Name
Paolo Bonacelli
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1937-02-28
Deathday
2025-10-08 (88 years old)
Place of Birth
Rome, Italy
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Paolo Bonacelli (February 28, 1939 - October 8 2025) was an Italian actor.
He is best known for his performance as The Duke de Blangis in Pasolini's notorious Salò (1975). He can also be seen in Midnight Express (1978) and Caligula (1979), in which he plays the role of Cassius Chaerea.
He also co-starred with Roberto Benigni in the films Johnny Stecchino and Night on Earth, both from 1991.
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Known For
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Retired from active duty, and training recruits for the Impossible Mission Force, agent Et...
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A Vatican priest discovers Dante's original Divine Comedy manuscript. When asked to authen...
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Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 12...
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Dispatched to a small Italian town to await further orders, assassin Jack embarks on a dou...
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After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupr...
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A quintet of cabbies in five cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night....
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A young policewoman slowly goes insane while tracking down an elusive serial rapist/killer...
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Giulio, a divorced middle-aged man, returns to the family villa in Tuscany where he spent ...
- 1991 Night on Earth as Priest
- 1991 Touch and Die as Morelli
- 1993 Abraham as Melchisedek
- 1988 Lenin: The Train as Zinoviev
- 1994 Once a Year, Every Year as Romano
- 1992 Ciao, Professore! as Ludovico Mazzullo
- 1980 Le Guignolo as Kamal
- 1979 Caligula as Chaerea
- 1991 Johnny Stecchino as D'Agata
- 2023 Noi ce la siamo cavata as Sé stesso
- 2010 The American as Father Benedetto
- 1984 Nothing Left to Do But Cry as Leonardo da Vinci
- 1982 Words and Blood as Marcucci
- 1979 Christ Stopped at Eboli as Don Luigi Magalone
- 1976 Illustrious Corpses as Dr. Maxia
- 1974 Milarepa as Prof. Bennet
- 1985 Mother Ebe as Don Paolo Monti
- 2004 13 at a Table as Nonno Giulio
- 1976 Evil Thoughts as Antonio Marani
- 1989 Francesco as Francesco's Father
- 1986 Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime) as Tango
- 1968 Seven Times Seven
- 1981 The Mystery of Oberwald as Count of Foehn
- 1984 Henry IV as Belcredi
- 2003 A.A.A. Achille as Dott. Aglieri
- 1975 Gli strumenti del potere. 1925/1926 la dittatura fascista
- 1966 Pleasant Nights as Messenger
- 2023 The Commander as Betti
- 1984 The Naked Sun
- Soon I Am Not God But I Am Michelangelo Antonioni as Self
- 1975 Beyond Fear as Francesco Grimaldi
- 1987 Love Sins as Ercole Leoni
- 1989 A Double Victory as Guido Sormani
- 1978 Nest of Vipers as Paolo Mazzarini
- 2026 In the Hand of Dante as Priest Of Alcamo
- 1980 The Persian Lamb Coat as Ferdinando
- 1992 Il segno del comando as Bonsanti
- 1999 Dirty Linen as Amedeo
- 1978 Midnight Express as Rifki
- 1982 Delitti, amore e gelosia as Commissario Dell'Amore
- 1979 Good News as Gualtiero Milano
- 1997 Bakunin's Son as Giudice
- 1988 Topo Galileo as Professor Zitti
- 1972 Il cancelliere Krehler as Max
- 1981 Calderon
- 1986 L'ultima mazurka as Lanza
- 1976 La banca di Monate as Dottor Defendente Massera
- 2016 The Ploy as Vescovo
- 1996 The Stendhal Syndrome as Dr. Cavanna
- 1971 A Prostitute Serving the Public and in Compliance with the Laws of the State
- 1990 Flight from Paradise as Eliah
- 2003 Gli astronomi as Peters
- 1987 Rimini Rimini as l'ingegnere
- 1995 Christmas Vacation '95 as Paolo "Paolone"
- 1973 Giordano Bruno
- 1976 The Inheritance as Paolo Furlin
- 1971 Maddalena
- 1993 Mille bolle blu as Mario
- 1974 The Murri Affair as Francesco Bonmartini
- 1982 I Remember Nelson as King Ferdinando
- 1964 Corpse for the Lady as Gedeon
- 1965 SuperSeven Calling Cairo as Capitano Hume
- 2018 Magical Nights as Ennio 'The Great'
- 1994 The Teddy Bear as Novacek
- 1989 La moglie ingenua e il marito malato as Carl Rune
- 2019 Forse è solo mal di mare as Calogero (Voice)
- 1970 Tears of Love as Cormick
- 2019 To the Unknown God
- 1976 Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom as The Duke
- 2006 Mission: Impossible III as Monsignore
- 1974 Year One as Giorgio Amendola
- 1983 The Knight, Death and The Devil as Nicholas
- 2020 Divine
- 1966 The Devil in Love as Inn's customer
- 1973 Io e lui as Vladimiro
- 1977 This Is the Night
- 1964 One Million Dollars as Zenone
- 1990 Only One Survived as Andrade
- 2024 Nato il sei ottobre
- 1993 Flusso di coscienza - Razzismo 1993
- 2003 The Accidental Detective as Direttore Della Galleria Palatina
- 1983 The Commissioner as Commissionario
- 1998 Alice on the Run ( 3 episodes ) as Luigi Mancini
- 2014 Furore il vento della speranza ( 8 episodes ) as Niccolò Carbone
- 1994 Charlemagne, le prince à cheval ( 3 episodes ) as Vitale
- 1989 I promessi sposi ( 5 episodes ) as padre di Gertrude
- 1988 Lenin... The Train ( 2 episodes ) as Grigori Jewsejewitsch Zinoviev
- 1978 Madame Bovary ( 6 episodes ) as Charles Bovary
- 1994 Abraham ( 2 episodes ) as Melchisedek
- 1976 Origins of the Mafia ( 1 episode ) as Vincenzo Biscetta
- 1964 I grandi camaleonti ( 13 episodes ) as Babeuf
