Gastone Moschin

Gastone Moschin

Birth : 1929-06-08, San Giovanni Lupatoto, Veneto, Italy

Death : 2017-09-04

History

Italian stage, television and film actor perhaps best known for playing Don Fanucci in THE GODFATHER: PART II (1974). From 1970 until his death, he was married to actress Marzia Ubaldi.

Profile

Gastone Moschin

Movies

Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds
Self
italian documentary
Porzus
Geko vecchio
Non chiamarmi Omar
Dr. Omar Tavoni
Donne con le gonne
avvocato Carabba
Renzo falls in love with feminist Margherita, too emancipated for him: they start a troubled relationship until he kidnaps her, forcing her to be an housewife devoted to her husband.
Rimini, Rimini: A Year Later
Teseo Formigoni
Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimini in Italy.
How Long Is the Adventure
Oreste Raccà
In order to get some money Gianni Zappi tries to organize an insurance fraud by drowning his yacht.
A Thorn in the Heart
dottor Trigona
Guido, a young idler with a gambling problem falls in love with Caterina a mysterious girl. A torrid affair follows thereafter. When Caterina leaves him Guido investigates her past and learns she had a lot of lovers.
My Friends Act III
Architetto Melandri
This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.
A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Bandit
ministro dell'interno
The internal minister's very sophisticated ultra-technological and plated car stops for a mechanical accident in front of a villa. The owner of the villa is De Andreis that immediately offers his help to save the minister entrapped inside the car. Everything has to be done in secret to avoid a scandal within the Roman politic world. Many attempt are done but the result is unexpectedly terrific.
My Friends Act II
Il Melandri - Architetto Rambaldo Melandri
The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the first episode. Time has passed but they are still up for adventures and cruel jokes, and while they recall the one they created together with the late friend, new ones are on their way, starting right there at the cemetery.
Amor es... veneno, Carlota
Charlie
Pájaros de ciudad
Giuliano Gemma stars in this love story in a dystopian future for a movie ahead of its time... After committing a murder, an ordinary man escapes from the police with the help of his ex-wife. A vigilante state will not allow them to relive their love story.
Lion of the Desert
Major Tomelli
This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.
La compagna di viaggio
The Baron
A ruined noble decides to organize a robbery on a luxury train. He decides to get help from a busty starlet that should distract passengers ...
Si salvi chi vuole
Stefano
The daughter of a bourgeoisified Communist MP and a permissive housewife brings home her latest boyfriend, a Neapolitan scoundrel.
The Fantastic Tales of Edgar Allan Poe
The Judge
Four Edgar Allan Poe adaptations running an hour apiece, including "Night in the House of Usher," "Ligeia Forever," "The Delusion of William Wilson" and "The Fall of the House of Usher." Originally made for Italian TV.
Magnum Cop
Karl Koper
A low-rent private investigator and former cop is sent to Austria on a job, and while there sees a number of seemingly unrelated coincidences that lead him into a strange web of corruption and decadence.
Wifemistress
Vincenzo
Since her husband pronounced her frigid on her wedding night, Antonia De Angelis has been an invalid. When he disappears, she believes him dead: she leaves her sickbed and takes over his business, traveling to see clients. She discovers her husband's passions, his political writing, mistresses, and his indifference to the peasants on her family's land. The husband is forced to watch from a distance as his wife blossom socially in his absence; then the plot thickens.
The Fatal Eggs
Il Professor Vladimir Ipat'evic Pérsikov
Based on 1925 Bulgakov's The Fatal Eggs, a zoologist finds a way to accelerate embryo growth in chicken eggs to help feed the population after the war. An unfortunate logistical accident makes the country swarmed with dangerous reptiles.
A Woman at Her Window
Primoukis
Greece, 1936. An aristocratic woman engages in a series of loveless affairs before finding herself falling for a political activist.
My Friends
Rambaldo Melandri
Four middle-aged friends in Florence organize together idle pranks (called zingarate, "gypsy shenanigans") in a continuous attempt to prolong childhood during their adult life.
The Godfather Part II
Don Fanucci
In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Commissariato di notturna
Commissario Emiliano Borghini
Emergency Squad
Marsigliese
A ruthless Interpol agent goes after the man who killed his wife in Stelvio Massi's crime thriller. A gutsy robber named Marseilles pulls off a tricky heist, but he's no match for agent Ravelli, a maverick who can't control his bloodlust. And this time, it's personal: Years earlier, the daring thief murdered the operative's wife in cold blood.
The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun
Beilin
A war film based on the novel "Journey into the Vertigo" by Evgenija Solomonovna Ginzburg
Erotomania
Rodolfo Persichetti
Rodolfo Persichetti has reached the maximum of his career and at the same time the minimum of his sexual capacities. A famous psychiatrist helps him in regaining his lost virility by mean of a new therapy.
The Assassination of Matteotti
Filippo Turati
How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.
The Sensuous Sicilian
Uncle Edmondo
From his youth, Paolo Castorini, a Sicilian baron, is as attracted to women as they to him. Giovanna, a servant girl, Lillian, a serious girlfriend in Rome, a hostess at a post-war party, Paolo makes love to them all. He also feels dissatisfied with a life only of the body, compared to his journalist friend Vincenzo and his own father, a sober and serious thinker. When his father is on his deathbed, Paolo learns of syphilis in the family and something of the curse of dissolution. Some years later, he resolves to marry Katrina, the pure daughter of the woman he should have married. He wants her purity to redeem him so he can make something of his life. But is it too late?
Incensurato, provata disonestà, carriera assicurata cercasi
Giuseppe Zaccherin
Fiorina the Cow
Ruzante
Plenty of fun erotic stories in the spirit of the "Decameron", united by one constant hero - unlucky cow Fiorina.
Don Camillo and the Contestants
Don Camillo
Mayor Peppone might very well lose the elections and Don Camillo makes sure that the mayor's delinquent son gets his act together while his own niece makes Peppone think she is pregnant by his son.
Cause of Divorce
Lawyer
Film directed by Marcello Fondato.
Caliber 9
Ugo Piazza
Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture. Both the gangsters and the police believe Ugo has hidden $300,000 that should have gone to an American drug syndicate boss.
The Sicilian Checkmate
Colonnesi, defense attorney
Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organised crime into the business and political life of Sicily.
Roma bene
monsignore
Nino Manfredi is a police captain, giving an onlooker's point-of-view towards the decadent society folk. Party itself features a down & out baron, who dances with the party's glamorous hostess Virna Lisi so that he can steal her valuable earrings. When they're missing, she's angry enough to call in the cops (Manfredi shows up) and have the baron taken away.
Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Giambattista Manteghin
Mio padre Monsignore
Don Alvaro
Io non vedo, tu non parli, lui non sente
Metello Bottazzi
Two spouses discover a corpse that mysteriously disappears and then reappear in their suitcase. This is stolen by a couple of teens who are suspected, like the first two, of murder.
The Conformist
Manganiello
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
Ninì Tirabusciò:  The Woman Who Invented the Move
Mariotti - Il delegato di polizia
Comedy set at the time of King Umberto I of Monza (Italy) about Maria Sarti, aka Ninì Tirabusciò, actress/singer who caused a scandal with her raunchy dancing.
The Weekend Murders
Sgt. Aloisius Thorpe
An aristocratic English family gather for the reading of their father's will. The family are dismayed to find that everything has been left to Barbara, the deceased's favourite daughter. The butler is soon found stabbed to death and Sergeant Thorpe, the local bobby, telephones Scotland Yard for assistance. Inspector Grey arrives and he and Barbara narrowly escape being shot. Cousin Ted and his wife Pauline are both killed. Sergeant Thorpe recalls some photos which Ted asked to have developed...
L'inafferrabile invincibile Mr. Invisibile
Kokofrecovitch
A superhero becomes invisible after he swallows an Indian potion.
The Specialists
Sheriff
Bret Dixon returns to his hometown when his brother is killed by a lynch mob.
Where Are You Going All Naked?
President
Young bank employee is very surprised by his bride behavior...
Sissignore
L'avvocato
A businessman is nicknamed "L'avvocato" and his driver, Oscar, is a yes-man. When L'avvocato has a crash while driving his car, Oscar is put in jail in his place. When Oscar gets out, he finds himself married to the beautiful Maria, but he can't even touch her: she is l'avvocato's lover. Afterwards Oscar is appointed manager, but he can't manage a dime. At the end he shall find himself again in jail, hoping that his "sissignore" (yessir) will let him have, sometime, a driver to send to prison in his place. —
Il Giardino dei Ciliegi
Ermolaj Alekseevič Lopachin
La moglie giapponese
Accountant Taddei
The accountant Taddei, an employee of an import company, travels to Tokyo for work and discovers that the colleague he has replaced has married a Japanese woman. His journey to the Far East brings him into contact with situations of extreme poverty that will deeply disturb him.
Seven Times Seven
Benjamin Burton
A gang of prison inmates escape and rob the Royal Mint. They then sneak back to prison.
Italian Secret Service
L'avvocato Ramirez
A war hero turned unemployed is hired by a British man whose life he saved during the war, for a secret mission: to kill a neo-nazi.
The Harem
Gianni
A seductive woman pushes three men to the limits toying with their sexual desires and male pride.
Night Is Made for Stealing
Commissario Simon
Du mou dans la gâchette
Jo Laguerre
Diamonds Are a Man's Best Friend
Mr. Houster, the Boss
Amazing Italian movie written and directed by Vittorio Sala and starring Félix Marten, Liana Orfei and Gastone Moschin. An adventurer steals a valuable diamond known as "Mountain of Light" from the museum. A band of gangsters gets on his trail to take his loot. It's going to be a long battle.
Seasons of Our Love
Carlo Di Giusti aka Tancredi
Vittorio is a 40-year-old journalist who reaches a mid-life crisis. His wife nags him constantly for ignoring her and their child. After his mistress dumps him, Vittorio returns to the town where he spent his childhood to reflect on the state of his life. Flashbacks are used to tell of Vittorio’s relationship with his parents as a child and the effects World War II had on his development.
The Birds, the Bees and the Italians
Osvaldo Bisigato
An anthology film that presents three storylines, all set in the Italian town of Treviso. In the first story, a husband pretends to be impotent as a cover for having an affair. In the second, a bank clerk abandons his wife for his mistress, but the rest of the town's husbands become jealous and unite to conspire against them. In the third, men of the town all seduce a promiscuous teenager, but her father eventually reveals that she is underage, and they face prosecution for statutory rape.
Seven Golden Men Strike Again
Adolf (l'allemand)
The Professor (Leroy) and his men are captured by U.S. agents during an attempted train robbery. To avoid jail, they must kidnap a Latin dictator.
Top Crack
Karl
Italian comedy
Seven Golden Men
Adolf (l'allemand)
After bungling a job in London, Albert, an international thief, masterminds a plan to rob a Geneva bank of 7 tons of gold. Assisted by the seductive Giorgia, who works from within the bank, and six other accomplices, Albert sets himself up in an expensive hotel with a battery of electronic devices to supervise the operation.
Spy in Your Eye
Boris
A secret agent is assigned ot rescue the daughter of a deceased East German scienist, who discovered a valuable formula.
100 Horsemen
Frate Carmelo
Don Fernando, the son of El Cid, rallies peasants and townspeople to overthrow Moorish occupiers in medieval Spain.
Extraconiugale
Luigi
Gentlemen of the Night
Doge Pietro Gradenigo
Massimo returns to Venice after years of fighting against the Turks. He finds his beloved Elena, who in the meantime has married the doge who is tyrannizing the city.
Love in Four Dimensions
Il marito (segment "Amore e vita")
Young Italian writers and directors express themselves in four episodes about sex and love. "Love and Language," the first tale, centers on the difficulties of a Sicilian immigrant who is unable to master proper Italian. the second tale "Love and Life" centers on a jealous and unhappy wife who becomes so desperate to be free of her constantly philandering husband she takes on a lover of her own. "Love and Art" a nearly exhausted screenwriter hires a secretary to help manage his typing. She's a pretty lass and this makes his insecure wife crazy until he fires the female and hires a male secretary. "Love and Death," the final episode centers on the love affair between a middle-aged widower and the grieving young widow he meets at the cemetery. Unfortuantely for his bank statement, the young, impoverished beauty isn't as bereaved as she seems.
The Betrothed
Narrator (voice)
Renzo Tramaglino and Lucia Mondella are two poor farmers who are in love, but they are hampered by the wickedness of the powerful Don Rodrigo, who secretly loves Lucia. The two run away from Lake Como where they live, and take refuge inland.
The Visitor
Renato Gusso
Certain that "the right man" is crucial to her escaping the confines of the Italian village where she lives, Pina (Sandra Milo) places an ad in the newspaper. She gets a response from Adolfo (Francois Perier), who agrees to travel from his residence in Rome to visit her. As flashbacks shed light on both their pasts, suspense builds about how they will relate to one another. Sharp, dark Italian comedy co-stars Mario Adorf, Gastone Moschin.
Il successo
Il Cognato di Giulio
With the desire to be rich gnawing at him, an arriviste pursues a golden real-estate opportunity at the expense of friends and family. Now, he has to renounce his dignity. What's the good of chasing success when you are left all alone?
The Reunion
Toro
Two members of a former group of friends find themselves after many years by chance through the streets of Milan; after a moment, memories of the past resurface.
The Scapegoat
Consigliere Garzone
Il Fornaretto di Venezia (US TV title: The Scapegoat) is a 1963 Italian film directed by Duccio Tessari who co-wrote screenplay with Marcello Fondato, based on novel by Francesco Dall'Ongaro. It tells the story of 16th century's Venice where a young worker is sentenced to death on the suspicion of attacking a noble.
Sex Can Be Difficult
Maresciallo (segment "Il serpente")
A journalist could marry the daughter of a tycoon, but prefers a relationship with a married woman. An attorney renounces her lover by greed. A soldier tries to approach a widow on a train. A German couple looking for adventure mistakingly aim for the wrong target, yet find love.
Roaring Years
Carmine Passante
In this satire inspired by Nikolai Gogol’s The Government Inspector (aka The Inspector General) and transported to fascist era Italy, the (supposed) incognito visit of a Roman fascist official to a tiny country town shakes deeply the ruling class and their lack of integrity.
Pigeon Shoot
Pasquini
Young man Marco Laudato, after the '8/9/1943's WW2 armistice, enlists in the Italian Social Republic army, attending the last days of the old regime in decay.
The Joy of Living
le curé
Ulisse is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. He drops the offer he gets from a group of fascists to go in with the Fossatis, a family of anarchists (unknown to him).
Fiasco in Milan
Alfredo
The usual gang of robbers in engaged by a thief from Milan to steal a suitcase full of money, but troubles will menace the success of the operation.
The Rival
Marco Riccitelli
The love triangle between a Countess, a soldier and a younger woman.