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Luca Barbareschi

Actor, Producer, Director, Writer, Additional CreditsBorn July 28, 1956 (68 years)
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.

Movies & Shows on Plex

  • Cannibal Holocaust

Known For

  • The Palace
  • Roman Polanski: A Film Memoir
  • Ugly Nasty People
  • Modalità Aereo
  • Dolceroma
  • Appunti di un venditore di donne
  • Jesus
  • Io sono Mia
  • La mia banda suona il pop
  • Angeli
  • The Mercury Conspiracy
  • The Great Game
  • Polanski, Horowitz. Hometown
  • The Startup: Accendi il tuo futuro
  • Fog and Crimes
  • The Way Home
  • Nero Wolfe (2012)
  • The Penitent
  • Se mi vuoi bene
  • Chiara Lubich - L'amore vince tutto
  • Bye Bye Baby
  • The Son of Français
  • On Your Tiptoes

Filmography

2023
The Palace · as Bongo
2023
The Penitent · as Charles
2019
An Officer and a Spy · as Philippe Monnier
2019
Deodato Holocaust · as Mark Tomaso
2019
L'Aquila – Grandi Speranze (TV Series) · as Riccardo De Angelis
2019
Dolceroma · as Oscar Martello
2015
2015
Pietro Mennea - La freccia del Sud (TV Series) · as Carlo Vittori
2013
2010
We Believed · as Antonio Gallenga
2009
The International · as Umberto Calvin
2005
Fog and Crimes (TV Series) · as Commissario Franco Soneri
2005
The Accursed Kings (2005) (TV Series) · as Spinello Tolomei
2004
Benedetti dal Signore (TV Series) · as Cast
2002
Il trasformista · as Augusto Viganò
1999
The Son of Français · as Aureliano
1999
Jesus · as Herodes Antipas
1999
Jesus (TV Series) · as Herod
1998
Ciao Darwin (TV Series) · as Capitano Settentrionali
1997
1997
Intolerance · as Soldier (segment "prima Linea")
1996
1995
Zwei zum Verlieben (TV Series) · as Luigi
1994
1993
Connections · as Bernard Moulins
1993
The Blonde · as Annibali
1992
Jokes Aside (TV Series) · as Cast
1990
In nome del popolo sovrano · as Giovanni Livraghi
1988
Things Change · as Italian Man On Lake Tahoe Plank (uncredited)
1988
Bye Bye Baby · as Paolo
1988
Private Affairs · as Claudio
1987
Teresa · as Gino
1987
Via Montenapoleone · as Guido
1986
Honor Thy Father · as Luca Pompa
1985
Impiegati · as Enrico
1984
Cut and Run · as Bud
1983
1983
Hanna K. · as Young Lawyer
1980
Cannibal Holocaust · as Mark Tomaso
1979
From Corleone to Brooklyn · as New York Cop

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