Salvatore Billa

Salvatore Billa

Nascimento : 1943-03-31, Catania, Sicily, Italy

Morte : 2006-05-22

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Salvatore Billa

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The Second Wedding Night
When his destituite widowed sister-in-law—whom he had never stopped harbouring feelings for—and her ne'er-do-well son come to live with him after World War II, a mentally-ill farmer who spends all his time destroying unexploded ordnance scattered across the countryside finds a new purpose in his lonely life.
Gangues de Nova York
Native (uncredited)
William Cutting é o líder de uma gangue violenta na Nova York do século 19 que confronta seus rivais. Um jovem jura se vingar do perverso gângster que matou seu pai, mas fica dividido entre a sede de vingança e o fascínio pelo carismático Cutting.
Falcone
Initiation Mafioso
Determinado a quebrar o reinado da máfia na Itália, Giovanni Falcone, um advogado corajoso, ousou desafiar a Cosa Nostra.
Li chiamarono... briganti!
Soldier
O Homem das Estrelas
Prince
The adventures and deceptions of a photographer who travels through small villages of 1950s Sicily pretending to work for the big film studios in Rome.
Magnificat
During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by her parents to a Catholic convent.
O Ano da Fúria
Cop
O romancista americano David Raybourne acidentalmente fica enredado no plano terrorista da Brigada Vermelha para sequestrar o primeiro ministro italiano Aldo Moro durante uma viagem de pesquisa a Roma. Enquanto os terroristas tentam matar David, ele e sua amiga fotojornalista devem lutar para se manterem vivos.
O Poderoso Chefão: Parte III
Lucchesi Guard (uncredited)
Don Michael Corleone está envelhecendo e, com a ajuda do sobrinho Vicente Mancini, busca a legitimação dos interesses da família, em Nova York e na Itália, antes de sua morte. Mas seu protegido não está só interessado em parte do império da família. Ele também deseja a filha de Michael, Mary.
Fantozzi to the Rescue
Mafioso
Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career.
The Miser
Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. Of course he doesn't approve of the choices his son and daughter have made and conspires to arrange more well to do spouses against their will. However, fate will prove itself to be on the side of true love, not of the greedy.
Tre colonne in cronaca
Un arabo
Chronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. A Lebanese terrorist receives the order to kill a stockbroker, which triggers a series of blackmail and deception. A deputy commissioner and a journalist intend to shed light on all these murky matters, but the politician has no scruples and also knows how to move with extraordinary skill.
A Voz da Lua
(uncredited)
O lunático Salvini observa o mundo de maneira diferente, procurando sempre achar o seu lado poético, como se a Lua o guiasse
Il bambino e il poliziotto
Carmelo Privitera
Carlo, a police officer, after intercepting a call conducts a drug bust at a private party at the upper class apartment of Rosanna Clerici and she is arrested. Just as the police and party guests are leaving, Giulio, Rosanna's six-year-old son, comes out of his room and asks Carlo where his mother is. Seeing that Carlo is the person responsible for his mother's arrest, Giulio tags along with him until his mother is freed. Carlo does everything possible to have Social Services or somebody look after the kid but is told by the Courts that he is the best candidate for his custody until a better one is found. Even though Giulio manages to turn Carlo's life inside out he ends up getting to like the kid and falling for the kid's mother, Rosanna, while she is in prison. It ends with Rosanna being released from prison and the three of them going out for dinner.
Gli Invisibili
The Shatterer
Following the opening of a Japanese auto factory in Sicily, the head of the company is kidnapped by Sicilian mobsters. This was a co-production between Italy and Japan's Toho Studios.
Ginger e Fred
Clark Gable
Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act, imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, on a TV variety show.
The Repenter
fratello di Vanni Ragusa
A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But things aren't quite what they seem.
Era Uma Vez na América
One of Beefy's Thugs (uncredited)
Depois de crescer no gueto judeu de Nova Iorque e se destacar no crime organizado da Era da Proibição, um gângster de idade retorna a Brooklyn para enfrentar seu passado.
Ironmaster
A tale that takes place at the dawn of history. The movie tells the story of a tribe that discovers how to fashion weapons out of iron and use them for their own survival. However, the creation of iron also causes the tribe to battle for possession of the new weapons.
Count Tacchia
In 1900 in Rome, the poor carpenter Francesco, by a twist of fate, is recognized component of a noble family in the process of decay. Francesco knows the cynical and ruthless Prince Torquato Terenzi, disappointed by life and progress, and also falls in love with the beautiful Duchess Elisa. When Prince Terenzi dies, Francesco realizes that he's not enriched for nothing with the inheritance, because the noble family is broke; so he enlistes himself for the war in Libya, but quickly returnes to Italy, disgusted by the atrocities of the fighting. His dream is to be a singer, and so he goes to America with the Duchess Elisa.
My Darling, My Dearest
Gennarino Laganà is a poor Sicilian who struggles with menial jobs to support his family, while his parents pressure him to seek his fortune in the North. Gennarino would never leave his beloved island if he had not stumbled into a love affair with Donna Egeria, wife of the Mafia boss Don Mimì. To escape certain revenge, he boards a goods train. In a dream, Saint Totino appears to him and promises him protection in exchange for a regulated life. He thus arrives in Milan, where he meets Armida, a woman of the streets, who takes him into her home and makes him her protector and lover. But San Totino appears again to Gennarino and reproaches him for being a kept man: he must work and Armida must change her life. 
Fear in the City
Il ladro siciliano
Gianni Manera writes, directs and stars in this violent U.S. based story of Mafia members and Black gangsters fighting for turf.
The Hawk and the Dove
Fabio Testi is the politician who finds himself descending into a world of drugs and crime when he encounters Lara Wendel. A mixture of crime and old-fashioned melodrama all set to songs from Neil Diamond!
Contraband
Marsigliese Thug
Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler.
The Persian Lamb Coat
uno dei ladri
Piero arrives in Paris from Luino after having won a pool tournament with friends. In the train he meets the famous place Ramazzini and has so many incidents that culminated with his arrest and the confiscation by the commissioner Juvet. Released, find randomly hospitality at the madame Lenormand and know the great painter Valentine. Both women are tied up, as a wife and lover, Maurice, in prison for robbery. A day Piero wears a mistake and the coat of astrakhan, Maurice, and then...
Gegè Bellavita
Man hiring staff
Pregnant with their 10th child, Agata discovers that her lazy husband Gennaro betrays her cheerfully.
From Corleone to Brooklyn
Giuseppe Caruso
Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the line to transport a witness from Corleone to New York City in order to testify against a mob boss on trial for murder. Along the way, Berni and his prisoner face a series of traps set up by the Mafia.
Corleone
Carmelo
Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia shadow?
The Gun
ispettore di Polizia
Luigi, a middle-aged engineer who, getting increasingly worried about the rising crime rate in his surroundings, follows the advice and example of his sleazy drinking cronies to arm himself with the titular weapon; the problem is that he starts carrying – and, occasionally, brandishing – it with him everywhere.
Brothers Till We Die
Hitman
Vincenzo 'hunchback' plans a robbery on a armored police van with his gang. Once the job is done, his gang try to kill him and absconds with the loot. Vincenzo hides in the sewers before looking up his friend Monezza who the police later interrogate for his involvement with vincenzo. Meanwhile, Vincenzo is getting revenge on his gang by killing them off one at the time in his various brutal ways.
Blood and Diamonds
Tony's Henchman
A man is arrested and condemned to five years in jail for robbery. After serving his term, he is out for revenge on the gang members he considers were to blame for his arrest. The prize for this deadly fight is a large cache of diamonds.
Il figlio dello sceicco
amico di Luigi
The old Emir of the Qudmar discovers he has a natural son in Italy. Secret agents and oil companies involve the man, an aspiring gas station, in the fight for the succession to the emirate.
Magnum Cop
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.
Destruction Force
Minone
A shoot out after a robbery ends with the death of the Chief of Police. Police detective Ghini goes in search of a suspect, Lanza, to avenge the death of his boss. Ghini's search leads him to Belli, a Sicilian gangster and 'Trashy', the dirty leader of a gang of killers. The action is violent as both police and criminals track down Belli who still finds some time to attempt a couple of robberies...
O Governador de Ferro
Francesco Dino
Palermo, Sicily, November 1925. Cesare Mori, the new prefect of the city, soon to be known as the Iron Prefect, begins a ruthless war against the Mafia, a sinister organization that has subjugated the island for centuries, something that the dictator Benito Mussolini and the fascist authorities can no longer allow.
The Heroin Busters
Detective
Drug use in the city of Rome is at an all-time high. Children score from dealers in front of their schools, mules waltz straight through airport security, and Interpol's main man, Mike Hamilton (David Hemmings), is at his wits' end. Fed up to the back teeth with the local police force's incompetence, his only hope is to rely on one of his own men, Fabio (Fabio Testi), an officer so deep undercover that no-one but Hamilton knows who he really is. Even as Fabio gains the trust of cartel leader Gianni (John Loffredo), however, the dealers are edging ever closer to the truth, and when his cover is blown, the hunter becomes the hunted as Fabio finds himself alone in a desperate fight to survive.
A Man Called Magnum
Club Bouncer
A drug deal goes bad and the heroin is stolen. One mob boss doesn't have his drugs and the other doesn't get his money. People are going to die until they discover who double-crossed them. Into this backdrop, Inspector Dario Mauri arrives from Milan to help clean-up Naples. His mission – find the drugs and stop the killing.
O Cínico, O Infame, O Violento
Salvatore
Luigi "Chinaman" Maietto escapes from prison. As soon as he is free he assigns immediately two henchman to murder the inspector whose testimonial once led to his prison sentence. Inspector Tanzi is left for dead but survives. The local newspapers cover up for him and pretend the assassination had succeeded. When Tanzi gets better, his superior wants him to hide in Switzerland. But Tanzi defies him because he intends to make sure himself that Maietto is put back in prison. He goes for it.
Rulers of the City
Luigi's Bagman
Tony, a mob loan collector, is dissatisfied with his station in life. Though he dreams of one day being rich, he is stuck with the dead-end job of beating up borrowers who fall behind in their payments. After meeting up with Napoli, another mob enforcer who's just been fired from his job, the two hatch a plan. Together, they will con mob boss Manzari out of a fortune, after which they can retire and live in luxury. Manzari, however, is not about to let them go so easily.
Brigada Antifurto
Rosario Trapanese
O pouco convencional polícia infiltrado Nico Giraldi investiga o roubo de documentos sensíveis por parte de um antigo e corrupto agente da CIA.
Fear in the City
Victim
The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night picking off various informers and people they don't like. Murri investigates; hooking up with one of the criminal's nieces along the way. He uses his own methods; which mostly involve breaking all the rules, and thus comes under a lot of scrutiny from his superiors who don't take too kindly to the cop's way of working.
Free Hand for a Tough Cop
Tomati Thug
A cop recruits a criminal and his cohorts to help track down a violent crime lord who has kidnapped the ill daughter of a rich family.
The Big Racket
Fabrizi
Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles a criminal gang terrorising a sleepy Italian town, extorting cash from the local merchants. With the threat of violence, no one dares to act, except for a restaurant owner who is forced by Palmieri to tell the truth. As a result, the owner's young daughter is raped, and the violence continues. Discovering that the gang is associated with drug dealers, Palmieri is forbidden to continue investigating his case by his superior - so he takes matters into his own hands. Palmieri recruits a couple of men who have become victims of the gang and sets out for a bloody revenge.
A Cruz dos Executores
Killer in Sicilia
A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian lawyer, to identify the real culprit. The lawyer also enlists the aid of his best friend, a grand prix driver with an adventurous streak.
Werewolf Woman
Rapist
A woman has dreams that she is a werewolf so she goes out and finds men. She proceeds to have sex with them and then rip their throats out with her teeth. She eventually falls in love but then she is raped and her lover is murdered so she goes out for revenge.
Violência Assassina
Forger
Paul, Joe and Louie are three young men from good families who decide to go on a bloodthirsty and pointless crime spree, much to the dismay of paul’s girlfriend (Eleonora Giorgi) and the local police commissioner (Tomas Milian). the group starts by robbing a gas station where paul guns down three innocent bystanders. When they later decide to rob a bank and a grocery store, paul ends up killing more people. It isn’t long before the entire police force is looking for the three criminals, who pick up the girl and hightail it to the Swiss border, killing everyone in their path.
Savage Three
Police Officer (uncredited)
By day, Ovidio (Joe Dallesandro) and his two friends work at a data center. After work, they blow off steam by committing random acts of savage violence, swiftly graduating from sparking a riot at a football game to vehicle theft, rape, and murder. The police are convinced this recent spate of crimes is politically motivated, but world-weary veteran Commissario Santaga (Enrico Maria Salerno) suspects a far more terrifying explanation: that these young men are motivated by nothing more than boredom and disaffection at civilized society. As Ovidio's behavior escalates, a psychological game of cat-and-mouse ensues between the two adversaries, building towards a shocking final confrontation.
Calling All Police Cars
Man in the city
Story about a young girl, the daughter a prominent doctor. When the girl goes missing her father gets the police to jump into action because of his class status and wealth.
Kidnap Syndicate
Pardi Thug
After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that his rash actions will bring about for his child and another kidnapped boy, the son of a poor mechanic.
Manhunt in the City
Mario's Thug (uncredited)
A man's daughter is killed by thieves during a bank robbery. Due to the incompetence of the corrupt authorities, he decides to take to law into his own hands and track down the killers.
Loaded Guns
Silvera Henchman
An air hostess gets involved in Naples, against her will, in the in-fighting amongst rival gangs.
Atire Primeiro, Morra Depois
Rizzo
Luc Merenda gives the performance of his career as a highly regarded police detective who is taking syndicate money in exchange for departmental favors. His father, a simple man, also works for the department but on a lower rung; he isn't jealous of his son, but rather proud of him, little knowing that he's a crooked cop. A series of events leads the young detective to ask his father for a favor (he wants a certain police report that is desired by the syndicate) and it doesn't take long for the detective's father to realize his son is on the take... which leads to numerous complications.
The Girl in Room 2A
Chief Henchman
A sadistic killer cult kidnaps and sacrifices beautiful women. A young girl, just paroled from prison, moves into a strange house and appears to be the cult's next victim.
Italian Sex
Tarzan
A sexy graduate student is giving her thesis presentation, which creates quite a stir since it reveals that she has just posed as a prostitute for several months to do sociological research for her thesis. She relates various stories of her experiences to her salivating thesis committee and a large audience of curious on-lookers.
Blood Brothers
Don Carluccio Tre Palle
In this period piece set in Italy, Nicola Bellizzi dreams of becoming a lawyer. However, when he seeks the reason that people are reluctant to help him in his goals, he discovers that some of his blood relations are high-ranking members of the Mafia. He tries to break away from his family obligations, but falls into a life of crime and violence.
La prova d'amore
Trade unionist
The Black Hand
Antonio, an Italian immigrant in New York finds himself drawn into the Mob when his options are limited and his desire to make a new life for himself becomes increasingly difficult.
The Boss
Sacco
A bomb attack in a cinema in Palermo kills all the fellows of Attardi's clan a part from Cocchi. He immediately understands that the author of the bomb attack is Daniello from Don Corrasco's clan. Cocchi is determined to revenge. His actions, including the Corrasco's daughter kidnap, in a Palermo in which also the police is corrupted, will soon destroy the old equilibrium giving the way to an escalation of violence that won't save anyone. If Cocchi will survive to the mafia war he will be the new boss for sure.
Sotto a chi tocca!
Siriano
Straccio, a young acrobat, wants to free his beloved Julia, held prisoner in the tyrant's castle. He designs a good plan, and develops it with the help of his three friends, Pietro, Bitonto, and Gatto Mammone. When he thinks he achieved both his ends - overthrowing Fregonese from power, and winning Julia's love - he finds that his countrymen cupidity for the tyrant's gold is more difficult to deal with.
O Justiceiro Cego / Preso na Escuridão
Domingo Henchman
Ele é um pistoleiro mortal. Com seu rifle tem um tiro certeiro e jamais perde um alvo. Ele é “Blindman” (Tony Anthony). Embora completamente cego, usa com exatidão seus sentidos para compensar sua deficiência. Agora, foi contratado para acompanhar, em segurança, 50 noivas até Fort Fork no Texas onde seus noivos mineiros as aguardam ansiosamente. Porém, ele é traído por seu parceiro de negócios, que vende as mulheres a Domingo (Lloyd Battista), um perigoso bandido. Apenas com a ajuda e a companhia de seu cavalo e obcecado com o desejo de vingança, “Blindman” inicia uma jornada solitária pelas pradarias do México, a procura das noivas perdidas.
Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold
Ted
After witnessing the brutal murder of his entire family by Native Americans as a child, Jeremiah Bridger becomes a merciless Indian-killer and scalp hunter. After saving the life of a beautiful Native American girl named Tune, however, the lone and silent gunman slowly reconsiders his hatred. He starts to doubt his former persuasion, that it was really Indians, who killed his family, and soon has to find out that a greedy and unscrupulous landowner usually blames Native Americans for his own crimes.
Sabata Adeus
Manuel Garcia Otello
Com o intuito de comprar armas dos Estados Unidos, revolucionários mexicanos roubam um grande carregamento de ouro do exército austríaco. Com isto os rebeldes despertam a fúria do comandante das tropas invasoras, que emprega de extrema violência para recuperar o ouro. Mas, ao lado dos mexicanos, está Sabata, um implacável pistoleiro mercenário, que tem muitos interesses nesse conflito! Segundo filme da trilogia “Sabata” e o único em que o personagem não foi interpretado por Lee Van Cleef. Continuação: “O Retorno de Sabata”.
Io e Dio
Giuseppe
Ciakmull - O Homem da Vingança
John
A young man who has lost his memory, escapes from prison with three other convicts. The other men help him find back bits of his past, until they arrive at a village where two warring families recognize him. Apparently he has a reputation for being a fast gun, and he has been paid to kill a man - who says he is his father. His younger brother is jealous of the attention the prodigal son receives, and things come to a dramatic end.
Acima da Lei
O empresário Ben Novack (Antonio Sabáto) chega na América, vindo da Europa, com a missão de entregar o pagamento para trabalhadores de uma mina, mas acaba sendo roubado a bordo de uma diligência. Determinado em recuperar o dinheiro, ele contrata o pistoleiro Billy Joe (Lee Van Cleef), sem desconfiar que ele é o próprio autor do roubo. Novack deve lidar com a revolta dos trabalhadores, ao mesmo tempo em que é lubridiado pelo homem que contratou para resolver o problema. Mas até quando?
Romeu & Julieta
Complementary Role (uncredited)
Na cidade italiana de Verona, as famílias Montecchio e Capuleto brigam eternamente. Quando Romeu, um belo jovem Montecchio, vai a um baile dos Capuletos, se apaixona pela bela Julieta, uma Capuleto. Após um breve namoro, os dois fogem, criando maiores tensões entre as famílias.
A Bíblia... No Início
Abraham's Follower (uncredited)
As maiores histórias do antigo testamento são trazidas para as telas com um domínio e força impressionantes neste filme internacional, que exibe os 22 primeiros capítulos do Gênesis. Esta é a história espetacular do homem, de sua queda, sua sobrevivência e sua fé indomável no futuro. Dando brilho à grandiosidade épica, temos as interpretações de George C. Scott como Abrão, Ava Garner como Sara e Peter O'Toole como a presença evocativa do anjo de Deus. O lendário John Huston dirige esta obra e também apresenta uma interpretação digna de nota como Noé. Da abertura do filme em meio ao caos cósmico até sua mensagem de esperança e salvação, A Bíblia mantém a todo momento sua característica de uma conquista monumental do cinema.