Biagio Pelligra

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 The Saracen Woman (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