Pupella Maggio Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Giustina Maggio
Biography:: Italian actress Pupella Maggio made her acting debut as a one-year-old, lying in the cradle for a production of the play La Pupa movibile, with Eduardo Scarpetti's theatrical troupe. When she became an adult, she went back to work for the same company, while also making her mark with several other...Read More

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Cinema Paradiso: The New Version

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, Marco Leonardi, Jacques Perrin, Antonella Attili, Pupella Maggio, Agnese Nano

2002
Cinema Paradiso

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Salvatore Cascio, Marco Leonardi, Jacques Perrin, Antonella Attili, Pupella Maggio, Agnese Nano

Synopsis: Cinema Paradiso offers a nostalgic look at films and the effect they have on a young boy who grows up in and around the title village movie theater in this Italian comedy drama that is based on the life and times of screenwriter/director Giuseppe Tornatore. The story begins in the present as a Read More

11/17/88
I Giorni Del Commissario Ambrosio

10/14/88
Panagulis Zei

Actors: Stathis Giallelis, Pupella Maggio, Victor Cavallo, Adalberto Maria Merli

Synopsis: The story of a popular Greek hero Allessandro Panagulis (Stathis Giallelis) is the focus of this informative, feature-length version of a four-hour series. Panagulis tries to assassinate Prime Minister Papadopoulos in 1968, but is caught, tortured over an extended period of time, and then Read More

1980
Amarcord

Actors: Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio, Armando Brancia, Magali Noël, Ciccio Ingrassia, Nando Orfei

Synopsis: Federico Fellini's warmly nostalgic memory piece examines daily life in the Italian village of Rimini during the reign of Mussolini, and won the 1974 Academy Award as Best Foreign Film. The film's greatest asset is its ability to be sweet without being cloying, due in great part to Danilo Donati's Read More

12/18/73
The Valachi Papers

Actors: Charles Bronson, Lino Ventura, Jill Ireland, Joseph Wiseman, Walter Chiari, Amedeo Nazzari

Synopsis: This crime action movie is based on Peter Maas' best-selling book The Valachi Papers. That book, in turn, is based on prison conversations and the actual U.S. Senate testimony of Joseph Valachi, a high-ranking figure in the Mafia. The book, which tells precisely who did what to whom, when and why Read More

1972
Il Medico Della Mutua

Actors: Alberto Sordi, Bice Valori, Sara Franchetti, Evelyn Stewart

Synopsis: This comedic social satire mercilessly lampoons Italy's ineffectual health-care system that allows for corruption and mass hypochondria. An ambitious Dr. Tersilli (Alberto Sordi) bets his fellow doctors that he can amass more patients and benefits than they can. Learning the ins-and-outs of the Read More

10/24/68
The Bible - In the Beginning

Actors: Michael Parks, Ulla Bergryd, Richard Harris, John Huston, Stephen Boyd

Synopsis: The Bible was intended by producer Dino De Laurentiis as the first in a series of films which would eventually cover the Old and New Testament in their entireties. The many directors engaged for this project dropped out one by one, leaving only the adventurous John Huston. As a result, this film Read More

10/14/66
Le Quattro Giornate di Napoli

Actors: Regina Bianchi, Aldo Giuffré, Lea Massari, Jean Sorel, Franco Sportelli

Synopsis: This gripping, Oscar-nominated war drama is set in the fall of 1943 during the Nazi occupation of Italy when all the Neapolitan males from five to sixty are forced to work in slave camps. Tired of the cruelty and oppression, the people rise up and launch such a violent melee that they frighten the Read More

11/16/62
Two Women

Actors: Sophia Loren, Eleanora Brown, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raf Vallone, Renato Salvatori

Synopsis: Normally, an actor or actress in a foreign-language film was not the ideal candidate for an Academy Award, inasmuch as his or her English-language "performance" was often dubbed in by an anonymous third party. Such was not the case of Sophia Loren in Two Women (La Ciociara), who did her own Read More

12/22/60