Luigi Vannucchi

Actor

November 25, 1930 (47 years)

† August 29, 1978

Caltanissetta, Sicily, Italy

Biography

Luigi Vannucchi (25 November 1930 – 30 August 1978) was an Italian film, stage and television actor. Born in Caltanissetta, Vannucchi graduated at Silvio d'Amico National Academy of Dramatic Arts in 1952 and shortly after entered the theatrical company of Vittorio Gassman. In 1958 he entered the Giorgio Strehler's company. From early 60's he also was very active as television actor, often in negative roles, in successful TV-series as A come Andromeda and I promessi sposi. His film career was le…

Filmography

6.0

Le donne del Tenente Sheridan

Ronald Fuller

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6.6

Lovers Like Us

Vittori

A young Frenchwoman fleeing her Italian fiancé in Caracas thrusts herself and those around her into madcap events.

6.1

The Red Tent

Captain Zappi

Torn by personal guilt, Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.

5.3

The Assassination of Trotsky

Ruiz

A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.

N/A

Qui squadra mobile

Guido Salemi

Qui squadra mobile is an Italian television series.

6.4

A come Andromeda

Dr. John Fleming

Set in 1973, a team of scientists decipher a mysterious signal from space and discover that it provides instructions to build a powerful super-computer. Once built, this computer provokes argument between two of leading team members, Fleming and Dawnay, over the machine's real intentions as it provides further instructions to create a living organism, which Dawnay starts to develop. Later it appears to compel lab assistant Christine to commit suicide, and when the organism is fully developed, it appears in the exact form of Christine, and named Andromeda. But what is the purpose of this "creature"?

9.0

Vita di Dante

Guido Cavalcanti

Part of a trilogy of “Famous Lives” conceived by Angelo Guglielmi, Vittorio Cottafavi's television series is a rigorous reconstruction of the biography of the great poet, alternating between fiction and documentary sequences.

7.3

I promessi sposi

don Rodrigo

A look at Alessandro Manzoni's novel and the tormented love story of Renzo and Lucia during the troubled years of Spanish rule in 17th-century Lombardy.

6.9

The Tiger and the Pussycat

le président de la compagnie

A middle-aged businessman finds himself in thirst for romance adventure, and it seems that a proper partner is not far away.

5.8

The Devil in Love

Principe Francesco 'Franceschetto' Chibo de Longuiara

Two devils from Hell are sent to Earth to cause trouble. Belfagor and his faithful sidekick Adramalek must start a war between Rome and Florence in 1478.

6.2

Johnny Yuma

Pedro

Infidelity, murder, and betrayal lies at the center of this violent Spaghetti western. A scheming wife does away with her husband, causing the man's heir to seek revenge. A number of double-crosses and bloody gun battles follow, eventually driving the woman to flee into the desert.

5.8

Days of Violence

Captain Clifford

During the last months of the Civil War, Joe's brother is killed unjustly by Clifford, a captain in the Northen army. Joe decides to join a group of Southerners determined to resist till the end. Joe is considered an outlaw and a reward is posted for his capture. When the war ends, Joe returns to the farm where he used to work only to find Christine, the owner's daughter and his sweetheart, engaged to the hated Captain Clifford.

6.6

Pleasant Nights

Alfonso d'Este

A trilogy of comedic tales set in the Middle Ages.

4.6

Tiffany Memorandum

Brook

A journalist and secretary get involved in espionage.

N/A

Kean - Genio e sregolatezza

Principe di Galles

Vittorio Gassman brings Dumas's "Kean - Genius and Debauchery," adapted by Sartre, to television. Edmund Kean is a hugely popular and theatrical 19th-century English actor who is, however, addicted to vice and deeply in debt. He competes with the Prince of Wales, his partner in debauchery, for the wife of the Danish ambassador.

5.2

Year One

Alcide De Gasperi

Rossellini’s biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari, who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in the years that followed the fall of fascism.

6.3

The Corsican Brothers

Luigi Sagona

The Dumas story about Siamese twins separated at birth but who have a strong psychic link.

7.8

Amleto

Laerte

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7.0

Domani non siamo piu' qui

Corrado

Italian drama written and directed by Brunello Rondi.

9.0

Su e giù

Il dottor Lanfranchi

A movie divided in four episodes: the arrival of the husband makes the loves of his wife to hide in the next room; an husband invites a friend while his wife is not at home; a poor man dreams about having an adventure with a beautiful girl; an impoverished nobleman wins at gambling after taking the earring of the wife of a factory owner.