Bruno VeSota

Acting

Bruno VeSota

Born — Died

1922-03-25 — 1976-09-24

Place of birth

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

54 titles

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 4 titles

1960s · 20 titles

The Haunted Palace poster
6.7

A man and his wife claim the mansion of his warlock ancestor burned alive in 1765.

The Haunted Palace

1963

Night Tide poster
6.4

A young sailor is enamored with a mysterious woman performing as a mermaid on the local pier. As their existences become entwined, he comes to suspect the woman might be a real mermaid who lures men to a watery death during the full moon.

Night Tide

1961

Hells Angels on Wheels poster
5.3

At first gas station attendant Poet is happy when the rockers gang “Hell’s Angels” finally accepts him. But he’s shocked when he learns how brutal they are – not even murder is a taboo to them. He gets himself in trouble when the leader’s girlfriend falls in love with him – and he welcomes her approaches.

Hells Angels on Wheels

1967

The Wild World of Batwoman poster
2.5

A busty Batwoman enlists her beauteous bevy of Batgirls to help her regain a mad scientist's invention–an atom bomb made from a hearing aid–before costumed ne'er-do-well Rat Fink can glom onto it for his own purposes.

The Wild World of Batwoman

1966

Your Cheatin' Heart poster
6.5

The story of the country and western singer Hank Williams.

Your Cheatin' Heart

1964

The Devil's Hand poster
4.6

A man is haunted by visions of a beautiful woman. When he finally meets her, he winds up involved in a satanic cult.

The Devil's Hand

1961

Attack of the Mayan Mummy poster
3.4

A scientist seeking loot of the Nile regresses a woman to her past incarnation, a princess in ancient Egypt. (Edited from the Mexican horror film LA MOMIA AZTECA, and follows its general plot but with 36 minutes of new, American-made footage and English narration in lieu of dubbed dialogue for the original footage.)

Attack of the Mayan Mummy

1964

The Choppers poster
5.5

A gang of teenage delinquents terrorize a small community by stealing cars and stripping them for parts, then selling the parts to a crooked junkyard owner. The police and an insurance company investigator set out to break up the gang.

The Choppers

1961

The Girls on the Beach poster
4.4

The girls of Alpha Beta need to raise $10,000 in two weeks to save the sorority house. Among their schemes to raise the funds are a beauty contest, a newspaper puzzle, and a baking contest. But when three guys hit the beach with love on their minds, bragging that they know the Beatles, the girls plan a concert with the Fab Four as the main attraction.

The Girls on the Beach

1965

Creature of the Walking Dead poster
3.6

Resurrected by his grandson, a diabolical scientist with an unquenchable thirst for blood goes on a rampage. (A revision of the Mexican horror film LA MARCA DEL MUERTE, considerably edited and with 20 minutes of new American-made footage.)

Creature of the Walking Dead

1965

The Perils of Pauline poster
4.4

Pauline becomes involved in a series of adventures around the world and is aided by her ever present friend, George.

The Perils of Pauline

1967

The Violent and the Damned poster
3.5

When chain gang prisoners attack their guards, some of the hardened criminals escape Brazil's infamous Anchieta Prison amidst all the pick-ax carnage. The government dispatches a machine-gun squad to round up the fugitives.

The Violent and the Damned

1962

20,000 Eyes poster
5.3

An investment counselor turns jewel thief when the gangster he embezzled funds from demands to be paid back.

20,000 Eyes

1961

Code of Silence poster
6.0

An ex-mafioso moves to Mexico to become a writer, revealing mob secrets in his books which are met with understandable displeasure. He is soon pursued by hit-men as well as the FBI, who need his testimony in a court case.

Code of Silence

1960

Single Room Furnished poster
4.7

The story of woman's change from an innocent teenager to an embittered, disillusioned prostitute and the life tragedies which brought the transformation.

Single Room Furnished

1968

Valley of the Redwoods poster
6.5

Wayne, Jan, and Dino try pulling off a heist of a lumber company's payroll, and everything seems to go wrong right from the beginning, in spite of Dino's expertise. The trio take off for the woods in Canada with Wayne suffering from a wound and the law in hot pursuit. To complicate matters slightly there is a romantic tie-up with Jan, someone too tough and efficient to be easily won over.

Valley of the Redwoods

1960

Last of the American Hoboes poster
4.2

Previously lost semi-documentary on the rise and fall of American hobo culture.

Last of the American Hoboes

1967

Curse of the Stone Hand poster
2.9

Hands sculpted in stone, hidden in the niches of an ancient house, are regarded as sources of a curse by the present inhabitant, a country gambling addict. Indeed, he goes to an early grave after experiencing bankruptcy. The house passes to another family, one of whose sons becomes obsessed with the hands. (A cross-editing of principal material from two Chilean films, LA CASA ESTA VACIA and LA DAMA DE LA MUERTE, with the addition of new American-made footage, to create a single story.)

Curse of the Stone Hand

1965

The Case of Patty Smith poster
9.0

Poor pretty Patty. An "average American girl," she goes on a quiet date with her boyfriend and ends up getting raped by three psychotic thugs. Too embarrassed to report it to the police and advised by her boyfriend to "forget the whole thing".

The Case of Patty Smith

1962

The Cat Burglar poster
5.8

Unwitting pickup artist Jack Coley (Jack Hogan) nabs a briefcase holding a costly scientific formula, turning himself into a moving target for owner Alan Sheridan (John Baer), foreign agents and the fuzz -- all bent on a blistering game of finders, keepers. In this stylized crime drama, the quarry coolly eludes the pack while eliciting the aid of an unlikely party: blonde beauty Nan Baker (June Kenney), the attaché's original carrier.

The Cat Burglar

1961

1950s · 22 titles

The Wild One poster
6.5

The Black Rebels Motorcycle Club ride into the small California town of Wrightsville, eager to raise hell. Brooding gang leader Johnny Strabler takes a liking to Kathie, the daughter of the local lawman, as another club rolls into town.

The Wild One

1953

A Bucket of Blood poster
6.6

Nerdy Walter Paisley, a maladroit busboy at a beatnik café who doesn't fit in with the cool scene around him, attempts to woo his beautiful co-worker, Carla, by making a bust of her. When his klutziness results in the death of his landlady's cat, he panics and hides its body under a layer of plaster. But when Carla and her friends enthuse over the resulting artwork, Walter decides to create some bigger and more elaborate pieces using the same artistic process.

A Bucket of Blood

1959

The Wasp Woman poster
4.5

The head of a major cosmetics company experiments on herself with a youth formula made from royal jelly extracted from wasps, but the formula's side effects have deadly consequences.

The Wasp Woman

1959

Attack of the Giant Leeches poster
4.0

A backwoods game warden and a local doctor discover that giant leeches are responsible for disappearances and deaths in a local swamp, but the local police don't believe them.

Attack of the Giant Leeches

1959

War of the Satellites poster
5.2

An "unknown force" declares war against planet Earth when the United Nations disobeys warnings to cease and desist in its attempts at assembling the first satellite in the atmosphere.

War of the Satellites

1958

Kismet poster
5.6

A silver-tongued poet and self-proclaimed "King of the Beggars" searches old Baghdad for a rich bachelor to marry his dreamy daughter, Marsinah. Along the way, he poses as the renowned sorcerer Hajj and gets in and out of scrapes with an elderly thief, a dim-witted wazir, and his wife. Meanwhile, his daughter develops feelings for a handsome caliph.

Kismet

1955

Gunslinger poster
4.3

After her husband is gunned down, Rose Hood takes his place as sheriff of a small Western town.

Gunslinger

1956

The Fast and the Furious poster
5.3

A framed man escapes prison and takes a wealthy woman's Jaguar with her in it. After she tries to escape numerous times, they begin to develop feelings for each other, and enter a road race that ends in Mexico.

The Fast and the Furious

1954

The Long Wait poster
5.9

Soon after thumbing a ride from a truck driver, Johnny McBride is badly burned and suffers from complete amnesia when the vehicle he’s riding in blows a tire and goes over an embankment in a fiery blaze. McBride later receives a tip from an acquaintance that a photo of him was placed prominently in the window of a photography studio in a town called Lyncastle, so Johnny immediately leaves for the burg in the hopes that something there will jog his memory.

The Long Wait

1954

Cry Baby Killer poster
5.7

After committing what he thinks is murder, teenage Jimmy Wallace panics and holds a couple hostage.

Cry Baby Killer

1958

Bait poster
5.4

A man looking for his fortune in a mine decides to tempt his partner with his much younger wife. The goal? To catch them "in the act" and kill him without consequence.

Bait

1954

Dementia poster
6.8

In a shadowy world stitched from nightmares, a young woman's harrowing journey in a seedy hotel unveils her traumatic past. Haunted by violence and stalked through desolate streets, her psyche unravels as she confronts an abusive husband and unsettling memories.

Dementia

1955

Daddy-O poster
4.3

Phil, a part-time truck driver and singer who wears his pants far too high, meets a feisty platinum blonde who challenges him to a drag race through Griffith Park. When he is caught and loses his license, he meets up with the sketchy Frank Wooster who offers him a job singing in his new nightclub. When Phil discovers that his new job also includes drug running, he must fight to save his friends and himself.

Daddy-O

1958

The System poster
5.2

A gambling boss is pressured by the law and press when a crusade is started against him after one of his collectors becomes a killer.

The System

1953

The Undead poster
4.5

Two psychics place a prostitute under hypnosis in order to learn about her past-life experiences. When they unwittingly send her back in time, she finds herself in the Middle Ages, suspected of being a witch and on the verge of being executed.

The Undead

1957

Carnival Rock poster
4.7

An ocean-side nightclub owner loves a singer who only has eyes for a gambler.

Carnival Rock

1957

Hot Car Girl poster
6.7

In this violent drama, a young juvenile delinquent gets into more trouble when he gets involved with a gang that steals auto parts and resells them on the black market to pay for their beer parties. It looks as if he might actually turn his life around after he meets a good-hearted woman, when he decides to run a final game of chicken against a juvenile delinquent girl who gets killed in the ensuing crash. The terrified boy then takes his girlfriend and splits. He is later shot-down by the police. Later the authorities learn that the boy was set upon his crooked path by policemen who beat him when he was younger.

Hot Car Girl

1958

Teenage Doll poster
5.4

The Black Widows, a teenage girl gang, find one of their number killed. They blame her murder on Barbara, the on-again-off-again girlfriend of the leader of rival gang The Vandals. As the gangs prepare for a fight, we take a glimpse into their tumultuous home lives.

Teenage Doll

1957

Rock All Night poster
5.5

Cloud Nine, the local teen hangout, has been taken over by a pair of escaped killers, who hold the local teens hostage. The bartender realizes it's up to him to save the kids.

Rock All Night

1957

I, Mobster poster
6.6

The rise and fall of gang lord Joe Sante. A crime boss appears before a Senate subcommittee. A flashbacks tell his story.

I, Mobster

1959

The Oklahoma Woman poster
4.4

After six years in jail Steve returns to claim a ranch left him in a will. The town is in the middle of a rough election masterminded by saloon owner Marie. Steve is soon on the side of the opposition candidate and his pretty daughter. The town's tough sheriff is on no-one's side, least of all Steve's

The Oklahoma Woman

1956

Female Jungle poster
5.6

Alcoholic detective investigating the murder of an actress starts getting worried when all fingers begin to point at him.

Female Jungle

1956

Series credits

Behind the camera

The Brain Eaters poster
4.9

A huge, alien structure resembling an inverted cone, appears in the woods outside a small rural town. Sent from Washington to investigate the origin of the mysterious object, a team of investigators discovers that intelligent parasites from inside the "cone" can attach themselves to humans' nervous systems and control their minds, taking control of the authorities and workers, making communication with the outside world impossible, and leaving the responsibility of stopping the invasion up to seven people who have thus far been able to avoid possession by these creatures from parts unknown.

The Brain Eaters

1958

Dementia poster
6.8

In a shadowy world stitched from nightmares, a young woman's harrowing journey in a seedy hotel unveils her traumatic past. Haunted by violence and stalked through desolate streets, her psyche unravels as she confronts an abusive husband and unsettling memories.

Dementia

1955

Invasion of the Star Creatures poster
3.2

Beautiful alien Amazonian women plan to conquer the world using an army of vegetable monsters. Dim-witted privates Philbrick and Penn bumble into a cave in search of atomic activity but collide instead with fierce carrot-topped tree mutants and their leaders, the 7-foot space sirens Prof. Tanga and Dr. Puna. This lavishly low-budget sci-fi romp has the bodacious aliens planning to overrun Earth with their vege-men army, but first they want the G.I.s to explain the meaning of love.

Invasion of the Star Creatures

1962

Female Jungle poster
5.6

Alcoholic detective investigating the murder of an actress starts getting worried when all fingers begin to point at him.

Female Jungle

1956

Female Jungle poster
5.6

Alcoholic detective investigating the murder of an actress starts getting worried when all fingers begin to point at him.

Female Jungle

1956