Luigi Bonos

Luigi Bonos (6 May 1910 – 8 August 2000) was an Italian comedian and stage, television and film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1945 and 1992.

Born in Berlin, Germany, the son of two Hungarian circus artists, along with his brothers Vittorio (1908 - 1966) and Giovanni (1907-1956) Bonos formed a trio of comedians who met large success in the avanspettacolo and revue theater between the 1930s and 1940s. He made his film debut in 1951, and since then he appeared in dozens of comedy films, usually as a character actor.

Selected filmography

L'ippocampo (1945) - Un acrobato The Whole City Sings (1945) Era lui... sì! sì! (1951) - Cameriere The Overcoat (1952) - (uncredited) Primo premio: Mariarosa (1952) I morti non pagano tasse (1952) The Tired Outlaw (1952) Era lei che lo voleva (1954) - The Cook at Invernaghi's (uncredited) Laugh! Laugh! Laugh! (1954) - Mimo Tunis Top Secret (1959) - Pedro The Last Judgment (1961) Colpo gobbo all'italiana (1962) Damon and Pythias (1962) I motorizzati (1962) - Franco The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1963) - Albergo Stelletta Il segno di Zorro (1963) - padre Diaz Gidget Goes to Rome (1963) - Museum Official (uncredited) Castle of the Living Dead (1964) - Marc Killer Caliber .32 (1967) - Alonso - Mine Worker (uncredited) The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968) - Old House Owner (uncredited) Madigan's Millions (1968) - Lift operator The Longest Hunt (1968) - Sgt. Peck Indovina chi viene a merenda? (1969) - German Soldier (1969) - Taubenheim, Kunsthändler The Thirteen Chairs (1969) - Dicky (uncredited) Oh, Grandmother's Dead (1969) Madame Bovary (1969) - Herzog von Artois The Five Man Army (1969) - Priest (uncredited) The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1969) - Benedetti And God Said to Cain (1970) - Joë Paths of War (1970) - Barman (uncredited) Formula 1 - Nell'inferno del Grand Prix (1970) I Am Sartana, Trade Your Guns for a Coffin (1970) - Posada Owner The Golden Ass (1970) - Husband of Birrena Mr. Superinvisible (1970) Defeat of the Mafia (1970) - Giulio They Call Me Trinity (1970) - Ozgur - Bartender Fantasia Among the Squares (1971) - Le Sheriff La Poudre d'escampette (1971) - Un soldat italien sur la plage Armiamoci e partite! (1971) - Baron's Adjutant Trinity Is Still My Name (1971) - Bartender Ozgur Si può fare molto con 7 donne (1972) - Costa Chronicle of a Homicide (1972) I due gattoni a nove code... e mezza ad Amsterdam (1972) - Big Bon What? (1972) - Painter Frankenstein 80 (1972) - Hobo Now They Call Him Sacramento (1972) - Old Tequila Lo chiamavano Verità (1972) - Pierre, the Waiter Even Angels Eat Beans (1973) - Italian Merchant (uncredited) Sinbad and the Caliph of Baghdad (1973) - Firùz ...e così divennero i 3 supermen del West (1973) - Professor Aristide Panzarotti Più forte sorelle (1973) - Timothy House of 1000 Pleasures (1973) - Baba Pasqualino Cammarata, Frigate Captain (1974) Laß jucken, Kumpel 3. Teil - Maloche, Bier und Bett (1974) - Luckys Vater Sesso in testa (1974) Charleston (1974) - Hotel Porter (uncredited) Il sergente Rompiglioni diventa... caporale (1975) The Flower in His Mouth (1975) - Canaino The Exorcist: Italian Style (1975) - Dr. Schnautzer La nipote del prete (1976) - Prete San Pasquale Baylonne protettore delle donne (1976) - Antonio Pocaterra As of Tomorrow (1976) - Art Director (uncredited) Death Rage (1976) - Peppiniello Merciless Man (1976) Carioca tigre (1976) - Talazar Il signor Ministro li pretese tutti e subito (1977) - Fulgenzio Cherubini March or Die (1977) - Andre Mad Dog (1977) - Pappalardo Grazie tante - Arrivederci (1977) They Called Him Bulldozer (1978) - Bulldozers pal, trying to build him a new motor drive The Sheriff and the Satellite Kid (1979) - Deputy Allen Bertoldo, Bertoldino e Cacasenno (1984) Il burbero (1986) - Una guardia They Call Me Renegade (1987) - Bartender There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs (1990) - Barritore d'asta The King's Whore (1990) - 2nd Priest À demain (1992) Once a Year, Every Year (1994)