Luca Barbareschi
Known For
Acting
Born
1956-07-28 in Montevideo, Uruguay
Biography
Luca Barbareschi (born 28 July 1956 in Montevideo) is an Italian-Uruguayan actor, television presenter, and former member of the Italian Chamber of Deputies. Barbareschi is Jewish. He was one of four actors whom the Italian police believed had been murdered in the making of the 1980 horror film Cannibal Holocaust, where he also abused and killed a young piglet. So realistic was the film that shortly after it was released its director Ruggero Deodato was arrested on suspicions of murder. The actors had signed contracts to stay out of the media for a year in order to fuel rumours that the film was a snuff movie. The court was only convinced that they were alive when the contracts were cancelled and the actors appeared on a television show as proof. In 2008, he was elected as Member of the Italian Parliament at the Chamber of Deputies with Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right party The People of Freedom. In 2010 he joined, with other 32 deputies and 10 senators, the Gianfranco Fini's new party Future and Freedom. He left parliament in 2013. On 11 June 2012 he becomes the protagonist of an attack against Filippo Roma, a journalist. He attacked the cameraman Marco Occhipinti destroying the camera and stealing his personal smartphone, with which he was filming the attack. The police rushed to the scene but without making any arrest, unable to search him for parliamentary immunity. The journalist filed a complaint for theft, but according to some witnesses the cell phone, never returned, would have been destroyed by Barbareschi. On 28 August 2012 in Filicudi a similar event is repeated which sees Barbareschi attack again with kicks and punches the journalist Filippo Roma and hit his cameraman. Source: Article "Luca Barbareschi" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Most Known For
Cannibal Holocaust
as Mark Tomaso
Jesus
as Herodes Antipas
The International
as Umberto Calvin
The Accursed Kings
as Spinello Tolomei
Ciao Darwin
as Capitano Settentrionali
Cursed Films
as Self
An Officer and a Spy
as Philippe Monnier
Ardena
Fog and Crimes
as Commissario Franco Soneri
Buio nella Valle
as Brigadiere Sanna
The Palace
as Bongo
Jesus
as Herod
Trenta righe per un delitto
as Walter Cherubini
Zwei Männer und die Frauen
as Saverio
L'Aquila - Grandi speranze
as Riccardo De Angelis
Cut and Run
as Bud
Wanderjahre
as Luigi
Things Change
as Italian man on Lake Tahoe plank (uncredited)
Bits & Pieces
