Furio Meniconi

Acting

Furio Meniconi

Born — Died

1924-02-22 — 1981-12-12

Place of birth

Rom, Italien

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Known for

Duck, You Sucker poster
7.7

At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.

Duck, You Sucker

1971

Man of the East poster
6.6

By his dying father's last wish Joe is sent to the Wild West to become a real guy. The dreamy young man despises guns and fights likes poems and prefers bicycles to horses. Now his three teachers footpads all of them shall teach him otherwise. This doesn't work until Joe has to defend himself against gunman Morton who's jealous of Joe's love to rancher Ohlsen's beautiful daughter.

Man of the East

1972

Deep Red poster
7.7

An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods. The two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.

Deep Red

1975

The Adventures of Pinocchio poster
7.3

Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastero Cherry, he decides to build himself a puppet to make him company.

The Adventures of Pinocchio

1972

The Agony and the Ecstasy poster
7.0

During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.

The Agony and the Ecstasy

1965

Diamond Machine poster
3.5

A group of bandits conspire to kidnap a scientist who can help them manufacture diamonds.Unbeknownst to them , the FBI is already on their case.

Diamond Machine

1955

Film credits

1970s · 20 titles

Duck, You Sucker poster
7.7

At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mallory, an Irish Republican Army explosives expert on the lam from the British, fall in with a band of revolutionaries plotting to strike a national bank. When it turns out that the government has been using the bank as a hiding place for illegally detained political prisoners -- who are freed by the blast -- Miranda becomes a revolutionary hero against his will.

Duck, You Sucker

1971

Man of the East poster
6.6

By his dying father's last wish Joe is sent to the Wild West to become a real guy. The dreamy young man despises guns and fights likes poems and prefers bicycles to horses. Now his three teachers footpads all of them shall teach him otherwise. This doesn't work until Joe has to defend himself against gunman Morton who's jealous of Joe's love to rancher Ohlsen's beautiful daughter.

Man of the East

1972

Deep Red poster
7.7

An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his psychic neighbor. With the help of a tenacious young reporter, he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods. The two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.

Deep Red

1975

They Call Him Cemetery poster
6.3

John and George McIntire are a couple of naive brothers who travel to a lawless western town to see their father. The bumbling siblings get themselves into big trouble after they beat up a member of a gang of extortionists. Fortunately, a mysterious roving gunfighter decides to help the guys out of their jam.

They Call Him Cemetery

1971

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot poster
6.3

Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Indian-hating Major Cabot. Their elaborate plan is full of disguises, double-crosses, and chases, but Joe always seems to know what he's doing.

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot

1975

Those Dirty Dogs! poster
6.5

Captain Chadwell, Lieutenant Junger and Sergeant Smith are sent by Washington to help their colleagues of Fort Apache to recover stolen arms. A bounty hunter accompanies them.

Those Dirty Dogs!

1973

Adiós, Sabata poster
6.3

Under the brutal rule of local garrison leader Colonel Skimmel and European tyranny, a group of Mexican revolutionaries hires gunslinger Sabata to rob a transport of Austrian gold to buy weapons. But Colonel Skimmel has other plans, taking the gold for himself and blaming the revolutionaries. But no scheming colonel is going to keep Sabata from earning his pay.

Adiós, Sabata

1970

Long Live Robin Hood poster
6.6

John Lackland seizes the English throne, believing the rightful ruler, his brother Richard the Lionheart, to be dead. When he learns that Richard is being held captive by the German emperor and can be ransomed for a large sum of money, he refuses to pay and orders the messengers, including Sir Henry of Nottingham, to be killed. Sir Henry escapes to Sherwood Forest, which belongs to his estates. There he joins forces with a group of Anglo-Saxons and fights under the name Robin Hood against the regime of the king's traitors...

Long Live Robin Hood

1971

The Grand Duel poster
6.0

A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.

The Grand Duel

1972

And God Said to Cain poster
6.7

An innocent man sentenced to ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, is released from jail, promising to seek revenge on the guilty.

And God Said to Cain

1970

His Name Was Holy Ghost poster
6.2

The Holy Ghost is a supernatural gunfighter dressed in white and with a dove sitting on his shoulder. With his sidekick, the Holy Ghost rescues some farmers from the fortified prison of the evil General Ubarte, then raids the castle again for gold treasure aided by some local prostitutes.

His Name Was Holy Ghost

1972

Deadly Trackers poster
4.2

Jeff sets out to murder each one of the five outlaws who robbed, raped and killed his poor sister. He lays a fragment of her poncho on each of his victims' dead bodies as a mark of his revenge in a gripping, exciting tale.

Deadly Trackers

1972

Viva! Django poster
7.1

Django is on the trail of some renegade outlaws who raped and killed his wife. En route, he rescues a horse thief from an impromptu hanging. He discovers the man knows who committed the murder. The men team up and head west for revenge.

Viva! Django

1971

Go Gorilla, Go! poster
7.2

Fabio Testi is an undercover cop doubling as the bodyguard (hence, “Gorilla”) of a cantankerous middle-aged industrialist targeted for extortion.

Go Gorilla, Go!

1975

All Sons of the Saintest Mother poster
5.2

Two crime families battle for supremacy in 1929 Chicago in this Italian crime spoof. One group, known as the "Sons of Mammasantissima" thereby professes its (ironic) dedication to the Virgin Mother. The other family works undercover from a Salvation Army soup kitchen. Neither family seems capable of accomplishing anything of note until a wily Sicilian arrives on the scene and sorts things out.

All Sons of the Saintest Mother

1973

Ten Killers from Afar poster
5.5

Dallas tries to regain his father's farm which he lost in a card game with Kelly. But Kelly is now dead and his daughter, Glenda, doesn't know how to play poker. There are also rumors of a hidden treasure.

Ten Killers from Afar

1974

Kill Django...Kill First poster
7.0

Johnny fights the banker Burton, who tries to acquire with the help of the strange bandit Martinez, in an unlawful way, all the gold mines in the nearer environment.

Kill Django...Kill First

1971

They Killed Another Bandit poster
10.0

A tale of banditry in Sardinia. Considered a "lost" film but a print was located in 2013.

They Killed Another Bandit

1976

A Sword to Brando poster
4.2

In a mediaeval feudal hamlet, young girls are being abducted by a sect of devil-worshipers, all of whose faces are masked by sinister skulls. Brando, the young hero of this film, saves two damsels from the ravages of the sect.

A Sword to Brando

1970

They Still Call Me Amen poster
7.0

Chaco and his band of downtrodden men meet Così Sia (Amen), who always seems to get the better of them. He takes on the men with a plan to break into the Bank of Little-hole. For Così Sia, getting the money is not as important as getting his revenge on Reverend Smith, with whom he has a bone to pick.

They Still Call Me Amen

1973

1960s · 32 titles

The Agony and the Ecstasy poster
7.0

During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to sculpt 40 statues for his tomb. When the pope changes his mind and asks the sculptor to paint a mural in the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo doubts his painting skills and abandons the project. Divine inspiration returns Michelangelo to the mural, but his artistic vision clashes with the pope's demanding personality and threatens the success of the historic painting.

The Agony and the Ecstasy

1965

Kill Them All and Come Back Alone poster
6.2

During the American Civil War, a Confederate prisoner, Clyde McKay, attempts to steal a box of gold from a Union prison camp. He is aided by a group of prisoners and a prison guard but he is double-crossed along the way.

Kill Them All and Come Back Alone

1968

The Tartars poster
6.0

The Tartars and the Vikings maintain a fragile peace in the harsh landscape of the Russian Steppe. When the leader of the Vikings, Oleg, declines to accompany the Tartars on a campaign against the Slavs, there is an explosion of violence. After Oleg kills the Tartar leader and kidnaps his daughter, the dead man's brother, Burandai, retaliates by holding Oleg's wife, Helga, hostage. The stalemate can be resolved only on the battlefield.

The Tartars

1961

Hercules of the Desert poster
8.0

A fabulous land of green pastures is protected from invasion by the mysterious Valley of the Thundering Echo. Queen Farida draws together the desert tribes to conquer the land, even though a prophecy has promised the land to the Gameli tribe. The Gameli journey to the Silver Temple, where the High Priest summons the legendary Maciste from the mountain rock to defeat their enemies and guide them to their promised land.

Hercules of the Desert

1964

David and Goliath poster
3.7

When the Philistines attack, the Israelites are hopeless against the fierce giant Goliath and don't know what to do. King Saul takes the advice of the prophets and sends an adolescent shepherd, David, into battle to conquer the oversized Philistine. David is victorious and becomes the King of Israel.

David and Goliath

1960

The Revenge of Ivanhoe poster
6.0

Ivanhoe returns from the Crusades to free the Saxons from oppression in 12th century England. He claims the hand of a beautiful lady and fights to rescue her from danger.

The Revenge of Ivanhoe

1965

Gold for the Caesars poster
5.1

A gladiator gets caught up in a slave revolt and the invasion of England.

Gold for the Caesars

1963

I'll Sell My Skin Dearly poster
6.8

Shane’s a man come home to settle something he’d tried to forget, but has kept eating at him. His mother, father, and little sister, had been murdered for their land. Specifically an old mine the father had been working at for years with little result, but had finally struck a vein.

I'll Sell My Skin Dearly

1968

The Avenger poster
6.3

Aeneas leads escapees from the Trojan war to new land in Italy, and must deal with new threats to his people.

The Avenger

1962

Isabella, Duchess of the Devils poster
6.3

An Alsacian Baron massacres the family of a French Duke, and takes his lands and his title. Isabella, the Duke's baby child, escapes the massacre, is raised by gypsies, and comes back twenty years later to exact revenge.

Isabella, Duchess of the Devils

1969

The Giant of Metropolis poster
4.7

Obro the muscleman goes to Atlantis and sinks a death-ray king who knows the secret of immortality.

The Giant of Metropolis

1961

Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa poster
4.0

A whimsical commedia all'italiana divided into four episodes.

Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa

1964

James Tont Operation T.W.O. poster
4.8

A dangerous criminal group wants to destroy St. Peter's Basilica and the secret agent James Tont is the only one who can help it.

James Tont Operation T.W.O.

1966

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

Snow Devils poster
3.7

A heroic expedition braves snow-whipped precipices and discovers the dreaded humanoids. But wait – these are extraterrestrial yetis who zipped in from outer space to conquer Earth by melting the polar ice caps with high-energy proton fields. Will mankind be global-warmed into surrender?

Snow Devils

1967

Gatling Gun poster
5.1

This dramatization of the origin of Dr. Gatling's self-named invention stands tall in the annals of the Old West. As cavalry transported the high-tech gun across the dangerous frontier, it blasted its way into history to become the predecessor to the modern-day machine gun.

Gatling Gun

1968

Hercules, Prisoner of Evil poster
3.7

Hercules battles an evil sorceress who turns men into werewolves. The mythic duo returns in Prisoner of Evil, where a sorceress seduces Herc and transforms him into a mindless beast. Italian horror master Antonio Margheriti directed this installment of the Hercules legend, a blend of sword-and-sandal fantasy and horror.

Hercules, Prisoner of Evil

1964

The Seven Revenges poster
6.8

The leaders of Circassians and Kyrgyz face off in a tournament divided into seven challenges: only one will gain the supremacy.

The Seven Revenges

1961

Django the Bastard poster
5.9

A Confederate soldier returns from the dead to take revenge on three officers who betrayed his unit in battle.

Django the Bastard

1969

Wanted poster
5.9

A local sheriff is unjustly accused of murder in a small town and forced to flee. He gets rid of his enemies one by one and tries to prove his innocence.

Wanted

1967

The Terror of the Steppes poster
5.5

Tribal chief Sandra kidnaps Samira, the daughter of the powerful Yesen Khan. He hopes to exchange her for a treasure in gold but falls in love with the girl and things gets complicated.

The Terror of the Steppes

1964

The Seven Tasks of Ali Baba poster
7.0

A wizard summons Ali Baba to transport a sacred crown to a nearby country. An evil ruler has taken over the land, and the crown is needed to free the people from his influence.

The Seven Tasks of Ali Baba

1962

Zum Zum Zum 2 poster
5.7

While happily engaged to Rosalia, Tony has the misfortune of falling for a vibrant pilot named Valeria — and that’s just the beginning of his problems.

Zum Zum Zum 2

1969

Tarzana: The Wild Woman poster
3.4

The daughter of Sir Donovan is believed dead with her mother and other relatives in a plane crash in the African jungle. Fifteen years later, vague reports arrive in Europe that a Kenyan tribe has elected a white woman as their queen, Tarzana (meaning 'strange woman' in Bantu), and Sir Donovan wants to believe she is his daughter.

Tarzana: The Wild Woman

1969

Marauders of the Sahara poster
8.0

With the guide of an adventurer of uncertain allegiance, a brother and sister try to rescue their father, held captive by the Bedouins of the Sahara.

Marauders of the Sahara

1965

Kill or Be Killed poster
4.0

A violin-playing gunslinger accidently gets caught in a feud between two families. One of them forces him into a showdown and he kills him. He then must escape from the wrathful family and is accused wrongly for killing 2 deputies. He is saved by an old man, who helps him to get revenge and to prevent the girl he loves from marrying a murderer. Source: SWDB www.spaghetti-western.net

Kill or Be Killed

1966

Musketeers of the Sea poster
6.3

Three pirates are saved from a shipwreck and seize a galleon bound for Maracaibo, where they will save the governor from a conspiracy. Italian adventure movie directed by Steno.

Musketeers of the Sea

1962

Kill the Wicked! poster
5.7

A robber decides to hide his loot in a ghost town, helped by his girlfriend and his one remaining man. Keeping it though may be a problem, with the lone inhabitant, an old lady, a mysterious stranger, a recent widow and a former gang member all more or less plotting against the bandits.

Kill the Wicked!

1967

Desert Raiders poster
6.5

A hero saves a beautiful young princess from a forced marriage to an evil villain.

Desert Raiders

1964

Vulcan, Son of Giove poster
3.8

A superhero battles lizard men and other monsters that are terrorizing the countryside.

Vulcan, Son of Giove

1962

Gunman Sent by God poster
5.0

Anthony Steffen, as a young gunman who works as a circus performer, witnesses the killing of some outlaws, carried out by their leader and is credited with the deed. Steffen suffers from a complex which blocks him in front of any violence and makes him appear cowardly, so when a young boy is kidnapped he must find a way to regain his composure.

Gunman Sent by God

1968

I due Crociati poster
6.6

Two inept crusaders almost sabotage the christians' plan to conquer Jerusalem.

I due Crociati

1968

1950s · 8 titles

Diamond Machine poster
3.5

A group of bandits conspire to kidnap a scientist who can help them manufacture diamonds.Unbeknownst to them , the FBI is already on their case.

Diamond Machine

1955

The Sign of Venus poster
6.8

Agnese has many men who woo her and live with her cousin Cesira, who has the opposite problem with men and wishes she would also have men woo her.

The Sign of Venus

1955

Attila poster
5.4

Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps onto the Italian peninsula, defeating all of the armies of Rome, until he and his men reach the gates of the city itself.

Attila

1954

Goliath and the Barbarians poster
4.7

When barbarians invade his village and kill his father, a local man wages a one-man war against them.

Goliath and the Barbarians

1959

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

Captain Falcon poster
6.5

Baron Oddo de Serra who is cruel to his subjects, is neighbor of the Count Gualtiero of Roccalta. The servants of the baron cross the lands of Count to escape his abuses. Baron hatches a plot to assassinate the earl.

Captain Falcon

1958

Goddess Of Love poster
4.2

The god Zeus sends Venus, the goddess of love, to Earth to find her own true love.

Goddess Of Love

1957

The Queen of Babylon poster
5.3

In this Biblical epic, a brave Chaldean rebel takes on his evil nemesis, a cruel Assyrian king. En route to his fateful meeting, the rebel hides in the humble hut of a luscious peasant girl.

The Queen of Babylon

1954

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