Nino Castelnuovo

Actor

October 28, 1936 (84 years)

† September 6, 2021

Lecco, Lombardy, Italy

Biography

Francesco "Nino" Castelnuovo (28 October 1936 - 6 September 2021) was an Italian actor of film, stage, and television. Castelnuovo appeared as Guy Foucher in the French-language musical film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964) and as D'Agostino in the romantic-drama The English Patient (1996). His other films include the drama Rocco and His Brothers (1960), the sexploitation Camille 2000 (1969), the black-comedy L'emmerdeur (A Pain in the ..., 1973), the giallo film Il prato macchiato di rosso (19…

Filmography

6.4

That Malicious Age

Napoleone

Gardener Napoleone takes a job in a southern-Italian villa and quickly finds himself embroiled in a menage-a-trois with Paola and her mother, which soon leads to sex, death and mayhem.

7.1

The English Patient

D'Agostino

In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.

7.4

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg

Guy Foucher

This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.

8.1

The Marshal Rocca

Giuseppe Alfò

The adventures of the marshal of the carabinieri Giovanni Rocca, played by the great Gigi Proietti. Definitely one of the most successful Rai fictions ever, the series, after the first eight episodes broadcast in 1996, went on for six seasons, ending only in 2008. For over a decade the investigations and the private life of the marshal of Viterbo , born from an idea by Laura Toscano, have fascinated the television audience, making them become attached to characters such as the beautiful pharmacist Margherita (Stefania Sandrelli) or the brigadier Cacciapuoti (Sergio Fiorentini).

8.0

Rocco and His Brothers

Nino Rossi

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

4.6

La collegiale

Marco

The sexually naive Daniela returns home from boarding school only to realize that her family is involved in an excess of bed-hopping and sexual perversion.

6.8

Questa è la mia terra

Guido Corradi

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7.7

The Beaches of Agnès

Self (archive footage)

Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.

6.6

The 5-Man Army

Luis Dominguez

At the behest of local revolutionaries, a mercenary enlists four specialists in various combat styles to help him rob a Mexican Army train carrying $500,000 in gold.

8.0

Diamoci del tu

Self

No description available

7.0

Ritratto di Donna Velata

Luigi Certaldo

Test driver Luigi Certaldo meets Elisa at a party. They go to Volterra in Tuscany and meet Alberto Certaldo, Luigi's cousin. In the house is a painting that portrays a veiled woman whose face is identical to Elisa's. Strange events follow one another and an Etruscan funerary urn Is found that seems to contain indication to find an Etruscan necropolis full of treasures. Two people die. Luigi and Elisa are afraid. They meet a strange child-medium and a creepy old men called "Nebbia". Something terrible is about to happen.

8.0

Vino e pane

Luigi Murica

In 1935, Pietro Spina, a communist intellectual forced to emigrate for political reasons, secretly returns to Italy, driven by nostalgia for his homeland. Under the identity of Don Paolo Spada, a priest recovering from illness, he moves to Pietrasecca, a small village in the mountains of Abruzzo.

6.2

The Shortest Day

Corteggiatore (uncredited)

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

7.0

Racconti fantastici

William Wilson

Four Edgar Allan Poe adaptations running an hour apiece, including "Night in the House of Usher," "Ligeia Forever," "The Delusion of William Wilson" and "The Fall of the House of Usher."

7.2

The Demon

Buca (uncredited)

Purif is distraught when her lover is betrothed to another. When she summons the old ways to curse him, her erratic behavior is interpreted as demonic possession, and the villagers turn against her with physical and sexual violence.

4.6

On My Way to the Crusades, I Met a Girl Who...

Marculfo

A chastity belt provides an endless amount of grief for a woman whose jealous husband has gone off to the Crusades.

7.6

Everybody Go Home!

Artigliere Codegato

When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.

N/A

Love and Anger: Love

The Director

Godard dissects movie romance as row intellectuals watch an Italian-speaking man and his French-speaking partner talk about love.

7.0

A Pain in the Ass

Bellhop, room boy

Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.

5.5

Strip Nude for Your Killer

Carlo Bianchi

After a fashion model dies during a botched abortion, the doctor stages her death to exonerate himself but is murdered by a mysterious assailant who soon begins hunting down her agency colleagues.