Fausto Tozzi

Born: 1921-10-29

Fausto TozziFausto Tozzi (29 October 1921 – 10 December 1978) was an Italian film actor and screenwriter. He appeared in 70 films between 1951 and 1978. He wrote the script for The Defeated Victor, which was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival. He also directed one film, Trastevere. Born in Rome, after graduating in accountancy Tozzi made several humble jobs, including peddler and bird taxidermist. He was introduced in the cinema industry by Sergio Amidei, for whom he worked as a stenographer. Through Amidei, Tozzi met Renato Castellani, with whom he collaborated as a screenwriter for Professor, My Son (1946) and Under the Sun of Rome (1948, based on a Tozzi's original story). In the early 1950s, he also started working as an assistant director and as an actor, sometimes being cast in main roles. His typical roles were of hardmen and villains. He was also active on stage, where he is best known for the role of Gnecco in Rugantino, and on television, in which he is well known for his performance as Menelaus in L'Odissea. Tozzi died of respiratory failure, aged 57. Source: Article "Fausto Tozzi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.


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El Cid

as Dolfos
Released: 1961-10-24

Epic film of the legendary Spanish hero, Rodrigo Diaz ("El Cid" to his followers), who, without...

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The Agony and the Ecstasy

as uomo
Released: 1965-09-16

During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to...

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The Agony and the Ecstasy

as Foreman
Released: 1965-09-16

During the Italian Renaissance, Pope Julius II contracts the influential artist Michelangelo to...

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The Black Stallion

as Rescue Captain
Released: 1979-10-13

While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion...

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Chino

as Cruz
Released: 1973-09-14

Chino Valdez is a loner horse breeder living in the old west. Partly a loner by choice, and...

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Constantine and the Cross

as Hadrian
Released: 1961-06-01

Constantine is fighting against Barbarians with his father when he is called to Rome. In his way...

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Scheherazade

as Barmak
Released: 1963-05-10

Sheherazade is promised to a powerful Sultan as a gift in exchange for free passage to the Holy...

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The Valachi Papers

as Albert Anastasia
Released: 1972-01-06

When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps...

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Casta diva

as Gaetano Donizetti
Released: 1954-12-27

As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli...

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The Shortest Day

as Soldato combattente (uncredited)
Released: 1963-02-14

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

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House of Ricordi

as Arrigo Boito
Released: 1954-12-01

The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house...

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The Wonders of Aladdin

as Grand Vizier
Released: 1961-10-31

Young Aladdin has a series of wild adventures after he discovers a magic lamp containing a genie.

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A Man Called Sledge

as Maximum security prisoner
Released: 1970-11-14

James Garner is Luther Sledge, the leader of a pack of rebels who are planning to steal a stash...

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Street People

as Luigi Nicoletta
Released: 1976-03-30

A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco....

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Trastevere

as Himself at St. Maria in Trastevere (uncredited)
Released: 1971-11-13

A retired actor's search for his stray pet strings together this episodic portrait of the...

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The Man Who Killed Billy the Kid

as Pat Garrett
Released: 1967-03-09

This spaghetti western presents a fictitious version of the often filmed legend of Pat Garrett...

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The Sicilian Connection

as Don Vincenzo Russo
Released: 1972-12-21

A small time hood smuggles drugs from Turkey to Italy in an effort to make it into the big time,...

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The Deserter

as Orozco
Released: 1970-12-04

A young cavalry officer finds his woman tortured by the Apaches and blames the Army for not...

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Crazy Joe

as Frank
Released: 1974-02-08

The rise and fall of a Mafia gangster, based on the life of murdered New York gangster "Crazy"...

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La ladra

as Nino
Released: 1955-03-08

Whistle is an orphaned boy, raised in an environment unsuitable for a budding child and thief. A...

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Odissea

as Menelao
Released: 1968-03-24

Odysseus' journey told in Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. After fighting in the Trojan War, Odysseus...

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The Visit

as Darvis (uncredited)
Released: 1964-05-06

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her,...

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Between Miracles

as Primario
Released: 1971-03-19

Benedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The...

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Oh, Serafina!

as Carlo Vigeva
Released: 1976-01-01

Augusto Valle is a successful young industrialist who weds Palmira, the girl working in his...

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Castle of the Banned Lovers

as Olimpio Calvetti
Released: 1956-09-06

The beautiful Beatrice Cenci, daughter of the noble Francesco, falls in love with Olimpio. But...

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Mean Frank and Crazy Tony

as Massara
Released: 1973-11-23

There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into...

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Knives of the Avenger

as Hagen
Released: 1966-05-30

A mysterious knife-throwing viking warrior protects a young peasant woman and her young son from...

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Fear in the City

as Esposito
Released: 1976-09-14

The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals...

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The Return of Dr. Mabuse

as Warden Wolf
Released: 1961-01-01

The supposedly dead and buried Mabuse returns to his criminal activities, as his longtime foe...

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Cry of a Prostitute

as Don Ricuzzo Cantimo
Released: 1974-04-04

The gangster Tony Aniante in the middle of a feud between two mafia families. He manipulates...

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The Swordsman of Siena

as Hugo
Released: 1962-10-19

A 16th-century Spanish overlord hires Thomas Stanswood (Stuart Granger) to protect his, less...

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The City Defends Itself

as Luigi Girosi
Released: 1951-10-12

Four criminals commit a robbery at a soccer stadium, and then split up to try to hide separately...

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Divisione Folgore

as Sergente Turchi
Released: 1954-12-30

In the summer of 1942, during the Second World War, a group of young paratroopers from the...

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The Appointment

as Renzo
Released: 1969-05-22

Lawyer Federico Fendi has reasons to suspect that his fashion model wife Carla is secretly one...

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The Spy

as Paoli
Released: 1964-02-27

The British Admiralty is worried: several cargo ships carrying troops have mysteriously jumped...

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Pyramid of the Sun God

as uncredited
Released: 1965-04-17

Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor...

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The Tanks of El Alamein

as Capt. Valerio Bruschi
Released: 1957-09-19

Italian move on the battle of El Alamein

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Big Pot

as Mark Lemmon
Released: 1976-06-15

A gang of robbers takes possession of a load of diamonds.. Only one of them, Mark Lemmon, is...

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Mercenaries of the Rio Grande

as Benito Juarez
Released: 1965-03-04

Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in...

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The Bloody Hands of the Law

as Nicolò Patrovita
Released: 1973-03-11

When a crime boss is murdered while in hospital, a young woman sees the killers, but her room...

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Songs from all over Italy

as uncredited
Released: 1955-01-01

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Dagli Appennini alle Ande

as Marco's father
Released: 1959-09-03

A young boy travels by himself to reach his sick mother.

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The Funny Face of the Godfather

as Tony Malonzo
Released: 1973-05-03

The Godfather Don Vito Monreale knows, by chance, the Italian-American singer Nick Bouillon....

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The Bandit of Tacca del Lupo

as Luogotenente Magistrelli
Released: 1952-10-15

In 19th century southern Italy (near Melfi, Basilicata), a small force of soldiers fight in the...

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Mazzabubù... quante corna stanno quaggiù?

as Il marito eschimese
Released: 1971-02-25

During a monologue on the theme of adultery, a man reviews a series of famous and anonymous...

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The Hunt

as Marco / Musoduro
Released: 1953-12-09

A young poacher is wrongly accused of killing the father of the woman he loves.

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The Red Cloak

as Luca de Bardi
Released: 1955-09-17

Cosimo de' Bardi is assassinated by a gentleman called the Flemish. Time passes and at some...

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La ciudad perdida

as Rafael
Released: 1955-04-11

Rafa, a Communist Republican exiled after the Spanish Civil War, returns to his hometown to...

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The Left Hand of the Law

as brigadiere Giulio Costello
Released: 1975-09-03

After a couple of 'special squad' cops are gunned down while chasing some kidnappers, the head...

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Commando

as Brascia
Released: 1962-11-14

A French Foreign Legion commander is told to assemble a unit and capture an Algerian rebel...

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Quando gli angeli piangono

as Piero
Released: 1958-08-08

After the end of World War II, a man comes back to his former fiancée and finds out that she is...

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The Demise of Father Mouret

as Jeanbernat
Released: 1970-10-14

Serge Mouret is a frail and devout young priest in a tough country parish. When he falls down...

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Saint-Tropez Blues

as Nino Trabucci
Released: 1961-07-21

With her parents away, Anne-Marie drops her studies to spend eight days in Saint-Tropez with her...

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Il cielo brucia

as Marchi
Released: 1958-06-14

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Brothers of Italy

as uncredited
Released: 1952-01-01

Capodistria, 1915. Captain Nazario Sauro, an officer in the Austrian Navy, is one of those...

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In the Eddy of Sin

as Alberto Valli
Released: 1954-10-30

After years of detachment Alberto Valli returns to the home of Margherita, his widowed mother,...

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Women Without Names

as uncredited
Released: 1950-03-23

This is the sad story of several desperate ladies incarcerated somewhere in Italy in a camp for...

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I cinque dell'Adamello

as Leonida
Released: 1954-11-30

The odyssey of 5 Alpine soldiers who died during the First World War because of an avalanche....

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The Night of the Great Attack

as Zanco
Released: 1959-10-29

In 15th century Romagna rules violence and fright. Cesare Borgia wants to incorporate the duchy...

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Un uomo facile

as uncredited
Released: 1959-04-24

The changing fortunes of two boxers are explored in this interesting drama by Paolo Heusch, seen...

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Quai des illusions

as uncredited
Released: 1959-01-21

Lise is bored with her parents and gets a job as a waitress. She meets a sailor, Fausto, who...

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Questo amore ai confini del mondo

as Don Claudio
Released: 1960-10-20

Argentinian-Italian western features a rancher and landowner who makes a common mistake - he...

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I Spy

as uncredited
First aired: 1965-09-15

I Spy is an American television secret-agent adventure series. It ran for three seasons on NBC...

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Origins of the Mafia

as Nicu Borelli
First aired: 1976-11-19

Mini series about the origins of the Italian mafia

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The Odyssey

as Menelao
First aired: 1968-03-24

Italian miniseries based on Homer's Odyssey.

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