John KitzmillerFilmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: American actor John Kitzmiller appeared in many European films following military service during WW II. He started out while stationed in Italy. There he was asked to appear in a few Italian neorealist features. This lead to his playing the lead in Without Pity in 1948. After that he continued to...Read More

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Onkel Toms Hütte

Actors: John Kitzmiller, O.W. Fischer, Eleonora Rossi-Drago, Gertraud Mittermayr, Mylène Demongeot

Synopsis: Set in Kentucky during the slavery days of the Old South, this adaptation of the novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe tells of the workings of the underground railroad, a secretive system formed by whites and blacks which allowed slaves to escape into the northern states. This drama, directed in Read More

12/23/65
Cave of the Living Dead

Synopsis: In this lively horror film, a number of young women have mysteriously vanished and now Inspector Doren is assigned to find them. He goes to the village where the seven murdered maidens lived and ends up assisted by the town witch who leads him to a strange laboratory located in the deepest Read More

1965
La Tigre dei Sette Mari

Synopsis: In this swashbuckler, a sensuous female pirate takes over her retired father's ship and sails off for high-seas adventure and romance. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

12/23/62
Il Figlio del Capitano Blood

Actors: Sean Flynn, Alessandra Panaro, Jose Nieto, Ann Todd

Synopsis: This sequel to the classic adventure, stars Sean Flynn, the son of the swashbuckling actor who played Captain Blood in the original. In this version, the son of the notorious pirate is raised by his mother. She wants him to be a doctor, but unfortunately, the lad has salt-water in his veins and Read More

1962
Dr. No

Actors: Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, Jack Lord, Bernard Lee

Synopsis: Terence Young directed this first of a long line of screen adventures with Ian Fleming's unflappable British Secret Service Agent 007 in a fast-paced, tongue-in-cheek style that set the tone for the rest of the popular series. Sean Connery sets the standard by which all future takers must measure Read More

1962
La Rivolta dei Mercenari

Synopsis: In this drama, a widowed duchess finds herself drawn to leader of a mercenary band. The cavalier leader offers to save her from her avaricious, land-grabbing neighbor, but then suddenly goes to work for him when the neighbor pays a hire price. This enrages the duchess, but fortunately, he comes Read More

7/27/61
Lost Souls

Synopsis: The trouble in this Italian crime drama begins when five convicts and their leader escape from Elba and endeavor to rob the payroll office of an iron mine. The mine owner's son refuses to allow this. Unfortunately, the son's sister and her pals happen into the office and soon find themselves held Read More

1961
Afrodite, Dea Dell'amore

8/29/58
The Naked Earth

Actors: Richard Todd, Juliette Greco, Finlay Currie, John Kitzmiller, Laurence Naismith

Synopsis: A poor Irishman goes to Africa to help a friend harvest his tobacco, but upon arrival, he learns that his friend was eaten by a crocodile. His friend's French mistress proposes marriage and they work on the tobacco crop until the natives helping them leave for a ritual. He starts hunting Read More

1958
Dolina Miru

Actors: John Kitzmiller

Synopsis: This Yugoslavian drama was released in English-speaking countries as The Peaceful Valley and Sergeant Jim. In the tradtion of Rene Clement's Forbidden Games, the film offers a child's-eye perspective of WW2. A group of war orphans run away from an institution in search of a mythical peaceful Read More

1956
Variety Lights

Synopsis: Federico Fellini's directorial debut (co-directed with veteran Alberto Lattuada), Luci del Varietà is a bittersweet drama about a bunch of misfits in a traveling vaudeville troupe. The group of actors, dancers, and performers struggle to make it from town to town, playing to minimal crowds. Their Read More

12/6/50
La Forza del Destino

Actors: Nelly Corradi, Gino Sinimberghi, Tito Gobbi, John Kitzmiller

Synopsis: Italian director Carmine Gallone, who previously brought the Giueseppe Verdi opera Il Trovatore to the screen, herein offers a cinemazation of Verdi's La Forza del Destino. With a less dynamic plot than Trovatore, this Verdi composition can be appreciated on the merits of its music alone. Famed Read More

1/25/50
Ti Ritrovera

Actors: Enrico Viarisio, Delia Scala, Peter Ford

Synopsis: Based on a true story, Ti Ritrovera is set in postwar Naples. Newlywed Maria (Delia Scala) can't understand why her husband disappeared without a trace during their honeymoon. What the audience knows, but Maria doesn't, is that hubby is a British intelligence agent on a top-secret mission. Maria Read More

1949
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
Senza Pietà

Actors: Carla Del Poggio, John Kitzmiller, Giulietta Masina, Folco Lulli

Synopsis: Filmed in 1948 as Senza Pieta, this Alberto Lattuada-directed effort came to America the following year as Without Pity. The film's sensitive subject matter caused problems in distribution and approval; Lattuada was never known to shirk from a sociopolitical statement, even when it meant loss of Read More

9/5/48
Vivere in Pace

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
Paisan

Actors: Carmela Sazio, Dotts Johnson, Maria Michi, Haniet White

Synopsis: Roberto Rossellini's Paisan (originally Paisa) is one of the best-known and most important of the postwar Italian neorealist films; certainly it has one of the finest pedigrees, representing the combined talents of two of Italy's most prestigious filmmakers. The second of Rossellini's "war Read More

12/10/46