Salvo Libassi
Known For & Full Filmography47 Titles
Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Young painter Teddy is successful with women but not very clever about selling pictures. He is in love with Elisabetta but cannot marry her because he is penniless. The couple asks for help from Peppino, a retired clerk who often uses Teddy's painting, pretending that they are his so he can impress the women he likes.
Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Antonio, a former variety actor, keeps his daughter in an excellent boarding school by organizing small scams with his friend and colleague Felice. Commissioner Malvasia good-naturedly persecuted him. When their respective unsuspecting children fall in love, the two fathers make peace.
Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A petty thief pretends he is Mussolini's personal physician, wins the confidence of a family, and succeeds in stealing their gold cutlery.
Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Commissioner (uncredited)
A barber, murderer because of jealousy, spends twenty years in jail. He cannot, however adjust himself to a changed world and to the hypocrisy of his own relatives and decides to return behind bars.
Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as regista siciliano
Antonio Scaparro (Toto) is obsessed for women. He invents his own way to hide from them - in the attic of his house.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as Salumiere
Four extraterrestrials, X-1, X-2, X-3 and X-4, arrive on Earth in the early sixties. Here they decide to take on human features to study the terrestrials incognito, but end up getting involved in the Roman "dolce vita".
Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • as Il Benzonaio
A middle-aged businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one, named Francesca.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Two two-bit crooks get in the way of a criminal ring and cause a hold up to fail. The two flee to Paradise avoiding a reprisal and try and steal Saint Peter's halo.
Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as amico di Marisa
Antonio, Peppino and Lucia are three brothers who live in the country near Naples. Lucia's son, Gianni, goes to Naples to study medicine, but there he knows a ballet dancer. They fall in love and, when she goes to Milan, Gianni follows her. Informed of this and afraid that their nephew will stop studying, the three Caponi brothers leave for Milan to persuade Gianni to come back and continue studying and abandon the "Malafemmina" (bad girl).
Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Agente Nicola Sprameci
A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.
Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • as dottor Arrigo Lojacono
Ugo meets the 18-year-old Renata in the hostel where she is staying. He falls in love with and leaves with her for several romantic places until the money ends. Ugo will try to get the girl engaged on a local TV station, but Renata falls in love with a manager.
Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as The engineer
A group of "respectable" people are all partly responsible for the suicide of a servant girl. They are pounced upon by a wily blackmailer, who knows that these people will pay dearly rather than inform on themselves or others.
Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as Sor Arduino
A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.
Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as Un brigadiere (uncredited)
During a police raid at Villa Borghese, the agent, a widower named Antonio Caccavallo, stays to get better acquainted with the young Carolina.
Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • as Monsignor Carlucci
Marco and Luciana are married and in love, but the passion of Marco for football distract him, and make him impossible to keep a job for a long time: that's why the young couple keeps arguing.
Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
1760 Spain provides the setting for Giacomo Casanova's romantic escapades, every woman he encounters unable to resist his disarming charm, be they single, engaged, or even married.
Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Tullio, radio technician
Nando Moriconi is a young Italian living in Rome obsessed with all-things American.
Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as Sergente Maggiore
Nicola Carletti is a middle age 50-year old man who return to Italy with his family but he is drafted to go to the mandatory military service in Italy.
Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A clown named Tottons of the Togni circus, obliged to never take off his clown makeup or reveal his identity, is continually persecuted by the jealousy of three women and even by a policeman.
Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
1944. Primo Arcovazzi is a fanatical and dim-witted Fascist Party militiaman who accepts to escort an opponent of the regime to Rome in the hope of be promoted — still oblivious as ever to the forthcoming fall of the regime.
Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as L'altro poliziotto in bici
Two men embarks upon a space race. Their efforts are hampered by aliens who clone the heroes to keep them from exploring further.
Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Pizzicagnolo
Tapioca, a small-time thief, hides out in an elegant apartment, where he is soon joined by Cascarilla, one of his apprentices who has become better than his master. When the owners arrive home, the latter offers the wife a bunch of love letters she has written to various lovers for ten million.
Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Paolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his friends do not know why. The man is the lover of Assunta, the mother of one of his pupils, and he discovers that she has become pregnant.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
It's the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life and to win the affection of his son, invents a story about his past. At the end of the day however, he will succeed in establishing a positive relationship with his son and telling the truth about himself.
Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as Roberto
A young Milanese pastry chef, Susanna, is working in the pastry shop of her family. She has to defend herself from both a jealous boyfriend, and competition from other pastry chefs who want to know the recipe of the famous cream cake that bears her name.
Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as il portiere del teatro
A young Milanese pastry chef, Susanna, is working in the pastry shop of her family. She has to defend herself from both a jealous boyfriend, and competition from other pastry chefs who want to know the recipe of the famous cream cake that bears her name.
Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
After several attempts at suicide, depressed thief Antonio Marchi accidentally drowns in a river and ends up in hell.
Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as (uncredited)
A group of schoolgirls find shelter in an old castle during a rainstorm.
Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • as Brigadiere Solmi
Italy, mid '60s. Three guys from a poor neighbourhood try to get rich by printing fake money using the fact that one of them works as a typographer. The story unravels around their embarrassed efforts to spend the money, their little family issues and ends with a surprise.
Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Direttore della banca
Anna was the maid of a lady who inherited an apartment in a building in the center of Rome.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • as Office Clerk (segment "lo sport")
An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.
Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Avvocato Scimè
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.
Movie - 1956, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Antonio and Peppino live in a small town in central Italy: Peppino is the barber, Totò is maintained by the rich but avaricious wife Teresa.
Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Ufficiale
A historical farce about Napoleon.
Movie - 1950, 2h 15m • as Perrone
The plot weaves several episodes with several groups of people, Roman families, youth gangs and young love couples, who spend a Sunday at the beach of Ostia.
Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as L'intendente
Garibaldi, after landing in Marsala, moves on to Naples. The liberals are overjoyed but the Bourbons are terrified. The so-called Baron Tucci, on a recommendation from England, arrives at the home of Count Sereni, a notable liberal. But he turns out not to be a patriot who has returned to Italy to take part in the fight but a degraded Bourbon official who has been promised rehabilitation if he can succeed as a spy. Tucci discovers old Sereni's second wife is one of his former lovers and persuades her to murder her husband so as to gain his inheritance. She does indeed cause the count to die, by withholding his heart medicine, but not before he destroys his will.
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
In "The Hours of Love," Gianni and Marietta's spark ignites as passionate lovers, yet dims in their marriage. Seeking rekindling, they dare to step outside their vows, exploring love's complexities and the heart's yearning against societal expectations.
Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as Rocco Tamburello
Polish countess Lady Eva is the authoritative signature of the correspondence of an Italian women's magazine; behind the fascinating name hides a Roman girl whose advice will create a series of tangled and comic situations.
Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Baron ZazĂ , always broke due his dissolute lifestyle, decides to con a hefty sum of money out of his wealthy but greedy brother.
Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as An editor of Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (uncredited)
These are the years of the Second World War, and Toto is imprisoned in a concentration camp, suffering the harassment of Colonel Hammler, a Nazi cruel and despotic.
Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as Commissario di Polizia
During the period between world wars, vaudeville sketches were popular before film showings.Gastone is one of the characters played by the famous Ettore Petrolini who figures in these sketches.
Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Teo, a young theatre stand-in, is offered a tempting Faustian pact by the Devil: if he pushes a button, a Chinese Mandarin will die and leave his money to him.
Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as Pope
The Russian women's basketball team faces to the American team for the championship of the world, in Rome. Upon arriving at the 'Eternal City', the Russian athletes find ways to evade the strict surveillance and meet some Italian guys. After many persecutions, the Russians are confined by their guardians under the promise that, if they win, they can stay and live in Italy. But as they conquer the championship, their guards forget the promises and put them on a plane to Moscow.
Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Four former soldiers meet and reminisce about the time they were in active service: a parachutist mistaking his sergeants house for a brothel, a hypnotized sailor who thinks he has changed his sex, two GIs captured by an African tribe.
Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as Il maggiordomo della casa Vannucci
Peppino Bardellotti, a widower, lives in Milan with his four daughters and ex sister-in-law Matilde, who urges girls to settle down by marrying a wealthy man.