Nino Terzo

Acting

Nino Terzo

Born — Died

1923-05-22 — 2005-05-08

Place of birth

Palermo, Sicily, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Nino Terzo (22 May 1923 – 8 May 2005) was an Italian actor. Born in Palermo as Antonino Terzo, he worked intensively in the avanspettacolo and revue theater, entering the stage companies of Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia, Domenico Modugno, among others. Terzo was also active as a singer, appearing in several operettas. Terzo made his film debut in 1962, and he soon established himself as one of the most active character actors in the Italian comedy cinema, usually playing, with small variations, the character that made him famous in avanspettacolo, i.e. a man with extremely slow reflexes and a huge speech impediment, which does not allow him to speak before h…

Known for

Cinema Paradiso poster
8.4

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

Cinema Paradiso

1988

The Soldier with Great Maneuvers poster
4.9

Doctor Eva Marini takes up a position at an army base to investigate the sexual behavior of the Italian male soldier and soon finds out she's taken on more than she bargained for.

The Soldier with Great Maneuvers

1978

The Lady Medic poster
4.2

A man is desperately trying to avoid mandated military service, but a sexy medic proves to be his undoing.

The Lady Medic

1976

The Clowns poster
6.9

Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood experience when the circus arrives nearby his home. Then he joins his crew and travel from Italy to Paris chasing the last greatest European clowns still live in these countries. He also meets Anita Ekberg trying to buy a panther in a circus.

The Clowns

1970

La figliastra - Storia di corna e di passioni poster
4.7

A long time ago in Sicilia, there was a common, unwritten law that linked the hereditary rights to unequivocal demonstrations of virility. Because of that traditional law, a middle-age widower whose wife died without begetting him a child, is about to lose an inheritance of a large sum of money. The man marries again, with Nadia, an attractive woman with a daughter from her first marriage, Daniela. But time passes, and Nadia is not getting pregnant, either. Eventually, his beautiful stepdaughter will help him solve his problem.

La figliastra - Storia di corna e di passioni

1976

The Shortest Day poster
6.4

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

The Shortest Day

1963

Film credits

1980s · 11 titles

Cinema Paradiso poster
8.4

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

Cinema Paradiso

1988

Lady Football poster
5.5

It is the story of the brilliant football player Cotechiño, hired by the Napoli team as a centre-forward. Too bad that his professional career will be strongly influenced by the frequent absence of his fiancée, for which he feels an inexplicable, almost obsessive jealousy. That's why he hires a plumber very similar to him to keep an eye on his beloved, but that won't be enough when Cotechiño is kidnapped.

Lady Football

1983

Emanuelle in the Country poster
4.6

When Selenia arrives in the small Italian village heads start turning and eyes start popping. All males in the town are falling all over themselves trying to get a look -- or a feel -- of the new doctor.

Emanuelle in the Country

1982

L'assistente sociale tutto pepe... poster
5.1

Nadia is a social worker who is trying to keep the residents of a local slum in line. Unfortunately she keeps neglecting her work and fantasizing about a life as a pop-star. When she falls for one of the residents in question, a small time crook called Bel Ami, she ends up an accomplice in a convoluted heist involving a holy Catholic relic.

L'assistente sociale tutto pepe...

1981

Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich poster
4.4

Claudia, Rita, and Caterina are three friends who live in a conservative Italian town and lead seemingly neat and respectable married lives. One day, they are summoned to the notary public's office and learn that Anna, one of their peers in high school who got a bad name as a "whore" in the town because of them and was forced to leave is now dead. Furthermore, she had amassed a great fortune abroad and decided to bequeath it to the three. However, she has a strange condition: Claudia, Rita, and Caterina should cheat on their husbands within three days and provide photographic evidence or else the inheritance will be donated to the retirement home.

Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich

1982

Do you know the latest on the crazy ones? poster
5.3

Jokes, rough jokes and spicy adventures set in a psychiatric clinic, naturally managed by an experienced doctor.

Do you know the latest on the crazy ones?

1982

The Country Doctor poster
5.9

A splendid doctor arrives in a small village: all the males compete to undergo repeated examinations in order to get to know the beautiful woman better. The mayor of the village, taking advantage of the beautiful "bait", would like to teach a lesson to the playboy Gustavo, who some time ago had caught all the husbands of the village.

The Country Doctor

1981

Café Express poster
7.1

An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.

Café Express

1980

Che casino... con Pierino! poster
3.5

After leaving school and failing various work experiences, Pierino decides to go to work as a helper at the bar run by his uncle Nino. He comes across different situations, sometimes involving his friend Pantera, who is able to imitate various sounds, or the girl Marisa, with whom Pierino is madly in love, until he decides to leave for a trip to Austria.

Che casino... con Pierino!

1982

Il Bi e il Ba poster
6.9

Despite being penniless, Antonino Scannapieco possesses a convincing eloquence. Having obtained money from friends to travel to Rome to consult a luminary about his dandruff problem, he sets off for the capital, where various misadventures await him.

Il Bi e il Ba

1986

Pierino il fichissimo poster
4.1

The innkeeper Carmelo subdues a good deal in the sale of his two-Arab tavern.

Pierino il fichissimo

1981

1970s · 19 titles

The Soldier with Great Maneuvers poster
4.9

Doctor Eva Marini takes up a position at an army base to investigate the sexual behavior of the Italian male soldier and soon finds out she's taken on more than she bargained for.

The Soldier with Great Maneuvers

1978

The Lady Medic poster
4.2

A man is desperately trying to avoid mandated military service, but a sexy medic proves to be his undoing.

The Lady Medic

1976

The Clowns poster
6.9

Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood experience when the circus arrives nearby his home. Then he joins his crew and travel from Italy to Paris chasing the last greatest European clowns still live in these countries. He also meets Anita Ekberg trying to buy a panther in a circus.

The Clowns

1970

La figliastra - Storia di corna e di passioni poster
4.7

A long time ago in Sicilia, there was a common, unwritten law that linked the hereditary rights to unequivocal demonstrations of virility. Because of that traditional law, a middle-age widower whose wife died without begetting him a child, is about to lose an inheritance of a large sum of money. The man marries again, with Nadia, an attractive woman with a daughter from her first marriage, Daniela. But time passes, and Nadia is not getting pregnant, either. Eventually, his beautiful stepdaughter will help him solve his problem.

La figliastra - Storia di corna e di passioni

1976

The Nurse on a Military Tour poster
5.0

Army Doctor Eva Marini wants to join a regiment to secure equal rights for women. So her commanding officer sends her off to a boot camp led by Renzo Montagnani, where only the most unruly soldiers end up.

The Nurse on a Military Tour

1977

It's a Woman's War poster
6.1

A girl is drafted due to a misunderstanding and this gives her the occasion to check on her boy-friend, whom she believes to be a womanizer.

It's a Woman's War

1971

Story of Fear and a Knife poster
6.9

A funk is believed to be a tough guy because of a magic bowler hat which gives him courage and strength.

Story of Fear and a Knife

1972

La vedova del Trullo poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

La vedova del Trullo

1979

Ku Fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore poster
5.5

The Sicilian Franco is a sort of imitation of Bruce Lee that Don Vito, a Chinese expelled from his country because he smuggled rice from Palermo to Beijing, tries to train in the art of kung-fu with disastrous results.

Ku Fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore

1973

Il sergente Rompiglioni poster
6.1

A satire of army life in which a tough army sergeant who loves opera clashes with his soldiers who love rock music and have formed a band.

Il sergente Rompiglioni

1973

Who Gave You the License? poster
6.8

Franco and Ciccio are the directors of a driving school. They suffer the theft of the only car they have, and their new car is prone to going completely out of his control.

Who Gave You the License?

1970

Midnight of Love poster
7.3

No synopsis available yet.

Midnight of Love

1970

Provaci anche tu Lionel poster
7.0

Anna Tredicesimo, wife of Luigi Tredicesimo of Santa Ninfa (Trapani), introduces herself to the private investigator Lionel Lionelli and instructs him to recover some red briefs, purchased by her jealous husband in Paris, and lost by her during a loving meeting with the heartthrob fetishist Gianni Agazzi. Lionel, recommended by his friend ten. Sheridan, begins the research and chases the panties from Agazzi to Lola Lola Bis, a stripper, and from this to Iolanda, Ennio's girlfriend, member of Hell's Angels. Lionelli, a bungler by nature, finds the path difficult and also dangerous because, as he will learn very late, a microfilm with a secret chemical formula is hidden in the briefs and, consequently, his steps are constantly followed by men of the boss Goran , master of Titan.

Provaci anche tu Lionel

1973

Beautiful, Rich, Slight Physical Defect, Seeks Soulmate poster
4.5

Michele, married to Rosaria, is a distinguished Neapolitan who "by profession" contacts only wealthy women, making her believe she wants to marry her to get money to disappear with. With this method he feeds his family.

Beautiful, Rich, Slight Physical Defect, Seeks Soulmate

1973

Let's Arm Ourselves and Go! poster
6.3

Franco and Ciccio work as waiters in an inn in France. The day Ciccio officially takes French citizenship, the First World War breaks out between Germany and France and all citizens are forced to enlist.

Let's Arm Ourselves and Go!

1971

The Beasts poster
4.8

No synopsis available yet.

The Beasts

1971

Farfallon poster
6.8

A man who has tried to kill his unfaithful wife goes to prison, escapes, ends up in a convent, teaches the nuns to make cookies, captured again and before going back to prison tries to take his long awaited revenge again. Does he eventually succeed in killing his wife?

Farfallon

1974

Those Sweet Creatures poster
5.9

An Italo-American singer and as he arrives at the airport he is accused of being a draft dodger and is drafted. He soon begins a love story with his commander's daughter.

Those Sweet Creatures

1970

Littlefoot the Policeman poster
6.6

Petralia, a Neapolitan policeman casually makes friends with Maria, a girl engaged in the smuggling of cigarettes and belonging to the family of Ferdinando Il Barone.

Littlefoot the Policeman

1974

1960s · 30 titles

The Shortest Day poster
6.4

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

The Shortest Day

1963

The Amazing Doctor G poster
5.6

Nefarious villain Goldginger is thwarted by bumbling secret agents Franco and Ciccio in his scheme to spark an international war by zombifying all government employees in this Italian spoof of the James Bond movies.

The Amazing Doctor G

1965

Lisa with the Blue Eyes poster
6.2

A university student, Mario Buongiovanni, tries to do various jobs to pay for his studies: selling encyclopedias, singing in night clubs, being a tour guide. He then became a science teacher in a female college, where he met Lisa, the daughter of a Lombard industrialist, whom he fell in love with. But Lisa's father, unfortunately, already has in mind for her a marriage with a very rich suitor ...

Lisa with the Blue Eyes

1969

Two Escape from Sing Sing poster
5.9

Two attendants in a public toilet in New York save the life of the Mafia boss Attanasia. Attanasia turns one of them into a successful boxer by setting up his matches and makes the other into his right hand. When a gang war starts the two are accused of the murders and are sentenced to death. When the execution day comes they refuse to leave their cell, even when they are proved innocent.

Two Escape from Sing Sing

1964

Two Firefighters poster
4.4

The firefighter student Francesco Perricone and his cousin the brigadier Barrese fall in love both of the beautiful brunette Caramella and the barracks of Rome are transferred to the village of Sicily where the girl lives.

Two Firefighters

1968

Two Idiots at Fort Alamo poster
5.8

During the War of Succession, Franco and Ciccio are arrested for being accused of desertion from the Northern army. Rather than condemn them to death for his carelessness, they will be chosen for a special mission: to infiltrate as expert officers on a delicate espionage action.

Two Idiots at Fort Alamo

1965

Il suo nome è Donna Rosa poster
7.2

Andrea falls in love with the beautiful Rosetta, but the girl's father pushes her into the arms of the rich Giorgio. Al Bano and Romina in a musicarello of extraordinary success.

Il suo nome è Donna Rosa

1969

Oh! Those Most Secret Agents poster
5.3

Franco and Ciccio are two simple-minded Italian guys whom are mistaken by KGB spies by government agents from their government and other foreign governments.

Oh! Those Most Secret Agents

1964

I'm Not Worthy of You poster
6.5

In the sequel of "In ginocchio da te", the engagement of Gianni and Carla is threatened by Giorgio.

I'm Not Worthy of You

1965

I due toreri poster
6.1

In Sicily Franco and Ciccio are empowered by a local mafia man to guard for a wide range of salad. In reality however this is not simple salad vegetables but marijuana; the two bungling fools and friends do not realize it at first.

I due toreri

1964

Zum Zum Zum 2 poster
5.7

While happily engaged to Rosalia, Tony has the misfortune of falling for a vibrant pilot named Valeria — and that’s just the beginning of his problems.

Zum Zum Zum 2

1969

Don't Ever Leave Me poster
6.1

A young singer secretly gets married since he does not want to let his fans down. After a while the gutter press make up a love story which seriously worries his young bride.

Don't Ever Leave Me

1965

Better a Widow poster
7.0

Tom Proby is a representative from a British engineering firm sent to Sicily to convince the landowners (all in the Mafia) to allow his company to build an oil refinery on some waterfront real estate. Proby talks to the mob bosses about the project, but disagreements between different bosses complicate his efforts.

Better a Widow

1968

Il ragazzo che sorride poster
5.7

Giorgio, a young mining engineer, moved to work in Africa. His wife does not want to follow him and he suspects a betrayal. In the cast also Rocky Roberts singing two songs.

Il ragazzo che sorride

1969

You Are Always In My Mind poster
7.5

Carlo is a successful singer, married to Livia; the two also have a son, Maurizio. Carlo decides to accept a tour in the USA but, shortly before departure, together with his agent Puglisi has a sentimental adventure with two women. Livia, having discovered what had happened, leaves home with Maurizio.

You Are Always In My Mind

1969

Song That's Playing In My Head (Zum Zum Zum) poster
6.4

The sons of a music-loving insurance broker take extreme measures to find happiness for themselves and others, with some help from the power of music.

Song That's Playing In My Head (Zum Zum Zum)

1969

Getting Away with It the Italian Way poster
6.6

Orazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a quarrel between husband and wife and he volunteers to take the wife to the Police Station. While he goes around Rome with the blonde and beautiful woman, a bank is robbed.

Getting Away with It the Italian Way

1962

The Four Monks poster
6.9

Four petty criminals pretend to be friars escaped from communist Hungary and go and live in a Sicilian convent

The Four Monks

1962

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

I 4 moschettieri poster
7.2

4 con men take the place of the real musketeers and manage to steal the Queen's necklace but then give it back to her, moved by her tears.

I 4 moschettieri

1963

Those Two in the Legion poster
6.4

Ciccio and Franco flee Naples because they are wrongly accused of having murdered a local camorra boss and enlist in the Foreign Legion. They are inept but are mistaken for brave people by their commander and sent to break a weapon smuggling ring.

Those Two in the Legion

1962

How We Got Into Trouble with the Army poster
5.8

A sergeant finds out that a GI hides a child in the military barracks. The boy is the son of another soldier who sings in a night club but due to series of misunderstandings the sergeant believes he is his own son, born from a former love story.

How We Got Into Trouble with the Army

1965

All the Gold in the World poster
5.1

The son of a rich industrialist forces a woman to become his fiancée by threatening to bankrupt her parents — until an unlikely hero steps in.

All the Gold in the World

1968

Two Colonels poster
7.5

In WWII Greece, two enemy Colonels, one Italian and the other English, develop a grudging friendship which the war will test.

Two Colonels

1963

Con rispetto parlando poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Con rispetto parlando

1965

The Masseuses poster
5.1

Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in touch with a masseuses ring and one of the masseuses is introduced to the president of the catholic association as the wife of one of the managers. During a vice squad roundup, the president is about to be discovered with one of the girls when he dies of a stroke. How will the others try to hide his death?

The Masseuses

1962

The Swindlers poster
6.2

A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a public servant and an industry manager.

The Swindlers

1963

Divorzio alla siciliana poster
7.7

No synopsis available yet.

Divorzio alla siciliana

1963

Perdono poster
5.4

Federico, his girlfriend Laura and her cousin, Caterina, are three young people full of hope, united by a great friendship that seems indissoluble. The three work in a department store but, when Caterina decides to attempt a musical career, given her vocal skills, everything changes. Caterina becomes a successful singer and Federico falls in love with her. Caterina, who however does not want to make her cousin Laura suffer, pretends not to reciprocate the young man by making him put his head in order. Meanwhile, the plots of various secondary characters evolve, in particular the fresh marriage between the security guard Antonio and the secretary of the department stores Adelina.

Perdono

1966

Non mi dire mai goodbye poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Non mi dire mai goodbye

1967