Sergio Tofano
Known For & Full Filmography50 Titles
Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
The story of the life of St. Catherine of Siena
Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • as il nonno di Guido
A number of different segments taken from 19th century Italian stories.
Drama Series - 1964, 16 episodes • as don Diego Trao
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1957, 16 episodes • as Signor Bennet
The English countryside provides the backdrop for the story of the Bennet family, who are of modest social standing, and in particular for the second daughter, Elizabeth. Italian adaptation of Jane Austen’s "Pride and Prejudice".
Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Cesarini Sforza
The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Edmondo Fontages
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1969, 2h 15m • as Grandfather
Relatives brawl over the estate of a deceased grandmother who owned an insecticide factory.They stop at nothing, including bumping each other off.
Movie - 1954, 2h 15m • as Canonico Peggi
Papal aspirant "Cardinal Lamberti" has to tread a fine line between the powerful Duke of Montimar and doing the right thing by a young couple in love in late 1730s Bologna.
Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • as il vescovo
Episodes centering on different aspects of early-1970s Italian life, set in a television studio, a factory, a university, and a Catholic parish.
Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Commendator Temistocle Leoni
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Drama Series - 1959, 16 episodes • as Ljebedev
Italian televison adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky's novel of the same name. Although it is to all intents and purposes a television miniseries, the rhythm of the acting is typically theatrical: the long dialogues, the acting style and the actorly interpretation make it a true example of episodic television theatre.
Movie - 1953, 2h 15m • as Giulio Ricordi
The biographical story of Puccini spans his creative life from early student days to the height of success, including his early flop Madama Butterfly and his incomplete Turandot. Along the way he encounters three women who change his life, including an attractive, beautiful singer whom he drops for a small town girl, and a servant girl who commits suicide over him.
Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as Amedeo, padre di Marco
A man is delighted to hear that his wife is pregnant and he begins to prepare for the wonders of fatherhood. As time progresses along, the family grows larger with each successive child and the father feels his importance in the family has been lessened with all the children. This man's quiet desperation to hold onto his position is an interesting lesson in the family dynamic and how everyone is an important part of the whole.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • as Marquis Michele Sacconi
A beautiful girl Rosina lives In Rome. Her husband is strong as a bull and jealous as Shakespeare's Othello. Once the husband of Rosina kills a wealthy aristocrat, who sang the serenade to his wife, and now he is hiding from justice.
Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as Professor Petrushka
The story of a young man who meets his own likeness and uses him to fulfill his dreams.
Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • as Il contente Pignatelli
A charming rogue, the self-proclaimed leader of Naples, locks horns with an American Army general and a police inspector.
Movie - 1949, 2h 15m • as Fausto
In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola's father is killed, the Romans blame the Christians and the persecution begins. Rhual confesses to being a Christian, is accused of the murder and sentenced to fight to the death in the arena.
Movie - 1931, 2h 15m • as L'usciere Otello
During hard times, a vivacious girl looks for an office job in the hope of landing a rich man.The director of the bank she works at flirts with her while not at first revealing his identity so she rejects him.
Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Antonio, il padre di Silvia
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as Agostino
Nannina is engaged to a sleazy, unruly boxer who ends up in jail after a fight with a traffic policeman.
Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Florence, early 1960s. Bruno aspires to be hired at a prestigious factory, but his Communist ideals — instilled by Millo, a father figure and family friend in love with Bruno's widowed mother Ivana — are an obstacle. His relationship with Lori, a beautiful and tormented young woman who has just returned from Milan, reshapes his convictions. Freely adapted from a minor novel by Vasco Pratolini.
Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Perego
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • as Il presidente del senato
Historical drama, based upon the novel by Alessandro Manzoni.
Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Maggiordomo
A wealthy young woman falls in love with a radio singer without ever having seen him. She forces her strange family (forgetful father, mother with ideas of grandeur, three sisters with a passion for singing and another who takes care of abandoned children) to go to the EIAR headquarters to be able to meet him.
Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
In 1789, French poet André Chénier struck up a romance with a young aristocrat.
Movie - 1951, 2h 15m • as Vignon
A historical farce about Napoleon.
Movie - 1947, 2h 15m • as Zingarelli
Luisa's dreams of love comes true in a hotel in the mountains.
Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Colonnello Muffon
A comedy poking fun at earlier 1930s American crime films: A society lady goes after a gang of outlaws and lands up becoming involved romantically with a gangster.
Movie - 1973, 2h 15m • as Giuseppe Parini
Based on the epistolary work by Ugo Foscolo.
Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Avvocato
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as Lucia's Father
The difficulties of a young married couple, since the husband has to prepare for his examinations during his wife's pregnancy.
Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Il dottore
Cinderella manages to marry the prince and move to the palace, where she is well-liked and loved by everyone. However, her evil stepsisters devise a way to get her kicked out.
Movie - 1932, 2h 15m • as tenore Alfredo Bà ttigo
Two different couples on blind dates get mixed up when they pick the same location to meet.
Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Il capocomico, signor Cirillo
A playwright, a troop of actors, a director, and the playwright's uncle scheme against each other for their own interests regarding the success or failure of the play
Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Vittorio, il maggiordomo
The nephew of a wealthy nobleman, convicted for a forged check, is replaced in prison by a poor engineer. From the exchange of people derives a chain of misunderstandings and messes that ends out well.
Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Il barone Giorgio
An aging count courts a beautiful singer who is also wooed by his son-in-law.
Movie - 1940, 2h 15m • as Maurizio
After finding a train ticket on the ground, the young Paolo decides to go by train to Venice, where he meets Clara, a beautiful girl.
Movie - 1943, 2h 15m • as giudice Torriani
Enrico breaks up his marriage to Renata because he discovers that in the registry office she is already married to a certain Giulio, an inhabitant of a country town. The couple leaves in search of the mysterious Giulio who is about to marry Marcella, but her wedding also ends.
Movie - 1957, 2h 15m • as Arpagone
An adaptation of Molière's play.
Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • as Professore zoologo
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1938, 2h 15m • as Borghetti
A young man from the provinces who inherited a certain sum, decides to go to Rome to devote himself to the cinematographic activity.
Movie - 1941, 2h 15m • as Bisacca
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1955, 2h 15m • as maggiordomo
After a difficult eye operation, Simonetta, an Italian-American girl, returns for a vacation in Florence, the home town of her family. Here he meets Alberto, a sculptor.
Movie - 1939, 2h 15m • as Vigna
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1942, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
A husband states that a possible betrayal of his wife, he would kill her without mercy. The case is that his hypothesis turns into a presumed reality.
Movie - 1936, 2h 15m • as Giulio
The monotonous life of a bourgeois family is disturbed by the announcement of the imminent return from America of Mr. Lohengrin, who had left Italy years earlier, leaving behind the reputation of being an irresistible womanizer. Lohengrin's cousin, worried about the stability of his marriage, convinces some relatives who live in the countryside to welcome the dreaded guest into their home and then, to avoid meeting him, leaves. Meanwhile, in the country house everyone eagerly awaits Lohengrin, and envy and spite are unleashed during the wait. In particular, while the young landlady prepares the house, the woman's husband begins to be tormented by jealousy. But the arrival of the long-awaited guest will be a huge disappointment for everyone: the once seductive man is now just an aged, with glasses and a prominent belly.
Movie - 1952, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
Carlo, a young doctor, occasionally meets Anna, the daughter of professor Valli. Carlo falls in love with Anna, who returns his feelings; but her father longs a brilliant marriage for her.
Movie - 1937, 2h 15m • as Antonio
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.
Movie - 1933, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role
An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.