Ernesto Colli

Ernesto Colli (16 May 1940 – 19 November 1982) was an Italian film, television and stage actor.

Ernesto Colli
Born(1940-05-16)16 May 1940
Biella
Died19 November 1982(1982-11-19) (aged 42)
Rome

Life and career

Born in Biella, Colli graduated from liceo classico, then he started acting in some amateur dramatics and starred in two lost Super 8 films.[1][2] After one year of university he decided to abandon his studies to enroll the Fersen drama school in Rome.[2]

A real life friend of Vittorio Gassman, Colli often acted alongside him, especially on stage, and he made his film debut playing a small role in the Gassman's film The Devil in Love.[1] He then appeared in a large number of movies and TV-series, even if usually in character roles.[1] He was a character actor who acted actively especially during the seventies.

Equipped with a particularly disturbing face, Ernesto Colli always recited customized roles for him, from the crazy to the delinquent and from the possessed to the weird man; probably the films where he had a most significant part was The Pleasure Shop on 7th Avenue and in Deadly Inheritance .

The last role he played was that of a porter of a stable in Rome, in the movie Pierino La Peste Alla Riscossa!, shot a few months before his death and in which he already appeared with the face and the physique excavated by disease.

Selected filmography
  • Il morbidone (1965) - Uomo del monsignore (uncredited)
  • Pleasant Nights (1966) - Baccio
  • The Devil in Love (1966)
  • Deadly Inheritance (1968) - Janot
  • Lucrezia (1968) - Valetto ambasciatore
  • Spirits of the Dead (1968) - One of the Manetti brothers - director (segment "Toby Dammit") (uncredited)
  • Faustina (1968) - Vespasiano - Lover of Faustina's mother
  • Italiani! È severamente proibito servirsi della toilette durante le fermate (1969)
  • The Conspiracy of Torture (1969) - Chief Guard (uncredited)
  • Belle d'amore (1970) - Magnaccia (uncredited)
  • Quella chiara notte d'ottobre (1970)
  • La califfa (1970) - Un operaio
  • La Poudre d'escampette (1971)
  • Er Più – storia d'amore e di coltello (1971) - Gigi
  • Per amore o per forza (1971)
  • Maddalena (1971)
  • Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte (1971) - Parking Attendant
  • Caliber 9 (1972) - Alfredo Bertolon
  • Bronte: cronaca di un massacro che i libri di storia non hanno raccontato (1972)
  • Hai sbagliato... dovevi uccidermi subito! (1972) - Dr. Torres
  • Decameron nº 3 - Le più belle donne del Boccaccio (1972) - Renutio (segment "The Mummy")
  • Winged Devils (1972) - Leutnant Ernesto del Prete
  • The Infamous Column (1972) - Judge
  • Rugantino (1973)
  • Torso (1973) - Gianni Tomasso, the scarf vendor
  • Non ho tempo (1973)
  • Hospitals: The White Mafia (1973) - Patient on the bus
  • Seven Hours of Violence (1973) - Tomassian
  • Buona parte di Paolina (1973)
  • Claretta and Ben (1974) - Remengo
  • The Antichrist (1974) - Possessed Man
  • Bello come un arcangelo (1974) - Cicillo, Sacristan
  • Autopsy (1975) - Ivo
  • The Suspect (1975) - Party Functionary in Paris
  • Giubbe rosse (1975) - Photographer (uncredited)
  • The Peaceful Age (1975) - Imbianchino
  • Go Gorilla Go (1975) - The Watchman of Builder's Yard (uncredited)
  • Illustrious Corpses (1976) - Detective on night duty
  • Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976) - Roschetto
  • Meet Him and Die (1976) - Settecapelli
  • Puttana galera! (1976)
  • Io tigro, tu tigri, egli tigra (1978) - Conduttore del telegiornale (uncredited)
  • Il Porno Shop Della Settima Strada (1979) - Bob
  • Switch (1979) - Il Malato
  • Pierino la Peste Alla Riscossa! (1982) - portiere di via Piccolomini
  • Porca vacca (1982) - (final film role)
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References
  1. Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano: Gli artisti. Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN 88-7742-261-0.
  2. p. m. "Cordoglio nel Biellese per l'improvvisa morte dell'attore Ernesto Colli". La Stampa (254). p. 18.
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