Ernesto Colli

Ernesto Colli (16 May 1940 – 19 November 1982) was an Italian film, television and stage actor.

Ernesto Colli
Colli in Deadly Inheritance (1968)
Born	(1940-05-16)16 May 1940 Biella
Died	19 November 1982(1982-11-19) (aged 42) Rome

Life and career

Born in Biella, Colli graduated from liceo classico, then he started acting in some amateur dramatics and starred in two lost Super 8 films.^[1][2] After one year of university he decided to abandon his studies to enroll the Fersen drama school in Rome.^[2]

A real life friend of Vittorio Gassman, Colli often acted alongside him, especially on stage, and he made his film debut playing a small role in the Gassman's film The Devil in Love.^[1] He then appeared in a large number of movies and TV-series, even if usually in character roles.^[1] He was a character actor who acted actively especially during the seventies.

Equipped with a particularly disturbing face, Ernesto Colli always recited customized roles for him, from the crazy to the delinquent and from the possessed to the weird man; probably the films where he had a most significant part were The Pleasure Shop on 7th Avenue^[3] and Deadly Inheritance.

The last role he played was that of a porter of a stable in Rome, in the movie Pierino La Peste Alla Riscossa!, shot a few months before his death and in which he already appeared with the face and the physique excavated by disease.

Selected filmography

1960s

• Il morbidone (1965) - Monsignor's man (uncredited)
• Pleasant Nights (1966) - Baccio
• The Devil in Love (1966)
• Deadly Inheritance (1968) - Janot
• Lucrezia (1968) - Ambassador Veletto
• Spirits of the Dead (1968) - One of the Manetti brothers - director (segment "Toby Dammit") (uncredited)
• Faustina (1968) - Vespasiano - Lover of Faustina's mother
• Italiani! È severamente proibito servirsi della toilette durante le fermate (1969)
• The Conspiracy of Torture (1969) - Chief Guard (uncredited)

1970s

• Belle d'amore (1970) - Magnaccia (uncredited)
• Quella chiara notte d'ottobre (1970)
• Lady Caliph (1970) - A worker
• La Poudre d'escampette (1971)
• Er Più – storia d'amore e di coltello (1971) - Gigi
• Per amore o per forza (1971)
• Maddalena (1971)
• Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte (1971) - Parking attendant
• Caliber 9 (1972) - Alfredo Bertolon
• Bronte: cronaca di un massacro che i libri di storia non hanno raccontato [it] (1972)
• Hai sbagliato... dovevi uccidermi subito! (1972) - Dr. Torres
• Decameron nº 3 - Le più belle donne del Boccaccio (1972) - Renutio (segment "The Mummy")
• Winged Devils (1972) - Lieutenant Ernesto del Prete
• The Infamous Column (1972) - Judge
• Rugantino (1973)
• Torso (1973) - Gianni Tomasso, the scarf vendor
• Non ho tempo (1973)
• Hospitals: The White Mafia (1973) - Patient on the bus
• Seven Hours of Violence (1973) - Tomassian
• Buona parte di Paolina (1973)
• Claretta and Ben (1974) - Remengo
• The Antichrist (1974) - Possessed man
• Bello come un arcangelo (1974) - Cicillo, sacristan
• Autopsy (1975) - Ivo
• The Suspect (1975) - Party functionary in Paris
• Giubbe rosse (1975) - Photographer (uncredited)
• The Peaceful Age (1975) - House painter
• Go Gorilla Go (1975) - The watchman of Builder's Yard (uncredited)
• Illustrious Corpses (1976) - Detective on night duty
• Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976) - Roschetto
• Meet Him and Die (1976) - Settecapelli (Seven hairs)
• Puttana galera! (1976)
• Io tigro, tu tigri, egli tigra (1978) - News anchor (uncredited)
• Il Porno Shop Della Settima Strada (1979) - Bob
• Switch (1979) - The sick
• Pierino la Peste Alla Riscossa! (1982) - Doorman of Via Piccolomini

1980s

• Porca vacca (1982) - (final film role)