Giancarlo Badessi


Giancarlo Badessi, was an Italian actor.

Life and career

Badessi is best known for playing Claudius in the 1979 biographical porn film Caligula. He had previously played a German officer who abuses a female client with phallic-shaped bread in the 1976 film Salon Kitty, also directed by Tinto Brass.
He also appeared in Ace High as a boxing promoter, the spaghetti western The Grand Duel, and as Mr. Erickson in What Have You Done to Solange?. His other films include What Have They Done to Your Daughters?, How to Kill a Judge, the role of Cerullo in A Man Called Magnum, and Squadra antitruffa which starred David Hemmings.
Badessi died in Rome at the age of 83 from a heart attack, on December 6, 2011.

Filmography