Biagio Pelligra
Biagio Pelligra 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.
Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand Death Laid an Egg - Chemical operatorCommandos - CarmeloL'alibi Under the Sign of Scorpio Le 10 meraviglie dell'amore - TuriJoe Dakota - Banker Black Holiday - MastrodonatoAllonsanfàn - priestAnno uno Irene, Irene La Cecilia - TullioIl marsigliese - Gigino PuleoAl piacere di rivederla - Marshal of CarabinieriThe Tough Ones - SavelliFree Hand for a Tough Cop - CalabreseBloody Payroll - TropeaAntonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison - BrunoIl mammasantissima - Don Salvatore BufaloFrom Corleone to Brooklyn - ScaliaImprovviso - Lo zio LuigiTo Love the Damned - Police commissionerZappatore - Accountant D'InzilloThe Mafia Triangle - CoppolaCarcerato - Nicola EspositoL'Ombre rouge Laura... a 16 anni mi dicesti sì - TitoThe Professor - The FatherWomen in Arms - Antonio GuidottiThe Saracen Woman - Salvatore MoschellaWho Killed Pasolini? - Police officerAn Eyewitness Account - Police Commissioner De LioLa collezione invisibile - CarusoI Vicerè - BaldassarreIl Capo dei Capi - Pietro Scaglione