Orazio Orlando
Date of birth: 1937-06-14
Place of birth: Naples, Italy
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
Orazio Orlando (14 June 1933 – 18 December 1990) was an Italian film, stage and television actor. He is best remembered for his film roles in Elio Petri's Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion (1970) and Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973), Pupi Avati's Help Me Dream (1981) and Alberto Bevilacqua's Woman of Wonders, or La donna delle meraviglie (original title) (1985). At 57 years old, he died of a heart attack on the Teatro Flaiano stage in Rome during the rehearsal of the play Ad Eva aggiungi Eva.
Movie Credits
The Trojan Women
1967-02-17
In 1967 the director Vittorio Cottafavi produces the TV movie Le Troiane from Euripides. He uses the
Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion
1970-10-16
Rome, Italy. After committing a heinous crime, a senior police officer exposes evidence incriminatin
The Conjugal Debt
1970-09-28
Romolo, a man lazy and devoid of any interest, has been married for ten years with Ines, the owner o
The Perfume of the Lady in Black
1974-03-29
Sylvia, an industrial scientist, is troubled by strange hallucinations related to the tragic suicide
Lovers and Other Relatives
1974-06-06
Sandro dreams about a woman older than himself. He works as a lifeguard at the beach and at the same
Traffic Jam
1979-01-12
A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more tha
The Fiend
1977-01-10
A low rank journalist at Tribuna Sera newspaper receives a letter one day. His correspondence contai
Waterloo
1970-10-26
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocke
Un'ombra su Maigret
1964-12-27
Policewoman
1974-10-24
A young policewoman discovers an ecological scandal and must face the corruption in the Milan Police
The Handsome Devil
1974-06-04
Deep South Italian seventies. The performing and penniless sales representative "Tano" Avallone, fel
Italy is Rotten
1976-04-13
Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia d
Speed Driver
1980-12-04
Rudi is forced into racing for a kingpin drug dealer, but after the murder of his brother he swears
Mia famiglia
1964-04-15
Television adaptation of the three-act play of the same name written in 1955.
Orders are Orders
1972-04-13
Giorgia, an unhappy housewife tired of marriage with her husband Amedeo, starts to hear a voice that
The Boxer
1972-02-02
Boxer Teddy Wilcox leaves his manager and relocates. He finds Nick, a manager/trainer. Before Wilcox
The Superwitness
1971-03-16
A pimp is suspected of murdering his lover. He is convicted based on the testimony of a single witne
Amore mio, uccidimi!
1973-08-20
Manny Baxter is furious: his wife has run away with her lover Guido. Manny is rich and jealous and w
Unfaithfully Yours
1982-05-04
An omnibus of two different stories: In the first a divorced couple (actress wife and director husba
Latin Male Wanted
1977-02-28
A film in 5 segments. The first is about a trafficker who takes a German tourist to an illegal sex
Woman of Wonders
1985-09-06
In a straightforward yet unexceptional rendering of the life and loves of Alberto (Ben Gazzara), a w
Tigers in Lipstick
1979-03-16
8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2
The Shatterer
1987-06-13
Following the opening of a Japanese auto factory in Sicily, the head of the company is kidnapped by
Evil Thoughts
1976-10-26
Mario Marani is a well-respected lawyer in late 70s Milan, with a wonderful wife and a high social l
Property Is No Longer a Theft
1973-10-03
A young bank teller, literally allergic to paper money, becomes the worst nightmare of his best cust
Help Me Dream
1981-03-26
In 1943, during the war, Francesca, widowed, moves with her three daughters to her country house, to
The Flower in His Mouth
1975-10-30
A female school teacher is implicated in a murder in a Sicilian town only hours after her arrival. T
It Was I
1973-03-15
A humble Milanese window-cleaner with dreams of magazine and TV fame accuses himself of the murder o
Highway Racer
1977-10-19
Maurizio Merli stars as a hot-shot police driver who has more guts than brains, often landing him in
Corleone
1978-11-10
Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of
The Dolls
1965-01-27
This semi-amusing sex (romance) comedy has four separate stories: "The Telephone Call", written by R
Stream Line
1976-05-06
Rome, October 16, 1943. The Germans deport the relatives and friends of the little Giacomo Treves wh
Anima mia
1974-01-24
Insatiable playboy Marco Donati decides to marry his latest flame, the beautiful Francesca. When the
La paura numero uno
1964-03-18
Exasperated by her husband Matteo, who lives with the nightmare of an imminent third world war, Virg
Gangbusters
1977-09-21
Mario Gastaldi, a lawyer with no clients and no money, agrees to be a negotiator in a deal on stolen