Paolo Bonacelli
Born: 1937-02-28 in Rome, Italy
Died: 2025-10-08
Known For: Acting
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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paolo Bonacelli, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography
2025
- In the Hand of Dante as Priest of Alcamo
2024
2023
- The Commander as Betti
- Noi ce la siamo cavata as Sé stesso
2020
2019
- To the Unknown God
- Forse è solo mal di mare as Calogero (Voice)
2018
- Magical Nights as Ennio 'The Great'
2016
- The Ploy as Vescovo
2014
- Furore il vento della speranza as Niccolò Carbone
2010
- The American as Father Benedetto
2006
- Mission: Impossible III as Monsignore
2004
- 13 at a Table as Nonno Giulio
2003
- Gli astronomi as Peters
- The Accidental Detective as Direttore Della Galleria Palatina
- A.A.A. Achille as Dott. Aglieri
1999
- Dirty Linen as Amedeo
1998
- Alice on the Run as Luigi Mancini
1997
- Bakunin's Son as Giudice
1996
- The Stendhal Syndrome as Dr. Cavanna
1995
- Christmas Vacation '95 as Paolo "Paolone"
1994
- Abraham as Melchisedek
- Charlemagne, le prince à cheval as Vitale
- The Teddy Bear as Novacek
- Once a Year, Every Year as Romano
1993
- Abraham as Melchisedek
- Mille bolle blu as Mario
- Flusso di coscienza - Razzismo 1993
1992
- Ciao, Professore! as Ludovico Mazzullo
- Il segno del comando as Bonsanti
1991
- Night on Earth as Priest
- Johnny Stecchino as D'Agata
- Touch and Die as Morelli
1990
- Flight from Paradise as Eliah
- Only One Survived as Andrade
1989
- I promessi sposi as padre di Gertrude
- Francesco as Francesco's Father
- La moglie ingenua e il marito malato as Carl Rune
- A Double Victory as Guido Sormani
1988
- Lenin... The Train as Grigori Jewsejewitsch Zinoviev
- Lenin: The Train as Zinoviev
- Topo Galileo as Professor Zitti
1987
- Rimini Rimini as l'ingegnere
- Love Sins as Ercole Leoni
1986
- Camorra (A Story of Streets, Women and Crime) as Tango
- L'ultima mazurka as Lanza
1985
- Mother Ebe as Don Paolo Monti
1984
- Nothing Left to Do But Cry as Leonardo da Vinci
- Henry IV as Belcredi
- The Naked Sun
1983
- The Commissioner as Commissionario
- The Knight, Death and The Devil as Nicholas
1982
- Words and Blood as Marcucci
- I Remember Nelson as King Ferdinando
- Delitti, amore e gelosia as Commissario Dell'Amore
1981
- The Mystery of Oberwald as Count of Foehn
- Calderon
1980
- Le Guignolo as Kamal
- The Persian Lamb Coat as Ferdinando
1979
- Caligula as Chaerea
- Good News as Gualtiero Milano
- Christ Stopped at Eboli as Don Luigi Magalone
1978
- Midnight Express as Rifki
- Nest of Vipers as Paolo Mazzarini
- Madame Bovary as Charles Bovary
1977
1976
- Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom as The Duke
- Origins of the Mafia as Vincenzo Biscetta
- The Inheritance as Paolo Furlin
- Illustrious Corpses as Dr. Maxia
- Evil Thoughts as Antonio Marani
- La banca di Monate as Dottor Defendente Massera
1975
- Gli strumenti del potere. 1925/1926 la dittatura fascista
- Beyond Fear as Francesco Grimaldi
1974
- The Murri Affair as Francesco Bonmartini
- Milarepa as Prof. Bennet
- Year One as Giorgio Amendola
1973
- Giordano Bruno
- Io e lui as Vladimiro
1972
- Il cancelliere Krehler as Max
1970
- Tears of Love as Cormick
1968
1966
- The Devil in Love as Inn's customer
- Pleasant Nights as Messenger
1965
- SuperSeven Calling Cairo as Capitano Hume
1964
- One Million Dollars as Zenone
- Corpse for the Lady as Gedeon