Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia

Acting

Giovanni Ivan Scratuglia

Born — Died

1938-11-11 — 2013-05-21

Place of birth

Lastovo, Croatia

Known for

Acting

Credits

60 titles

Known for

Film credits

1960s · 60 titles

Once Upon a Time in the West poster
8.3

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jill arrives in the small town of Flagstone with the intention of starting a new life.

Once Upon a Time in the West

1968

Django poster
7.2

A coffin-dragging gunslinger and a prostitute become embroiled in a bitter feud between a Klan of Southern racists and a band of Mexican Revolutionaries.

Django

1966

Theorem poster
7.0

A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.

Theorem

1968

Oedipus Rex poster
6.8

In pre-war Italy, a young couple have a baby boy. The father, however, is jealous of his son - and the scene moves to antiquity, where the baby is taken into the desert to be killed. He is rescued, given the name Oedipus, and brought up by the King and Queen of Corinth as their son. One day an oracle informs Oedipus that he is destined to kill his father and marry his mother. Horrified, he flees Corinth and his supposed parents - only to get into a fight and kill an older man on the road…

Oedipus Rex

1967

Beyond the Law poster
5.8

A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it.

Beyond the Law

1968

Last of the Badmen poster
5.7

Kitosch is charged with a crime he did not commit and joins up with Joshua Tracy, a vicious outlaw. When Tracy kidnaps and blackmails his former employer Kitosch redeems himself by saving them.

Last of the Badmen

1967

The 10th Victim poster
6.7

In the near future, big wars are avoided by giving individuals with violent tendencies a chance to kill in the Big Hunt. The Hunt is the most popular form of entertainment in the world and also attracts participants who are looking for fame and fortune. It includes ten rounds for each competitor, five as the hunter and five as the victim.

The 10th Victim

1965

The Tiger and the Pussycat poster
6.8

A middle-aged businessman finds himself in thirst for romance adventure, and it seems that a proper partner is not far away.

The Tiger and the Pussycat

1967

Django, Prepare a Coffin poster
6.3

A mysterious gunfighter named Django is employed by a local crooked political boss as a hangman to execute innocent locals framed by the boss, who wants their land. What the boss doesn't know is that Django isn't hanging the men at all, just making it look like he is, and using the men he saves from the gallows to build up his own "gang" in order to take revenge on the boss, who, with Django's former best friend, caused the death of his wife years before.

Django, Prepare a Coffin

1968

The Black Sheep poster
6.2

The Honourable Mario Agosti, incorruptible politician, has a twin brother, Filippo, hedonist and swindler, the true black sheep of the family. Posing as the illustrious brother, Filippo comes into contact with the world of politics and finance, and is not slow to profit from the powerful characters whom he gets to know. Mario will have to serve the paradoxical consequences.

The Black Sheep

1968

Operation San Pietro poster
6.3

Small time crook Napoleone falls into an unlikely gang made up of a gangster, called The Baron, and his two cohorts, Agonia and The Captain, where Napoleone takes them to Rome where they shack up with a shady used car dealer caled Il Cajella to help finance their new life of crime by planing to rob a statue from the Vatican. But a big-time American gangster, named Joe Ventura, hears about the heist and wants the priceless statue for himself by having his mistress, Samantha, come onto and betray the woman-hungry Cajella to give the statue away to her.

Operation San Pietro

1967

The Treasure of San Gennaro poster
7.4

A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Gennaro, in Napoli.

The Treasure of San Gennaro

1966

The Ruthless Four poster
5.9

After years of hard work, old Sam Cooper has finally found a gold mine. Since he cannot take everything he has found with him, he blows up the entrance. To help him exploit his discovery, he calls on his godson Manolo Sanchez. But Manolo is accompanied by "the blond," a strange man who seems to dominate him. Sam has no choice but to accept his company. He persuades his old friend Mason to travel with them as well. Greed and paranoia will eventually completely destroy the small band.

The Ruthless Four

1968

The Girl with a Pistol poster
6.9

A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.

The Girl with a Pistol

1968

Vengeance poster
6.3

A man tracks down the five outlaws who murdered his brother, all the while being shadowed by a mysterious Pinkerton detective.

Vengeance

1968

I Protect Myself Against My Enemies poster
6.0

A major of the dissolved southern army gives a dollar to a young cowboy, Alan Burton, telling him that there are two other similar dollars with different figures on them; the three numbers combined show the spot where the Confederate's treasure is hidden. A number of people get involved including a gang leader and Alan's sidekick, Hondo.

I Protect Myself Against My Enemies

1968

Face to Face poster
7.0

History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Solomon Bennett's outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher finally takes over the gang, leading with a new 'efficient' ruthlessness.

Face to Face

1967

A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof poster
5.9

The bandit Pratt, looking for Tim, who is responsible for the death of his two sons, attacks a caravan killing all the passengers. Harry, the vagabond, after having robbed the dead, casually meets Tim and they become friends. Running away together from Pratt, they reach Harry's farm, but their hiding place is soon discovered.

A Sky Full of Stars for a Roof

1968

Texas, Adios poster
6.0

A Texan sheriff and his younger brother travel across the border into Mexico to confront the man who killed their father.

Texas, Adios

1966

Son of Django poster
5.5

The son of Django searches for the murderer of his father and is thereby involved in a war between two factions headed by former acquaintances of his famous parent.

Son of Django

1967

The Tramplers poster
6.4

After the war of secession, the aging Cordeen, who owns thousands of acres in Texas, rules his numerous and quarrelsome sons with an iron hand. He sends them out to deal with the threat of the representatives from the North. However, not all the sons share their father's unlimited hatred for the Northerners and they find it increasingly difficult to obey his despotic commands. To add to the family's unrest, a prodigal son decides to return to the fold, provoking two other sons to down tools and leave. Cordeen, outraged, pursues them and tries to kill them. An absurd family feud ensues, prolonged by the participation of the entire Cordeen family.

The Tramplers

1965

A Long Ride from Hell poster
5.3

Mike Sturges and his younger brother, Roy, are sentenced to Yuma Penitentiary on a trumped-up train robbery charge. Both endure cruel treatment before Mike escapes to extract revenge on their enemies.

A Long Ride from Hell

1968

Hate Thy Neighbor poster
5.0

Ken Dakota's search for the murderer of his brother, killed by bandit Gary Stevens, at the behest of land owner Chris Malone. Dakota attempts to bring the men responsible for his brothers death to justice.

Hate Thy Neighbor

1968

The Witch poster
6.5

A historian goes to a castle library to translate some ancient erotic literature. While there he discovers what he believes to be supernatural forces at work.

The Witch

1966

The Devil in Love poster
5.8

Two devils from Hell are sent to Earth to cause trouble. Belfagor and his faithful sidekick Adramalek must start a war between Rome and Florence in 1478.

The Devil in Love

1966

Anyone Can Play poster
4.6

In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.

Anyone Can Play

1967

Anyone Can Play poster
4.6

In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.

Anyone Can Play

1967

The Hellbenders poster
6.5

A Southern Colonel, his three sons, and a card shark embark on an odyssey through the Southwest carrying a coffin full of stolen money with which the Colonel plans to revive the Confederacy.

The Hellbenders

1967

Man, Pride and Vengeance poster
5.8

A Spanish army officer, Don Jose, stationed in Seville, meets and begins a relationship with a mysterious gypsy, Carmen. After he discovers she has cheated on him with his Lieutenant, he kills the officer and flees the city with Carmen. He recovers from his wounds and is forced to begin the life of a bandit.

Man, Pride and Vengeance

1967

The Prophet poster
5.4

In this comedy, a guru’s groupie plans to seduce him so she can number him among her many conquests.

The Prophet

1968

Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza poster
6.5

Comic version of the famous man of la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes in which Don Quixote having read an adventure book too many sets out on his own adventures with his servant Sancho Panza.

Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza

1968

Listen, Let's Make Love poster
4.5

When his father dies, young lad travels to Milan to attend the funeral and decides to follow in his father's footsteps as a gigolo. He is successful at finding rich women to prey on, but finds himself caught up in a bidding war.

Listen, Let's Make Love

1968

A Stranger in Town poster
5.1

Unknown to anybody else but himself The Stranger arrives in an abandoned town where he witnesses the slaughter of Mexican soldiers by a gang led by Aguila. The Stranger threatens Aguila to denounce him if he does not accept to let him take part in the theft of a shipment of gold. The plan is a success but when The Stranger claims his due, he gets a good beating instead. However The Stranger manages to escape with the gold. The bandits, who want his skin, pursue him. But The Stranger is not the kind to get caught so easily...

A Stranger in Town

1967

Man Only Cries for Love poster
3.8

Tony and some friends put together a rock band to do some concerts and earn some money. Unfortunately the military service is incumbent, but fortunately the boys will find themselves in the same barracks.

Man Only Cries for Love

1968

Desert Commandos poster
5.7

German commandos are dropped behind enemy lines in the Sahara Desert tasked with getting to Casablanca in an assassination attempt on allied leaders.

Desert Commandos

1967

A Gun for One Hundred Graves poster
5.8

At the end of the Civil War, Jim Slade, a young confederate soldier and conscientious objector, returns to his ranch to find his parents murdered and the ranch practically destroyed. He finds and kills three of the murderers and learns the name of the fourth, a certain Corbett. Finally he discovers Corbett as the leader of a gang that has plans to rob a local bank and is invited to help defend the town from the bandits. Teaming with a preacher, who has an agenda of his own, the two take a stand against Corbett.

A Gun for One Hundred Graves

1968

Commandos poster
5.7

Sgt. Sullivan puts together a group of Italian-Americans into disguise as Italian soldiers in order to infiltrate a North African camp held by the Italians. After the soldiers have knifed the Italians in their beds, they find a hooker living at the camp. Sullivan's commandos are to hold this camp and its weaponry until an American battalion arrives, all the while these Italian-Americans pretend to be Italian soldiers, often hosting the enemy. Lt. Valli is a young, "green," by-the-book officer who constantly argues with Sgt. Sullivan, who tells his superior that he has no idea what he is doing. One man on the base, probably a touch from Argento, is an entomologist who is needlessly killed. Things go terribly wrong after that.

Commandos

1968

Ballad of a Gunman poster
5.9

Instead of fighting over newly gained money from a coach-robbery, two gangster-brothers (El Bedoja and Chiuchi) decide to rob a bank together. But Martinez, a gangster-coward, is successfully questioned by Nigros (a clad-in-black gangster-killer who collects the money) and Rocco (a righteous ex-sheriff who doesn't and shows off even more skill in using his pistol) on their plans.

Ballad of a Gunman

1967

Kill and Pray poster
6.4

A Mexican community is slaughtered by Confederate troops; the lone survivor, a boy, is taken in by a preacher. Years later, the boy is now a soft-spoken, devout young man with perfect shooting skills (despite being a pacifist). On his journey to help his half-sister out of a complicated situation, he crosses paths with the men who killed his family, unbeknownst to him.

Kill and Pray

1967

Go For Broke poster
6.9

The Indian called Copper Face is suspected to have stolen a large quantity of gold from a bank.

Go For Broke

1968

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

Pleasant Nights poster
6.6

A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages.

Pleasant Nights

1966

Taste of Vengeance poster
6.6

A group of Northern vigilantes, roaming the post Civil War south, attack and kill the fiancee of war veteran Brian, who is rescued by his friend, Daniel. The two, with brother Robert, set out to find the killers. But Brian, suffering from amnesia and becoming frustrated with not remembering the killer's faces, starts killing at random and loses the support of his two partners.

Taste of Vengeance

1968

The Head of the Family poster
6.7

A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fatherhood. As time progresses along, the family grows larger with each successive child and the father feels his importance in the family has been lessened with all the children. This man's quiet desperation to hold onto his position is an interesting lesson in the family dynamic and how everyone is an important part of the whole.

The Head of the Family

1967

Bora Bora poster
4.4

A Frenchman finds his runaway wife on an island in the Pacific.

Bora Bora

1968

Every Man Is My Enemy poster
3.5

When a heist goes wrong, a safe cracker (Robert Webber) looks for the person who's betrayed him...

Every Man Is My Enemy

1967

Execution poster
4.2

Clips, a bounty killer, is after one John Coler, who has fooled him, keeping all of a loot he should have shared with him. He finally catches his prey only to discover that the man is a Coler all right but not the expected one.

Execution

1968

The Doll of Satan poster
4.6

Following the death of her uncle, Elisabeth returns to her family's castle for the reading of his will. She is informed of legends about the castle's ghost and experiences erotically charged nightmares, before being kidnapped by a hooded figure and tortured in the dungeon. Meanwhile, her boyfriend Jack suspects a plot to gain Elisabeth's inheritance and begins his own investigation...

The Doll of Satan

1969

Black Jack poster
6.4

Black Jack Murphy is the brains in an outfit of outlaws who rob the bank at Tusca City. All goes to plan with the heist but once the loot is safely obtained Jack's men lose no time in trying to double cross him. Wily Jack manages to outfox them at first and gets away with the cash but they soon catch up with him again and not only make off with the money but leave him crippled and carrying multiple causes for wanting revenge. This need for amends possesses Jack with an all consuming passion and he sets out to get even with each of his unfaithful former compadres but has his particular sights set on Indian Joe and Sanchez who abused and killed his beloved sister.

Black Jack

1968

Tequila Joe poster
5.6

A young deputy tries to sober and revitalize a washed up, alcoholic sheriff to take down a pair of warring gangs of criminals in the Old West.

Tequila Joe

1968

The Vatican Affair poster
4.1

A blind professor masterminds the theft of treasure from St. Peter's Basilica in Rome.

The Vatican Affair

1968

The Ten Million Dollar Grab poster
10.0

A thief fakes his death in order to steal a 10 million dollar Diamond from his former employer. He loses it—and gets it back—through various ploys around Europe.

The Ten Million Dollar Grab

1967

Colt in the Hand of the Devil poster
5.9

Pat Scotty is hired to eliminate a gang of Mexican bandits led by El Condor. Scotty craftily earns the trust of the bandits, enabling him to trap them all, but in the meantime, genuine friendship and respect have developed between him and El Condor.

Colt in the Hand of the Devil

1967

Don't Wait, Django... Shoot! poster
4.9

Django returns home to find out that his father has been killed, by local bandits, in a business deal gone wrong . He swears revenge and a mixture of lone gun men, gang members and bandits get involved with the search for a pouch of money, missing from the ill-fated deal.

Don't Wait, Django... Shoot!

1967

Garter Colt poster
5.1

At the border with Mexico, a brave young woman defends herself from the attack of the fearsome bandit, "Red", mastering a gun and the game of poker. Falling in love with a young Frenchman, he asks her to give up gambling and start a quiet and normal life, but when the young man is killed by "Red", she is determined to seek revenge. Source: SWDB http://www.spaghetti-western.net

Garter Colt

1968

One Dollar Too Many poster
7.0

Suave gambler Clay Watson, cocky sharpshooter Moses Lang, and wily thespian Edwin Kean are a trio of criminals in the Old West. The motley threesome are forced to form an uneasy alliance in order to find $400,000 dollars in stolen money.

One Dollar Too Many

1968

No Graves on Boot Hill poster
5.4

Three men meet in the same prison and in their cell they find a Mexican boy condemned to death for murder. One night the three convicts are mysteriously released by a priest and the father of the Mexican boy who promises them a reward of $30,000 if they can find the real murderer within ten days. Certain that the Mexican boy is not guilty, Reno and the others organize a plan which leads to the unmasking of the real killers.

No Graves on Boot Hill

1968

The Rover poster
6.0

A former counterrevolutionary pirate befriends a mentally ill young woman and this in turn leads to tragedy when she falls in love with a French naval officer.

The Rover

1967

Gun Shy Piluk poster
6.0

A sheriff is killed by the leader of the local bad guys, and the father of the sheriff is not to pleased. The father, Mr. Piluk, is the local undertaker and also plays a mean violin when he is in a bad mood.

Gun Shy Piluk

1968

Sheriff With the Gold poster
7.5

A gunman teams up with a small time sheriff to rob a shipment of gold.

Sheriff With the Gold

1966