Mario Brega
Date of birth: 1923-03-25
Place of birth: Rome, Lazio, Italy
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Richard Stuyvesant , M. Braga, Florestano Brega
Biography
Mario Brega (25 March 1923 – 23 July 1994) was an Italian character actor. His heavy build meant that he regularly portrayed a thug in his films, particularly earlier in his career in westerns. Later in his career, however, he featured in numerous Italian comedy films. Brega stood at 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and well over 250 pounds (110 kg) at his heaviest but after the 1960s slimmed down significantly. Brega was born in Rome. He was a butcher before he drifted into acting, where his heavy physique ensured him a plethora of character roles. Debuting with director Dino Risi, he then played some minor roles in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western movies: A Fistful of Dollars, as Chico; For a Few Dollars More, as Niño; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as Corporal Wallace; and also as a gangster in Once Upon a Time in America. He appeared in many other Spaghetti Westerns, including Death Rides a Horse, The Great Silence, and My Name is Nobody. Later in his career he had comical roles with director Carlo Verdone, such as in Un sacco bello and Talcum Powder. He died of heart attack in Rome in 1994. Description above from the Wikipedia article Mario Brega, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie Credits
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
1975-12-16
Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Ind
Finders Killers
1971-03-27
A farmer returns home from the forest to find his family butchered. He decides to hunt down the murd
Too Much
1986-01-30
Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and
The Great Silence
1968-11-22
A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a
My Name Is Nobody
1973-12-13
Jack Beauregard, an aging gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe,
The Mascot of the Blue Devils
1947-09-15
An Italian child becomes blind due to an accident with German cavalrymen during an American bombing,
Fun Is Beautiful
1980-01-19
Three characters' misadventures in semi-deserted, summertime Rome: a dim-witted mama's boy falls for
Talcum Powder
1982-01-22
Sergio Benvenuti is a shy seller of contracts for a Roman company of music, but because of his chara
The Last Round
1976-12-30
Stelvio Massi's crime thriller centers on a drifter who sets out to help blue-collar workers rise up
Death Rides a Horse
1967-08-31
Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to
A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
1968-02-08
A famous gunman decides to change his life around and turn himself in when amnesty is declared by th
No Room to Die
1969-01-01
Mexican's are being smuggled over the border to work as cheap labour for wealthy land baron Fargo. H
The Ugly Ones
1966-11-04
Escaped outlaw Jose Gomez returns to his home town pursued by bounty killer Luke Chilson. The towns
Amarsi un po'...
1984-10-05
In an accident the young mechanic Marco Coccia meets Cristiana. The two fall in love with one anothe
Man Who Cried for Revenge
1968-07-28
A Civil War veteran is amnesic after being shot in the head. When he returns to his hometown, he fin
A Dangerous Toy
1979-02-21
A meek accountant buys himself a gun and finds out he's a natural marksman. After the friend who int
Death Knocks Twice
1969-11-25
When private detective Bob Martin looking for a stolen diamond necklace, he also has a clever serial
Date for a Murder
1967-05-17
Two friends from America come together by chance in the Italian countryside. They decide to meet in
Halleluja for Django
1967-10-28
After robbing $500,000, the Jarret gang hides in a small isolated western town, where they are waiti
Montecarlo Gran Casinò
1987-12-23
The misadventures of different Italian rascals who came to the famous Montecarlo Gran Casinò to get
Two hearts, a Chapel
1975-10-02
Aristide receives a big inheritance from his mother, but when he meets a beautiful redhead at the ce
El Puro
1969-12-23
An alcoholic gunman, hunted down by five pitiless bounty hunters, is sheltered by a saloon dancer. W
Seven Savage Men
1975-03-29
The Cooper gang is terrorizing the town of Stanton with heinous crimes. When the gang rapes and mur
Il divorzio
1970-04-20
Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life.
Day by Day, Desperately
1961-11-23
The mental illness affecting young Dario, one of the two sons of the Dominici family living in a cou
Una vacanza del cactus
1981-08-16
A group of five people is going to vacation on the island of Rhodes: among them is the good-natured
Convoy Buddies
1975-07-20
Toby and Butch are a couple of bumbling crooks who get a truck driving job hauling insecticide from
Detective School Dropouts
1986-08-07
Two bumbling private detectives get themselves hired to find a missing person. They find themselves
The Hours of Love
1963-03-01
In "The Hours of Love," Gianni and Marietta's spark ignites as passionate lovers, yet dims in their
The Strange Type
1963-02-28
Peppino, a slow-witted local villager of the Italian resort town of Amalfi, is bribed to impersonate
Gli scontenti
1961-03-11
No Diamonds for Ursula
1967-08-06
A beautiful, but naive, young woman kills a rapist in self defense. But her degenerate, crippled un
Mafia Things
1971-01-30
A young man unwantedly gets caught up in an international gang war in this humorous crime farce!
Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West
1964-11-19
Colonel William Cody, alias Buffalo Bill, intends to put an end to the dishonest relations between a
How Beautiful Is Bernarda, All Black, All Hot
1975-01-12
A wizard of the Middle Ages, while exorcising a girl, swallows eggnog and tells two suckers various
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1966-12-22
While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a rut
Why
1971-10-27
Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Swiden, gets arrested at the border while going back
Crack
1991-09-06
Although the drug is present in this film, the Crack this movie is about is, metaphorically, the cra
Basta con la guerra... facciamo l'amore
1974-04-24
A comedy directed by Andrea Bianchi.
Charleston
1974-09-10
Sonny, a New York wise guy, dreams of becoming a feared gangster. He runs errands for the mob and is
March on Rome
1962-12-20
March on Rome (Italian: La marcia su Roma) is a 1962 comedy film by Dino Risi with Vittorio Gassman
Pierino the Pest to the Rescue
1982-01-09
Man of Straw
1958-03-11
Andrea Zaccardi has returned home from hunting. He and his wife Luisa are very close. Their young so
I motorizzati
1962-11-30
A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remai
The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
1968-09-26
Childhood friends Franco and Jolanda accidentally meet again after 15 years and both know it is love
Two Gangsters in the Wild West
1964-06-30
In the late 1800's, Sicilians Franco and Ciccio are serving 20 years of prison for stealing two mule
Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio
1983-11-30
The film is divided into two episodes, The Hair of Disgrace and The Magician, both focusing on the t
Christmas Holidays
1983-12-22
Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has not much money,
Bianco, rosso e Verdone
1981-02-20
Three Italians travel to their hometown to vote for elections: Pasquale is a Southern immigrant livi
Decameron II
1972-03-17
During a banquet, the diners begin to tell various stories to be happy. All the novels speak of betr
A Girl in Australia
1971-12-22
The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's , who has to find a wi
Once Upon a Time in America
1984-05-23
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty yea
Destruction Force
1977-03-18
A shoot out after a robbery ends with the death of the Chief of Police. Police detective Ghini goes
Sotto a chi tocca!
1972-10-24
Straccio, a young acrobat, wants to free his beloved Julia, held prisoner in the tyrant's castle. He
Eighteen in the Sun
1962-08-11
An Italian variation on the Frankie & Annette-Gidget beach party movies that were all the rage in No
Da Scaramouche or se vuoi l'assoluzione baciar devi sto... cordone!
1973-05-31
Scaramouche, a skilled swordsman, goes to the Este court to steal a letter.
A Fistful of Dollars
1964-09-12
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among
For a Few Dollars More
1965-12-18
Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on h
The Monsters
1963-10-30
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
The Cat
1977-12-16
Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive
An Angel for Satan
1966-05-04
At the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake an old statue is recovered. So
Let's Talk About Women
1964-03-28
Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian
The Lusty Wives of Canterbury
1972-01-01
The writer, Geoffrey Chaucer, finds himself in an inn, together with pilgrims who are going to Cante
Cronache del '22
1961-11-23
Five different episodes unfold against the backdrop of Italian historical and political events in 19
Il mondo dei miracoli
1959-06-25
An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter
Cannabis
1970-09-02
Serge Morgan is a killer working for the American Mafia. After performing a contract in New York for
Pè sempe
1982-03-05