Ted Rusoff
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Biography: Ted Rusoff was an extremely prolific dubbing editor, director, and voice actor. He started as an opera singer in Los Angeles in the early 1960's before landing ADR work with his uncle Samuel Z. Arkoff at American International Pictures. Arkoff sent Rusoff to Italy in the late 60's to help get their dubbing system set up to American standards but Rusoff ended up living in Rome for the rest of his life. Rusoff's voice can be heard in the English versions of over 250 Italian, Japanese, Russian, and various European films. He also lent his voice to several big budget American films including THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST. Beginning in the late 1970's, Rusoff tried his hand at acting in front of the camera too as it was relatively easy for native English speakers in Italy to find acting work at the time. He acted alongside greats including Bob Hoskins and Max von Sydow, and in the dubbing studio alongside such dubbing legends as Robert Rietty, Geoffrey Copleston, Nick Alexander, Lewis E. Cianelli, and Mickey Knox. Cast mostly as monks, elders and religious figures due to his large beard, Rusoff appeared in such bible epics as THE DAY CHRIST DIED and THE NATIVITY STORY as well as monks in DOUBLE TEAM and CATACOMBS. His most prestigious role is perhaps as the chief elder in PASSION OF THE CHRIST who throws the bag of money at Judas. Rusoff, being fluent in several languages including traditional Hebrew and ancient Aramaic, worked as chief translator for the film as well. Rusoff married fellow voice actor / dubber Carolyn De Fonseca but the two had an open marriage. Rusoff fathered 9 daughters to different mothers over a span of 40 years, including one who was still an infant at the time of his death in 2013.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: May 20, 1939
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 28, 2013
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The Nativity Story
Overview: Mary and Joseph make the hard journey to Bethlehem for a blessed event in this retelling of the Nativity story. This meticulously researched and visually lush adaptation of the biblical tale follows the pair on their arduous path to their arrival in a small village, where they find shelter in a quiet manger and Jesus is born.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-11-30
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Eurocrime! The Italian Cop and Gangster Films That Ruled the '70s
Overview: A documentary concerning the violent Italian 'poliziotteschi' cinematic movement of the 1970s which, at first glance, seem to be rip-offs of American crime films like DIRTY HARRY or THE GODFATHER, but which really address Italian issues like the Sicilian Mafia and red terrorism. Perhaps even more interesting than the films themselves were the rushed methods of production (stars performing their own stunts, stealing shots, no live sound) and the bleed-over between real-life crime and movie crime.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-03-30
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Catacombs
Overview: In the 17th century, an order of monks in Italy capture and entomb a demon that has possessed a member of their group. 400 years later, school teacher Elizabeth Magrino visits the monastery in order to do some research. What she and the current monks do not realize is that the evil hiding within the catacombs has unwittingly been released.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-14
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Fashion Crimes
Overview: On her way home, a fashion model, Gloria, saw a man fought against a woman and killed her in a strangely noisy room in the old villa where a German Countess named Greta Stella used to live. But when the police Commissioner, who is crazy about fishing, and his dull assistant go to the problematic villa in the next morning, the villa is perceived to have been empty for twenty years and there seems to be nothing criminal left. And then Gloria asks help from a playboy-typed psychiatrist, Gianmarco Contini, who is one of the eight joint-owners of the problematic villa...
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-08-05
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Sinbad of the Seven Seas
Overview: Sinbad returns from the sea to find his country subjected to the will of two unscrupulous sorcerers.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-01
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Man and Cat
Overview: Man lives with his best friend, Cat, to defend others from big bad.
Genres: Animation Comedy Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-11-08
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Christine Cristina
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2010-05-07
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Nightworld: Lost Souls
Overview: As a family moves into their new country home, strange events occur, making them believe that their autistic daughter is somehow communicating with the victims of an unsolved murder 8 years earlier.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-03-01
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Riddler's Moon
Overview: Teenager Elias has watched his farming community struggle through season after season of bad crops. When unexplained visions--perhaps from another world--give Elias hope of a coming miracle, he becomes the key to saving his town.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-02-21
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The Voyeur
Overview: At a college in Rome, a professor, nicknamed "Dodo" is in a deep depression. His stunningly beautiful wife has just left him for another man. Dodo wants her back very badly and has erotic daydreams about her. A beautiful young student in his class asks him for a ride home and seduces the lucky man, but still he wonders about his wife and her lover.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-01-27
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The Eighteenth Angel
Overview: Mythology and religious dogma are slowly revealed when an attractive young woman is approached by a modeling agency that pulls her into an underworld of priests that are not Christian but rather want to resurrect Satan by collecting the souls of 18 beautiful children.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Scarlet Worm
Overview: An aging killer trains a young hired gun in a plot to assassinate a meek brothel owner performing barbaric abortion acts on his prostitutes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-08-27
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Double Team
Overview: A CIA agent is interned for failing to kill an international terrorist. Escaping from his island exile, he teams up with a flamboyant arms dealer and sets out to find the terrorist and rescue the agent's family. Together they're a two-man arsenal... with enough voltage to rock the free world.
Genres: Action Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-04
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The Day Christ Died
Overview: A dramatization of the events from the Last Supper through the arrest and trial of Jesus to the Crucifixion.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-03-26
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The Last Temptation of Christ
Overview: Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -- despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the savior of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life, leading him to doubt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-05-28
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The Passion of the Christ
Overview: A graphic portrayal of the last twelve hours of Jesus of Nazareth's life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-02-25
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Piranha II: The Spawning
Overview: A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-08-14
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Absurd
Overview: A priest-doctor chasing a man with supernatural regenerative abilities, who has recently escaped from a medical lab, reaches a small town where the mutant goes on a killing spree.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-10-01
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Voyage Into Space
Overview: Earth is invaded by an interstellar terrorist group, Big Fire (the Gargoyle Gang in the American version), led by Emperor Guillotine who spends most of his time in a multicolored space ship hidden at the bottom of Earth's ocean, from which he issues his orders. Big Fire is capturing scientists to create an army of monsters to conquer Earth. A boy named Daisaku Kusama (Johnny Sokko in the American version) and a young Unicorn agent named Jūrō Minami (Jerry Mano in the American version) are shipwrecked on an island after being attacked by a sea monster and subsequently captured by Big Fire. They flee to where a Pharaoh-like giant robot is being built by captive scientist Lucius Guardian, who gives Daisaku and Jūrō its control device. Guardian helps them escape before he is shot to death; before he dies, he triggers an atomic bomb which destroys the base. The radiation activates the robot, which now obeys only Daisaku.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-01-01
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Cellini: A Violent Life
Overview: The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked by many achievements and adventures, but also crimes. There is also the mini-series version consisted of three 90 minutes episodes, broadcasted by RaiDue.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-05-02
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