Flavio Bucci

Flavio Bucci

Birth : 1947-05-25, Turin, Italy

Death : 2020-02-18

History

Flavio Bucci (25 May 1947 – 18 February 2020) was an Italian actor. He appeared in over 90 films and television shows from 1971 until his death. Internationally, he may be best known for playing Daniel, the blind pianist, in Dario Argento's Suspiria (1977). His breakthrough role was the banknote-burning main character of Elio Petri's politically-charged Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973).

Profile

Flavio Bucci
Flavio Bucci
Flavio Bucci
Flavio Bucci

Movies

Psychedelic
The Big Step
Umberto Cavalieri
Ever since, at the age of six, Dario Cavalieri saw live images of the first moon landing, he has never stopped wanting to go there. Mario Cavalieri runs a neighborhood hardware store in Rome, until the day his existence is upset by the phone ring. His brother Dario is in prison. Mario finds himself being the only one who can take care of that brother he has seen only once in his life. The two brothers, as physically similar as they are different in character, will find themselves alone in the face of an impossible undertaking.
Credo in un solo padre
Zio Domenico Bianco
Falcino, a small town in the south of Italy. No one sees. No one hears. Nobody talks. But everyone knows. And so they all become accomplices of a tragedy against women, against kids, against a family. A story of violence and slavery. Indifference is stronger than their conscience. Maria, a young mother of a family, lives with her husband Gerardo and her two children, Rocco e Carmela, on her father-in-law's farm: "grandpà" Giuseppe. Gerardo decides to emigrate to Austria to earn more money so as to allow a more comfortable life for the family. This absence will be the beginning of a nightmare that will lead Maria and her daughter to be victims of abuse of an unscrupulous ogre (monster).
Flavioh - Tributo a Flavio Bucci
Himself
Sotto il Segno della Vittoria
Agadah
Vecchio Moreno
The Gospel According to Mattei
Franco Gravela
A cinic director and his assistant come back to Basilicata, their homeland, looking for redemption. 50 years aged and aristically loser, they try to shoot a rickety investigative movie titled "Il Vangelo secondo Mattei" in the same location where Pasolini filmed his "The Gospel According to St. Matthew" but focusing on the disasters caused by oil extractions in their wasteland of Basilicata, in the south of Italy. As main character, they choose Franco, 70 years old, that was an extra in Pasolini film...
Tutto può accadere nel villaggio dei miracoli
The Great Rage
Virgilio, Matteo's father
The Great Rage
Virgilio, Padre Matteo
The Vanishing of Pato
Capitano Arturo Bosisio
Il Divo
Franco Evangelisti
Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.
Lezioni di volo
Pollo's father
A pair of teen friends – known as "Chicken & Curry" because they are virtually inseparable – fail their high school finals and try to cover it by claiming that Curry is in the midst of an identity crisis that can only be solved by a visit to his ancestral homeland, India. While the ruse works wonderfully on their parents, this impromptu journey of self-discovery takes an unexpected detour when Curry locates his biological sister and remains captivated by the country he first despised, and Chicken falls for an older doctor working for Médecins Sans Frontières.
Il silenzio dell'allodola
Direttore del carcere
Caterina in the Big City
Lorenzo Rossi Chaillet
When her social-climbing father is relocated from small-town North to his native Rome, 12-year-old Caterina enrolls to his old school, finding herself in an completely different environment where students rigidly divide themselves in subcultures based on social class and their parents' political affiliation.
Volesse il cielo!
Uomo Angelo
A police inspector has to help an eccentric stranger who seems to have lost his memory.
Muzungu
Il vescovo
Lucignolo
Lucio's father
Red-haired, sex-obsessed manchild Lucio lazes all day long with his friend Pino until he falls for the beautiful head of the local loony bin. A retelling of 'Pinocchio' from the perspective of a Candlewick-like character.
I miei più cari amici
Il botanico
Fratelli coltelli
Vannino
Guelfo is a Florentine noble who has never worked and has no money. On the death of his mother, he believes he can inherit a large fortune, but from the notary he learns that he has an illegitimate brother with whom he will have to share half of his inheritance. His brother is called Felice, he works as a waiter in Bari and goes to Florence with a student friend who is indebted to the usurers. A rivalry without quarter begins between the two brothers.
Skinheads
Riccardo
Marco, 22 years old, lives in a Roma's suburb. His life goes on without any goal in an anonymous way. His only successful situation is his relationship with Zaira, a Somalian girl. While spending days uselessly, he meets Saverio, AKAS "The Fuhrer", head of a bunch of Nazi skins. He is fascinated by Saverio's world and tries all he can do to enter the fascist group. From that point on his life is deeply involved with the group activity. He tries to hide his relationship with Zaira, but the destiny is waiting for the final count.
Daddy, Don't Blush
Pagani
Tullio Venturini, a retired widower, has a daughter, Anna, who is an actress. However, he is the only one not to know that she works in the porn industry.
Nineties
professor Moira
Scandalously famous collections of short Italian comedies of the 90s! All that was "fun" in those years in Italy - all here! The sea of black humor on all issues - sex, politics, mafia, crime, TV...
Einer stirbt bestimmt
Silvester Orlandini
La posta in gioco
Gulli
How Long Is the Adventure
Padre Ribaldo
In order to get some money Gianni Zappi tries to organize an insurance fraud by drowning his yacht.
Il mistero del panino assassino
Freckled Max and the Spooks
A parody of Frankensteinian stories. It is a story of a little boy, an orphan who arrives at the Castle of Count Frankenstein - a world inhabited by mysterious and sometimes a bit ridiculous scary creatures. Although each one of them is different, they all share one thing: they feel lonely and they are desperate for a little love and affection.
Secondo Ponzio Pilato
Erode Antipa
The story of salvation is told from the perspective of the Roman governor in Judea, Pontius Pilate.
Control
Herman Pundt
An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strangers are put into a nuclear shelter to see how long they can survive without interaction with the outside, things work out fine.
Tex and the Lord of the Deep
Kanas
Based on the adventures of the hero Tex from the comic strip by Bonelli. An interesting spaghetti-western/fantasy movie that blends magic and mythology with six-guns and stagecoaches.
The 2 Lives of Mattia Pascal
Terenzio Papiano
Based on 'Il fu Mattia Pascal', one of Pirandello's many stories concerning the transitory nature of the intangibles "truth" and "identity". Mattia Pascal is a downtrodden average man, treated like trash by his fiancée, scorned by his associates, and cheated out of his inheritance by contemptuous relatives. The dispirited Pascal heads to Monte Carlo, accruing a fortune and also assuming the identity of a less fortunate gambler who killed himself. The "new" Pascal is treated with a dignity and respect that overwhelms him--and nearly kills him.
Woman of Wonders
Astolfo
In a straightforward yet unexceptional rendering of the life and loves of Alberto (Ben Gazzara), a writer/director approaching the hill though not yet over it, director Alberto Bevilacqua has used his own experiences to fashion a conventional tale about a search for the "perfect woman." His mettlesome neighbor Luisa (Lina Sastri) just will not leave him alone; she was the reason why he ended his marriage to Maura (Claudia Cardinale), but Alberto considers their affair dead and buried. Recently, an anonymous "dream woman" has been calling him for some seductive phone exchanges. As he searches out the identity of the mystery caller he is also distracted by Luisa who starts to insinuate herself back into his affections. Sooner or later, Alberto will just have to decide how to handle his love life, which in the end may only be mesmerizing to himself alone.
L'archivista
Poli Ugo, investigator of the Police Headquarters, after an accident that leaves him lame is relegated to the archives by his superiors. To take revenge for the treatment he has suffered, he secretly withdraws unresolved files from the archive, investigating and solving cases on his behalf, without communicating the result to those in charge.
Dream of a Summer Night
Oberon
Rock musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
The Magic Mountain
Ludovico Settembrini
Hans Castorp, fresh from university and about to become a civil engineer, comes to the Sanatorium Berghof in the Swiss Alps to visit his cousin Joachim, an army officer, who is recovering there from tuberculosis. Intending to remain at the Berghof for three weeks, Hans is gradually contaminated by the morbid atmosphere pervading the place. Wishing very much to be considered a patient like the others, he achieves his ends and stays in the sanatorium for ...seven years. During this time, he has enough time to take part in the furious philosophical debates pitting against each other Settembrini, a secular humanist, and Naphta, a totalitarian Jesuit. And to fall in love with the beautiful but enigmatic Clawdia Chauchat. When he is finally discharged in 1914 - along with all the other patients - it is only to plunge into the horrors of World War I.
L'inceneritore
Hunchback
Italian movie
The Marquis of Grillo
Don Bastiano
The marquess of Grillo is a good-natured, clever and women-loving man who is always inventing stories and cracking all types of jokes. The film tells the story of his life.
Matlosa
Il matlosa
A Canton Ticino family goes up for the weekend to the house in the mountains where the father spent his childhood. The journey to the valley, suffered at intervals by his wife and children, is an obsessive ritual for Alfredo, repeated week after week as he searches for his past.
Men or Not Men
Enne 2
In Milan, in the winter of 1944, the ruthless Cane Nero leads the fascists against the partisans. Enne 2, one of the leading figures of the C.N.L., meets Berta, whom he loved three years ago, but Berta refuses to leave her husband for him. Enne 2 is pursued by the fascists of Cane Nero and, instead of running away to Turin, waits for Berta to rejoin him
Maledetti vi amerò
Riccardo
Young radical Riccardo returns home after hiding out in South America for years, only to find out that he has no "home" left: his former comrades in arms have now either bourgeoisified or turned to drugs, and all they fought for seems to have set the stage for near-anarchy.
Ammazzare il tempo
Igor, lo psicanalista
From the novel by Lidia Ravera, which wants to be a mirror of the disappointed generation that made '68 and that ten years later finds itself without ideals to reject the world or to fit into that, reassuring, of the fifties. The protagonist, a left-wing journalist, manages to find her identity in the relationship with a teenager who lives her life without wasting it on hopes or regrets.
Gegè Bellavita
Gennarino Amato
Pregnant with their 10th child, Agata discovers that her lazy husband Gennaro betrays her cheerfully.
Ligabue
Ligabue is a 1978 Italian biographical drama film directed by Salvatore Nocita. It depicts real life events of painter Antonio Ligabue. For this film Nocita was awarded Nastro d'Argento for Best New Director, while Flavio Bucci won the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actor.
Circuito chiuso
Il sociologo
During a spaghetti western screening a man is shot dead, the doors are locked and the police is called in to investigate.
A Spiral of Mist
Vittorio, the physician
The lovely Maria Teresa is unhappily married with the impotent lawyer Marcello. Maria Teresa's marriage is contrasted by the passionate Valeria, who is killed during a chase. Is Valeria's husband the murderer? Maria Teresa helps him..
Suspiria
Daniel
An American newcomer to a prestigious German ballet academy comes to realize that the school is a front for something sinister amid a series of grisly murders.
Dove volano i corvi d'argento
Simula
Former shepherds return to Sardinia from Milan in order to avenge a brother wantonly killed by bandits. In describing the grinding contrasts between places and personages of old and new Sardinia, director Piero Livi does not falter, photographing faithfully a desolated land, stuck in the past but alienated from traditional beliefs.
Strange Occasion
coreografo del porno night (episodio "Italian Superman")
Three sexy and comic episodes.
L'agnese va a morire
Il pugliese
La Orca
Gino
A teenage girl is kidnapped by 3 guys and taken to an abandoned house in the country, and make her write her own ransom letter. She soon discovers that one of her captors is infatuated with her and she will use those feelings to stay alive.
Late Night Trains
Blackie
A pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize two young girls on a train trip from Germany to Italy.
Il generale dorme in piedi
Bucci
A colonel in the Army has a problem: when resting lying starts screaming anarchist and antimilitarist phrases. Because of his fitful sleep is therefore forced to sleep standing up.
Property Is No Longer a Theft
Total
A young bank teller, literally allergic to paper money, becomes the worst nightmare of his best customer, a wealthy butcher who manages his business unscrupulously.
The Smugglers
The Working Class Goes to Heaven
Operaio
A conscientious factory worker gets his finger cut off by a machine. The accident causes him to become more involved in political and revolutionary groups.