Mario Pisu

Actor

May 21, 1910 (66 years)

† July 17, 1976

Montecchio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Biography

No biography available.

Filmography

8.1

8½

Mario Mezzabotta

Guido Anselmi, a film director, finds himself creatively barren at the peak of his career. Urged by his doctors to rest, Anselmi heads for a luxurious resort, but a sorry group gathers—his producer, staff, actors, wife, mistress, and relatives—each one begging him to get on with the show. In retreat from their dependency, he fantasizes about past women and dreams of his childhood.

9.2

Nero Wolfe

Otis Jarrell

No description available

6.3

The Gendarme in New York

Adjutant Renzo

Sergeant Cruchot and his faithful comrades have been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.

5.6

Hannibal

Sacerdote

A Carthaginian general attempts to cross the Alps with an army of elephants in order to conquer Rome.

4.8

Blue Jeans

Mario Mauri

Tells the story of young Daniela ‘Blue Jeans’ Anselmi, a free-spirited drifter who makes her way in life by selling sexual favors and practicing petty-crime. After Daniela is arrested, the man who might be her long-lost father is called into her life to look after her.

7.2

Juliet of the Spirits

Giorgio (Giulietta's husband)

Middle-aged Giulietta grows suspicious of her husband, Giorgio, when his behavior grows increasingly questionable. One night when Giorgio initiates a seance amongst his friends, Giulietta gets in touch with spirits and learns more about herself and her painful past. Slightly skeptical, but intrigued, she visits a mystic who gives her more information -- and nudges her toward the realization that her husband is indeed a philanderer.

5.2

The Sensuous Nurse

Leonida Bottacin

Greedy relatives hire a sensual caregiver to hasten the demise of a wealthy count suffering from a heart condition.

7.5

The Organizer

Manager

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.

7.0

Il Circolo Pickwick

Samuel Pickwick

No description available

6.2

Me, Me, Me... and the Others

Winner of the 'Capranica'

Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his inquiry. Even his own wife, Titta.

6.0

Zorro and the Three Musketeers

Count of Tequel

In the first half of the 1600's, France is at war with Spain. The cousin of the king of Spain, Isabella, is held captive in the French castle, and the Count of Seville is sent to France as a diplomat. While there, he is escorted by the Three Musketeers, who discover that he has secretly made a deal with Cardinal Richelieu to disclose Spanish military secrets in exchange for Isabella's release. However, he is merely bluffing and plans to take Isabella by force. When the musketeers discover this, they come to his aid, and together the four of them work at freeing the Countess. Meanwhile, the Count doubles as Zorro to free the Spanish court from a treacherous suitor.

6.9

The Boss

Gabrielli

A hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians.

4.7

The Sex Machine

Ministro

The year is 2037 A.D. Depletion of natural fuels has eliminated electrical power throughout the world. No light… no heat… no T.V., until a team of award-winning scientists succeeds in harnessing energy from the world’s oldest source of reciprocating motion.

6.8

Roaring Years

gerarca

In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fascist official to a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.

6.2

Adultery Italian Style

Vicino

A betrayed wife decides to teach her philandering husband a lesson in this riotous farce. Marta (Catherine Spaak) discovers that husband Franco (Nino Manfredi) has been stepping out with her own best friend (Maria Grazia Buccella), and gets revenge by inventing an imaginary lover. Franco takes the bait, leading to improbable but hilarious complications.

4.4

Emma Hamilton

King Ferdinand of Naples

In the second half of the 18th century, the young shepherdess Emma accidentally catches the eye of the English painter George Romney. She becomes his model in London, where she also has several love affairs. After she is temporarily forced to work as a prostitute, she marries the much older Lord William Hamilton, who is stationed as British ambassador in Naples. There she meets Admiral Nelson again, whom Emma, now Lady Hamilton, had met years before...

6.1

Made in Italy

The Lawyer (segment "2 'Il Lavoro', episode 2")

A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.

6.1

Pardon, Are You for or Against?

Barone Renato Santambrogio

A successful fifty-year-old entrepreneur, Tullio Conforti, opposed to divorce for religious reasons, is in fact separated from his wife and leads a frenetic life divided between numerous lovers.

7.3

Why

Psichiatra

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Swiden, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?

5.9

The Sensual Man

Principe Lorenzo Banchieri

The Catanese baron Paolo Castorini leaves the closed Sicilian environment and moves to Rome where he enters into erotic relationships with women of all classes. He, however, feels dissatisfied with a life of only the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a sober and serious thinker. But is it too late for him?