Venantino Venantini (17 April 1930 – 9 October 2018) was an Italian film actor. He was the father of Victoria Venantini and Luca Venantini and appeared in more than 140 films between 1954 and 2018. He made his debut in the cinema with an appearance in Un giorno in pretura under the direction of Steno and he had his first important role in Odissea Nuda (1961), directed by Franco Rossi. Among the almost 150 films he performed in, some became cult favorites such as Les Tontons flingueurs, Amore libero - Free Love, Black Emanuelle and City of the Living Dead. He acted with actors such as Lino Ventura, Yves Montand, Alain Delon and Gérard Depardieu and for directors such as Ettore Scola, Luciano Salce and Dino Risi and for French film directors such as Georges Lautner, Gérard Oury and Claude Lelouch. Source: Article "Venantino Venantini" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

• 2018All You Ever Wished For — Old Gypsy
• The Art of Crime — Leonard de Vinci
• 2017Vive la crise ! — Luigi Pirandello
• 2016Marseille — Giovanni
• 2015The Very Private Life of Mister Sim — Monsieur Matteotti
• 2015Un + une — Henri
• 2014P.O.E. Pieces of Eldritch (P.O.E. 3)
• 2014Phantasmagoria — GrandPa (segment "My Gift to You")
• 2012Hyde's Secret Nightmare
• 2011Bloody Sin: Abonimations of the Third Reich
• 201022 Bullets — Padovano
• 2010The Museum Of Wonders — Master Of Ceremonies
• 2009À deux c'est plus facile
• 2008I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster — Joe
• 2008School's Out — Marcello, in love with Adèle
• 2007Could This Be Love? — Della Ponte
• 2007The Hideout — Installatore telefonico
• 2006Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour — Le Tailleur
• Mafiosa — Charly Scaglia
• 2004The Return of James Battle — Matt Kelso
• 2003Fallait pas buter mémé!
• 2003Ho visto le stelle — Duilio Masera
• 1999Toni — Minelli
• 1998Le faremo tanto male — Pietro
• 1998The Dinner — Curci
• 1997L'amico di Wang — Ezio
• 1997The Eighteenth Angel — Clockmaker
• 1996Giovani e belli — Buby
• 1994Fair Game — Claudio
• 1993Test of Memory
• 1992Crazy Underwear — Alessia's Father
• Love at First Sight — Santino
• 1991Des cadavres à la pelle — Antonio
• 1991Touch and Die — Special Appearance
• 1990Death Has a Bad Reputation — Umberto Aidoni
• 1990The King's Whore — Luis De Arragon
• 1989Madame, nuda è arrivata la straniera — Fisher
• Oceano — Ramiro Galeon
• 1989Vanille fraise — Anselmo
• Big Man — Pierre Legrand
• The Secret Files of Inspector Lavardin — Giuseppe Rasia
• 1987Love & Passion — Alfredo
• The Boys of 3rd C — Signor Lazzaretti / Commissario di polizia
• 1986Aladdin — Puncher
• 1985Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
• 1985Ladyhawke — Bishop's Secretary
• 1985Liberté, égalité, choucroute — Un sans-culotte
• 1985The Adventures of Hercules — High Priest
• 1985The Assisi Underground — Pietro
• 1985The Erotic Dreams of Cleopatra — Dolabella
• 1985The Lion's Share
• 1985The Repenter
• 1984Final Justice — Joseph Palermo
• 1984Windsurf - Il vento nelle mani — Walter
• 1983Emanuelle's Perverse Outburst — Giorgio Rivetti (archive footage) (uncredited)
• 1983Exterminators of the Year 3000 — John
• 1983My Other Husband — Nino
• 1983The New Barbarians — Father Moses
• 1982Giggi il bullo — Don Salvatore
• 1982God Makes and Then Pairs Them Up — Occhipinti, il proprietario della discoteca
• 1982Sesso e volentieri — l'uomo al cinema che adesca la donna procace (episodio L'avventura)
• 1981Cannibal Ferox — Sgt. Ross
• 1981Longshot — Henri Bresson
• 1980Beast in Space — Juan Cardoso
• 1980Cannibal Apocalypse — Lieutenant Hill
• 1980City of the Living Dead — Mr. Ross
• 1980Contraband — Captain Tarantino
• 1980Flatfoot in Egypt — Ruotolo
• 1980Flying Sex — Mr. Murphy
• 1980Terror Express — Mike
• 1980The Terrace — Terrace Guest
• 1979Concorde Affair — Forsythe
• 1979Cop or Hood — Mario, Shot of 'L'Auvergnat'
• 1979From Corleone to Brooklyn — Commissario Danova
• 1979Gardenia — Nocita
• 1979Hot Dogs On Ibiza — Norbert
• 1979Riavanti… Marsch! — Sergeant Sconocchia
• 1979The Humanoid
• 1979Three Under the Sheets
• 1978Emanuelle and the White Slave Trade — Giorgio Rivetti
• 1978First Love — Emilio
• 1978La Cage aux Folles — Le chauffeur de Charrier
• Return of the Saint — Xexo
• 1978The Biggest Battle — Michael
• 1978The War of the Robots — Paul
• 1977L'altra metà del cielo — Mr. Rickie
• 1977Nine Guests for a Crime — Walter
• 1977Rene the Cane — Carlo
• 1977The Rip-Off — The Frenchman
• 1976C'è una spia nel mio letto — Roger, capo della CIA
• 1976Emanuelle in Bangkok — David
• 1976Sex Diary — amico di Luca
• 1976The Kisser — Giusy
• 1976Young, Violent, Dangerous — Sign. Morandi
• 1975Black Emanuelle — William Meredith
• 1975Emmanuelle: The Joys of a Woman — The Polo Player
• 1975Heat in the Suburbs — Santuzzo
• 1974Free Love — Chavad
• 1974The Fuhrer Runs Amok — Valet italien
• 1973A Way of Being a Woman — Simone
• Coralba — Karl Bauer
• 1973Lady Dynamite
• 1973Number One — a
• 1973Profession: Adventurers — Pablo
• 1973Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye — Father Robertson
• 1973The Magnificent Dare Devil — Piero Albertini
• 1973The Police Serve the Citizens? — Mancinelli
• 1972Master of Love — Soldier from Sicily
• 1972The Beguines — Max
• 1972The Red Headed Corpse — Mr. Gonzales
• 1972There Once Was a Cop — Felice, killer
• 1971Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot? — Commissioner
• 1971Conquest — Pedro de Valdivia
• 1971Delusions of Grandeur — Marquis del Basto
• 1971Macédoine — Brian Goffy
• 1971Per amore o per forza — Jane's father
• 1971Troubleshooters — Tosca
• 1970Quella chiara notte d'ottobre — Killer
• 1970The Priest's Wife — Maurizio
• 1969Erotissimo — Sylvio
• 1969Hate Is My God — Sweetley
• 1969Playgirl 70
• 1969The War Devils — Heinrich Meinike
• 1968Anzio — Capt. Burns
• 1968Emma Hamilton — Prince Carraciola
• 1968Love in the Night — Bollert
• 1968The Killer Likes Candy — Costa
• 1968The Libertine — Aurelio
• 1967Bandidos — Billy Kane
• 1967Round Trip — Marc Daumel
• 1967The Big Grasshopper — Vladimir
• 1966Balearic Caper — Giuliano
• 1966Galia — Greg
• 1966The Restaurant — Henrique, chef de la sécurité du président Novalès
• 1965La Celestina P… R… — Carlo
• 1965The Agony and the Ecstasy — Paride de Grassis, Paris De Grassis
• 1965The Sucker — Mickey, "le Bègue"
• 1964Dandelions by the Roots — Pierre Michon
• 1964Fantasmagorie — The vampire
• 1964Un momento muy largo — Andrea Masi
• 1963Crooks in Clover — Pascal
• 1962Escapade in Florence — Lorenzo
• 1962Warriors Five — Alberto
• 1961Odissea nuda — Film director
• 1961Pastasciutta nel deserto — Malapaga
• 1957No Sun in Venice
• 1954A Day in Court

Appearances as themselves (3)

• 2015Michel Audiard : J'parle pas aux cons, ça les instruit — Self
• 2015Vittorio Gassman, le flamboyant — Self
• 2008Paura: Lucio Fulci Remembered - Volume 1 — Self