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Antonio Allocca
Antonio Allocca (24 June 1937 – 31 December 2013) was an Italian character actor. Life and career Born in Portici, Naples, Allocca debuted on stage in 1956, then in 1958, he worked with Eduardo De Filippo at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan in the comedy play ''Pulcinella in cerca della sua fortuna per Napoli''. In 1962, he made his television debut in ''Ditegli sempre di sì'' and ''Napoli Milionaria'', both directed by De Filippo. Very active both on stage and in films mainly in character roles, Allocca enjoyed a late success as in 1987, with the role of the professor of Italian in the three seasons of the Italia 1 television series '' I ragazzi della 3ª C''. Allocca died on 31 December 2013, aged 76, in Marcianise, Campania, Italy. Selected filmography *1974: '' Farfallon'' – Galeotto *1975: ''Dracula in the Provinces'' – Peppino *1975: '' Duck in Orange Sauce'' – Carmine *1978: '' Flatfoot in Africa'' – Receptionist *1979: ''Christ Stopped at Eboli'' – D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Flatfoot In Africa
''Piedone l'africano'' (internationally released as ''Flatfoot in Africa'', ''Knock-Out Cop'' and ''The K.O. Cop'') is a 1978 Italian "poliziottesco"-comedy film directed by Steno and starring Bud Spencer. It is the third and penultimate chapter in the "Flatfoot" film series. It is preceded by Flatfoot and Flatfoot in Hong Kong and followed by Flatfoot in Egypt Plot A trail of illicit diamonds takes Flatfoot and his acquaintance, Naples police commissioner Caputo, from Johannesburg to Swakopmund in the hopes of breaking up a South African smuggling ring. They are joined by Bodo, an African child, and confounded in their search by corrupt mining officials and an antagonistic inspector in the South-West African police. Cast * Bud Spencer as Insp. 'Flatfoot' Rizzo * Enzo Cannavale as Caputo * Werner Pochath as Spiros * Joe Stewardson as Smollet * Carel Trichardt as captain Muller * Dagmar Lassander as Margy Connors * Desmond Thompson as Inspector Desmond * Baldwin Dak ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duck In Orange Sauce
''Duck in Orange Sauce'' () is a 1975 Italian comedy film directed by Luciano Salce from a screenplay by Bernardino Zapponi, based on the 1968 play '' The Secretary Bird'' by William Douglas-Home (adapted in French by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon). For this film, Monica Vitti was awarded with a David di Donatello for Best Actress and with a Silver Ribbon in the same category. The film is named for the culinary dish duck à l'orange. Cast * Ugo Tognazzi as Livio Stefani * Monica Vitti as Lisa Stefani, Livio's wife * Barbara Bouchet as Patty, Livio's secretary and lover * John Richardson as Jean-Claude, Lisa's lover * Antonio Allocca as Carmine * Sabina De Guida as Cecilia * Tom Felleghy Tom Felleghy (born Tamás Fellegi; 26 November 1921 – 13 September 2005) was a Hungarian-born Italian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1958. Felleghy died in Bracciano, Lazio on 13 September 2005, at the age of 83. Film ... as Livio's colleague References External link ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scuola Di Ladri
''Scuola di ladri'' () is a 1986 Italian comedy film directed by Neri Parenti starring Enrico Maria Salerno. Plot summary Rome, Italy mid-1980s. Three cousins, who do not know each other and who live poor, are gathered from paralytic uncle Aliprando who leads them to a "big job". After they have completed the mission, he robs them. Cast * Enrico Maria Salerno as Aliprando Siraghi * Paolo Villaggio as Dalmazio Siraghi * Lino Banfi as Amalio Siraghi * Massimo Boldi as Egisto Siraghi * Barbara Scoppa as Marisa Padovan * Ennio Antonelli as Fake priest * Antonio Barrios as Franco Nero * Claudio Boldi as The guard * Corrado Monteforte as Minotti * Antonio Allocca as Wealthy farmer of Caserta * Willy Moser as Embassy Luxembourg usher Release The film was released in Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Europe, Western Europe. It consists of Italian Peninsula, a peninsula that extends into the Mediterranean S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aurora (1984 Film)
''Aurora'' () is a 1984 Italian made-for-television drama film directed by Maurizio Ponzi and starring Sophia Loren, Edoardo Ponti and Daniel J. Travanti. In order to raise money for an operation for her son, a woman tells various former wealthy lovers that they are his father. The film originally premiered in the United States on NBC on October 21, 1984 and released theatrically in Italy on January 17, 1985. Plot A desperate woman (Loren), in crisis and poverty, is in search of the cruel husband (Noiret) who abandoned after giving her a son. The boy has now become almost an adult has a serious eye problem and is likely to become completely blind. The mother then choose to leave to go in search of his father, who in the meantime is starting a new life. When the mother finds out where he is, also learns that the cruel man has remade a family by marrying a young girl, who became the mother of a twenty-year-old son who has had the cruel man from another relationship. Cast * Sophia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Così Parlò Bellavista
''Così parlò Bellavista'' is a 1984 Italian comedy film based on the novel of the same name by Luciano De Crescenzo. De Crescenzo directed the film and also played the main role. For this film De Crescenzo won David di Donatello and Nastro d'Argento for best new director, while Marina Confalone won the same awards in the best supporting actress category. Plot summary In Naples, Professor Bellavista is a retired man, passionate about the philosophy and thought of Ancient Greece. Every day, in his luxurious apartment, he teaches his lessons of life to the poor-nothing (his friends), who are dazzled by his reasoning. One day, however, the quiet life of the building of Bellavista will be disturbed by the arrival of a director of Milan. Between Naples and Milan there is a sharp contrast, because the Neapolitans are accustomed to enjoy a quiet life, always based on the "philosophy of pleasure and delay", while the northern Italians are very strict and punctual. Cast * Luciano De C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Where's Picone?
''Where's Picone?'' (, also known as ''Picone Sent Me'') is a 1983 Italian comedy film directed by Nanni Loy. Although selected as the Italian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 57th Academy Awards, it was not nominated. Plot During a debate in Naples' town hall during the early 80s Pasquale Picone, a former Italsider (Italy's then state-owned steel company) worker who had recently lost his job pulls out a jerrycan of gasoline and sets himself alight in front of the Municipal Council, his wife and her three kids are unable to find out where he has been taken after an ambulance arrives with unusual haste and disappears with him on board. Desperate for news about her husband, the woman hires an unlikely kind of 'private eye' (Giancarlo Giannini), in the form of Salvatore Cannavacciuolo, a man who ekes out a living giving informations to people visiting the morgue for one thousand lire apiece. During his investigations Salvatore (who had his less than noble motivations to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Il Ras Del Quartiere
''Il ras del quartiere'' () is a 1983 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Vanzina. Cast *Diego Abatantuono as Domingo * Isabella Ferrari as Veronica Gatti *Lino Troisi as Tarcisio Gatti *Daniel Stephen as Orson *Antonio Allocca Antonio Allocca (24 June 1937 – 31 December 2013) was an Italian character actor. Life and career Born in Portici, Naples, Allocca debuted on stage in 1956, then in 1958, he worked with Eduardo De Filippo at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan ... as the Brigadier *Gianni Cajafa as the janitor *Gianni Ansaldi as Arturo Beccalossi *Lara Nakszyński as Lola * Mauro Di Francesco as Jena References External links * 1983 films Films directed by Carlo Vanzina 1980s Italian-language films 1983 comedy films Italian comedy films 1980s Italian films {{1980s-Italy-film-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantozzi Subisce Ancora
''Fantozzi subisce ancora'' ("''Fantozzi Succumbs Again''") is a 1983 Italian comedy film directed by Neri Parenti. It is the fourth chapter in the Fantozzi film series of the unlucky clerk Ugo Fantozzi, played by its creator, Paolo Villaggio. Plot New misadventures of Accountant Fantozzi: a reunion of the apartment building's tenants, the campervan holiday, the pregnancy of his daughter Mariangela, the company games of athletics, the moment of the political elections. Cast * Paolo Villaggio as Ugo Fantozzi * Milena Vukotic as Pina Fantozzi * Gigi Reder as Filini * Plinio Fernando as Mariangela Fantozzi * Anna Mazzamauro as Mrs. Silvani * Riccardo Garrone as Luciano Calboni * Andrea Roncato as Loris Batacchi * Michele Mirabella as Fonelli Cobram II * Ugo Bologna as Director Count Corrado Maria Lobbiam * Camillo Milli as Dottor Grandi * Marina Hedman as The Countess * Alessandro Haber as Dr. Zamprini Loredano * Clara Colosimo as Nun at the Hospital * Carlo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pappa E Ciccia
''Pappa e ciccia'' (also known as '' Two of a Kind'') is a 1983 Italian comedy film directed by Neri Parenti. Plot First segment: Nicola Calore, an Apulian mason who emigrated in Switzerland, faces the visit of his niece Rosina who believes that he has become wealthy. Second segment: the misadventures that occurred to two surveyors during their stay in a holiday village in Kenya. Cast *Lino Banfi: Nicola Calore / Capitano Tombale *Paolo Villaggio: Geometra / Infermiera *Milly Carlucci: Rosina Calore / Claudia *Jacques Herlin: Herr Schmidt * Pippo Santonastaso: Guido Colzi *Marina Confalone: Antonia *Antonio Allocca Antonio Allocca (24 June 1937 – 31 December 2013) was an Italian character actor. Life and career Born in Portici, Naples, Allocca debuted on stage in 1956, then in 1958, he worked with Eduardo De Filippo at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan ...: Pino * Roberto Della Casa: Goffredo References External links * 1983 films Italian comedy films 1980s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bonnie And Clyde Italian Style
''Bonnie and Clyde Italian Style'' (), is a 1983 Italian comedy film directed by Steno. Plot Leo and Giada are two bumbling and bungling citizens who are mistaken for dangerous bandits because of a misunderstanding by the police. In fact during a robbery Leo and Giada were involved in the theft and they're taken hostage and the police tracked down the thieves when he discovered the identity cards of the two bungling. After several chases thieves before they reach the same Leo and Giada kidnapping them again, because the two unknowingly possess an important part of the loot stolen by bandits in the first shot he saw all the characters gathered together. Cast *Ornella Muti as Rosetta Foschini aka Giada *Paolo Villaggio as Leo Gavazzi *Jean Sorel as Carabinieri Captain *Nando Murolo as the Marsigliese *Antonio Allocca as Medico *Fulvio Mingozzi as Dr. Dominici * Corrado Olmi as Toy merchant Release The film was released in Italy on February 17, 1983 See also * List o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sogni Mostruosamente Proibiti
''Sogni mostruosamente proibiti'' () is a 1982 Italian comedy film directed by Neri Parenti. The film is loosely inspired by ''The Secret Life of Walter Mitty''. Plot Paolo Coniglio is a naive and bumbling writer in a publishing house of comics, bullied by the director and by his future mother-in-law. To escape the dreary daily routine, he finds himself the protagonist of very vivid daydreams in the company of Dalia, the beautiful heroine of the comic books who is responsible of translating. His visions play with popular heroes of the literature and comics, like Parsifal, Superman and Tarzan. Every time his awakening is increasingly more abrupt, when one day, doing the grocery shopping, he meets a charming blonde girl identical to Dalia that, against his will, involves him in a shady intrigue. Cast *Paolo Villaggio as Paolo Coniglio * Janet Agren as Dalia *Alessandro Haber as Commissioner Rovere *Antonio Allocca as Brigadier Lamanna *Sophia Lombardo as Marina Saracini *Al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fracchia La Belva Umana
''Fracchia la belva umana'', also known as ''Fracchia the Fanatic'' or ''Fracchia the Human Beast'', is a 1981 Italian comedy film directed by Neri Parenti. The film is loosely inspired by The Whole Town's Talking. It was screened at the 67th Venice International Film Festival as an Italian comedy. Its cast includes: Paolo Villaggio, Lino Banfi and the then young Massimo Boldi and Francesco Salvi. Plot Giandomenico Fracchia is a shy and meek employee in a confectionery company, who suffers repeated bullying from his boss Dr. Orimbelli, his colleagues, and even from his neighbors and cleaning lady. While on a date with reluctant coworker Miss Corvino, Fracchia is repeatedly arrested, questioned and abused by the Police, DIGOS and Carabinieri, on the suspicion of being a violent and ruthless international public enemy, known only by his nickname "The Human Beast", whose exact likeness is shared by Fracchia. Realizing the striking resemblance, the lawmen provide Fracchia with a p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |