Edy Vessel

Acting

Edy Vessel

Born 1940-10-23 · Trieste, Italy

Acting credits

8½ poster
8.1

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.

1963

Seven Seas to Calais poster
5.5

Sir Francis Drake fights to take over Spain's treasure routes for Queen Elizabeth I.

Seven Seas to Calais

1962

The Trojan Horse poster
5.6

Trojan hero Aeneas battles to save his city from the Greeks, but once Troy falls, he leads the 600 survivors to Italy and founds the city of Rome.

The Trojan Horse

1961

The Passionate Thief poster
6.9

On New Year's Eve, a young woman and an out-of-work actor complicate a pickpocket's plans to ply his trade.

The Passionate Thief

1960

The Thief of Baghdad poster
5.5

When Karim impersonates a prince Osman, he steals the heart of Amina the Sultans daughter. The real prince intends to get Amina back by giving her a love potion. But his plan backfires and Amina becomes deathly ill. Karim must make it through 7 doors to retrieve the only thing that can save his love-a mystical blue rose. A timeless, enchanting story!

The Thief of Baghdad

1961

Beach Types poster
6.8

Four penniless friends from a small theatre troupe go to Taormina, a famous Italian beach resort, to forget their troubles.

Beach Types

1959

Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti poster
9.0

A documentary on the history of Italy's peplum genre.

Kolossal - The Magnificent Macisti

1977

Sword of the Conqueror poster
6.1

Alboino, the Lombard ruler, wants to marry the daughter of a neighboring king, but she loves another. Her father arranges the marriage to Alboino, which he believes will be beneficial to him, only to have Alboino kill him and leave Amalchi, his daughter's real love, beaten and left for dead. Amalchi recovers to lead a revolt against the murderous Alboino and reclaim his woman.

Sword of the Conqueror

1961

Psycosissimo poster
6.7

Two bumbling actors get wrapped up in a scheme to murder a rich man's wife.

Psycosissimo

1961

Rocambole poster
6.7

In London in 1903, during a reception at the German embassy, the legendary swindler Rocambole, thought to have died in the penal colony, helps the British secret service compromise a Prussian diplomat. His mission completed, Rocambole, under the identity of the Comte de Chamery, returns to Paris, where Baron Keller, an arms manufacturer in the service of the Kaiser, entertains the famous prima ballerina Cléo Santelli at Maxim's every evening, with whom he is madly in love. Despite her attentions, the young dancer falls in love with the false Chamery, who seems to have sworn the Baron's doom and ridicules him in the salons.

Rocambole

1963

Guardatele ma non toccatele poster
7.0

An American military aircraft with some female soldiers crash lands in an Italian air base to the delight of the Italian soldiers.

Guardatele ma non toccatele

1959

Il raccomandato di ferro poster
7.5

An Italian clerk has been helped to his position by a fake kickback letter from a politician who, meanwhile has become a state secretary. His colleagues thus send him to Rome to settle an important matter with the powerful character. The poor fellow goes hoping the truth will not come out.

Il raccomandato di ferro

1959