Aldo FabriziFilmography

Born:: November 1, 1905 in Rome, Italy
Occupation:: Actor, Director, Screenwriter
Biography:: Popular Italian, music hall comedian Aldo Fabrizi made his first film appearance in 1942. He was elevated to international fame three years later for his decided noncomic performance as a defiant anti-fascist priest in Rossellini's Open City. Thereafter, he alternated between dramatic roles and...Read More

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Giovanni Senzapensieri

Actors: Sergio Castellitto, Eleonora Giorgi, Franco Fabrizi, Aldo Fabrizi, Anita Durante

Synopsis: In this entertaining drama, "Carefree Giovanni" (Sergio Castellitto) is the beleaguered last heir to a dukedom closely associated with the great artist Leonardo da Vinci. As the curtain opens, one of Giovanni's ancestors drops dead when he hears that Leonardo has died. Cut to the present, and the Read More

6/12/86
We All Loved Each Other So Much

Actors: Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman, Stefania Sandrelli, Stefano Satta Flores, Giovanna Ralli

Synopsis: Stefania Sandrelli, a bit player in Federico Fellini's La Dolce Vita, stars in the deliberately Felliniesque comedy We All Loved Each Other So Much. Sandrelli plays the longtime object of three friends' affections. The film traces the interrelationships of those friends-Vittorio Gassman, Nino Manfredi Read More

12/21/74
Cose Di Cosa Nostra

1/8/71
Three Bites of the Apple

Actors: David McCallum, Sylva Koscina, Tammy Grimes, Harvey Korman, Domenico Modugno

Synopsis: In this lightweight comedy, David McCallum stars as Stanley Thrumm, a retiring British tour guide who strikes it rich one night in a casino on the Riviera. He's not sure that he wants to take the cash back to England, because he'll have to pay taxes on it, so he decides to put it in a Swiss bank Read More

1967
Made in Italy

Actors: Marina Berti, Anna Magnani, Andrea Checchi, Lando Buzzanca, Virna Lisi, Giulio Bosetti, Sylva Koscina, Walter Chiari, Rossella Falk

Synopsis: Made in Italy is a multistoried film, set...in Italy, of course. An all-star cast appears in brief seriocomic vignettes about rich and poor, tourist and native. Director Nanni Loy exhibits the realistic and somewhat earthy technique he'd used on his earlier documentaries, with heavy emphasis on Read More

12/22/65
Le Facteur S'En Va-T-En Guerre

Actors: Charles Aznavour, Daniel Ceccaldi, Michel Galabru, Jacques Richard, Helmut Schneider

Synopsis: In this French drama, a Parisian postman decides to deliver mail in the army and finds himself fighting involved in the Indochina conflict. There he becomes disillusioned with the constant battles. Then he is captured by the Communists, and when at last he is liberated, he and the Cambodian woman Read More

1965
I Quattro Monaci

Synopsis: An Italian village is the site for a con game by 4 criminals who pretend to be friars. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

8/31/62
Le Meraviglie Di Aladino

Actors: Donald O'Connor, Noëlle Adam, Vittorio De Sica, Aldo Fabrizi, Michele Mercier

Synopsis: Aladdin (Donald O'Connor) is a poor young man living in ancient Bagdad, who is given to flights of imagination, and taken with tales of the wealthy and powerful -- in many ways, he's still a boy, and so caught up in his daydreaming that he doesn't realize how his one-time childhood playmate Djalma Read More

10/31/61
The Teacher and the Miracle

Crew: Director, Producer, Screenwriter

Synopsis: A sentimental drama with religious overtones, the Italian-made Teacher and the Miracle stars Eduardo Novella as an art teacher who is devoted to his young son. The boy's sunny nature and natural talent inspires the teacher to open his own art school. But when his son is killed in an auto accident Read More

1961
Totò, Fabrizi e i Giovani d'oggi

Actors: Totò

8/7/60
The Angel Wore Red

Actors: Ava Gardner, Dirk Bogarde, Joseph Cotten, Vittorio De Sica, Aldo Fabrizi

Synopsis: This is an indecisive, ultimately unconvincing wartime drama set in the 1930s when Spain was caught in a bloody civil war, a situation that is never clearly delineated in that the story supports the fascists without specifically saying so. The hero is a voluntarily defrocked priest, Arturo Carrera Read More

4/14/60
I Tartassati

Actors: Totò, Louis de Funès, Aldo Fabrizi, Luciano Marin, Cathia Caro

Synopsis: Several top Italian stars, including Toto as a shopkeeper and Also Fabrizi as a tax collector, are featured in this entertaining comedy. The shopkeeper like a lot of others, does not want to pay the taxes he is normally assessed. By his reckoning, they are far too high. So when the tax collector Read More

4/9/59
Mi Permette, Babbo!

11/27/56
Donatella

Actors: Elsa Martinelli, Gabriele Ferzetti, Walter Chiari, Abbe Lane, Xavier Cugat

Synopsis: Donatela (Elsa Martinelli) is a poor girl who works as personal secretary to wealthy Guido (Walter Chiari). When Donatela's boss is visited by lawyer Maurizio (Gabriele Ferzetti), he mistakenly believes that she, too, is rich--and automatically falls in love with her. Maurizio's attentions prompt Read More

10/3/56
Guardia, Guardia Scelta, Brigadiere E Maresciallo

4/19/56
I Pappagalli

Crew: Screenwriter

12/28/55
Accadde Al Penitenziario

10/19/55
Un Siecle D'Amour

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Vittorio De Sica

1955
Cento Anni D'Amore

Synopsis: This romantic Italian anthology film is comprised of six episodes that deal with a century of love. The first vignette, "Garibaldin," set in 1854, follows a rebellious priest who attempts to sway others to his beliefs. "Pendolin" examines a philandering wife's affair with a hotel porter who really Read More

2/25/54
Una Di Quelle

Crew: Director

Actors: Totò, Aldo Fabrizi, Lea Padovani, Peppino De Filippo, Laura Gore

Synopsis: Aldo Fabrizi is both director and co-star of the Italian Una di Quelle (One of Those). Basically, however, the film is a vehicle for the inspired film-clown Toto. The latter plays the ardent suitor of a seemingly respectable young widow named Maria. Actually, Maria is a prostitute, albeit an inept Read More

10/8/53
L'Eta dell'Amore

Actors: Marina Vlady, Fernand Gravey, Aldo Fabrizi, Vittorio Sanipoli

Synopsis: A pair of teenagers (Marina Vlady, Pierre-Michel Beck) face the trials of parenthood when the girl becomes pregnant. This melodramatic coming-of-age story features a lackluster screenplay by Franco Brusati, Vittorio Novarese, and director Lionello de Felice which paints most of the adults as Read More

8/22/53
La Voce Del Silenzio

Synopsis: La Voca del Silenzio (Voice of Silence) was the only Italian production of fabled German director G. W. Pabst. Based on a concept by neorealism specialist Cesar Zavattini (fleshed out by a team of =12= prominent writers, including Pabst himself and Jean Cocteau), the film follows a small group of Read More

1953
Crazy Affairs

1953
La Maison Du Silence

Actors: Jean Marais, Daniel Gélin, Frank Villard, Aldo Fabrizi

1953
Altri Tempi

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Enzo Staiola

Synopsis: An all-star cast graces this Italian "omnibus" feature. The film consists of eight short stories, each based on nostalgic literary efforts. Linking the various stories is bookseller Aldo Fabrizi, who passes the time by reading the works dramatized herein. In "The Excelsior Ball," dancer Alba Arnova Read More

9/28/52
Paris Est Toujours Paris

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Henri Guisol, Ave Ninchi, Jeanette Batti

1952
Cinque Poveri in Automobile

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Titina de Filippo, Eduardo de Filippo, Walter Chiari

Synopsis: A stellar cast distinguishes the so-so seriocomedy Cinque Poveri in Automobile (Five Paupers in an Automobile). The story is set in motion by a winning raffle ticket, jointly held by four people. The first prize is an automobile, which the foursome intend to drive for a day of pleasure before Read More

1952
Parigi e sempre Parigi

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Lucia Bosé, Ave Ninchi, Marcello Mastroianni, Franco Interlenghi

Synopsis: Parigi e Sempre Parigi (Paris is Always Paris) was the second feature-length effort from famed Italian documentary director Luciano Emmer. Whereas Emmer's first feature, Domenica d'Agosto (Sunday in August) was a warm-hearted study of the Italian middle class, Parigi concentrates on a gentle Read More

1952
Guardie E Ladri

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: William Tubbs, Pina Piovani

Synopsis: Guardie e Ladri (Cops and Robbers) is buoyed by the combined comic talents of Aldo Fabrizi and Toto. Toto plays Ferdinando Esposito, a thief who has successfully eluded the law for many years. Fabrizi plays Bottoni, a detective who has been given three months to bring Esposito to justice. Deciding Read More

11/29/51
Cameriera Bella Presenza Offresi...

Actors: Elsa Merlini, Vittorio De Sica, Aldo Fabrizi, Gino Cervi, Giulietta Masina

Synopsis: This episodic Italian comedy follows the misadventures of housemaid Maria (Elsa Merlini). Her various employers include a salesman (Aldo Fabrizi) who values peace and quiet, but never gets it, and a vainglorious actor (Vittorio de Sica) with woman trouble. Through it all, Maria survives with a Read More

11/3/51
Three Steps North

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Lea Padovani, Aldo Fabrizi, William Tubbs, Dino Galvani

Synopsis: In this comedy-drama, Frank Keeler (Lloyd Bridges is an American G.I. stationed in Italy whose less-than-legal side business has earned him a small fortune. However, he is eventually caught, convicted, and imprisoned by authorities, but not before he can hide the money. After Keeler is released Read More

1951
Rome Paris Rome

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Peppino De Filippo, Julien Carette, Noël Roquevert

Synopsis: The seemingly effortless direction of Luigi Zampa helps smooth over the rough spots of Signori in Carroza. Aldo Fabrizi stars as a Pullman porter working the Rome-Paris-Rome route. Anticipating The Captain's Paradise by a full year, Vincenzo Nardi (Fabrizi) has a wife and family in Rome and a Read More

1951
The Flowers of St. Francis

Synopsis: Flowers of St. Francis (Francesco, giullare di Dio) is an early example of the "commercial" side of Roberto Rossellini. The film traces the life of St. Francis, from his embracing of religion to his efforts to establish a harmonious middle ground between life and spirituality. Rosselini has given Read More

12/14/50
Prima Comunione

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Gaby Morlay, Ludmilla Dudarova, Enrico Viarisio

Synopsis: A father must find a communion dress for his daughter in this award- winning Italian comedy. As he looks throughout the city, he ends up suffering through a variety of mishaps. His is bothered by a cop, his car breaks down, and he can't seem to hail a cab. Eventually, he does find the perfect Read More

9/29/50
Vita Da Cani

Crew: Screenwriter

9/28/50
Sa Majeste Monsieur Dupont

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Gaby Morlay, Enrico Viarisio, Jean Tissier

1950
Benvenuto, Reverendo!

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Lianella Carell, Giovanni Grasso, Jr., Vittorio Duse, Marianne Hold

Synopsis: Actor Aldo Fabrizi did double duty as star and director of the Italian seriocomedy Benevuto, Reverendo! Fabrizi plays a ne'er-do-well who robs a church collection box. To avoid detection, he dons the robes of a priest and slips out right under the parishioners' noses. He escapes to another Read More

1950
Il Delitto di Giovane Episcopo

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Yvonne Sanson, Roldano Lupi, Ave Ninchi

Synopsis: Filmed in 1947, Alberto Lattuada's Flesh Will Surrender was released in the U.S. three years later. The film was adapted from a Gabriele d'Annunzio novel by three of Italy's top postwar scenarists: Suso Cecchi, Federico Fellini and Pietro Tellini. Aldo Fabrizi stars as Giovanni Episcopo, a Read More

1950
Emigrantes

Crew: Director

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Ave Ninchi, Nando Bruno, Eduardo Passanelli

Synopsis: Italian actor Aldo Fabrizi produced, directed, wrote and starred in the Argentine production Emigrantes. The story begins in the tenement district of Rome, where Don Pepe (Fabrizi) and his family yearn for a better life. To that end, Don Pepe moves his loved ones to Argentina. In free-form Read More

4/29/49
Tombolo

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Nada Fiorelli, John Kitzmiller, Dante Maggio

Synopsis: Tombolo was one of several Italian films dwelling upon postwar Black Market activities. The title refers to a remote wooded area, used as a hideout by several small-time racketeers and sharpsters. Top-billed Aldo Fabrizi plays Andrea, a night watchman whose dereliction of duty has resulted in a Read More

1949
Antonio di Padova

Actors: Aldo Fiorelli, Silvana Pampanini

Synopsis: During World War I, a delirious wounded Italian soldier begins imagining that he's back in Feudal times. This plot device frames the basic story of the film, which ostensibly tells the life story of legendary Franciscan monk Antonio (Aldo Fiorelli). Sensing that the box-office value of Antonio Read More

1949
Natale Al Campo 119

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi

Synopsis: An Allied POW camp provides the setting for Natale al Campo 119. Huddled together on Christmas Eve, a seven Italian prisoners recall happier holiday gatherings with their loved ones. A series of flashbacks transport the prisoners to their families in Rome, Naples, Florence, Venice, Bologna and Read More

12/22/47
Vivere in Pace

Crew: Screenwriter

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Gar Moore, John Kitzmiller

Synopsis: In this interesting Italian WW II comedy-drama, the residents of a remote Italian village find their lives forever changed when two American GIs break out of a German prison camp and hide out in their town. The fugitives are harbored by a local family. This divides the town into those wanting to Read More

3/17/47
Mio Figlio Professore

Actors: Aldo Fabrizi, Mario Soldati, Giorgio de Lullo, Mario Pisu

Synopsis: Aldo Fabrizi is the star of -- and, artistically, the raison d'etre for -- the Italian Professor, My Son. Fabrizi plays Orazio, a humble porter working in a prestigious school. Orazio labors tirelessly day and night so that his son (Giorgio de Lullo) can attend the school. Once the son has Read More

11/29/46
Open City

Actors: Vito Annicchiarico, Nando Bruno, Aldo Fabrizi, Harry Feist, Anna Magnani

Synopsis: Roberto Rossellini's Roma, Città Aperta (known in English as Open City) was one of the landmark films of the 1940s on several levels. Aesthetically, it was one of the first major works of Italian neorealist filmmaking and perhaps the single most influential example of the style. Historically, it Read More

9/27/45
Circo Equestre Za-Bum

1943
Campo de' fiori

Actors: Caterina Boratto, Aldo Fabrizi, Anna Magnani

Synopsis: The postwar American popularity of Italian film stars Anna Magnani and Aldo Fabrizi resulted in the belated U.S. release of many of their earlier efforts. Completed in 1942 as Campo de Fiori, The Peddler and the Lady didn't make it to America until 1949. Per the film's English-language title, the Read More

1943

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