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Romolo Valli

Date of birth: 1925-02-07

Place of birth: Reggio Emilia, Emilia-Romagna, Italy

Known for: Acting

Also known as: Ромоло Валли

Romolo Valli

Biography

Romolo Valli (7 February 1925 – 1 February 1980) was an Italian actor. Valli was born in Reggio Emilia. He was one of the best known Italian actors from the 1950s to his death. He worked for both the stage and the silver screen. Among the directors he collaborated with were Vittorio De Sica, Sergio Leone, Roman Polanski, Roger Vadim, and Luchino Visconti, who cast Valli in three feature films (Il Gattopardo, Morte a Venezia, Gruppo di famiglia in un interno) and the episode Il lavoro of Boccaccio '70. Valli died in a car accident, less than one week before his 55th birthday. Source: Article "Romolo Valli" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movie Credits

Duck, You Sucker
3.9

Duck, You Sucker

1971-10-29

At the beginning of the 1913 Mexican Revolution, greedy bandit Juan Miranda and idealist John H. Mal

The Leopard
3.9

The Leopard

1963-03-27

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family g

1900
3.9

1900

1976-08-28

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childh

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
3.5

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

1970-12-04

In 1930s Italy, a wealthy Jewish family tries to maintain their privileged lifestyle, hosting friend

Womanlight
2.9

Womanlight

1979-08-29

Having both suffered extreme losses, two disparate souls try to form a relationship for consolation

Death in Venice
3.6

Death in Venice

1971-03-05

Composer Gustav von Aschenbach travels to Venice for health reasons. There, he becomes obsessed with

Bobby Deerfield
2.9

Bobby Deerfield

1977-09-29

Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the e

Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
3.6

Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura

1959-03-18

Policarpo De Tappetti is a calligrapher who works under the orders of Don César Pancarano de Rondò.

Boccaccio '70
3.5

Boccaccio '70

1962-02-23

An anthology of four comic moral tales about the hypocrisies surrounding sex in 1960s Italy: frothy

Benito Mussolini
3.6

Benito Mussolini

1962-01-21

Girl with a Suitcase
3.5

Girl with a Suitcase

1961-02-09

Lorenzo, who's 16 and born to a wealthy family in Parma, tries to make things right toward a showgir

What?
2.7

What?

1972-12-07

A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where

The Story of Romance and Knife
2.8

The Story of Romance and Knife

1971-09-18

The story of fish-monger Nino of Rione Borgo. Nino is in love with Rosa but he always manages to pos

An Average Little Man
4

An Average Little Man

1977-03-17

A middle-aged government accountant is determined to secure a stable job for his son before retiring

Conversation Piece
3.6

Conversation Piece

1974-12-20

A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is c

Un metro lungo cinque
2.5

Un metro lungo cinque

1961-10-01

The laboratory tests and complex work involved in constructing the dam in the Lei Valley are describ

Complexes
3.5

Complexes

1965-08-15

In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beo

Right You Are (if you think so)
3.8

Right You Are (if you think so)

1974-01-01

Absurdism’s king of comedy, Luigi Pirandello, adapted a 1915 short story he wrote titled “Signora Fr

The Rules of the Game
0

The Rules of the Game

1970-01-01

Leone, a very rational man, silently accepts that his wife Silia is cheating on him with Guido. When

The Lovemakers
3.1

The Lovemakers

1961-06-13

The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys

A Day for Lionhearts
3.5

A Day for Lionhearts

1961-09-05

September the 8th 1943, Rome, day of the armistice. Danilo escapes the fascist enlist, while Michele

Don't Sting the Mosquito
1.8

Don't Sting the Mosquito

1967-03-24

Rita, a vivacious co-ed flees her boarding school with her music teacher, who is also engaged to her

The Visit
3.6

The Visit

1964-05-06

Carla Zachanassian had a child by Serge Miller as a teenager. When Serge refused to marry her, she w

The Constancy of Reason
3

The Constancy of Reason

1964-11-27

Florence, early 1960s. Bruno aspires to be hired at a prestigious factory, but his Communist ideals

The Great War
4

The Great War

1959-10-28

Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve t

The Mandrake
2.9

The Mandrake

1965-11-18

A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiave

Silence the Witness
2.5

Silence the Witness

1974-05-16

De Luca is killed by Marchetti's chauffeur. Marchetti ordered the murder because he was to be accuse

The Devil's Advocate
3.3

The Devil's Advocate

1977-10-26

A dying priest is commissioned to investigate the deeds of Giacomo Nerone, a dead wartime partisan,

Check to the Queen
2.2

Check to the Queen

1969-12-07

Silvia is young, beautiful and rich. When her husband goes on a business trip, she starts working as

My Dear Nephews
3

My Dear Nephews

1974-01-01

1936. In a village in the Bassa Padana, a beautiful and shapely forty-year-old girl is aunt of some

Boom!
2.9

Boom!

1968-05-26

Explores the confrontation between the woman who has everything, including emptiness, and a penniles

Una storia milanese
3

Una storia milanese

1962-09-06

Milan, one winter in the early sixties. Valeria, a free young woman who usually goes from one man to

Outlaws of Love
2.8

Outlaws of Love

1963-12-03

This film is very much a docudrama which portrays the difficulties of Italian life circa 1963 due to

Barbarella
3

Barbarella

1968-10-10

In the far future, a highly sexual woman is tasked with finding and stopping the evil Durand-Durand.

Holocaust 2000
2.9

Holocaust 2000

1977-11-25

An executive in charge of a nuclear power plant in the Mid-East must stop his son-- who turns out to

Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare
3

Il marito è mio e l'ammazzo quando mi pare

1968-02-08

Ignazio is married to a much younger girl, as she starts being attracted by a handsome young man. Th

Six Characters in Search of an Author
3

Six Characters in Search of an Author

1965-09-25

Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore is an Italian staged filmmaking of the play of the same name, writt

The Cinema According to Bertolucci
3.3

The Cinema According to Bertolucci

1976-02-28

Documentary on the filming of Novecento by Bernardo Bertolucci

Five Branded Women
3

Five Branded Women

1960-03-15

Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by

Memories of a Young Pianist
2.5

Memories of a Young Pianist

2009-11-03

Interview with the italian composer Claudio Gizzi about his lifetime and work as part or the extras

Ciao, Federico!
3.4

Ciao, Federico!

1970-10-28

A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."

I piaceri del sabato notte
0.8

I piaceri del sabato notte

1960-05-04

Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high

Sweet and Sour
2.3

Sweet and Sour

1963-09-04

Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywh

The Shortest Day
3.1

The Shortest Day

1963-02-14

Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an impor

Paulina 1880
4

Paulina 1880

1972-06-09

In 1880's Italy, young Paulina must join a monastery to escape a doomed relationship with a married

Abicinema
3

Abicinema

1975-08-09

Peccati d'estate
2.5

Peccati d'estate

1962-06-26

In Search of Marcel Proust
0

In Search of Marcel Proust

1962-01-01

"In Search of Marcel Proust" is a 1962 literary documentary directed by the Italian poet Attilio Ber