
Acting
Tino Bianchi
Born — Died
1905-06-21 — 1996-01-04
Place of birth
São Paulo, Brazil
Known for
Acting
Credits
42 titles
Tino Bianchi was an Italian actor. A well-known face on television for starring in several scripted novels with leading roles, he had a very long career spanning some sixty years, from the 1930s until shortly before his death. For television prose, he starred in more than two hundred plays.
Known for
7.4A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
Black Sunday
1960
7.2A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.
Senso
1954
5.7The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as usual, very strongly. He orders numberless arrests. But the reaction of counterparts won't take long. In fact his strong energetic manners, drive him unintentionally on the opposite situation. Who is the real guilty the judge or the corrupted Italian society?
All for the Moral Majority!
1984
5.6A secret agent is assigned ot rescue the daughter of a deceased East German scienist, who discovered a valuable formula.
Spy in Your Eye
1965
8.0Very successful italian version of Robert Louis Stevenson's historical romance "The black arrow", produced by public TV and directed by Anton Giulio Majano, considered "italian tele-romance father". An happy ending love story during the "Two Roses War" between York and Lancaster, in seven episodes.
The Black Arrow
1968
7.0September 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
Film credits
1970s · 8 titles
7.2In early seventies Italy, plagued by criminality and political terrorism, a fearless police commissioner is sent to restore law and order in a northern industrial town devastated by a recent wave of violence and kidnappings..
The Great Kidnapping
1973
6.0Story about a young girl, the daughter a prominent doctor. When the girl goes missing her father gets the police to jump into action because of his class status and wealth.
Calling All Police Cars
1975
6.5No synopsis available yet.
La fine dei Greene
1974
6.0When a crime boss sends out his thugs to terrorize an entire city, they do whatever they want, which includes anything from petty theft to robbing the police station in broad daylight. Napoli spara! (internationally released as Weapons of Death and Naples shoots) is a "poliziottesco" film directed by Mario Caiano in 1977. It is an unofficial sequel of Napoli violenta, of which reprises the character of Gennarino (still played by Massimo Deda).
Weapons of Death
1977
6.7Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!
We Want the Colonels
1973
5.2The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night picking off various informers and people they don't like. Murri investigates; hooking up with one of the criminal's nieces along the way. He uses his own methods; which mostly involve breaking all the rules, and thus comes under a lot of scrutiny from his superiors who don't take too kindly to the cop's way of working.
Fear in the City
1976
6.1Stefano, son of the Mafia Don Angelino Ferrante, is killed by Gaspare Ardizzone (John Saxon) for refusing to sell some valuable land. The old don sends for Ferrante Santino Billeci from America, in the hope that he'll be able to help in getting revenge. But Gaspar, meanwhile, is becoming the most powerful and ruthless boss of the area...
Family Killer
1973
5.3Rossellini’s biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari, who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in the years that followed the fall of fascism.
Year One
1974
1960s · 14 titles
7.4A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant: Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
Black Sunday
1960
5.6A secret agent is assigned ot rescue the daughter of a deceased East German scienist, who discovered a valuable formula.
Spy in Your Eye
1965
7.0September 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
5.2Ulysses offends the gods so they send Hercules to capture him and bring him to them.
Ulysses Against the Son of Hercules
1962
7.0In fascist Italy, Urbano Marangoni aspires to become Corazziere, like his late father, but it is a dream destined not to come true because of his short stature.
Il corazziere
1960
6.7Maigret is about to leave for the holidays but a colleague asks him for help in investigating the mysterious murder of a stripper and a noblewoman, both of which took place in Pigalle.
Maigret at the Pigalle
1966
5.6Sun, Sea, Love and a beautiful Italian beach...
Ferragosto in Bikini
1960
5.5An airplane crashes in Spain. The Russian as well as the Chinese government take care of the events because on board there was a "black box" containing precious and dangerous devices for the whole world.
Black Box Affair
1966
6.6Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering them what seems to be an expensive way out of imprisonment and death.
Gold of Rome
1961
6.6Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt.
The Hunchback
1960
7.5This film is the moving story of Edda Ciano, the daughter of Italian dictator Mussolini, who was unable to prevent the atrocious assassination of her husband by fanatics of her father.
The Verona Trial
1963
6.8No synopsis available yet.
Chimera
1968
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ora X Pattuglia Suicida
1969
NRThe trial of Saint Teresa de Lisieux.
The Trial of Saint Therese of The Child Jesus
1967
1950s · 7 titles
7.2A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.
Senso
1954
8.0A meek and simple-minded boarding school teacher falls in love with a prostitute and gets the boot from school. He tries to have her change her way of living but she is very hard to convince. When she finally realizes he really loves her it is too late.
La passeggiata
1953
Three shady-looking men arrive at a small mountain inn in an attempt to recover the treasure hidden in the hotel by the old owner and her grandson, who was killed by the three crooks. During dinner, the waitress recounts the legend of the mountain rooster. If the rooster crows at midnight, it warns that the angel of death is coming for one of the inhabitants of the house.
Il gallo canta a mezzanotte
1958
NRThe sons of Medea are an Italian "teledramma", broadcast live on 9 June 1959 on the National Program. It became a sensational media event because many viewers, not realizing it was a fiction, perceived the event as real
The Sons of Medea
1959
10.0An adaptation of Molière's play.
L'avaro
1957
7.0Based on the short story "Sept petites croix dans un carnet" by Georges Simenon. "Sette piccole croci" was the first drama, non-series (what is today called a TV movie), as well as the first police thriller to be broadcast on Italian television. The story follows a tense cat-and-mouse chase across Paris on Christmas Eve.
Seven Small Crosses
1957
The alien Achtab lands in the garden of a couple in the middle of a party. The extraterrestrial, who has fled his planet, is greeted with curiosity and fear by his hosts, despite being unable to remove the heavy space suit that conceals his appearance. Achtab's arrival particularly intrigues Alice, who embarks on a special and intimate relationship with the alien, driven by her curiosity to discover what lies behind the stars.
L' ultima faccia di Medusa
1958
1940s · 2 titles
1930s · 6 titles
8.0Early, proto giallo set in a boarding house for girls.
The Serpent's Fang
1935
No synopsis available yet.
Il treno delle 21,15
1933
A nanny, in order to give in to the invitation of a suitor who proposes a motorboat trip, leaves her child unattended on land. The trip ends in a dramatic dive into the water, and while the two inexperienced navigators are picked up unconscious by some fishermen, a good devil takes the little boy with him, whom he finds abandoned and crying on the shore. However, the disappearance is believed to be the result of a kidnapping and the poor devil, identified, risks going through a bad time if the nanny and her suitor, who have recovered, do not rush to justify him in time. The nanny finds in her marriage to her helmsman the compensation for the dismissal by the child's parents, and the good devil secures an honest job.
Un bacio a fior d'acqua
1936
No synopsis available yet.
Si fa così...
1934
8.0In Pisa, chance forces an old bookseller out of his isolation. He unleashes the fury of the tenants of his building, he undergoes the rigors of the law and he is involved in the adventure of two lovers whose marriage he arranges.
Coup de vent
1936
9.0No synopsis available yet.
L'avvocato difensore
1934
Undated · 1 titles
Series credits
8.0Very successful italian version of Robert Louis Stevenson's historical romance "The black arrow", produced by public TV and directed by Anton Giulio Majano, considered "italian tele-romance father". An happy ending love story during the "Two Roses War" between York and Lancaster, in seven episodes.
The Black Arrow
1968
NRA 1971 three-part miniseries about the birth of the Italian Republic, directed by Sandro Bolchi, Vittorio De Sica, and Ermanno Olmi
Birth of the Republic
1971


