Dino Galvani

Acting

Dino Galvani

Born — Died

1890-10-27 — 1960-10-27

Place of birth

Milan, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

45 titles

Known for

Film credits

1950s · 14 titles

Quo Vadis poster
7.1

After fierce Roman commander Marcus Vinicius becomes infatuated with beautiful Christian hostage Lygia, he begins to question the tyrannical leadership of the despotic emperor Nero.

Quo Vadis

1951

Paul Temple's Triumph poster
9.0

A husband-and-wife detective team look into the murder of one of her friends, whose father--a prominent scientist--has been kidnapped. They find themselves up against a sinister crime organization headed by a mysterious figure known only as "Z".

Paul Temple's Triumph

1950

Malaga poster
5.5

A female former OSS agent is sent to Tangiers, Morocco, to infiltrate and destroy an international smuggling ring.

Malaga

1954

Checkpoint poster
5.6

Stanley Baker's O'Donovan is sent to steal the plans of a rival company's racing car designs, to ensure his employers win the competition. However, when opening a safe containing the plans, he triggers an alarm leading to a gun battle where he kills a number of people. James Robertson Justice, alarmed by the scandal surrounding the killings, orders his agent be killed surreptitiously to hide his involvement with the plot. The film uses original footage from the Mille Miglia , an Italian open-road endurance race, featuring classic period racing cars.

Checkpoint

1956

Three Steps North poster
5.4

An ex-American GI returns to Italy to find some money he stashed before doing a prison term. He discovers his cash is now gone and quickly sets off on a manhunt to find out who stole his buried fortune.

Three Steps North

1951

Danger Within poster
6.3

Drama set in an Italian prisoner of war camp during World War 2, where a group of British soldiers find their plans for escape thwarted by a mysterious traitor in their midst.

Danger Within

1959

Second Fiddle poster
6.3

Deborah and Charles, young executives at the thriving Pontifex Advertising Agency, are very much in love. Deborah is recognised by her employers as the most brilliant TV executive in the country, while Charles is regarded as 'thoroughly reliable'. But there is one hard-and-fast rule at the agency: the board of directors will not allow any married women on their staff; as soon as a girl marries, she must resign!

Second Fiddle

1957

Fugitive Lady poster
4.0

A man drives his car off a cliff in an apparent suicide. One insurance investigator is not so sure it was an accident or suicide and gets 48 hours to prove his case.

Fugitive Lady

1950

Shadow of the Eagle poster
6.5

During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.

Shadow of the Eagle

1950

La rivale dell'imperatrice poster
NR

During the 18th century, the empress of Russia Catherine the Great sends her lover Count Alexei Orloff to kidnap her rival for the throne, the pretender Elizabeth, Princess Tarakanova, from Venice. However, Orloff ends up falling in love with the princess.

La rivale dell'imperatrice

1951

Beautiful Stranger poster
5.2

An ex-chorus girl lives on the Riviera, supported by a married man she doesn't know is a crook.

Beautiful Stranger

1954

Father Brown poster
6.5

Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.

Father Brown

1954

Fun at St. Fanny's poster
5.8

Gormless 25 year-old Cardew, wealthy beneficiary of the Robinson Will, should have left St. Fanny's School many years ago. However, seedy headmaster Dr. Jankers (music hall favourite Fred Emney) is in the toils of shady bookmaker Harry the Scar (boxer Freddie Mills) and has so-far kept his golden goose perched firmly at the bottom of the class. Blissfully unaware of nefarious intrigue around him, Cardew continues to flirt coyly with the French mistress and gamble for school dinners on the form room roulette wheel. But canny Scots solicitor McTavish has been sent to investigate... Featuring television's Billy Bunter, Gerald Campion, gorgeous Vera Day, Will Hay cohort Claude Hulbert, muddle-mouthed Stanley Unwin, a young Ronnie Corbett, and enough old jokes to fill a Christmas Cracker factory.

Fun at St. Fanny's

1955

The Case of The Smiling Widow poster
8.0

From the case files of Scotland Yard, detectives investigate the mysterious death of Peter Adams, artist and possible forger.

The Case of The Smiling Widow

1957

1930s · 21 titles

Black Coffee poster
8.0

Black Coffee is a 1931 British detective film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott. Based on the 1930 play Black Coffee by Agatha Christie featuring her famous private detective Hercule Poirot, it stars Austin Trevor as Poirot with Richard Cooper playing his companion Captain Hastings. A famous but hated scientist, Sir Amory, is killed during a house party, and some of his valuable papers are missing. Poirot rapidly determines the cause of death and the motive, then narrows down the suspects to the most likely culprit.

Black Coffee

1931

Heads We Go poster
8.0

A model inherits a great deal of money and pretends to be a movie star.

Heads We Go

1933

Strange Boarders poster
8.0

Pre-war intelligence man Tommy Blythe interrupts his honeymoon to investigate the discovery of vital Air Ministry blueprints on a woman killed in a London road accident. The trail leads to a boarding house in Notting Hill and its varied tenants.

Strange Boarders

1938

The Queen's Affair poster
10.0

Poor New York shop girl Nadina receives the unexpected news that she is next in line to be queen of an Eastern European country. On her arrival in Ruritania, a revolution is in progress, and only minutes before her coronation, Nadina is forced into exile. She flees to Paris with her nurse, and then travels on to Switzerland. There Nadina encounters the Ruritanian revolutionary leader Carl, recuperating from the trials of revolution, and the couple unexpectedly fall in love. When the revolution collapses in Ruritania, they return and marry, thus forming a constitutional monarchy supported by all the people.

The Queen's Affair

1934

No artwork available
7.0

A British musical film directed by Victor Hanbury

Beloved Impostor

1936

No artwork available
9.0

Bashful lawyer Henry cannot attend his fiancée's birthday party because of a business engagement. However, farcical circumstances find him mistaken for the dance partner of a professional lady hired to entertain a country house party at which his fiancée is a guest.

The Chance of a Night Time

1931

Crime Over London poster
7.0

With the police on their tail, a gang of New York criminals decided to relocate to London where they plan a major robbery on a department store.

Crime Over London

1936

No artwork available
8.0

An Italian musician begins to steal his brother's compositions after he is jailed for shooting a prince.

In a Monastery Garden

1932

No artwork available
7.0

A busker confesses to shooting a seducer to save his amnesiac film-star daughter.

Life's a Stage

1930

Ball at Savoy poster
7.0

A British diplomat falls in love with a famous singer when he meets her in Cannes.

Ball at Savoy

1936

No artwork available
7.0

Michael, war correspondent in Spain, loves a Spanish girl. He wants them to return to England, but her father is unwilling to go. In the meantime Maria discovers that her father is a spy and working for the other side.

The Last Barricade

1938

The Price of Things poster
9.0

Courtenay John Dayre is drugged by a jealous spy on the night before his loveless marriage to Anthea. His twin, John Courtenay Dayre, reluctantly agrees to impersonate his brother at the wedding, only to discover a genuine affection for his accidental wife. Meanwhile, Courtenay begins to understand the price of things when he realises that his affair has allowed a valuable military secret to be stolen.

The Price of Things

1930

No artwork available
9.0

A crime film directed by Guy Newall.

Chin Chin Chinaman

1931

No artwork available
9.0

“Professor Calthrop, actuated only by scientific motives, and his assistant, out for his own gain, have invented a system for the manufacture of diamonds.” - BFI.

The Man Who Made Diamonds

1937

The Missing Rembrandt poster
7.0

Holmes goes on the trail of a Rembrandt painting, stolen by a drug-addicted artist.

The Missing Rembrandt

1932

Midnight Menace poster
7.4

When a reporter is killed under mysterious circumstances, the political cartoonist on his paper begins to investigate on his own. He finds that a vengeful industrialist may be trying to manipulate an international peace conference to stage a bombing attack on London.

Midnight Menace

1937

No artwork available
7.0

Crime comedy sequel to The Vulture (1937). Amateur sleuth, Cedric Gull, takes on another case.

The Viper

1938

No artwork available
9.0

A King’s Messenger has important documents stolen by a female spy. The plot follows the messenger’s uncle as he takes action to track down the culprit, retrieve the papers, and unmask the spy.

The Silver Greyhound

1932

No artwork available
10.0

A British comedy film directed by Leslie S. Hiscott

Once bitten

1932

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Mr. Satan

1938

No artwork available
10.0

A jewel thief kidnaps a conjurer's assistant to win a prize for a box trick.

The Dizzy Limit

1930

1920s · 7 titles

Adam's Apple poster
7.0

An American on his honeymoon in Paris, organises the kidnapping of his interfering mother-in-law.

Adam's Apple

1928

No artwork available
7.0

In Mexico, an Englishman saves a banker's daughter from a revolutionary but surrenders to save a church from destruction

Adventurous Youth

1928

Atlantic poster
5.2

English-language version. "Atlantic" is a drama film based on the sinking of the RMS "Titanic" and set aboard a fictional ship, called the "Atlantic". The main plotline revolves around a man who has a shipboard affair with a fellow passenger, which is eventually discovered by his wife. The ship also has aboard an elderly couple, the Rools, who are on their anniversary cruise. Midway across the Atlantic Ocean, the "Atlantic" strikes an iceberg and is damaged to the point where it is sinking into the Atlantic.

Atlantic

1929

The Vagabond Queen poster
10.0

The Vagabond Queen is a 1929 British comedy film directed by Géza von Bolváry and starring Betty Balfour, Glen Byam Shaw and Ernest Thesiger. It was the final film directed in Britain by Bolváry before he returned to Germany. A young woman takes the place of a Princess who is a target for an assassination. This film was released in May 1929 as a silent film and re-released with synchronized music and sound effects in August 1930.

The Vagabond Queen

1929

Kitty poster
6.0

Alex St. George, a young RFC pilot, is anxious about fighting in the First World War. He is comforted by sensitive shop assistant Kitty, and the two fall in love, marrying before Alex is sent to the front. But his snobbish mother disapproves of the match, and when Alex returns home paralysed and in a cataleptic state, Mrs. St. George plots to keep him from his wife until she can arrange an annulment. But the determined Kitty has plans of her own....

Kitty

1929

Those Who Love poster
7.0

'An author marries an already-married prostitute because she resembles his dead fiancée.' (British Film Institute)

Those Who Love

1929

Paradise poster
8.0

The daughter of a poor clergyman wins £500 and goes to find happiness on the Riviera.

Paradise

1928

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