René d'Herblay, alias Aramis, is a fictional character in the novels The Three Musketeers (1844), Twenty Years After (1845), and The Vicomte de Bragelonne (1847–1850) by Alexandre Dumas, père. He and the other two musketeers, Athos and Porthos, are friends of the novels' protagonist, d'Artagnan.
Sword-and-sandal, also known as peplum, is a subgenre of largely Italian-made historical, mythological, or biblical epics mostly set in the Greco-Roman antiquity or the Middle Ages. These films attempted to emulate the big-budget Hollywood historical epics of the time, such as Samson and Delilah (1949), Quo Vadis (1951), The Robe (1953), The Ten Commandments (1956), Ben-Hur (1959), Spartacus (1960), and Cleopatra (1963). These films dominated the Italian film industry from 1958 to 1965, eventually being replaced in 1965 by spaghetti Western and Eurospy films.
The Man in the Iron Mask was an unidentified prisoner of state during the reign of Louis XIV of France (1643–1715). The strict measures taken to keep his imprisonment secret resulted in a long-lasting legend about his identity. Warranted for arrest on 19 July 1669 under the pseudonym of "Eustache Dauger", he was apprehended near Calais on 28 July, incarcerated on 24 August, and held for 34 years in the custody of the same jailer, Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars, in four successive French prisons, including the Bastille. When he died there on 19 November 1703, his inhumation certificate bore the pseudonym of "Marchioly", leading several historians to conclude the prisoner was Italian diplomat Ercole Antonio Mattioli.
Roberto Malone is a former Italian pornographic film actor and director who has appeared in over 375 pornographic films.
Raffaele Vallone was an Italian actor and footballer. One of the top male Italian stars of the 1950s and 1960s, he first became known for his association with the neorealist movement, and found success in several international productions. On stage, he was closely associated with the works of Arthur Miller. He played the role of Eddie Carbone in A View from the Bridge several times, including Sidney Lumet's 1962 film adaptation, for which he won the David di Donatello for Best Actor.
Massimo Girotti was an Italian film actor whose career spanned seven decades.
The Man in the Iron Mask is a 1939 American historical adventure film very loosely adapted from the last section of the 1847–1850 novel The Vicomte de Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas, père, which is itself based on the French legend of the Man in the Iron Mask.
Silvio Bagolini was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1936 and 1973.
Luca Zingaretti is an Italian actor and film director, known for playing Salvo Montalbano in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series based on the character and novels created by Andrea Camilleri. Zingaretti is a native of Rome, and the older brother of politician Nicola Zingaretti.
Vacation with a Gangster is a 1951 Italian comedy film directed by Dino Risi and starring Marc Lawrence, Giovanna Pala and Terence Hill.
Marco Betta is an Italian composer.
Paolo Buonvino is an Italian composer, musician, conductor, and music arranger.
Wandisa Guida is an Italian former film, stage and television actress. She was sometimes credited as Wandisa Leigh.
La professoressa di scienze naturali is a 1976 commedia sexy all'italiana directed by Michele Massimo Tarantini. The film is known in English as School Days.
The Nastro d'Argento is a film award assigned each year, since 1948, by Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani, the association of Italian film critics.
Erminio Spalla was an Italian professional heavyweight boxer, film actor and singer.
The Fugitive is a 2003 Italian crime-drama film written and directed by Andrea Manni. It is based on a 1995 autobiographical novel by Massimo Carlotto, about his period in hiding in France and Mexico following a miscarriage of justice.
The Broken Key is a 2017 English-language Italian independent film written and directed by Louis Nero.
The King's Prisoner is a 1954 Italian historical adventure film directed by Giorgio Venturini and starring Pierre Cressoy, Andrée Debar and Armando Francioli. It is based on the novel The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas.
Paris, Palace Hotel is a 1956 French-Italian romantic comedy film directed by Henri Verneuil and starring Charles Boyer, Françoise Arnoul and Tilda Thamar. It was shot in Eastmancolor at the Boulogne Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Jean d'Eaubonne.
