Giancarlo Badessi

Acting

Giancarlo Badessi

Born — Died

1928-09-22 — 2011-12-06

Place of birth

Lecco, Lombardy, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

43 titles

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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Giancarlo Badessi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 31 titles

Caligula poster
6.0

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.

Caligula

1979

Black Journal poster
5.5

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 tenants in a 1938 Italian apartment building.

Black Journal

1977

Salon Kitty poster
5.6

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 to use the information to blackmail and usurp Hitler. One of the girls discovers the ploy and, with the madam's help, takes on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.

Salon Kitty

1976

The Swindle poster
6.5

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 London.

The Swindle

1977

What Have You Done to Solange? poster
6.7

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 murders start occurring shortly thereafter, the teacher suspects that he may be the cause of them.

What Have You Done to Solange?

1972

Innocence and Desire poster
4.8

A young man is temporarily home from a Seminary, but eventually falls in love with his father's young new wife.

Innocence and Desire

1974

One Way or Another poster
7.7

Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.

One Way or Another

1976

The Grand Duel poster
6.0

A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.

The Grand Duel

1972

How to Kill a Judge poster
7.3

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 seizure.

How to Kill a Judge

1975

Le mille e una notte... e un'altra ancora! poster
NR

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Le mille e una notte... e un'altra ancora!

1973

Hit Squad poster
6.6

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.

Hit Squad

1976

Confessions of a Police Captain poster
6.8

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 uncovers corruption in the department and vows to take down the man who's responsible.

Confessions of a Police Captain

1971

What Have They Done to Your Daughters? poster
7.1

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. A peeping tom is caught with photos of her having sex with a teenage drop-out but he is later released due to lack of evidence. The investigation, conducted by Inspector Silvestri and the assistant public prosecutor Vittoria Stori, focuses on the girl's parents. Conspiracies and horrors pile up, as do the body parts.

What Have They Done to Your Daughters?

1974

A Man Called Magnum poster
5.3

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 they discover who double-crossed them. Into this backdrop, Inspector Dario Mauri arrives from Milan to help clean-up Naples. His mission – find the drugs and stop the killing.

A Man Called Magnum

1977

Great Treasure Hunt poster
7.0

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 can't do it alone, so he hires the quartet of soldiers-of-fortune to help him. There's bloodshed in abundance in pursuit of that goal.

Great Treasure Hunt

1972

Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor poster
4.0

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. Emperor Nero's wife, the beautiful Poppea, takes an interest in Ottone, who after a short stint as a gladiator gets a region to manage and an army of his own to command, all the while assisted by his best friend and partner in crime Savio.

Poppea: A Prostitute in Service of the Emperor

1972

The Son of the Sheik poster
5.9

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 fight for the succession to the emirate.

The Son of the Sheik

1978

Roma bene poster
6.0

A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.

Roma bene

1971

Silent Action poster
5.5

A number of unexplained military deaths hit Italy and are ruled to be accidental or suicides, but police inspector Giorgio Solmi suspects otherwise. When a mysterious wealthy electrician is seemingly murdered by a female escort, a sinister plot slowly begins to unravel.

Silent Action

1975

Amore vuol dir gelosia poster
4.9

A dentist is married to frigid Licia, has two daughters and three other women.

Amore vuol dir gelosia

1975

Povero Cristo poster
7.5

A provincial young man with aspirations of becoming a private investigator is approached by a stranger that promises 100 million lire if he provides evidence of the existence of Jesus Christ.

Povero Cristo

1976

Secret Confessions in a Cloistered Convent poster
4.2

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 one immediately realizes how much his presence is very welcome.

Secret Confessions in a Cloistered Convent

1972

The Profiteer poster
6.0

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 sanctimonious family of landowners. Ercole soon becomes the lover of his master's wife, the beautiful Baroness Clotilde. In a familial and social context where only money, sex and power count, everyone tries to take advantage of everyone, but the real saprophyte turns out to be Ercole.

The Profiteer

1974

Il trafficone poster
4.6

Neapolitan Vincenzo LoRusso lives of expedients in Rome, as he tries to sell at an intersection a faux suede jacket, accidentally meets Laura, a beautiful woman who invites him to her house.

Il trafficone

1974

A Virgin Named Mary poster
6.0

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 search of a job in a factory, or less legal ways to survive. Young Maria (Cinzia De Carolis) can predict the future during her epileptic seizures, or at least that's what everyone believes, and her mother (Clelia Matania) sells her predictions and responses to the superstitious neighbors, after inducing her "trance" with electricity. One night the shock is too strong, and Maria seems to die: when she wakes up, she is found pregnant. And being a honest unmarried girl from the south, she is obviously still virgin... Notwithstanding the opposition of the local priest (Turi Ferro), everyone, including her, believes in the miracle, and prepares for a second coming, in a crescendo of fanaticism that is soon noticed by the press, and by the official church..

A Virgin Named Mary

1975

The Big Deal poster
6.8

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 burglar, Pierre Le Compte.

The Big Deal

1972

Satiricosissimo poster
5.6

Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not understand him.

Satiricosissimo

1970

No artwork available
10.0

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 boy and the poor girl whose kindness opens up his formerly sheltered life. As the familiar setup from Romeo and Juliet suggests, the romance can only have a tragic ending as Maria is whisked away from her love and is forced into a loveless marriage organized by the rich family sheltering Daniele…

Daniele and Maria

1973

Aretino's Blue Stories poster
4.2

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 friend Antonia from whom he learned many unseemly things about them.

Aretino's Blue Stories

1972

Halleluja to Vera Cruz poster
7.0

Two American bandits disguise themselves as priests in order to work undetected in Mexico during the revolution.

Halleluja to Vera Cruz

1973

Vermisat poster
3.3

Luigi Tagrana, a hopeless social outcast living on the industrial outskirts of northern Italy, scrapes together a meager living by gathering worms to sell as bait. His days are spent in a bleak, repetitive cycle of labor and solitude amidst a decaying landscape, moving in and out of hospitals and prisons where he is treated as a number rather than a person.

Vermisat

1974

1960s · 8 titles

Tepepa poster
6.5

The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro.

Tepepa

1969

Ace High poster
6.5

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 horses. This results in a merry chase and Stevens and Bessy become unwilling allies in Cacopoulus' revenge against the people who deserted him and framed him to get their money back.

Ace High

1968

The Conspiracy of Torture poster
6.3

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 his castle where he sexually abuses her. Beatrice plots with her stepmother, her besotted servant Olimpio, as well as a local bandit, named Catalano to plan Francesco’s murder.

The Conspiracy of Torture

1969

Night of the Serpent poster
5.7

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 inheritance. Killer Luke, now an alcoholic for having murdered his own son by mistake, who is chosen for the task, instead decides to take the defence of the poor child.

Night of the Serpent

1969

Anyone Can Play poster
4.6

In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.

Anyone Can Play

1967

Where Are You Going All Naked? poster
5.0

Totally drunk, a young banker marries a girl who has strange habits: she walks around the house completely naked.

Where Are You Going All Naked?

1969

Coup D'Etat poster
7.8

Italy, 1972. Political elections are taking place and Christian Democrat victory is expected; but the electronic computer of the Ministry of the Interior reveals that the party with the highest number is the Italian Communist Party.

Coup D'Etat

1969

Gangsters '70 poster
7.3

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 betrays the details of the operation to a rival gangster.

Gangsters '70

1968

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