Flavio Bucci

Actor

May 25, 1947 (72 years)

† February 18, 2020

Turin, Italy

Biography

Flavio Bucci (25 May 1947 – 18 February 2020) was an Italian actor. He appeared in over 90 films and television shows from 1971 until his death. Internationally, he may be best known for playing Daniel, the blind pianist, in Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977). His breakthrough role was the banknote-burning main character of Elio Petri's politically-charged Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973).

Filmography

7.8

The Octopus

Don Manfredi

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.

7.5

Suspiria

Daniel

An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.

7.1

I promessi sposi

poliziotto Luna Piena

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.

3.0

La dottoressa Giò

Dott. Nicotera

La dottoressa Giò is an Italian television series.

7.4

Frankenstein's Aunt

Talbot

Frankenstein's Aunt is the protagonist of three novels - two by Allan Rune Pettersson and a seven-episode TV miniseries based on the first one. The story is a humorous homage to the Universal Horror Frankenstein films.

5.3

Der Ochsenkrieg

Miniseries based on a 1914 historical novel by the German writer Ludwig Ganghofer - The War of the Oxen - set against the backdrop of the War of the Oxen in the 1420s.

7.8

The Working Class Goes to Heaven

Operaio

After losing a finger in a work accident, an Italian worker becomes increasingly involved in political and revolutionary groups.

7.6

Il Divo

Franco Evangelisti

Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.

5.3

La Orca

Gino

A teenage girl is kidnapped by 3 guys and taken to an abandoned house in the country, where she is made to write her own ransom letter. She soon discovers that one of her captors is infatuated with her and she will use those feelings to stay alive.

7.0

That Awful Mess on Via Merulana

Commissario Ingravallo

Italian miniseries about a homicide that occurred in Rome during the 1920s.

9.0

Mit den Clowns kamen die Tränen

Enrico Langfrost

Everything revolves around a virus that manipulates people, a vaccine against this virus, and secret research findings that a major power learns about through betrayal. In this cynical game, any means are justified to get hold of the vaccine: kidnapping, murder, intrigue, lies, and deceit. No easy task for journalist Norma Desmond, whose son was killed in an attack, and Alwin Westen, who hope to track down those behind it all...

6.1

Late Night Trains

Blackie

Two young women, Margaret and Lisa, are set to take the overnight train from Munich in Germany to stay with Lisa's parents in Italy for Christmas. Unfortunately a pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize the pair.

4.6

A Spiral of Mist

Vittorio, the physician

The lovely Maria Teresa is unhappily married with the impotent lawyer Marcello. Maria Teresa's marriage is contrasted by the passionate Valeria, who is killed during a chase. Is Valeria's husband the murderer? Maria Teresa helps him..

7.8

The Marquis of Grillo

Don Bastiano

In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.

N/A

Ligabue

Antonio Ligabue

A biographical drama about painter Antonio Ligabue.

6.8

Closed Circuit

Il sociologo

At the local cinema, an audience watches a Spaghetti Western matinee. During the film's on-screen climactic duel, a bullet is fired into a patron. With no leads and a theater full of suspects, police investigators lock the doors, put everyone back in their seats, and run the movie again. But will this shot in the dark reveal the real killer?

5.6

Control

Herman Pundt

An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strangers are put into a nuclear shelter to see how long they can survive without interaction with the outside, things work out fine.

6.2

The Magic Mountain

Ludovico Settembrini

Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof for three weeks, Hans is gradually contaminated by the morbid atmosphere pervading the place. Wishing very much to be considered a patient like the others, he achieves his ends and stays in the sanatorium for ...seven years. During this time, he has enough time to take part in the furious philosophical debates pitting against each other Settembrini, a secular humanist, and Naphta, a totalitarian Jesuit. And to fall in love with the beautiful but enigmatic Clawdia Chauchat. When he is finally discharged in 1914 - along with all the other patients - it is only to plunge into the horrors of World War I.

6.6

And Agnes Chose To Die

Pugliese

After the Nazis take her husband away, an illiterate old washerwoman joins the Resistance as a bike courier in the Central Italian countryside.

5.5

Nineties

professor Moira

Scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV...