Michele Mario Alberto Riccardini (October 2, 1910 – July 24, 1978) was an Italian
film actor
An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), ...
. He appeared in around fifty films during his career as well as several television episodes. In 1943 he played the role of Don Remigio in
Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti di Modrone, Count of Lonate Pozzolo (; 2 November 1906 – 17 March 1976) was an Italian filmmaker, stage director, and screenwriter. A major figure of Italian art and culture in the mid-20th century, Visconti was one of the ...
's ''
Ossessione''.
[Bacon p.248]
Partial filmography
* ''
Like the Leaves'' (1935) - Il Bronzino
* ''Come le foglie'' (1938) - Bernabei
* ''Retroscena'' (1939) - (uncredited)
* ''
Dora Nelson'' (1939) - Sor Mario
* ''Manon Lescaut'' (1940)
* ''
The Sinner'' (1940) - Un amico di Paolo e di Piero (uncredited)
* ''
Idyll in Budapest
''Idyll in Budapest'' (Italian: ''Idillio a Budapest'') is a 1941 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Ansoldi and Gabriele Varriale and starring Germaine Aussey, Osvaldo Valenti and Sergio Tofano.Chiti & Poppi p.177
It was shot at the Pi ...
'' (1941)
* ''La compagnia della teppa'' (1941) - Rossini
* ''Pia de' Tolomei'' (1941) - Baldo
* ''Se non son matti non li vogliamo'' (1941) - Un altro membro dei "Matti"
* ''L'amore canta'' (1941) - (uncredited)
* ''
Giarabub'' (1942) - Il cuoco
* ''
Street of the Five Moons'' (1942) - Michele
* ''Violette nei capelli'' (1942) - Il tirchio amico di Giuliano
* ''La fabbrica dell'imprevisto'' (1942) - Il regista
* ''I due Foscari'' (1942) - L'ubriaco nella taverna
* ''
The Champion'' (1943) - Federico
* ''
Ossessione'' (1943) - Don Remigio
* ''
The Ways of Sin
''The Ways of Sin'' (Italian: ''Le vie del peccato'') is a 1946 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Giorgio Pastina and starring Jacqueline Laurent, Leonardo Cortese and Carlo Ninchi. The film is a melodrama set in Sardinia at the begi ...
'' (1946) - Il sacerdote
* ''
The Great Dawn
''The Great Dawn'' ( Georgian: ''დიადი განთიადი'', trans. Diadi Gant’iadi; Russian: ''Великое зарево'', trans. Velikoe Zarevo. English-language title: ''They Wanted Peace''.) is a 1938 Soviet Georgian film ...
'' (1947) - Don Terenzio
* ''
Tragic Hunt
''Tragic Hunt'' (Italian: ''Caccia tragica'') is a 1947 Italian drama film directed by Giuseppe De Santis and starring Vivi Gioi, Andrea Checchi and Carla Del Poggio. It was part of the wave of postwar neorealist films. It was one of two produc ...
'' (1947) - Il maresciallo
* ''
Lost Youth
''Lost Youth'' ( it, Gioventù perduta) is a 1948 Italian-language drama film directed by Pietro Germi. The style of the film is close to the Italian neorealism film movement. It was remade in 1953 as the British film ''Black 13''.
Two im ...
'' (1948) - Sor Giuseppe (uncredited)
* ''
Mad About Opera'' (1948) - L'altro amico scrocone di Scala
* ''D'homme à hommes'' (1948)
* ''
The Walls of Malapaga'' (1949) - Le patron du restaurant / Il padrone dell'osteria (uncredited)
* ''Una voce nel tuo cuore'' (1949) - Enrico
* ''
No Peace Under the Olive Tree'' (1950) - Il maresciallo
* ''Il sentiero dell'odio'' (1950)
* ''
Double Cross'' (1951) - Signor Biagni
* ''Les miracles n'ont lieu qu'une fois'' (1951) - (uncredited)
* ''Viva il cinema!'' (1952)
* ''
Rome 11:00'' (1952)
* ''
The Blind Woman of Sorrento'' (1953) - Un congiurato
* ''Carmen proibita'' (1953)
* ''
Cavallina storna
''Cavallina storna'' (i.e. "Dappled Mare") is a 1953 Italian historical melodrama film directed by Giulio Morelli and starring Gino Cervi. It is loosely based on several autobiographical poems ("La cavalla storna", "X agosto", "Un ricordo", and ...
'' (1953) - Il sig. Francesco
* ''Gran Varietà'' (1954) - il banchiere Teresky (episodio 'Fregoli')
* ''
Theodora, Slave Empress
''Theodora, Slave Empress'' ( it, Teodora, imperatrice di Bisanzio) is a 1954 film about Theodora, a former slave who married Justinian I, emperor of Byzantium in AD 527–565. It was directed by Riccardo Freda.
Cast
*Gianna Maria Canale as " Th ...
'' (1954) - Il carceriere (uncredited)
* ''
Ulysses'' (1954) - Leodes
* ''
An American in Rome'' (1954) - Cameriere del ristorante (uncredited)
* ''
La tua donna
''La tua donna'' (i.e. "Your Woman") is a 1954 Italian melodrama film co-written and directed by Giovanni Paolucci and starring Patricia Neal, Massimo Girotti and Lea Padovani."La tua donna (Your Woman)". ''Films in Review''. Vol. 34. National Bo ...
'' (1954)
* ''
The Miller's Beautiful Wife
''The Miller's Beautiful Wife'' ( it, La bella mugnaia) is a 1955 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Camerini, that stars Marcello Mastroianni, Sophia Loren and Vittorio de Sica. A remake of the director's 1934 film, 'Il capello a tre punt ...
'' (1955) - Avvocato
* ''
Vacanze a Ischia'' (1957) - Avvocato Lojacono
* ''Le bellissime gambe di Sabrina'' (1958) - Ragioniere
* ''L'inferno addosso'' (1959)
* ''
Adua and Her Friends
''Adua and Her Friends'' ( it, Adua e le compagne), also known as ''Hungry For Love'', is a 1960 Italian film directed by Antonio Pietrangeli with a collaborative screenplay by the film's director together with Ruggero Maccari, Ettore Scola and ...
'' (1960) - The Yielding Customer in the Trattoria (uncredited)
* ''
Crimen'' (1960) - Luciano (uncredited)
* ''
Ghosts of Rome
''Ghosts of Rome'' ( it, Fantasmi a Roma) is a 1961 Italian comedy film directed by Antonio Pietrangeli. It was released in the UK in 1964 as ''The Phantom Lovers''.
Plot
Count di Roviano refuses to sell his palace to a developer, despite havin ...
'' (1961) - Antonio - sarto e portiere
* ''
The Joy of Living
''The Joy of Living'' ( it, Che gioia vivere, french: Quelle joie de vivre) is a 1961 Italian-French comedy film directed by René Clément. It was entered into the 1961 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot
The story is set in Rome, in the year 1921. Ul ...
'' (1961) - Greengrocer
References
External links
*
Bibliography
* Bacon, Henry. ''Visconti: Explorations of Beauty and Decay''. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
1910 births
1978 deaths
Italian male television actors
Italian male film actors
People from Perugia
20th-century Italian male actors
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