Ivan Rassimov
Also Known As: Sean Todd, Gill Mayeron, Ivan Đerasimović, Иван Ђерасимовић
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ivan Rassimov (7 May 1938 – 14 March 2003) was an Italian film actor of Serbian origin who appeared in many horror and exploitation films. Born in Trieste to Serbian parents, he made his film debut in 1964. Mostly cast in villainous roles, he appeared in Mario Bava's Planet of the Vampires (1965), Sergio Martino's Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key (1972), Umberto Lenzi's Man from Deep River (1972), and Ruggero Deodato's Jungle Holocaust (1977), among many other titles. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ivan Rassimov, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Trieste, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: May 07, 1938
Age: 87 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 14, 2003
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Shock
Overview: A couple is terrorized in their new house haunted by the vengeful ghost of the woman's former husband who possesses her young son.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-12
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Last Cannibal World
Overview: An oil prospector escapes from capture by a primitive cannibal tribe in the Philippine rain forest and heads out to locate his missing companion and their plane to return home.
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-02-08
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Body Count
Overview: A bodybuilder, a junk-food addict and a wild blonde nymph and their friends are stalked by a terrifying figure. An horrific tale of murder as a fun-loving group of college students explore the Colorado wilderness.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1986-10-28
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The Strange Vice of Mrs Wardh
Overview: When socialite and heiress Julie Wardh begins receiving blackmail letters attributed to a mysterious serial killer, she suspects her cruel and sadistic former lover Jean is behind them. With her husband Neil frequently out of town, she falls into the arms of her friend's cousin George, and as the unknown assassin begins to make his move, she fears that one of the three men in her life may be the killer.
Genres: Mystery Horror Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-01-15
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All the Colors of the Dark
Overview: After a car accident that caused the loss of her baby, Jane experiences an increasing amount of nightmares that shake her to her core. After seeking professional help, her haunting visions turn into an even more frightening reality, one full of black magic, blood orgies, and murder.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-28
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Eaten Alive!
Overview: A woman's search for her missing sister leads her to the jungles of New Guinea, where she and an expatriate guide encounter a cult leader and flesh-hungry natives.
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-03-19
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Emanuelle Around the World
Overview: Intrepid photojournalist Emanuelle arrives in San Francisco, where she briefly meets up with fellow journalist -- and fellow feminist -- Cora Norman, before being whisked off to India to investigate a guru con artist.
Genres: Adventure Drama Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-09-16
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Raiders of Atlantis
Overview: A team of scientists working to raise a sunken Russian nuclear submarine on an ocean platform off the coast of Miami, Florida, unearth an ancient Atlantean relic from the sea floor and bring in an expert to make some sense of it. But while attempting to raise the sub, radioactive leakage from its missles triggers the re-emergence of Atlantis, and the resulting tidal wave destroys the platform and leaves only a small group of survivors. Rescued by two Vietnamvets-turned-heavies who are out relaxing after their latest job, their boat eventually runs aground on a Carribean island nearby where, upon going ashore, it is discovered that everything has been destroyed and everybody killed. The culprits, a vicious group of well-armed raiders, and their leader, Crystal Skull, are descendants of Atlantis' original race who set about reclaiming the world and adding the survivors to the list of victims as they struggle to stay alive and defeat the raiders and send Atlantis back to the ocean floor.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-11-25
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Planet of the Vampires
Overview: After landing on a mysterious planet, a team of astronauts begin to turn on each other, swayed by the uncertain influence of the planet and its strange inhabitants.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-09-15
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Man from Deep River
Overview: A photographer in the rain forest is captured by wild natives, and after months of living with them, he marries the chief's daughter and helps protect the village from a vicious cannibal tribe.
Genres: Adventure Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-08
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Your Vice Is a Locked Room and Only I Have the Key
Overview: Oliviero is a drunk, burned-out writer who amuses himself by hosting orgies at his grand country manor and humiliating his wife Irina. When a number of women are murdered in grisly fashion, Oliviero becomes a prime suspect.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-04
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Rome, Armed to the Teeth
Overview: A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-10-10
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Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold
Overview: After witnessing the brutal murder of his entire family by Native Americans as a child, Jeremiah Bridger becomes a merciless Indian-killer and scalp hunter. After saving the life of a beautiful Native American girl named Tune, however, the lone and silent gunman slowly reconsiders his hatred. He starts to doubt his former persuasion, that it was really Indians, who killed his family, and soon has to find out that a greedy and unscrupulous landowner usually blames Native Americans for his own crimes.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-13
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Spasmo
Overview: While walking along the beach, Christian and his girlfriend discover a mysterious woman washed ashore. The following day, Christian meets the woman again at a yacht party and soon finds himself entangled in a web of lust, intrigue and murder.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-02-16
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Don't Wait, Django… Shoot!
Overview: Django returns home to find out that his father has been killed, by local bandits, in a business deal gone wrong . He swears revenge and a mixture of lone gun men, gang members and bandits get involved with the search for a pouch of money, missing from the ill-fated deal.
Genres: Western Drama Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-12-01
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Colt 38 Special Squad
Overview: The city of Turin is in the grip of a brutal crime boss known as "Il Marsigliese" and plenty of cops have good cause to want him dead — none more than Inspector Vanni, whose wife was murdered by the ruthless gangster. Having exhausted every other avenue, Vanni forms a crack squad of motorcycle-riding, Colt .38-toting elite officers, tasked with meting out justice on the margins of the law. But when "Il Marsigliese" launches a bombing campaign designed to extort a vast ransom from the city's authorities, Vanni finds himself in a race against time to exact his revenge and avert disaster.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-07-24
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Mafia Junction
Overview: Cliff works as a narcotics investigator for the police and infiltrate a mafia gang. Soon it turns out that Cliff has bigger plans than just to bust bad guys.
Genres: Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-05
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A White Dress for Marialé
Overview: A woman, who witnessed her father kill himself as a child, invites several friends to her husband's secluded castle. Unbeknownst to them, she has a sinister motive for the invitation.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-11-30
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Covert Action
Overview: Janssen plays an ex-CIA agent who has become an author, writing both non-fiction exposes (Phillip Agee was in the news at this time) and fiction spy novels. The CIA is on his case, in the person of Arthur Kennedy, CIA chief in Athens, where Janssen is staying. Janssen is pursuing a case that interests him, while dodging the traps set for him by Kennedy and trying to help Maurizio Merli, a former colleague with personal problems.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-03-03
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Esa mujer
Overview: At the end of the 19th century, Soledad Romero, a well-known singer, is accused of murder. During the trial her tragic story is revealed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-05-30
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Cjamango
Overview: Just when Cjamango has won a bag of gold in a poker game, he is attacked by the gangs of El Tigre and Don Pablo. As he recovers from the injuries caused by the attack, Cjamango becomes attached to a Mexican boy, Manuel, and to a beautiful girl, Perla. El Tigre and Pablo are meanwhile at odds with one another about the gold, and Cjamango tries to play them against themselves
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-08-09
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If You Want to Live... Shoot!
Overview: A young cowboy, Johnny, playing in a rigged poker game is forced to shoot one of the other players. The cowboy takes quick leave as he is accused of murder and a reward for his capture is posted. After being wounded, he finds refuge on a ranch and becomes involved with the family. While he is away, a gang of Mexicans kills the McGowan family except for Sally, who manages to escape and find Johnny who is now out for revenge.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-01-07
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Wild Team
Overview: A South American rebel leader in exile in Miami is given one last chance to overthrow his successor, a brutal dictator, by a multi-national mining group out to exploit his countries' mineral resources.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1985-06-01
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Taste of Vengeance
Overview: A group of Northern vigilantes, roaming the post Civil War south, attack and kill the fiancee of war veteran Brian, who is rescued by his friend, Daniel. The two, with brother Robert, set out to find the killers. But Brian, suffering from amnesia and becoming frustrated with not remembering the killer's faces, starts killing at random and loses the support of his two partners.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-02
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Cross Current
Overview: A speed-boat racer suffers amnesia after an boating accident and goes to his isolated villa to recuperate. His relationship with his wife is troubled, so he starts an affair (sort of) with the another woman, which results in one of the three of them being shot. But there are several more twists--and more murders--to come.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-20
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Children are Pieces of Your Heart
Overview: A humble organ grinder is married to a barren woman. The pair would like to adopt a child but are too poor. Suddenly a miracle seems to happen: she's pregnant. Unfortunately the baby dies and the man is forced, through hardship, to buy one from a chorus girl who wants to get rid of him. After a short time even his wife dies and the poor man brings up the child on his own, singing in taverns to make ends meet. The father and son's humble life is upset when the real father of the boy reappears and wants his child back. The two men fight to get the custody of the boy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-11-28
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The Tigers of Mompracem
Overview: After the evil maharajah Varauni exterminated his whole family, the brave Sandokan decides to retreat on the island of Mompracem to meditate a terrible revenge against him
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-11
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Emanuelle in Bangkok
Overview: A reporter travels the world's hot spots, looking for lurid stories that usually involve her sexual participation in gaining those behind-the-scenes exclusives.
Genres: Drama Romance Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-05-07
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The Witch
Overview: A historian goes to a castle library to translate some ancient erotic literature. While there he discovers what he believes to be supernatural forces at work.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-09-16
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The Humanoid
Overview: Hoping to overthrow his brother as ruler of the planet Metropolis, the evil Graal enlists the help of the insane Dr. Kraspin, who has invented a chemical capable of turning an ordinary person into a perfect soldier. They test this chemical on the pilot Golob, turning the unsuspecting victim into a mindless but indestructible automaton possessing superhuman strength. The people of Metropolis must somehow outwit Graal before he can create an army of these soldiers, or their planet will be destroyed.
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-04-11
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The Bible: In the Beginning...
Overview: Covering only the first 22 chapters of the Book of Genesis, vignettes include: Adam and Eve frolicking in the Garden of Eden until their indulgence in the forbidden fruit sees them driven out; Cain murdering his brother Abel; Noah building an ark to preserve the animals of the world from the coming flood; and Abraham making a covenant with God.
Genres: Adventure History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-09-28
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The Seven Red Berets
Overview: Deep in the African Congo, revolution rages and explosive documents have fallen into the hands of nationalist guerillas. The Red Berets are the government's only hope of retrieving papers which could change the course of the war.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-03-20
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Buio nella Valle
Overview: The two-episode television drama tells the story of a family willing to do anything to maintain possession of their assets, even two brutal murders that will have to wait more than ten years to reach a solution.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-09-20
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Inhibitions
Overview: After years of sexual humiliation at the hands of her sadistic husband and his friends, a wealthy heiress struggles to regain her sense of identity. To that end, not only does she become ruthless in business, but also delights in sexually dominating her young secretary, Anna. When she attempts to exert her sexual power over a blythe traveler, Peter Smart, he turns the tables on her, and she finds herself at the mercy of an unfamiliar emotion: Love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-15
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Almost a Man
Overview: A young writer descends into madness. Alienated, neurotic, and plagued by guilt, Michele retreats from reality, loses interest in work, and comes to the brink of suicide before being sent to an asylum for shock therapy. Escaping from the asylum, Michele returns to his boyhood home, where he learns the reasons for his present mental state.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-09-22
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Overrun!
Overview: When the German Afrika Korps smashes through the allied lines in North Africa in 1942 during World War Two; a group of British soldiers are determined to get back to their own lines. Picking up more allied survivors along the way, their journey is fraught with danger and Germans at every turn.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-01-03
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The Odd Squad
Overview: Sicilia 1943, after the landing, between the invading Us army and the defender Italian army, a 2000 years old roman bridge resist to all kind of attacks. Both the army decides to definitively destroy it before the opponent does. But to the chaotic mad American platoon is opposed an Italian military band exchanged for a terrible special commando. Probably the bridge will survive another 2000 years!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Robbery Roman Style
Overview: After scoring big in a high-profile bank robbery, a gang of Milanese criminals has to hide in a monastery.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-12-17
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Joe D'Amato Totally Uncut - The Erotic Experience
Overview: The story of Joe D'Amato, Italian director of sexploitation and gore, narrated by himself.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-09-23
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Enter the Devil
Overview: After a female art student purchases a life-size wooden sculpture of a crucifixion from an abandoned church, she has a vision of herself being nailed to a cross and soon becomes sexually tormented by the sculpture when it comes to life.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-11-06
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Torna
Overview: Salvatore manages a gas station and a cafeteria in the outskirts of Naples, but bad luck has stolen his beloved wife, left alone, the pain has crushed all the projects and removed any desire to live. Then one night, Angela, eager for a different and simple life, enters his life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1984-03-08
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Salvo D'Acquisto
Overview: In 1943 Italy is crumbling. Salvo D'Acquisto, a Carabinieri officer is trying to maintain law and order. One tragic incident will unravel a chain of events leading to him having to stand between the Germans and people he swore to protect.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-12-03
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Il ragazzo che sapeva amare
Overview: Vittorio is a photographer; Roberto, the waiter; Brigitta, the operator; Pannunzio, the porter; Patty, a gold-eyed waitress. All of them live and work at the Europe Palace Hotel in Capri.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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