Mario Castellani

Acting

Mario Castellani

Born — Died

1906-11-24 — 1978-04-25

Place of birth

Rome, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Mario Castellani was born in 1906 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor and assistant director.

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 27 titles

The Specialists poster
5.8

Hud Dixon returns to his hometown when his brother is killed by a lynch mob.

The Specialists

1969

Totò sexy poster
5.2

Two strange street musicians end up in jail and exchange sexy stories to while away time.

Totò sexy

1963

Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life poster
6.8

Antonio goes to Rome to represent his fellow peasants, to request a highway that will be built in their region. But the guy is mastered by 'la dolce vita' and wastes the money entrusted to him for his mission. When Peppino is sent to to find out what happened, he lets himself be trapped by the gentle grip of 'la dolce vita'

Totò, Peppino and... the Sweet Life

1961

He Who Hesitates Is Lost poster
7.0

After their boss' death, two clerks eagerly await the arrival of the next one, each one of them hoping to become the apple of his eye. They compete in every possible way to impress him, which causes lots of trouble and many misunderstandings.

He Who Hesitates Is Lost

1960

His Women poster
5.3

Stefano Garbelli is employed by a pharmaceutical company. One evening Daniela, a young independent prostitute, approaches Stefano pretending to be a nurse. They get together, but Daniela has a sinister plan.

His Women

1961

Letto a tre piazze poster
7.0

Antonio married Amalia and went to fight in Russia during World War II. Since he didn't return Amalia thought he was dead, so she married another man. Many year after the war end, Antonio returned. Amalia has to choose between two husbands.

Letto a tre piazze

1960

Ringo and Gringo Against All poster
5.7

Two bumbling southern soldiers are still trying to fight the Civil War unaware of its conclusion and encouraged by two southern belles who are trying to hope those who wish to continue the conflict.

Ringo and Gringo Against All

1966

Latin Lovers poster
6.1

The film is composed of five episodes which depict Italians' love lives in the 1960s.

Latin Lovers

1965

Totò diabolicus poster
7.1

The marquis Galeazzo di Torre Alta is murdered by a mysterious killer who calls himself Diabolicus. His heirs are his three brothers and a sister, but all of them, with the exception of Monsignor Antonino di Torre Alta, are killed by Diabolicus. The police are unable to solve the case, but when Antonino gives his inheritance to Pasquale Bonocore, illegitimate son of his father and Pasquale is in prison and therefore can't be the killer, all the clues are in the hand of the police.

Totò diabolicus

1962

Totòtruffa '62 poster
7.6

Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in love, the two fathers make peace.

Totòtruffa '62

1961

Totò d'Arabia poster
6.3

Toto, a former Italian military servant who works as a servant at the British Intelligence Service, is promoted to secret agent with the name of Agent 00Ø8 to convince the ruler of Shamara, Sheikh Ali El Buzur, to yield oil to UK.

Totò d'Arabia

1965

Totò versus the Black Pirate poster
6.4

José is a Neapolitan petty thief who escapes from the guards and hides himself in a barrel of Jamaican rum on the quay of the port of Naples.

Totò versus the Black Pirate

1964

Toto and Cleopatra poster
6.7

Mark Antony has a brother-lookalike, Totonno, a sinister slave trader. Totonno secretly replaces Mark Antony in the most delicate moments.

Toto and Cleopatra

1963

Appointment in Ischia poster
6.2

Famous singer Mimmo is a widower with a daughter, Letizia, to whom will give a mother. But the girl does not accept the current girlfriend of her father, growing fond of a young man, who wants as mother. The child creates many situations, such as coming to Ischia for treatment with mud, so that the two would meet and fall in love.

Appointment in Ischia

1960

Lo smemorato di Collegno poster
6.7

A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic, suffering from amnesia. After seeing his photo in the newspaper, Mrs. Ballerini realizes that he is her husband and brings him home; then Mrs. Polacich recognizes him as her husband.

Lo smemorato di Collegno

1962

The Monk of Monza poster
7.0

Pasquale takes all of his 12 children and runs away from Monza, looking for a house of a wealthy and generous awning. Having met on the way impoverished peasant, Pasquale takes him also, having granted the rank of "Half-Monk" and thus having gained rustic, but a reliable friend.

The Monk of Monza

1963

I baccanali di Tiberio poster
5.7

Cassio, a tourist guide, and Primo, his bus driver, are taking a bus load of tourists to visit villa Jovis, at Capri island. Then they have an accident, and they knock their heads hard, losing conscience. They come awake in the times of the Roman Empire in Tiberius' villa.

I baccanali di Tiberio

1960

Totò vs the Four poster
6.7

The day of Chief Constable Saracino begins badly when his new car is stolen. Then, in his office, he meets Alfredo Fiori who believes that his wife and her lover, a veterinary, are trying to murder him.

Totò vs the Four

1963

The Two Marshals poster
7.2

September 1943: in the general confusion a thief dressed as a priest and a sergeant exchange clothes and roles.

The Two Marshals

1961

What Ever Happened to Baby Toto? poster
6.7

A pair of brothers, Baby Toto and Pietro, sons of different mothers, live stealing suitcases at the Termini Station in Rome. After a theft, they discover that the stolen suitcase they got from an apparent sweet old lady actually contains a corpse.

What Ever Happened to Baby Toto?

1964

Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

Tutto Totò - Totò Ye Ye

1967

Il corazziere poster
7.0

In fascist Italy, Urbano Marangoni aspires to become Corazziere, like his late father, but it is a dream destined not to come true because of his short stature.

Il corazziere

1960

Tutto Totò - Don Giovannino poster
5.6

Barnabas, said Don Giovannino, is a true lover of beautiful women. One day he chases a beautiful American in his apartment, taking advantage of the fact that her husband is in Rome for a process.

Tutto Totò - Don Giovannino

1967

The Sons of the Leopard poster
5.9

Penniless Baron Tulicò, nicknamed Leopard, abandons his mistress, with whom he's had two sons, and marries a rich woman. The mistress tries to have her rights established with the help of her sons.

The Sons of the Leopard

1965

Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro poster
5.8

No synopsis available yet.

Tutto Totò - Il grande maestro

1967

Tutto Totò - Premio Nobel poster
6.4

No synopsis available yet.

Tutto Totò - Premio Nobel

1967

The Commandant poster
6.9

The retired general Antonio Cavalli is a nuisance to his family: to his wife Francesca who still works, to his son and to his daughter-in-law. Then he finds a job in a building firm. Only by chance Cavalli finds out that his salary is paid by his wife to keep him busy. But the general is well known as a very reliable man, and Sandrelli, the firm's owner, uses him and his name to win a valuable contract. When Sandrelli is arrested, the general finds the money to honour his debt but he is robbed while he is going to the bank...

The Commandant

1963

1950s · 25 titles

Where Is Freedom? poster
6.5

A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. He cannot, however adjust himself to a changed world and to the hypocrisy of his own relatives and decides to return behind bars.

Where Is Freedom?

1954

Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy poster
8.0

Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, when she goes to Milan, Gianni follows her. Informed of this and afraid that their nephew will stop studying, the three Caponi brothers leave for Milan to persuade Gianni to come back and continue studying and abandon the "Malafemmina" (bad girl).

Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy

1956

Totò Looking for Wife poster
6.3

Aunt Agatha writes to Toto, informing him that she won't send him another penny until he is married.

Totò Looking for Wife

1950

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

Cops and Robbers poster
7.5

Esposito is a thief who cons tourists in Rome. Officer Bottoni manages to catch him and starts persecuting him. When Esposito manages to flee, Bottoni's superiors inform him that he'll lose his job if he can't catch Esposito.

Cops and Robbers

1951

Toto and the Women poster
6.8

Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house.

Toto and the Women

1952

Seven Hours of Troubles poster
6.4

Totò is a tailor but not a great tailor. He is married and his son is to be baptized and Totò hopes that his grand-mother will be moved by the baptism, so moved to help him. Unfortunately his wet nurse Maria loses his son in the garden. Totò doesn't lose heart and rents Rita's daughter and leaves looking for his son. Many adventures are awaiting for him.

Seven Hours of Troubles

1951

Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge poster
7.6

Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.

Totò, Peppino e i fuorilegge

1956

Toto and Carolina poster
6.5

During a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent, a widower named Antonio Caccavallo, stays to get better acquainted with the young Carolina.

Toto and Carolina

1955

La paura fa 90 poster
6.6

A ghost who has spent 400 years in a trunk because of a jealous husband tries to take revenge on a descendant of the man but all in all he's a good bloke and when he gets the occasion he helps a youth wrongly accused of murder.

La paura fa 90

1951

Toto the Third Man poster
6.5

In a small village two twin brothers are of opposite characters. One is mayor of the town, gruff and precise. The other is totally different from his brother and loves the good life and beautiful women.

Toto the Third Man

1951

Of Life and Love poster
6.4

A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.

Of Life and Love

1954

The Three Thieves poster
6.5

Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarilla, one of his apprentices who has become better than his master. When the owners arrive home, the latter offers the wife a bunch of love letters she has written to various lovers for ten million.

The Three Thieves

1954

Figaro qua... Figaro là poster
6.2

In the 18th century, Figaro the Sevillian barber is likely to be arrested because he operates his shop on Sundays, which is forbidden.

Figaro qua... Figaro là

1950

Totó in color poster
7.3

In the first Italian film to be shot in color, Totò portrays a musician named Antonio Scannagatti who strongly hopes to sell his composition, "Epopea italiana", to Tiscordi, who is one of the most important Italian impresarios.

Totó in color

1952

Totò all'inferno poster
6.3

After several attempts at suicide, depressed thief Antonio Marchi accidentally drowns in a river and ends up in hell.

Totò all'inferno

1955

47 Talking Corpses poster
7.1

Greedy Baron Antonio Peletti refuses to give to his town the heredity left by his father, a box full of precious jewels, which he keeps for himself. The major and the rest of the townspeople therefore organize a trick at his expense: they'll make him believe he is dead, and, in a fake "afterlife", they'll try to convince him to finally show them where the money is hidden to save his soul.

47 Talking Corpses

1950

Le sei mogli di Barbablù poster
5.4

Young swain Toto Esposito tries to abduct his beloved to marry her, but he makes a mistake: he kidnaps an ugly woman named Carmela, who loves him--and chases him when he escapes.

Le sei mogli di Barbablù

1950

Il medico dei pazzi poster
7.1

Felice Sciosciammocca, the mayor of Roccasecca, sends his nephew Ciccillo to Naples so that he will become a good doctor.

Il medico dei pazzi

1954

La cambiale poster
6.5

The Posalaquaglia cousins are two small scammers and make a living of expedients: Dante receives as recognition for Tommaso a bill of one hundred thousand lire from the famous financier Bruscatelli, who ends up in prison immediately afterwards.

La cambiale

1959

Neapolitan Turk poster
7.3

Naples/Sorrento, mid 20s. A couple of small thieves conceive a scam whereby one of them dresses up as a eunuch Turk to care for the women of the family of a wealthy man. They end up messing everything up, with lots of gags and funny events in the meantime.

Neapolitan Turk

1953

Funniest Show on Earth poster
6.2

A clown named Tottons of the Togni circus, obliged to never take off his clown makeup or reveal his identity, is continually persecuted by the jealousy of three women and even by a policeman.

Funniest Show on Earth

1953

Man, Beast and Virtue poster
6.8

Paolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his friends do not know why. The man is the lover of Assunta, the mother of one of his pupils, and he discovers that she has become pregnant.

Man, Beast and Virtue

1953

Toto the Sheik poster
6.8

Antonio is the humble servant of a rich family governed by the Marquis Gastone. He is a young man madly in love with Lulu, but she betrays him, and he desperately enlist in the foreign legion.

Toto the Sheik

1950

Tototarzan poster
6.0

Roaming the vast jungles of Congo with his best friend, Bongo the gorilla, Antonio della Buffas, a mysterious man whom the natives call the "white monkey", is utterly unaware that he is the long-lost son of a wealthy explorer. Then, three opportunists manage to capture and bring the white savage to civilisation, bent on getting their hands on his immense fortune.

Tototarzan

1950

1940s · 6 titles

The Rape of the Sabine poster
6.0

Ernesto is the teacher of the village, he is married and he is dominated by his wife. He has the passion of the theatre and he has written a drama in verse named "Il ratto delle Sabine". Unfortunately he has only an admirer and she is their servant Rosina. When the touring company of Prof. Tromboni arrives in the village, Ernesto decides to let them perform his play, though anonymously. So the day arrives and the theatre is sadly empty. But when the news that the author is the teacher spreads far and wide...

The Rape of the Sabine

1945

The Emperor of Capri poster
6.6

Beautiful gold-digger Sonia mistakes Antonio, a waiter in a Neapolitan hotel, for Arab Prince Bey of Agapur and makes an appointment with him for the following day in Capri, and Antonio goes there behind the backs of his wife and mother-in-law. A lucky series of circumstances actually does transform him into the prince of the island.

The Emperor of Capri

1949

Totò le Mokò poster
6.9

Mobster Pepé Le Mokò dies during a shootout with the police. His gang decide that his successor will be a relative of his from Naples: Antonio Lumaconi (Totò Le Mokò), a street musician.

Totò le Mokò

1949

The Firemen of Viggiù poster
5.7

In the village of Viggiù, the firemen organize various skits and performances in their theater, inviting all the celebrities known at that time.

The Firemen of Viggiù

1949

Toto Tours Italy poster
6.5

A professor was appointed member of the jury of a beauty contest and falls for a beautiful contestant. In order to get the girl he must win the "Tour of Italy", so professor sells his soul to the devil to get the winning and the girl.

Toto Tours Italy

1948

Totò Looking for a House poster
6.8

Beniamino and his family have lived inside a school since the end of the war. After five years they have to move, but in Rome it's not easy to find an apartment.

Totò Looking for a House

1949

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