Italian stage, television and film actor perhaps best known for playing Don Fanucci in THE GODFATHER: PART II (1974). From 1970 until his death, he was married to actress Marzia Ubaldi.

Filmography

• Father Matteo — Vescovo
• Sei forte, maestro — Vittorio Ricci
• L'avvocato delle donne — Avvocato Salvi
• 1997Porzûs — Geko vecchio
• 1996We Free Kings — Don Gregorio
• 1992Non chiamarmi Omar — Dr. Omar Tavoni
• 1992The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 — Don Fanucci
• 1991Donne con le gonne — avvocato Carabba
• 1991Les Ritals — Louvi
• 1988Rimini, Rimini: A Year Later — Teseo Formigoni
• 1987How Long Is the Adventure — Oreste Raccà
• 1986A Thorn in the Heart — dottor Trigona
• 1985My Friends Act III — Architetto Melandri
• 1983A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Street Bandit — ministro dell'interno
• 1983Pájaros de ciudad
• 1982My Friends Act II — Il Melandri - Architetto Rambaldo Melandri
• 1981Amor es... veneno, Carlota — Charlie
• 1981Lion of the Desert — Major Tomelli
• 1981The Traveling Companion — The Baron
• 1980Si salvi chi vuole — Stefano
• Racconti fantastici — The Judge
• 1978Magnum Cop — Karl Koper
• Mario Puzo's The Godfather: The Complete Novel for Television — Don Fanucci
• Uova fatali — Il Professor Vladimir Ipat'evic Pérsikov
• 1977Wifemistress — Vincenzo
• 1976A Woman at Her Window — Primoukis
• 1975My Friends — Rambaldo Melandri
• 1974Emergency Squad — Marsigliese
• 1974Erotomania — Rodolfo Persichetti
• 1974Night Police Station — Police Commissioner Emiliano Borghini
• 1974The Godfather Part II — Don Fanucci
• 1974The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun — Beilin
• 1973The Assassination of Matteotti — Filippo Turati
• 1973The Sensual Man — Uncle Edmondo
• 1972Caliber 9 — Ugo Piazza
• 1972Cause of Divorce — Lawyer
• 1972Don Camillo and the Contestants — Don Camillo
• 1972Fiorina the Cow — Ruzante
• 1972Incensurato, provata disonestà, carriera assicurata cercasi — Giuseppe Zaccherin
• 1972The Sicilian Checkmate — Colonnesi, defense attorney
• 1971I Don't See, You Don't Speak, He Doesn't Hear — Metello Bottazzi
• 1971My Father Monsignor — Don Alvaro
• 1971Roma bene — il monsignore
• 1971Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte — Giambattista Manteghin
• 1971The Conformist — Manganiello
• 1970Mr. Superinvisible — Kokofrecovitch
• 1970Ninì Tirabusciò: The Woman Who Invented the Move — Mariotti - Il delegato di polizia
• 1970The Weekend Murders — Sgt. Aloisius Thorpe
• 1969The Specialists — Sheriff
• 1969Where Are You Going All Naked? — President
• 1968Dismissed on His Wedding Night — L'avvocato
• 1968Il Giardino dei Ciliegi — Ermolaj Alekseevič Lopachin
• 1968Italian Secret Service — L'avvocato Ramirez
• 1968La moglie giapponese — Accountant Taddei
• 1968Seven Times Seven — Benjamin Burton
• 1967Face to Face — Man at Puerto del Fuego (uncredited)
• 1967Loose in the Trigger — Jo Laguerre
• 1967Night Is Made for Stealing — Commissario Simon
• 1967The Harem — Gianni
• 1967The Oldest Profession — Flavius (segment "Nuits romaines")
• 1967Top Crack — Karl
• 1966Diamonds Are a Man's Best Friend — Mr. Houster, the Boss
• 1966Seasons of Our Love — Carlo Di Giusti aka Tancredi
• 1966Seven Golden Men Strike Again — Adolf
• 1966The Birds, the Bees and the Italians — Osvaldo Bisigato
• 1966The Queens — Dr. Aldini ("Fata Armenia")
• 1965Seven Golden Men — Adolf (l'allemand)
• 1965Spy in Your Eye — Boris
• 1964100 Horsemen — Frate Carmelo
• 1964Extraconiugale — Luigi (segment "La doccia")
• 1964Gentlemen of the Night — Doge Pietro Gradenigo
• I miserabili — Jean Valjean
• 1964Love in Four Dimensions — Il marito (segment "Amore e vita")
• 1964The Betrothed — Narrator (voice)
• Il mulino del Po — Fratognone
• 1963Il successo — Il Cognato di Giulio
• 1963The Reunion — Toro
• 1963The Scapegoat — Consigliere Garzone
• 1963The Visitor — Renato Gusso
• 1962Operazione Vega — Sim
• 1962Roaring Years — Carmine Passante
• 1962Sex Can Be Difficult — Maresciallo (segment "Il serpente")
• 1961Pigeon Shoot — Pasquini
• 1961The Joy of Living — le curé
• 1959Fiasco in Milan — Alfredo
• 1959La foresta pietrificata
• 1956The Rival — Marco Riccitelli

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2006Adolfo Celi, a Man for Two Worlds — Self