Tano Cimarosa

Acting

Born January 1, 1922, Messina, Sicily, Italy

Tano Cimarosa, real name Gaetano Cisco, (1 January 1922 – 24 May 2008) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He participated in more than fifty movies. He played the "Blacksmith" in the Oscar-winning film Cinema Paradiso from 1988. He is known to horror film fans for directing Reflections in Black in 1975. Source: Article "Tano Cimarosa" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

• 2008L'Anno Mille — Custode
• 2008Se sarà luce sarà bellissimo - Moro: Un'altra storia — Comunista Cimarosa
• 2002Two Friends
• Father Matteo — Carmelo Frasca
• 2000Frida Professione Menager — Richard
• 2000Una storia qualunque — Venditore ambulante
• Una storia qualunque — Venditore ambulante
• 1995The Star Maker — Grandpa Bordonaro
• 1994A Pure Formality — Servant
• 1994Italia Village
• 1993Nineties Part II — Don Mimì Cantalamessa, boss mafioso
• 1993Uomo di rispetto
• 1992Acla's Descent into Floristella
• 1992The Saracen Woman
• 1990Boys on the Outside — Site Manager
• 1990The Dark Sun
• 1988Cinema Paradiso — Fabbro, blacksmith
• 1988Faida
• 1987The Shatterer
• 1983Sfrattato cerca casa equo canone — il boss
• 1981Uomini di parola — Gaetano Frasca, Director
• 1980Café Express — Polfer Marshal Panepino
• 1979A Man on His Knees — Sebastiano Colicchia
• 1979Quattro Delitti: Winchester M2 — Il ricattatore
• 1977Death Hunt — Tano, Writer, Director, Story
• 1977L'Italia in pigiama
• 1977L'Italia in pigiama — Il padre incestuoso
• 1976Free Hand for a Tough Cop — Cravatta
• 1975How to Kill a Judge — Tano Barra - l'assistente di parcheggio
• 1975L'ammazzatina — Pasqualino Mosco
• 1975Reflections in Black — Pantò, Director
• 1975The Exorciccio — Turi Randazzo
• 1974Bread and Chocolate — Gigi
• 1974Pasqualino Cammarata... capitano di fregata — Patanò
• 1974Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia — Rosario Agrò
• 1973All Sons of the Saintest Mother — Puddu Campolia
• 1973Gang War in Milan — Nino Balsamo
• 1973They Still Call Me Amen — Chaco
• 1972Delirium — John Lacey
• 1972Man Called Amen — Chaco, Gang Boss
• 1971A Girl in Australia — emigrato italiano da Gela
• 1971Between Miracles — Zi' Checco
• 1971Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte — commissario di polizia
• 1971Touch and Go — Italian soldier on the beach
• 1971Why — Agente del carcere di Sagunto
• 1970A Sword to Brando — Greedy friar
• 1970The Most Beautiful Wife — Gaetano Cimarosa
• 1969Bootleggers — Mancho
• 1969Death on High Mountain — General Valiente
• 1969Police Chief Pepe — Agente Cariddi
• 1969The Tough and the Mighty — Cartana
• 1968Be Sick… It's Free — Salvatore Laganà
• 1968May God Forgive You... But I Won't — Chico
• 1968Suicide Commando — Calleya
• 1968The Day of the Owl — Zecchinetta
• 1967The Tall, The Short, The Cat — Netturbino
• 1967The Witches — Sicilian (segment "La siciliana") (uncredited)
• 1965The Two Parachutists — Garcia's aide
• 1963Crazy Sea
• 1963The Eye of the Needle — uno dei mafiosi