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Paolo Bonacelli
Born: 28th Feb 1937 Rome, Italy - Died 8th Oct 2025
Dept: Acting
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Paolo Bonacelli (February 28, 1939 - October 8 2025) was an Italian actor.
He is best known for his performance as The Duke de Blangis in Pasolini's notorious Salò (1975). He can also be seen in Midnight Express (1978) and Caligula (1979), in which he plays the role of Cassius Chaerea.
He also co-starred with Roberto Benigni in the films Johnny Stecchino and Night on Earth, both from 1991.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 90
Film: 82 (91%)
Television: 8 (9%)
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Filmography
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A documentary which explores the life and the career of Michelangelo Antonioni, one of the greatest Italian directors, through archival footage and in ... view
Character:
Self
2025
A handwritten manuscript of Dante Alighieri's poem "The Divine Comedy" makes its way from a priest to a mob boss in New York City, where it is taken b ... view
Character:
Priest of Alcamo
2024
The documentary recounts an important part of the history of this country, retracing a long journey that began on October 6, 1924, and continues to th ... view
Character:
Original title: Comandante
2023
One dark night during the early phases of WWII, the Italian Royal Navy submarine Cappellini sinks an armed merchant ship sailing with lights out. At t ... view
Character:
Betti
2020
While reporting on the election of the Pope in Rome, the completely atheistic journalist Gregory falls in love with Maria of all people, who is about ... view
Character:
Original title: Al Dio Ignoto
2019
Lucia and her 17-year-old son Gabriel only have each other. The father left the family when Gabriel's older sister Anna died of leukemia eight years a ... view
Character:
Original title: Notti magiche
2018
Rome, 1990. The night Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is fou ... view
Character:
Ennio 'The Great'
Original title: La Macchinazione
2016
In the summer of '75 Pier Paolo Pasolini's film, "Salò", is stolen from the lab where he is editing it. This is just the first step of an intricate p ... view
Character:
Vescovo
2010
Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a double life that may be more relaxing than is good for him. ... view
Character:
Father Benedetto
2006
Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Ethan Hunt faces the toughest foe of his career: Owen Davian, ... view
Character:
Monsignore
Original title: 13dici a tavola
2004
Giulio, a divorced middle-aged man, returns to the family villa in Tuscany where he spent his childhood holidays with his entire family, to arrange, w ... view
Character:
Nonno Giulio
2003
Achille, nine years old, intelligent, sympathetic, and stutterer. The parents decide to treat him and entrust him to Dr. Aglieri, who begins the thera ... view
Character:
Dott. Aglieri
Original title: Detective per caso
2003
A famous collector dies suddenly in Florence in strange circumstances. His wife, the only heir of an immense wealth, has a unpleasant surprise: the hu ... view
Character:
Direttore Della Galleria Palatina
Original title: Panni sporchi
1999
The Razzi family owns a small factory of sweets in Macerata. Their desire to enlarge their business to cope with the new Unified European Market bring ... view
Character:
Amedeo
May 1998 (first aired)
Alice Mancini, the young German wife of the Italian ambassador in Berlin, Mario Mancini, unexpectedly meets her husband's younger brother Vittorio who ... view
Character:
Luigi Mancini (3 ep.)
Original title: Il figlio di Bakunin
1997
Based on a novel of Segio Atzeni. By a lot of interviews, usualy contradictory, it discovers the many lifes of Tullio Saba, a Sardinian miner, thief, ... view
Character:
Giudice
Original title: La sindrome di Stendhal
1996
A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer through Italy when she herself becomes a victim of the brut ... view
Character:
Dr. Cavanna
Original title: Vacanze di Natale '95
1995
Two Italians are on holiday in Aspen in Colorado. The first one is Lorenzo whose daughter is crazy about Luke Perry (Beverly Hills 90210 actor) and wa ... view
Character:
Paolo "Paolone"
Original title: Tutti gli anni una volta l'anno
1994
A man enters a restaurant in Trastevere, in the suburbs of Rome, and asks the owner to cook him the superb bass he has just been given. He wants it se ... view
Character:
Romano
Original title: L'Ours en peluche
1994
A renowned gynecologist receives anonymous death threats that seem to be related to his troubled past. ... view
Character:
Novacek
Apr 1994 (first aired)
The life of Abraham, the most tested servant of God and the father of Judaism, spanning from the patriarch's quest for the Promised Land to the sacrif ... view
Character:
Melchisedek (2 ep.)
Feb 1994 (first aired)
Charlemagne, le prince à cheval is a 1993 television miniseries about the life of Charlemagne. It consists of five episodes and covers the period fro ... view
Character:
Vitale (3 ep.)
1993
Rather than choosing a great leader or king, God chooses Abraham, an elderly shepherd from Mesopotamia, as the way to establish his Covenant with mank ... view
Character:
Melchisedek
1993
The movie tells the little stories of a group of families who live in the same building in Rome as seen from the eyes of Sandrino, a little kid who is ... view
Character:
Mario
Original title: Io speriamo che me la cavo
1992
A bureaucratic snafu sends Marco Tullio Sperelli, a portly, middle-aged northern Italian, to teach third grade in a poor town outside Naples ... view
Character:
Ludovico Mazzullo
1991
A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night. ... view
Character:
Priest
1991
Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow ... view
Character:
D'Agata
1991
Martin Sheen stars as an American newsman in Rome who begins to investigate the appearance of several corpses found throughout Europe with their hands ... view
Character:
Morelli
1990
Four buddies set out on a three-week deep-sea fishing holiday in the Amazon and run into trouble. ... view
Character:
Andrade
Original title: Fuga dal paradiso
1990
In a futuristic society, an old man tells the legend of a strange medal to two children. In flashback, we learn that after a nuclear catastrophe, two ... view
Character:
Eliah
Nov 1989 (first aired)
Set between 1629 and 1631. Renzo Tramaglino and Lucia Mondella are Lombard peasants forced to separate and endure a thousand vicissitudes because of t ... view
Character:
padre di Gertrude (5 ep.)
1989
A thief caught red-handed tells the landlord a very strange fact that happened to him looking through the keyhole of another apartment where he was st ... view
Character:
Carl Rune
1989
The life of St. Francis of Assisi (1181-1226) as related by followers who gather after his death to tell stories so that Leone can record them: a priv ... view
Character:
Francesco's Father
Original title: Oggi ho vinto anch'io
1989
Following a life-altering heart attack, a train driver named Saverio receives a heart transplant from a young, deceased runner. To honor his donor, Sa ... view
Character:
Guido Sormani
Nov 1988 (first aired)
In March 1917, amidst World War I, a sealed train carries Russian revolutionaries, led by Lenin, from Germany to St. Petersburg. Along the journey, po ... view
Character:
Grigori Jewsejewitsch Zinoviev (2 ep.)
1988
March/April 1917. The first world war is already a couple year to pace. A sealed train with Russian emigrants keeps on driving from Zürich Germany an ... view
Character:
Zinoviev
1988
A pacifist pest controller tries to catch the rat infesting a nuclear power plant. ... view
Character:
Professor Zitti
1987
Funny, entertaining comedy with a few storylines. All of them have one thing in common - a resort town of Rimini in Italy. ... view
Character:
l'ingegnere
Original title: D'Annunzio
1987
A biographical feature on the Italian literary giant, Gabriele D'Annunzio. Set in late 19th century Italy and France when the artistic style, Decadent ... view
Character:
Ercole Leoni
Original title: Un complicato intrigo di donne, vicoli e delitti
1986
After Annunziata (Angela Molina) opens up a hostel with her friend Antonio (Daniel Ezralow), she is saved from being raped by a Camorra boss as the ga ... view
Character:
Tango
Original title: Mamma Ebe
1985
Based on the story of the woman recently brought to trial on charges of moral plagiarism and witchcraft. ... view
Character:
Don Paolo Monti
Original title: Non ci resta che piangere
1984
Two 20th-century friends accidentally stumble into the year 1492, where they meet a charming teen and try to alter history. ... view
Character:
Leonardo da Vinci
Original title: Sole nudo
1984
An Italian businessman travels to Brazil looking for a new job. When things don't go his way, he becomes despondent until he meets a beautiful woman w ... view
Character:
Original title: Enrico IV
1984
Deranged after a fall from a horse, a man has lived for twenty years in a castle laboring under the delusion that he is Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV. H ... view
Character:
Belcredi
Original title: Il commissionario
1983
In the basement of a hypothetical ministry, a man has set up a public office where he intends, for a fee, to solve any bureaucratic problem. His life ... view
Character:
Commissionario
Original title: Il cavaliere, la morte e il diavolo
1983
A family of the three fall into a dark and disturbing nightmare after meeting the mysterious Orlok and the seductive punk girl Patty. Adapted from the ... view
Character:
Nicholas
Original title: Parole e sangue
1982
The youth protest against corruption in Italian politics. When they subsequently find themselves in trouble, they take the law into their own hands: t ... view
Character:
Marcucci
1982
Vice Adm. Horatio Nelson's remarkable naval career and troubled personal affairs are brought to life in this miniseries, which tells his famous story ... view
Character:
King Ferdinando
Original title: Il mistero di Oberwald
1981
A man, mirroring the assassinated King, infiltrates a castle to kill the Queen but hesitates, leading to a deadly dare and revelation of shared histor ... view
Character:
Count of Foehn
Original title: Il cappotto di Astrakan
1980
Piero arrives in Paris from Luino after having won a pool tournament with friends. In the train he meets the famous place Ramazzini and has so many in ... view
Character:
Ferdinando
1980
After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupré sets off for Venice to try to dupe some Japanese business ... view
Character:
Kamal
Original title: Buone notizie
1979
A disaffected media executive spends his days watching violent programming on the television screens in his office and his evenings neglecting his fru ... view
Character:
Gualtiero Milano
Original title: Caligola
1979
After the death of the paranoid emperor Tiberius, Caligula, his heir, seizes power and plunges the empire into a bloody spiral of madness and depravit ... view
Character:
Chaerea
Original title: Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
1979
In the fascist Italy of 1935, a painter trained as a doctor is exiled to a remote region near Eboli. Over time, he learns to appreciate the beauty and ... view
Character:
Don Luigi Magalone
1978
Billy Hayes is caught attempting to smuggle drugs out of a country. The courts decide to make an example of him, sentencing him to more than 30 years ... view
Character:
Rifki
Apr 1978 (first aired)
In 19th-century France, doctor's wife Emma Bovary seeks to escape her dull provincial life through various extramarital affairs and extravagant spendi ... view
Character:
Charles Bovary (6 ep.)
Original title: Ritratto di borghesia in nero
1978
A background of rising fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's bourgeoisie and falls in love with a mature teache ... view
Character:
Paolo Mazzarini
Original title: Per questa notte
1977
Based on a book by Juan Carlo Onetti, the film tells the story of Ossario, a hunted revolutionary leader who sees his comrades die one after another. ... view
Character:
Nov 1976 (first aired)
Journey back more than 400 years to 16th century Sicily, where the small Italian islands have fallen victim to corruption, intimidation, extortion, an ... view
Character:
Vincenzo Biscetta (1 ep.)
Original title: Cattivi pensieri
1976
Mario Marani is a well-respected lawyer in late 70s Milan, with a wonderful wife and a high social life. But Mario has a problem: every time he sees h ... view
Character:
Antonio Marani
Original title: L'eredità Ferramonti
1976
In 1880 Rome, a patriarch closes the family bakery. His ambitious daughter-in-law manipulates her brothers-in-law to prevent their father's remarriage ... view
Character:
Paolo Furlin
1976
Lago Maggiore, 1949: a failed bank manager, to revive his economic situation, tries to combine a marriage of interest for his daughter. Failing to do ... view
Character:
Dottor Defendente Massera
Original title: Cadaveri eccellenti
1976
A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges. ... view
Character:
Dr. Maxia
Original title: Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma
1976
Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture. ... view
Character:
The Duke
Original title: Au-delà de la peur
1975
A group of outlaws takes a man's wife and child hostage. He must walk a fine line between working with the police to rescue his family and not angerin ... view
Character:
Francesco Grimaldi
Original title: Anno uno
1974
Rossellini’s biopic of the postwar Christian Democrat leader, Alcide De Gaspari, who was responsible for keeping the Communists out of power in the ... view
Character:
Giorgio Amendola
Original title: Fatti di gente perbene
1974
Based on a true incident, this tells the story of a troubled young man who kills his sister's reactionary, violent and abusive husband and is eventual ... view
Character:
Francesco Bonmartini
1974
After a car accident, a professor, trapped and awaiting help, hears a student recount the life of Milarepa. The tale unfolds in three parts: dark veng ... view
Character:
Prof. Bennet
1973
Fleeing from his enemies in the Catholic Church, the free thinking philosopher, poet and scientist Giordano Bruno has found some protection in Venice. ... view
Character:
1973
Rico is a not too successful screen-player. He is also a repressed sex addict. His life changes when he starts to talk to his own penis, which incredi ... view
Character:
Vladimiro
1972
When he is granted a day off to celebrate his daughter's wedding, office worker Krehler begins to realize how alienated he is. ... view
Character:
Max
Character:
Original title: Una prostituta al servizio del pubblico e in regola con le leggi dello stato
1971
A hooker, mother of two, leaves her abusing husband for a young boxer. On the street she gets assaulted and beaten by pimps. ... view
Character:
Original title: Lacrime d'amore
1970
An English singer thinks his Italian wife has cheated on him and goes back to England. He is then involved in drug trafficking and ends up in jail. Lu ... view
Character:
Cormick
Original title: Sette volte sette
1968
A gang of prison inmates escape to do a job at the Royal Mint, with only the time of the Cup Final to get back into the Scrubs. ... view
Character:
Original title: L'arcidiavolo
1966
Two devils from Hell are sent to Earth to cause trouble. Belfagor and his faithful sidekick Adramalek must start a war between Rome and Florence in 14 ... view
Character:
Inn's customer
Character:
Messenger
Original title: Superseven chiama Cairo
1965
Super 7 looks for a piece of a new metal hidden in a camera. ... view
Character:
Capitano Hume
Original title: La congiuntura
1964
Don Giuliano Niccolini Borges, Roman prince and member of the Pontifical Noble Guard, is very much attracted to Jane, an English girl he has met that ... view
Character:
Zenone
Original title: Cadavere per signora
1964
Laura is the victim of a blackmail, asks for help to her childhood friends Renata, Marina and Giovanna in the meantime become a nun to collect the amo ... view
Character:
Gedeon