Acting
Renzo Palmer
Renzo Palmer (20 December 1930 – 4 June 1988) was an Italian film, television and stage actor. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1957 and 1988.
Born in Milan as Lorenzo Bigatti, Palmer was the adopted son of the stage actress Kiki Palmer (from which, born Giulia Fogliata, he inherited his stage name). After leaving his law studies, he debuted in 1955 on radio, after being spotted at an audition for singers, and then worked for two years in the Company of Prose of "Radio Roma". In 1957 Palmer made his television debut with L'avaro, directed by Vittorio Cottafavi; the same year he also made his theatrical debut at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan, in the revue I pallinisti. From then, even continuing to appear in prestigious stage works it was the television that assured him popularity and professional satisfaction, thanks to the numerous successful television films and TV series in which he starred.
Palmer was also a versatile film character actor, mainly active in commedia all'italiana and in poliziotteschi film genre.[2] He also was a radio and television host, and a popular voice actor. He died of cancer in Milan at 58.
Filmography
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Verdi
Giuseppe Verdi was born in 1813 and lived until 1901, his life spanning nearly a century of political turmoil a...
Danger: Diabolik
International man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after heist, all while Eur...
The Cynic, the Rat & the Fist
A vengeful criminal targets the inspector who put him away, but the inspector survives and fakes his death. Ign...
The Big Racket
Nico Palmieri is a police inspector who battles a criminal gang terrorizing a sleepy Italian town, extorting ca...
Eagles Over London
The British High Command finds itself in the thick of a huge dilemma when it is realized that they have long be...
Massacre in Rome
In the Nazi occupied city of Rome, an assault on an SS brigade draws retaliation from the military governship....
Il furto della gioconda
A miniseries in three parts about the theft of Da Vinci's "Mona Lisa" in 1911.
The Fiend
A low rank journalist at Tribuna Sera newspaper receives a letter one day. His correspondence contains a serial...
Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell
After the end of WWII, an Italian woman receives child support payments from three former US soldiers who all b...
The Eroticist
Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarras...
Soldier of Fortune
Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is traveling through Europe with his partners looking for a fight where they...
The Salamander
An Italian policeman investigates a series of murders involving people in prominent positions. Left behind at e...
The Family
"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, boo...
House of Cards
In 1960s Paris, an American boxer stumbles upon an international fascist conspiracy that aims to create a new w...
Velvet Hands
Engineer Quiller has become rich by selling his completely indestructible shop-window glass to jeweleries aroun...
Fists, Girls and Sailors
Three sailors are sent to an island by their commander to steal a boat, but they are sunk by an enemy ship. Sav...
Il balordo
Rugantino
A beautiful girl Rosina lives In Rome. Her husband is strong as a bull and jealous as Shakespeare's Othello. On...
Un dollaro di fifa
Two conmen, Alamo and Mike, find shelter in Paradise City, which is full of jokers like themselves, who assume...
Detective Belli
A crooked detective begins investigating a situation on behalf of a friend and gets involved in murder, decepti...
Caltiki, the Immortal Monster
Academic researchers are chased by a nuclear-hot specimen of ancient Mayan blob.
Summer Frenzy
Five episodes: a mature model makes his lover jealous; lovers quarrel; a clumsy Don Juan in business; a dancer...
Le Mystérieux Docteur Cornélius
Vita di Dante
Part of a trilogy of “Famous Lives” conceived by Angelo Guglielmi, Vittorio Cottafavi's television series is a...
Seven Golden Men
After bungling a job in London, Albert, an international thief, masterminds a plan to rob a Geneva bank of 7 to...
The Doctor Prefers Sailors
A doctor in a hotel has a lot of problems like a man repeatedly fails to commit suicide, a pair of window washe...
Father Jackleg
A con man inherits a gold mine. Knowing that his family are even bigger con artists than he is, he assumes the...
Battle of the Worlds
A stray planet on a collision course with Earth instead takes orbit around our blue marble. What seems like a d...
The Fascist
1944. Primo Arcovazzi is a fanatical and dim-witted Fascist Party militiaman who accepts to escort an opponent...
Ride and Kill
A small town in Arizona is oppressed by the tyranny of a powerful rancher. The owner of a farm, fed up with con...
Street Law
Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first t...
Goodbye & Amen
As John Dannahay, a CIA agent stationed in Rome, plans the overthrow of an African government, he discovers one...
Go Gorilla, Go!
Fabio Testi is an undercover cop doubling as the bodyguard (hence, “Gorilla”) of a cantankerous middle-aged ind...
Escapade in Florence
American students, Tommy and Annette, find themselves in a heap of trouble when they accidentally discover an a...
How to Kill a Judge
A filmmaker's popular movie about a corrupt judge who is killed by the Mafia seemingly foretells the murder of...