 · Trieste, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy

Romano Puppo was an Italian stuntman and actor who found himself cast in many "tough guy" roles from the 1960's through to the 1980's. He doubled for Lee Van Cleef in his Spaghetti Western outings and was one of the pallbearers at Van Cleef's funeral. Puppo died having a heart attack while riding his motorcycle outside of Trieste, Italy in 1994.

Acting credits

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly poster
8.5

While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the American Southwest in search of a strongbox containing $200,000 in stolen gold.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

1966

Street People poster
5.0

A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The lawyer also enlists the aid of his best friend, a grand prix driver with an adventurous streak.

Street People

1976

Day of Anger poster
7.1

A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.

Day of Anger

1967

The Big Gundown poster
7.2

Unofficial lawman John Corbett hunts down Cuchillo Sanchez, a Mexican peasant accused of raping and killing a 12-year-old girl.

The Big Gundown

1967

Boot Hill poster
5.9

Victims of oppressive town boss Honey are offered help by an unusual alliance of gunmen and circus performers

Boot Hill

1969

Death Rides a Horse poster
7.0

Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself continually sparring and occasionally cooperating with Ryan, a gunfighter on his own quest for vengeance, who knows more than he says about Bill's tragedy.

Death Rides a Horse

1967

Beyond the Law poster
5.8

A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it.

Beyond the Law

1968

The Last Shark poster
5.4

When a 35-foot great white shark begins to wreak havoc on a seaside town, the mayor, not wanting to endanger his gubernatorial campaign, declines to act, so a local shark hunter and horror author band together to stop the beast.

The Last Shark

1981

Behind Convent Walls poster
5.0

On the surface the women at the convent are your average nuns. However, what they get up to in their spare time is far from what you'd expect from nuns.

Behind Convent Walls

1978

Sabata poster
6.3

Several pillars of society have robbed an Army safe containing $100,000 so they can buy the land upon which the coming railroad will be built. But they haven't reckoned on the presence of the master gunslinger, Sabata.

Sabata

1969

The White, The Yellow, and The Black poster
5.8

The White, the Yellow, and the Black (Italian: Il bianco, il giallo, il nero, also known as Shoot First… Ask Questions Later) is a 1975 Spaghetti Western comedy film. It is the last spaghetti western directed by Sergio Corbucci. Differently from his previous western films, this is openly parodic.

The White, The Yellow, and The Black

1975

They Called Him Bulldozer poster
6.9

The "Bulldozer", a former football star, is now working as a fisherman. As a group of street-people arranges a football match against the local Armybase, he is asked to be their trainer. His boat was damaged by a submarine and he currently has no work, so he agrees.

They Called Him Bulldozer

1978

Careless poster
7.4

Emilio Brentani leads a peaceful and uneventful life with his older sister Amalia. Until he meets Angiolina Zarri, a beautiful but fickle, wayward and coquettish young woman. Unfortunately for him, Emilio falls madly in love with her.

Careless

1962

The Great Alligator poster
4.5

Tourists on a tropical island anger an island god, who turns himself into a giant alligator and stalks them.

The Great Alligator

1979

Ghoulies II poster
5.5

Four bloodthirsty demons stow away on a truck belonging to the owners of a carnival attraction and, after arriving at the fairgrounds, hole up inside the ride, which becomes a sensation after patrons believe the creatures are part of the show.

Ghoulies II

1987

Buddy Goes West poster
6.2

Outlaw drifter Buddy is mistaken for a doctor after his Indian companion inadvertently steals a bag of surgical instruments.

Buddy Goes West

1981

Massacre Time poster
6.4

In 1866, prospector Tom Corbett returns to his hometown of Laramie, Texas, now under the brutal control of gangster Jason Scott and his violent son, Junior. With his brother Jeff, a struggling drunk cared for by their maid Mercedes, Tom seeks to overthrow the Scotts' tyrannical rule and restore peace to the town.

Massacre Time

1966

Robowar poster
4.4

A group of commandos heads into the jungles of Venezuela on a highly classified mission and encounters a robotic killing machine.

Robowar

1988

Lady Frankenstein poster
5.6

When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant continue his experiments.

Lady Frankenstein

1971

Contraband poster
6.3

Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler.

Contraband

1980

Cry, Onion! poster
5.3

Onion Jack has bought a piece of land on which to settle, but the property is still in possession of the orphans of the original owner and is coveted by the local oil baron.

Cry, Onion!

1975

Loaded Guns poster
5.1

An air hostess gets involved in Naples, against her will, in the in-fighting amongst rival gangs.

Loaded Guns

1975

The Crazy Westerners poster
5.7

Little Rita has a dream: she dreams of a better world and she believes that all the evil in the world originates from gold. So she has decided to blow up all the gold she can put her hands on. In her mission she is assisted by the Indian Chief Bisonte Seduto and by her friend Francis. Little Rita kills Ringo and Django, but she is taken prisoner by the Mexican bandit Sancho who wants to steal her gold. Black Star rescues her and seems determined to help her, but does he?

The Crazy Westerners

1967

The Big Racket poster
6.9

Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles a criminal gang terrorizing a sleepy Italian town, extorting cash from the local merchants. With the threat of violence, no one dares to act, except for a restaurant owner who is forced by Palmieri to tell the truth.

The Big Racket

1976