Cesare DanovaFilmography

Hunter: Requiem For Sergeant McCall

Synopsis: When Ronald Moody (Paul Lieber), the man convicted of killing DeeDee McCall's husband Steve, is paroled, McCall (Stepfanie Kramer) reopens the case on which Steve had been working at the time of his death. She also defies orders and begins tailing Moody, hoping to find a connection between him and Read More

Blacke's Magic [TV Series]

Synopsis: The TV detective series Blacke's Magic starred Hal Linden as dapper professional magician Alexander Blacke, and Harry Morgan as Alexander's con-man father Leonard. Together, Blacke and Blacke solved mysteries with the help of Alexander's prestidigatory skills and Leonard's flim-flammery. In the Read More

Murder, She Wrote: The Perfect Foil

Synopsis: This episode marks the first appearance of Calhoun Fletcher (Peter Bonerz), the troublesome--and trouble-prone--distant cousin of mystery writer Jessica Fletcher (Angela Lansbury). At the behest of her Aunt Mildred (played in a delightful cameo by filmdom's former "Blondie" Penny Singleton) Read More

Magnum, P.I.: Who is Don Luis Higgins, and Why is He Doing These Terrible Things to Me?

Synopsis: John Hillerman once again essays a dual role, appearing in his usual guise as Jonathan Higgins, and as Jonathan's half-brother Don Luis Mongueo. Heir to the throne of Costa De Rosa, Don Luis may very well be in on a plot to assassinate the country's president Manuel Ibanez (Cesare Danova), who Read More

Dublin Murders

Actors: Cyril Cusack, Sinéad Cusack, Cesare Danova

St. Helens

Actors: Art Carney, David Huffman, Cassie Yates, Ron O'Neal, Bill McKinney

Synopsis: Ernest Pintoff--jazz trumpeter, painter, animated cartoonist, film theorist--directed his first dramatic feature, Harvey Middleman, Fireman, in 1965. Since that time, Pintoff has refused to be stylistically pigeonholed, turning out everything from comedy concerts (Dynamite Chicken) to spoofish T&A Read More

National Lampoon's Animal House

Actors: John Belushi, Tim Matheson, John Vernon, Verna Bloom, Tom Hulce, Stephen Furst

Synopsis: Director John Landis put himself on the map with this low-budget, fabulously successful comedy, which made a then-astounding 62 million dollars and started a slew of careers for its cast in the process. National Lampoon's Animal House is set in 1962 on the campus of Faber College in Faber, PA. The Read More

I Tentacoli

Actors: John Huston, Shelley Winters, Bo Hopkins, Henry Fonda, Delia Boccardo

Synopsis: Italian filmmaker Ovidio Assonitis, who had ripped off The Exorcist with his successful Chi Sei? (1974) here turns his attentions to the post-Jaws ecokill film with silly results. The titular beast kills swimmers and divers before attacking a sailing regatta (an idea which, paradoxically, was Read More

The Hardy Boys: The Mystery of King Tut's Tomb

Synopsis: The weekly TV series The Hardy Boys kicked off its second season with "The Mystery of King Tut's Tomb." Taryn Power (daughter of Tyrone) plays a young girl who overhears a scheme to pass off phony Egyptian artifacts as real. She is promptly kidnapped and spirited off to an ancient tomb. While Read More

Sanford and Son: Can You Chop This?

Actors: Redd Foxx, Demond Wilson, Nancy Kulp, Cesare Danova, Danny Wells

Synopsis: Shades of "The Handy Housewife Helper" on The Honeymooners! Lamont (Demond Wilson) goes ballistic when he finds that the money he has been saving up for acting lessons has been squandered by his dad, Fred (Redd Foxx), who has purchased the "Watts franchise" for a kitchen appliance called the Read More

A Matter of Wife... and Death

Actors: Rod Taylor, Joe Santos, Eddie Firestone, Luke Askew, John Colicos

Synopsis: Rod Taylor stars in this feature-length pilot film for the unsold TV series Shamus. The star is cast as Shamus McCoy, who befitting his name, makes his living as a private detective. While investigating the bomb killing over another gumshoe, McCoy picks up a trail of evidence leading to a major Read More

Invisible Strangler

Actors: Robert Foxworth, Stefanie Powers, Elke Sommer, Sue Lyon, Leslie Parrish, Percy Rodrigues

Synopsis: Invisible Strangler tells the story of a boy who strangles his mother and while in a mental institution finds books which give him the key to making himself invisible. He then escapes from the hospital and goes on a murder spree, strangling his mother's friends in a series of unintentionally Read More

Scorchy

Actors: Connie Stevens, Cesare Danova, William Smith, Norman Burton

Synopsis: Connie Stevens plays an undercover cop in Seattle who is out to break up a big-time drug ring. This low-budget gem is full of bloody violence. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

Charlie's Angels: The Mexican Connection

Actors: Farrah Fawcett-Majors, Kate Jackson, Jaclyn Smith, David F. Doyle, Edward Power

Synopsis: The crash of a private jet exposes a heroin-smuggling operation based in Mexico. The Angels head south of the border -- Kelly (Jaclyn Smith) posing as a vacationing schoolteacher, Jill (Farrah Fawcett-Majors) as a swimming instructor, Sabrina (Kate Jackson) as a stewardess -- to get the goods on Read More

Death Cruise

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV movie, six persons have won a cruise-ship vacation, but they find that the awards were just a trick to begin a killing game. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Mean Streets

Actors: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval, Amy Robinson, Richard Romanus

Synopsis: "You don't make up for your sins in church; you do it in the streets; you do it at home. The rest is bulls--t, and you know it." Returning to the autobiographical milieu of his 1968 debut Who's That Knocking at My Door? for his third feature, Martin Scorsese examined the daily struggles of a Read More

Che!

Actors: Omar Sharif, Jack Palance, Cesare Danova, Robert Loggia, Woody Strode

Synopsis: In this badly misconceived pseudo-biography of the legendary Cuban revolutionary -- played, incredibly, by Omar Sharif -- Che Guevara takes up the cause as a rebel fighter under the direction of Fidel Castro, played -- also incredibly -- by Jack Palance. Guevara, a young Argentine doctor, proves Read More

Honeymoon with a Stranger

Synopsis: Filmed in Spain, this TV movie stars Janet Leigh as an American woman honeymooning with her new husband. She awakens after the wedding night, only to be confronted with a stranger who insists that he's her husband. Leigh goes to the authorities, who unfortunately believe the ersatz husband's Read More

Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number!

Actors: Bob Hope, Elke Sommer, Phyllis Diller, Cesare Danova, Marjorie Lord

Synopsis: Usually cited as the absolute nadir of Bob Hope's film career, Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! is by no means a classic, but it isn't nearly as bad as some of his other sixties efforts (take a look a Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell sometime). The plot is set in motion by movie sex bomb Elke Sommer Read More

Chamber of Horrors

Actors: Cesare Danova, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Patrick O'Neal, Laura Devon, Patrice Wymore

Synopsis: This dull House of Wax variant involves a claw-handed escaped maniac (Patrick O'Neal), who rampages through late 19th-century Baltimore on a mission of vengeance. Hot on his trail are the proprietors of a "House of Horrors" wax museum and their Mexican dwarf sidekick Tun-Tun. Initially conceived Read More

Bonanza: Woman of Fire

Actors: Lorne Greene, Pernell Roberts, Michael Landon, Dan Blocker, Joan Hackett

Synopsis: In this frontier spin on Shakespeare's The Taming of the Shrew, Joan Hackett guest-stars as Margarita, the fiery, sharp-tongued daughter of a Mexican nobleman (Jay Novello). Having frightened off most of her potential suitors, Margarita may never be married-a sorry state of affairs for younger Read More

Viva Las Vegas

Actors: Elvis Presley, Ann-Margret, Cesare Danova, William Demarest, Nicky Blair

Synopsis: Viva Las Vegas, one of Elvis Presley's most popular vehicles, adheres as rigidly to formula as a Kabuki dance. Elvis plays a race-car driver competing in the Las Vegas Grand Prix opposite his principal rival, Cesare Danova. To finance his entry, Elvis takes a job as a casino waiter. Naturally, he Read More

The Lucy Show: Lucy Meets a Millionaire

Actors: Gale Gordon, Cesare Danova, Jay Novello

Synopsis: Lucy (Lucille Ball) goes ga-ga over handsome Italian millionaire Umberto Fabriani (Cesare Danova). Alas, Fabriani speaks no English, and Lucy isn't much better at Italian, despite the "assistance" of that master linguist Mr. Mooney (Gale Gordon). Things get worse when, during an intimate dinner Read More

Cleopatra

Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, Pamela Brown, Roddy McDowall, George Cole, Martin Landau

Synopsis: In 1963, this colossal and opulent $60 million spectacular was epic in every sense of the word -- an epic investment, an epic in the annals of Hollywood gossip, and, ultimately, an epic flop that nearly dragged 20th Century Fox down the Nile along with Cleopatra's barge. Handsomely mounted by Joseph L. Mankiewicz Read More

Gidget Goes to Rome

Actors: Cindy Carol, James Darren, Jesse Royce Landis, Cesare Danova, Danielle de Metz

Synopsis: Gidget Goes to Rome was the third film to be inspired by the beach-happy characters created by Frederick Kohner back in the mid-1950s. This time, surfer gal Francie "Gidget" Lawrence is played by newcomer Cindy Carol. Per the title, the film finds Gidget vacationing in the Eternal City with Read More

Tender Is the Night

Actors: Jennifer Jones, Jason Robards, Jr., Joan Fontaine, Tom Ewell, Cesare Danova

Synopsis: David O. Selznick had intended to film an adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Tender is the Night as a vehicle for his wife Jennifer Jones. But financial difficulties compelled Selznick to sell the property (including Ms. Jones' services) to 20th Century-Fox. Jones stars as a wealthy but disturbed Read More

Valley of the Dragons

Actors: Cesare Danova, Sean McClory, Joan Staley, Danielle de Metz, Gregg Martell

Synopsis: In this sci-fi fantasy, based on a Jules Verne story, two 18th-century men are preparing for a duel when they find themselves caught in the tremendous tailwind of a passing comet. They get sucked onto the comet's head where they find a strange world inhabited by dinosaurs and cave men. The rivals Read More

Catch Me if You Can

The Man Who Understood Women

Actors: Leslie Caron, Henry Fonda, Cesare Danova, Myron McCormick, Marcel Dalio

Synopsis: After making Man Who Understood Women and seeing that the result was an ill-realized, uneven combination of Hollywood satire and tear-jerking melodrama, star Henry Fonda did not make another film until almost three years later. The story centers on a Hollywood producer who becomes so obsessed with Read More

The Rifleman: Duel of Honor

Synopsis: Cesare Danova and Jack Elam guest star in this episode of the popular The Rifleman television series. The town of North Fork is startled by the arrival of a genuine Italian count (Danova) and no one more so than brutish cattle buyer Sim Groder (Jack Elam), who does his best to rile the newcomer. Read More

Don Juan

Actors: Cesare Danova, Joseph Meinrad, Hans von Borsody, Lotte Tobisch

Synopsis: This tuneful swashbuckler follows closely the plot of Mozart's opera "Don Giovanni" and chronicles the scandalous life and times of the amoral womanizer Don Giovanni, who after a life of hedonistic debauchery finds himself personally escorted to the gates of Hell by the slain father of one of the Read More

L'Amante di Paride

Synopsis: Beautiful Hedy Lamarr finds herself faced with a difficult decision when she must choose an appropriate costume for an important masquerade ball in this metaphorical fantasy that unfolds in three parts. To help her decide, she asks a trio of male friends. Their disparate suggestions that she go as Read More

Crossed Swords

Actors: Errol Flynn, Gina Lollobrigida, Cesare Danova, Nadia Gray, Paola Mori, Roldano Lupi

Synopsis: Errol Flynn's immediate followup to his 1953 swashbuckler Master of Ballantrae was Il Maestro di Don Giovanni--or, as it was known in America, Crossed Swords. Flynn plays a Don Juan-like adventurer named Renzo, who fights and romances his way through all sorts of Italian court intrigue. His Read More

Monaca Santa

Actors: Cesare Danova, Tina Lattanzi, Enrico Glori

Synopsis: This Italian musical drama was released to selected English-speaking theatres as The Holy Nun. The title character is played -- or, rather, sung -- by Eva Nova. Set in Naples, the film concerns a nun who can't quite get over the romantic entanglements of her previous life. Prominent in the cast is Read More