Biagio Pelligra
| Biagio Pelligra | |
|---|---|
| Born |
24 June 1937 Comiso, Ragusa |
| Occupation | actor |
Biagio Pelligra (born 24 June 1937) is an Italian stage, film and television actor.
Life and career
Born in Comiso, Province of Ragusa, Pelligra started his acting career in the second half of the sixties, and after several minor roles he got his first role of weight in 1972, in Marco Leto's Black Holiday.[1] Following the critical success of the film, from then he started appearing, often in secondary roles, in several art films, working with Roberto Rossellini, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Marco Tullio Giordana and Peter Del Monte, among others.[1] Pelligra's popularity is however mainly linked to a series of poliziotteschi, sceneggiate and mafia films, in which he specialized in roles of criminals and villains.[1]
Selected filmography
- Death Laid an Egg (1968)
- Black Holiday (1972)
- Allonsanfàn (1974)
- Anno uno (1974)
- Rome Armed to the Teeth (1976)
- Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976)
- Al piacere di rivederla (1976)
- Bloody Payroll (1976)
- Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison (1977)
- From Corleone to Brooklyn (1979)
- To Love the Damned (1980)
- Zappatore (1980)
- The Mafia Triangle (1981)
- Carcerato (1981)
- The Professor (1986)
- I Vicerè (2007)
- Il Capo dei Capi (TV, 2007)
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