Polidor
Also Known As: Ferdinand Guillaume, Tontolino
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bayonne, France
Adult: No
Birthday: May 19, 1887
Age: 138 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 03, 1977
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La dernière berceuse
Overview: A young student breaks off her engagement after her late mother leaves her with a baby she had with a stranger. But the baby's father returns and claims it. The young girl, her life shattered, tries to commit suicide but her fiancé, who has never stopped loving her, arrives in time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-06-16
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Accattone
Overview: A pimp with no other means to provide for himself finds his life spiralling out of control when his prostitute is sent to prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-09-25
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Polidor vuol suicidarsi
Overview: A slapstick short from Italian comic Polidor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-07-16
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Polidor e l'elefante
Overview: Polidor wins the friendship of an elephant whom he liberates from a splinter in his foot
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-31
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Pinocchio
Overview: Carpenter Geppetto carves a block of wood into a puppet and names him Pinocchio. As soon as his feet have been made, Pinocchio runs out the door and a series of adventures begins.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1911-12-04
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Tontolini e l'asino
Overview: Jenkins goes to a public park where a procession is in progress. There, he takes a fancy to a donkey and determines to possess it. Cautiously mounting the beast, he rides away when the owner is not looking. Riding through the country, he meets a peddler with a quantity of toy balloons.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-11-19
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Il folle di Marechiaro
Overview: The film was originally called "The fires of San Martino". Left unfinished, it was finished in 1950 with the addition of some sequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-12-31
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The Employee
Overview: Nando is dissatisfied with his repetitive and mortifying work. He manages to escape from daily mediocrity only at night, when he enters his fantasy world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-01-20
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Angel in a Taxi
Overview: Marietto is a very lively and creative orphaned child, housed in a boarding school of nuns. One day, while browsing a newspaper, he sees a photo of a beautiful opera house dancer, Camilla, and is convinced that she is her mother.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-09-04
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Polidor and the Wig
Overview: The little Agenore combines a lot of trouble to family friend Ilario Mentecatti (Natale Guillaume).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1917-11-21
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Polidor Becomes Strong
Overview: Comedy in which Polidor, assumed the pads regenerating, acquires an incredible force.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1916-09-21
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Il divano
Overview: Polidor drags down the street a bulky sofa on which every couple sitting ends up kissing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1917-07-22
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Un regalo imbarazzante
Overview: Polidor, wearing two pairs of pants, left the necklace she wants to give to a young woman in the inner pocket of his trousers. In an attempt to strip generates embarrassment to all diners.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1918-02-22
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Polidor cambia sesso
Overview: To conquer his beautiful mother without insospettirne, Polidor dresses for women and can thus safely visit the house, but was immediately made the subject of attention of the father of the girl, unrepentant libertine. And when you discover the trick, barrel on Polidor, but also on the elderly Don Giovanni, by the jealous wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1918-05-01
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Tontolini è triste
Overview: Comic film. Disappointed by love, Tontolini consults a doctor about the sadness he feels. The doctor prescribes distractions and entertainment as a cure. Tontolini accepts the doctor’s advice and begins the cure by going to café chantants and theaters, where he finds nothing but moving performances that make him even sadder. He is finally healed for a rather funny reason: the showing of a film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1911-11-10
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Tontolini's Quid
Overview: Comedy about Tontolini the soldier who keeps his money in the scabbard of his sword. He wants to pay and therefore draws his sword, the police is then called in....
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-06-16
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Lauta mancia
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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Polidor and the Cat
Overview: Polidor goes looking for lost kittens and brings home some lion cubs. He doesn't notice the difference until his employer points it out three months later, after they have eaten all the parlor furniture.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-12-07
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Polidor senza colletto
Overview: Polidor applies for a job that requires a collar.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1912-12-19
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Cyrano and d'Artagnan
Overview: Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-10-22
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Polidor's First Duel
Overview: Polidor learns how to handle a sword for a duel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1913-05-01
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Tontolini and Hypnotism
Overview: Polidor is a hypochondriac, so he goes to a hypnotist to have his neuroses dealt with. The hypnotist uses a feather to to hypnotize him, but doesn't turn it off properly, so Polidor goes into a trance on sighting anything with feathers. This means that he leans over in an impossible looking pose, and walks on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1910-12-01
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Piece of the Sky
Overview: As he does every year, Severino, a young hawker who goes around the festivals of the various villages in the Po Delta, returns to Migliarino to sell his knick-knacks and tell far-fetched stories about the future and progress. Besides the beautiful Marina, three gullible old friends live here, pensioners who live off poverty, to whom he proposes the sale of a hectare of sky.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-08-15
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Polidor's Gramophone
Overview: In a scheme that is all the more convincing on silent film, Polydor attempts to fool a high-society mob with a no-talent singer who lip-synchs recordings from a hidden Gramophone. (MoMA)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1912-09-01
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Uno scandalo in casa Polidor
Overview: Slapstick short.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
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Polidor al club della morte
Overview: Polidor dreams that he has become a member of the death club, a society for those tired of life. The loser of a card game must commit suicide, and Polidor is dealt the wrong card...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-11-12
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Polidor contro la suocera
Overview: A comedy with Polidor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1912-08-11
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Tontolini's Clarinet
Overview: Comedy short directed by Polidor
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1911-01-01
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Polidor in cerca dello zio
Overview: Polidor finds out that his uncle, who made a fortune in America, is about to come back home. Polidor has never seen him, but he knows that his uncle has a bump on his head...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1912-03-03
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Nights of Cabiria
Overview: Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-10-03
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È sbarcato un marinaio
Overview: In a sea port, where he has landed after a long voyage, a sailor meets a girl. To overcome her reluctance, he gives up on leaving again and works as a barker in a fair booth where she works and takes her with him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-02-14
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Red Roses for the Fuhrer
Overview: James Daly is an American special soldier who goes behind enemy territory during WWII. His Objective: to steal top secret SS document that can change the course of the war.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-24
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Pillole portentose
Overview: Tired men takes magic pills that make them overly energetic.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-04-17
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Carmen
Overview: Carmen is a French-Italian musical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Viviane Romance, Jean Marais, and Lucien Coëdel. It is a version of the famous opera.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-08-08
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Marisa
Overview: For the 17-year-old Mariza, there is no other house than the train station in Civitavecchia. Here, an orphaned girl lives early after the death of her father, a railwayman; here she earns additionally at the station buffet, selling ice cream to passengers of passing trains. Beautiful and brisk, she was accustomed to the admiration of others and perfectly mastered the art of coquetry, but Marise’s heart remains calm until the young sailor Angelo, who is in a hurry on her first voyage, leaves the train on the platform on a sunny Sunday morning.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-03-19
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La Dolce Vita
Overview: Episodic journey of journalist Marcello who struggles to find his place in the world, torn between the allure of Rome's elite social scene and the stifling domesticity offered by his girlfriend, all the while searching for a way to become a serious writer.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-02-05
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La figlia del corsaro verde
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1940-12-23
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Everyone's in Love
Overview: Giovanni is a young widower with a son who is attracted to the charming teen Allegra.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-04-09
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Astrea, the Amazing Woman
Overview: Astrea plays an adventurous princess who roams the world in the service of justice, supported by her humorous sidekick Birillo (Ferdinand Guillaume). She takes up the cause of two young nobles, Michele and Jole, who have been dispossessed by the unscrupulous baron Max. With her bare fists, she eliminates six shifty circus people sent by Max. “Remarkable stunts, of which a professional strong-woman of Houdini- like prowess is the protagonist, are the outstanding feature of this unusual and entertaining thrill-film, whilst the amazing sensations are pleasantly relieved by a vein of irresistible comedy (“The Bioscope”, 1 April 1920).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1919-02-07
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Tontolini makes a mistake
Overview: Tontolini makes a mistake
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1912-08-01
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Polidor's Moustache
Overview: Short starring Ferdinand Guillaume as the popular Polidor!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
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Il romanzo di un giovane povero
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-03-29
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L'enfant terrible
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1917-01-01
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The Temptation of Dr. Antonio
Overview: Dr. Antonio Mazzuolo obsessively fights against what he perceives as immorality in Rome, only to be driven mad by a seductive billboard of Anita Ekberg that haunts him with hallucinations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-02-23
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