Overview
Biagio Pelligra (born 24 June 1937, in Comiso) is an Italian stage, film and television actor.
Life and career
Born in Comiso, Province of Ragusa, Pelligra started his acting career in the second half of the sixties, and after several minor roles he got his first role of weight in 1972, in Marco Leto's Black Holiday. Following the critical success of the film, from then he started appearing, often in secondary roles, in several art films, working with Roberto Rossellini, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Marco Tullio Giordana and Peter Del Monte, among others. Pelligra's popularity is however mainly linked to a series of poliziotteschi, sceneggiate and mafia films, in which he specialized in roles of criminals and villains.
Partial filmography
Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand (1966)
Death Laid an Egg (1968) - Chemical operator
Commandos (1968) - Carmelo
L'alibi (1969)
Under the Sign of Scorpio (1969)
Le 10 meraviglie dell'amore (1969) - Turi
Joe Dakota (1972) - Banker (uncredited)
Black Holiday (1973) - Mastrodonato
Allonsanfàn (1974) - priest
Anno uno (1974)
Irene, Irene (1975)
La Cecilia (1975) - Tullio
Il marsigliese (1975) - Gigino Puleo
Al piacere di rivederla (1976) - Marshal of Carabinieri
The Tough Ones (1976) - Savelli
Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976) - Calabrese
Bloody Payroll (1976) - Tropea
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison (1977) - Bruno
Il mammasantissima (1979) - Don Salvatore Bufalo
From Corleone to Brooklyn (1979) - Scalia
Improvviso (1979) - Lo zio Luigi
To Love the Damned (1980) - Police commissioner
Zappatore (1980) - Accountant D'Inzillo
The Mafia Triangle (1981) - Coppola
Carcerato (1981) - Nicola Esposito
L'Ombre rouge (1981)
Laura... a 16 anni mi dicesti sì (1983) - Tito
The Professor (1986) - The Father
Women in Arms (1991) - Antonio Guidotti
La Sarrasine (1992) - Salvatore Moschella
Who Killed Pasolini? (1995) - Police officer
An Eyewitness Account (1997) - Police Commissioner De Lio
La collezione invisibile (2003) - Caruso
I Vicerè (2007) - Baldassarre
Il Capo dei Capi (2007, TV Mini-Series) - Pietro Scaglione
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