Giancarlo Badessi

Giancarlo Badessi, (born Giancarlo Badese; September 21, 1928 in Lecco – December 6, 2011 in Rome) was an Italian actor.[1]

Life and career

Badessi is best known for playing Claudius in the 1979 biographical porn film Caligula. He had previously played a German officer who abuses a female client with phallic-shaped bread in the 1976 film Salon Kitty, also directed by Tinto Brass.

He also appeared in Ace High (1968) as a boxing promoter, the spaghetti western The Grand Duel (1972), and as Mr. Erickson in What Have You Done to Solange? (1972). His other films include What Have They Done to Your Daughters? (1974), How to Kill a Judge (1975), the role of Cerullo in A Man Called Magnum (1977), and Squadra antitruffa (1977, aka Fraud Squad) which starred David Hemmings.

Badessi died in Rome at the age of 83 from a heart attack, on December 6, 2011.

Filmography
Year Title Role Notes
1968Gangsters '70
1968Ace HighMan with Moustache Promoting the Black BoxerUncredited
1969TepepaSergeant
1969Colpo di StatoMan offering party
1969Where Are You Going All Naked?Waiter
1969La notte dei serpenti1st ExcellencyUncredited
1969La notte dei serpentiIgnacio
1969Eat ItPacetti
1970SatiricosissimoNerone
1970Fermate il mondo... voglio scendere!
1971Confessions of a Police CaptainOn. Grisì
1971Roma BeneRossi
1972Monta in sella, figlio di…General El Supremo
1972What Have You Done to Solange?Mr. Erickson
1972Colpo grosso... grossissimo... anzi probabile
1972Poppea... una prostituta al servizio dell'impero
1972Aretino's Blue StoriesIl precettore
1972The Grand DuelPublican with Eyepatch
1972Confessioni segrete di un convento di clausuraStrangolagalli
1973Le mille e una notte... e un'altra ancora!Husband of Gobeida
1973Daniele e Maria
1973Partirono preti, tornarono... curati
1973Coronel ButtiglioneCommendatore
1973Giordano Bruno
1974Il gioco della verità
1974Innocenza e turbamentoThe Rector of seminary
1974Le farò da padreDon Liguori
1974What Have They Done to Your Daughters?Paglia's LawyerUncredited
1974VermisatMedico del pronto soccorso
1974The ProfiteerPriest
1974Il trafficoneMayor
1975How to Kill a JudgeSen. Derrasi
1975Mondo candidoGovernatore spagnolo
1975Silent ActionVittorio Chiarotti
1975Vergine, e di nome Maria
1975Amore vuol dir gelosiaDon Ciro
1976Povero CristoRegista teatrale
1976Salon KittyOfficer with Projector
1976Todo modoVentre
1976Hit SquadThe Sex Maniac on telephone
1976L'ultima volta
1977A Man Called MagnumAvv. Cerullo
1977Squadra antitruffaBaruffaldi - the Atalanta supporter
1978Il figlio dello sceiccoBarnes
1979Black JournalLisa's friend
1979CaligulaClaudius
1980ActionGay man in the sauna
1982Tiger JoeBronski(final film role)

References
  1. "Roma: morto l'artista lecchese Giancarlo Badessi" (in Italian). Merate Online. 8 December 2011.


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