Angelo Rossitto
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Schlitzie: One of Us (2018)
As: Himself (archive footage)
The rise and fall...and rise of Schlitzie, the lovable man-child performer from Tod Browning's cult film "Freaks." He lived to perform, until he was put in an institution and left to die. His persona earned him a place in Punk history when the Ramones recorded "Pinhead," dolls and jewelry were created in his image, and "American Horror Story: Freakshow" paid homage to him. According to sideshow lore, ...
Runtime: 70 min.
Directed by: Steven Belgard
Stars: Adam Rifkin | Wallace Ford | Mat Fraser | Naomi Grossman | Rose Siggins
The Other Side of the Wind (2015)
As: Himself
Orson Welles' unfinished masterpiece, restored and assembled based on Welles' own notes. During the last 15 years of his life, Welles, who died in 1985, worked obsessively on the film, which chronicles a temperamental film director—much like him—who is battling with the Hollywood establishment to finish an iconoclastic work.
Runtime: 122 min.
Directed by: Orson Welles
Stars: Peter Bogdanovich | John Huston | Susan Strasberg | Norman Foster | Oja Kodar
The Offspring (1987)
As: Tinker
The uncle of an executed murderess relates four stories of his hometown, Oldfield, to a reporter. In the first, an elderly man pursues a romance with a younger woman, even to the grave and beyond. In the second, a wounded man on the run from creditors is rescued by a backwoods hermit who holds the secret to eternal life. In the third, a glass-eating carny pays the ultimate price for looking for love on the ...
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Jeff Burr
Stars: Terry Kiser | Harry Caesar | Rosalind Cash | Clu Gulager | Vincent Price
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985)
As: Master
Mad Max becomes a pawn in a decadent oasis of a technological society, and when exiled, becomes the deliverer of a colony of children.
Runtime: 107 min.
Directed by: George Ogilvie | George Miller
Stars: Mel Gibson | Bruce Spence | Tina Turner | Angelo Rossitto | Helen Buday
Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)
As: Little Person #1
In a small American town, a diabolical circus arrives, granting wishes for the townsfolk, but twisted as only the esteemed Mr. Dark can make them. Can two young boys overcome the worst the devil himself can deal out?
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Jack Clayton
Stars: Diane Ladd | Jonathan Pryce | Jason Robards | Royal Dano | Vidal Peterson
Galaxina (1980)
As: Monster from Egg
Galaxina is a lifelike, voluptuous android who is assigned to oversee the operations of an intergalactic Space Police cruiser captained by incompetent Cornelius Butt. When a mission requires the ship's crew to be placed in suspended animation for decades, Galaxina finds herself alone for many years, developing emotions and falling in love with the ship's pilot, Thor.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: William Sachs
Stars: Stephen Macht | Avery Schreiber | Lionel Mark Smith | Dorothy Stratten | J.D. Hinton
The Dark (1979)
As: Angie (uncredited)
At night the Mangler stalks the streets of Los Angeles, killing and mutilating random victims. On the trail are a TV reporter, the father of one of the victims, and a police detective, but despite their efforts only the mysterious psychic DeRenzy knows what the killer is and how to stop it.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Tobe Hooper | John 'Bud' Cardos
Stars: William Devane | Richard Jaeckel | Biff Elliot | Cathy Lee Crosby | Jacquelyn Hyde
Fairy Tales (1978)
As: Otto
On his twenty-first birthday, the Prince goes on a quest that takes him across the land searching for the one woman that gets him sexually excited, Princess Sleeping Beauty.
Runtime: 76 min.
Directed by: Harry Hurwitz
Stars: Sy Richardson | Linnea Quigley | Brenda Fogarty | Robert Staats | Don Sparks
The Master Gunfighter (1975)
As: Side show midget
Don Santiago (Richard Angarola) is a vicious man who helps provoke an Indian massacre that will allow him to steal the Indians' land and claim it as his own. However, his son-in-law, Finley (Tom Laughlin), is an expert hand with both guns and swords and will not allow him to push around the peace-loving Indians or fellow settlers of the West.
Runtime: 121 min.
Directed by: Frank Laughlin
Stars: Tom Laughlin | Ron O'Neal | Lincoln Kilpatrick | Barbara Carrera | Hector Elias
The Clones (1973)
As: Man at Phone Booth
A scientist discovers a plot to clone other scientists so the government can control the weather.
Runtime: 95 min.
Directed by: Lamar Card | Paul Hunt
Stars: Gregory Sierra | Michael Greene | Stanley Adams | Otis Young | Susan Hunt
Little Cigars (1973)
As: Angelo
A gangster's former mistress hooks up with a troupe of circus midgets who, as a sideline, rob banks and casinos.
Runtime: 92 min.
Directed by: Chris Christenberry
Stars: Felix Silla | Angel Tompkins | Billy Curtis | Jerry Maren | Frank Delfino
Mongo's Back in Town (1971)
As: Trembles
Professional killer is hired by his brother, a gang boss, to wipe out a rival gangster.
Runtime: 73 min.
Directed by: Marvin J. Chomsky
Stars: Sally Field | Martin Sheen | Telly Savalas | Charles Cioffi | Anne Francis
Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971)
As: Grazbo the Evil Dwarf
Dracula conspires with a mad doctor to resurrect the Frankenstein Monster.
Runtime: 91 min.
Directed by: Al Adamson
Stars: Greydon Clark | J. Carrol Naish | Anthony Eisley | Zandor Vorkov | Lon Chaney Jr.
Brain of Blood (1971)
As: Dorro
Amir, the benevolent ruler of Kalid, is dying, but there is hope. Freshly deceased, he is flown to the United States where Dr. Trenton transplants his brain into the body of a simpleton in a classic "assistant got the wrong kind of body" plot line. Dr. Trenton has a few nefarious plot twists of his own in mind, and then there's the thing with the dwarf and the women chained in the basement. It's up ...
Runtime: 87 min.
Directed by: Al Adamson
Stars: Angelo Rossitto | Kent Taylor | Regina Carrol | Vicki Volante | Grant Williams
Alex in Wonderland (1970)
As: Fellini #1
Bohemian Alex Morrison has just finished directing his first feature length movie. In its previews, the movie is considered a critical, artistic and surefire commercial success. As such, Alex seemingly has his choice of what his next project will be. Alex has a few thoughts in mind, such as a biopic of Lenny Bruce, or a movie about a black uprising in Los Angeles. As he makes the rounds both ...
Runtime: 110 min.
Directed by: Paul Mazursky
Stars: Ellen Burstyn | Donald Sutherland | Meg Mazursky | Glenna Sargent | Viola Spolin
Doctor Dolittle (1967)
As: Dwarf (uncredited)
Get ready for the wildest adventure of a lifetime in the most ambitious production ever brought to film. Earning a 1967 Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, this dazzling fantasy turns both ordinary and exotic animals into talking, dancing and singing sensations! Rex Harrison is unforgettable in this inspiring adaptation of Hugh Lofting's classic stories.Step into the English country home of the good ...
Runtime: 152 min.
Directed by: Richard Fleischer
Stars: Richard Attenborough | Samantha Eggar | Anthony Newley | Peter Bull | Rex Harrison
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
As: Dwarf
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. In the movie they write a family history for a duke which includes reenactments of three of their stories including "The Dancing Princess," "The Cobbler and the Elves" and "The Singing Bone."
Runtime: 135 min.
Directed by: George Pal | Henry Levin
Stars: Claire Bloom | Karlheinz Böhm | Laurence Harvey | Walter Slezak | Barbara Eden
The Magic Sword (1962)
As: 2nd Dwarf
The son of a sorceress, armed with weapons, armour and six magically summoned knights, goes on a quest to save a princess from a vengeful wizard.
Runtime: 80 min.
Directed by: Bert I. Gordon
Stars: Basil Rathbone | Gary Lockwood | Anne Helm | Estelle Winwood | Liam Sullivan
Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
As: Angie (uncredited)
Damon Runyon's fairytale, sweet and funny, is told by director Frank Capra. Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much as part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples --- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more than luck when it turns out that Annie is in a jam and only they ...
Runtime: 136 min.
Directed by: Frank Capra
Stars: Peter Falk | Hope Lange | Bette Davis | Arthur O'Connell | Glenn Ford
The Adventures of Super Pup (1958)
Runtime: 22 min.
Directed by: Cal Howard
Stars: Angelo Rossitto | Billy Curtis | Frank Delfino | Harry Monty | Ruth Delfino
The Story of Mankind (1957)
As: Dwarf in Nero's Court (uncredited)
The Spirit of Man (Ronald Colman) debates history with the devil (Vincent Price) before a court of fate, because of the hydrogen bomb.
Runtime: 100 min.
Directed by: Irwin Allen
Stars: Groucho Marx | Harpo Marx | Chico Marx | Hedy Lamarr | Ronald Colman
Invasion of the Saucer Men (1957)
As: Saucer Man
A teenage couple making out in the woods accidentally runs over an alien creature with their car. The creature's hand falls off, but it comes alive, and, with an eye growing out of it, begins to stalk the teens. Meanwhile, Joe the town drunk wants to store the body in his refrigerator, but some of the alien's buddies inject alcohol into his system, and Joe dies of an overdose.
Runtime: 69 min.
Directed by: Edward L. Cahn
Stars: Frank Gorshin | Raymond Hatton | Steven Terrell | Gloria Castillo | Lyn Osborn
Dementia (1955)
As: Newsboy (uncredited)
Shot entirely without dialogue and filled with suggestive violence and psycho-sexual imagery, it's like a skid row expressionist thriller following the nocturnal prowling of a young woman haunted by homicidal guilt.
Runtime: 56 min.
Directed by: John Parker
Stars: Richard Barron | Bruno VeSota | Ben Roseman | Adrienne Barrett | Ed Hinkle
Mesa of Lost Women (1953)
As: Dwarf Lab Assistant
A mad scientist, Dr. Aranya (Jackie Coogan), has created giant spiders in his Mexican lab in Zarpa Mesa to create a race of superwomen by injecting spiders with human pituitary growth hormones. Women develop miraculous regenerative powers, but men mutate into disfigured dwarves. Spiders grow to human size and intelligence.
Runtime: 70 min.
Directed by: Herbert Tevos | Ron Ormond
Stars: Jackie Coogan | Lyle Talbot | Richard Travis | Paula Hill | Allan Nixon
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
As: Dwarf
To ensure a full profitable season, circus manager Brad Braden engages The Great Sebastian, though this moves his girlfriend Holly from her hard-won center trapeze spot. Holly and Sebastian begin a dangerous one-upmanship duel in the ring, while he pursues her on the ground.
Runtime: 152 min.
Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Charlton Heston | Cornel Wilde | Gloria Grahame | Betty Hutton | Dorothy Lamour
The Bandit Queen (1950)
As: Nino
Zara Montalve, half Spanish and half America, returns to her native California in time to see her parents murdered for their hacienda and gold by Sheriff Jim Harding and his gang. Posing as Lola Belmont, an American visiting from Detroit, teams up with Joaquin Murietta, posing as Carlos Del Rio, to form a Robin-Hood type band that takes vengeance on the gang and restores stolen gold to its rightful owners, ...
Runtime: 70 min.
Directed by: William Berke
Stars: Barton MacLane | Barbara Britton | Willard Parker | Phillip Reed | Martin Garralaga
The Baron of Arizona (1950)
As: Angie -- Gypsy
The U.S. government recognizes land grants made when the West was under Spanish rule. This inspires James Reavis to forge a chain of historical evidence that makes a foundling girl the Baroness of Arizona. Reavis marries the girl and presses his claim to the entire Arizona territory.
Runtime: 97 min.
Directed by: Samuel Fuller
Stars: Vincent Price | Reed Hadley | Ellen Drew | Vladimir Sokoloff | Beulah Bondi
Scared to Death (1947)
As: Indigo
A woman is married to the son of a doctor, the proprietor of a private sanatorium, where she is under unwilling treatment. Both the son and the doctor indicate they want the marriage dissolved. Arriving at the scene is a mysterious personage identified as the doctor's brother who formerly was a stage magician in Europe. He is accompanied by a threatening dwarf...
Runtime: 65 min.
Directed by: Christy Cabanne
Stars: George Zucco | Molly Lamont | Joyce Compton | Bela Lugosi | Nat Pendleton
The Spider Woman (1944)
As: Obongo - Pygmy (uncredited)
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of so-called "pajama suicides". He knows the female villain behind them is as cunning as Moriarty and as venomous as a spider.Based on "The Sign of Four" and the short stories "The Dying Detective", "The Final Problem", "The Speckled Band" and "The Adventure of the Devil's Foot".
Runtime: 63 min.
Directed by: Roy William Neill
Stars: Basil Rathbone | Dennis Hoey | Nigel Bruce | Vernon Downing | Gale Sondergaard
Reunion in France (1942)
As: Citizen in Bomb Shelter (uncredited)
Frenchwoman Michele de la Becque, an opponent of the Nazis in German-occupied Paris, hides a downed American flyer, Pat Talbot, and attempts to get him safely out of the country.
Runtime: 104 min.
Directed by: Jules Dassin
Stars: John Wayne | Reginald Owen | Joan Crawford | Philip Dorn | Albert Bassermann
The Corpse Vanishes (1942)
As: Toby (as Angelo)
A scientist keeps his wife young by killing, stealing the bodies of, and taking the gland fluid from virgin brides. He's aided by an old hag, her two sons - a brutish moron, and a malicious dwarf - in his twisted crimes. A woman reporter, investigating the mystery of the vanishing brides' bodies, accesses his home and discovers the horrid secrets held by the cavernous basement of his house.
Runtime: 64 min.
Directed by: Wallace Fox
Stars: Minerva Urecal | Luana Walters | Bela Lugosi | Elizabeth Russell | Tris Coffin
Hellzapoppin' (1941)
As: Dwarf Devil (uncredited)
Olsen and Johnson, a pair of stage comedians, try to turn their play into a movie and bring together a young couple in love, while breaking the fourth wall every step of the way.
Runtime: 84 min.
Directed by: H. C. Potter
Stars: Hugh Herbert | Jane Frazee | Martha Raye | Chic Johnson | Ole Olsen
Spooks Run Wild (1941)
As: Luigi
A group of delinquents on their way to summer camp get stuck in a haunted house.
Runtime: 65 min.
Directed by: Phil Rosen
Stars: Huntz Hall | Leo Gorcey | Bobby Jordan | Bela Lugosi | Dorothy Short
Doomed to Die (1940)
As: Newsboy #3 in Montage
Shipping magnate Cyrus Wentworth, downcast over a disaster to his ocean liner 'Wentworth Castle' (carrying, oddly enough, an illicit shipment of Chinese bonds) is shot in his office...at the very moment of kicking out his daughter's fiance Dick Fleming. Of course, Captain Street arrests Dick, but reporter Bobbie Logan, the attractive thorn in Street's side, is so convinced he's wrong that she enlists the ...
Runtime: 68 min.
Directed by: William Nigh
Stars: Boris Karloff | Catherine Craig | Grant Withers | Marjorie Reynolds | William Stelling
Mr. Wong in Chinatown (1939)
As: Mute Dwarf
A pretty Chinese woman, seeking help from San Francisco detective James Lee Wong, is killed by a poisoned dart in his front hall, having time only to scrawl "Captain J" on a sheet of paper. She proves to be Princess Lin Hwa, on a secret military mission for Chinese forces fighting the Japanese invasion. Mr. Wong finds two captains with the intial J in the case, neither being quite what he ...
Runtime: 71 min.
Directed by: William Nigh
Stars: Boris Karloff | Grant Withers | George Lynn | Marjorie Reynolds | Huntley Gordon
Child Bride (1938)
As: Angelo
Jennie is a twelve-year-old girl living with her parents in extremely rural mountain country. Her schoolteacher, Miss Carol, though a mountain girl herself, has gone off to be educated and returned in hopes of stopping the tradition of child marriage which permeates the culture. Jennie's father Ira is a good man who tries to protect Miss Carol from the men who threaten her if she doesn't call off her ...
Runtime: 62 min.
Directed by: Harry Revier
Stars: Shirley Mills | Warner Richmond | Bob Bollinger | Diana Durrell | Dorothy Carrol
Babes in Toyland (1934)
As: Straw-house Pig Elmer
Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby into marrying Stanley Dum instead of Bo Peep. Enraged, Barnaby unleashes the bogeymen from their caverns to destroy Toyland.
Runtime: 77 min.
Directed by: Gus Meins | Charley Rogers
Stars: Henry Brandon | Oliver Hardy | Charlotte Henry | Felix Knight | Stan Laurel
Carnival Lady (1933)
As: Dwarf
When his bank fails, a young man loses not only all his money but his fiancée, deserts him, too. Depressed, he joins a circus.
Runtime: 64 min.
Directed by: Howard Higgin
Stars: Donald Kerr | Jason Robards Sr. | Allen Vincent | Rollo Lloyd | Boots Mallory
Freaks (1932)
As: Angeleno
A circus' beautiful trapeze artist agrees to marry the leader of side-show performers, but his deformed friends discover she is only marrying him for his inheritance.
Runtime: 64 min.
Directed by: Tod Browning
Stars: Wallace Ford | Henry Victor | Olga Baclanova | Daisy Earles | Harry Earles
One Stolen Night (1929)
As: The Dwarf
When his ne'er-do-well brother embezzles the commissary funds of their cavalry unit stationed in the Sudan, a British soldier takes the blame for him. He winds up deserting his post and joining up with a traveling vaudeville troupe. He falls in love with a pretty young woman in one of the show's acts but finds that a local Arab sheik has his own plans for the young girl.
Runtime: 58 min.
Directed by: Scott R. Dunlap
Stars: Mitchell Lewis | Charles Hill Mailes | Nina Quartero | Betty Bronson | Harry Todd
Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
As: The Dwarf
A young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help about one of her fathers guests shortly before his planed departure. Her suspects about that guest were serious, this man tries to steal one of her fathers rubin, and she and her fiance are kidnapped and brought to a house, where strange things happen. The whole thing becomes a nightmare under the direction ...
Runtime: 60 min.
Directed by: Benjamin Christensen
Stars: Creighton Hale | Sheldon Lewis | William V. Mong | Thelma Todd | Sôjin
While the City Sleeps (1928)
As: Member of Skeeter's Gang
A tough New York cop is determined to bring down a crook who has always managed to provide an alibi for the crimes he's been accused of, even though the detective knows he's guilty of committing them.
Runtime: 66 min.
Directed by: Jack Conway
Stars: Wheeler Oakman | Lon Chaney | Mae Busch | Anita Page | Carroll Nye
Old San Francisco (1927)
As: Chang Loo - the Dwarf
An Asian villain menaces a family of aristocratic Spanish settlers.
Runtime: 88 min.
Directed by: Alan Crosland
Stars: Josef Swickard | Dolores Costello | Anders Randolf | Charles Emmett Mack | Warner Oland
The Beloved Rogue (1927)
As: Beppo - the Dwarf
François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
Runtime: 99 min.
Directed by: Alan Crosland
Stars: Conrad Veidt | Henry Victor | John Barrymore | Lawson Butt | Marceline Day