Salvatore Baccaro

Salvatore Baccaro (22 February 1932 – 18 December 1984) was an Italian character actor. He was recognizable for his known acromegaly and appeared in more than sixty films from 1970 to 1984. He died on 18 December 1984 aged 52 after thyroid surgery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Salvatore Baccaro, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Deep Red (1975)

One night, musician Marcus Daly, looking up from the street below, witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, he just manages to miss the perpetrator... or so he thinks.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dario Argento
CAST:  David Hemmings  •  Daria Nicolodi  •  Gabriele Lavia  •  Macha Méril

One night, musician Marcus Daly, looking up from the street below, witnesses the brutal axe murder of a woman in her apartment. Racing to the scene, he just manages to miss the perpetrator... or so he thinks.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dario Argento
CAST:  David Hemmings  •  Daria Nicolodi  •  Gabriele Lavia  •  Macha Méril

The Arena (1974)

Female gladiators fight to the death. Inspired by the story of Spartacus, follow the adventures of a bevy of slave girls who, upon finding themselves thrust into the gladiator ring, mount a vicious rebellion to fight their way to freedom.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Steve Carver
CAST:  Pam Grier  •  Margaret Markov  •  Lucretia Love  •  Paul Müller

Female gladiators fight to the death. Inspired by the story of Spartacus, follow the adventures of a bevy of slave girls who, upon finding themselves thrust into the gladiator ring, mount a vicious rebellion to fight their way to freedom.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Steve Carver
CAST:  Pam Grier  •  Margaret Markov  •  Lucretia Love  •  Paul Müller

Starcrash (1978)

A pair of smugglers manage to pick up a castaway while running from the authorities, who turns out to be the only survivor from a secret mission to destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zartharn. The smugglers are soon recruited by the Emperor ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Luigi Cozzi
CAST:  Marjoe Gortner  •  Caroline Munro  •  Christopher Plummer  •  David Hasselhoff

A pair of smugglers manage to pick up a castaway while running from the authorities, who turns out to be the only survivor from a secret mission to destroy a mysterious superweapon designed by the evil Count Zartharn. The smugglers are soon recruited by the Emperor ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Luigi Cozzi
CAST:  Marjoe Gortner  •  Caroline Munro  •  Christopher Plummer  •  David Hasselhoff

The Grand Duel (1972)

A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Giancarlo Santi
CAST:  Lee Van Cleef  •  Marc Mazza  •  Klaus Grünberg  •  Horst Frank

A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Giancarlo Santi
CAST:  Lee Van Cleef  •  Marc Mazza  •  Klaus Grünberg  •  Horst Frank

Sexy Sinners (1972)

During the early Italian Renaissance and the Black Death epidemic, a group of young men and women, seeking refuge in a secluded villa just outside the city of Florence, shares different stories of adultery and forbidden love.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marino Girolami
CAST:  Franco Agostini  •  Enzo Andronico  •  Bruna Beani  •  Marzia Damon

During the early Italian Renaissance and the Black Death epidemic, a group of young men and women, seeking refuge in a secluded villa just outside the city of Florence, shares different stories of adultery and forbidden love.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marino Girolami
CAST:  Franco Agostini  •  Enzo Andronico  •  Bruna Beani  •  Marzia Damon

The Exorcist: Italian Style (1975)

A satire on the American film "The Exorcist," but with an Italian twist.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ciccio Ingrassia
CAST:  Ciccio Ingrassia  •  Lino Banfi  •  Didi Perego  •  Tano Cimarosa

A satire on the American film "The Exorcist," but with an Italian twist.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Ciccio Ingrassia
CAST:  Ciccio Ingrassia  •  Lino Banfi  •  Didi Perego  •  Tano Cimarosa

Saturday, Sunday and Friday (1979)

SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this encounter is decisive for the small Italian company. DOMENICA (second episode): After a hard day of job, a man returns ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sergio Martino  •  Castellano  •  Pipolo  •  Pasquale Festa Campanile
CAST:  Adriano Celentano  •  Lino Banfi  •  Edwige Fenech  •  Barbara Bouchet

SABATO (first episode): A company receives the visit of a very very important person. This person works for a biggest Japanese society, and this encounter is decisive for the small Italian company. DOMENICA (second episode): After a hard day of job, a man returns ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sergio Martino  •  Castellano  •  Pipolo  •  Pasquale Festa Campanile
CAST:  Adriano Celentano  •  Lino Banfi  •  Edwige Fenech  •  Barbara Bouchet

Love in 4 Easy Lessons (1976)

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Four stories focused on the fair sex, dealing with the most varied and improbable sentimental and non-sentimental situations.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sergio Martino
CAST:  Ursula Andress  •  Barbara Bouchet  •  Alvaro Vitali  •  Johnny Dorelli

Four stories focused on the fair sex, dealing with the most varied and improbable sentimental and non-sentimental situations.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sergio Martino
CAST:  Ursula Andress  •  Barbara Bouchet  •  Alvaro Vitali  •  Johnny Dorelli

The Gang That Sold America (1979)

Now an agent of Interpol undercover, the former Inspector Giraldi, goes to New York to find his friend Salvatore Esposito, aspiring restaurateur in Little Italy, suffocated by debts with the usurers headed by Don Gerolamo. He will remove the gang and assure her of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bruno Corbucci
CAST:  Tomas Milian  •  Enzo Cannavale  •  Asha Puthli  •  Margherita Fumero

Now an agent of Interpol undercover, the former Inspector Giraldi, goes to New York to find his friend Salvatore Esposito, aspiring restaurateur in Little Italy, suffocated by debts with the usurers headed by Don Gerolamo. He will remove the gang and assure her of ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Bruno Corbucci
CAST:  Tomas Milian  •  Enzo Cannavale  •  Asha Puthli  •  Margherita Fumero

Charleston (1974)

This film has the typical air of Italian action/gangster comedies from that period - it is a perfectly charming and funny sort of comedy. The cliches of black and white are wonderfully maintained in this movie as the good guys are clever and witty and the bad ones ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Enzo Barboni
CAST:  Giuliano Gemma  •  Ricky Bruch  •  Laura Becherelli  •  Fortunato Arena

This film has the typical air of Italian action/gangster comedies from that period - it is a perfectly charming and funny sort of comedy. The cliches of black and white are wonderfully maintained in this movie as the good guys are clever and witty and the bad ones ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Enzo Barboni
CAST:  Giuliano Gemma  •  Ricky Bruch  •  Laura Becherelli  •  Fortunato Arena

All for the Moral Majority! (1984)

The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as usual, very strongly. He orders numberless arrests. But the reaction of counterparts won't take long. In fact his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alberto Sordi
CAST:  Dalila Di Lazzaro  •  Joe Pesci  •  Alberto Sordi  •  Giorgia Moll

The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as usual, very strongly. He orders numberless arrests. But the reaction of counterparts won't take long. In fact his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Alberto Sordi
CAST:  Dalila Di Lazzaro  •  Joe Pesci  •  Alberto Sordi  •  Giorgia Moll

Lucky Girls (1975)

Two racy women decide to chuck their mundane lives and go on a wild adventure.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Carlo Di Palma
CAST:  Monica Vitti  •  Claudia Cardinale  •  Ninetto Davoli  •  Guido Leontini

Two racy women decide to chuck their mundane lives and go on a wild adventure.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Carlo Di Palma
CAST:  Monica Vitti  •  Claudia Cardinale  •  Ninetto Davoli  •  Guido Leontini

Sex with a Smile (1976)

Five short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sergio Martino
CAST:  Aldo Maccione  •  Barbara Bouchet  •  Edwige Fenech  •  Renzo Rinaldi

Five short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sergio Martino
CAST:  Aldo Maccione  •  Barbara Bouchet  •  Edwige Fenech  •  Renzo Rinaldi

Desirable Teacher (1981)

In a school where the meeting seems more complete sampling of teachers and professors stupid airhead, there is the class of Peter, repeating in life, which is the "grandfather" to the far more young companions concerning jokes and vulgarity. Even outside the school ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marino Girolami
CAST:  Alvaro Vitali  •  Michele Gammino  •  Michela Miti  •  Sofia Lombardo

In a school where the meeting seems more complete sampling of teachers and professors stupid airhead, there is the class of Peter, repeating in life, which is the "grandfather" to the far more young companions concerning jokes and vulgarity. Even outside the school ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Marino Girolami
CAST:  Alvaro Vitali  •  Michele Gammino  •  Michela Miti  •  Sofia Lombardo

Emanuelle in America (1977)

An American journalist travels throughout the world in search of a good story by joining a modern-day harem and traveling to Venice to see what really goes on at diplomatic parties. While trying to expose a corrupt government official, Emanuelle stumbles upon a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joe D'Amato
CAST:  Laura Gemser  •  Gabriele Tinti  •  Roger Browne  •  Riccardo Salvino

An American journalist travels throughout the world in search of a good story by joining a modern-day harem and traveling to Venice to see what really goes on at diplomatic parties. While trying to expose a corrupt government official, Emanuelle stumbles upon a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Joe D'Amato
CAST:  Laura Gemser  •  Gabriele Tinti  •  Roger Browne  •  Riccardo Salvino

Salon Kitty (1976)

Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl named Margherita ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tinto Brass
CAST:  Helmut Berger  •  Ingrid Thulin  •  Teresa Ann Savoy  •  John Steiner

Kitty runs a brothel in Nazi Germany where the soldiers come to "relax". Recording devices have been installed in each room by a power hungry army official who plans to use the information to blackmail Hitler and gain power himself. A girl named Margherita ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Tinto Brass
CAST:  Helmut Berger  •  Ingrid Thulin  •  Teresa Ann Savoy  •  John Steiner

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DIRECTION:  Sergio Martino
CAST:  Patrizia Pellegrino  •  Gigi Sammarchi  •  Andrea Roncato  •  Gegia

The Return of the Exorcist (1975)

An archaeology student photographs a mysterious naked woman by a waterfall, unaware that she is a female demon called Haggia, who soon takes possession of him via a cursed amulet.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Franco Lo Cascio  •  Angelo Pannacciò
CAST:  Richard Conte  •  Françoise Prévost  •  Patrizia Gori  •  Jean-Claude Vernè

An archaeology student photographs a mysterious naked woman by a waterfall, unaware that she is a female demon called Haggia, who soon takes possession of him via a cursed amulet.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Franco Lo Cascio  •  Angelo Pannacciò
CAST:  Richard Conte  •  Françoise Prévost  •  Patrizia Gori  •  Jean-Claude Vernè

Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks (1974)

Mad Dr Frankenstein recruits an evil dwarf, a Neanderthal man, and others to help him put a brain in the body of a brute.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dick Randall
CAST:  Rossano Brazzi  •  Michael Dunn  •  Edmund Purdom  •  Gordon Mitchell

Mad Dr Frankenstein recruits an evil dwarf, a Neanderthal man, and others to help him put a brain in the body of a brute.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dick Randall
CAST:  Rossano Brazzi  •  Michael Dunn  •  Edmund Purdom  •  Gordon Mitchell

The Five Days (1973)

In 1848, as Italy becomes engulfed in a bubbling revolution to finally get rid of the ruling Austrians, a patriotic prisoner named Cainazzo begins to wonder if he will soon get the chance to see the revolution in action away from his prison cell. Suddenly, a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dario Argento
CAST:  Adriano Celentano  •  Enzo Cerusico  •  Marilù Tolo  •  Luisa De Santis

In 1848, as Italy becomes engulfed in a bubbling revolution to finally get rid of the ruling Austrians, a patriotic prisoner named Cainazzo begins to wonder if he will soon get the chance to see the revolution in action away from his prison cell. Suddenly, a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Dario Argento
CAST:  Adriano Celentano  •  Enzo Cerusico  •  Marilù Tolo  •  Luisa De Santis
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