Raf Vallone Filmography

Born:: February 17, 1916 in Tropea, Calabria, Italy
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Raffaele Vallone
Biography:: Educated at the University of Turin, Raf Vallone was a professional soccer player and jack-of-all-trades journalist before making a spectacular film acting debut in the neorealist classic Bitter Rice. While Vallone has never wanted for roles of depth and meaning (Giovanni in De Sica's Two Women...Read More

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A Season of Giants

Actors: Mark Frankel, John Glover

Synopsis: Season of Giants succeeds more in ambition than in execution. This 195-minute TV movie proposes that a great professional rivalry existed between Renaissance geniuses Michelangelo (Mark Frankel) and Leonardo da Vinci (John Glover). While the Florentine and Roman scenery is authentic, certain Read More

1991
First Circle

Actors: F. Murray Abraham, Victor Garber, Laurent Malet, Christopher Plummer, Robert Powell, Robert Joy

Synopsis: Based on a Solzhenitsyn book, this is the story of a Moscow official in Stalinist Russia whose future freedom depends on a technological break-through. ~ Tana Hobart, All Movie Guide Read More

1991
The Godfather Part III

Actors: Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Andy Garcia, Eli Wallach, Sofia Coppola, Joe Mantegna

Synopsis: After a break of more than 15 years, director Francis Ford Coppola and writer Mario Puzo returned to the well for this third and final story of the fictional Corleone crime family. Two decades have passed, and crime kingpin Michael Corleone (Al Pacino), now divorced from his wife Kay (Diane Read More

12/25/90
La Leyenda del Cura de Bargota

Actors: Fernando Guillen Cuervo, Lola Forner, Jaume Valls, Encarna Paso

Synopsis: In this religious horror-story, Father Juan (Fernando Guillen Cuervo) is being interviewed by the Holy Office (Inquisition) in 16th century Spain. He tells a chilling tale of having been born to a woman who has conceived him through the intervention of the devil. However, until the woman was on Read More

1990
Paradigma

Actors: Marie-Christine Barrault, Vittorio Gassman, Benjamin Voelz, Raf Vallone

Synopsis: In a befuddling look at the nature of evil (apparently linked with how much money one has), a young idealist finds himself in hot water by sticking with his beliefs. Hubert (Benjamin Voelz) is studying theology supported by a grant from a weapons manufacturer (Vittorio Gassman) -- the first crack Read More

9/11/85
Christopher Columbus

Actors: Gabriel Byrne, Faye Dunaway, Max von Sydow

Synopsis: Leading man Gabriel Byrne adds a "Harlequin Romance" dash to the two-part, six-hour TV movie Christopher Columbus. Seeking out a swifter route to the lucrative Indies, Genoa-born Columbus begs King John of Portugal (Max Von Sydow) to finance a westbound expedition. Failing this, he turns to Read More

1985
A Time to Die

Actors: Edward Albert, Rod Taylor, Rex Harrison, Linn Stokke, Raf Vallone

Synopsis: In this mystery, a vengeful husband goes looking for the six people who tortured him and then killed his wife. The husband is a WW II vet and one of the killers is now a high-ranking German official. The plot is based on a Mario Puzo story. The film is also titled Seven Graves for Rogan. ~ Sandra Read More

1983
The Scarlet and the Black

Actors: Gregory Peck

Synopsis: Gregory Peck had made scattered television appearances before, but the 3-hour Scarlet and the Black was his first starring assignment in a made-for-TV movie. Peck plays Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty, a real-life cleric who, during World War II, rescued thousands of escaped POWs from the Gestapo. Read More

1983
Lion of the Desert

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Oliver Reed, Rod Steiger, John Gielgud, Irene Papas

Synopsis: Libyan leader Moummar Quaddafi financed this desert epic about a Libyan hero who helped his nation fend off an Italian invasion in 1929. Anthony Quinn stars as Omar Mukhtar, who organizes Libyan forces to hold off the encroaching Italian troops under General Rodolfo Graziana (Oliver Reed), who are Read More

1981
Sezona Mira U Parizu

Actors: Maria Schneider, Dragan Nikolic, Alain Noury, Alida Valli, Erland Josephson

Synopsis: A Yugoslavian man meets a woman in Paris, where he has come to do some research, and their mutual attraction leads to a liaison and shared adventures, not many good. They are both survivors from Nazi concentration camps which automatically gives them a kindred understanding. Their past comes back Read More

1981
Retour à Marseille

Actors: Raf Vallone, Andréa Ferréol, Jean Maurel, Paul Allio

1980
An Almost Perfect Affair

Actors: Keith Carradine, Monica Vitti, Raf Vallone, Christian de Sica, Dick Anthony Williams

Synopsis: Inside jokes about the film industry dominate this slight tale of ambition and romance at the Cannes Film Festival. Keith Carradine plays a first-time director who has sunk two years and all his money into a movie about the execution of murderer Gary Gilmore. With his last bit of cash, he flies Read More

1979
Arthur Miller on Home Ground

Actors: Arthur Miller, Inge Monath

Synopsis: This 1979 documentary chronicles the first 64 years in the life of Arthur Miller (b. 1915), an important 20th-century American playwright, novelist and all-around man of letters. Miller also wrote several screenplays, notably for The Misfits and The Crucible. The last was based on his Read More

1979
The Greek Tycoon

Actors: Anthony Quinn, Jacqueline Bisset, Raf Vallone, Edward Albert, James Franciscus

Synopsis: The producers of The Greek Tycoon insisted that their film was not based on any "actual persons, living or dead." Yeh, right. Anthony Quinn stars as Greek shipping-magnate Theo Tomassis, who becomes the second husband of socialite Liz Cassidy (Jacqueline Bisset). It seems that Liz is the widow of Read More

1978
The Other Side of Midnight

Actors: Marie-France Pisier, John Beck, Susan Sarandon, Raf Vallone, Clu Gulager

Synopsis: One woman's life of love and larceny is recounted in this soapy drama based on the best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon. In the midst of WWII, innocent French girl Noelle Page (Marie-France Pisier) falls in love with dashing American pilot Larry Douglas (John Beck). When Larry is given new orders Read More

1977
Girl in Room 2A

Synopsis: This cut-rate Italian giallo effort stars Daniela Giordano as Margaret, a recently paroled ex-reprobate who takes up residence in a broken-down mansion where she is soon terrorized by both the house's creepy owner and the red-hooded minions of a Satanic death cult, whose leader abducts young women Read More

1976
The Human Factor

Actors: George Kennedy, John Mills, Raf Vallone, Arthur Franz, Rita Tushingham

Synopsis: A simple man becomes bent on violent revenge in this thriller. John Kinsdale (George Kennedy) is an American who lives with his wife and three children in Naples, Italy, where he's employed by NATO as an electronics expert. Kinsdale and his good friend Mike McAllister (John Mills) are working to Read More

1975
That Lucky Touch

Actors: Roger Moore, Susannah York, Shelley Winters, Lee J. Cobb, Jean-Pierre Cassel

Synopsis: Lee J. Cobb's last film is in this light romantic comedy starring Roger Moore as Michael Scott, an arms dealer who comes complete with a sophisticated playboy patter for the ladies. During war games, Michael attempts to sell weapons to NATO forces by trying to interest NATO general Steedman (Lee J. Cobb Read More

1975
Rosebud

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Cliff Gorman, Claude Dauphin, John V. Lindsay

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Joan Hemingway and Paul Bonnecarrere, Rosebud opens with five young women vacationing aboard a luxurious yacht called the Rosebud. All five of the women are the daughters of wealthy and powerful men; one of them is the daughter of an influential American senator. Their vacation Read More

1975
Volver a Vivir

1/7/73
The Small Miracle

Synopsis: Made for television, The Small Miracle is based on a story by Paul Gallico. Little Pepino (Marco Della Cava) hopes to cure his dying donkey. The boy is convinced that he can save his pet if only he can bring it to the crypt of St. Francis of Assisi. However, the Father Superior (Raf Vallone) will Read More

1973
The Conflict

Actors: Martin Sheen, Trevor Howard

Synopsis: In this drama, a conservative Catholic priest representing the Pope is sent to Ireland to settle down a few influential radical priests whose doctrine is contrary to standard church guidelines. AKA The Conflict. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1973
Honor Thy Father

Actors: Brenda Vaccaro, Joseph Bologna, Raf Vallone, Richard S. Castellano, Joe de Santis

Synopsis: Gay Talese's bestseller Honor Thy Father is given a superb, albeit slightly expurgated, treatment in this made-for-TV movie. Joseph Bologna plays Bill Bonanno, the son of New York City Mafia-don Joe "Bananas" Bonanno (Raf Vallone). When his father disappears in 1964, Bill is compelled to take over Read More

1973
Un Tipo con una faccia strana

Actors: Christopher Mitchum, Barbara Bouchet, Arthur Kennedy

Synopsis: Robert Mitchum's son Christopher heads the cast of this Italian melodrama. Despite the horrific title, the film is actually a Mafia yarn. Arthur Kennedy shows up as a WASP-ish Godfather type, while Barbara Bouchet is the love interest. The presence of Hollywood names in the cast was supposed to Read More

1973
The Summertime Killer

Actors: Karl Malden, Christopher Mitchum

Synopsis: This multinational crime action film also boasts an international cast. During his childhood, a boy (Chris Mitchum) sees four men drown his father; now, the grown young man makes it his business to kill each member of the foursome. His last killing presents him with some challenges, as his victim Read More

1972
A Gunfight

Actors: Kirk Douglas, Johnny Cash, Jane Alexander, Karen Black, Keith Carradine

Synopsis: A Gunfight was the first mainstream American film to be produced by an Indian tribe -- specifically, the Jicarilla Apaches of New Mexico. Kirk Douglas and Johnny Cash star as Will and Abe, two long-in-tooth gunfighters with nary a dime between them. Although Will and Abe are fast friends, they Read More

1971
La Morte Risale A Ieri Sera

Actors: Raf Vallone, Frank Wolff, Gabriele Tinti, Eva Renzi

Synopsis: Though not a giallo film in the strictest sense, this crime/revenge film merits attention by fans for its genre cast and an unusual approach to familiar themes. Raf Vallone plays anguished father Avanzio Berzaghi, whose 25-year old daughter Donatella has been kidnapped. Donatella has the mind of a Read More

9/5/70
The Kremlin Letter

Actors: Bibi Andersson, Richard Boone, Nigel Green, Dean Jagger, Lila Kedrova

Synopsis: When American agents in Moscow try to recover a stolen letter implicating America in an anti-Red China plot, they discover a hornet's nest of treason, double agents, murder, and betrayal. The plot has as many switchbacks as a Formula One racetrack, and a pad and paper to keep track of the agents Read More

1970
Cannon for Cordoba

Actors: George Peppard, Giovanna Ralli, Raf Vallone, Pete Duel, Don Gordon

Synopsis: In this limp western melodrama, when Mexican bandit Hector Cordoba (Raf Vallone) attacks a U.S. Army fort a few miles from the Mexican border, General John Pershing (John Russell) orders Captain Rod Douglas (George Peppard) to organize a group of soldiers to cross the border into Mexico to capture Read More

1970
The Italian Job

Actors: Michael Caine, Noël Coward, Benny Hill, Raf Vallone, Tony Beckley

Synopsis: The quintessential British caper film of the 1960s, The Italian Job is a flashy, fast romp that chases a team of career criminals throughout one of the biggest international gold heists in history. Michael Caine is Charlie Croker, a stylish robber and skirt-chaser just out of British prison. Read More

1969
The Desperate Ones

Actors: Maximilian Schell, Raf Vallone, Irene Papas, Theodore Bikel, Maria Perschy

Synopsis: In this drama, two Polish brothers escape from a Russian labor camp and try to join the exiled Polish Army in Afghanistan. While awaiting the man who will sneak them over the border, they rent a room. There, one of them falls in love with the landlord's wife, and the other for a local waitress. Read More

1968
A Thousand and One Nights

Synopsis: The Spanish Thousand and One Nights brings a new slant to an old story. Several Arabian Nights legends are blended together into a single coherent continuity. Evidently certain that this sort of stuff was too hokey to take seriously, the producers handle the material with tongue firmly in cheek. Read More

1968
Operazione Paradiso

Actors: Michael Connors, Dorothy Provine, Raf Vallone, Margaret Lee, Terry-Thomas

Synopsis: An evil scientist attempts to use his newly designed satellite to sterlize everyone on earth. Fortunately two savvy secret agents are set on the case to stop him. Basically this is a low grade, low budget Italian mish-mash of comedy and spy films. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1966
Nevada Smith

Actors: Steve McQueen, Karl Malden, Brian Keith, Arthur Kennedy, Suzanne Pleshette

Synopsis: Henry Hathaway's film is based on a character from Harold Robbins' The Carpetbaggers, who, in turn, based it on cowboy actor Ken Maynard. Set in the West of the 1890s, the film opens with the torture and murder of the parents of Max Sand (Steve McQueen) by a trio of gunslingers seemingly motivated Read More

1966
Harlow

Actors: Carroll Baker, Martin Balsam, Red Buttons, Michael Connors, Angela Lansbury

Synopsis: Of the two competing Jean Harlow biopics released in 1965, producer Joseph E. Levine's Harlow is the more slickly professional, though neither film is exactly a cinematic landmark. Carroll Baker plays 1930s "platinum blonde" Jean Harlow, who, in keeping with the portrait painted by biographer Read More

1965
The Secret Invasion

Actors: Stewart Granger, Mickey Rooney, Edward Byrnes, Henry Silva

Synopsis: Producer/director Roger Corman briefly abandoned Edgar Allan Poe for The Secret Invasion, a commendable attempt to make a war epic on a "B" budget. The story is a scaled-down precursor to The Dirty Dozen: Five criminals are given a chance at a pardon by agreeing to participate in a suicide Read More

1964
The Cardinal

Actors: Tom Tryon, Carol Lynley, Dorothy Gish, Romy Schneider, Maggie McNamara, John Huston, Raf Vallone

Synopsis: Tom Tryon plays the title role in this Otto Preminger version of the Henry Morton Robinson novel. In his matriculation from Monsignor to the College of Cardinals, Stephen Fermoyle (Tom Tryon) must undergo several grueling life experiences: standing up to bigots in Georgia, defying Nazis in Read More

1963
A View from the Bridge

Actors: Raf Vallone, Jean Sorel, Maureen Stapleton, Raymond Pellegrin, Carol Lawrence

Synopsis: A View from the Bridge is set in New York, but the alleged political undesirability of playwright Arthur Miller dictated that this film be lensed in France. Director Sidney Lumet shot the film in both English and French, with the English version sounding more recited than acted at times. Raf Vallone Read More

1/17/62
Phaedra

Actors: Melina Mercouri, Anthony Perkins, Raf Vallone, Elizabeth Ercy, Olympia Papadouka

Synopsis: Inspired by Euripedes' tragedy Hippolytus and set in modern times, this allegorical tale centers on the love triangle between a fabulously wealthy Greek shipping magnate, his lonely second wife, and his first-born son. The affair between the wife and her stepson begins soon after she arrives in Read More

1962
El Cid

Actors: Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren, Raf Vallone, Gary Raymond, Ralph Truman, John Fraser

Synopsis: When French playwright Pierre Corneille wrote El Cid, a fanciful version of the life of 11th-century Spanish hero Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, aka "El Cid", an attempt was made to honor the "classic unities" and to compress the whole story into a single day! Be assured that the 1961 film version of El Read More

12/21/61
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
La Garconniere

10/12/60
Recours En Grace

Actors: Raf Vallone, Emmanuelle Riva, Annie Girardot, Fernand Ledoux

Synopsis: The main drawback to this well-wrought tale of a man on the run is the weight it places on dialogue and concepts over actions and feelings. Otherwise, the fast-paced, sad story moves along unremittingly after Mario (Raf Vallone) has an unexpected encounter with a friend he has not seen for many Read More

5/25/60
La Venganza

Actors: Carmen Sevilia, Raf Vallone, Jorge Mistral, Arnoldo Foa, Fernando Rey

Synopsis: Two of Spain's leading film personalities - star Carmen Sevila and director Juan Antonio Bardem - pool their talents for La Venganza. The Steinback-like scenario finds Sevila playing the sister of Raf Vallone, a recently released convict. Convinced that one of a group of migrant workers betrayed Read More

4/22/60
The Adventures of Mandarin

Synopsis: A gun-for-hire organizes a bandit ring to bring justice to some dictatorial Spanish-controlled territory. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1960
La Violetera

2/6/59
Le Piege

Actors: Raf Vallone, Magali Noël, Charles Vanel, Roland Le Saffre

Synopsis: Le Piege (The Trap) top-bills Raf Vallone as a likeable fugitive from justice. Protected from arrest by big-hearted waitress Magali Noel, Vallone manages to elude the law long enough to begin a legit job as a truckdriver. When Noel's boss learns the truth about Vallone's past, he blackmails the Read More

6/25/58
Liebe

11/16/56
Les Possedees

Actors: Madeleine Robinson, Raf Vallone, Magali Noël

Synopsis: Ugo Betti's allegorical play The Island of Goats served as the basis for the French melodrama Les Possedees. Raf Vallone heads the cast as a man who looks, and acts, like a goat. Vallone wreaks havoc upon a houseful of females, who cannot seem to resist his charms despite his ugliness. Madeline Robinson Read More

5/30/56
Le Secret De Soeur Angele

Actors: Sophie Desmarets, Raf Vallone

3/21/56
Rose Bernd

Actors: Maria Schell, Raf Vallone, Kaethe Gold, Leopold Biberti, Hannes Messemer

Synopsis: West Germany's entry in the 1957 Cannes Film Festival was this cinemadaptation of the Gerhardt Hauptman play Rose Bernd. The title character, played by Maria Schell, is a servant girl on a remote farm. Sexually assaulted by both her employer and a coworker, Rose later bears a child, who die soon Read More

1956
No Escape

Synopsis: In this crime drama, a beautiful widow gets involved with a prison escape even though she is under constant supervision by her cruel father-in-law. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1956
Il Segno di Venere

Actors: Franca Valeri, Vittorio De Sica, Raf Vallone, Peppino De Filippo

Synopsis: Il Segno di Venera (The Sign of Venus) offers an earthier Sophia Loren than American audiences would later become accustomed to. Agnese (Loren) has no trouble attracting men, which is more than can be said for her plain-Jane friend Cesira (Franca Valeri). The two girls embark on a search for an Read More

3/12/55
Siluri Umani

Actors: Raf Vallone, Franco Fabrizi, Andrea Checchi, Enrico Maria Salerno, Christian Marquand

Synopsis: Despite their questionable behavior during WWII, the Italians were generally cast in a sympathetic light in war films of the 1950s. In Siluri Umani (Human Torpedoes), Raf Vallone stars as a member of an elite Italian navy unit. Their mission: to attack a British convoy in motorboats armed with Read More

1955
Andrea Chenier

Actors: Raf Vallone, Antonella Lualdi, Michel Auclair

1955
Obsession

Actors: Michèle Morgan, Raf Vallone, Jean Gaven, Marthe Mercadier

10/28/54
Orage

Actors: Raf Vallone, Françoise Arnoul

Synopsis: Director Pierre Billon co-adapted the screenplay of Orage from a novel by Henri Bernstein. Released in the U.S. as Storm, the film stars Raf Vallone as André, a good husband and family man. André, in fact, is too good to suit his mistress Françoise (Françoise Arnoul). Realizing that he'd be better Read More

4/17/54
Destinees

Actors: Claudette Colbert, Eleonora Rossi-Drago, Michèle Morgan, Martine Carol, Raf Vallone

1954
La Pensionnaire

Actors: Martine Carol, Raf Vallone, Clelia Matania, Carlo Romano, Mario Carotenuto

Synopsis: La Pensionnaire was released in English-speaking countries as The Boarder. The title character is a good-hearted prostitute named Joy, played by Martine Carol. Unable to locate a cheap hotel room at a swank seaside resort, Joy settles for the only available space, which happens to be in a Read More

1954
Daughters of Destiny

Synopsis: This film is comprised of three vignettes focusing upon women and war. The first episode, set in WW II, chronicles the sad journey of an American woman who goes to Italy to bring her husband's body home. In Italy she makes a heart-wrenching discovery: he had been living with an Italian family and Read More

1954
Domanda di Grazia

Synopsis: The French/Italian Obsession was based on a novel by American suspense writer William Irish (aka Cornell Woolrich). Michelle Morgan and Raf Vallone are carnival performers, touring the provinces with a successful trapeze act. Though Morgan knows that Vallone is on the lam from a murder charge, she Read More

1954
Thérèse Raquin

Actors: Simone Signoret, Raf Vallone, Jacques Duby, Roland Le Saffre, Sylvie

Synopsis: The grim Emile Zola "naturalist" novel Therese Raquin has been vividly cinematized by director Marcel Carne. Simone Signoret plays the title character, the long-suffering housewife who dreams of a more romantic life-partner than the bourgeois Camille (Jacques Duby). Therese enjoys a torrid affair Read More

11/6/53
Gli Eroi Della Domenica,

12/30/52
Camicie Rosse

Actors: Anna Magnani, Raf Vallone, Alain Cuny, Jacques Sernas, Carlo Ninchi

Synopsis: Camicie Rosse (Red Shirts) was released in most markets as Anita Garibaldi, in deference to the star status of Anna Magnani. The actress plays the wife of the great Italian patriot Garibaldi, who at the beginning of the film hovers on the brink of death, harking back to past glories. Most of the Read More

8/15/52
Il Cristo Proibito

Actors: Raf Vallone, Elena Varzi, Alain Cuny, Philippe Lemaire, Gino Cervi, Rina Morelli

Synopsis: Strange Deception combines a standard revenge tale with a postwar reenactment of the first four books of the New Testament. Freshly released from a Russian POW camp, Italian soldier Raf Vallone tries to discover who betrayed his brother to the Nazis. Alain Cuny is an enigmatic carpenter who has Read More

3/24/51