
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 |
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Most Rating | 0.086 |
Birthday | 1923-03-25 |
Place of Birth | Rome, Lazio, Italy |
Also Known As | Richard Stuyvesant , M. Braga, Florestano Brega, |

1975

A Genius, Two Friends, and an Idiot
6.3/168
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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1986

Troppo forte
6.465/199
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
7.4/403
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
7.3/966
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

1980

Fun Is Beautiful
7.1/397
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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1982

Talcum Powder
6.812/460
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

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
6.981/207
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
5.8/28
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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1968

Man Who Cried for Revenge
3.8/6
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Man Who Cried for Revenge

1979

A Dangerous Toy
6.9/21
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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
5.5/57
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
5.273/11
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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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
3.8/12
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Una vacanza del cactus

1975

Convoy Buddies
5.7/7
Toby and Butch are a couple of bumbling crooks who get a truck driving job hauling insecticide from Italy to France. Unbeknownst to the clueless duo,...
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Convoy Buddies

1986

Detective School Dropouts
7.4/5
Two bumbling private detectives get themselves hired to find a missing person. They find themselves in the middle of a mob war when it turns out that...
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Detective School Dropouts

1963

The Hours of Love
5/4
In "The Hours of Love," Gianni and Marietta's spark ignites as passionate lovers, yet dims in their marriage. Seeking rekindling, they dare to step ou...
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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
Colonel William Cody, alias Buffalo Bill, intends to put an end to the dishonest relations between a gang of white swindlers and the Indian, Yellow Ha...
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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
8.462/8862
While the Civil War rages on between the Union and the Confederacy, three men – a quiet loner, a ruthless hitman, and a Mexican bandit – comb the Amer...
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1971

Why
7.2/85
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1991

Crack
0/0
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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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1974

Charleston
4.818/11
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1962

March on Rome
7.4/51
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1982

Pierino the Pest to the Rescue
3/11
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1958

Man of Straw
7.1/14
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1962

I motorizzati
5.8/12
A guy is about to become the millionth citizen to buy a car in Rome. Frightened, he decides to remain pedestrian, and recalls several stories, with ne...
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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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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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1983

Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio
5.8/109
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
6.2/269
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
7.344/715
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
6.7/92
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
8.416/5527
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
7.835/4331
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
8/4069
Two bounty hunters both pursue the brutal and sadistic bandit, El Indio, who has a large bounty on his head.
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For a Few Dollars More

1963

The Monsters
7.347/183
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
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The Monsters

1977

The Cat
6.3/37
Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium. They want to sell it, but before th...
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The Cat

1966

An Angel for Satan
6.3/33
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
6.2/27
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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Il mondo dei miracoli

1970

Cannabis
4.125/12
Serge Morgan is a killer working for the American Mafia. After performing a contract in New York for his employers, he takes the plane back to Paris a...
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