Giancarlo Prete
Also Known As: Timothy Brent, Philip Garner
Biography: Giancarlo Prete was an Italian actor. After he worked in the cinema as stuntman, Prete went to Alessandro Fersen's acting school (where he later returned as a teacher) and began to act in many films and in television serials, sometimes credited under the name Timothy Brent or Philip Garner. In the following years Prete worked as dubbing director and acted only in television productions (including the Space: 1999 episode "The Troubled Spirit" as Dr. Dan Mateo). He was married to Elizabeth Jacinto and had a son named Alessandro, who is also an actor. Giancarlo Prete died on 9 March 2001 of a brain tumor at the age of 58.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Roma, Lazio, Italy
Adult: No
Birthday: February 05, 1943
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 09, 2001
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Ladyhawke
Overview: Captain Etienne Navarre is a man on whose shoulders lies a cruel curse. Punished for loving each other, Navarre must become a wolf by night whilst his lover, Lady Isabeau, takes the form of a hawk by day. Together, with the thief Philippe Gaston, they must try to overthrow the corrupt Bishop and in doing so break the spell.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-27
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The Black Belly of the Tarantula
Overview: Inspector Tellini investigates serial crimes where victims are paralyzed while having their bellies ripped open with a sharp knife.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-08-12
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Baila Guapa
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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The Last Shark
Overview: When a 35-foot great white shark begins to wreak havoc on a seaside town, the mayor, not wanting to endanger his gubernatorial campaign, declines to act, so a local shark hunter and horror author band together to stop the beast.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-04-02
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Theft in the Evening, a Big Coup Hopefully
Overview: A comedy about two friends attempting a heist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-12-18
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Street Law
Overview: Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand, but then he's helped by Tommy, a young robber who takes his side.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-09-17
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The Price of Death
Overview: Four people are killed in a saloon hold-up. The townspeople pin the murders on local no-count black sheep Chester Conway. Lawyer Jeff Plummer and prostitute Polly Winters don't believe that Chester is guilty of these crimes, so they hire smooth and suave gunman Silver to prove Chester's innocence and find the real killers.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-09-17
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Father Jackleg
Overview: A con man inherits a gold mine. Knowing that his family are even bigger con artists than he is, he assumes the mine is worthless, and teams up with a partner in a scheme to unload it on some unsuspecting chumps. However, the other members of his family discover that the gold mine is actually worth a lot of money, and they set out to take it from him before he realizes what he has.
Genres: Action Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-05
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The Three Musketeers of the West
Overview: Three cowboys carry on like sagebrush swashbucklers.
Genres: Action Comedy Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-09-28
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The Last Blood
Overview: A soldier attacks his corrupt superior officer and is court marshalled but before he can be sent to a firing squad he escapes...
Genres: War Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Adios Compañeros
Overview: Macho Callaghan is a lieutenant in the Federal Guards and his job is to capture Butch Cassidy, Ironhead, and their band of outlaws. Getting in touch with Ironhead, Macho finds a way of being hired by the outlaws. But when the two leaders quarrel and decide to separate, Macho manages to convince Ironhead to attack Butch Cassidy.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-04-17
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The Loves and Times of Scaramouche
Overview: The adventures of a cad in Napoleonic times.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-23
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The Girls Who'll Do Anything
Overview: Whatever you can dream up, Angela and Susan are way ahead of you.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-28
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Confessions of a Police Captain
Overview: A police captain arranges the release of a criminally insane prisoner, who soon winds up dead. When the District Attorney takes on the case, he uncovers corruption in the department and vows to take down the man who's responsible.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-26
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The Long Night
Overview: Two Milanese girls meet in a toilet where a distracted bourgeois forgets a valuable ring. They take it and go in search of someone to sell it to, helped by a southern taxi driver.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-28
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Messalina, Messalina!
Overview: Adventure comedy directed by Bruno Corbucci.
Genres: Drama Comedy Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-11
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Detective School Dropouts
Overview: Two bumbling private detectives get themselves hired to find a missing person. They find themselves in the middle of a mob war when it turns out that the missing person is somebody the mob wants to stay missing.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-08-07
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The Big Family
Overview: Two mafia bosses, Don Antonio Marchesi and Don Peppino Scalise, battle over building contracts in Palermo.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-03-03
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Don't Shoot on Children
Overview: Dino and Marco are two brothers who live alone with their sick father. Marco is on drugs, and Dino becomes involved with a gang of dangerous criminals and is roped into pulling a bank heist with them.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-12-22
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Winged Devils
Overview: The real-life courage and audacity of aeronautic acrobats whose ground life is often as exciting as flight maneuvers.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-02-04
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Lady Caliph
Overview: La Califfa's husband was killed during the strikes so she takes the side of the strikers. Her conflict with the plant owner Doverdo gradually turns into a love relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1970-12-31
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La Gabbia
Overview: Based on the infamous Stanford prison experiment. In 1977, Italian director Carlo Tuzii adapted the experiment to an Italian environment. Italian students made a film based on it, La Gabbia (The Cage).
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-04-06
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The Assisi Underground
Overview: This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-03
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Amore mio, uccidimi!
Overview: Manny Baxter is furious: his wife has run away with her lover Guido. Manny is rich and jealous and will use all the power of his money to prevent his wife Laureen and Guido from being happy together. And, first things first, he will keep them from leaving Manila where they are now for Bangkok as they are planning.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-08-20
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Midnight Blue
Overview: Three beautiful female athletes take a weekend off from training to vacation at a relative's villa complete with private beach. While relaxing, enjoying the water, and topless sunbathing the girls' weekend alone is interrupted by three escaped criminals on the run. Led by Pierre Luigi, the three criminals take the girls hostage and submit them to torture and rape before the girls get their bloody revenge. Shot in Taranto (Italy), near Lido Azzurro.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-05-31
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Who Breaks... Pays
Overview: A ship stopped at the port of Istanbul should take vegetables, but an unscrupulous man would like to add weapons under the vegetable crates. The captain of the ship refuses the offer of the evildoer.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-10-26
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Snow Job
Overview: A famous skier, his mistress and a ski instructor rob a bank in the Alps and hide the loot in a crevasse.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-02-02
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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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Satanik
Overview: A youth potion transforms an old crone into a ravishing beauty. Unfortunately, her new-found gorgeousness forces the heroine to form a pact with the Devil.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-04-18
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Massacre in Rome
Overview: In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship. "Massacre in Rome" is the true story of how this partisan attack led to the mass execution of Italian nationals under the orders of SS-Lieutenant Colonel Kappler.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-04
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Bandits in Rome
Overview: After professional stickup man Mario Corda is jailed, his young, ambitious partner -- who covets both Corda's life and his wife -- cuts loose, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-11-20
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The New Barbarians
Overview: Two mercenaries help wandering caravans fight off an evil and aimless band of white-clad bikers after the nuclear holocaust.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-06-10
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Escape from the Bronx
Overview: A ragtag group of people have to fight extermination squads amid their ruined city.
Genres: Science Fiction Action Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-08-15
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A.A.A. Masseuse, Good-Looking, Offers Her Services
Overview: Cristina turns eighteen and leaves her bourgeois family to become a call-girl. But soon, her clients start turning up dead, their throats slashed. Who is responsible?
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-07-28
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Avenger X
Overview: A retired ex-criminal, the notorious Mister X, must clear his name when an up-and-comer commits a heinous copycat crime.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-05-13
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Hector the Mighty
Overview: A pimp named Horny Hector operates a brothel on property coveted by Cardinal Giove. The Cardinal comes up with a plan to force Hector into selling him the land by kidnapping Helen, triggering a small gang war.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-01-06
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Bloody Che Contra
Overview: The story of Che Guevara's desperate attempt to escape the mountains of Bolivia. Pursued by an elite ranger unit of the army led by a determined CIA agent, Che is eventually trapped and his men are killed.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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