Carlo Sposito (1 May 1924 – 9 September 1984) was an Italian character actor, sometimes credited as Carletto Sposito.
Born in
Palermo
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, he was among the most active actors in the
post-war
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Italian genre cinema.
He was also pretty active on stage, radio and television.
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He died at 60 of ]myocardial infarction
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, in Rome. He was the brother of the playwright Faele.
Selected filmography
* '' For the Love of Mariastella'' (1946) - Rosalino
* '' Difficult Years'' (1948) - Riccardo
* '' Return to Naples'' (1949) - Vittorio
* '' Flying Squadron'' (1949) - Allievo
* ''Cintura di castità'' (1950)
* '' Women Without Names'' (1950) - Ciulian the Albanian Ice-cream Maker
* '' His Last Twelve Hours'' (1950) - Il duca Luca Sorino
* ''Il monello della strada'' (1950)
* '' The Crossroads'' (1951) - Il vice-commissario Sani
* '' The Ungrateful Heart'' (1951) - Anselmo
* '' The Young Caruso'' (1951) - Giovanni "Gianni" Palma
* '' Paris Is Always Paris'' (1951) - Toto Mancuso
* '' Una bruna indiavolata!'' (1951) - Giulio
* '' His Last Twelve Hours'' (1951) - Alfredo Bruca
* '' Falsehood'' (1952) - Il brigadiere Oriani
* ''Serenata amara'' (1952)
* '' Giovinezza'' (1952) - Venditore ambulante
* '' The Piano Tuner Has Arrived'' (1952)
* '' Cats and Dogs'' (1952) - Tonino
* ''Le marchand de Venise'' (1953)
* '' Noi peccatori'' (1953) - Francesco
* '' A Husband for Anna'' (1953) - Nicolino - l'aiuto del fotografo
* ''Ci troviamo in galleria'' (1953) - Poppo
* '' Processo contro ignoti'' (1954) - Operaio del garage
* ''Marriage
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'' (1954) - Epaminonda Maksimovich Aplombov, il sposo
* '' Theodora, Slave Empress'' (1954) - Scarpios
* '' Papà Pacifico'' (1954) - Itinerant vendor
* '' The Three Thieves'' (1954) - Michele
* ''Prima di sera'' (1954) - The Lawyer in Capena
* '' Milanese in Naples'' (1954) - Assistente del Prof. Simoni
* '' The Art of Getting Along'' (1955) - Il duca di Lanocita
* '' The Miller's Beautiful Wife'' (1955) - Pasqualino
* ''Il falco d'oro'' (1955) - Baccio
* '' Songs of Italy'' (1955)
* ''Donne, amore e matrimoni'' (1956) - Oreste
* ''Cantando sotto le stelle'' (1956) - Gelsomino
* '' Serenate per 16 bionde'' (1957) - Raimondo
* '' The Love Specialist'' (1957)
* ''Primo applauso'' (1957)
* ''Serenatella sciuè sciuè'' (1958) - don Liborio
* ''Marinai, donne e guai'' (1958)
* ''Le cameriere'' (1959)
* '' Le sorprese dell'amore'' (1959) - Gaspare Florio
* ''Ferdinando I° re di Napoli'' (1959) - (uncredited)
* '' La sceriffa'' (1960) - Gennarino - aka Gen
* '' Latin Lovers'' (1965) - L'amico di Fifì (segment "L'irreparabile")
* ''Con rispetto parlando'' (1965)
* '' I complessi'' (1965) - Massimo Tabusso (segment "Il Complesso della Schiava nubiana") (uncredited)
* '' Me, Me, Me... and the Others'' (1966) - Barman
* ''Ischia operazione amore'' (1966) - Maresciallo Francesco Capaci
* '' Don Juan in Sicily'' (1967) - Scannapieco
* ''Quando dico che ti amo'' (1967) - Guiducci - Male nurse
* ''I zanzaroni'' (1967) - (segment "Quelli qui partono")
* '' Un caso di coscienza'' (1970) - Benito Pozzi
* '' W le donne'' (1970) - Galluppi
* ''La prima notte del dottor Danieli, industriale, col complesso del... giocattolo'' (1970) - Totò
* ''Principe coronato cercasi per ricca ereditiera'' (1970) - Antonio 'Totò' Spampinato della Scaletta
* ''Le inibizioni del dottor Gaudenzi, vedovo col complesso della buonanima'' (1971) - Serpieri - the General Manager
* ''Le belve'' (1971) - Avv. Apposito (segment "Il caso Apposito")
* '' When Women Were Called Virgins'' (1972) - Fra' Mariaccio
* '' Il fidanzamento'' (1975) - Totò
* '' My Sister in Law'' (1976) - Prosecutor
* '' The Schoolteacher Goes to Boys' High'' (1977) - Hauffmann
* '' The Schoolteacher Goes to Boys' High'' (1978) - Prof. Morlupo
* '' La liceale nella classe dei ripetenti'' (1978) - The Principal
* ''Cugine mie'' (1978) - Zio Federico
* '' The School Teacher in the House'' (1978) - Colonnello Marullo
* '' How to Seduce Your Teacher'' (1979) - Professor Cacioppo
* '' The Nurse in the Military Madhouse'' (1979) - Madman
* '' La ripetente fa l'occhietto al preside'' (1980) - Don Evaristo
References
External links
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Italian male film actors
1924 births
Male actors from Palermo
1984 deaths
Italian male television actors
Italian male stage actors
20th-century Italian male actors
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