Ignazio Leone

Acting

Ignazio Leone

Born — Died

1923-04-19 — 1976-12-30

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 15 titles

Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?... poster
5.2

Libero Sbardelloni, newly married, cannot find work in Rome, so he moves to Naples, where Baron Gaetano Gargiulo, his wife Marcella's uncle, lives. The baron, however, is a penniless nobleman who lives by swindling and petty theft, constantly going in and out of prison.

Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?...

1971

Mr. Superinvisible poster
5.6

A superhero becomes invisible after he swallows an Indian potion.

Mr. Superinvisible

1970

The Mighty Anselmo and His Squire poster
5.1

After having challenged the German Ottone to single combat for the hand of Leonza, the bishop's niece, the valiant knight Anselmo da Montebello, leaves for Rome where he must deliver a precious relic to the Pope and obtain a sum of twenty-thousand crowns in order to participate in the third crusade in the Holy Land. He is accompanied by Gian Puccio, his sluggish squire, drawn by the money and by the charm of ... Leonzia.

The Mighty Anselmo and His Squire

1972

1001 Nights of Pleasure poster
4.7

Sultan Almamud suddenly becomes powerless, unable to enjoy his beautiful Zumurud. The councillors then call people who can excite them by telling stories. At the end of their tales, he will finally be able to enjoy her.

1001 Nights of Pleasure

1972

The Great Kidnapping poster
7.2

In early seventies Italy, plagued by criminality and political terrorism, a fearless police commissioner is sent to restore law and order in a northern industrial town devastated by a recent wave of violence and kidnappings..

The Great Kidnapping

1973

Playing the Field poster
5.5

A small-time soccer referee gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets to referee a major-league game. He becomes a celebrity and suddenly finds himself having to choose between his future as a referee and the temptations that come his way, especially the women, now.

Playing the Field

1974

La calandria poster
3.9

The luxurious Livio bets with the lord of the city to seduce a young bride in a month, at the cost of his genitals.

La calandria

1972

The Little War poster
7.0

In the confusion of combat, two Italian get separated from their squadron and become hopelessly lost. As they wander the countryside attempting to find their lost comrades, they have to adopt all manner of outrageous disguises to avoid death at the hands of whomever holds the reigns of control.

The Little War

1970

Trouble in Istamboel poster
8.0

Italian singer and actor Don Backy and b-movie icon George Eastman unite together for a comedy full of action, witty and - punches.

Trouble in Istamboel

1974

Io non spezzo... rompo poster
3.8

During a drug trafficking investigation, two officers from the Rome Squad, accidentally break into a beautiful villa, inhabited by an Italian-American.

Io non spezzo... rompo

1971

Tutti possono arricchire tranne i poveri poster
5.1

Viviana and Giovanni Renzelli are a married couple living in Turin. He works as a switchboard operator for a large plumbing supplies company. Suddenly, the couple’s life changes when Giovanni hits the jackpot on the Totocalcio, winning 850 million lire.

Tutti possono arricchire tranne i poveri

1976

Theft in the Evening, a Big Coup Hopefully poster
7.2

A comedy about two friends attempting a heist.

Theft in the Evening, a Big Coup Hopefully

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

Ma che musica maestro poster
5.9

The love story between two youths born in rival villages is hindered by the other inhabitants.

Ma che musica maestro

1971

Jus primae noctis poster
3.9

Ariberto de Ficulle is a nobleman who came into possession of a small feud by marrying the ugly Matilde Montefiascone.

Jus primae noctis

1972

1960s · 29 titles

Death Rides a Horse poster
7.0

Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself continually sparring and occasionally cooperating with Ryan, a gunfighter on his own quest for vengeance, who knows more than he says about Bill's tragedy.

Death Rides a Horse

1967

Colossus and the Amazon Queen poster
4.8

Two muscle-men come up against a tribe of Amazon women.

Colossus and the Amazon Queen

1960

Seven Golden Men Strike Again poster
6.1

Armed with gadgets and an atomic sub, a crook (Philippe Leroy) and his gang target a Latin dictator and Soviet gold.

Seven Golden Men Strike Again

1966

Baby Doll poster
7.4

A bachelor attorney with a roving eye for beautiful women stets his sights on a Young student for his next amorous conquest.

Baby Doll

1968

Eighteen in the Sun poster
5.1

An Italian variation on the Frankie & Annette-Gidget beach party movies that were all the rage in North America in the early 60s. Nicole Molino (Catherine Spaak) and Nicola Molino (Gianni Garko) are not related to one another. In fact, they don’t even know each other until both are inadvertently assigned the same hotel room on the island of Ischia. Nicole isn’t interested in any hanky-panky, so Nicola reluctantly promises to keep his hands to himself.

Eighteen in the Sun

1962

Mission Bloody Mary poster
5.6

An American secret agent is tasked with recovering a nuclear bomb stolen by spies.

Mission Bloody Mary

1965

The Maniacs poster
5.2

An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.

The Maniacs

1964

002 Operation Moon poster
5.5

KGB authorities abduct two criminals (Franco and Ciccio) who look exactly like missing spacemen and pretend they are the returning cosmonauts. They launch them in a rocket, so that they can land in public view, leading the populace to believe it was the original space craft that has returned. The two criminals look so much like the astronauts, they even fool the wives of the astronauts. Later however, the original spacecraft returns to Earth undamaged, and the plan goes all to pieces. In the end, Franco and Ciccio stay in Russia and the real astronauts relocate to Italy.

002 Operation Moon

1965

Caesar Against the Pirates poster
5.6

Julius Caesar flees Rome because of a conspiration against him and takes refuge by the king of Bitinia. He finds a woman there and while he escorts her to Rhodes their ship is attacked. Caught by the pirates he asks for help to get back to Rome.

Caesar Against the Pirates

1962

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

Zenabel poster
3.9

Zenabel, a young woman from a humble background, discovers that she is actually the daughter of a Spanish nobleman who was killed by a ruthless don, Alonso, who took the title. So Zenable assembles a group of misfit friends to reclaim her title.

Zenabel

1969

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

Ugly at Night poster
5.2

Franco consults a psychoanalyst due to a series of nightmares that constantly haunt him. The doctor prescribes a very special treatment for the patient: an intense love life. The man's wife, aware that she is part of the problem, decides to get a facial and to meet her husband in disguise.

Ugly at Night

1968

Sword of the Empire poster
6.0

Rome, under Commodus: intrigue, fight for power, gladiators, senators, Christians, Barbarians, slaves, Pretorians, battles, wrestles, swords and muscles in by-the-numbers Italian epic.

Sword of the Empire

1964

Zorro and the Three Musketeers poster
6.0

In the first half of the 1600's, France is at war with Spain. The cousin of the king of Spain, Isabella, is held captive in the French castle, and the Count of Seville is sent to France as a diplomat. While there, he is escorted by the Three Musketeers, who discover that he has secretly made a deal with Cardinal Richelieu to disclose Spanish military secrets in exchange for Isabella's release. However, he is merely bluffing and plans to take Isabella by force. When the musketeers discover this, they come to his aid, and together the four of them work at freeing the Countess. Meanwhile, the Count doubles as Zorro to free the Spanish court from a treacherous suitor.

Zorro and the Three Musketeers

1963

Il treno del sabato poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Il treno del sabato

1964

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

Cuore matto... matto da legare poster
6.0

Tony is in love with Carla, a young student of architecture, but his parents want him to marry Erminia, a rich but ugly girl.

Cuore matto... matto da legare

1967

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

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

Slave of Rome poster
5.3

During Julius Caesar's invasion of Gallia: The Gauls have broken their treaty with the Romans. Marcus Valerius and his friend are sent to punish them. Antea's father wants to have peace with Rome, having once been there and acknowledging their superior culture, but Lysircus forces a severely anti-Roman politic. When her father is killed by him in treachery, Antea joins the Romans who have to evade into a swamp. She falls in love with Marcus. Will she forsake her people forever?

Slave of Rome

1961

Electra One poster
6.3

A jewel thief crosses paths with a woman carrying a briefcase that the Americans, the Russians and the Chinese all want desperately, so he goes on the run with her figuring that what's inside the case has to be way more valuable than anything he could steal on his own.

Electra One

1967

Arms of the Avenger poster
9.2

Using Leonardo Da Vinci's innovative designs for weapons of war, flying engines and other machinery, three brothers join forces to fight a wicked and powerful Duke in early-Renaissance Italy.

Arms of the Avenger

1963

Franco and Ciccio... Robber and Cop poster
5.4

A cop has a cousin who is a thief, and one day while he is chasing him he ends up in a room with a murdered man. The two are photographed at the murder scene and believed to be the assassins. The police however believe in their innocence and send the odd couple on the trail of the real murderer who is thought to be working in a circus.

Franco and Ciccio... Robber and Cop

1969

Gold of Rome poster
6.6

Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering them what seems to be an expensive way out of imprisonment and death.

Gold of Rome

1961

Riderà! - Cuore matto poster
5.2

Antonio Moruzzo is the son of a butcher with a passion for music and beautiful girls. The father wants him to study but he would rather run around the countryside and sing his songs.

Riderà! - Cuore matto

1967

Le pillole di Ercole poster
7.0

A doctor unwittingly drinks an aphrodisiac fluid and thus has relationships with an acquaintance's wife.

Le pillole di Ercole

1960

The Two Parachutists poster
5.8

Two penniless Italian buskers want to go to the USA but get on the wrong ship and end up in South America in a concentration camp where they are rescued by American parachutists from. Afterwards they become big shots in the States but their dream comes to an end : they are sent to fight in Vietnam

The Two Parachutists

1965

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

1950s · 16 titles

An American in Rome poster
7.1

Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.

An American in Rome

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

The Unfaithfuls poster
5.7

A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows that these people will pay dearly rather than inform on themselves or others.

The Unfaithfuls

1953

Totò in the Moon poster
5.7

Two men embarks upon a space race. Their efforts are hampered by aliens who clone the heroes to keep them from exploring further.

Totò in the Moon

1958

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

Il mondo dei miracoli poster
8.0

An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.

Il mondo dei miracoli

1959

Love on the Riviera poster
5.4

It is Summer. It is the right time for love, especially in a most romantic place as Golfo del Tigullio. Different stories: Dorina looking for a rich lover; Clara who takes a fancy to the young Walter while her daughter Lina tries to save her; Aristarco who gave up his career to follow Ada's, but who likes Jacqueline; Renata who is offered by her husband to Ferrari to get money; Marcello who, extraditing Micheline to France, misses the train and falls in love with her.

Love on the Riviera

1958

Pirate of the Half Moon poster
8.0

Gianna Maria Canale as the Duchess who is offered a banquet and requests for a hard-boiled egg. The stingy Spanish lord, who used his last gunpowder to fire a salute to the noble lady and thus has no more when a bunch of pirates, led by Nadir, launches an attack against his castle. Nadir is the dashing fiery hero.

Pirate of the Half Moon

1957

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

Everyone's in Love poster
7.0

Giovanni is a young widower with a son who is attracted to the charming teen Allegra.

Everyone's in Love

1959

Piece of the Sky poster
6.5

As he does every year, Severino, a young hawker who goes around the festivals of the various villages in the Po Delta, returns to Migliarino to sell his knick-knacks and tell far-fetched stories about the future and progress. Besides the beautiful Marina, three gullible old friends live here, pensioners who live off poverty, to whom he proposes the sale of a hectare of sky.

Piece of the Sky

1958

Moglie e buoi... poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Moglie e buoi...

1956

Sua altezza ha detto: no! poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sua altezza ha detto: no!

1953

Desiderio 'e sole poster
8.5

No synopsis available yet.

Desiderio 'e sole

1954

La passeggiata poster
8.0

A meek and simple-minded boarding school teacher falls in love with a prostitute and gets the boot from school. He tries to have her change her way of living but she is very hard to convince. When she finally realizes he really loves her it is too late.

La passeggiata

1953

Il raccomandato di ferro poster
7.5

An Italian clerk has been helped to his position by a fake kickback letter from a politician who, meanwhile has become a state secretary. His colleagues thus send him to Rome to settle an important matter with the powerful character. The poor fellow goes hoping the truth will not come out.

Il raccomandato di ferro

1959