Salvatore Baccaro
Also Known As: Sal Boris, Boris Lugosi, Salvatore Vaccaro
Biography: 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.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Roccamandolfi, Isernia, Molise, Italy
Birthday: February 22, 1932
Deathday: December 18, 1984
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Frankenstein's Castle of Freaks
Overview: Mad Dr Frankenstein recruits an evil dwarf, a Neanderthal man, and others to help him put a brain in the body of a brute.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-02-19
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Starcrash
Overview: 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 to complete the mission, as well as to rescue the Emperor's son, who has gone missing.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-12-21
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The Beast in Heat
Overview: In a remote village in occupied Europe, the SS pursue their inhuman treatment of captured partisans in efforts to force them to betray their comrades.... while Fraulein Krast, a sadistic biologist, concentrates her efforts on the womenfolk with refined tortures and humiliation, leaving them to the mercy of a sex-crazed half-man, half-beast she has created with experimental injections.... And as advancing Allied forces approach the village, Krast herself becomes a victim of her own fiendish rituals....
Genres: Horror Thriller War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-07-19
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Mondo Candido
Overview: Voltaire, a 16th century author was furious that learned members of a "civilized" society could claim that the apparent senseless violence and mayhem wrought by disasters, war, disease, man's cruelty, etc. was actually only a part of some 'greater good'. After all, God (being perfect) could not 'logically' have created anything but the 'best of all possible' universes.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-02-21
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Il resto del Pap'occhio
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-09-19
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The Fiend
Overview: A low rank journalist at Tribuna Sera newspaper receives a letter one day. His correspondence contains a serial killer's letters, which he exploits.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-01-10
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Romulus and Remus: The Story of Two Sons of a Wolf
Overview: The history of Rome revisited by the group of Bagaglino (Franco, Montesano, Castellacci and Pingitore). Romulus kills Remus, but also manages to get rid of him. The sister continues to bother him in the ghost robes. When Romulus founded Rome and abducted the Sabine, dies, hell, he is received, needless to say, the petulantissimo Remo.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-29
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The Fan, the Referee and the Footballer
Overview: Two soccer stories: Alvaro Presutti is a referee who seems to be the last to know about his wife having an affair with a German soccer star. Amedeo Amedei has to please both his father, a die hard Roma supporter and his future father in law, who supports Lazio.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-01-28
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Il casinista
Overview: Pippo Caciotta is an actor looking for a role. His manager wants to renew his repertoire. Caciotta then, with the help of the brother Poldo and a camera, go around the city to find new ideas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-10-10
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How Beautiful Is Bernarda, All Black, All Hot
Overview: A wizard of the Middle Ages, while exorcising a girl, swallows eggnog and tells two suckers various Boccaccio stories.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-12
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Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone
Overview: Marino Stroppaghetti is a breadwinner in a layoff fund who, in order to make some money, arranges himself by doing small tailoring jobs at home. Desperate for having received the eviction, he turns to the City of Rome, where he discovers that there are as many as 80 thousand questions before his. How to do?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-09-02
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The Cat from Brooklyn Wants to Be a Detective
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-01-04
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The Schoolgirl
Overview: 18-year-old Patrizia and her three friends learn the art of seduction from the local prostitute, Marilena, and seduce the members of town council to stop a shady lawyer from demolishing their favorite hangout place.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-07
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Salon Kitty
Overview: 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 discovers the little ploy and with Kitty's help plans to take on the dangerous task of exposing the conspiracy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-02
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Seven Nuns in Kansas City
Overview: Two old drunks named Gin & Whiskey Joe, with their mules, engaged in a personal fight, find some gold nuggets in a river, they decide to look for the remaining ones through a map which they divide in half, gangs of bandits hear of the news and cast all suspicions on the holders of the map to two homosexual cowboys, who will seek refuge in a nunnery.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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The Soldier with Great Maneuvers
Overview: Doctor Eva Marini takes up a position at an army base to investigate the sexual behavior of the Italian male soldier and soon finds out she's taken on more than she bargained for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-12-07
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Le favolose notti d'oriente
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Sex with a Smile
Overview: Five short comic sketches, all unrelated to each other, except that they are all expressions of Italian sexual humor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-09
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Desirable Teacher 2
Overview: Pierino has again flunked the exams. Therefore, his desperate parents send him to boarding school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-02-19
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Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici
Overview: A Milanese industrialist goes to Rome to bribe a politician but he loses money. A thief helps him recover them. Milan and Rome in comparison in the duets of the couple Pozzetto-Milian.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-03-26
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Saturday, Sunday and Friday
Overview: 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 in it's house for sleep. But a series of facts hinder this, and the poor man does not succeed to sleep. VENERDI (third episode): A famous and rich creator of sexy ballets have various problems with a dancer. She want to leave the theater and marry a Mafia man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-06-06
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Sugar, Honey and Pepper
Overview: Three episodes. In the first episode Valerio is mistaken for a notorious criminal. Very beautiful journalists succeed to bring him to her house for an exclusive interview. She tries to seduce him. In the second episode Giuseppe, an unlucky and ugly man, gets a job as a maid. His mistress falls in love for him. In the third episode, Plinio is a taxi driver who loves his cab above all. But at one point he is involved with the kidnapping of a woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-10-03
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The Exorciccio
Overview: A satire on the American film "The Exorcist," but with an Italian twist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-02-27
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Cassiodorus is the Hardest Praetorian
Overview: The adventures of the Etruscan Cassiodorus who, after having involuntarily captured a rebel, is named centurion and ingratiates himself with Nero. He tries to take advantage of his role to enrich himself with shady deals, but it goes wrong.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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The Grand Duel
Overview: A grizzled ex-sheriff helps a man framed for murder to confront the powerful trio of brothers who want him dead.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-29
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Desirable Teacher
Overview: 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 walls, in the family or in the streets of the village where he lives, Peter is not far behind and his antics continue to freewheel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-09-19
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Salomé
Overview: Salome is the daughter of the second wife of King Herod. The King is infatuated with her and, after she fails to seduce the prophet John The Baptist, she dances for the King in order to ask for his execution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-10-20
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Se tutto va bene siamo rovinati
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-12-29
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La liceale, il diavolo e l'acquasanta
Overview: An anthology film in which a guardian angel falls in love with a beautiful dancer a policeman must keep an eye on an arrested transvestite, and a dental technician sells his soul to the devil but is not satisfied with the results.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-12-07
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Two Brothers in Trinity
Overview: Charming, blithely amoral devil-may-care rogue Jesse Smith and peaceful, devout straight-arrow Mormon Lester O'Hara are estranged half brothers who are reunited after receiving a sizable inheritance from their deceased mother. The wildly contrasting mismatched duo get into all sorts of trouble while trying to claim said inheritance. Written by Woodyanders
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-04-26
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Le notti peccaminose di Pietro l'Aretino
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-04
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Farfallon
Overview: A man who has tried to kill his unfaithful wife goes to prison, escapes, ends up in a convent, teaches the nuns to make cookies, captured again and before going back to prison tries to take his long awaited revenge again. Does he eventually succeed in killing his wife?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-08-12
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Ma chi t'ha dato la patente?
Overview: Franco and Ciccio are the directors of a driving school. They suffer the theft of the only car they have, and their new car is prone to going completely out of his control.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-08-28
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The Arena
Overview: 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.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-03-13
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All for the Moral Majority!
Overview: 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 strong energetic manners, drive him unintentionally on the opposite situation. Who is the real guilty the judge or the corrupted Italian society?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-12-19
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Charleston
Overview: Sonny, a New York wise guy, dreams of becoming a feared gangster. He runs errands for the mob and is rewarded by being given the control over Mulberry Street, which is a street that faces a boxing gym.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-09-10
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The Most Beautiful Wife
Overview: A 16-year-old Sicilian becomes the target of a mafia hit man after refusing to go through with her prearranged marriage.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-03-12
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The Gang That Sold America
Overview: 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 justice, but she will suffer the advances of the Boss's daughter, the ugly Maria Sole.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-03-01
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Where the Bullets Fly
Overview: Young adventurer Gipo owns one fifth of a rock illustrating the location of a rich gold mine. Risking his life more than once and with the help of the beautiful hooker, Lulu Belle, our hero sets out to recover the missing pieces.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Decameron II
Overview: During a banquet, the diners begin to tell various stories to be happy. All the novels speak of betrayals and erotic adventures
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-17
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Sexy Sinners
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-04
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Love in 4 Easy Lessons
Overview: Four stories focused on the fair sex, dealing with the most varied and improbable sentimental and non-sentimental situations.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-11-17
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Without Family
Overview: Released from the orphanage at the age of thirty, a man dreams of finding his mother.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-30
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Emanuelle in America
Overview: In search of a good story, globe-trotting photojournalist Emanuelle meets up with an ex-prizefighter who tips her off about a rich pervert who recruits girls for his own private harem based on their astrological signs.
Genres: Drama Mystery Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-01-05
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Deep Red
Overview: An English pianist living in Rome witnesses the brutal murder of his neighbor, a psychic. With the help of a tenacious young reporter he tries to discover the killer using very unconventional methods, and the two are soon drawn into a shocking web of dementia and violence.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-03-07
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Blonde in Black Leather
Overview: Two racy women decide to chuck their mundane lives and go on a wild adventure.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-09-17
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The Five Days
Overview: In 1848 Milan, a thief and a baker witness the chaotic final days of the Italian Revolution.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-12-20
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Provaci anche tu Lionel
Overview: Anna Tredicesimo, wife of Luigi Tredicesimo of Santa Ninfa (Trapani), introduces herself to the private investigator Lionel Lionelli and instructs him to recover some red briefs, purchased by her jealous husband in Paris, and lost by her during a loving meeting with the heartthrob fetishist Gianni Agazzi. Lionel, recommended by his friend ten. Sheridan, begins the research and chases the panties from Agazzi to Lola Lola Bis, a stripper, and from this to Iolanda, Ennio's girlfriend, member of Hell's Angels. Lionelli, a bungler by nature, finds the path difficult and also dangerous because, as he will learn very late, a microfilm with a secret chemical formula is hidden in the briefs and, consequently, his steps are constantly followed by men of the boss Goran , master of Titan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-12-01
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In the Pope's Eye
Overview: The Pope is disturbed by the fact that today's youth are not as spiritually inclined as they should be, and so he decides to set up a Vatican television station and entice them back into the religion of their ancestors. In order to particularly grab the wandering flock, a priest invites the comedians from "The Other Sunday," an actual comedy program on Italian television, to perform on this new channel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-09-19
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Li chiamavano i tre moschettieri... invece erano quattro
Overview: Yet another adventure of the famous musketeers engaged as usual to help the needy. Cardinal Richelieu is always hindering their task.
Genres: Comedy Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-01
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The Return of the Exorcist
Overview: 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.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-08-23
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His Name Was Holy Ghost
Overview: The Holy Ghost is a supernatural gunfighter dressed in white and with a dove sitting on his shoulder. With his sidekick, the Holy Ghost rescues some farmers from the fortified prison of the evil General Ubarte, then raids the castle again for gold treasure aided by some local prostitutes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-03-30
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