Leonardo Cortese (Actor)
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Works
Verginità
Gina is the daughter of a provincial newsstand dealer and spends her time reading pulp magazines and dreaming of a glamorous vocation on the big city. She enters a beauty contest in a nearby city, without her father's permission, and, en route, meets Franco, a salesman.
Release Date1951-09-04
Charactersd Franco Rossi
Vote Count4
L'isola del tesoro
Release Date1959-02-07
Charactersd Il cavalier Trelawney
Episode Count5
Vote Count1
Felicità perduta
Release Date1946-10-21
Charactersd Giorgio
A Romantic Adventure
At the end of the 19th century, a middle-class woman explains why she cannot get along with her husband, a good man but a little rough around the edges: she cannot forget that during the Risorgimento she fell in love with a noble conspirator. Now, however, she realizes that her true love is her husband.
Release Date1940-09-06
Charactersd Il signor conte
Vote Count8
Incontri di notte
Release Date1943-03-17
Charactersd Mario
Vote Count1
Papà per una notte
Release Date1939-08-07
Charactersd Jacques Fontages
Vote Count1
Fame and the Devil
Three men consider selling their souls to Satan in order to possess a beautiful woman.
Release Date1949-11-18
Charactersd Prof. Franco Bresci
Vote Count4
Alessandro, sei grande!
Release Date1940-08-13
Charactersd Giorgio, suo figlio
Adriana Lecouvreur
Release Date1955-08-11
Charactersd Conte di Chazeul
Vote Count1
I tre aquilotti
At the Royal Air Force Academy of Caserta, three students, Mario, Marco and Filippo become great friends. Toward the end of the course, Marco accidentally meets and falls in love with Mario's sister, Adriana. Mario expresses his opposition to Marco and this causes the end of their friendship. Due to an accident during a training flight, Marco is passed from the role of the navigator to the services role, thus not obtaining the military pilot's license.
Release Date1942-08-30
Charactersd Marco Massi
Vote Count6
La freccia nel fianco
A married woman fights her strange attraction to an aristocratic young pianist from her past.
Release Date1945-09-08
Charactersd Bruno Traldi
Vote Count4
The Valiant
Having placed mines on the hull of a British warship whilst it is safe in harbour during the second World War , the two man crew of an Italian miniature submarine are captured and held prisoner whist the crew try and discover the nature of their mission!
Release Date1962-06-13
Charactersd Italian Commander
Vote Count3
Primo amore
An Italian emigrant, who found fame and success in America, comes back to his hometown after over twenty years.
Release Date1941-10-05
Charactersd Pietro Redi
Vote Count1
A Garibaldian in the Convent
An old woman's poignant reminiscence of her youth in a convent school, the happy moments and the sad, and her tragic love for a Garibaldian.
Release Date1942-03-10
Charactersd Count Franco Amidei
Vote Count21
Giuliano de' Medici
Release Date1941-02-27
Charactersd Giuliano de' Medici
Vote Count1
The Flame that Never Dies
Inspired to the real story of the Carabiniere Salvo D'Acquisto. We see how, to save 22 hostages from dead sentence by Nazi, he decided to sacrifice himself.
Release Date1949-09-21
Charactersd Giuseppe Manfredi
Vote Count7
Spring song
Release Date1951-03-23
Charactersd Mario
Vote Count1
Il fidanzato di mia moglie
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.
Release Date1943-01-01
Charactersd Giulio Marini
Vote Count2
Giorni felici
Release Date1943-01-01
Charactersd Oliviero
Vote Count1
Il Conte Aquila
Release Date1955-09-07
Charactersd Gabrio Casati
Vote Count1
Notte di tempesta
The story is taken from the drama "I Pescatori" (The Fishermen) by Raffaele Viviani, and is set in a fishing island off the coast of Naples (clearly identifiable with Ischia). Here lives Concetta, a widow with two children, who now lives with another man who however secretly lusts after his stepdaughter until when, on a stormy night...
Release Date1946-06-12
Charactersd Peppino
Vote Count3
La vedova
Release Date1939-02-09
Charactersd Carlo
Addio, amore!
Naples, 1880. Two young sisters from a noble family, after losing their parents, get taken in by a friend of their family.
Release Date1943-12-31
Charactersd Luigi Caracciolo
Vote Count1
Jeanne Doré
Release Date1938-11-30
Charactersd Jacques Doré
Vote Count1
Il vetturale del San Gottardo
Release Date1941-10-23
Charactersd Paolo Caminata
Vote Count1
Il diavolo va in collegio
Release Date1944-01-12
Charactersd Rodolfo Poggi / Marcello Mari
Vote Count1
Fiamme sulla laguna
After the death of his father, Anna starts working in the navy where he falls in love with a navy man.
Release Date1951-06-20
Charactersd Luciano
Vote Count1
Legge di sangue
"Law of Blood" - Rosa has been engaged for years with Antonio. But Antonio is in the military service and Rosa is seduced by Alberto. Returning to the village, Antonio learns what happened during his absence.
Release Date1948-03-13
Charactersd Alberto
Vote Count1
Le vie del peccato
Release Date1946-10-19
Charactersd Don Roberto
Vote Count1
Un certo Harry Brent
Release Date1970-11-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
The Captain's Daughter
Italian miniseries based upon the novel by Alexander Pushkin.
Release Date1965-05-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Violenza sul lago
Release Date1954-07-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
La rosa di zolfo
Release Date1974-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Russia sotto inchiesta
Two Italians, Sandro and Lorenzo, are traveling through the Soviet Union. Lorenzo has been to Russia before and now, accompanying his friend, gives him the necessary explanations. This peculiar technique allows us to see the USSR through the eyes of a progressively thinking Italian, to familiarize through Western countries with the grandiose transformations that were taking place at that time in the Soviet country, with the most essential features of the socialist reality, with the life of people, with the achievements of science, technology, culture and art.
Release Date1963-04-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Traffico d'Armi nel Golfo
The young British archaeologist Tim Frazer is visited by an old friend: Henry Denston. At an agreed appointment, however, the man does not show up, giving rise to a mysterious investigation.
Release Date1977-11-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Così per Gioco
While on his way to visit Father Felipe, Sandro has a car accident and dies. Commissioner Selvaggi investigates the case, directing his investigations towards a group of the man's friends addicted to gambling.
Release Date1979-02-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Il capitano di Venezia
An Italian movie.
Release Date1952-09-27
Vote Count1
Cab Number 13
To secure her fortune with Monsieur Vaudieu de la Tour, the Machiavellian Claudia kills her lover's elder brother and steals his child. The boy is adopted by a coachman, and later, as secretary to the Minister of Justice, discovers the truth, punishes the bad guys, rewards the good ones and marries the daughter of another innocent man, unjustly accused by Claudia.
Release Date1948-02-28
Vote Count1
Yes, Ma'am
Directed by Ferdinando Maria Poggioli.
Release Date1942-01-02
Vote Count1
Cavalleria rusticana
This film was not based on the famous one-act opera of Pietro Mascagni but rather on the original story by the Sicilian writer Giovanni Verga. It's the story of Santuzza, her love Turiddu, and his passion for the married Lola that leads to his death in a duel when Lola's husband Alfio exacts satisfaction.
Release Date1939-10-23
Vote Count1
La regina di Navarra
Release Date1942-03-30