Daniele Vargas
Vargas with Ilona Staller in L'ingenua (1975)
Born	(1922-04-20)20 April 1922 Bologna, Italy
Died	7 January 1981(1981-01-07) (aged 58) Rome, Italy
Occupation	Film actor

Daniele Vargas, stage name of Daniele Pitani (20 April 1922 – 7 January 1981) was an Italian film actor.

Life and career

Born in Imola, a small town in the district of Bologna, after attending high school with Pier Paolo Pasolini, Daniele Vargas enrolled in the Faculty of Medicine of Bologna University.^[1]^[2] After graduation in 1957 he moved to Rome to follow his passion for cinema.^[1]

He began to appear in small roles in costume films and sword-and-sandals at the end of the 1950s and rapidly became one of the most active character actors, specializing in villain roles and sometime in characters of Spanish language.^[1]

Selected filmography

Hercules Unchained (1959) - Amphiaraus
Non perdiamo la testa (1959) - The Butler
Le cameriere (1959) - Il baritono Marini
Caltiki – The Immortal Monster (1959) - Bob
The Pirate and the Slave Girl (1959) - Gamal
The Giant of Marathon (1959) - Darius I, King of Persia
La strada dei giganti (1960)
Fury of the Pagans (1960) - Napur
The Thief of Bagdad (1961) - Gamal
Totò, Peppino e... la dolce vita (1961) - Marchese Daniele
A Difficult Life (1961) - Marquis Capperoni
Sodom and Gomorrah (1962) - Segur
March on Rome (1962) - "Sua Excelencia"
The Invincible Masked Rider (1963) - Don Luis
Torpedo Bay (1963) - Brauzzi
Samson and the Sea Beast (1963) - Murad
Il Successo (1963) - Il principale di Laura
I mostri (1963) - Professor Pinzuto (segment "I due Orfanelli")
Terror of the Steppes (1964) - Altan Khan
La calda vita (1964)
Panic Button (1964)
Hercules Against Rome (1964) - Filippo Afro
The Revenge of Spartacus (1964) - Lucius Transone
Hercules and the Tyrants of Babylon (1964)
Ces dames s'en mêlent (1965) - Zacharoff
Jungle Adventurer (1965) - Rajah Sindar
Goliath at the Conquest of Damascus (1965) - Saud
Up and Down (1965) - Il professor Maestrelli (segment "Questione di Principo")
La Dama de Beirut (1965)
Se non avessi più te (1965) - Hotel Manager in Barcelona
Degueyo (1966) - Frank
Seasons of Our Love (1966) - Count Della Pica
A Man Could Get Killed (1966) - Osman
Kiss Kiss...Bang Bang (1966) - Tol Lim
The Spy Who Loved Flowers (1966) - Stan Harriman
Web of Violence (1966) - Lo Vecchio
After the Fox (1966) - Prosecuting Counsel
Pleasant Nights (1966) - Fortebraccio da Montone
Wanted (1967) - Gold - Mayor
Per amore... per magia... (1967)
The Long, the Short, the Cat (1967) - Ispettore americano
Return of Django (1967) - Clay Ferguson
Come rubare un quintale di diamanti in Russia (1967) - Zak
Electra One (1967) - Electra 1
Golden Chameleon (1967)
Assault on the State Treasure (1967) - Kaufman
The Last Killer (1967) - John Barrett
The Stranger Returns (1967) - Good Jim
Vengeance Is My Forgiveness (1968) - Doctor Frank Decker
Spirits of the Dead (1968) - University professor (segment "William Wilson")
Madigan's Millions (1968) - Giovanni Casetti (italian version)
Cemetery Without Crosses (1969) - Will Rogers
Zorro in the Court of England (1970) - Sir Basil Ruthford
Bridge Over the Elbe (1969) - Major
Zorro, the Navarra Marquis (1969) - Col. Brizard
Poppea's Hot Nights (1969) - Druso
Eros e Thanatos (1969)
The President of Borgorosso Football Club (1970) - Don Ragazzoni
Four Gunmen of the Holy Trinity (1971) - Thompson
Riuscirà il nostro eroe a ritrovare il più grande diamante del mondo? (1971) - Dolmann
The Devil Has Seven Faces (1971) - James Marlowe
Il terrore con gli occhi storti (1972) - José
Il generale dorme in piedi (1972) - Ten. Col. Poli
Zambo il dominatore della foresta (1972) - Perkins
I Kiss the Hand (1973) - Don Santino Bileggi
Those Dirty Dogs (1973) - Major, Fort Apache Commander
The Arena (1974) - Timarchus
Playing the Field (1974) - The President
The Voyage (1974) - Don Liborio, Lawyer
Silence the Witness (1974) - Il senatore Turrisi
Ante Up (1974) - Avvocato
La nipote (1974) - Luigi / Husband
Eyeball (1975) - Robby Alvarado
The Sensuous Nurse (1975) - Gustavo Scarpa
Quella provincia maliziosa (1975)
L'ingenua (1975) - Luigi Beton
Oh, Serafina! (1976) - Assessore Buglio
Sex with a Smile II (1976) - Avv. Augusto Zenaro (segment "La visita")
Il signor Ministro li pretese tutti e subito (1977) - Luigi Romagnoli
Three Tigers Against Three Tigers (1977) - Berchielli capo di scorza
Being Twenty (1978) - Affatati
Where Are You Going on Holiday? (1978) - Cavalier Ciccio Colombi (segment "Sì buana")
...And Give Us Our Daily Sex (1979) - Oculista (as Danielle Vargas)
Una donna di notte (1979) - Publisher
Saturday, Sunday and Friday (1979) - Il direttore (segment "Sabato")
Io zombo, tu zombi, lei zomba (1979)
Atsalut pader (1979)
Il ladrone (1980) - Ruffo
Il lupo e l'agnello (1980) - Colonello De Luca
Spaghetti a mezzanotte (1981) - Ulderico
Ski Mistress (1981) - Emir Hussein
Prickly Pears (1981)
Accadde a Parma (1988) - (final film role)

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Authority control databases
International	VIAF
National	Spain Italy