From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Paolo Bonacelli (February 28, 1939 - October 8 2025) was an Italian actor. He is best known for his performance as The Duke de Blangis in Pasolini's notorious Salò (1975). He can also be seen in Midnight Express (1978) and Caligula (1979), in which he plays the role of Cassius Chaerea. He also co-starred with Roberto Benigni in the films Johnny Stecchino and Night on Earth, both from 1991. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paolo Bonacelli, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Filmography

• 2026In the Hand of Dante — Priest Of Alcamo
• 2024Nato il sei ottobre
• 2023Noi ce la siamo cavata — Sé stesso
• 2023The Commander — Betti
• 2020Divine
• 2019Forse è solo mal di mare — Calogero (Voice)
• 2019To the Unknown God
• 2018Magical Nights — Ennio 'The Great'
• 2016The Ploy — Vescovo
• Furore il vento della speranza — Niccolò Carbone
• 2010The American — Father Benedetto
• 2006Mission: Impossible III — Monsignore
• 200413 at a Table — Nonno Giulio
• 2003A.A.A. Achille — Dott. Aglieri
• 2003Gli astronomi — Peters
• 2003The Accidental Detective — Direttore Della Galleria Palatina
• 1999Dirty Linen — Amedeo
• Alice on the Run — Luigi Mancini
• 1997Bakunin's Son — Giudice
• 1996The Stendhal Syndrome — Dr. Cavanna
• 1995Christmas Vacation '95 — Paolo "Paolone"
• Charlemagne, le prince à cheval — Vitale
• 1994Once a Year, Every Year — Romano
• 1994The Teddy Bear — Novacek
• 1993Abraham — Melchisedek
• Abraham — Melchisedek
• 1993Flusso di coscienza - Razzismo 1993
• 1993Mille bolle blu — Mario
• 1992Ciao, Professore! — Ludovico Mazzullo
• 1992Il segno del comando — Bonsanti
• 1991Johnny Stecchino — D'Agata
• 1991Night on Earth — Priest
• 1991Touch and Die — Morelli
• 1990Flight from Paradise — Eliah
• 1990Only One Survived — Andrade
• 1989A Double Victory — Guido Sormani
• 1989Francesco — Francesco's Father
• I promessi sposi — padre di Gertrude
• 1989La moglie ingenua e il marito malato — Carl Rune
• Lenin... The Train — Grigori Jewsejewitsch Zinoviev
• 1988Lenin: The Train — Zinoviev
• 1988Topo Galileo — Professor Zitti
• 1987Love Sins — Ercole Leoni
• 1987Rimini Rimini — l'ingegnere
• 1986Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime) — Tango
• 1986L'ultima mazurka — Lanza
• 1985Mother Ebe — Don Paolo Monti
• 1984Henry IV — Belcredi
• 1984Nothing Left to Do But Cry — Leonardo da Vinci
• 1984The Naked Sun
• 1983The Commissioner — Commissionario
• 1983The Knight, Death and the Devil — Nicholas
• 1982Delitti, amore e gelosia — Commissario Dell'Amore
• I Remember Nelson — King Ferdinando
• 1982Words and Blood — Marcucci
• 1981Calderon
• 1981The Mystery of Oberwald — Count of Foehn
• 1980Le Guignolo — Kamal
• 1980The Persian Lamb Coat — Ferdinando
• 1979Caligula — Chaerea
• 1979Christ Stopped at Eboli — Don Luigi Magalone
• 1979Good News — Gualtiero Milano
• Madame Bovary — Charles Bovary
• 1978Midnight Express — Rifki
• 1978Nest of Vipers — Paolo Mazzarini
• 1977This Is the Night
• 1976Evil Thoughts — Antonio Marani
• 1976Illustrious Corpses — Dr. Maxia
• 1976La banca di Monate — Dottor Defendente Massera
• Origins of the Mafia — Vincenzo Biscetta
• 1976Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom — The Duke
• 1976The Inheritance — Paolo Furlin
• 1975Beyond Fear — Francesco Grimaldi
• 1975Gli strumenti del potere. 1925/1926 la dittatura fascista
• 1974Milarepa — Prof. Bennet
• 1974The Murri Affair — Francesco Bonmartini
• 1974Year One — Giorgio Amendola
• 1973Giordano Bruno
• 1973Io e lui — Vladimiro
• 1972Il cancelliere Krehler — Max
• 1971A Prostitute Serving the Public and in Compliance with the Laws of the State
• 1971Maddalena
• 1970Tears of Love — Cormick
• 1968Seven Times Seven
• 1966Pleasant Nights — Messenger
• 1966The Devil in Love — Inn's customer
• 1965SuperSeven Calling Cairo — Capitano Hume
• 1964Corpse for the Lady — Gedeon
• I grandi camaleonti — Babeuf
• 1964One Million Dollars — Zenone

Appearances as themselves (1)

• I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni — Self