Date of birth: 1916-10-21
Place of birth: Florence, Tuscany, Italy
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Андреа Кекки, Андреа Чекки
Andrea Checchi (21 October 1916 – 29 March 1974) was an Italian actor. Checchi appeared in over 150 films in his lengthy career, which spanned from 1934 to his death in 1974.
1952-09-28
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
1962-12-20
In a Latin American country, a rebel frees the prisoners of the local tyrant. Some traitors cause th
1960-09-15
1943. The affair between Anna, unhappily married to wheelchair-bound Pino, and deserter Franco unfol
1965-04-04
Treacherous Roman senator Lucius Quintilius plans a secret journey into Thrace to recover a legendar
1934-02-21
The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garib
1960-12-22
A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural
1960-08-11
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begi
1940-02-02
Manon escapes with the young nobleman Des Grieux, then becomes a high-class courtesan and finally fo
1954-03-16
Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
1949-09-19
A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughte
1960-09-13
A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw t
1938-11-30
1962-09-07
A man is hospitalized in a neurological clinic, suffering from amnesia. After seeing his photo in th
1951-11-10
During the winter of 1944, the partisans stationed in the Ligurian Apennines must go to a factory in
1953-02-27
A Milanese shop assistant becomes an overnight film sensation when fate lands her the leading role i
1954-02-18
Anthology of tragic love. A noblewoman falls for a commoner. A doctor keeps quiet about his patients
1955-03-16
A lawyer, married but temporarily alone at home, finds himself in the house a beautiful lady who tri
1962-05-04
Orazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a quarrel between husband
1961-12-07
In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by th
1961-11-26
Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering th
1955-05-18
A doctor saves a girl from suicide and marries her out of pity. Soon the evil man who had pushed her
1954-08-19
The young Alberto Ruotolo leave the country cottage to go for the sharpshooter. But the command does
1954-04-01
The adventures of Roberto, an heroic Italian soldier from Trieste during World War One.
1961-12-22
1945-11-03
When her sweetheart Bruno joins the Italian army, Gina, bored by her lack of social life, weds Tulli
1941-09-06
In a girls' school, Maria, a student, is accused of having an affair with the young professor Marini
1946-09-07
1940-11-24
1942-12-17
A nineteenth-century Italian noblewoman, imprisoned in a foreboding lakeside palazzo by her uncle, c
1964-09-16
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during
1961-12-31
A cinematographic account of the reprisal ordered by the ruthless Austrian colonel Kappler in 1944 i
1957-01-30
1964-12-31
The mighty Gladiator is captured after freeing the misguided emperor's daughter. The girl surrenders
1950-08-30
An American journalist, Barbara, goes to Italy to interview Roi, the country's most notorious outlaw
1954-05-07
A team of highly trained Italian seamen are taken to the island of Stampalia where there are to take
1942-10-13
1961-03-23
The quaint life of Ottavia, a widow living in Rome, is turned upside down when a young and pretty Ja
1961-10-07
Don Camillo (now bishop) and Peppone (now senator) return to the town of Brescello and rekindle thei
1940-01-02
Set during the Spanish civil war, the story of a commander of a fort Alcazar in Toledo, faithful to
1944-02-25
1939-12-11
1961-03-11
An industrial overpowered by debts decides to kill his creditor. Not having the courage to do it in
1942-08-30
A witty tram driver helps out a jobless girl in wartime Rome.
1945-04-08
1945-10-09
1950-11-04
A luckless young teacher it's suspected of committing two murders. When his lover begins to have dou
1943-03-13
1961-04-01
Suave antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police with no justification. At the prec
1964-11-27
Florence, early 1960s. Bruno aspires to be hired at a prestigious factory, but his Communist ideals
1936-01-01
It is only the prospect of having a child that eventually draws otherwise strictly urban new wife Su
1942-11-13
1943-04-06
1963-03-02
This film is the moving story of Edda Ciano, the daughter of Italian dictator Mussolini, who was una
1942-03-20
Released from jail, Nanni punches prison guard Stefano who has denounced him. In order to take reven
1950-02-28
The tragic love story, already narrated by Dante in his Inferno, of Paolo Malatesta and Francesca da
1946-08-22
A young music teacher, after her house is burned down by a raid, has to go to a refugee camp with he
1968-01-01
The story of Che Guevara's desperate attempt to escape the mountains of Bolivia. Pursued by an elite
1965-11-26
1938-01-02
Successful WWI pilot Luciano Serra has problems adjusting to an ordinary life in peace, so he leaves
1947-02-15
A mob boss seeks refuge from the police at the home of an ordinary family.
1956-08-13
1959-03-28
Marco and Luciana are married and in love, but the passion of Marco for football distract him, and m
1959-10-03
An Italian drama directed by Leopoldo Savona.
1954-03-17
Carlo Savelli, gone missing after the war, returns to Italia after many years. His wife Anna, believ
1954-08-20
"Elena" cannot marry the man she loves, so enters into a loveless marriage with the wealthy "Andrea"
1954-12-16
1942-04-01
1947-02-06
1943-11-27
1955-12-22
The underworld of Cairo is alerted to certain moves of various people in the search for Rommel's tre
1957-02-13
Desiderio is a gentleman thief who steals jewelry. Without him knowing, he is hired as a manager in
1939-06-03
In a massive department store the driver romances the shopgirl. The problem is that the manager also
1934-11-29
Gaby is expelled from school after a married teacher commits suicide after telling her he can't live
1959-06-30
When barbarians invade his village and kill his father, a local man wages a one-man war against them
1941-01-10
In a village, rumours spread that a treasure is hidden nearby. To finance the search, a farmer sells
1947-11-04
Immediately after the war, bandits attack a truck that is transporting newlyweds Michele and Giovann
1939-01-10
A blacksmith from Montevergine, accused of murder, flees to Argentina. Years later, a mute witness t
1934-06-01
There were very few commercial feature films made during the Italian fascist era that were as openly
1965-11-25
On the theme "money is the driving force that drives man to commit follies to conquer them", this fi
1940-02-14
In a sea port, where he has landed after a long voyage, a sailor meets a girl. To overcome her reluc
1955-12-30
In post-war Italy, some pilots of the Air Force, despite the difficulties in which they are forced t
1967-01-13
El Chuncho's bandits rob arms from a train, intending to sell the weapons to Elias' revolutionaries.
1960-03-30
Two middle-aged bachelors use the same apartment for their romantic meetings.
1962-03-03
A clerk has had a picture taken during W.W.I with the future Italian dictator Mussolini and tries to
1949-08-30
Two Jews and their former British comrade land on opposite sides of the Palestine issue following Wo
1943-02-01
1963-09-21
An Italian submarine captain tries to navigate his sub through enemy waters while being stalked by a
1962-09-06
A thriller with Jack Palance as a nazi doctor hiding after the war. While riding on a train, he is r
1974-06-05
A crippled loner's car breaks down near an isolated town inhabitated by several killers.
1945-01-08
Ten episodes, one for each of the Ten Commandments. Lost film.
1953-08-21
Coming of age, a girl is told the truth about her dead father: he is alive, but imprisoned for sever
1965-12-12
3-part biopic of Dante Alighieri made for Italian public television. Mixes reenacted scenes of Dante
1954-10-27
1942-05-11
1968-02-16
The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism durin
1960-01-20
Nando is dissatisfied with his repetitive and mortifying work. He manages to escape from daily medio
1965-12-22
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
1966-02-16
Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and
1964-12-17
After scoring big in a high-profile bank robbery, a gang of Milanese criminals has to hide in a mona
1964-02-13
A fantastic yarn about a plot to conquer the world with an army of zombies!
1959-05-01
Two teenagers are late for school so they decide to spend the day together.
1973-02-23
Stefano, son of the Mafia Don Angelino Ferrante, is killed by Gaspare Ardizzone (John Saxon) for ref
1946-12-17
In a post-war Rome (1946) a cat burglar inadvertently saves the life of a would-be suicide man who r
1931-12-01
This early docudrama uses dramatic reenactment, working models of early flying machines, and archiva
1943-10-29
Emma, who is married to lawyer Giulio Scarli, is secretly in love with Fabrizio Arcieri, who works w
1938-01-08
Two partners return from the war to find their coffee plantation in the hands of an unscrupulous ove
1955-09-06
1951-03-23
Amore e sangue (released in the U.S. as "City of Violence"), the 1951 Marino Girolami (billed as "Jo
1965-03-25
Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.
1959-06-14
Gabriella, a maid, wears a jewel at a dancing party which belongs to her mistress, and when it is st
1950-12-31
A love story along the lines of Romeo and Juliet, set in Calabria: two young lovers belong to two fa
1972-04-25
The young lawyer Vincenzo, Lucetta's new husband, daughter of a building speculator, discovers, on t
1952-02-29
1955-06-15
An unemployed young man has a relationship with the mistress of a rich industrialist. In order to es
1966-01-01
The events in Naples of a few ‘figli della Madonna’ (Madonna’s sons), young people born between 1945
1961-11-23
1941-10-12
A crime novel writer is experiencing writer's block while writing his latest book. Then a woman is m
1936-12-01
1959-06-25
An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter
1947-12-04
When a tragedy strikes father Fyodor Karamazov, the wretched relation with his three sons reveals it
1940-04-20
A playwright, a troop of actors, a director, and the playwright's uncle scheme against each other fo
1955-01-07
1946-10-19
1953-12-01
1947-04-05
1956-10-11
The wife of a conductor with a stormy past agrees to meet a blackmailer in a small hotel.
1938-12-28
ETTORE FIERAMOSCA was based on a widely-read literary action epic by Massimo D'Azeglio, published in
1956-07-31
1967-10-06
1946-06-01
Birdaghin is a dancer at La Scala in Milan whose rapid success also quickly goes to her head. Fortun
1970-01-01
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