Giancarlo Badessi

Actor

September 22, 1928 (83 years)

† December 6, 2011

Lecco, Lombardy, Italy

Biography

Giancarlo Badessi (1928 – 2011) was an Italian actor. Born in Lecco, at the age of almost 40 Badessi gave up his daily job as an accountant to embrace the theatre, making his debut in a stage play directed by Giancarlo Cobelli. He was also active in cinema and on television, often playing character roles. Badessi died in Rome at the age of 83 from a heart attack, on 6 December 2011. Description above from the Wikipedia article Giancarlo Badessi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contribut…

Filmography

6.0

Caligula

Claudius

After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravity.

5.6

Salon Kitty

Nazi Official with a Bread Penis

In Nazi Germany, Kitty runs a brothel where the soldiers come to 'relax'. Recording devices have been installed by a power-hungry official who plans to use the information to blackmail and usurp Hitler. One of the girls discovers the ploy and, with the madam's help, takes on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.

4.7

Innocence and Desire

il rettore

A young man is temporarily home from a Seminary, but eventually falls in love with his father's young new wife.

4.8

Secret Confessions in a Cloistered Convent

Strangolagalli

A young libertine after a series of love affairs, to escape the wrath of the betrayed husband disguises himself as a monk and hides in a convent where one immediately realizes how much his presence is very welcome.

6.5

Tepepa

Sergeant

The Mexican guerilla leader Tepepa and his gang fight against the chief of police, Cascorro.

6.5

Ace High

Man with Moustache Promoting the Black Boxer (uncredited)

After Cacopoulos manages to save himself from being hung on a false charge, he robs Cat Stevens and Hutch Bessy of a lot of money and steals their horses. This results in a merry chase and Stevens and Bessy become unwilling allies in Cacopoulus' revenge against the people who deserted him and framed him to get their money back.

6.7

What Have You Done to Solange?

Mr. Erickson

After several Catholic school pupils are murdered, a teacher who is having an affair with one of his students becomes a suspect. When other gruesome murders start occurring shortly thereafter, the teacher suspects that he may be the cause of them.

5.5

Black Journal

Lisa's Friend

A mother so insanely overprotective of her grown son decides to make a deal with death by offering alternate victims plucked from among her fellow tenants in a 1938 Italian apartment building.

4.6

Action

Gay Man in Sauna

Z-movie actor Bruno Martel has hero syndrome, often quarrelling with directors. He meets fellow actor Doris, who is obsessed with Ophelia but cannot get any Shakespearean bookings. One day, during a nervous breakdown, Bruno 'rescues' Doris from the set, leaving town to encounter various absurd situations.

6.4

The Conspiracy of Torture

Officer

In 1599 Italy, Beatrice Cenci is the teenage daughter of the crazed landowner and nobleman Francesco Cenci who keeps her locked up in the dungeon of his castle where he sexually abuses her. Beatrice plots with her stepmother, her besotted servant Olimpio, as well as a local bandit, named Catalano to plan Francesco’s murder.

6.0

Roma bene

Rossi

A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.

7.6

One Way or Another

Ventre

Set during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises together, it is an allegory of corrupted power. Disturbing, claustrophobic settings are the background to a series of mysterious crimes.

6.4

The Swindle

Barrufaldi

A rude Roman policeman Nico Giraldi and an English detective team up in search of a gang that has carried out an enormous fraud against the Lloyd's of London.

7.1

What Have They Done to Your Daughters?

Paglia's Lawyer (uncredited)

An unidentified fifteen year-old girl is found hanged after an anonymous tip-off. The girl, Silvia Polvesi, is soon discovered to have been murdered. A peeping tom is caught with photos of her having sex with a teenage drop-out but he is later released due to lack of evidence. The investigation, conducted by Inspector Silvestri and the assistant public prosecutor Vittoria Stori, focuses on the girl's parents. Conspiracies and horrors pile up, as do the body parts.

6.0

The Grand Duel

Blindfolded Innkeeper

A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.

5.3

A Man Called Magnum

Attorney Cerullo

A drug deal goes bad and the heroin is stolen. One mob boss doesn't have his drugs and the other doesn't get his money. People are going to die until they discover who double-crossed them. Into this backdrop, Inspector Dario Mauri arrives from Milan to help clean-up Naples. His mission – find the drugs and stop the killing.

7.3

How to Kill a Judge

Onorevole Derrasi

A filmmaker's popular movie about a corrupt judge who is killed by the Mafia seemingly foretells the murder of a magistrate who orders the film's seizure.

6.8

Confessions of a Police Captain

A police captain arranges the release of a criminally insane prisoner, who soon winds up dead. When the District Attorney takes on the case, he uncovers corruption in the department and vows to take down the man who's responsible.

6.6

Hit Squad

Maniac

A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the wealthy Mr. Douglas, the thieves are beginning to die.

5.6

Satiricosissimo

Nerone

Ciccio loves very much the novel Satyricon of Petronius Arbiter, although his friend Franco does not understand him.