Michele Placido was born on May 19, 1946 in Ascoli Satriano, Puglia, Italy. He is an actor, director and screenwriter, known for La piovra (1984), Romanzo Criminale (2005) and Un eroe borghese (1995).

Filmography

• 2024Eternal Visionary — Saul Colin, Director, Screenplay
• 2023Senza malizia
• 2022Arnoldo Mondadori - I libri per cambiare il mondo — Arnoldo Mondadori
• 2022Burning Hearts — Vincenzo Montanari
• 2022Caravaggio's Shadow — Cardinal Del Monte, Director, Writer
• 2022Falla girare - The Last Joint — Diego
• 2022Orlando — Orlando
• 2022Run to You — Padre di Gianni
• 2022Un marziano di nome Ennio — Vittorio De Sica
• Vincenzo Malinconico, avvocato d'insuccesso — Ugo Maria Starace Tarallo, L'avvocato Ugo Maria Starace Tarallo
• 2021All Star - Ritorno al cinema — Spettatore
• 2021Caliber 9 — Rocco Musco
• 2021Isolation — Self, Director, Writer
• 2021Notes from a Women Salesman — Amedeo Sangiorgi
• 2021Vitti d'arte, Vitti d'amore — Sé stesso
• 2020I Hate Summer — il Maresciallo dei Carabinieri locali
• 2019Calypso — Executive Producer
• 2018a Jacket — Co-Director
• Suburra: Blood on Rome — Director
• 20167 Minutes — Michele Varazzi, Director, Screenplay, Writer
• 2016Christmas Dinner — Don Mimì
• 2016Un'Avventura Romantica — Vittorio De Sica
• 2015Loving Only You — Don Mimi
• Questo è il mio paese — Giannino Cafuero
• 2015The Choice — Emilio Nicotri, Director, Screenplay
• 2014Living Legends — Christiano Negri
• 2014Prima di andar via — Director, Editor
• In Treatment — Guido
• 2013The Mongrel — Avv.Silvestri
• 2013Trilussa - Storia d'amore e di poesia — Trilussa
• 2013Venice 70: Future Reloaded — Director
• 2013Volare - La grande storia di Domenico Modugno — Vittorio De Sica
• 2012Itaker — Pantano
• 2012The Lookout — Giovanni, Director
• 2012Tulpa - Demon of Desire — Roccaforte
• 2012Viva l'Italia — Michele Spagnolo
• 2011My Friends: Act IV – How It All Began — Duccio Villani di Masi
• 2011The Ages of Love — Augusto
• 2010Angel of Evil — Director, Screenplay
• 2010Genitori & figli - Agitare bene prima dell'uso — Alberto
• 2009Baaria — esponente PCI
• 2009Focaccia Blues — Proiezionista
• 2009Just Married — Sabino Impanato
• 2009L'Aquila 2009: Five Directors in the Rubble — Director
• 2009The Big Dream — Adult Andrea (uncredited), Director, Screenplay
• Aldo Moro - Il Presidente — Aldo Moro
• 2008Blood of the Losers — Commissario Franco Dogliani
• 2008L'ultimo padrino — Bernardo Provenzano
• 2008The Sorrow of Mrs. Schneider — Šternberk
• 20072061 - Un anno eccezionale — Cardinale Bonifacio
• 2007Piano, Solo — Giovanni
• 2007SoloMetro — Enrico Alvari, Producer
• 2006Commediasexi — Lo chef
• 2006Karol: The Pope, The Man — Dr. Renato Buzzonetti
• Karol: The Pope, The Man — Renato Buzzonetti
• 2006The Caiman — Marco Pulici
• 2006The Goodbye Kiss — Ferruccio Anedda
• 2006The Roses of the Desert — Frate Simeone
• 2006The Unknown Woman — Muffa
• 2005Crime Novel — Padre Freddo, Director, Co-Writer
• Il Grande Torino — Angelo (2004)
• 2005Il grande Torino — Angelo Di Girolamo (Older)
• 2004Love Returns — Dr. Bianco
• 2004The Scent of Blood — Carlo
• 2004Wherever You Are — Director, Writer
• 2003Il posto dell'anima — Salvatore
• 2002A Journey Called Love — Director, Screenplay
• Il sequestro Soffiantini — Giuseppe Soffiantini
• 2001Once Upon a Time in Sicily — Uzenda
• 2000Liberate i pesci! — Michele Verrio
• 2000Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth
• Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth — Padre Pio
• 1999Dirty Linen — Furio
• 1999The Nanny — Belli Estate Patient
• 1999Un uomo perbene — Enzo Tortora
• 1998A Lighter Burden to Bear — Producer
• Ciao Darwin — Presidente di giuria
• 1998Del perduto amore — Don Gerardo, Director, Screenplay
• 1998La missione — Padre Ramboni
• 1998Pleasure (And Its Little Inconveniences) — Carlo
• Racket — Guido Gerosa, Idea, Creator
• 1996La lupa — Malerba
• 1995Poliziotti — Sante Carella
• 1995Un eroe borghese — Silvio Novembre, Director
• 1994Lamerica — Fiore
• 1994Padre e figlio — Corrado
• 1993Giovanni Falcone — Giovanni Falcone
• 1993Look to the Sky — Thanks
• 1993Quattro bravi ragazzi — Marcione
• 1993The Man with the Flower in His Mouth
• 1993Uomo di rispetto
• 1992Close Friends — Simona's father, Director, Screenplay
• 1992Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel — Col. Roberto Chavez
• Drug Wars: The Cocaine Cartel — Col. Roberto Chavez
• 1991Afghan Breakdown — Major Bandura
• 1990Tomato — Director, Story, Writer
• 1989Mary Forever — Marco Terzi
• 1988Big Business — Fabio Alberici
• 1988How Good the Whites Are — Michel
• 1988Via Paradiso — Francesco
• 1987Private Affairs — Lionello
• 1986Department Store — Direttore
• 1986Summer Night with Greek Profile, Almond Eyes and Scent of Basil — Giuseppe Catania aka Beppe
• 1985Pizza Connection — Mario Aloia
• 1985The Terrible Lovers — Sergio
• The Octopus — Commissario Corrado Cattani
• 1983Art of Love — Macarius
• 1983Il passo falso — Gabriele Rossi
• 1982Chopin — Francesco Maria Vitale
• 1981Cargo — Giovanni
• 1981The Wings of the Dove — Sandro
• 1981Three Brothers — Nicola Giuranna
• 1980A Leap in the Dark — Giovanni Sciabola
• 1980Fontamara — Berardo Viola
• 1980Lulu — Schwarz
• 1979A Man on His Knees — Antonio Platamona
• 1979Ernesto — The man
• 1979Saturday, Sunday and Friday — Mario Salvetti (episodio "Domenica")
• 1979The Meadow — Enzo
• 1979Tigers in Lipstick — Angelo / The Photographer
• 1979Volunteers for an Unknown Destination — Antonio Stella
• 1978Basilicata, una regione tra due mari — Voice
• 1978Corleone — Michele Labruzzo
• 1978Yerma — Victor
• 1977Beach House — Vincenzino
• 1977Io sono mia — Giacinto
• 1977Kleinhoff Hotel — Pedro
• Non ho tempo
• 1977Oedipus Orca — Michele Turrisi
• 1977The Pyjama Girl Case — Antonio Attolini
• 1976And Agnes Chose to Die — Tom
• 1976La Orca — Michele
• 1976Moses the Lawgiver — Kaleb
• 1976Plot of Fear — Inspector Gaspare Lomenzo
• 1976Victory March — Paolo Passeri
• 1975Scandal in the Family — Milo
• 1975The Divine Nymph — Martino Ghiondelli
• The Frenzy of Orlando — Agramante
• 1974Come Home and Meet My Wife — Giovanni Pizzullo
• Moses the Lawgiver — Caleb
• 1974Quick Trial — Stefano Baldini
• 1974Till Marriage Do Us Part — Silvanno Pennacchini, l'autista
• 1973Il picciotto — Rosario Mandalà
• 1973My Wife, A Body to Love — Simona's Partner
• 1973Teresa the Thief — Tonino Santità, detto Mortadella
• 1973The Black Hand — Antonio Turris
• Joe Petrosino
• 1972The Pisciotta Case — Amerigo Lo Jacono

Appearances as themselves (12)

• 2022La voglia matta di vivere — Self
• Noi — himself
• 2017Water and Sugar – Carlo Di Palma: The Colours of Life — Self
• 2010Portrait Of My Father — Self
• 2009What Do You Know About Me — Self
• 2007Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future — Self /Narrator
• 2006The Singer Stories. Journey among the Cantastorie of Puglia — himself
• 2003Caterina in the Big City — Self
• 1994The True Life of Antonio H. — Self
• Wetten, dass..? — Self
• Stars in der Manege — Self
• Bambi — Self