Giustino Durano

Acting

Giustino Durano

Born 1923-05-05 · Brindisi, Italy

Giustino Durano (May 5, 1923 in Brindisi, Italy - February 18, 2002 in Bologna, Italy) was a long lasting movie actor who is best known for his work as the uncle of Guido Orefice (Roberto Benigni) in the 1997 film, Life Is Beautiful. Description above from the Wikipedia article Giustino Durano, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Acting credits

Life Is Beautiful poster
8.4

A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.

Life Is Beautiful

1997

Everything is Music poster
5.2

No synopsis available yet.

Everything is Music

1963

The Queen of the Pirates poster
5.5

In 16th century Italy, on the Adriatic coast, the duchy of Doruzza is governed by a tyrannical duke, Zulian, and his haughty daughter, Isabella. When they commit a great injustice, a ship's captain and his daughter turn pirate to fight back for the people.

The Queen of the Pirates

1960

After the Fox poster
6.1

A criminal mastermind sets up a phony film production as part of a plan to smuggle stolen gold.

After the Fox

1966

What a Woman! poster
6.1

A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.

What a Woman!

1956

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

Me, Me, Me... and the Others poster
6.2

Sandro 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

The Golden Arrow poster
5.4

Genies help an Arabian bandit (Tab Hunter) locate a magic arrow he needs to claim heirship to the sultan's kingdom.

The Golden Arrow

1962

Male Companion poster
5.3

A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself.

Male Companion

1964

Bang Bang Kid poster
5.5

Guy Madison has a high old time as a would be feudal baron in the Wild West. No one is willing to stand up to Madison and his henchmen, no one that is, except mild-mannered inventor Tom Bosley. It seems that Bosley has welded together a robot gunslinger, whom he calls "The Bang Bang Kid". Only trouble is, the "Kid" breaks down at the darnedest times.

Bang Bang Kid

1967

Raped On The Beach poster
5.2

A young girl witnesses a violent and ultimately fatal act between her mother and another man and it emotionally scars her for years to come. As a young woman, she takes a vacation with a more worldly girlfriend to Sardinia, and in doing so, attracts the attention of a young man in the village. Despite her interest in the man her haunted past prevents her from developing a normal relationship with him.

Raped On The Beach

1971

Andata e ritorno poster
5.3

Sara and Samuele are two simple guys who take care of a community of elderly people. One day Samuele discovers that one of these has bequeathed him four billion lire. All this money changes the life of Samuele who begins to neglect friends and girlfriend to attend more high-ranking environments, begins to make investments with alleged friends and in the end he loses everything. Suddenly he comes up with an idea to get the money back together with his real friends, but it won't be an easy task.

Andata e ritorno

2003

Rage of the Buccaneers poster
5.1

Gordon, The Black Pirate, battles the slavery trade.

Rage of the Buccaneers

1961

I due sanculotti poster
6.0

The brothers Franco and Ciccio La Capra moves to France in the days of the French Revolution, putting themselves in a lot of trouble.

I due sanculotti

1966

The Bobo poster
6.2

Unsuccessful singing bullfighter Juan arrives in Barcelona to try his luck in a big town. He finally persuades a devious local impresario to book him, but only on the condition that Juan first manages to spend an evening with Olimpia, a "shrewd merciless beauty" who seems effortlessly to collect apartments and Maserati sports cars while leaving a trail of broken hearts behind her. Juan approaches the challenge by pretending to her he is an emissary for a rich count. Written by Jeremy Perkins

The Bobo

1967

Fate un bel sorriso poster
10.0

Antonio is a seventy-year-old gentleman, a former strict and impeccable judge. Having refused to accept his daughter's hospitality, he found himself in a strange place where, after completing an intensive course on the latest technologies of modern society, he will have to be adopted by families who request it.

Fate un bel sorriso

2000

Vino, whisky e acqua salata poster
5.5

An Italian submarine commander manages to sink an English warship and take its very British commander as prisoner. The film is based on the relationship which develops between the two characters.

Vino, whisky e acqua salata

1962

Salvo D'Acquisto poster
7.6

In 1943 Italy is crumbling. Salvo D'Acquisto, a Carabinieri officer is trying to maintain law and order. One tragic incident will unravel a chain of events leading to him having to stand between the Germans and people he swore to protect.

Salvo D'Acquisto

1974

Accroche-toi, y'a du vent! poster
10.0

A self-taught amateur detective who learned his trade from a book finds himself caught between two gangs in Milan, trying to recover a wooden leg full of drugs. He is accompanied by an unlikely trio: a deaf secretary, an undertaker and a monkey.

Accroche-toi, y'a du vent!

1962

The Screwball poster
6.6

Achilles, a Hulot-like factotum for an evening newspaper, travels around looking for a scoop in the Milan of the "economic miracle."

The Screwball

1956

Mission Phantom poster
8.0

A group known as Phantom are hired by an eccentric in a wheelchair to heist 4 billion dollars worth of diamonds from Russia.

Mission Phantom

1967

Cronache del '22 poster
7.2

Five different episodes unfold against the backdrop of Italian historical and political events in 1922. In the first, in the aftermath of the March on Rome, two scoundrels speculate on the event. In the second, a punitive expedition enters the home of a socialist deputy. In the third, the fascists rob a countess. In the fourth, a disgraced marshal incriminates a fascist Camorra member. In the fifth, there is the story of an encounter at the seaside.

Cronache del '22

1961

Amici ahrarara poster
5.4

Two penniless cousins have a common passion: to be inventors, but they never managed to make money out of their patents. Their only hope is represented by their hateful and rich uncle.

Amici ahrarara

2001

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NR

No synopsis available yet.

Il matrimonio di Rosa Palanca

1974

Behind the camera