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Alessandri, Roberto
Antonini, Artemio
Arena, Fortunato
Ariè, Bruno
Ariè, Giulio
Balini, Domenico
Basile, Antonio
Basile, Lino (=Pasquale?)
Basile, Pasquale
Basile, Salvatore
Basile, Vincenzo
Bastianoni, Angelo (Angiolo?)
Bastianoni, Giancarlo
Beltramme, Franco
Beltramme, Gianfranco (=Franco?)
Benetti, Luciano
Bernini, Gianlorenzo "Nanni"
Binaglia, Mario
Blasetti, Black
Bogino, Benito
Bogino, Giorgio
Bogino, Iginio
Bonadonna, Elio
Bonadonna, Giovanni (Gianni?)
Borelli, Franco
Borgese, Sal(vatore)
Caltabiano, Alfio
Canti, Aldo (Nick Jordan)
Capanna, Omero
Capanna, Otello
Capanna, Pietro
Capitani, Ferruccio (?)
Capitani, Remo
Caporali, Roberto
Cardinali, Nazzareno
Casadei, Angelo
Casadei, Enrico
Casadei, Sergio
Ceccarelli, Lanfranco (=Franco)
Ceccarelli, Pietro "Puccio"
Cecconi, Aldo
Chiappafreddo, Erigo (Enrico)
Cianfriglia, Domenico "Mimmo"
Cianfriglia, Giovanni
Ciani, Sergio (Alan Steel)
Ciavarro, Luigi "Gigetto"
Conti, Francesco
Cornago, Giuseppe
Daddi, Franco (=Virgilio D.)
Danesi, Alfredo
Danesi, Tonino
De Angelis, Arnaldo
De Angelis, Pietro
De Angelis, Remo
Dell'Acqua, Alberto
Dell'Acqua, Aldo
Dell'Acqua, Arnaldo
Dell'Acqua, Ottaviano
Dell'Acqua, Roberto "Ridolini"
Dell'Ovo, Giuliano
Di Luia, Bruno
Dionisi, Mario
Domenighini, Vito
Falasca, Sergio
Fantasia, Andrea
Fantasia, Franco
Fasciolo, Anacleto (A Facciolo?)
Figlia, Paolo
Foti, Luciano
Funari, Augusto
Galimberti, Gilberto
Gambini, Biagio
Gambini, Ennio
Gambini, Nella
Gasparri, Romano
Giglio, Pio Gigli (Giglio Gigli)
Giustini, Oscar
Maculani, Giulio
Maggio, Dante (are there 2 Dante Maggios?)
Maggio, Mimmo (=Domenico M?)
Maggio, Tony (=Vincenzo M?)
Maggio, Vincenzo
Mannatrizio, Mauro
Mannoia, Fiorella
Mannoia, Maurizio
Mariani, Alceo
Marra, Attilio
Marra, Pietro
Marroni, Franco
Marturano, Gino (Luigi)
Mattei, Giuseppe "Pino"
Messina, Emilio
Messina, Roberto
Miglio, Salvatore
Mioni, Sergio
Moruzzi, Franco
Musumeci Greco, Enzo
Pacifico, Benito
Paris, Bruno
Pasquetto, Gianfranco (Franco)
Pazzafini, Giovanni "Nello"
Pelizzi, Valentino
Peverello, Osiride
Peverello, Renzo
Pizzuti, Riccardo
Poggi, (Ferdi)nando
Polentini, Ottorino
Puppo, Romano
Ricci, Tonino
Rossini, Renato (Howard Ross)
Ruffini, Claudio
Sagnotti, Franco
Sagnotti, Sergio
Santarelli, Amerigo
Saracco, Lorenzo
Saraceno, Lorenzo (=L Saracco?)
Scala, Gaetano
Scarchilli, Sandro
Scarciofolo, Giovanni "Nino" (Jeff Cameron)
Severini, Attilio
Signoretti, Fausto
Signoretti, Romeo
Simonella, Alfredo
Smacchi, Sergio
Spada, Italo
Spada, Romolo
Spoletini, Guglielmo
Squir, Gan
Stefanelli, Benito
Strano, Dino (Dean Stratford)
Susani, Angelo
Testori, Sergio
Tomassini, Ferdinando
Tomassini, Tito
Torrisi, Pietro (Peter McCoy)
Ubaldi, Giorgio
Ukmar, Bruno
Ukmar, Clemente
Ukmar, Franco
Ukmar, Giancarlo
Ukmar, Giovanni
Ukmar, Sergio
Unger, Goffredo "Freddy"
Zamperla, Aldo (=Rinaldo Z?)
Zamperla, Annamaria
Zamperla, Nazzareno "Neno"
Zamperla, Rinaldo

Angelo Casadei and Luciano Foti?? It's certainly news to me that they did stunt work! From where do you have this information? Can you please elaborate a bit?

I'm actually not sure. Could it be from the German database https://cinema-italiano-db.de/?

At least I know Sergio Casadei did stunts. He was a horse stuntman and also drove a chariot in Ben-Hur

Well, I don't know! But there are a few of our generici that are, well... if not exactly stuntmen, then at least "semi-stuntmen" or whatever one might call them. I'm thinking in particular about Angelo Boscariol and Sisto Brunetti, who very often played henchmen roles and were often involved in scenes with a certain degree of fighting or manhandling. Massimo Ciprari played a few henchman roles, too, and is actually credited as a stand-in in Troll (1986) so may have been a stunt performer of some kind. Would love to know more about this!

yes I think A Casadei and Foti were semi-stuntmen too

A stuntman is an acrobat particularly skilled in pretending falls, dives, jumps and in the most dangerous scenes. Dirving a chariot or riding a horse is not part of the specific job of a stuntman, or all the horseman actors automatically activate stunts. And not even participate in a skirmish. A stunt is one who falls from a running horse, one who knows how to take a punch in the face and fall into a ditch without breaking the bone of his neck. Casadei, but above all Foti, who was chubby and not athletic, are not stuntmen.

Dante Maggio was never a stuntman, he was always a credited supporting actor doing mostly comedic roles, similar to his brother Enzo (somehow not to be confused with stuntman Vincenzo, who may or may not be related to the other 2)

I would add Tony Casale, whose work in peplums was definitely more stunts than generico

Angelo Casadei I would say is a borderline case, he was an athlete before becoming an actor and played plenty of "guard" and "soldier" type roles, but generally of the non-fighting variety

Otherwise looks like a pretty complete list

PeplumParadise wrote: ↑

10/11/2019, 2:58

Dante Maggio was never a stuntman, he was always a credited supporting actor doing mostly comedic roles, similar to his brother Enzo (somehow not to be confused with stuntman Vincenzo, who may or may not be related to the other 2)

As far as I know, Vincenzo Maggio (the stuntman) wasn't related to the Maggio family (Enzo, Dante, Pupella and so on).

It seems strange, to me anyway, that former stuntman Sergio Ciani (Alan Steel) needed a stunt double in some of the fights at the end of SAMSON AND THE MIGHTY CHALLENGE (1964).

stevenhorrorsmith wrote: ↑

21/12/2019, 12:03

It seems strange, to me anyway, that former stuntman Sergio Ciani (Alan Steel) needed a stunt double in some of the fights at the end of SAMSON AND THE MIGHTY CHALLENGE (1964).

It was probably demanded by the producer (or the insurance company) to avoid the risk of the star of the film getting hurt