Pietro Mario Pastore, known as Piero, was born in Padua, Italy on April 3rd 1903 (some sources claim 1908, but ’03 is the year on his grave). From a young age he was a professional football player, rising to the top of his profession, playing for internationally reknowned teams such as AC Milan and Juventus as well as the Italian national team - indeed it seems he is widely regarded as being the first “star” football player. In 1929 he began acting in films, and from 1932 this became his full time career, one in which he continued until his death. He began his acting career auspiciously with several high profile leading roles, however by the mid-30’s he was already playing smaller parts, and in the 50’s and 60’s he was kept very busy appearing in mostly uncredited bit parts. He died at the age of 64, on January 8th 1968, in Rome.
Given that he was a national sporting hero, with much accompanying publicity, then I think his biographical details, found from many sources, can be relied upon.
I have found numerous previously undocumented appearances by Piero in peplum and historical films, so there must almost certainly be additional roles to be found.
FILMOGRAPHY
- Ragazze non scherzate (poster credit as Pietro Pastore) .... Role?
1930 - La leggenda di Wally (poster credit as Pietro Pastore) .... Hagenbach
1933 - Acciaio (credited) .... Mario Velini
1935 - Aldebarán (credited as Pietro Pastore) .... Sailor
1936 - Tredici uomini e un cannone (credited) .... Man No.7
1938 - Sotto la croce del sud (credited) .... Casale
1939 - Io, suo padre (credited) .... Sandro
- Un'avventura di Salvator Rosa (credited) .... Peasant
1940 - Fortuna (poster credit) .... Role?
1941 - La corona di ferro (uncredited) .... Sestio
1942 - Fari nella nebbia (uncredited) .... Mechanic
- Giarabub (credited as Pastore Piero) .... Lieutenant Martini
1943 - L'uomo dalla croce (credited as P. Pastore) .... Beyrow
1944 - La donna della montagna (credited as Pietro Pastore) .... Rodolfo's assistant
1945 - Due lettere anonime (uncredited) .... Army veteran on the train
- Quartieri alti (uncredited) .... Bottarini
1946 - Aquila nera (credited) .... Iwan
1948 - 11 uomini e un pallone (credited?) .... Marcello
1949 - Antonio di Padova (credited) .... Giano
1950 - È più facile che un cammello... (credited) .... A workers representative
- Il monello della strada (credited) .... Mine worker
- Prima comunione (uncredited) .... Removals man
1951 - La vendetta del corsaro (credited) .... Escuedo
- Lorenzaccio (credited) .... Guard
- Persiane chiuse (credited) .... Cinque
1952 - Camicie rosse (Anita Gribaldi) (credited as P. Pastore) .... Pietro
- I tre corsari (uncredited) .... Captain of the galleon
- Il segreto delle tre punte (credited) .... Riccardo Albertini
1953 - La nave delle donne maledette (uncredited) .... Pedro
- Roman Holiday (uncredited) .... Secret Service agent
1954 - Attila (credited) .... Tribal leader
- Il cardinale Lambertini (uncredited) .... Papal messenger
- L'arte di arrangiarsi (uncredited) .... Army doctor
- Pane amore e gelosia (uncredited) .... Fantozzi
- Peccato che sia una canaglia (uncredited) .... The nurse
- Toto cerca pace (uncredited) .... Desk clerk at Hotel Vesuvio
- Ulisse (uncredited) .... One of Ulysses' men
- Uomini ombra (uncredited) .... Police officer
1955 - Il falco d'oro (uncredited) .... Ambassador
- Il segno di Venere (uncredited) .... Party guest
- La bella mugnaia (uncredited) .... Nobleman
- La donna più bella del mondo (uncredited) .... Gate guard at horse trials
- Siamo uomini o caporali (uncredited) .... Member of the film crew
- Suonno d'ammore (credited) .... Fisherman
- Toto e Carolina (credited) .... Policeman in the office
- War and Peace (uncredited) .... Soldier travelling with Andrei
1956 - Il cavaliere dalla spada nera (credited) .... Sebastiano
- Lo spadaccino misterioso (uncredited) .... Role?
- Scapricciatiello (uncredited) .... Occasional house servant
1957 - El Alamein (uncredited) .... General
- Il conte Max (uncredited) .... Taxi driver
- Io, Caterina (credited) .... Not found
- Serenate per 16 bionde (uncredited) .... Engineer
1958 - Carosello di canzoni (uncredited) .... Nightclub Maitre d'
- Erode il Grande (uncredited) .... General
- Mia nonna poliziotto (uncredited) .... Brigadier Tinazzi
- Totò e Marcellino (uncredited) .... Police inspector
1959 - Arrangiatevi (uncredited) .... Maestro Bruno
- Cartagine in fiamme (uncredited) .... Conspirator
- Fantasmi e ladri (uncredited) .... Exhibition guard outside museum
- I ragazzi del juke box (uncredited) .... Songwriter
- Il Generale Della Rovere (uncredited) .... Paolo Marconi
- Il mondo dei miracoli (credited) .... Station master
- Il raccomandato di Ferro (uncredited) .... Furniture dealer
- Il terrore dei barbari (uncredited) .... Barbarian
- L'arciere Nero (uncredited) .... Conspirator
- Simpatico mascalzone (credited as P. Pastore) .... Sor Augusto
1960 - A noi piace freddo…! (uncredited) .... Partisan
- I giganti della Tessaglia (uncredited) .... Citizen of Jolco
- L'impiegato (uncredited) .... Office clerk
- La vendetta di Ercole (uncredited) .... Prison guard
- Saffo, venere di Lesbo (uncredited) .... Army captain
- Signori si nasce (uncredited) .... Costumer's assistant
1961 - Il segreto dello Sparviero Nero (uncredited) .... Man arguing in the tavern
- La vendetta della maschera di ferro (credited) .... Farmer
- La vendetta di Ursus (uncredited) .... Prisoner at the mines
- Le avventure di Mary Read (uncredited) .... Etiquette teacher
- Le Baccanti (uncredited) .... Citizen of Thebes
- Sua Eccellenza si fermò a mangiare (uncredited) .... Spectator at the ceremony
- Una spada nell'ombra (credited) .... Prison guard
1962 - Caterina di Russia (uncredited) .... Officer
- Dieci italiani per un tedesco (credited) .... Prisoner priest
- Gli eroi del doppio gioco (credited) .... Riccio's aide
- I sette gladiatori (uncredited) .... Role?
- Il colpo segreto di d'Artagnan (credited) .... Conspirator
- Il naufrago del Pacifico (credited) .... Governor
- La monaca di Monza (uncredited) .... Vicar's second envoy
- La Tigre dei Sette Mari (uncredited) .... Pirate
1963 - D'Artagnan contro i tre Moschettieri (uncredited) .... Role?
- Ercole contro Moloch (uncredited) .... Citizen
- Golia e il Cavaliere Mascherato (uncredited) .... Prison warder
- I dieci gladiatori (uncredited) .... Role?
- Io Semiramide (credited) .... Shabli
- L'invincibile cavaliere mascherato (credited?) .... Nicolas
- Maciste, l'eroe più grande del mondo (uncredited) .... The shepherd
- Totò e Cleopatra (uncredited) .... Senator
- Zorro e i tre moschettieri (uncredited) .... Servant
1964 - Bianco, rosso, giallo, rosa (uncredited) .... Citizen watching Apollodoro
- Coriolano eroe senza patria (credited) .... Furio
- Gli schiavi più forti del mondo (uncredited) .... Spectator at the tournament
- I maniaci (uncredited) .... Footballer
- I tre centurioni (uncredited) .... Role?
- Il colosso di Roma (uncredited) .... Agitated citizen
- L'ultimo gladiatore (uncredited) .... British ambassador
- La vendetta di Spartacus (uncredited) .... Role?
- Sandokan alla riscossa (uncredited) .... Role?
- Una spada per l'Impero (credited) .... Ottavio
- Ursus il terrore dei Kirghisi (credited) .... Amko
1965 - El diablo también llora / Il delitto di Anna Sandoval (uncredited) .... Private investigator
- The Agony and the Ecstasy (uncredited) .... Nobleman on the battlefield
1966 - Django spara per primo (uncredited) .... Cooper
- I criminali della galassia (credited as Peter Pastor) .... Scientist on Planet Delos
- I diafanoidi vengono da Marte (uncredited) .... Officer under Martian control
- Il pianeta errante (uncredited) .... Peter
Più Piero!
There are plenty more titles where Piero is rumoured to appear that I have been unable to find copies of, so if anybody has any of the titles below you know what to do...
- Ninna nanna delle dodici mamme (1930) IMDb
- Trois balles dans la peau (1934) IMDb as Policeman No.2
- Porto (1935) ANICA as Salvatore
- Milizia territoriale (1936) ANICA as Soldier Grotta
- Stasera alle undici (1938) ANICA as Willy
- Fanfulla da Lodi (1940) IMDb as Marco
- Caravaggio, il pittore maledetto (1941) ANICA
- Orizzonte dipinto (1941) ANICA
- Il fanciullo del West (1942) ANICA as William Donovan
- Oro nero (1942) ANICA as Marco
- Il treno crociato (1943) ANICA as Corsi
- La figlia del mendicante (1950) ANICA
- Il bivio (1951) ANICA as De Vecchi
- Il capitano di Venezia (1952) ANICA as Barbaro Corazza (translated by Google as "Armour Barbarian")
- Gli amanti del passato (1953) ANICA
- Anni facili (1953) ANICA
- Condannatelo! (1953) ANICA
- Il bivio (1953) ANICA as Cheater at dice
- Legione straniera (1953) IMDb as Il Baro ai Dadi
- L'amante di Paride (1954) ANICA as Sinone
- Da qui all'eredità (1955) ANICA
- Storia di una minorenne (1956) ANICA as Indutriale discografico (translated by Google as "record industry")
- Operazione notte (1956) ANICA
- I fidanzati della morte (1957) ANICA as Bertola
- Gagliardi e pupe (1958) ANICA as Sr. Ezio
There are 2 additional titles I am aware of where Piero may appear which I am unable to add for reasons of information copyright
No Pastore!
As always seems to be the case with little-known actors with large online filmographies, there are a few titles where he is credited somewhere online, but either he does not appear or else I was unable to find him for some reason.
- L'assedio dell'Alcazar (1940) Listed by ANICA with no role given.
- Senza bandiera (1951) IMDb with no role. I've looked through the film closely and couldn't find Piero.
- When in Rome (1953) Listed by IMDb as Customs man
- Barabba (1961) Listed by ANICA as Nicodemus.
- La morte viene dal pianeta Aytin (1967) Listed by ANICA with no role given.