Tano Cimarosa

Born: 1922-01-01

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.


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Cinema Paradiso

as Fabbro, blacksmith
Released: 1988-11-17

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater...

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The Day of the Owl

as Zecchinetta
Released: 1968-02-17

Set in Sicily, this violent crime drama tells the tale of an Italian cop who heads to a small...

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Be Sick… It's Free

as Salvatore Laganà
Released: 1968-10-24

Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.

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A Pure Formality

as Servant
Released: 1994-05-15

Onoff is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into...

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The Star Maker

as Grandpa Bordonaro
Released: 1995-09-21

The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s...

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The Witches

as Sicilian (segment "La siciliana") (uncredited)
Released: 1967-02-22

Five short stories loosely dealing with the roles of women in society. A superstar actress...

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Cafè Express

as Polfer Marshal Panepino
Released: 1980-02-16

An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the...

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The Exorciccio

as Turi Randazzo
Released: 1975-02-27

A satire on the American film "The Exorcist," but with an Italian twist.

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Free Hand for a Tough Cop

as Cravatta
Released: 1976-08-27

A cop recruits a criminal and his cohorts to help track down a violent crime lord who has...

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The Most Beautiful Wife

as Gaetano Cimarosa
Released: 1970-03-12

A 16-year-old Sicilian becomes the target of a mafia-hit man after refusing to go through with...

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A Girl in Australia

as emigrato italiano da Gela
Released: 1971-12-22

The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's , who has to find...

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Boys on the Outside

as Capomastro
Released: 1990-09-14

Young men with no future have little in the present as well. Natale is released from prison: he...

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Gang War in Milan

as Nino Balsamo
Released: 1973-02-21

A Milan pimp faces off against a ruthless and greedy French gangster whom wants to unite...

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Why

as Agente del carcere di Sagunto
Released: 1971-10-27

Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while...

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Between Miracles

as Zi' Checco
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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Nineties - Part II

as Don Mimì Cantalamessa, boss mafioso
Released: 1993-06-06

Second scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun"...

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Bread and Chocolate

as Gigi
Released: 1974-05-05

An Italian immigrant tries to make a new life in Switzerland, taking on a series of increasingly...

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Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia

as Rosario Agrò
Released: 1974-01-31

In Italy, a dying woman tells her granddaughter that she hid her treasure many years ago in...

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Crazy Sea

as uncredited
Released: 1963-09-13

A pretty woman approaching middle age rents out rooms in a small Italian town. An aging sailor...

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Touch and Go

as Italian soldier on the beach
Released: 1971-09-01

North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940,...

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L'ammazzatina

as Pasqualino Mosco
Released: 1975-02-28

Sicilian baron, Mimì Galluzzo, will be able to enjoy the legacy of his deceased father-in-law on...

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How to Kill a Judge

as Tano Barra - l'assistente di parcheggio
Released: 1975-02-05

A filmmaker's popular movie about a corrupt judge who is killed by the Mafia seemingly foretells...

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Police Chief Pepe

as Agente Cariddi
Released: 1969-09-24

A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a...

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The Shatterer

as uncredited
Released: 1987-06-13

Following 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 mafiosi
Released: 1963-09-14

Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed...

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Suicide Commando

as Calleya
Released: 1968-10-09

World War 2 - a British commando squad is tasked with attacking the "secret" German airfield...

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May God Forgive You... But I Won't

as Chico
Released: 1968-08-13

While Cjamango is away from his ranch, bandits attack and kill his family. Disrupted by this...

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Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte

as commissario di polizia
Released: 1971-07-05

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Delirium

as John Lacey
Released: 1972-07-05

A respected doctor becomes the prime suspect in a series of gruesome murders.

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The Tall, The Short, The Cat

as Netturbino
Released: 1967-05-03

Two dim-witted servants to an elderly, wealthy woman learn that they are to inherent the late...

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Se sarà luce sarà bellissimo - Moro: Un'altra storia

as Comunista Cimarosa
Released: 2008-12-04

The film is the result of a planned trilogy about the kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro by the...

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L'anno mille

as Custode
Released: 2008-04-23

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Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone

as il boss
Released: 1983-09-02

Marino Stroppaghetti is a breadwinner in a layoff fund who, in order to make some money,...

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A Man on His Knees

as Sebastiano Colicchia
Released: 1979-04-13

Nino, a regular working-class guy, finds that a hitman has been hired to kill him. He discovers...

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Acla's Descent into Floristella

as uncredited
Released: 1992-09-10

Set in Sicily in the 1930's, Aurelio Grimaldi's feature debut chronicles the harsh story of...

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Man Called Amen

as Chaco, Gang Boss
Released: 1972-08-11

A very unlikely trio join forces in order to rob a bank: an ex-bandit called Smith, now a...

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The Tough and the Mighty

as Cartana
Released: 1969-09-23

Based on the story of real life Sardinian bandit Graziano Mesina.

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Pasqualino Cammarata... capitano di fregata

as Patanò
Released: 1974-08-14

Pasqualino Cammarata is an Italian naval officer who has been disliked by his admiral because of...

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La sarrasine

as uncredited
Released: 1992-02-15

Montreal, 1904. Giuseppe and Ninetta own a boarding house where they welcome their fellow...

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Reflections in Black

as Pantò
Released: 1975-10-03

A woman dressed in black is murdering young women. The police question lawyer Anselmi for whom...

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The Two Parachutists

as Garcia's aide
Released: 1965-12-24

Two penniless Italian buskers want to go to the USA but get on the wrong ship and end up in...

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Bootleggers

as Mancho
Released: 1969-03-06

A group of gangsters escape from prison and attempt to destroy a rival organisation holed up in...

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All Sons of the Saintest Mother

as Puddu Campolia
Released: 1973-08-12

Two 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 Valiente
Released: 1969-01-25

Braddock is an influential and highly respected citizen of the town of Two Arrows. He also...

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L'Italia in pigiama

as Il padre incestuoso
Released: 1977-02-09

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Quattro Delitti: Winchester M2

as Il ricattatore
Released: 1979-04-25

Madness and jealousy push a not very attractive young man to plan to kill a friend who, on the...

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A Sword to Brando

as Greedy friar
Released: 1970-05-14

In a mediaeval feudal hamlet, young girls are being abducted by a sect of devil-worshipers, all...

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They Still Call Me Amen

as Chaco
Released: 1973-12-24

Chaco and his band of downtrodden men meet Così Sia (Amen), who always seems to get the better...

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Death Hunt

as uncredited
Released: 1977-10-20

When his baby daughter is was ran over by a car full of violent criminals her father decides to...

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Frida Professione Menager

as Richard
Released: 2000-01-01

Frida gets married, but is very busy with her job as an engineer, and doesn't have time for her...

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L'Italia in pigiama

as uncredited
Released: 1977-01-01

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Don Matteo

as Carmelo Frasca
First aired: 2000-01-07

Don Matteo is a thoroughly ordinary Catholic priest with an extraordinary ability to read people...

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