Renato Salvatori

Actor

March 20, 1933 (55 years)

† March 27, 1988

Seravezza, Lucca, Tuscany, Italy

Biography

Renato Salvatori (20 March 1934 – 27 March 1988) was an Italian multi-purpose character actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Renato Salvatori, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

8.0

Rocco and His Brothers

Simone Parondi

When a impoverished widow’s family moves to the big city, two of her five sons become romantic rivals with deadly results.

8.0

Origins of the Mafia

The Captain

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

7.8

Two Women

Florindo (uncredited)

A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.

6.2

Luna

Communist

While touring in Italy, a recently-widowed American opera singer has an incestuous relationship with her 15-year-old son to help him overcome his heroin addiction.

7.8

Z

Yago

A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined to not to let them get away with it.

7.6

Indian Summer

Marcello

In Italy, the gambler and professor of poetry Daniele Dominici arrives in the seaside town of Rimini and is hired to teach for four months in the local high school replacing another teacher. His relationship with his partner Monica is in crisis and he spends most of the time with his new acquaintances and gamblers Giorgio, Marcello and Gerardo. In classroom, he meets the gorgeous nineteen years old student Vanina Abati, who is Gerardo's girlfriend.

6.6

The Burned Barns

Hotelier

The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge, Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers have something to do with the murder.

8.1

Big Deal on Madonna Street

Mario Angeletti

Best friends Peppe and Mario are thieves, but they're not very good at it. Still, Peppe thinks that he's finally devised a master heist that will make them rich. With the help of some fellow criminals, he plans to dig a tunnel from a rented apartment to the pawnshop next door, where they can rob the safe. But his plan is far from foolproof, and the fact that no one in the group has any experience digging tunnels proves to be the least of their problems.

6.2

Ace

Bretella

Asso (Ace), the best poker-player in town, was killed in his wedding night, because he won too much against a bad loser. In the "final" game in heaven the clerk on duty also lost, so Asso can come back to this world as a ghost to search for a good man for his wife (widow). Who is good enough for the wife of Asso ?

6.9

The Burglars

Renzi

In Athens a collection of emeralds is successfully stolen by a team of robbers, led by safe-cracker Azad. Things go smoothly until they miss the ship by which they planned their escape; a police chief pursues Azad while he waits for the next ship to set off.

6.1

The Last Woman

René

Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son.

6.4

Flic Story

Mario Poncini

The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.

7.3

State of Siege

Captain Lopez

Assigned to South America, US official Philip Michael Santore is employed by a counterinsurgency agency. His position makes him a target for a local band of guerrillas, and, before long, Santore is kidnapped. As a prisoner, he undergoes interrogation, shedding light on the violent situation in the country. Once the insurgents are done with their questioning, they must decide whether Santore lives or dies.

6.3

The Gypsy

Jo Amila

Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.

6.8

Burn!

Teddy Sanchez

The professional mercenary Sir William Walker instigates a slave revolt on the Caribbean island of Queimada in order to help improve the British sugar trade. Years later he is sent again to deal with the same rebels that he built up because they have seized too much power that now threatens British sugar interests.

6.2

The Shortest Day

Soldato

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.

6.0

The Light at the Edge of the World

Montefiore

Pirates take over a lighthouse on a rocky island. They then execute a devious plan to cause ships to run aground, pillaging their wrecks. A lone member of the lighthouse crew survives, and he deperately fights their plot. A shipwrecked maiden that avoids the pirates slaughter soon complicates the situation.

7.5

The Organizer

Raoul

In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory in Turin, Italy.

5.1

The Cricket

Carburo

An impressionable young woman's relationship with an aging prostitute leads to a job as a maid at a brothel.

7.6

One Way or Another

Magistrate Scalambri

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.