
Acting
May 17, 1940
Naples, Italy
Salvatore Basile
Acting
Biography
Salvatore Basile Ferrara (Naples, May 18, 1940 – Cartagena de Indias, January 26, 2026), better known as Salvo Basile, was an Italian film and television actor and producer, who became a naturalized Colombian citizen, a country where he lived from 1968 until his death.
Feature Films (24)

A fearsome 19th century bandit, Cobra Verde cuts a swath through Brazil until he arrives at the sugar plantation of Don Octávio Countinho. Not knowing that his new guest is the notorious bandit and impressed by his ruthless ways, Don Octávio hires Cobra Verde to oversee his slaves. But when Cobra Verde impregnates Don Octávio’s three daughters, the incensed plantation owner exiles the outlaw to Africa where he is expected to reopen the slave trade. Following his trans-Atlantic journey, Cobra Verde exploits tribal conflicts to commandeer an abandoned fortress and whips an army of naked warriors into a frenzied bloodlust as he vies for survival.
Cobra Verde

A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes.
Cannibal Holocaust

In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.
Love in the Time of Cholera

An elderly gangster just released from prison plans one last job, and gathers a small crew to do the job, but the plan goes sour when one of the crew betrays the details of the operation to a rival gangster.
Gangsters '70

Two missionaries come into conflict with the authorities when they turn their missionary into a parrot farm. The Bishop of Maracaibo calls them his 'black sheep' and the Monsignore has been called to check on their behavior. Like usual, our heroes help the poor to defend themselves and provoke some funny fist fights in the process.
The Two Missionaries

Muriel is beautiful, free-spirited and bed-ridden since a horrific accident. Leo is a drunk middle-aged ex-boxer. Desperate for work and unqualified, he interviews for Muriel, who hires him to cook and care for her against her better judgment. Initially out of his depth, Leo slowly wins Muriel's trust. As Muriel teaches him to read, he forces her to confront the joys beyond her window.
Cartagena

In the 21th century getting hold of natural resources of emerging countries, is no matter of war--it is a matter of complex financial actions. And the power of governments behind the events has been replaced by the power of holding companies. Nowadays you don't conquer a country. You buy it. "Short story of long betrayals" is again set in the Republic of Queimada, where in the "Salar de Queimada" (a salt lake) lies 50% of lithium in the whole world. Not surprisingly, there is an international interest in its fate and a breathless fight to seize it.
The Lithium Conspiracy

Island farmer Banana Joe helps the local community by trading his bananas for goods. When gangsters arrive with plans to construct a banana processing plant, Joe kicks them out, but the mob boss discovers that Joe is operating without a license. After the mob tips off the authorities and Joe's boat is impounded, he ventures into a big city for the first time to seek help.
Banana Joe

Two brothers sneak into a circus in order to free their grandfather's horse and fulfill his last wish.
A Horse Named Elephant

A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ-like leader determined to save his people, by passive resistance, from the dictatorial regime propped up by European colonialists, is imprisoned and tortured, along with a thief who comes to a greater understanding through his contact with Lalubi.
Black Jesus
Television & Series (6)

A Colombian miniseries that takes place in a rural environment, and the plot takes place in a dairy farm, hence its name. In this setting, a love story unfolds that will move the hearts of Colombians.
Leche

After being humiliated and mistreated, Ana Soler discovers who her father is and the pact he has made with the devil, and agrees with him to become a beautiful woman named Mariana Ferrer to recover her son and take revenge on those who destroyed her life.
La mujer en el espejo

Luciana Rivas, famous TV personality has everything in life, except for love. Joaquin lives in a beautiful remote island, when he sees Luciana on tv he is stunned by her beauty. He never imagined that his dream of meeting her in person would come true very soon.
Luciana's Nights

Blacky, a gigolo on the island of San Andrés, tries to make money by supplying fuel to the boats that transport drugs to Central America, but his plan goes spectacularly wrong and he becomes a witness to something he shouldn't have seen.




