Silvano Tranquilli

Acting

Silvano Tranquilli

Born — Died

1925-08-23 — 1997-05-10

Place of birth

Rome, Lazio, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

52 titles

Silvano Tranquilli (23 August 1925 – 10 May 1997) was an Italian stage, television and film actor. Born in Rome, Silvano Tranquilli attended theater lessons at the Sharoff Academy, and started his stage activity with the theatrical companies of Salvo Randone and Vittorio Gassman. In 1959 he made his television debut, and later acted in more than 100 television productions, achieving his main success with the TV-series I ragazzi di padre Tobia. In the early 1960s he also started a prolific film career as character actor. He died in Rome, at 71, shortly after his theatrical comeback with the company Stabile del Giallo. Source: Article "Silvano Tranquilli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed…

Known for

Le donne del Tenente Sheridan poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le donne del Tenente Sheridan

1965

Tony Arzenta poster
6.1

A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody shootouts - ensue.

Tony Arzenta

1973

Sunflower poster
7.5

After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover?

Sunflower

1970

The Cat in Heat poster
5.2

A man returns home to his wife from a business trip only to find a dead body in their yard.

The Cat in Heat

1972

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony poster
4.6

There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he'll have the perfect alibi when the bodies start piling up. But it turns out his enemies have enough juice to keep him in prison, his associates start dying and the attempts on his life start. Cue Tony Breda, a wannabe wiseguy, who has a plan to spring Frankie from jail.

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony

1973

The Bloodstained Butterfly poster
6.1

When a young female student is savagely killed in a park during a thunderstorm, the culprit seems obvious: TV sports personality Alessandro Marchi, seen fleeing the scene of the crime by numerous eyewitnesses. The evidence against him is damning... but is it all too convenient? And when the killer strikes again while Marchi is in custody, it quickly becomes apparent that there's more to the case than meets the eye...

The Bloodstained Butterfly

1971

Film credits

1980s · 5 titles

1970s · 34 titles

Tony Arzenta poster
6.1

A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody shootouts - ensue.

Tony Arzenta

1973

Sunflower poster
7.5

After World War II, a woman refuses to believe her husband, missing on the Russian front, is dead. Flashbacks reveal their brief courtship and marriage. Years later, she travels to Russia with his photo, determined to find him. What will she discover?

Sunflower

1970

The Cat in Heat poster
5.2

A man returns home to his wife from a business trip only to find a dead body in their yard.

The Cat in Heat

1972

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony poster
4.6

There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he'll have the perfect alibi when the bodies start piling up. But it turns out his enemies have enough juice to keep him in prison, his associates start dying and the attempts on his life start. Cue Tony Breda, a wannabe wiseguy, who has a plan to spring Frankie from jail.

Mean Frank and Crazy Tony

1973

The Bloodstained Butterfly poster
6.1

When a young female student is savagely killed in a park during a thunderstorm, the culprit seems obvious: TV sports personality Alessandro Marchi, seen fleeing the scene of the crime by numerous eyewitnesses. The evidence against him is damning... but is it all too convenient? And when the killer strikes again while Marchi is in custody, it quickly becomes apparent that there's more to the case than meets the eye...

The Bloodstained Butterfly

1971

The Black Belly of the Tarantula poster
6.2

Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.

The Black Belly of the Tarantula

1971

Web of the Spider poster
5.8

Alan Foster, a professional American journalist, travels to London to meet with Edgar Allan Poe for an interview. While in London, Alan soon finds himself in the company of Lord Blackwood, and Alan accepts a bet to spend a night in his castle

Web of the Spider

1971

So Young, So Lovely, So Vicious... poster
4.8

Angela is not happy about her daddy's choice for a new wife and does everything she can to destroy her stepmother-to-be.

So Young, So Lovely, So Vicious...

1975

Violent Rome poster
6.1

A detective sick and tired of the rampant crime and violence in his city, and constantly at odds with his superiors, is finally kicked out of the department for a "questionable" shooting of a vicious criminal. However, he is soon approached by a representative for a group of citizens who themselves are fed up with what they see as criminals going unpunished, and they make him an offer he may very well not refuse.

Violent Rome

1975

MitGift poster
4.6

Edgar Burgman, after collaborating to assassinate the elder senator husband of Alice Young, the wife remarried. The woman, after a short period, doubts of love Edgar and convinces more and more that, having married out of interest, now wants to eliminate the possession of his great assets.

MitGift

1976

Syndicate Sadists poster
6.0

A biker's brother is killed while investigating the kidnapping of a young boy, the byproduct of a war between two crime families. The biker vows to get revenge by finding the kidnapped boy and destroying the two families.

Syndicate Sadists

1975

The Violent Professionals poster
6.1

With or without help from law enforcement officers, a lone individual decides to crack down on the syndicate.

The Violent Professionals

1973

High Crime poster
6.4

An Italian police inspector matches wits with a powerful European drug ring. As he comes closer to the top of the underworld organization, his odds of survival decrease.

High Crime

1973

You're Jinxed, Friend, You've Met Sacramento poster
5.5

This fast-moving tale revolves around the kidnaping of a boxer's daughter. The boxer pays the ransom money but the girl is still not released. Her boyfriend decides to get her back his own way.

You're Jinxed, Friend, You've Met Sacramento

1972

Madeleine: Anatomy of a Nightmare poster
4.5

Madeleine has just endured a traumatizing miscarriage. Finding herself increasingly lost in bizarre nightmares, she begins to question her life and happiness, taking refuge in extra marital affairs and unstoppable hedonism. But how long can she hide from reality before the brutal consequences of her actions catch up to her?

Madeleine: Anatomy of a Nightmare

1974

Agenzia Riccardo Finzi... praticamente detective poster
5.9

After graduating in correspondence detective, Riccardo Finzi arrives in Milan. The first case he deals with is the death of a young maid. Cockpit in a surreal yellow from a novel by Luciano Secchi.

Agenzia Riccardo Finzi... praticamente detective

1979

Happy New Year poster
7.2

Released from prison under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season Cannes, but also by a very special someone he met there.

Happy New Year

1973

So Sweet, So Dead poster
5.9

A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.

So Sweet, So Dead

1972

The Hideout poster
3.7

A jewel thief hides his loot in a WELL while escaping. He returns several years later only to find there is a Resort on the site and the well is the centerpiece of the place. He then has to find a way to retrieve his haul.

The Hideout

1971

Lips of Lurid Blue poster
4.0

Elli and Marco are an unquestionably unusual wedded couple. Due to a damage as a kid, Marco harbors homosexual drives that he represses inside his married life and Elli is a barely surpressed nymphomaniac. The marriage is useful for both of them as it allows them to blend in within the confines of their regular social life in a sanctimonious provincial town. But then a strange woman bursts into their world and Marco's deviant behavior come to light again but now he has a thirst for murder.

Lips of Lurid Blue

1975

The Art of Love poster
4.7

A married couple, he a failed intellectual, she completely unsatisfied, try to solve their marital crisis by throwing themselves into the arms of two lovers; he a young Swede, she with a handsome Greek man.

The Art of Love

1973

Down the Ancient Stairs poster
5.5

A mental hospital somewhere in Tuscany during the thirties. Far away from fascism, this closed world is rules over by Dr. Bonaccorsi, a passionate benevolent psychiatrist whose dream is to isolate the germ of madness. He is also a very active ladies'man and makes three women benefit from his sexual itch: Francesca the hospital manager's wife, Bianca, his devoted nurse and Carla, a nymphomaniac doctor's wife. His well-ordered universe starts being challenged with the coming of Anna, a trainee psychiatrist, who disapproves of his theory on the origin of madness. Worse, she resists his advances. As Bonaccorsi is more insecure than he looks, what will become of him?

Down the Ancient Stairs

1975

Smile Before Death poster
5.8

After the death of her mother under strange circumstances, a teenage girl quickly begins to suspect that her recently widowed stepfather may be involved.

Smile Before Death

1972

The Double poster
5.0

A man is shot in an underground car-park by a mysterious bearded man. As he dies he recollects the events that led him to this situation, including adulterous liaisons and jealous envy.

The Double

1971

The Legend of Blood Castle poster
5.3

Countess Elizabeth Bathory conspires with her husband to acquire the blood of virgins to maintain her youth and beauty.

The Legend of Blood Castle

1973

Lonely Hearts poster
5.5

The marriage of a bored upper class couple gets in a crisis.

Lonely Hearts

1970

My Wife, A Body to Love poster
4.2

The story of a nymphomaniac model with a somewhat older businessman husband.

My Wife, A Body to Love

1973

Quella chiara notte d'ottobre poster
8.0

A unhappily married woman tries to find happiness with a former lover, but when they witnesses crime, it leads them down a path of self-destruction

Quella chiara notte d'ottobre

1970

Violent Naples poster
6.4

Inspector Betti (Maurizio Merli) is transferred to Naples and immediately after his arrival receives a warm welcome from The Commandante (Barry Sullivan), the city's crime lord. Betti then goes on a personal mission against corruption and organized crime, and tries to force the syndicate out of town with any means necessary.

Violent Naples

1976

Manhunt in the City poster
5.8

A man's daughter is killed by thieves during a bank robbery. Due to the incompetence of the corrupt authorities, he decides to take to law into his own hands and track down the killers.

Manhunt in the City

1975

Love and Death on the Edge of a Razor poster
6.2

Stefano, the son of a wealthy businessman, meets a beautiful woman named Lidia while accompanying his father to a meeting with a cardinal. He pursues her through the streets of Venice and a romance develops. Upon returning from an overseas business trip, he is informed that Lidia has been killed in an accident. Soon afterwards, he thinks he recognizes her at a building site, but the woman claims to be a reporter who is obviously involved with gangsters. Furthermore, all evidence of Lidia's death has now been obliterated. Stefano continues to investigate the mystery, uncovering family intrigues

Love and Death on the Edge of a Razor

1973

My Body With Anger poster
9.0

"Il mio corpo con rabbia" by Roberto Natale has been credited an uncertain and indefinite status between an art and an exploitation movie. Silvia is a daddy's girl who has wanted to have a drug experience only once, but this was enough for her parents to batten down the hatches, on the advice of a doctor, isolating the girl into a luxurious hotel in Sardinia and being vigilant on her "healing". It's out of season, there're almost no people in the compound. But a strange young man is roaming around there, maybe a fugitive, who Silvia starts to have a relationship with. This young man is the figure by whom Roberto Natale clarifies, using him as a reagent, the real key relation, the core of narration, the focus of the movie, which is the link between Silvia and her father.

My Body With Anger

1972

Black Lemons poster
7.5

Rosario Inzulìa, a young man involved with the Mafia, was sentenced to labor camp, forced to pay also for crimes he didn't commit. After eight long years of imprisonment he's finally released. Rosario goes back to Sicily, where he learns that his wife died in an accident. He tries to rebuild his life, but when he finds out that his wife was murdered, he decides that it's time to take action: alone against the Mafia!

Black Lemons

1970

The stunt poster
4.0

Five bored rich boys from Rome receive a tip-off, and steal three cars that belong to a clandestine organisation that exports to Switzerland. One of the cars contains four billion lire.

The stunt

1977

1960s · 9 titles

Unknown Woman poster
7.2

When an old lady dies two hours before her life insurance expires, the insurance lawyer suspects something dubious. He begins to investigate and he becomes the lover of the old lady's daughter...

Unknown Woman

1969

Castle of Blood poster
7.1

When a cynical journalist accepts a wager that he won't survive the night in a haunted castle, it unlocks an odyssey of sexual torment, undead vengeance, and a dark seductress who surrenders the gravest of pleasures.

Castle of Blood

1964

The Horrible Dr. Hichcock poster
5.9

In late 19th century London, a woman weds a necrophiliac doctor whose first wife died under mysterious circumstances - and who might be returning from the grave to torment her successor.

The Horrible Dr. Hichcock

1962

I piaceri del sabato notte poster
3.0

Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution.

I piaceri del sabato notte

1960

Help Me, My Love poster
7.2

Giovanni and Raffaella are happily married from ten years, but their relationship goes into crisis when Raffaella falls in love with Valerio Mantovani, a handsome forty-year-old man she knew during the concerts of chamber music she weekly attends with her mother.

Help Me, My Love

1969

Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand poster
5.9

Stuck in a dream world of his own, Italian sculptor Albert Saporito, sometimes has difficulty separating truth from fiction. When he dreams that his gangster neighbor has been murdered, he reports the crime to the police, only to involve himself in a complicated situation.

Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand

1966

I due sanculotti poster
6.0

The brothers Franco and Ciccio La Capra moves to France in the days of the French Revolution, putting themselves in a lot of trouble.

I due sanculotti

1966

The Invisible Woman poster
4.1

Drama about the fading relationship between a professor and his wife. Based upon a short story by Alberto Moravia.

The Invisible Woman

1969

Casa di bambola poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Casa di bambola

1968

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