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Turi Pandolfini

Turi Pandolfini

Acting
1883-11-10
Catania, Italy

Known For & Full Filmography38 Titles

#1Rome, Open City

Movie - 1945, 2h 15m • as Grandfather (uncredited)

8.0 / 10
DramaWar

During the Nazi occupation of 1944 Rome, Resistance leader Giorgio Manfredi is pursued by the Nazis as he seeks refuge and a means of escape.

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#2Roman Tales

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as The Bespectacled Customer at Barber's (uncredited)

6.1 / 10
Comedy

Alvaro is been in jail and so he consider himself the most fit to lead his three friends Mario, Otello and Spartaco. The four young men decide to start a business. They need only a van to start a transport company. But they lack the money. How can they get it?

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#3The Young Ladies of 04

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

6.3 / 10
DramaComedyRomance

The lives and loves of five Italian telephone operators. One is betrayed by her husband, one helps a student who wants to take his life, one changes her boyfriend every other day, one is a single mother and the last one tries to inflame a recent-widower accountant.

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#4Elementary School

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Salvatore Serafini

6.2 / 10
Comedy

Dante Trilli, who has been teaching in his village school for about twenty years, wins a competition for Milan. Waiting for him is his childhood friend, where he is the janitor in the school where Trilli will teach.

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#5The Slave of Sin

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as cancelliere del tribunale

4.8 / 10
Drama

A former prostitute and a little Polish girl are survivors of a train crash. The woman wishes to adopt the child, but her past makes that difficult.

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#6Bravissimo

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

6.3 / 10
Comedy

The master Impallato takes care of the boys in a suburban after-school. Here he discovers a pupil with an extraordinary baritone voice.

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#7Times Gone By

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

5.2 / 10
Comedy

A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.

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#8Noi peccatori

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Il collega vecchio

8.0 / 10
Drama

A man and a woman love each other, but they can’t marry because he’s ashamed of his unjustly incarcerated mother. What’s more, he loses his eyesight in an accident.

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#9100 Years of Love

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Veterinario di Monterotondo (segment "Garibaldina")

7.5 / 10
ComedyDrama

Six episodes (adapted from as many short stories: Gozzano, D'Annunzio, Guido Rocca, Marino Moretti, Alba de Céspedes and Oreste Biancoli), six love stories set in different moments in italian recent history.

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#10A Mink Coat

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as Grandfather of Gabriella

8.0 / 10
Comedy

A newlywed couple win the lottery and the prize is a mink fur which might change their lives forever.

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#11It Happened in the Penitentiary

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as detenuto

6.3 / 10
Comedy

A prison warden keeps a diary in which he writes about the convicts he meets and their lives.

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#12A Day in Court

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Il cancelliere

6.3 / 10
ComedyDrama

A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.

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#13Tenebre

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

10.0 / 10
Mystery

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#14Giuseppe Verdi

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Pawnbroker (uncredited)

6.8 / 10
DramaMusic

The life and loves of great composer Giuseppe Verdi are played against a background of the great operas of the 19th Century. A tender love story of his successful and turbulent life, with more than 20 excerpts from his acclaimed operas.

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#15Mi permette babbo!

Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as Il nonno di Gianni

6.9 / 10
Comedy

While Rodolfo tries to become a lyric singer, his lifestyle deeply annoys his father-in-law.

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#16The City Stands Trial

Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as Ragioniere Filippetti

6.4 / 10
DramaHistory

Turn-of-the-century Naples. Salvatore Ruotolo and his wife are murdered and their bodies are found in different locations. Since the evidence points to a crime by the Neapolitan crime organization, the Camorra, fear and corruption cause serious hindrances to the investigation by police authorities. In charge is a young and courageous judge who, using evidence discovered by chance, tries to reconstruct the story of the double murder. The plot that the judge must unravel is very complicated.

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#17Good Folk's Sunday

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Il parroco

6.2 / 10
ComedyDrama

In the background of the football match Roma - Napoli different stories intertwine.

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#18It Happened at the Police Station

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Cannizzaro, il vecchio della penna

6.5 / 10
Comedy

Everyday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, however, the chief of police has bought his first car and he has decided to test it with his wife going to Ostia. But first a theatrical company sent out of the theatre, last Alfredo Todini arrested while walking wearing a gown and in the mean a series of human cases, ranging from the pathetic to the funny one, get in the way of his wish.

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#19High School

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Scandurra, il professore di Storia

6.5 / 10
Comedy

It's the last year of highschool of a group of teenagers, and now they have to face their final exam, and the loves, happy or not, that sprung during those years of school.

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#20The Dollars Are Coming!

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

6.8 / 10
Comedy

A widow goes to Italy from South Africa to find out whether or not her late husband's five nephews are worthy of his inheritance...

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#21The Anatomy of Love

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Passeggero dell'autobus

6.4 / 10
ComedyMusic

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.

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#22Legs of Gold

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as sindaco

5.7 / 10
Comedy

Baron Luigi Fontana is a rich and stinging producer of fine wines, as well as president of the amateur football team of Cerignola who, to crown a triumphant championship, is about to be promoted to Serie C.

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#233 Strangers in Rome

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Turiddu

5.4 / 10
Comedy

Three girls from Milan dreaming of a holiday in Rome arrive in the city by train and decide to pretend to be rich Danish girls to attract three nice guys... Three guys looking for easy-going girls offer them a guided tour through the most beautiful places of the city. The girls accept and make the guys spend a fortune, but one evening they get drunk and one of them incidentally reveals she's just from Milan. The guys get upset and set up a sort of revenge, but in the end they make it up.

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#24Good night… lawyer!

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as nonno di Bianca Maria

6.7 / 10
ComedyRomance

A lawyer, married but temporarily alone at home, finds himself in the house a beautiful lady who tries to escape from her jealous husband. Fascinated by the beauty of the unexpected guest, the lawyer is determined to conquer her, in vain. But when the woman leaves, she discovers that she has been stolen some money.

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#25In the Name of the Law

Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • as Don Fifì

7.2 / 10
DramaCrime

A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.

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#26The Art of Getting Along

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Detenuto

6.8 / 10
Comedy

In this comedy Alberto Sordi plays Rosario Scimoni, known as Sasà, an opportunistic and unscrupulous guy, nephew of the mayor of Catania, and he's always ready to take sides with anyone who can help him. He switches from socialism to fascism; he changes his political faith the same way he changes women. He even tries to found his own party.

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#27Siamo tutti inquilini

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Cavalier Terzetti

6.3 / 10
Comedy

Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.

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#28Of Life and Love

Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Zi' Dima, mastro del paese

6.4 / 10
Comedy

A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself a fan; Rosario Chiarchiaro appears before a law court for casting spells; the discomfort of an overtight jacket gives a wedding witness the strength to persuade the bridegroom's reluctant parents to bless his union.

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#29Howlers of the Dock

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as senatore Bucci

5.1 / 10
MusicComedy

Follows the adventures of a group of friends, teddy boys and rock and roll chicks whose crazy, fun-loving habits inspire jiving from some of Rome's citizens, and bitter complants from others which inspire a group of corrupt officials determined to a bring the group down.

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#30La moglie è uguale per tutti

Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as Beretta

7.1 / 10
Comedy

Antonio De Papis is a lawyer and his specialization is separation by mutual consent. He is contrary to marriage because he sees so many of them going wrong. So when his nephew calls on him asking for his approval to his marriage, Antonio suggests to him to spend a day in his office to see what marriage really is.

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#31Lazzarella

Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as Professor Avallone

6.3 / 10
Comedy

Luciano, who studies at the university, falls in love with Sandra, a high school student, who returns his love. If her family is very rich, his family is of modest extraction; however, the difference in condition does not seem to be a problem, and Luciano's degree increases the hope of a happy future. However, following a sudden financial collapse, Sandra's family business failed: so, to help her parents, the girl accepted the kindness of a very rich childhood friend, deciding to marry him.

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#321860

Movie - 1934, 2h 15m • as un altro cittadino siciliano

6.4 / 10
DramaHistory

The story is the harried attempt of a Sicilian partisan, as part of the risorgimento, to reach Garibaldi's headquarters in Northern Italy, and to petition the revered revolutionary to rescue part of his besieged land. Along the way, the peasant hero encounters many colorful Italians, differing in class and age, and holding political opinions of every type. There is a key train scene, and the film ends on the battlefield, Italian unification a success, despite brutal losses.

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#33Il marchese di Ruvolito

Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Neddu Grisi, amministratore

8.8 / 10
Comedy

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#34Easy Years

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

6.8 / 10
Comedy

A Sicilian professor who moves to Rome gets lost in the maze of Roman ministries and gives in to corruption.

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#35Sempre più difficile

Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as Don Ignazio D'Azevegno

7.0 / 10

Sicily, early 1900s. An impoverished prince settles into the house of a rich shipowner and becomes his counselor.

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#36The Old Lady

Movie - 1932, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

7.0 / 10
Comedy

An elderly chestnut vendor lives in poverty but once a month puts on a show with silk and a carriage to impress her daughter in a convent. One day she is robbed of her meager savings.

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#37Empty Eyes

Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Macaluso

7.0 / 10
Drama

A young and shy girl Celestina arrives from her small home village to Rome to become a housemaid. Her inexperience and naivety causes her to change her employers quite frequently. As she is moving from one family to another she makes friends with other Roman maids and falls desperately in love with a handsome plumber Fernando. But Fernando isn't telling Celestina that he is already engaged to another woman.

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#38La Voce Lontana

Movie - 1933, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

10.0 / 10
Comedy

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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