Nando Bruno

Acting

Nando Bruno

Born 1895-10-06 · Rome, Italy

Nando Bruno was born on October 6, 1895, died April 11, 1963 (age 67) in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor and writer,

Acting credits

Bicycle Thieves poster
8.2

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. However on his first day, his bicycle—essential to his work—gets stolen. His job is doomed unless he can find the thief. With the help of his son, Antonio combs the city, becoming desperate for justice.

Bicycle Thieves

1948

Rome, Open City poster
8.0

During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a means of escape.

Rome, Open City

1945

Papà Pacifico poster
7.8

After she inherits a huge sum of money, a girl suddenly leaves a working-class man that she previously used to fancy.

Papà Pacifico

1954

The Widower poster
7.4

Alberto Nardi is a Roman businessman who fancies himself a man of great capabilities, but whose factory teeters perennially on the brink of catastrophe. Alberto is married to a rich and successful businesswoman from Milan, Elvira Almiraghi who has a no-nonsense attitude and barely tolerates the attempts of her husband to keep his factory afloat with her money.

The Widower

1959

Indiscretion of an American Wife poster
5.9

While on vacation in Rome, married American Mary Forbes becomes entangled in an affair with an Italian man, Giovanni Doria. As she prepares to leave Italy, Giovanni confesses his love for her; he doesn't want her to go. Together they wander the railroad station where Mary is to take the train to Paris, then ultimately reunite with her husband and daughter in Philadelphia. Will she throw away her old life for this passionate new romance?

Indiscretion of an American Wife

1953

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

Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare poster
6.7

A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery.

Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare

1961

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

Lost Youth poster
6.2

In impoverished post-war Rome, a gang of young thieves is lead by Stefano, the son of an illustrious professor. The police suspects that the criminals are actually university students; inspector Mariani, a young World War II veteran, enrolls and tries to find out more. He falls for a pretty fellow student, Luisa, but she is the sister of the gang leader...

Lost Youth

1948

Love and Larceny poster
7.2

Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.

Love and Larceny

1960

Two Nights with Cleopatra poster
4.9

Sophia Loren plays a dual role, as both the sultry Queen of the Nile with a "man-a-night" appetite and a beautiful slave girl who takes her place and is wooed by a bodyguard who thinks she's the real monarch.

Two Nights with Cleopatra

1954

Madri pericolose poster
6.0

A great Party is given by the rich family of Improta. Every kind of intrigue gets around this party. The purpose of every plan is to find a husband or a wife with a quality: wealth.

Madri pericolose

1960

He Thief, She Thief poster
6.2

Cencio, a roman pilferer, periodically is in prison. He meets Cesira that soon become his partner in crime. With Cesira's help Cencio try the big hit to a jewelery. But the lucky break is over.

He Thief, She Thief

1958

The Traffic Policeman poster
7.4

An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.

The Traffic Policeman

1960

Il trovatello poster
NR

A taxi driver finds a baby in his cab after the mother accidentally leaves him behind.

Il trovatello

1938

The Last Wagon poster
6.8

Toto (Aldo Fabrizi), a Roman coachman with an old fashioned horse-drawn carriage who objects to the competition from motorised taxis, doesn't want his daughter Nannarella to go out with Roberto, a young taxi driver. But it is Roberto who helps him when he gets into trouble with a former client, Mary Dunchetti (Anna Magnani), an arrogant singer.

The Last Wagon

1943

Primo applauso poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Primo applauso

1957

Rome: Free City poster
5.4

In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who returns from the war to find that he has been betrayed by his fiancée while fighting in the war. From that moment the thief takes the ex-soldier under his wing. They leave house together for a night full of misadventures. In a streets of Rome they meet the struggling typist who can’t pay her rent and opts to street life; a wandering amnesiac who lost his memory and keeps asking everyone “Do you recognize me?”. Thieves, gamblers, hookers, policemen, soldiers and endless chain of cigarette-smoking and alcohol/espresso-drinking.

Rome: Free City

1946

The Anatomy of Love poster
6.4

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.

The Anatomy of Love

1954

The Love Specialist poster
6.3

A Texas girl wins a trip to Italy where she meets a prince who's afraid to admit that he's flat broke (so is she). They strike up an affair, but things come to a crazy conclusion when he tries to bribe a horse to win a race at the Palio racing grounds.

The Love Specialist

1957

Fortunella poster
6.3

A poor girl is convinced she is the daughter of a prince.

Fortunella

1958

Courtyard poster
9.0

A teenager escapes from a reformatory and is accused of theft.

Courtyard

1955

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

It Happens in Roma poster
4.9

Airy comedy of a man a woman and the lengths they'll go to for a really great apartment! Located in the center of Rome with amazing views both want it and strike the compromise of marrying each other platonically to get it. The woman still hopes for true love and the man agrees to step aside should that special someone come along but he is secretly smitten with her and surreptitiously makes her various suitors look like fools. All goes well until he comes up against Rosanno Brazzi and finds him a tough challenge to overcome.

It Happens in Roma

1955