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Aliases: Лука Барбарески , Luca Giorgio Barbareschi , Frankie Speranza

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Montevideo, Uruguay

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Movie Involvements: 56

TV Involvements: 9


Most Famous Work

Biography

Luca Barbareschi (born 28 July 1956 in Montevideo) is an Italian-Uruguayan actor, television presenter, and former member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Barbareschi is Jewish. He was one of four actors whom the Italian police believed had been murdered in the making of the 1980 horror film Cannibal Holocaust, where he also abused and killed a young piglet. So realistic was the film that shortly after it was released its director Ruggero Deodato was arrested on suspicions of murder. The actors had signed contracts to stay out of the media for a year in order to fuel rumours that the film was a snuff movie. The court was only convinced that they were alive when the contracts were cancelled and the actors appeared on a television show as proof. In 2008, he was elected as Member of the Italian Parliament at the Chamber of Deputies with Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right party The People of Freedom. In 2010 he joined, with other 32 deputies and 10 senators, the Gianfranco Fini's new party Future and Freedom. He left parliament in 2013. On 11 June 2012 he becomes the protagonist of an attack against Filippo Roma, a journalist. He attacked the cameraman Marco Occhipinti destroying the camera and stealing his personal smartphone, with which he was filming the attack. The police rushed to the scene but without making any arrest, unable to search him for parliamentary immunity. The journalist filed a complaint for theft, but according to some witnesses the cell phone, never returned, would have been destroyed by Barbareschi. On 28 August 2012 in Filicudi a similar event is repeated which sees Barbareschi attack again with kicks and punches the journalist Filippo Roma and hit his cameraman. Source: Article "Luca Barbareschi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Most Famous Work

Nero Wolfe
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8

Nero Wolfe

(2012) Producer
An Officer and a Spy
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7

An Officer and a Spy

(2019) Co-Producer
Ugly Nasty People
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6

Ugly Nasty People

(2017) Producer
The Palace
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5

The Palace

(2023) Producer
Se mi vuoi bene
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6

Se mi vuoi bene

(2019) Producer
Mia Martini - I Am Mia
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7

Mia Martini - I Am Mia

(2019) Production Manager
Notes from a Women Salesman
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6

Notes from a Women Salesman

(2021) Producer
DolceRoma
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6

DolceRoma

(2019) Producer

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
2023 Bongo
Charles
2022 Self
2020 N/A
2019 Philippe Monnier
Riccardo De Angelis
Oscar Martello
2015 Carlo Vittori
N/A
2013 Matteo
2011 Self
2010 Antonio Gallenga
2009 Umberto Calvin
2007 Marcello
2005 Commissario Franco Soneri
Spinello Tolomei
2004 N/A
2003 Himself
2002 Augusto Viganò
2000 Nicolas
Luigi
1999 Aureliano
Herodes Antipas
1998 Walter Cherubini
Capitano Settentrionali
Walter Cherubini
1996 Soldier (segment "Prima linea")
Saverio
Bernard Moulins
N/A
1993 Annibali
N/A
1992 David Lamberti
1990 Giovanni Livraghi
1988 Paolo
Italian man on Lake Tahoe plank (uncredited)
1987 Claudio
Gino
Guido
1986 Andrea
1985 Bud
N/A
Enrico
1984 Carlo
Max
1983 Lysander
Young Lawyer
Marco
1980 Mark Tomaso
1979 New York Cop
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