Mario Brega
Mario Brega (25 March 1923 – 23 July 1994) was an Italian character actor. His heavy build meant that he regularly portrayed a thug in his films, particularly earlier in his career in westerns. Later in his career, however, he featured in numerous Italian comedy films. Brega stood at 6 feet 4 inches (1.93 m) and well over 250 pounds (110 kg) at his heaviest but after the 1960s slimmed down significantly.
Brega was born in Rome. He was a butcher before he drifted into acting, where his heavy physique ensured him a plethora of character roles. Debuting with director Dino Risi, he then played some minor roles in Sergio Leone's Spaghetti Western movies: A Fistful of Dollars, as Chico; For a Few Dollars More, as Niño; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly as Corporal Wallace; and also as a gangster in Once Upon a Time in America. He appeared in many other Spaghetti Westerns, including Death Rides a Horse, The Great Silence, and My Name is Nobody. Later in his career he had comical roles with director Carlo Verdone, such as in Un sacco bello and Talcum Powder.
He died of heart attack in Rome in 1994.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 4.453 |
| Birthday | 1923-03-25 |
| Place of Birth | Rome, Lazio, Italy |
| Also Known As | Richard Stuyvesant , M. Braga, |
1975
A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
6.3/158
Expert conman Joe Thanks teams up with half-breed Bill and naive Lucy to steal $300,000 from the Indian-hating Major Cabot. Their elaborate plan is fu...
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A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
1971
Finders Killers
4/2
A farmer returns home from the forest to find his family butchered. He decides to hunt down the murderers.
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Finders Killers
1986
Troppo forte
6.457/198
Oscar dreams of becoming an actor or a stuntman. To contact a manufacturer he stages an accident and consequently injures a young actress, then tries...
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Troppo forte
1968
The Great Silence
7.432/395
A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters.
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The Great Silence
1973
My Name Is Nobody
7.264/938
Jack Beauregard, an ageing gunman of the Old West, only wants to retire in peace and move to Europe. But a young gunfighter, known as "Nobody", who id...
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My Name Is Nobody
1947
The Mascot of the Blue Devils
0/0
An Italian child becomes blind due to an accident with German cavalrymen during an American bombing, but regains his sight thanks to American physicia...
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The Mascot of the Blue Devils
1982
Talcum Powder
6.805/456
Sergio Benvenuti is a shy seller of contracts for a Roman company of music, but because of his character he cannot find even a customer, so he asks fo...
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Talcum Powder
1980
Fun Is Beautiful
7.128/396
Three stories set in summer Rome, three characters all played by Verdone: an awkward young man meets a Spanish tourist; another one plans a trip towar...
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Fun Is Beautiful
1976
The Last Round
6.2/9
Stelvio Massi's crime thriller centers on a drifter who sets out to help blue-collar workers rise up against the two powerful families who are exploit...
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The Last Round
1967
Death Rides a Horse
7/204
Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge. On his journey, he finds himself co...
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Death Rides a Horse
1968
A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
6.1/15
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A Minute to Pray, a Second to Die
1969
No Room to Die
5.2/22
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No Room to Die
1966
The Ugly Ones
5.768/28
Escaped outlaw Jose Gomez returns to his home town pursued by bounty killer Luke Chilson. The towns people protect Gomez, unaware, at first, that he i...
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The Ugly Ones
1984
Amarsi un po'...
6.3/48
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Amarsi un po'...
1968
Man Who Cried for Revenge
3.8/6
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Man Who Cried for Revenge
1979
A Dangerous Toy
6.929/21
A meek accountant buys himself a gun and finds out he's a natural marksman. After the friend who introduced him to shooting is killed by gangsters, he...
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A Dangerous Toy
1969
Death Knocks Twice
4.3/9
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Death Knocks Twice
1967
Date for a Murder
6.2/4
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Date for a Murder
1967
Halleluja for Django
5/4
After robbing $500,000, the Jarret gang hides in a small isolated western town, where they are waiting for a scout to take them through the desert to...
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Halleluja for Django
1987
Montecarlo Gran Casinò
5.491/57
The misadventures of different Italian rascals who came to the famous Montecarlo Gran Casinò to get lucky.
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Montecarlo Gran Casinò
1975
Two hearts, a Chapel
5.4/11
Aristide receives a big inheritance from his mother, but when he meets a beautiful redhead at the cemetery, his life changes unexpectedly.
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Two hearts, a Chapel
1969
El Puro
5.1/10
An alcoholic gunman, hunted down by five pitiless bounty hunters, is sheltered by a saloon dancer. When his enemies kill the girl the outlaw pulls him...
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El Puro
1975
Seven Savage Men
0/0
The Cooper gang is terrorizing the town of Stanton with heinous crimes. When the gang rapes and murders an innocent young widow, the sheriff teams up...
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Seven Savage Men
1970
Il divorzio
6.5/4
Middle-aged man leaves his wife to devote himself to a carefree life.
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Il divorzio
1961
Day by Day, Desperately
8/3
The mental illness affecting young Dario, one of the two sons of the Dominici family living in a council building in Rome, disrupts the lives of all i...
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Day by Day, Desperately
1981
Una vacanza del cactus
3.636/11
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Una vacanza del cactus
1975
Convoy Buddies
5.7/7
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Convoy Buddies
1986
Detective School Dropouts
7.4/5
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Detective School Dropouts
1963
The Hours of Love
5/4
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The Hours of Love
1963
The Strange Type
5.5/10
Peppino, a slow-witted local villager of the Italian resort town of Amalfi, is bribed to impersonate famed rock and roll star Adriano Celentano for au...
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The Strange Type
1961
Gli scontenti
6/1
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1967
No Diamonds for Ursula
5.7/3
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No Diamonds for Ursula
1971
Cose di Cosa Nostra
5.5/3
A young man unwantedly gets caught up in an international gang war in this humorous crime farce!
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Cose di Cosa Nostra
1964
Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West
4.9/5
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Buffalo Bill, Hero of the Far West
1975
How Beautiful Is Bernarda, All Black, All Hot
3/2
A wizard of the Middle Ages, while exorcising a girl, swallows eggnog and tells two suckers various Boccaccio stories.
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How Beautiful Is Bernarda, All Black, All Hot
1966
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
8.465/8699
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Crack
0/0
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1971
Why
7.2/82
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1974
Basta con la guerra... facciamo l'amore
2.8/4
A comedy directed by Andrea Bianchi.
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Basta con la guerra... facciamo l'amore
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Charleston
4.818/11
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Charleston
1962
March on Rome
7.4/50
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March on Rome
1982
Pierino the Pest to the Rescue
3/11
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1958
Man of Straw
7/13
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Man of Straw
1962
I motorizzati
5.8/12
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I motorizzati
1968
The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
0/0
Childhood friends Franco and Jolanda accidentally meet again after 15 years and both know it is love. This comedy traces their troubled relationship.
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The Girl Who Couldn't Say No
1964
Two Gangsters in the Wild West
5.7/11
In the late 1800's, Sicilians Franco and Ciccio are serving 20 years of prison for stealing two mules, when they are helped to escape by an American w...
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Two Gangsters in the Wild West
1983
Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio
5.849/109
The film is divided into two episodes, The Hair of Disgrace and The Magician, both focusing on the theme of the occult and beliefs.
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Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio
1983
Christmas Holidays
6.2/267
Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has not much money, falls in love with the American Samantha, the girl...
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Christmas Holidays
1981
Bianco, rosso e Verdone
7.3/712
Three Italians travel to their hometown to vote for elections: Pasquale is a Southern immigrant living in Munich who's genuinely happy to come back to...
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Bianco, rosso e Verdone
1972
Decameron II
3/3
During a banquet, the diners begin to tell various stories to be happy. All the novels speak of betrayals and erotic adventures
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Decameron II
1971
A Girl in Australia
6.707/92
The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's , who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Aus...
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A Girl in Australia
1984
Once Upon a Time in America
8.4/5430
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the gh...
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Once Upon a Time in America
1977
Destruction Force
5.8/26
A shoot out after a robbery ends with the death of the Chief of Police. Police detective Ghini goes in search of a suspect, Lanza, to avenge the death...
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Destruction Force
1972
Sotto a chi tocca!
0/0
Straccio, a young acrobat, wants to free his beloved Julia, held prisoner in the tyrant's castle. He designs a good plan, and develops it with the hel...
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Sotto a chi tocca!
1962
Eighteen in the Sun
5.2/8
An Italian variation on the Frankie & Annette-Gidget beach party movies that were all the rage in North America in the early 60s. Nicole Molino (Cath...
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Eighteen in the Sun
1973
Da Scaramouche or se vuoi l'assoluzione baciar devi sto... cordone!
0/0
Scaramouche, a skilled swordsman, goes to the Este court to steal a letter.
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Da Scaramouche or se vuoi l'assoluzione baciar devi sto... cordone!
1964
A Fistful of Dollars
7.84/4249
The Man With No Name enters the Mexican village of San Miguel in the midst of a power struggle among the three Rojo brothers and sheriff John Baxter....
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A Fistful of Dollars
1965
For a Few Dollars More
8/3986
Two bounty hunters both pursue a brutal and sadistic bandit El Indio who has a massive bounty on his head.
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For a Few Dollars More
1963
The Monsters
7.4/181
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
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The Monsters
1977
The Cat
6.314/35
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The Cat
1966
An Angel for Satan
6.288/33
At the end of the 19th century, in a little Italian village by a lake an old statue is recovered. Soon a series of crimes start and the superstitious...
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An Angel for Satan
1964
Let's Talk About Women
6.2/26
Vittorio Gassman stars as different characters in each of the nine episodes of this unusual Italian comedy. Playing everything from a practical joker...
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Let's Talk About Women
1972
The Lusty Wives of Canterbury
2/1
The writer, Geoffrey Chaucer, finds himself in an inn, together with pilgrims who are going to Canterbury. Since the bad weather prevents departure, t...
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The Lusty Wives of Canterbury
1961
Cronache del '22
0/0
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Cronache del '22
1959
Il mondo dei miracoli
0/0
An actor fails to find success in the film world but falls in love with a theatre manager's daughter.
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