Leopoldo Trieste

Actor

May 3, 1917 (85 years)

† January 25, 2003

Reggio Calabria, Calabria, Italy

Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Leopoldo Trieste (3 May 1917, Reggio Calabria – 25 January 2003) was an Italian actor, film director and script writer. Trieste was born in Reggio Calabria. He worked with directors such as Pietro Germi, Francis Ford Coppola, Giuseppe Tornatore, Tinto Brass, Charles Vidor, René Clément and Federico Fellini. Description above from the Wikipedia article Leopoldo Trieste, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

4.5

Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You

Desk Clerk

An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage.

8.6

The Godfather Part II

Signor Roberto

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

8.4

Cinema Paradiso

Father Adelfio

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

6.0

Caligula

Charicles

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.

7.5

The Name of the Rose

Michele da Cesena

14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's authority and fight the shadowy conspiracy of monastery monks using only his intelligence; which is considerable.

7.1

I promessi sposi

Lucio

Set between 1629 and 1631. Renzo Tramaglino and Lucia Mondella are Lombard peasants forced to separate and endure a thousand vicissitudes because of the bullying of the squire Don Rodrigo. However, during their journey they will find various people willing to help them, from Friar Cristoforo to the Innominato, from Federigo Borromeo to Donna Prassede.

7.0

The Black Stallion

Priest

While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion that is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks both he and the horse survive only to be stranded on a deserted island. He befriends it, so when finally rescued both return to his home where they soon meet Henry Dailey, a once successful trainer. Together they begin training the horse to race against the fastest ones in the world.

6.6

A Bay of Blood

Paolo Fosatti / Paul Fosatti

An elderly heiress is killed by her husband who wants control of her fortunes. What ensues is an all-out murder spree as relatives and friends attempt to reduce the inheritance playing field, complicated by some teenagers who decide to camp out in a dilapidated building on the estate.

6.9

Don't Look Now

Hotel Manager

While grieving a terrible loss, a married couple meet two mysterious sisters, one of whom gives them a message sent from the afterlife.

8.0

Origins of the Mafia

Lawyer Mazzullo

Journey back more than 400 years to 16th century Sicily, where the small Italian islands have fallen victim to corruption, intimidation, extortion, and brutality.

5.4

The Private Lesson

L'esibizionista

Alessandro has a thing or two to learn. Carroll Baker, in her role, is the perfect teacher.

5.9

Quo Vadis?

Chilone

Drama about love and intrigues in ancient Rome during the times of Nero.

7.6

The Sicilian Clan

Turi, le comptable de Vittorio, expert en philatélie

An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.

7.4

Delusions of Grandeur

Giuseppe, Italian inventor of the Bomba

Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.

7.0

Momo

Beppo

Momo is a young orphan girl who lives in the ruins of an old Roman amphitheater and becomes friends with everybody in the neighborhood. But when a powerful international corporation starts stealing everybody’s time, nobody has any time left for her, let alone their friends or families. Momo, together with Master Hora, the custodian of time, are the only ones who can go up against the time thieves before all is lost forever.

5.0

Verdi

Finola

Giuseppe Verdi was born in 1813 and lived until 1901, his life spanning nearly a century of political turmoil and considerable personal turmoil. This 1982 biographical television miniseries, as seen on PBS's Great Performances, dramatizes the life of this classic Italian composer known for operas including La Traviata, Rigoletto, and Aida and his Requiem.

7.9

Divorce Italian Style

Carmelo Patanè

Ferdinando Cefalù is desperate to marry his cousin, Angela, but he is married to Rosalia and divorce is illegal in Italy. To get around the law, he tries to trick his wife into having an affair so he can catch her and murder her, as he knows he would be given a light sentence for killing an adulterous woman. He persuades a painter to lure his wife into an affair, but Rosalia proves to be more faithful than he expected.

8.0

La Famiglia Benvenuti

Peppuccio Mancuso

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6.0

A Farewell to Arms

Passini

An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.

7.7

I Vitelloni

Leopoldo Vannucci

Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.