Miranda Campa

Acting

Miranda Campa

Born 1914-01-31 · Genève, Switzerland

Miranda Campa (31 January 1914 – 7 May 1989) was a Swiss-born Italian actress and voice actress. Born Liliana Campa Capodaglio in Geneva, the nephew of actors Pio Campa and Wanda Capodaglio, Campa studied acting at the Silvio d’Amico Academy of Dramatic Arts, graduating in 1938. Mainly active on stage, she was part, among others, of the theatrical companies of Vittorio Gassman, Andreina Pagnani and Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan. She made her film debut at mature age, in 1949, usually cast in character roles, often playing religious figures. Campa was also very active as a voice actress and as a dubber. Source: Article "Miranda Campa" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Acting credits

Barabbas poster
6.9

Epic account of the thief Barabbas, who was pardoned for his crimes and spared crucifixion when Pilate offered the Israelites a choice to pardon Barabbas or Jesus. Struggling with his spirituality, Barabbas goes through many ordeals leading him to the gladiatorial arena, where he tries to win his freedom and confront his inner demons, ultimately becoming a follower of the man who was crucified in his place.

Barabbas

1961

The Giant of Marathon poster
5.2

A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.

The Giant of Marathon

1959

Roman Tales poster
6.2

Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They need only a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?

Roman Tales

1955

Womanlight poster
5.8

Having both suffered extreme losses, two disparate souls try to form a relationship for consolation rather than romance.

Womanlight

1979

The Overtaxed poster
7.1

Mr. Pezzella owns and operates a well-established luxury-clothing store. He does not like and does not consider it right to pay taxes and therefore uses a tax consultant to be able to evade more taxes.

The Overtaxed

1959

The Return of Don Camillo poster
7.2

Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.

The Return of Don Camillo

1953

Lust of the Vampire poster
6.3

A mad scientist captures young women and drains their blood, in order to keep alive an ancient, evil duchess.

Lust of the Vampire

1957

Grog poster
9.0

Two convicts escape from prison and evade the law by taking hostage the middle-class family of a doctor. One of the jailbirds calls the local television station, requesting that they broadcast his demand for a plane so they can escape the country. The television director and his crew show up to film the hostage crisis, and then things get progressively more bizarre and satirical. Not content with the living drama, he directs everyone's actions to make the event more newsworthy.

Grog

1982

Family Diary poster
7.0

Enrico is a struggling journalist in the Rome of 1945. He receives a phone call informing him that his younger brother Lorenzo has died. Enrico recalls their long and difficult relationship; he was brought up by their poor but warm-hearted grandmother, Lorenzo was raised as a gentleman by a wealthy local aristocrat. Reunited in the Florence of the 1930s, Enrico becomes his spoilt brother's keeper, forever haunted by a sense of guilty responsibility towards a man he both hates and loves.

Family Diary

1962

The Slave of Sin poster
4.8

A former prostitute and a little Polish girl are survivors of a train crash. The woman wishes to adopt the child, but her past makes that difficult.

The Slave of Sin

1954

Sweet Dreams poster
7.1

Michele is a young filmmaker frustrated by the lack of understanding his work receives and at odds with the film industry, especially a colleague making a musical on the '68 student protests. As he struggles to complete his own film about Freud's mother, Michele's insecurity and creative block manifest in a series of unsettling nightmares. Nanni Moretti's self-inquiry into cinema, political ennui, and men's relationships with their mothers.

Sweet Dreams

1981

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Addio giovinezza

The Priest's Wife poster
6.2

After discovering her boyfriend is married, a young woman attempts suicide but survives and falls for the priest who took her call, leading to complications with his vow of celibacy.

The Priest's Wife

1970

Hell in the City poster
7.4

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.

Hell in the City

1959

Easy Down There! poster
6.5

A priest gets a little hot under the collar when the wife he thought was dead unexpectedly returns.

Easy Down There!

1971

The Fourth Victim poster
6.0

A wealthy Englishman finds his third wife dead. After the police discover that his first two wives had also died suddenly, an investigation is launched. Meanwhile, a new neighbor moves in and becomes very interested in him.

The Fourth Victim

1971

The Centurion poster
5.5

A Roman soldier falls in love with the daughter of a Greek city's anti-Roman leader.

The Centurion

1961

The Young Ladies of 04 poster
6.3

The lives and loves of five Italian telephone operators. One is betrayed by her husband, one helps a student who wants to take his life, one changes her boyfriend every other day, one is a single mother and the last one tries to inflame a recent-widower accountant.

The Young Ladies of 04

1955

Peccato di castità poster
8.0

Adventures of a young married couple during their honeymoon trip.

Peccato di castità

1956

A Brief Vacation poster
6.0

Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potential new life — is opened up to her.

A Brief Vacation

1973

Revelation poster
7.7

A young communist discovers the power of faith.

Revelation

1955

The Dam on the Yellow River poster
5.5

Anti-Communist propaganda film, in which the victory of Mao Tse-Tung's People's Liberation Army is seen through the eyes of an American journalist reporting from the Nationalists' side.

The Dam on the Yellow River

1960

I Always Loved You poster
7.0

A landowner loves a good girl, but is ensnared by another richer woman who is actually aiming for her fortune. This she will be able to temporarily make the two young men go away but the man makes his girlfriend understand that her is true love; he realizes that he has been the victim of a scam and will bring the woman he has always loved to the altar.

I Always Loved You

1953

The Bacchantes poster
5.3

The god Dionysus decides to pay a visit to the city of Thebes. Dionysus wants to be the worshiped by the masses, but the kingdom is suffering a horrific drought and the king Pentheus wants instead to sacrifice a virgin to the God Demeter.

The Bacchantes

1961