Carlo De Mejo

Actor

January 17, 1945 (70 years)

† December 18, 2015

Roma, Lazio, Italia

Biography

Carlo De Mejo was the son of musician Oscar De Mejo and actress Alida Valli who enjoyed her greatest period of international success right after Carlo's birth in the later half of the 1940's. Carlo followed his mother into acting, first as a child actor and then as an adult, appearing in mainstream films such as The Cassandra Crossing but mainly making a name for himself in several early 80's Italian B-movies for Lucio Fulci, Luigi Cozzi, and Bruno Mattei.

Filmography

5.6

Terror Express

Ernie

Three thugs commandeer a couple of cars on a moving train and spread terror among the passengers.

6.5

City of the Living Dead

Gerry

A psychic seemingly dies of fright during a séance where she sees a vision of a Dunwich priest hanging himself in a church cemetery. New York City reporter Peter Bell investigates and learns that the priest's suicide has somehow opened a portal to Hell that must be sealed by All Saints Day, or else the dead will overtake humanity.

6.3

The House by the Cemetery

Mr. Wheatley

After a doctor kills his mistress and himself while researching the mysterious previous owner of his Boston home, his colleague, Dr. Norman Boyle, takes over his studies and moves his family into the Boston mansion. Soon after, Boyle's young son Bob becomes plagued by visions of a young girl, who warns him of the danger within the house.

6.3

The Cassandra Crossing

Faux Patient

Passengers on a European train have been exposed to a deadly disease, and nobody will let them off the train.

4.6

Women's Prison Massacre

Lawman Harrison

Emanuelle is framed by a corrupt D.A. while investigating a drug smuggling operation and has to tough it out under lock and key, dealing with a strict warden and abusive guards.

7.0

Theorem

Lucia's first lover

A wealthy Italian household is turned upside down when a handsome stranger arrives, seduces every family member and then disappears. Each has an epiphany of sorts, but none can figure out who the seductive visitor was or why he came.

5.6

When Women Were Called Virgins

Gisippo

When women were called Madonna is a film of 1972 directed by Aldo Grimaldi . The film is one of the first Italian erotic comedies in which a licentious bursting Edwige Fenech struggles with the nagging demands of three suitors.

6.3

The Net

The aging writer Aurelio Morelli is disillusioned: although the critics like his books, they are barely read. He develops hatred on youth and their depraved moral. One night he goes with a callgirl - and kills her. The police doesn't have a clue, only the unscrupulous sensational journalist Bossi suspects him. Instead of naming him to the police, he persuades Morelli to write about the murder for his paper. Morelli uses the occasion to write his memoirs, in which he confesses lots of other crimes before this last one...

6.2

The Outside Man

Karl

A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apart when the boss who hired him is killed.

3.3

Cindy's Love Games

Cindy finds her fiancée Sergio in bed with a young hitch-hiker and discovers that he has been unfaithful with other women too. She takes her revenge by shying away from Sergio for a day, and has three different sexual encounters including a hot threesome with Stephen and his Brazilian girlfriend.

5.2

Contamination

Agent Young

A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.

5.8

The Dead Are Alive

Igor Samarakis

A photographer on an archaeological expedition digging up Etruscan ruins in Italy begins to suspect that not all the Etruscans buried there are actually dead.

3.0

William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night

Orsinio

A modernized adaptation of William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night".

4.8

Dirty World

Massimo

Senator Alberici tries to approach the secretariat of his party with a campaign against immorality. In reality the politician is a pervert with homosexual tendencies that he expresses with men and women.

6.0

Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1

Self

This documentary examines the life and legacy of controversial Italian filmmaker Lucio Fulci through interviews with his colleagues, each of whom answers the question, "What is your fondest memory of Lucio Fulci?". The responses are as varied as the people who knew the late writer-director, providing a nuanced look at the man behind such gory grindhouse classics as City of the Living Dead and The House by the Cemetery.

5.1

Manhattan Baby

Luke

An archaeologist opens an Egyptian tomb and accidently releases an evil spirit. His young daughter becomes possessed by the freed entity and, upon their arrival back in New York, the gory murders begin.

5.9

Défense de savoir

Bruno Christiani

When a woman is accused of murder, the investigation slowly reveals numerous political connections. Laubret, the court-appointed defense lawyer, does everything in his power to expose the truth.

4.3

The Dove Must Not Fly

An undercover Nazi in Libya aims to steal fuel and deliver it to a specific location in the desert where an Italian bomber would refuel on its way to Allied target.

5.3

Stateline Motel

Albert

After robbing a jewelry shop in Canada, two Americans arrange a meeting near the US borders in order to split the loot. One of them has an accident with his car on his way there and gets stuck in an isolated motel until his car is fixed. The owner of the motel, a sexy woman in her thirties, falls in love with him, but her suspicions about him begin to multiply, as the police arrive at the motel...

5.6

I fobici

Party guest (segment "Frutto proibito")

Four stories about phobias, manias and other complexes.