Salvatore Billa
Salvatore Billa was born in Catania, Sicily, Italy on March 31, 1943. He was an Italian actor and stuntman, and was very active during the seventies and eighties. From the early 1960s until the early 2000s, he appeared in more than 100 films, alternating from a mere extra to important supporting roles. Among these were the films "Once Upon a Time in America" directed by Sergio Leone, "Ginger and Fred" directed by Federico Fellini, “Squadra antifurto” directed by Rosario Trapanese, “I guappi” directed by Don Carluccio Trepalle and “L'uomo delle stele” directed by Giuseppe Tornatore. Billa also worked in television, participating in some TV dramas, with his most famous role as that of the Camorra boss Salvatore Gym in the miniseries “Naso di cane”. Billa appeared in several westerns from “Beyond the Law” (1967) to “Court Martial” (1973). Salvatore died on May 22, 2006 in Rome at the age of 63.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.801 |
| Birthday | 1943-03-31 |
| Place of Birth | Catania, Sicily, Italy |
| Also Known As |
2005
The Second Wedding Night
6.225/51
When his destituite widowed sister-in-law—whom he had never stopped harbouring feelings for—and her ne'er-do-well son come to live with him after Worl...
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The Second Wedding Night
1974
Shoot First, Die Later
6.838/40
When mobsters try to put an honest policeman on the payroll, he seeks revenge on the mob. But, he soon learns that his actions, however honest, have d...
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Shoot First, Die Later
1986
Ginger and Fred
6.856/142
Amelia and Pippo are reunited after several decades to perform their old music-hall act, imitating Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, on a TV variety sho...
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Ginger and Fred
1973
24 Hours... Not a Minute More
8/1
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24 Hours... Not a Minute More
1976
Rulers of the City
6.367/45
Tony, a mob loan collector, is dissatisfied with his station in life. Though he dreams of one day being rich, he is stuck with the dead-end job of bea...
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Rulers of the City
1977
The Heroin Busters
6.286/28
Drug use in the city of Rome is at an all-time high. Children score from dealers in front of their schools, mules waltz straight through airport secur...
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The Heroin Busters
1970
Adiós, Sabata
6.3/81
Under the brutal rule of local garrison leader Colonel Skimmel and European tyranny, a group of Mexican revolutionaries hires gunslinger Sabata to rob...
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Adiós, Sabata
1977
The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist
6.609/64
A vengeful criminal targets the inspector who put him away, but the inspector survives and fakes his death. Ignoring orders to flee, he sets out to br...
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The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist
1971
Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold
5.5/14
After witnessing the brutal murder of his entire family by Native Americans as a child, Jeremiah Bridger becomes a merciless Indian-killer and scalp h...
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Vengeance Is a Dish Served Cold
1970
The Unholy Four
6.4/15
A young man who has lost his memory, escapes from prison with three other convicts. The other men help him find back bits of his past, until they arri...
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The Unholy Four
1974
The Girl in Room 2A
5.271/24
A sadistic killer cult kidnaps and sacrifices beautiful women. A young girl, just paroled from prison, moves into a strange house and appears to be th...
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The Girl in Room 2A
1979
From Corleone to Brooklyn
6.324/17
Maurizio Merli takes up a familiar role as Commissioner Berni; a cop who puts his life on the line to transport a witness from Corleone to New York Ci...
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From Corleone to Brooklyn
1975
Manhunt in the City
5.813/24
A man's daughter is killed by thieves during a bank robbery. Due to the incompetence of the corrupt authorities, he decides to take to law into his ow...
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Manhunt in the City
1977
A Man Called Magnum
5.313/16
A drug deal goes bad and the heroin is stolen. One mob boss doesn't have his drugs and the other doesn't get his money. People are going to die until...
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A Man Called Magnum
1988
The Invisible Ones
6.2/4
At the beginning of the eighties, Sirio, a young worker of the Terni steelworks with a past in student protesting, decides to abandon his job to join...
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The Invisible Ones
1978
Corleone
7.6/11
Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia...
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Corleone
1972
Gunmen and the Holy Ghost
6.333/9
The authorities of Springfield ask Spirito Santo/Holy Ghost, which in turn will require the help of Diego of Habsburg and his colourful gang, to elimi...
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Gunmen and the Holy Ghost
1980
Contraband
6.255/53
Cigarette smugglers in Naples run into problems with cocaine operations being set up by a rival smuggler.
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Contraband
1970
Django Challenges Sartana
4.893/14
Django comes to town to discover that his brother Steve, accused of robbing a bank, has been lynched. Django believes the real culprit is Sartana and...
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Django Challenges Sartana
1978
The Son of the Sheik
5.938/8
The old Emir of the Qudmar discovers he has a natural son in Italy. Secret agents and oil companies involve the man, an aspiring gas station, in the f...
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The Son of the Sheik
1978
The Gun
6.417/6
Luigi, a middle-aged engineer who, getting increasingly worried about the rising crime rate in his surroundings, follows the advice and example of his...
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The Gun
1992
Circle of Fear
3.5/4
Michael Woods stars as Tony Giordani, a narcotics agent who learns that his wife has been murdered while he is recuperating from an attack by a myster...
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Circle of Fear
1980
The Persian Lamb Coat
5/9
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...
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The Persian Lamb Coat
1972
Return of the Holy Ghost
0/0
A crook masquerading as an Army Colonel in charge of gold shipments, replaces gold ingots with fakes. Spirito Santo is recruited to solve the case and...
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Return of the Holy Ghost
1982
Count Tacchia
6.144/52
In 1900 in Rome, the poor carpenter Francesco, by a twist of fate, is recognized component of a noble family in the process of decay. Francesco knows...
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Count Tacchia
1966
The Bible: In the Beginning...
7.326/302
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...
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The Bible: In the Beginning...
1985
The Repenter
6.25/6
A judge on crusade to take down the Italian Mafia uses a gangster turned state's witness (a so-called "repenter") and a New York banker to do it. But...
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The Repenter
1971
Trastevere
6.813/8
A retired actor's search for his stray pet strings together this episodic portrait of the ancient Roman quarter.
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Trastevere
1966
Grand Prix
7.314/239
The most daring drivers in the world have gathered to compete for the 1966 Formula One championship. After a spectacular wreck in the first of a serie...
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Grand Prix
1976
Werewolf Woman
4.7/40
A woman has dreams that she is a werewolf so she goes out and finds men. She proceeds to have sex with them and then rip their throats out with her te...
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Werewolf Woman
1968
Romeo and Juliet
7.385/751
Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their dest...
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Romeo and Juliet
1968
Beyond the Law
5.8/40
A thief takes the job as a town sheriff in order to rob a silver shipment before his ex-partner can grab it.
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Beyond the Law
1975
Kidnap Syndicate
6.733/31
After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that his rash actions will bring about for his...
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Kidnap Syndicate
1973
The Black Hand
4.75/4
Antonio, an Italian immigrant in New York finds himself drawn into the Mob when his options are limited and his desire to make a new life for himself...
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The Black Hand
1979
Gegè Bellavita
6.417/6
Pregnant with their 10th child, Agata discovers that her lazy husband Gennaro betrays her cheerfully.
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Gegè Bellavita
1976
Young, Violent, Dangerous
6.042/24
Paul, Joe and Louie are three young men from good families who decide to go on a bloodthirsty and pointless crime spree, much to the dismay of paul’s...
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Young, Violent, Dangerous
1971
Blindman
5.738/40
A blind, but deadly, gunman, is hired to escort fifty mail order brides to their miner husbands. His business partners double cross him, selling the w...
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Blindman
1987
The Shatterer
10/1
Following the opening of a Japanese auto factory in Sicily, the head of the company is kidnapped by Sicilian mobsters. This was a co-production betwee...
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The Shatterer
1976
Street People
4.95/20
A Mafia boss is enraged when he is suspected of smuggling a heroin shipment into San Francisco. He dispatches his nephew, a hotshot Anglo-Sicilian law...
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Street People
1990
Tre colonne in cronaca
6.4/7
Chronicle of the dark maneuvers put into practice by a politician to seize an opposition newspaper. A Lebanese terrorist receives the order to kill a...
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Tre colonne in cronaca
1989
Il bambino e il poliziotto
5.954/87
Carlo, a police officer, after intercepting a call conducts a drug bust at a private party at the upper class apartment of Rosanna Clerici and she is...
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Il bambino e il poliziotto
1995
The Star Maker
7.026/196
In 1950s Sicily, con artist Joe Moretti does screen tests for the big studios, accepting money or favours for his efforts. A young illiterate novitiat...
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The Star Maker
1999
Excellent Cadavers
6.259/27
Palermo, Sicily, 1984. Examining magistrate Giovanni Falcone allies with Tomasso Buscetta, a former mobster, to defeat the clan of Corleone, the ruthl...
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Excellent Cadavers
1999
Li chiamarono... briganti!
5.5/6
The story of a group of brigands who fought against Victor Emmanuel II during Italian unification.
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Li chiamarono... briganti!
1990
The Voice of the Moon
6.713/143
Odd couple Ivo Salvini, recently released from a mental asylum, and former prefect Gonnella wander through the countryside and discover a dystopia mad...
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The Voice of the Moon
1984
Once Upon a Time in America
8.373/6199
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the gh...
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Once Upon a Time in America
2002
Gangs of New York
7.318/7407
In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's...
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Gangs of New York
1983
Ironmaster
5/37
A tale that takes place at the dawn of history. The movie tells the story of a tribe that discovers how to fashion weapons out of iron and use them fo...
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Ironmaster
1976
Free Hand for a Tough Cop
6.816/49
A cop recruits a criminal and his cohorts to help track down a violent crime lord who has kidnapped the ill daughter of a rich family.
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Free Hand for a Tough Cop
1990
The Godfather Part III
7.417/7043
In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sin...
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The Godfather Part III
1982
My Darling, My Dearest
7/1
Gennarino Laganà is a poor Sicilian who struggles with menial jobs to support his family, while his parents pressure him to seek his fortune in the No...
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My Darling, My Dearest
1974
The Proof of love
8/1
Angela, a 16-year-old student, and Gianni, her classmate, get to know each other and one day fall in love with each other. Convinced that the physical...
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The Proof of love
1977
Destruction Force
5.8/32
A shoot out after a robbery ends with the death of the Chief of Police. Police detective Ghini goes in search of a suspect, Lanza, to avenge the death...
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Destruction Force
1978
Blood and Diamonds
6.6/15
A man is arrested and condemned to five years in jail for robbery. After serving his term, he is out for revenge on the gang members he considers were...
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Blood and Diamonds
1972
Sotto a chi tocca!
9/1
Straccio, a young acrobat, wants to free his beloved Julia, held prisoner in the tyrant's castle. He designs a good plan, and develops it with the hel...
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Sotto a chi tocca!
1974
Italian Sex
4.8/10
A sexy graduate student is giving her thesis presentation, which creates quite a stir since it reveals that she has just posed as a prostitute for se...
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Italian Sex
1990
The Miser
6.27/37
Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two ch...
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The Miser
1970
Io e Dio
7/1
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Io e Dio
1974
Blood Brothers
6.194/18
In Naples at the end of the 19th century, Nicola Bellizzi dreams of becoming a lawyer. However, when he seeks the reason that people are reluctant to...
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Blood Brothers
1981
The Hawk and the Dove
3.75/4
Fabio Testi is the politician who finds himself descending into a world of drugs and crime when he encounters Lara Wendel. A mixture of crime and old-...
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The Hawk and the Dove
1975
Loaded Guns
5.1/31
An air hostess gets involved in Naples, against her will, in the in-fighting amongst rival gangs.
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Loaded Guns
1978
Magnum Cop
5.053/19
A low-rent private investigator and former cop is sent to Austria on a job, and while there sees a number of seemingly unrelated coincidences that lea...
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Magnum Cop
1976
Hit Squad
6.598/41
A gang of thieves are robbing luxury apartments in Rome, but after emptying the villa of the wealthy Mr. Douglas, the thieves are beginning to die.
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Hit Squad
1975
Calling All Police Cars
6/20
Story about a young girl, the daughter a prominent doctor. When the girl goes missing her father gets the police to jump into action because of his cl...
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Calling All Police Cars
1977
I Am the Law
6.6/34
Sicily, Fascist Italy, 1925. Dictator Benito Mussolini appoints Cesare Mori, a man as tough as he is honest, as the new police prefect of Palermo and...
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I Am the Law
1991
Year of the Gun
4.9/60
American novelist David Raybourne accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a rese...
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Year of the Gun
1990
Fantozzi to the Rescue
6/364
Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career.
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Fantozzi to the Rescue
1993
Magnificat
6.321/14
During the Middle Ages, a traveling executioner hires an apprentice to learn the finer points of torture and execution, and a young girl is given by h...
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Magnificat
1973
The Boss
6.797/86
A hitman finds himself embroiled in the middle of a Mafia war between the Sicilians and the Calabrians.
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The Boss
1981
Fear in the City
9/1
Gianni Manera writes, directs and stars in this violent U.S. based story of Mafia members and Black gangsters fighting for turf.
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Fear in the City
1975
Savage Three
6.361/18
By day, Ovidio (Joe Dallesandro) and his two friends work at a data center. After work, they blow off steam by committing random acts of savage violen...
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Savage Three
1977
Brothers Till We Die
6.9/47
Vincenzo 'hunchback' plans a robbery on a armored police van with his gang. Once the job is done, his gang try to kill him and absconds with the loot....
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Brothers Till We Die
1990
Tomato
4.25/4
Kwaku, a young African medical student, arrives in Italy where he is to meet his brother Job (nicknamed Pummarò.) This one is a tomato picker in the N...
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Tomato
1978
The Payoff
6.333/12
Sasà Jovine (Nino Manfredi) is a self-styled lawyer involved in petty businesses with Neapolitan mobsters (camorristi). When one of his clients, don M...
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The Payoff
1983
Favoriti e vincenti
8/1
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Favoriti e vincenti
1983
And the Ship Sails On
7.172/169
In 1914, a cruise ship sets sail from Naples to spread the ashes of beloved opera singer Edmea Tetua near Erimo, the isle of her birth. During the voy...
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And the Ship Sails On
1985
National Lampoon's European Vacation
6.169/1043
The Griswolds win a vacation to Europe on a game show, and so pack their bags for the continent. They do their best to catch the flavor of Europe, but...
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National Lampoon's European Vacation
1976
Fear in the City
5.2/15
The film focuses on Murri; the token maverick cop. He is called in after a bunch of criminals pull off a successful prison break and spend the night p...
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Fear in the City
1976
The Big Racket
6.907/43
Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles a criminal gang terrorizing a sleepy Italian town, extorting cash from the local merchants. With the t...
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The Big Racket
1975
Go Gorilla, Go!
7.2/10
Fabio Testi is an undercover cop doubling as the bodyguard (hence, “Gorilla”) of a cantankerous middle-aged industrialist targeted for extortion.
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Go Gorilla, Go!
1974
Court Martial
3/4
When an army lieutenant is sent on a secret mission and his contact is shot and killed, he is charged with the crime and court-martialed. He learns he...
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Court Martial
1976
House of Pleasure for Women
5.75/13
The United States of America, after the great success of Vietnam, Watergate and so on, have decided to expand their activities in Italy. Mr. Chips has...
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House of Pleasure for Women
1972
The Devil's Lover
4.857/14
When a trio of free-spirited young women insists on spending the night in a castle rumored to be owned by the Devil himself, their cobweb-and-candelab...
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The Devil's Lover
1971
Return of Sabata
5.9/160
A quick draw, master gunslinger traveling with a circus rides into a small town and helps the citizens free themselves from a crooked politician.
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