Nino Castelnuovo

Acting

Nino Castelnuovo

Born — Died

1936-10-28 — 2021-09-06

Place of birth

Lecco, Lombardy, Italy

Known for

Acting

Credits

67 titles

Francesco "Nino" Castelnuovo (28 October 1936 - 6 September 2021) was an Italian actor of film, stage, and television. Castelnuovo appeared as Guy Foucher in the French-language musical film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and as D'Agostino in the romantic-drama The English Patient (1996). His other films include the drama Rocco and His Brothers (1960), the sexploitation Camille 2000 (1969), the black-comedy L'emmerdeur (A Pain in the ..., 1973), the giallo film Il prato macchiato di rosso (1973), and the spaghetti-westerns Massacre Time (1966) and The Five Man Army (1969).

Known for

Midi trente poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Midi trente

1972

The English Patient poster
7.1

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.

The English Patient

1996

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

The Marshal Rocca poster
8.1

The adventures of the marshal of the carabinieri Giovanni Rocca, played by the great Gigi Proietti. Definitely one of the most successful Rai fictions ever, the series, after the first eight episodes broadcast in 1996, went on for six seasons, ending only in 2008. For over a decade the investigations and the private life of the marshal of Viterbo , born from an idea by Laura Toscano, have fascinated the television audience, making them become attached to characters such as the beautiful pharmacist Margherita (Stefania Sandrelli) or the brigadier Cacciapuoti (Sergio Fiorentini).

The Marshal Rocca

1996

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg poster
7.4

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

1964

On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... poster
4.6

A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.

On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...

1967

Film credits

2000s · 3 titles

1970s · 13 titles

That Malicious Age poster
6.4

Gardener Napoleone takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Paola and her mother, which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem.

That Malicious Age

1975

A Pain in the Ass poster
7.0

Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.

A Pain in the Ass

1973

Strip Nude for Your Killer poster
5.5

After a fashion model dies during a botched abortion, the doctor stages her death to exonerate himself but is murdered by a mysterious assailant who soon begins hunting down her agency colleagues.

Strip Nude for Your Killer

1975

Loving in the Rain poster
5.1

Elizabeth and her daughter Cecile spend their holidays at a lakeside resort in the French mountains. Elizabeth falls in love with a strange Italian, Giovanni, while young Cecile is courted by an apprentice cook. It seems that mother and daughter are drifting apart from each other, but then their holidays are over.

Loving in the Rain

1974

Star Odyssey poster
2.9

Earth is attacked by an intergalactic villain and his army of robotic androids.

Star Odyssey

1979

The Bloodstained Lawn poster
5.5

Various undesirables and hippie drifters are invited to the luxury, ultra-modern country home of Dr. Antonio and his wife; when they begin to vanish, it becomes clear that something sinister — and deadly — is afoot.

The Bloodstained Lawn

1973

La collegiale poster
4.6

The sexually naive Daniela returns home from boarding school only to realize that her family is involved in an excess of bed-hopping and sexual perversion.

La collegiale

1975

Strip First, Then We Talk poster
3.0

An employee discovers the infidelity of the girlfriend and will try to take revenge.

Strip First, Then We Talk

1975

The Divorce poster
6.7

Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life.

The Divorce

1970

The Big Deal poster
6.8

Three clumsy thieves come up with a robbery scheme against the "Grandi Magazzini Romani". They call to their aid a skilled "only by reputation" French burglar, Pierre Le Compte.

The Big Deal

1972

Gott schützt die Liebenden poster
6.5

Engineer Paul Holland returns from a trip. His girlfriend Sybille has disappeared from their apartment without leaving a note. He searches for her and finds himself in the middle of a manhunt for an international drug ring.

Gott schützt die Liebenden

1973

Wife by Night poster
4.9

The story of a beautiful young woman who, for the love of her ambitious husband, becomes a blackmail victim and has to resort to prostitution...

Wife by Night

1971

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

I mariti

1974

1960s · 32 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

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg poster
7.4

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

1964

On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who... poster
4.6

A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.

On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...

1967

The 5-Man Army poster
6.6

At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat styles to help him rob a Mexican Army train carrying $500,000 in gold.

The 5-Man Army

1969

The Angel Wore Red poster
5.0

A clergyman travels to Spain to join the Loyalist side during the Spanish Civil War and finds himself attracted to a beautiful entertainer.

The Angel Wore Red

1960

Psychout for Murder poster
6.2

Mario consigns his girlfriend Licia to a whorehouse for an evening in order to get the photographic goods to blackmail her father with. To get her out of the way, Licia is then consigned to a mental hospital by her father.

Psychout for Murder

1969

The Creatures poster
6.4

A writer decides to use the strange inhabitants of a small island as a basis for characters in his new book.

The Creatures

1966

The Demon poster
7.2

Purif is distraught when her lover is betrothed to another. When she summons the old ways to curse him, her erratic behavior is interpreted as demonic possession, and the villagers turn against her with physical and sexual violence.

The Demon

1964

Diary of a Telephone Operator poster
5.8

Marta works as a telephone operator for a telephone company. She lives with her friend Nanda in Nanda's flat. But Nanda's priority is above anything else to find a husband.

Diary of a Telephone Operator

1969

Everybody Go Home! poster
7.6

When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.

Everybody Go Home!

1960

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

Massacre Time poster
6.4

In 1866, prospector Tom Corbett returns to his hometown of Laramie, Texas, now under the brutal control of gangster Jason Scott and his violent son, Junior. With his brother Jeff, a struggling drunk cared for by their maid Mercedes, Tom seeks to overthrow the Scotts' tyrannical rule and restore peace to the town.

Massacre Time

1966

Camille 2000 poster
5.8

Marguerite, a beautiful woman of affairs, falls for the young and promising Armand, but sacrifices her love for him for the sake of his future and reputation.

Camille 2000

1969

The Reward poster
6.0

A crash-landed crop-duster betrays a fugitive and his girlfriend to Mexican bounty hunters.

The Reward

1965

Made in Italy poster
6.1

A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.

Made in Italy

1965

Red Roses for the Fuhrer poster
6.5

James Daly is an American special soldier who goes behind enemy territory during WWII. His Objective: to steal top secret SS document that can change the course of the war.

Red Roses for the Fuhrer

1968

The Path of Oil poster
8.5

La Via del Petrolio is a three-part documentary Bernardo Bertolucci made for the Italian oil giant ENI that aired in 1967. The film was made following Bertolucci’s breakthrough second feature Before the Revolution, and the director has said that it’s a documentary made by a man who is desperate to direct another feature. The film was presented in three parts: "The Origins", "At Sea" and "In the Heart of Europe".

The Path of Oil

1967

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

Love and Anger poster
5.2

Five short stories with contemporary settings. In New York, people are indifferent to derelicts sleeping on sidewalks, to a woman's assault in front of an apartment building, and to a couple injured in a car crash. A man, stripped of his identity, dies in bed with actors expressing his agony. A cheerful, innocent young man walking a city street in a time of war pays a price for this innocence. A couple talks about cinema while it watches another couple talk of love and truth on the eve of one character's return to Cuba. Striking students take over a university classroom; an argument follows about revolution or incremental change.

Love and Anger

1969

A Young World poster
10.0

A freelance photographer falls in love with a French medical student and becomes pregnant. Faced with the situation, he pressures her to have an abortion, even sleeping with an older woman for money. She later decides to keep the baby.

A Young World

1966

Love and Anger: Love poster
NR

Godard dissects movie romance as row intellectuals watch an Italian-speaking man and his French-speaking partner talk about love.

Love and Anger: Love

1969

The Cavern poster
6.4

Adventure drama during WW2 in Italy where a mixed group of people get trapped inside a cave after a bomb raid. But can they co-operate? And will they survive?

The Cavern

1964

Laura nuda poster
6.5

Laura, a young woman from the Verona bourgeoisie, seeks to emancipate herself, but is desperately confronted with what she considers to be the hypocrisy of men and the conformism of a society that only considers women if they marry and procreate.

Laura nuda

1961

The Double Bed poster
3.4

Various sketches centered on alcove stories.

The Double Bed

1965

The Eye of the Needle poster
7.5

Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who in the meantime has fallen in love with the victim.

The Eye of the Needle

1963

Day by Day, Desperately poster
7.8

The mental illness affecting young Dario, one of the two sons of the Dominici family living in a council building in Rome, disrupts the lives of all its members.

Day by Day, Desperately

1961

The Hunchback poster
6.6

Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt.

The Hunchback

1960

The Apartment poster
7.5

A building instructor cheats on his wife with a young fashion model.

The Apartment

1960

We'll Go to the City poster
7.3

"Andremo in città" (We'll Go to the City) is a 1966 Italian drama film directed by Nelo Risi. It is based on the novel of the same name by Edith Bruck, Risi's wife. Bruck, a Hungarian concentration camp-survivor, settled in Italy after the Second World War and wrote about her experiences in autobiographical and fictional formats.[1] The film stars Geraldine Chaplin and Nino Castelnuovo.

We'll Go to the City

1966

Escapade in Florence poster
6.7

American students, Tommy and Annette, find themselves in a heap of trouble when they accidentally discover an art forgery ring in Florence, Italy.

Escapade in Florence

1962

A Dirty Business poster
NR

A gang of four boys and a woman kidnap a lawyer.

A Dirty Business

1964

Virgin Merchants poster
10.0

A man who sells counterfeit drugs decides to become a marriage counselor. Having barely started this business, he finds himself in serious trouble, threatening him with mortal danger...

Virgin Merchants

1969

1950s · 2 titles

Series credits

Midi trente poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Midi trente

1972

The Marshal Rocca poster
8.1

The adventures of the marshal of the carabinieri Giovanni Rocca, played by the great Gigi Proietti. Definitely one of the most successful Rai fictions ever, the series, after the first eight episodes broadcast in 1996, went on for six seasons, ending only in 2008. For over a decade the investigations and the private life of the marshal of Viterbo , born from an idea by Laura Toscano, have fascinated the television audience, making them become attached to characters such as the beautiful pharmacist Margherita (Stefania Sandrelli) or the brigadier Cacciapuoti (Sergio Fiorentini).

The Marshal Rocca

1996

Questa è la mia terra poster
6.8

No synopsis available yet.

Questa è la mia terra

2006

I promessi sposi poster
7.2

A look at Alessandro Manzoni's novel and the tormented love story of Renzo and Lucia during the troubled years of Spanish rule in 17th-century Lombardy.

I promessi sposi

1967

Diamoci del tu poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Diamoci del tu

1967

Racconti fantastici poster
7.0

Four Edgar Allan Poe adaptations running an hour apiece, including "Night in the House of Usher," "Ligeia Forever," "The Delusion of William Wilson" and "The Fall of the House of Usher."

Racconti fantastici

1979

Ritratto di Donna Velata poster
7.0

Test driver Luigi Certaldo meets Elisa at a party. They go to Volterra in Tuscany and meet Alberto Certaldo, Luigi's cousin. In the house is a painting that portrays a veiled woman whose face is identical to Elisa's. Strange events follow one another and an Etruscan funerary urn Is found that seems to contain indication to find an Etruscan necropolis full of treasures. Two people die. Luigi and Elisa are afraid. They meet a strange child-medium and a creepy old men called "Nebbia". Something terrible is about to happen.

Ritratto di Donna Velata

1975

Vino e pane poster
8.0

In 1935, Pietro Spina, a communist intellectual forced to emigrate for political reasons, secretly returns to Italy, driven by nostalgia for his homeland. Under the identity of Don Paolo Spada, a priest recovering from illness, he moves to Pietrasecca, a small village in the mountains of Abruzzo.

Vino e pane

1973

Non lasciamoci più poster
9.0

Non lasciamoci più is an Italian television series.

Non lasciamoci più

1999

No artwork available
NR

A three-episode adaptation of Goethe's novel.

Le affinità elettive

1979