Amedeo Trilli was a robust character actor who worked steadily in Italian films from the start of the sound era through until his death in 1971. While he played a fair number of scene-stealing credited character roles and even a one-off lead role, he was just as likely, throughout the length of his career, to be found in uncredited bit parts. Sadly he seems to be largely unknown or forgotten these days.
His unconfirmed biographical details (found on IMDb, Tototruffa, CIDb and various Wikipedia pages) are that he was born on July 9th 1906 in Ronciglione, Italy and died on November 30th 1971 in Rome. He was occasionally billed under the name Amedeo Novelli, so it’s possible this could be his real name. No other information is currently known.
I have turned up at least 10 previously undocumented appearances by Trilli, so I am certain there must be more to be found.
FILMOGRAPHY
- 1860 (uncredited) .... Sicilian farmer
1938 - Ettore Fieramosca (uncredited) .... Italian soldier
1939 - Abuna Messias (uncredited) .... Ghebra Selassie
1940 - Dopo divorzieremo (uncredited) .... Policeman
- Piccolo alpino (credited) .... Rico
- Senza cielo (photo credit) .... Xago
1941 - I promessi sposi (uncredited) .... First plague victim
- La corona di ferro (uncredited) .... Armenian King
- Le due tigri (credited) .... Sirdar
- Pia de' Tolomei (credited) .... Ciacco
1942 - La fortuna viene dal cielo (uncredited) .... Assistant commissioner
1943 - Harlem (Knock-Out) (uncredited) .... Notary
- I trecento della Settima (uncredited) .... Chaplain Don Perrucchetti
1948 - Attendimi! (L'assassino sono io) (poster credit) .... role?
1949 - Fabiola (uncredited) .... Soldier
1950 - Donne senza nome (uncredited) .... Concentration camp officer
- La legge della vendetta (credited as Amedeo Novelli) .... Luiso
- Prima comunione (credited as Amedeo Novelli) .... Traffic officer
- Turri il bandito (poster credit) .... role?
1951 - Bellezze in bicicletta (uncredited) .... Man who stops bus
- Domani è un altro giorno (credited?) .... The butcher
- I sette nani alla riscossa (credited) .... Servant of the Black Prince
- Il capitano nero (credited) .... role?
- La città si difende (credited) .... Tram conductor
- Messalina (uncredited) .... Prison guard
1952 - Il brigante di Tacca del Lupo (credited) .... Sergeant Trilli
- Il richiamo nella tempesta (poster credit) .... "Spirit of the Rose"
- L'ingiusta condanna (poster credit) .... Mayor
1953 - Cristo è passato sull'aia (poster credit) .... role?
- François il contrabbandiere (credited) .... The professor
- Il prezzo dell'onore (poster credit) .... Minutolo
1954 - Amore e smarrimento (poster credit) .... role?
- Amori di mezzo secolo - segment "Guerra 1915-18" (credited) .... The doctor
- Cose da pazzi (credited) .... Police sergeant
- Di qua di là del piave (poster credit) .... role?
- Disonorata - Senza colpa (credited) .... Commissioner of politics
- Ho ritrovato mio figlio (credited) .... Marshal of the Carabinieri
- Soli per le strade (uncredited) .... Police lieutenant
- The Barefoot Contessa (uncredited) .... Sr. Tivi
1955 - Agguato sul mare (credited) .... role?
- Gelosia (credited) .... Inspector
- Il bidone (uncredited) .... Shanty town dweller
- La canzone del cuore (uncredited) .... Policeman
1956 - Beatrice Cenci (uncredited) .... Servant in the Cenci castle
- Giovanni dalle Bande Nere (uncredited) .... Soldier
- Il ferroviere (uncredited) .... Bar keeper
- Mi permette babbo! (uncredited) .... Removals man
- Mio figlio Nerone (uncredited) .... Courtier
1957 - Femmine tre volte (uncredited) .... Soviet agent
- Il Conte di Matera (uncredited) .... Escort soldier
- Io, Caterina (credited) .... Prisoner
- Saranno uomini (poster credit) .... role?
- Susanna tutta panna (uncredited) .... Marshal
- Totò, Vittorio e la Dottoressa (uncredited) .... Mental patient
- Vivendo cantando... che male ti fò? (credited?) .... Troop manager (role unconfirmed)
1958 - Afrodite, Dea dell'amore (uncredited) .... Angry traveller
- Capitan Fuoco (uncredited) .... role?
- È arrivata la parigina (uncredited) .... Man buying used clothing
1959 - Cartagine in fiamme (uncredited) .... Conspirator
- Caterina Sforza, la Leonessa di Romagna (uncredited) .... role?
- Due selvaggi a corte (poster credit) .... role?
- I mafiosi (credited) .... Spano's companion
- Il cavaliere del castello maledetto (credited) .... Brother Benedetto
- Il terrore dei barbari (credited) .... Barbarian
- L'arciere Nero (uncredited) .... Tavern keeper
- La scimitarra del Saraceno (credited) .... Chu-Lin
1960 - Jovanka e le altre (uncredited) .... Partisan
- La furia dei barbari (credited as Amedeo Novelli) .... Ragon
- La strada dei giganti (credited) .... Boni
- La vendetta dei barbari (uncredited) .... role?
1961 - La rivolta dei mercenari (credited) .... Katia's father
- La vendetta di Ursus (credited) .... Priest
- Solimano il conquistatore (credited) .... Iwan's advisor
1962 - Duello nella Sila (credited) .... The farmer
- Il gladiatore di Roma (uncredited) .... Tavern keeper
- Il mondo è una prigione (TV movie) (credited) .... role?
- Il naufrago del Pacifico (credited) .... Captain of the ship
- Le sette fatiche di Alì Babà (credited) .... Hassan Bey
- Lo Sparviero dei Caraibi (credited as A. Trilli) .... Pablo
- Maciste contro lo Sceicco (credited) .... Captain
- Vulcano, figlio di Giove (uncredited) .... Neptune
- Zorro alla corte di Spagna (credited) .... Friar
1963 - A toi de faire... mignonne (credited) .... Not found
- Divorzio alla siciliana (credited) .... Father Luigi
- Goliath e la schiava ribelle (credited) .... Slave merchant
- I diavoli di Spartivento (credited) .... Basilio
- L'invincibile cavaliere mascherato (credited?) .... Merchant
- Nozze di sangue (TV movie) (credited) .... Carpenter
- Zorro contro Maciste (uncredited) .... Tavern keeper
1964 - Ercole contro Roma (credited) .... Miro
- F.B.I. chiama Istanbul (poster credit as Mike Moore) .... role?
- La rivolta dei Barbari (uncredited) .... Ragon (re-used footage)
- La rivolta dei pretoriani (uncredited) .... Guardian of the caves
- La vendetta dei gladiatori (credited) .... Captain of the guards
- Queste pazze pazze donne - segment "Pochi ma buoni" (uncredited) .... Newsstand vendor
- Sandok, il Maciste della giungla (uncredited) .... Tavern keeper
- Sansone e il tesoro degli Incas (credited) .... Inazuma
- Sinbad contro i sette saraceni (credited as Mike Moore) .... Haswan
- Una spada per l'Impero (uncredited) .... Leader of the travellers
1965 - Il mistero dell'isola maledetta (credited as Mike Moore) .... Captain Jose Rivera
- Il tesoro della foresta pietrificata (credited as Mike Moore) .... Gunar
- Racconti italiani della resistenza: L'ammiraglio (TV movie) (credited) .... Lieto
- The Agony and the Ecstasy (uncredited) .... The face of God
- Una vergine per il principe (uncredited) .... Courtier (uncertain identification)
1966 - 3 colpi di Winchester per Ringo (credited as Mike Moore) .... Walcom
- I Coltelli del Vendicatore (credited as Michael Moore) .... Viking King
- K.O. va e uccidi (poster credit) .... role?
- Ringo, il volto della vendetta (credited) .... Mortimer
- Uccidete Johnny Ringo (credited as Mike Moore) .... Juan
1967 - L'assalto al centro nucleare (credited) .... role?
- Uccideva a freddo (credited as Amid Trail, also as writer and assistant director) .... Priest
1968 - Serafino (credited) .... Pasquale
1969 - Beatrice Cenci (uncredited) .... Censi servant
1970 - F.B.I. - Francesco Bertolazzi investigatore (TV mini-series, episode 3: "Rapina a mano armata") (credited) .... "Ricevitore postale"
- Le castagne sono buone (credited) .... Actor
1971 - ...e le stelle stanno a guardare (TV mini-series, episode 4) (credited) .... Pat
1972 - La grande avventura di Scaramouche (credited) .... role?
FOTOROMANZI
- "Ben Hur" (Published in Incanto D'Amore from November 1958 to March 1959) - credited
More Amedeo!
There are plenty more titles where Amedeo 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...
- Il solitario della montagna (1931) ANICA
- La Wally (1932) ANICA
- Pergolesi (1932) ANICA
- La principessa Tarakanova (1938) ANICA as Ravic
- Mare (1940) ANICA as The vagabond
- Il cavaliere senza nome (1941) ANICA
- Il pozzo dei miracoli (1941) IMDb
- Marco Visconti (1941) ANICA
- La leggenda della primavera (1941) ANICA as The father
- C'è un fantasma nel castello (1942) ANICA as Agent X
- Documento Z 3 (1942) ANICA as Corsi
- La gorgona (1942) ANICA as Angela's guardian husband
- Una piccola moglie (1943) ANICA
- Finalmente sì (1944) ANICA
- I dieci comandamenti (1945) ANICA
- L'amante del male (1946) ANICA as Conte Vittorio di San Massimo
- Il richiamo della atrada (1946) ANICA
- Dove sta Zazà? (1947) ANICA
- I contrabbandieri del mare (1948) ANICA as Marcos
- Private Angelo (1949) ANICA
- Il cielo è rosso (1950) ANICA as Carla's father
- Il nido di falasco (1950) ANICA
- La bisarca (1950) IMDb as Il capostazione
- Carcerato (1951 or 53) ANICA
- Destino (1951) ANICA
- La scogliera del peccato (1951) ANICA
- Licenza premio (1951) ANICA as Matto con la fissazione delle 'r'
- Senza bandiera (1951) ANICA
- Il lupo della frontiera (1952) ANICA
- Lasciamoli vivere (1952) ANICA
- Una madre ritorna (1952) ANICA
- Il bacio dell'Aurora (1953) IMDb
- Riscatto (1953) ANICA as Il commissario
- Peppino... e la vecchia signora (1954) ANICA
- Non c'è amore più grande (1955) ANICA
- Ripudiata (1955) ANICA as Bianca Maria's father
- Un palco all'opera (1955) ANICA
- Un giglio infranto (1956) ANICA as Camillo Cavour
- Amarti è il mio destino (1957) IMDb
- Arrivederci Roma (Seven Hills of Rome) (1957) ANICA
- Primo applauso (1957) ANICA as Giuseppe
- Serenata a Maria (1957) ANICA as Don Salvatore
- 3 straniere a Roma (1958) ANICA as Police officer
- L'urlo dei bolidi (1961) ANICA
- L'ultima carica (1964) ANICA
- Con rispetto parlando (1965) ANICA
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.
- Roman Holiday (1953) Listed by IMDb with no role given.
- Teseo contro il minotauro (1960) Listed by IMDb as Ctesiphorus
- La meravigliosa Angelica (Merveilleuse Angélique) (1965) Listed by ANICA with no role given.