
Acting
Umberto D'Orsi
Born — Died
1929-07-30 — 1976-08-31
Place of birth
Trieste - Friuli-Venezia Giulia - Italy
Known for
Acting
Credits
65 titles
Umberto D'Orsi (30 July 1929 – 31 August 1976) was an Italian character actor and comedian. Born in Trieste, D'Orsi took a degree in law in 1953, but he was already active in theater from 1950, performing in small companies of prose and revue. From 1962 till his death, D'Orsi was a prolific supporting actor, appearing in as many as fifteen films a year. He died in Rome at 47 from a heart attack. Description above from the Wikipedia article Umberto D'Orsi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
6.2Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.
Spirits of the Dead
1968
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Scaramouche
1965
9.2No synopsis available yet.
Nero Wolfe
1969
5.2To spite her father, a young woman enters a convent. However, the woman's old boyfriend shows up and tries to win her back.
Naughty Nun
1972
7.0In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.
Complexes
1965
7.0The television series, based on Victor Hugo's 1862 novel of the same name, is one of the most impressive television adaptations of a literary work. Filmed in 1963 over a period of four months at the RAI headquarters in Via Teulada, it is set in France between 1815 and 1833.
I miserabili
1964
Film credits
1970s · 26 titles
5.2To spite her father, a young woman enters a convent. However, the woman's old boyfriend shows up and tries to win her back.
Naughty Nun
1972
5.5A small-time soccer referee gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets to referee a major-league game. He becomes a celebrity and suddenly finds himself having to choose between his future as a referee and the temptations that come his way, especially the women, now.
Playing the Field
1974
7.8A good-natured but unlucky Italian is constantly finding himself in difficult situations, but never losing his mood.
Fantozzi
1975
5.3During the Middle Ages, a clumsy knight returns home where his wife awaits him. Sensuous and beautiful, she has attracted several male admirers during his absence, but her chastity belt has maintained her faithfulness. Now is her chance to wrest the key from him and enjoy herself. The knight’s portly friend has a similar problem with his equally gorgeous wife. And to top it off, both men have designs on the other’s wife — leading them to devise painful methods to discourage the other from trespassing.
Ubalda, All Naked and Warm
1972
5.6Two young sexually free hippies, Dick and Ingrid, finance their travels by selling naked snaps of Ingrid until their plan is brought to an abrupt end by the Police. Forced on the run the two seek refuge at a seemingly empty isolated large villa. As it turns out the house is inhabited by the middle-aged Barbara who invites them in for some potential three-way hanky-panky that soon locks them into something far more twisted and chilling!
Oasis of Fear
1971
4.9Enrichetta, a young peasant girl who lives in a little village, joins Silver Boy as a dancer.
Basta guardarla
1970
4.2Stefano Pelloni is an Italian highwaymen known as Il Passatore, loved by women but despised by lawmen. Together with his two man band he always manages to escape the law and head back to his woman, Mora, who would just as soon see him hanging up his pistols and going straight. But the police commissioner has had enough and begins to conceive of every possible means to catch Il Passatore red handed.
Holy God, Here Comes the Passatore!
1973
4.8The manager of a football team wants to hire a coach. Luckily the team begin to win but on the eve of an important match the opposing team has their best scorer kidnapped. Will they win the match all the same?
The Two Wizards of the Ball
1970
7.2Carlo, a young photographer, is making love with his girlfriend at the beach when he witnesses a murder being feebly staged to look like a car accident. Carlo takes incriminating shots of the murderers (the victim turns out to be the local public prosecutor) and attempts to sell them to various interested parties, including a gangster and a newspaper owner. One of the murderers' accomplices, a lowlife criminal, is gunned down by a black-gloved assassin, while another is stabbed to death...
Who Killed the Prosecutor and Why?
1972
5.4During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous cases of conjugal betrayals ...
Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?
1971
5.1A Chinese immigrant, recently arrived in America, fights to free Mexican slaves from their cruel master.
The Fighting Fist of Shanghai Joe
1973
5.2North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods, transporting them from Libya to Tunisia on an old boat.
Touch and Go
1971
2.9Playboy magazine darling (and one-time playmate of Hugh Hefner) Barbi Benton is Naughty Cheerleader Lynne Keefe, a small-town, small-brained babe who gets caught up big-time in the sex business. As a high school cheerleader who can really twirl a baton back in hometown Scranton, Lynne gets knocked up by a horny hunk on a motorcycle who then dumps her, sending her into a sexual spiral that takes her to The Catskills, Boston, New York, Miami and Rome.
How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?
1970
6.9A funk is believed to be a tough guy because of a magic bowler hat which gives him courage and strength.
Story of Fear and a Knife
1972
4.4Tricky Dicky is after a gold treasure with his companion. He tracks the treasure down in insane asylums, Ku Klux Klan rallies, and finally, the outlaw's hideout.
The Crazy Bunch
1974
6.1Ramirez, the general of the Mexican revolution against Maximilian who has been appointed king of Mexico, organizes his forces to attack the king's General, Miranda. Ramirez realizes that the Aztec Indians would be allies of great value, so he offers to return to them an idol statue that has been stolen from them. Only Alleluja is capable of retrieving the idol from the thieves.
The Return of Halleluja
1972
10.0This movie is an adaptation of a book by Rodari, a famous Italian poet and writer of children literature. A group of children in the outskirts of Rome bump into a spaceship that landed nearby. Soon the event draws the attention of the media, the military and rich entrepreneurs. The spaceship is pointed as the evil to fight against by the authorities, and nobody trusts the kids, who on the other hand try to preserve the spaceship (which is actually a harmless space-cake).
Cake in the Sky
1973
4.4Margherita nicknamed Fornarina is Raphael's mistress. Beatrice, a noblewoman who is also in love with the famous painter tries to get her out of the way, by having her wrongly accused of the murder of a loan shark, whom she has in reality killed herself. Fornarina is sentenced to death. Will Raphael manage to prove her innocent?
On the Day of the Lord
1970
4.9Five episodes :1) A husband has taken the place of the confessor to find out about his wife's betrayals and while he spends the night at the door of the house, the woman can freely receive her lover. 2) Judge Volfardo, to take revenge for the constant pranks of Lambertuccio, head of the guards, invites Leonetto, a young man whom women yearn for, to take advantage of his wife. But everything is resolved to their own damage 3) While Domitilla's husband sends the boy into his bed to be able to sleep with his lover. 4) Don Casimiro has Don Ciccillo treat his wife who will use a very intimate therapy. 5) Messer Ciccio and Messer Gerbino exchange confidences on how not to be betrayed by their wives, so that...
Decameroticus
1972
5.6Italy's best loved comedy duo play rival priests in the neighboring towns of Roccapizzone and San Antonio. Did Franco crash his bike through Ciccio's new stained glass window on purpose or was he just in town for their mutual confession? Their main beef with each other concerns their opposing football teams and this feud takes up a great deal of the picture.
Don Franco and Don Ciccio in a Year of Protest
1970
5.9A gunman and his sheriff companion are hired to deliver a million dollars in gold by traveling through gang-infested lands, while in disguise.
Once Upon a Time in the West There Was a Man Called Invincible
1973
4.218-year-old Patrizia and her three friends learn the art of seduction from the local prostitute, Marilena, and seduce the members of town council to stop a shady lawyer from demolishing their favorite hangout place.
The Schoolgirl
1975
6.4Two chaps who earn a living repairing household appliances are hired by a formula one manager who has had his best pilot kidnapped. One of them drives the car which is remote controlled by a device invented by the other.
The Two of the F. 1 at the Craziest, Craziest Race in the World
1971
7.0During an inquest, an ambitious judge finds out that a lot of high-rank politicians are corrupt to the core.
Smiling Maniacs
1975
5.8A famous skier, his mistress and a ski instructor rob a bank in the Alps and hide the loot in a crevasse.
Snow Job
1972
6.7Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life.
The Divorce
1970
1960s · 34 titles
6.2Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man haunted by his double, and an alcoholic actor haunted by the Devil.
Spirits of the Dead
1968
7.0In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.
Complexes
1965
5.6The army challenges the navy in a singing contest.
Soldiers and corporals
1964
5.6Professor Serafino Benvenuti is a master of classical music who has the passion of the orchestra director. However, the young audience of the 60 does not appreciate classical composers like Mozart or Beethoven, and so Serafino is likely to have compromised his image as a director. One day Serafino receives the news that his adopted daughter Rita is about to return to Italy from America, where she is studying. Serafino is very happy, because at least he can teach her the real music. However, Rita is deeply grown and changed: she follows the musical patterns of her time: the rock music and blues. Serafino gets very angry, especially when he discovers that his daughter falls in love with a young man, a member of a band called "The Rockets.
Rita the American Girl
1965
7.2When an old lady dies two hours before her life insurance expires, the insurance lawyer suspects something dubious. He begins to investigate and he becomes the lover of the old lady's daughter...
Unknown Woman
1969
6.2The 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
5.2An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.
The Maniacs
1964
5.2A thief falls in love with a maid and goes on the run after stealing Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa."
The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen
1966
6.2Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.
Me, Me, Me... and the Others
1966
5.9Five episodes: a mature model makes his lover jealous; lovers quarrel; a clumsy Don Juan in business; a dancer and a captain; a beauty falls in love with a Spanish cyclist. The characters in the episodes intertwine, but the stories are not always treated with a light touch.
Summer Frenzy
1964
6.3In 1599 Italy, Beatrice Cenci is the teenage daughter of the crazed landowner and nobleman Francesco Cenci who keeps her locked up in the dungeon of his castle where he sexually abuses her. Beatrice plots with her stepmother, her besotted servant Olimpio, as well as a local bandit, named Catalano to plan Francesco’s murder.
The Conspiracy of Torture
1969
5.9Four extraterrestrials, X-1, X-2, X-3 and X-4, arrive on Earth in the early sixties. Here they decide to take on human features to study the terrestrials incognito, but end up getting involved in the Roman "dolce vita".
The Twelve-Handed Men of Mars
1964
6.3Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker to a prisoner, he comments upon romance, love and women in general.
Let's Talk About Women
1964
4.4Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia's Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne. However as war breaks out, Rasputin's enemies see him as a cause and plot fatal revenge against the Russian mystic.
I Killed Rasputin
1967
7.2Whitaker Selby, Lester Kato, and Etienne Devereaux, three eccentric gunmen, discover they are brothers. Their father left them all a mine located in Laredo, Texas. But they discover that Julius Caesar Fuller, the town's greedy landowner (who fancies himself Caesar) has taken control of their mine. They band together to fight Caesar and his black clad gunmen to repossess their mine and avenge their father.
Death Walks in Laredo
1967
7.1It's the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, invents a story about his past. At the end of the day however, he will succeed in establishing a positive relationship with his son and telling the truth about himself.
The Thursday
1964
7.0Benvenuto Cellini knows no obstacles when it comes to creating a work of art or conquering the heart of a woman.
The Magnificent Adventurer
1963
3.0Thirty Italian singers from the sixties sing their hits.
Questo pazzo, pazzo mondo della canzone
1964
6.8Two nuns come to Rome to protest to an airline about its jet planes which have been flying over their convent school, disrupting teaching of the little orphans who study there and damaging the ancient fresco of their patron saint through sound vibrations.
The Little Nuns
1963
6.5Comic 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
6.6The ambition of a simple porter to become a real doctor, even though he has no diploma or degree, pushes him to enter the environment he likes so much.
Il Terribile Ispettore
1969
6.4Giulio has a faithful wife and a true friend, but he is convinced that only with money can one be happy. So he devotes himself to dangerous real estate speculation in Sardinia, even though he does not have the capital to deal with it. To find the necessary money, he is willing to give up even his dignity. And slowly, he alienates his most beloved ones from himself....
Il successo
1963
5.4Five episodes which show Italian peoples pathological unfaithfulness in marriage.
La donna degli altri è sempre più bella
1963
6.2Seven sketches including the title sketch "I See Naked" in which a fashion editor begins to see naked women everywhere he goes.
I See Naked
1969
8.0No synopsis available yet.
I ragazzi dell'Hully Gully
1964
5.1Three episodes: In the first one a girl gets a journalist to help her recover a case with some precious designs in it; in the second a worker keen on helping his boss gets him into trouble instead and in the third one a shy boy who tries to impress women pretending he is tough ends up in hospital and falls in love with a nurse.
Venus in the Sun
1964
6.0Lina, a young woman now tired of the constant betrayals from her husband, decides to cheat on him with a mutual friend, Piero.
Adultero lui, adultera lei
1963
6.2Gennaro runs a small boarding house in Ischia, the beautiful island in the gulf of Naples. Each member of his family is involved: his wife cooks, his daughter has a small boutique and his married son courts the old and rich patrons under his wife's enraged eyes.
Ischia operazione amore
1966
5.0In "The Hours of Love," Gianni and Marietta's spark ignites as passionate lovers, yet dims in their marriage. Seeking rekindling, they dare to step outside their vows, exploring love's complexities and the heart's yearning against societal expectations.
The Hours of Love
1963
8.0A noble family assigns their younger son to the convent. The youngster has an affair with a novice, who becomes pregnant. The brothers, exasperated by his arrogance, denounce him to the Inquisition. As a punishment, the boy is walled up alive and released after fifty years. Due to a mysterious miracle, however, he remained as he is, just like the novice he impaled.
Puro siccome un angelo papà mi fece monaco... di Monza
1969
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Il treno del sabato
1964
7.5No synopsis available yet.
Con rispetto parlando
1965
5.0Four episodes preceded with a narrator in the role of psychiatrist who tells some cases of female madness.
These Mad, Mad Women
1964
7.3Secret agent Perry Grant is called in to investigate a strange case which involves counterfeit money, industrial espionage, and a fashion company that may be functioning as a front for a secret criminal organization.
The Big Blackout
1966
Series credits
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Scaramouche
1965
9.2No synopsis available yet.
Nero Wolfe
1969
7.0The television series, based on Victor Hugo's 1862 novel of the same name, is one of the most impressive television adaptations of a literary work. Filmed in 1963 over a period of four months at the RAI headquarters in Via Teulada, it is set in France between 1815 and 1833.
I miserabili
1964
10.0On a warm afternoon Alice falls asleep on the lawn and when she wakes up finds herself catapulted into an unreal and colorful world populated by strange characters and talking animals. Following first a white rabbit and then through a mirror, she will have fantastic adventures, amid clumsy talking chessmen and a shrewish duchess, played by Franca Valeri. When she wakes up, everything will return to normal, leaving her with the memory of a frightening but beautiful dream at the same time.
Nel mondo di Alice
1974
No synopsis available yet.
Il bivio
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