Tano Cimarosa
Tano Cimarosa, real name Gaetano Cisco, (1 January 1922 – 24 May 2008) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He participated in more than fifty movies. He played the "Blacksmith" in the Oscar-winning film Cinema Paradiso from 1988. He is known to horror film fans for directing Reflections in Black in 1975. Source: Article "Tano Cimarosa" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Cinema Paradiso
as Fabbro, blacksmithA filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater...
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A Pure Formality
as ServantOnoff is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into...
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Be Sick… It's Free
as Salvatore LaganàComedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
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The Witches
as Sicilian (segment "La siciliana") (uncredited)Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress...
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Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia
as Rosario AgròIn Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in...
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Bread and Chocolate
as GigiAn Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly...
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The Most Beautiful Wife
as Gaetano CimarosaA 16-year-old Sicilian becomes the target of a mafia hit man after refusing to go through with...
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Boys on the Outside
as CapomastroYoung men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he...
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Nineties - Part II
as Don Mimì Cantalamessa, boss mafiosoSecond scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun"...
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Why
as Agente del carcere di SaguntoGiuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while...
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The Star Maker
as Grandpa BordonaroThe adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s...
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How to Kill a Judge
as Tano Barra - l'assistente di parcheggioA filmmaker's popular movie about a corrupt judge who is killed by the Mafia seemingly foretells...
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The Day of the Owl
as ZecchinettaSet in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small...
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A Girl in Australia
as emigrato italiano da GelaThe film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's , who has to find...
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Free Hand for a Tough Cop
as CravattaA cop recruits a criminal and his cohorts to help track down a violent crime lord who has...
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The Exorciccio
as Turi RandazzoA satire on the American film "The Exorcist," but with an Italian twist.
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Police Chief Pepe
as Agente CariddiA police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a...
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The Two Parachutists
as Garcia's aideTwo penniless Italian buskers want to go to the USA but get on the wrong ship and end up in...
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Acla's Descent into Floristella
as uncreditedSet in Sicily in the 1930's, Aurelio Grimaldi's feature debut chronicles the harsh story of...
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Delirium
as John LaceyA respected doctor becomes the prime suspect in a series of gruesome murders.
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Cafè Express
as Polfer Marshal PanepinoAn Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the...
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Between Miracles
as Zi' CheccoBenedetto is a child who came out of an accident uninjured on his first communion's day. The...
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Reflections in Black
as PantòA woman dressed in black is murdering young women. The police question lawyer Anselmi for whom...
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Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone
as il bossMarino Stroppaghetti is a breadwinner in a layoff fund who, in order to make some money,...
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The Tough and the Mighty
as CartanaBased on the story of real life Sardinian bandit Graziano Mesina.
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Touch and Go
as Italian soldier on the beachNorth Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940,...
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The Tall, The Short, The Cat
as NetturbinoTwo dim-witted servants to an elderly, wealthy woman learn that they are to inherent the late...
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May God Forgive You... But I Won't
as ChicoWhile Cjamango is away from his ranch, bandits attack and kill his family. Disrupted by this...
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L'ammazzatina
as Pasqualino MoscoSicilian baron, Mimì Galluzzo, will be able to enjoy the legacy of his deceased father-in-law on...
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Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
as commissario di poliziaArchitect Giambattista Manteghin, actor Romolo Moretti, Prince Pantegani and inventor Leonardo...
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A Man on His Knees
as Sebastiano ColicchiaNino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers...
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Gang War in Milan
as Nino BalsamoA Milan pimp faces off against a ruthless and greedy French gangster whom wants to unite...
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Se sarà luce sarà bellissimo - Moro: Un'altra storia
as Comunista CimarosaThe film is the result of a planned trilogy about the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro by the...
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Bootleggers
as ManchoA group of gangsters escape from prison and attempt to destroy a rival organisation holed up in...
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The Shatterer
as uncreditedFollowing the opening of a Japanese auto factory in Sicily, the head of the company is kidnapped...
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The Eye of the Needle
as uno dei mafiosiTwo young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed...
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Man Called Amen
as Chaco, Gang BossA very unlikely trio join forces in order to rob a bank: an ex-bandit called Smith, now a...
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The Dark Sun
as uncreditedAfter the death of his mother a man returns to his hometown Palermo in southern Italy in order...
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Suicide Commando
as CalleyaWorld War 2 - a British commando squad is tasked with attacking the "secret" German airfield...
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Crazy Sea
as uncreditedA pretty woman approaching middle age rents out rooms in a small Italian town. An aging sailor...
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The Saracen Woman
as uncreditedMontreal, 1904. Giuseppe and Ninetta own a boarding house where they welcome their fellow...
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A Sword to Brando
as Greedy friarIn a mediaeval feudal hamlet, young girls are being abducted by a sect of devil-worshipers, all...
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Death Hunt
as TanoWhen his baby daughter is was ran over by a car full of violent criminals her father decides to...
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All Sons of the Saintest Mother
as Puddu CampoliaTwo crime families battle for supremacy in 1929 Chicago in this Italian crime spoof. One group,...
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Death on High Mountain
as General ValienteBraddock is an influential and highly respected citizen of the town of Two Arrows. He also...
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L'Anno Mille
as CustodeIn a story that follows some lives and their respective reincarnations over time, Valerio is a...
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Pasqualino Cammarata... capitano di fregata
as PatanòPasqualino Cammarata is an Italian naval officer who has been disliked by his admiral because of...
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Quattro Delitti: Winchester M2
as Il ricattatoreMadness and jealousy push a not very attractive young man to plan to kill a friend who, on the...
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They Still Call Me Amen
as ChacoChaco and his band of downtrodden men meet Così Sia (Amen), who always seems to get the better...
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Frida Professione Menager
as RichardFrida gets married, but is very busy with her job as an engineer, and doesn't have time for her...
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Father Matteo
as Carmelo FrascaDon Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people...
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