Orazio Orlando

Actor

June 14, 1937 (53 years)

† December 18, 1990

Naples, Italy

Biography

Orazio Orlando (14 June 1933 – 18 December 1990) was an Italian film, stage and television actor. He is best remembered for his film roles in Elio Petri's Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) and Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973), Pupi Avati's Help Me Dream (1981) and Alberto Bevilacqua's Woman of Wonders, or La donna delle meraviglie (original title) (1985). At 57 years old, he died of a heart attack on the Teatro Flaiano stage in Rome during the rehearsal of the play Ad Eva a…

Filmography

7.8

The Octopus

Annibale Corvo

An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price.

7.3

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Maresciallo

Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastero Cherry, he decides to build himself a puppet to make him company.

6.0

Le donne del Tenente Sheridan

Rudy Felst

No description available

5.6

Lovers and Other Relatives

Renzo

Sandro dreams about a woman older than himself. He works as a lifeguard at the beach and at the same time he's caring for a large number of sexually unsatisfied women who are coming for the weekend without their husbands.

8.2

Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion

Biglia

Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminating him because his moral commitment prevents him from circumventing the law and the social order it protects.

7.1

Waterloo

Constant

After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.

5.6

Policewoman

Pretore Patanè

A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police department.

7.0

I miserabili

Laiglon

The television series, based on Victor Hugo's 1862 novel of the same name, is one of the most impressive television adaptations of a literary work. Filmed in 1963 over a period of four months at the RAI headquarters in Via Teulada, it is set in France between 1815 and 1833.

4.4

Tigers in Lipstick

Fioroni / The Arab

8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.

6.8

Traffic Jam

Ferreri

A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours. At the beginning the people blocked in their cars react normally. But as more time passes, the more we witness personal dramas, hysteric reactions and other grotesque situations. All the episodes are linked as if in a single plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a larger universe: the congestion.

5.5

Evil Thoughts

avvocato Borderò

Mario Marani is a well-respected lawyer in late 70s Milan, with a wonderful wife and a high social life. But Mario has a problem: every time he sees his wife talking to one of their friends he immediately visualises them in a hot affair. His jealousy spirals out of control, until a young man who hides inside their flat crosses his path.

5.3

The Dolls

Richetto, amante (segment "La minestra")

This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by Rodolfo Sonego, directed by Dino Risi. "A Treatise on Eugenics", written by Tullio Pinelli from a story by Luciano Salce and Steno, directed by Luigi Comencini. "The Soup", written by Rodolfo Sonego and Luigi Magni, directed by Franco Rossi. "Monsignor Cupid", written by Leo Benvenuti and Piero de Bernardi from a story by Boccaccio, directed by Mauro Bolognini.

N/A

Qui squadra mobile

Fernando Solmi

Qui squadra mobile is an Italian television series.

6.4

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

Nicola

Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide of her mother.

8.1

The Boxer

Mike Durrell / Mike Dugall

Boxer Teddy Wilcox leaves his manager and relocates. He finds Nick, a manager/trainer. Before Wilcox's first fight, Nick receives a threat-- Wilcox loses, or Nick will die.

7.0

Le Roi mystère

Le Comte Teramo

No description available

4.1

Latin Male Wanted

Gennarino

A film in 5 segments. The first is about a trafficker who takes a German tourist to an illegal sex market in a working-class neighborhood. The second involves an elderly man courting a young adult film star. The third, a thief seduces a man's wife. The fourth involves an Italian immigrant in Germany who is fired and subsequently offered work as a porn actor. Finally the last segment involves a baron who convinces his wife into a swinging.

5.5

Highway Racer

Silicato

A hot-shot police officer has more guts than brains, often landing him in hot water with his middle-aged mentor, who was once a legendary cop responsible for numerous large scale arrests.

6.1

Speed Driver

Napoli

Rudi is forced into racing for a kingpin drug dealer, but after the murder of his brother he swears revenge.

7.1

Help Me Dream

Guido

In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to get away from the bombing of Bologna. In the villa she finds her childhood friends and her old love Guido, who has not forgotten her. Francesca has a passion for everything that comes from America, like music and cinema. She even tells her daughters that her husband who died in the war would actually leave for the USA, where he would live.