Walter Chiari
Popularity:28.687
Known For:Acting
Birthday:1924-03-08
Place of Birth:Verona, Veneto, Italy
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Also Known As:Walter Annichiarico, W. Chiari
Chimes at Midnight (1965)
Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a rebellion led by Northumberland scion Hotspur....
Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
Cecile is a decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father, Raymond. When Anne, Raymond's old love interest, comes to Raymond's villa,...
They're a Weird Mob (1966)
Nino Culotta is an Italian immigrant, newly arrived in Australia, and attempts to understand the aspirational values and social rituals of everyday...
Bellezze sulla spiaggia (1961)
A doctor running a health clinic by the sea is convinced that women are the cause of the disturbed behaviour of his (male) patients. We get to follow...
The Valachi Papers (1972)
When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful...
Bellissima (1952)
Film director Blasetti is looking for a little girl for his new movie. Along with other mothers, Maddelena takes her daughter to Cinecittà,...
It Happened at the Police Station (1954)
Everyday all kind of people pass through a Police Station, especially if it is downtown. Today, however, the chief of police has bought his first car...
It Happened in the Penitentiary (1955)
A prison warden keeps a diary in which he writes about the convicts he meets and their lives.
Monte Carlo or Bust! (1969)
Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally from England to Monte Carlo provides the comedic...
Gli onorevoli (1963)
Some political candidates are determined to win the electors' preference during an election campaign in Italy.
Made in Italy (1965)
A group of Italians take a flight to Sweden: among them there are the tourists, and the immigrants.
Toto Tours Italy (1948)
A professor was appointed member of the jury of a beauty contest and falls for a beautiful contestant. In order to get the girl he must win the "Tour...
Gran varietà (1954)
A musical comedy divided into five segments: Mariantonia, Cuttica, Il Fine Dicitore, Fregoli and Il Censore.
The Thursday (1964)
It's the story of a day spent by Dino, separated by his wife, who sees his son Robertino after five years. Dino has not contributed anything in life...
Le motorizzate (1963)
Five episodes about women drivers during the economic boom.
Let's Talk About Women (1964)
Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker...
Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966)
Sandro is a well-known journalist and he is conducting a survey on human selfishness. Every man and every woman he meets turns into a theme for his...
Ferragosto in Bikini (1960)
Sun, Sea, Love and a beautiful Italian beach...
Premier mai (1958)
On this beautiful May 1st, Thérèse is about to give birth. Their presence at home is undesirable, so Jean, her husband, decides to take...
The Maniacs (1964)
An anthology of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.
Nana (1955)
Nana or Nanà is a French-Italian film by Christian-Jaque starring Charles Boyer. It is an adaptation of Émile Zola's novel Nana.
La più bella coppia del mondo (1968)
Walter and Paola, presenter and godmother of the sixth Cantagiro, are involved in a misunderstanding: to dismiss a suitor, the presenter pretends to...
The Shortest Day (1963)
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
La donna degli altri è sempre più bella (1963)
Five episodes which show Italian peoples pathological unfaithfulness in marriage.
Le tardone (1964)
A collection of five episodes dealing with aging women.
The Reunion (1963)
Two members of a former group of friends find themselves after many years by chance through the streets of Milan; after a moment, memories of the...
Heroes of the West (1963)
Two stage robbers impersonate the heirs to a gold mine but end up defending the families they intended to rip-off.
The Little Hut (1957)
Sir Philip Ashlow (Stewart Granger), his neglected wife, Lady Ashlow (Ava Gardner) and his best friend Henry Brittingham-Brett (David Niven) are...
Love Italian Style (1966)
Anthology comedy structured in 10 episodes (The Exam, Blue Bloods, Too Easy, Love Italian Style, Sunday Story, Wedding Present, Gold Fischer, The...
Risate all'italiana (1964)
A sort of best of popular comedy skits from previous films by various directors.
Son tornate a fiorire le rose (1975)
The birth of a nephew upsets the life of Paolo and Carlo who, unable to grow old, try to prove that they are lively.
Tanto va la gatta al lardo... (1978)
Film in four episodes, inspired by the chronicle of the time: three mature sisters give themselves to a stranger, Maria tries to escape her husband,...
Traces of an Amorous Life (1990)
What is love? In how many forms can it manifest itself? 14 short episodes about love, spanning generations of lovers...to answer.
Three Under the Sheets (1979)
Film in three episodes, entitled Sabato mattina, L'omaggio and No, non è per gelosia, which see as protagonists Andrea, Giorgio and Mr....
Caccia al marito (1960)
Italy, Sixties. A four-storey beach resort, and they look for the man of their life. Will they succeed?
Amore mio non farmi male (1974)
Anna and Marcello, two wealthy high school students. they would like to consume their Platonic love so far, going against the directives of their...
The Dream of Zorro (1952)
An old gentleman, a direct descendant of Zorro, has a single son named Raimundo in whom there is no trace of proud pride.
Passi furtivi in una notte boia (1976)
tory of a valet waitress. In order to become the owner of the bar where he works, he agrees to rob a bank. Good for the first time, not the second.
Two Vikings (1965)
The viking chief Hjorvard has two wild sons, Glum and Garm, both notorious berserkers.
Obiettivo ragazze (1963)
Four former soldiers meet and reminisce about the time they were in active service: a parachutist mistaking his sergeants house for a brothel, a...
Belli e brutti ridono tutti (1979)
"L'amore e' cieco "Discovered by the usher Capocchia in intimacy with an employee, Ernesto Rossi is fired by Mr. Bani. Pretending to be blind, Rossi...
Caprice Italian Style (1968)
The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
The Swindlers (1963)
A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological...
Jailbirds (1954)
Three jailbirds - a surgeon, a robber and a wrongly convicted man must adjust to their lives once released from prison.
Ischia operazione amore (1966)
Gennaro runs a small boarding house in Ischia, the beautiful island in the gulf of Naples. Each member of his family is involved: his wife cooks, his...
Two Against All (1962)
Two brothers, Bull and Jonathan Bullivan, witness the murder of bandit Black Boy who had been terrorizing Golden City. The bandit had been put in...
I magnifici tre (1961)
Pablo, Domingo and Jose, three idiots, gunmen exchanged for large liberate a village in the republic of "Nonduras" from the oppression of dictator...
The Attic (1963)
In the 1960s, Silvana, a beautiful girl from the countryside, decides to spend the night in Rome after missing the last bus home. Without a place to...
Un dollaro di fifa (1960)
Two conmen, Alamo and Mike, find shelter in Paradise City, which is full of jokers like themselves, who assume them to be lawmen and are almost...
It's Him!... Yes! Yes! (1951)
Fernando, owner of a large chain store, suffers from worrying dreams: he seems to successfully court saucy women, but just as he is about to win them...
Ridendo e scherzando (1978)
Four comic episodes based on betrayal. The main characters are a famous professionist that receives a girl as his anniversary present, a wife tired...
Viva il cinema (1953)
Tonino, a young, shy salesman, engaged to his neighbor Pallina, is a cinema enthusiast. He has written a film script and dreams of seeing it made on...
Zig Zig (1975)
Two women work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home.
L'amico del giaguaro (1959)
A grown man named Augusto escapes from an orphanage and after several unsuccessful attempts at holding down a job, decides to start a gang and make a...
Io piaccio (1955)
Roberto Maldi, a young scientist, is trying to find a serum capable of giving courage but he unwittingly invents a serum which transforms any man in...
Per amore di Cesarina (1976)
Davide Camporesi is the owner of the "Tornerai" pension in Cesenatico which he manages together with his wife Elvira and daughter Carletta, and which...
The Lucky Five (1952)
Four poor fellows win a luxurious car in a lottery but they have not the money to keep it. Therefore they decide to have it a day each and sell it...
Ours are coming (1951)
A ruthless businessman wants to bring a penniless nobleman financially on his knees because he wants to marry the man's daughter. It is the family...
Poppy (1952)
A high school girl, enamored by her young teacher, follows him and discovers that his home life holds many secrets.
I motorizzati (1962)
A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with...
Love, the Italian Way (1960)
A group of passengers traveling around the Mediterranean on a luxury liner enjoy various adventures and become romantically involved with each other.
A Day in Court (1954)
A day at an Italian trial court, where a magistrate judges a full array of peculiar petty crimes and characters.
Twins from Texas (1964)
A pair of twins survive an Indian raid on a caravan. While one of them will be raised by an army captain, the other will be raised by a bandit.
Copacabana Palace (1962)
For three days at the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, amorous cross-fertilizations are intertwined with petty tricks against the backdrop of the...
La banca di Monate (1976)
Lago Maggiore, 1949: a failed bank manager, to revive his economic situation, tries to combine a marriage of interest for his daughter. Failing to do...
The Surprises of Love (1959)
This is a very light comedy involving multiple love triangles (or really more complicated geometries) of confused, mismatched, or ambivalent lovers....
L'inafferrabile 12 (1950)
Two twin brothers grew up and never met (due to the fact that the father with the couple would have had 13 children and therefore for superstition he...
O.K. Nero (1951)
Two American sailors, Fiorello and Jimmy are slugged while sight-seeing in Rome and, together, they dream they are back in Rome in the days of Nero.
Cinema of yesteryear (1953)
While filming in the Roman countryside, some of the workers damage the garden of Caterina. Going to ask for compensation, she meets the director...
Gli italiani e le donne (1962)
A group of vignettes about men, mostly married, scheming to get women and the funny ways the schemes play out.
The Inveterate Bachelor (1958)
Marcello is engaged to Gina, the daughter of the boarding house where he lives, but he is undecided whether to marry her or not.
The Girl of San Pietro Square (1958)
Armando Conforti, his family and his friends have a business: they sell souvenirs near St. Peter's, in Rome, they change dollars, in short they get...
È l'amor che mi rovina (1951)
A naive clerk finds himself involved in the theft of a ring containing a dangerous liquid.
Quel fantasma di mio marito (1950)
Gianni Alberti is a journalist who is sent to Palestine. He decides to fake a fatal accident so he can then return home as a hero. But things don't...
Thrilling (1965)
An anthology film / black comedy about three ordinary men who become involved in violent crimes.
Che tempi! (1948)
Anna, only daughter of Felice Pastorino, a rich Genoese merchant, falls in love with a young sailor, Eugenio Devoto, with whom she has exchanged only...
Ride bene... chi ride ultimo (1977)
Misadventures of a sacristan with three eager tourists, a commendatore with a sheikh, a worker who is passionate about hunting with a wife too good...
I cadetti di Guascogna (1950)
Two fellow soldiers fight for the love of the same girl, are constantly picked on by the older soldiers about to be discharged and are involved in...
Vendetta... sarda (1952)
A cook from Sardinia who had emigrated to Milan goes back to his native island thinking he has inherited some money with his uncles death. He finds...
The Rip-Off (1977)
Crime Comedy starring Walter Chiari, Maurizio Arena and Ettore Manni. Directed by Luciano Ercoli in 1977, but shelved when producer Niccolo De Nora...
Walter e i Suoi Cugini (1961)
Walter Chiari as a Pugliese who lives in Milan. He has two cousins identical to him. The two arrive in the city to find work and twist their...
Donatella (1956)
Donatella is a simple and honest roman girl, daughter of a bookbinder and girlfriend of Guido, a gas station owner. One day she finds a woman's...
Noi due soli (1952)
A man and his girlfriend struggle to find some time for themselves.
Love at First Sight (1958)
Love at First Sight is an Italian movie directed by Franco Rossi.
I baccanali di Tiberio (1960)
Cassio, a tourist guide, and Primo, his bus driver, are taking a bus load of tourists to visit villa Jovis, at Capri island. Then they have an...
Uncle Hyacynth (1956)
Hyacinth, a former matador who lives miserably with his nephew Pepote, receives a letter reminding him that, as agreed a few days before, he must...
Romance (1986)
A father and son try to reconcile spending a few days together and confronting each other also through their own marital experiences.
The Moment of Truth (1952)
After attending to a suicidal young man, Dr Richard learns that his wife has been unfaithful for years. This comes as a shock after 10 years of...
Il padrone del vapore (1951)
A rich American arrives in a little village in the mountains because he wants to advertise a drink he produces. In the village there are also two men...
Vacanze in Argentina (1966)
Believing that his death is near, a millionaire who lives in Argentina brings three girls to benefit them in his will and they end up falling in love...
Magic Village (1955)
Robert and his fiancée Lucienne were due to go on vacation together to a tented village in Sicily. Robert is forced to postpone his trip and...
Rosabella - La storia italiana di Orson Welles (1993)
Squeeze a Flower (1970)
When greed threatens the livelihood of an Italian monastery, a monk flees with the formula for their special liquor.
Parque de Madrid (1959)
In the Madrid of the fifties, during any day, whether by chance or fate, a series of characters live all kinds of stories, funny stories and some not...
The Sucker (1965)
In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only...
Headlines of Destruction (1955)
Released from prison after two years, Michel Gérard sets out to find his wife Alice. Alice, luxuriously maintained by her lover, Jacques...
Un mandarino per Teo (1960)
Teo, a young theatre stand in, is offered a faustian pact by the devil: if he pushes a button a Chinese mandarin will die and leave his money to him....
Of Life and Love (1954)
A film made up of four episodes: a jar repairer gets trapped in a vat because of his hunch; a young unmarried mother is forced to beg to buy herself...