Pietro Martellanza

Acting

Pietro Martellanza

Born 1938-09-30 · Bolzano, Trentino-Alto Adige, Italy

Italian actor, born in 1938 in the Northern Italian city of Bolzano. The handsome and charismatic Martellanza (often billed as Peter Martell) starred in over 40 films beginning in the 1960s, with his biggest successes in westerns, playing both heroes and villains. It is widely reported that in 1970, Martell was hired as the star of Enzo Barboni’s comedy western Lo chiamavano Trinità (THEY CALL ME TRINITY) but after suffering an injury was replaced by Terence Hill, who rocketed to stardom in the film. Martell died in 2010, aged 72.

Acting credits

Street People poster
5.0

A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The lawyer also enlists the aid of his best friend, a grand prix driver with an adventurous streak.

Street People

1976

Melancholie der Engel poster
3.9

Upon learning that his days are numbered, a man and an old friend return to an old house that connects them by a dark secret. Along with three women and a mysterious old man, the group journeys into a horrifying abyss of debauchery and moral mayhem, leading to a fatal turn of events, during which the darkest human depths are revealed.

Melancholie der Engel

2009

Fury of Johnny Kid poster
6.7

Two family clans have always been enemies; they spend their time hating and killing each other. The daughter of the Campos family and the son of the Mounter family fall in love, thus causing further hatred and deaths.

Fury of Johnny Kid

1967

Momo poster
7.0

Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever.

Momo

1986

Forgotten Pistolero poster
6.1

Mann is a gunman informed by a childhood friend that his father was murdered years earlier by his mother and her lover. To make matters worse, Mann's sister, who is in love with his friend, is held under the thumb of his murderous mom. The two gunmen ride off to have a reckoning with her.

Forgotten Pistolero

1969

The Bloody Judge poster
5.0

In 1685 England, an overzealous Lord Chancellor condemns various rebels and "witches" to satisfy his political whims, ignorant of the true consequences of his actions.

The Bloody Judge

1970

The Violent Four poster
6.6

A detective is assigned to head a manhunt for four violent bank robbers.

The Violent Four

1968

The French Sex Murders poster
4.8

After a French prostitute is found dead, one of her regular clients is tried and convicted for her murder. He is eventually sentenced to death but dies in a high speed pursuit after attempting to escape custody. Soon, the witnesses that testified against him end up being systematically murdered by a mysterious killer wearing black gloves.

The French Sex Murders

1972

Safari Express poster
5.1

John and Howard work in a company named Safari Express booking tourists on safaris. Their lives are turned upside down when they encounter a beautiful blonde wandering in the jungle who doesn't know who she is. They also discover uranium and what appear to be some well-mannered simians.

Safari Express

1976

The Unholy Four poster
6.4

A young man who has lost his memory, escapes from prison with three other convicts. The other men help him find back bits of his past, until they arrive at a village where two warring families recognize him. Apparently he has a reputation for being a fast gun, and he has been paid to kill a man - who says he is his father. His younger brother is jealous of the attention the prodigal son receives, and things come to a dramatic end.

The Unholy Four

1970

Clattering Chastity Belts poster
3.5

Well, who says that they were chaste and modest, the ladies and damsels of yesteryear? And even the knights themselves. They knew exactly why they had the chastity belt fastened to their ladies' pretty bodies when they themselves went on crusade or had other important official business to attend to. Better safe than sorry - that's what the robber baron Archibald meant in our case, or in this cheerful film case, when he was summoned to help by his bosom friend Sigurd and went to war with his proud host.

Clattering Chastity Belts

1974

Tears of Kali poster
5.2

Composed of three episodes—titled Kali, Shakti, and Devi—and linked within a narrative framework, it tells the story of the Taylor-Eriksson group, its members, and their extreme practices in search of awareness and liberation from karma. These practices, spiraling into violence and sex, ultimately turn into real nightmares.

Tears of Kali

2004

Date for a Murder poster
6.8

Two friends from America come together by chance in the Italian countryside. They decide to meet in Rome after both have done private deals. When one then not show up in Rome starts the other one become suspicious and fearful that something has happened to him. He begins to investigate the case himself and ends up in a spiral of industrial espionage, blackmail, and cold-blooded murder ...

Date for a Murder

1967

Possibility Zero poster
6.4

Set in Norway and has a crack team of Allies sent to blow up an underground Nazi factory where the Germans have taken a crashed Spitfire that contains a new radar system that the krauts want to copy.

Possibility Zero

1969

My Name Is Pecos poster
6.8

Pecos Martinez rides into Houston looking to settle an old score with gang leader Clane, who is after the money that disappearred from a recent robbery. The hunt for the loot and Pecos' quest become intertwined with the efforts of the locals to stay alive long enough for help to arrive.

My Name Is Pecos

1966

May God Forgive You... But I Won't poster
6.3

While Cjamango is away from his ranch, bandits attack and kill his family. Disrupted by this tragedy, he sets out to take his revenge, helped by a Mexican who has seen the bandits. The writer of the western Cjamango directed this unofficial sequel to Cjamango.

May God Forgive You... But I Won't

1968

Two Crosses in Danger Pass poster
6.6

Judy and Alex are the only two survivors of a punishment mission ordered by the rich and ruthless Moran... The girl becomes his maid and the boy is adopted by a Quaker family. Alex, in spite of the pardon philosophy taught to him, is planning a revenge.

Two Crosses in Danger Pass

1967

Ringo: The Lone Rider poster
5.6

A town is being terrorized by a gang of marauders led by Bill Anderson, a clever bandit boss. The town's leadership is deciding to do something against the problem, but it does not believe bringing in the military will be a solution. It is agreed upon that they will request help from the well-known Pinkerton agency. At the same time, Ringo, a gunslinger, is chasing after the bandits. He suspects a deeper-sitting conspiracy than random bandit assaults. He joins forces with the newly arrived under cover Pinkerton agent, to uncover a plot between a local businessman, the Mexican revolution and bandit's heist loot of gold. But the bandits have long planned to move on. Disguised as Mormons, they are moving west to start a new life of farming during the day and robbing stage coaches at night. Ringo and the agent track them down....

Ringo: The Lone Rider

1968

War Between the Planets poster
5.2

Scientists try to prevent a collision between Earth and a planet that is heading for it.

War Between the Planets

1966

Terror-Creatures from the Grave poster
5.9

An attorney arrives at a castle to settle the estate of its recently deceased owner. The owner's wife and daughter reveal that he was someone who was able to summon the souls of ancient plague victims and, in fact, his spirit was roaming the castle at that very moment. Soon occupants of the castle begin to die off in gruesome, violent ways.

Terror-Creatures from the Grave

1965

This Man Can't Die poster
4.8

An undercover government agent sets out for revenge upon those responsible for the murder of his parents and the assault of his sister.

This Man Can't Die

1968

Killer Barbys vs. Dracula poster
4.1

The Killer Barbies are playing at Tivoli World, a Wild West park in Spain. Komrade Irina and Komrade Ivan Ivanovich arrive from Transylvania, bringing with them the "dead" Count Dracula to be placed on display. After hearing the Killer Barbies, however, Dracula awakens, falls in love with Silvia (who looks like Charo on a bad hair day), and decides to make her his own. Realizing that they have a vampire on their hands, park owners Pepe Morgan and Martin Fierro call in the world famous, blind vampire hunter, Dr Seward. While Seward tries to track Dracula with his nose, Dracula manages to knock off a few cast members -- a faux Dracula, Bela, an acrobot with orange hair, and both Komrades Ivan and Irina. When Dracula tries to bite Silvia during a performance, Dr Seward decides to use Silvia as bait. He sends her out walking alone. When Dracula follows, they pursue and stake him. Dracula metamorphs into a white rabbit and hops away.

Killer Barbys vs. Dracula

2002

Death Walks at Midnight poster
6.3

Valentina, a beautiful fashion model, takes an experimental drug as part of a scientific experiment. While influenced by the drug, Valentina has a vision of a young woman being brutally murdered with a viciously spiked glove. It turns out that a woman was killed in exactly the same way not long ago and soon Valentina finds herself stalked by the same killer.

Death Walks at Midnight

1972

Savage Guns poster
4.8

Sam is wounded by the Mash Flanigan gang who enters a saloon and kills everybody in sight including his brother. Walbash chases Flanigan to Golden City for revenge, leading to the obligatory showdown. One of the clever scenes is when gunfighters Gordon Mitchell, Lincoln Tate and Peter Martell interview for jobs and are introduced with their acting names Mitchell, Tate and Martell.

Savage Guns

1971