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name: "Francesco Barilli"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/francesco-barilli"
fi1m_id: "francesco-barilli"
imdb_id: "nm0054672"
tmdb_id: 240888
wikidata_id: "Q463855"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "4 February 1943"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T15:31:34.576140+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Francesco Barilli

## Identity

Francesco Barilli

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/francesco-barilli
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** francesco-barilli
- **IMDb ID:** nm0054672
- **TMDB ID:** 240888
- **Wikidata ID:** Q463855
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Barilli, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q463855, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0054672/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/240888

Actor. Born 4 February 1943 in Parma, Italy.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 4 February 1943, Parma, Italy
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francesco_Barilli, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q463855, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0054672/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/240888

## Biography

Francesco Barilli is an Italian actor, writer, director and painter. Born in Parma in 1943, he studied at the city's art institute and began painting seriously while still a teenager. He worked as a voluntary assistant to director Antonio Pietrangeli on *La parmigiana* (1963) and made his screen debut in a small role in that film.

Barilli played the lead role of Fabrizio in Bernardo Bertolucci's *Before the Revolution* (1964). He later wrote and directed the giallo horror *The Perfume of the Lady in Black* (1974), his feature debut, which became a cult film. He has also written for other directors and continued to work in painting and short films.

*Sources: it.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, wikidata.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Before the Revolution* (1964), Fi1m 76, as Fabrizio — [page](https://film.one/film/before-the-revolution.md)

## Complete filmography (22)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Francesco Barilli - Il cinema e la follia* (2026), Actor
- *Il paese del melodramma* (2023), Director, Screenplay, Production Design
- *Lord of the Ants* (2022), as Padre
- *Mondo Cannibale* (2016), Actor
- *Red Chairs - Parma and the Cinema* (2014), Director, Screenplay
- *The House in the Wind of the Dead* (2012), as Ugo · Director, Special Guest Director
- *The Wandering Knight* (2011), Director, Writer
- *The Last Fashion Show* (2011), as commissario
- *I, Don Giovanni* (2009), as Vescovo
- *Solitaire* (2008), as Mirco Cassiani
- *Uomini senza donne* (1996), as Dante
- *La famiglia Ricordi* (1995), series, Actor
- *Especially on Sunday* (1991), Director, Adaptation
- *The Trap* (1985), Story
- *Hotel Fear* (1978), Director, Screenplay
- *The Perfume of the Lady in Black* (1974), Director, Screenplay, Story
- *Man from Deep River* (1972), Writer
- *Who Saw Her Die?* (1972), Screenplay, Story
- *The Hawks and the Sparrows* (1966), Assistant Director Trainee
- *The Scream* (1966), as Paolo Caren
- *Before the Revolution* (1964), as Fabrizio — Fi1m 76, [page](https://film.one/film/before-the-revolution.md)
- *Casa Barilli*, Director

## Gallery

- ![Francesco Barilli](https://film.one/media/person/3910474/gallery-95af1d8ea5a9.jpg) Francesco Barilli — Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a4/Prima_della_rivoluzione_%281964%29_-_Francesco_Barilli_2.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Francesco Barilli](https://film.one/media/person/3910474/gallery-911770ad2e61.jpg) Francesco Barilli — Image via TMDB
- ![Francesco Barilli](https://film.one/media/person/3910474/gallery-cf161304c040.jpg) Francesco Barilli — Image via TMDB

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