Renato Salvatori

Acting

Renato Salvatori

Born — Died

1933-03-20 — 1988-03-27

Place of birth

Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Renato Salvatori (20 March 1934 – 27 March 1988) was an Italian multi-purpose character actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Renato Salvatori, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known for

Rocco and His Brothers poster
8.0

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

Rocco and His Brothers

1960

Big Deal on Madonna Street poster
8.1

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.

Big Deal on Madonna Street

1958

Ace poster
6.2

Asso (Ace), the best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much against a bad loser. In the "final" game in heaven the clerk on duty also lost, so Asso can come back to this world as a ghost to search for a good man for his wife (widow). Who is good enough for the wife of Asso ?

Ace

1981

Luna poster
6.3

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.

Luna

1979

Origins of the Mafia poster
8.0

Journey back more than 400 years to 16th century Sicily, where the small Italian islands have fallen victim to corruption, intimidation, extortion, and brutality.

Origins of the Mafia

1976

Two Women poster
7.8

A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.

Two Women

1960

Film credits

1980s · 4 titles

1970s · 16 titles

Luna poster
6.3

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.

Luna

1979

The Gypsy poster
6.2

Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.

The Gypsy

1975

Flic Story poster
6.4

The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.

Flic Story

1975

The Burned Barns poster
6.6

The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge, Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers have something to do with the murder.

The Burned Barns

1973

The Last Woman poster
6.2

Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son.

The Last Woman

1976

The Light at the Edge of the World poster
6.0

Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone member of the lighthouse crew survives, and he deperately fights their plot. A shipwrecked maiden that avoids the pirates slaughter soon complicates the situation.

The Light at the Edge of the World

1971

Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man poster
6.2

Fred and Tony are members of an elite “special squad” of police in Rome who are undercover, licensed to kill, and love to live dangerously.

Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man

1976

Indian Summer poster
7.6

In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the local high school replacing another teacher. His relationship with his partner Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio, Marcello and Gerardo. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo's girlfriend.

Indian Summer

1972

Illustrious Corpses poster
6.8

A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.

Illustrious Corpses

1976

State of Siege poster
7.2

Assigned to South America, US official Philip Michael Santore is employed by a counterinsurgency agency. His position makes him a target for a local band of guerrillas, and, before long, Santore is kidnapped. As a prisoner, he undergoes interrogation, shedding light on the violent situation in the country. Once the insurgents are done with their questioning, they must decide whether Santore lives or dies.

State of Siege

1972

The Burglars poster
6.9

In Athens a collection of emeralds is successfully stolen by a team of robbers, led by safe-cracker Azad. Things go smoothly until they miss the ship by which they planned their escape; a police chief pursues Azad while he waits for the next ship to set off.

The Burglars

1971

Armageddon poster
5.8

After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time to make his mark and be known at any cost. Becoming more and more mentally unstable, he begins to threaten police and the government signing his tracts, "Armaguedon". A detective from Interpol heads the investigation and prepares a trap at an international conference of world leaders in Paris.

Armageddon

1977

Ernesto poster
5.7

Ernesto is a young Italian Jew of the early 1900s who works in his uncle's factory in Trieste. Not entirely secure with his sexual orientation, Ernesto enters into an affair with one of his uncle's employees.

Ernesto

1979

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

A Brief Vacation poster
6.0

Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, a downtrodden working woman contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world — and potential new life — is opened up to her.

A Brief Vacation

1973

At the Meeting with Joyous Death poster
5.3

The premise deals with a family living in a country-house which turns out to be 'alive' – to the point where a TV crew is brought in to 'capture' the paranormal phenomena

At the Meeting with Joyous Death

1973

1960s · 20 titles

Rocco and His Brothers poster
8.0

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

Rocco and His Brothers

1960

Two Women poster
7.8

A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.

Two Women

1960

Burn! poster
6.8

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.

Burn!

1969

Z poster
7.8

A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined not to let them get away with it.

Z

1969

The Organizer poster
7.5

In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory in Turin, Italy.

The Organizer

1963

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

Omicron poster
6.5

An alien takes over the body of a factory worker in order to learn about Earth so his race can take it over.

Omicron

1963

Escape by Night poster
7.0

In Nazi-occupied Rome, a beautiful bootlegger, to the chagrin of her lover, gives sanctuary to three escaped POWs: an American pilot, a Russian sergeant and a British major.

Escape by Night

1960

The Sword and the Balance poster
7.7

Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pasts are questionable, riddled with violence and controversy. Neither the police nor the court can decide how to solve that puzzle.

The Sword and the Balance

1963

A Day for Lionhearts poster
7.0

September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele succeeded to leave his administration moving from Rome. On the way to come back Rome the two meets Gino and all together will try to pass trough the Gothic Line.

A Day for Lionhearts

1961

How to Seduce a Playboy? poster
6.8

A young man is chosen by a magazine company to be a modeled into a public heart-throb while being dogged by a persistant reporter out to expose the fraud the company is putting out.

How to Seduce a Playboy?

1966

Smog poster
6.3

An ambitious Italian attorney has his flight delayed in Los Angeles. The vapid lawyer goes to some parties with some Italians living there and has a brief affair with a beautiful Italian expatriate.

Smog

1962

Disorder poster
6.1

Study of 1960s Milanese social life and its glamorous depravity, as seen through the story of the working class Mario who dreams of social climbing.

Disorder

1962

Three Nights of Love poster
5.9

Omnibus film with individual segments directed by Renato Castellani, Luigi Comencini and Franco Rossi; all of them starring the radiant Catherine Spaak as "out of place" women longing for love, in a Sicillian village, a monastery, and a modern Italian urban setting, respectively.

Three Nights of Love

1964

Film poster
6.8

Before the three feature films, Mario Schifano directs the camera towards the people around him to create real film diaries. His friends, his time partner and the artists he frequented are portrayed in their everyday life or object of the mechanical gaze of the camera, a filter through which to look at the outside world.

Film

1967

Soldier's Girl poster
10.0

Anita, a free Emilian girl falls in love with Salvatore, a Neapolitan bersagliere. The two would like to get married, but he drowns while bathing in the river. From that moment the woman is unable to love anyone else because, at the most beautiful, the ghost of her fiancé appears to her who, in the end, will be able to be followed in the other world.

Soldier's Girl

1967

No artwork available
10.0

Samuel finances his participation in a card game by stealing parts from a jeep. He cheats at cards, and has his hands broken as a consequence.

Of Flesh and Blood

1963

The Harem poster
5.5

A seductive woman pushes three men to the limits toying with their sexual desires and male pride.

The Harem

1967

Extraconiugale poster
7.0

Three anthological segments about sexcapades and erotic fantasies in middle-class Italy.

Extraconiugale

1964

The Reckless poster
5.7

In the figure of Ettore Zambrini, a small industrialist with a dream of opening a factory overlooking the Autostrada del Sole, Montaldo offers us an effective narrative transposition of the 'animal spirits' that governed the economic boom in Italy at the time. He is a character of contradictory humanity: capable of handling business, overdue bills, trade union relations, marital betrayal, but also the passion that binds him to his wife with equal unscrupulousness.

The Reckless

1965

1950s · 19 titles

Big Deal on Madonna Street poster
8.1

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.

Big Deal on Madonna Street

1958

Poor But Beautiful poster
6.7

Salvatore and Romolo are two young and poor young men that are neighbours and friends. They live with their parents in Piazza Navona, Rome. They are poor but handsome, and both fall in love with Giovanna.

Poor But Beautiful

1957

Winter Holidays poster
6.6

Alberto Moretti arrives in Cortina D'Ampezzo, with daughter Marcella,who has just won a TV contest, the prize of which is a free stay in a luxury hotel.

Winter Holidays

1959

I tre corsari poster
7.0

The castle of the counts of Ventimiglia is conquered by the spanish Van Gould, who kills the count and sends his three sons in the Antilles. The ship is attacked by pirates and the three brothers are liberated. They decide to join the pirates to have revenge on Van Gould, who has also moved to the Antilles on the command of the viceroy.

I tre corsari

1952

Poor Millionaires poster
5.8

After a series of misunderstandings and other unfortunate incidents, the honeymoon of two young couples ends sooner than planned. Back at their starting point, the ensuing conflict leads to one of the couples separating. Salvatore, who moves away, is hit in the street by a car and loses his memory: he has lost his memories of his friends and family - until he meets his wife Marisa, in which he falls in love again ...

Poor Millionaires

1959

Hell in the City poster
7.4

A young girl comes to prison and experiences the entire prison subculture. The inmates she befriends vary from big tough dangerous dames to smaller submissive ladies who are totally lost in prison life.

Hell in the City

1959

The Swindlers poster
6.2

Mario is in Hannover to work as a miner but after losing his job he decides to go back to Italy. When Totonno steals his passport to avoid the police and later on he offers him a new job as "magliaro" (cloth seller), Mario changes his mind and decides to follow Totonno to Hamburg. In Hamburg, Totonno and his friends have to sell Mayer's cloth, but they meet with the hostility of a Polish gang and Mario falls in love with Paula Mayer.

The Swindlers

1959

Poor Girl, Pretty Girl poster
6.6

Romolo and Salvatore look for jobs to impress their girlfriends, but things get complicated when their old flame Giovanna reappears.

Poor Girl, Pretty Girl

1957

The Virtuous Bigamist poster
6.3

The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his quarrelsome wife for his weekly round. On the train he meets a young woman, Marie, who looks a little lost. No wonder. Marie is pregnant but lacks the customary husband. She's returning to her village but is not exactly looking forward to the confrontation with her parents and the villagers, all pretty conservative people. After getting to know Paul a little better (for which there is ample time during the trip by train and bus) Marie decides to ask Paul to act as her husband, just to allay the suspicions of her family. After some hesitating Paul accepts, charmed by the girl and unaware of the complications such is bound to cause to his own life.

The Virtuous Bigamist

1956

La nipote Sabella poster
6.7

Donna Sabella accompanies her nephew Raffaele and Lucia on their honeymoon in Rome when he meets two Americans who want to go to Pollena because there seems to be oil in the soil "The bubbles".

La nipote Sabella

1958

You, Your Mother, and Me poster
6.7

In 1950s Naples, a couple struggles to be together against the will of the mother-in-law. In the end, not only will they be together, but the mother-in-law-to-be, a widow, finds love as well.

You, Your Mother, and Me

1958

South Wind poster
7.7

Antonio Spagara, a young Sicilian worker, has been assigned by the Mafia to murder a nobleman, Marquis Macri. But at the last minute Antonio reneges on his commitment and instead of killing the father, he flees to Palermo with Grazia, his daughter. Life is not a bed of roses in the Sicilian capital, as the young man must impose himself to face his godfather and Grazia's despotic sister Dorotea. To make matters worse, the Mafia is not going to tolerate Antonio's desertion...

South Wind

1959

Three Girls from Rome poster
6.0

Three gorgeous seamstresses meet on the historic steps of the Piazza de Spagna in Rome to discuss one another's love lives.

Three Girls from Rome

1952

Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura poster
7.4

Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò. For many years, Policarpo has been seeking a promotion and a raise that never comes, and, it seems, will never come. One day, Jerónimo, the son of Don César, meets Celeste, the daughter of Policarpo, and falls in love with her. Policarpo sees in that relationship the solution to his aspirations at work, and does everything in his power to make this relationship fruitful. Don César, who presumes to be a count, sees with very bad eyes that his son meets a girl from such a different social position, and does just the opposite. But the efforts made by both parties will be of no use, since Celeste has fallen in love with Mario Marquetti, a "specialized mechanic" (typist) who is giving private lessons in the offices of the businessman Franquinet .

Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura

1959

Fiasco in Milan poster
6.8

The usual gang of robbers are hired by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will hinder the success of the operation.

Fiasco in Milan

1959

Gli uomini, che mascalzoni! poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Gli uomini, che mascalzoni!

1953

Good Folk's Sunday poster
6.2

In the background of the football match Roma - Napoli different stories intertwine.

Good Folk's Sunday

1953

A Sailor's Promises poster
8.0

A group of sailors usually spends their shore leave chasing after girls in the ports they dock at. This time, however, the young men will limit themselves to acting as go-betweens. They’ll devote their energies to helping bring to a successful conclusion the romance between one of their officers and the manager of a record store.

A Sailor's Promises

1958

Oh! Sabella poster
7.2

Raffaele, a Neapolitan student, get the news that his beloved grandmother Sabella is dying. He immediately goes to Pollena to be beside her.

Oh! Sabella

1957

Series credits