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Mario Zampi is a Director, Scriptwriter and Producer Italien born on 1 november 1903 at Rome (Italie)

Mario Zampi

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Nationality Italie
Birth 1 november 1903 at Rome (Italie)
Death 2 december 1963 (at 60 years) at London (United-kingdom)

Mario Zampi est un producteur, réalisateur et scénariste italien, né le 1er novembre 1903 à Sora et décédé le 2 décembre 1963 à Londres, qui a fait sa carrière essentiellement en Grande-Bretagne.

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Filmography of Mario Zampi (17 films)

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Director

Five Golden Hours
Five Golden Hours (1961)
, 1h30
Directed by Mario Zampi
Genres Comedy
Actors Cyd Charisse, Ernie Kovacs, George Sanders, Kay Hammond, Dennis Price, Clelia Matania
Rating56% 2.8086652.8086652.8086652.8086652.808665
Aldo Bondi (Kovacs) is a professional pallbearer and mourner in Rome who lives well off the extravagant gifts given to him by the rich widows he comforts. When he falls for the supposedly penniless Baroness Sandra (Charisse) – who is actually a rich "black widow" whose husbands all die – he concocts a Ponzi scheme to bilk three widows by taking money from them, telling them that he will invest it during the "five golden hours" between the closing of the stock exchange in Rome, and the opening of the New York Stock Exchange. However, the Baroness absconds with the cash, leaving Bondi in hock to the widows. He attempts to kill them, but the scheme fails and he pretends to have gone insane. In the sanatarium, his roommate is another debtor feigning madness, Mr. Bing (Sanders).
Too Many Crooks
Too Many Crooks (1959)
, 1h27
Directed by Mario Zampi
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Terry-Thomas, George Cole, Brenda De Banzie, Bernard Bresslaw, Sid James, Vera Day
Rating68% 3.446223.446223.446223.446223.44622
The members of a gang, especially Sid (Sid James), grow impatient as their incompetent leader, Fingers (George Cole), botches the robbery of a fur store, the latest in a series of disasters. Fingers then comes up with the idea of robbing businessman William Gordon (Terry-Thomas). Gordon bluffs them into believing the police are on their way. Fingers refuses to give up, plotting to kidnap Gordon's daughter. However, he errs yet again and ends up with Gordon's meek wife Lucy (Brenda De Banzie) instead.
The Naked Truth
The Naked Truth (1957)
, 1h31
Directed by Mario Zampi
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Terry-Thomas, Peter Sellers, Peggy Mount, Shirley Eaton, Dennis Price, Joan Sims
Rating67% 3.3956553.3956553.3956553.3956553.395655
Nigel Dennis (Dennis Price) is a blackmailer who threatens to publish embarrassing secrets in his magazine The Naked Truth. After attempting to blackmail a famous scientist (who commits suicide), and an MP (who suffers a heart attack in parliament, and probably succumbs), his latest targets are Lord Henry Mayley (Terry-Thomas), television host Sonny MacGregor (Peter Sellers), writer Flora Ransom (Peggy Mount), and model Melissa Right (Shirley Eaton).
Happy Ever After
Happy Ever After (1954)
, 1h28
Directed by Mario Zampi
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors David Niven, Yvonne De Carlo, Barry Fitzgerald, George Cole, A. E. Matthews, Robert Urquhart
Rating61% 3.0918753.0918753.0918753.0918753.091875
Aged General O'Leary is fatally injured while trying to jump a wall with his horse. On his deathbed, the beloved old Irishman bequeaths £1000 each to his cousin and fellow landowner Major McGluskey and to Doctor Michael Flynn, and cancels all debts owed to him. The rest of the estate goes to a distant relative, Jasper O'Leary, who has never before set foot in the hamlet of Rathbarney.
Top Secret
Top Secret (1952)

Directed by Mario Zampi
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors George Cole, Oskar Homolka, Ernest Jay, Nadia Gray, Frederick Valk, Wilfrid Hyde-White
Rating62% 3.1435553.1435553.1435553.1435553.143555
George Potts, a plumber in a top secret government research plant, accidentally comes into possession of the plans for a revolutionary atomic weapon. As George leaves for his annual holiday, the research security team embarks on a nationwide search for the hapless 'sanitary engineer.' Meanwhile, the Russians get wind of the incident and intercept George, plying him with liquor and employment promises so that he'll hand over the plans to them. All the while, George never knows what the fuss is about: he thinks that the British and Soviet authorities are interested in his new plans for a modern plumbing system. The Russians offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing, he believes),and while there he falls in love with secret agent Tania, and discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying.
Laughter in Paradise
Laughter in Paradise (1951)
, 1h33
Directed by Mario Zampi
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy
Actors Alastair Sim, Fay Compton, George Cole, Guy Middleton, Hugh Griffith, Ernest Thesiger
Rating70% 3.5426353.5426353.5426353.5426353.542635
When wealthy, well-known practical joker Henry Russell (Hugh Griffith) dies, four relatives find out that they stand to inherit considerable sums ... provided that they commit acts that are completely contrary to their natures. Law-abiding Deniston Russell (Alastair Sim), a retired army officer who writes lurid novels under several fictional names, has to get himself arrested and jailed for 28 days. Difficult, snobbish Agnes Russell (Fay Compton) has to find work as a maid and keep her job for a month. Simon Russell (Guy Middleton) is a womanising cad; his task is to marry the first single woman he speaks to. Timid Herbert Russell (George Cole) is assigned to hold up the bank where he works with a toy pistol.
13 Men and a Gun
13 Men and a Gun (1938)
, 1h4
Directed by Mario Zampi
Origin United-kingdom
Themes Political films
Actors Arthur Wontner, Clifford Evans, Howard Marion-Crawford, Gibb McLaughlin, Wally Patch, Donald Gray

During the First World War, Russian forces attempt to take out an Austrian artillery position.

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