Aroldo Tieri (28 August 1917 – 28 December 2006) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1939 and 1969.
Life and career
Born in
Corigliano Calabro,
province of Cosenza
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, son of the journalist and playwright Vincenzo Tieri, Aroldo Tieri moved in Rome at 18 to study law at university, and in the meanwhile approached acting and enrolled the
Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico.
Graduated in 1938, he almost immediately made his debut in theater and in film.
[ Soon Tieri became one of the most popular and appreciated young actors, with a predisposition to the comic genre.][ In cinema Tieri specialized in roles on jealous, irascible, nervous boyfriends, and this characterization limited his career and caused his retirement from films in the late 1960s.][ His versatility was revealed especially on stage and on television, that at the end of the 1950s gave him notoriety with a successful adaptation of the ]Dickens
Charles John Huffam Dickens (; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the great ...
' novel ''Nicholas Nickleby
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'' and then as host of '' Canzonissima'' in 1960.[
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Selected filmography
* '' Mad Animals'' (1939)
* '' Manon Lescaut'' (1940) - Il segretario di De Brienne
* '' The Hussar Captain'' (1940)
* ''Sancta Maria'' (1942)
* '' Disturbance'' (1942) - Aurelio
* '' Document Z-3'' (1942)
* '' Music on the Run'' (1943) - Piero - lo spasimante di Maria
* ''Il nostro prossimo'' (1943) - Il promesso sposo di Paola
* '' Redemption'' (1943) - Giuseppe Bongiovanni
* '' C'è sempre un ma!'' (1943) - Carletto
* ''Non sono superstizioso... ma!'' (1943) - Lo spasimante vevrastenico
* ''Il fidanzato di mia moglie'' (1943) - Enrico Paoletti
* '' Music on the Run'' (1943) - Luciano
* ''Chi l'ha visto?'' (1945)
* '' What a Distinguished Family'' (1945) - Duca Lothar Scintillati
* '' Come Back to Sorrento'' (1945) - L'altro Mario Bianchi
* ''The Voice of Love'' (1946) - Osvaldo
* ''Felicità perduta'' (1946) - Nicola
* '' Last Love'' (1947) - Il sergente d'aviazione
* ''When Love Calls'' (1947) - Pacini
* '' Crossroads of Passion'' (1948) - Franciolini
* '' Mad About Opera'' (1948) - Guido Marchi
* '' Toto Looks for a House'' (1949) - Checchino, il fidanzato
* ''I peggiori anni della nostra vita'' (1949) - Sacha
* '' Little Lady'' (1949) - Un ladro
* '' Sicilian Uprising'' (1949) - Folco
* ''Ho sognato il paradiso'' (1950) - Adriano
* '' Toto Looks for a Wife'' (1950) - Pippo, il pittore
* '' The Elusive Twelve'' (1950) - Il dottor Giechi
* '' Night Taxi'' (1950) - Conte Tattini
* ''The Transporter
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'' (1950) - Alberto
* '' Toto the Sheik'' (1950) - Il marchese Gastone
* '' 47 morto che parla'' (1950)
* '' Beauties on Bicycles'' (1951) - Aroldo - difanzato de Delia
* '' Song of Spring'' (1951) - Nino
* '' Milano miliardaria'' (1951) - Il marito geloso
* '' It's Love That's Ruining Me'' (1951) - Carlo
* '' Accidents to the Taxes!!'' (1951) - Il principe Oli
* '' Toto the Third Man'' (1951) - Anacleto - il sarto
* ''Auguri e figli maschi!
''Auguri e figli maschi!'' is a 1951 Italian film directed by Giorgio Simonelli.
Plot
A marshal's daughters are engaged to three boys, but they can't get married because they can't find apartments to live in on their own. The boys finally find ...
'' (1951) - Ruggero
* '' Cameriera bella presenza offresi...'' (1951) - Luigino, il segretario di Leonardi
* '' Beauties in Capri'' (1952) - Zalasky
* '' The Reluctant Magician'' (1951) - Mago Trapani
* '' Amor non ho... però... però'' (1951) - Giuliano
* '' Il microfono è vostro' (1951) - Filippo
* '' Tizio, Caio, Sempronio'' (1951) - Sempronio
* ''Mademoiselle Gobete
''Mademoiselle Gobete'' () is a 1952 Italian comedy film directed by Pietro Germi.
Cast
* Silvana Pampanini: Gobette
* Aroldo Tieri: Judge Luciano Pinglet
* Carlo Dapporto: Cipriano Gaudet
* Ave Ninchi: Aglae Tricoin
* Luigi Pavese
Lu ...
'' (1952) - Luciano Pinglet, il giudice istruttore
* '' Toto and the King of Rome'' (1952) - Ferruccio
* '' I morti non pagano tasse'' (1952) - Nicola, Il locandiere
* '' Il tallone di Achille'' (1952) - Pazzo della Reincarnazione
* ''Cavalcade of Song
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It was shot in Ferraniacolor at the Cinecittà studios in Rome.
Cast
* Alberto So ...
'' (1953) - L'innamorato della dattilografa
* '' Matrimonial Agency'' (1953) - Mario
* '' Sins of Casanova'' (1955) - José
* '' Noi siamo le colonne'' (1956) - Archimede
* ''Un angelo è sceso a Brooklyn'' (1957) - Bruno
* '' The Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby'' (1958, TV Series) - Wackford Squeers
* '' Toto, Peppino and the Fanatics'' (1958) - The Psychiatric Medical Director
* ''Gli zitelloni'' (1958) - Suo marito
* ''Tuppe tuppe, Marescià!
''Tuppe tuppe, Marescià!'', also known as ''È permesso Maresciallo?'', is a 1958 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and starring Peppino De Filippo and Giovanna Ralli.
Plot
In Sagliena, Pietro Stelluti has become a marshal ...
'' (1958) - Angiolino Angelucci
* '' Non perdiamo la testa'' (1959) - Ispettore di Scotland Yard
* '' Ciao, ciao bambina!'' (1959) - Il conduttore dei vagoni letto
* ''Le cameriere'' (1959) - Il ragioniere
* ''Le confident de ces dames'' (1959) - Le journaliste
* ''La cambiale
''La cambiale'' is a 1959 Italian comedy film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque.
Plot
Commander Bruscatelli, before being imprisoned, leaves the Posalaquaglia cousins a bill of exchange which they give to Temistocle Bisogni in compensation for ...
'' (1959) - Commendator Pierluigi Bruscatelli
* ''Juke box urli d'amore
''Juke box - Urli d'amore'' is a 1959 Italian musicarello film directed by Mauro Morassi. The film stars Mario Carotenuto and contains cameos by singers Mina (Italian singer), Mina and Adriano Celentano.
Plot
Mario, a little slacker who thrives on ...
'' (1959) - Anzillotto, the accountant
* '' Il raccomandato di ferro'' (1959) - The head clerk
* ''I baccanali di Tiberio'' (1960) - Lacone
* '' Messalina'' (1960) - Pirgo Pollinice
* '' Letto a tre piazze'' (1960) - Avv. Vacchi
* '' Chi si ferma è perduto'' (1960) - Matteo Rossi (II)
* ''Un dollaro di fifa'' (1960) - Mayor
* '' Le ambiziose'' (1961) - Goffredo Innamorati - un produttore
* '' The Joy of Living'' (1961) - 2. Anarchist
* ''Vacanze alla baia d'argento'' (1961) - Aroldo
* ''Che femmina!! E... che dollari!'' (1961)
* ''Cacciatori di dote'' (1961) - Alfonso Martini
* ''Mina... fuori la guardia'' (1961) - Renato Pacchioni
* '' Dreams Die at Dawn'' (1961) - Antonio
* ''No Man's Land'' (1962) - Tassoni
* ''Colpo gobbo all'italiana'' (1962) - Titillo
* '' Lo smemorato di Collegno'' (1962) - Dott. ALessandro Zannini
* ''I motorizzati
''I motorizzati'' is a 1962 Italian anthology comedy film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque, consisting of five segments all sharing cars as main theme.
Cast
*Ugo Tognazzi as Achille Pestani
* Nino Manfredi as Nino Borsetti
* Franco Franchi ...
'' (1962) - Dino
* '' Terrible Sheriff'' (1962) - Fats Missouri
* ''Gli eroi del doppio gioco
''Gli eroi del doppio gioco'' (Italian for "Heroes of the double play") is a 1962 Italian comedy film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque.
Plot
The film tells the successful attempts of two families of cancelling the traces of their involvement wi ...
'' (1962) - Primo Rossi
* ''Avventura al motel'' (1963) - Giorgio
* '' The Shortest Day'' (1963) - Tenente Farsardi (uncredited)
* ''La donna degli altri è sempre più bella'' (1963) - Marcello Mancini (segment "La luna di miele")
* ''I magnifici tre'' (1963) - Bonarios
* '' The Swindlers'' (1963) - Mr. Taverna (segment "Società calcistica, La")
* '' Gli onorevoli'' (1963) - Saverio Fallopponi
* ''La ballata dei mariti'' (1963) - Armando Tirreni
* '' I due mafiosi'' (1964) - Commissario Dupont
* '' Two Thousand Maniacs!'' (1964) - Mr. Bonfanti (segment "La cambiale") / Mario (segment "La protesta")
* '' Two Mafiamen in the Far West'' (1964) - Ramirez
* ''Le sette vipere (Il marito latino)'' (1964) - Barbikian
* '' Oh! Those Most Secret Agents!'' (1964) - Dr. Nicola Cirillo
* '' Salome '73'' (1965)
* '' Two Sergeants of General Custer'' (1965) - Specialista
* '' Con rispetto parlando'' (1965)
* ''La vedovella'' (1965) - Ambrogino
* '' Non son degno di te'' (1965) - RCA Manager
* '' Se non avessi più te'' (1965) - Neris
* '' Questo pazzo, pazzo mondo della canzone'' (1965)
* '' Spiaggia libera'' (1966) - Mario
* ''La feldmarescialla'' (1967) - Maj. Kurt von Baum
* '' Soldati e capelloni'' (1967) - Sergente Alberto Caputo
References
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1917 births
2006 deaths
People from Corigliano Calabro
Male actors from Calabria
Italian male film actors
Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico alumni
20th-century Italian male actors
Italian male stage actors