This is a list of male actors from Italy, which generally includes those who have resided in Italy or have largely appeared in Italian film productions. This list includes all actors from :Italian male actors.
Persons are listed alphabetically by surname.
Stefano Accorsi
Stefano Lelio Beniamino Accorsi (; born 2 March 1971) is an Italian actor.
Early life and background
Accorsi was born in Bologna. He graduated from Bologna's Theatrical School in 1993, and acted in the theatre for several years before moving to ...
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Antonio Acqua
Antonio Acqua (5 November 1893 - 18 October 1966) was an Italian actor of the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
Born in Rome, Acqua was mainly active on stage and in films as a character actor, specialized in roles of lawyers, military officers, politic ...
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Giuseppe Addobbati
Giuseppe Addobbati (31 December 1909 – 4 January 1986) was an Italian film actor known for his roles in Spaghetti Western and action films in the 1960s and 1970s. He was often billed as John MacDouglas for films released to an American audi ...
Antonio Albanese
Antonio Albanese (born 10 October 1964 in Olginate, Province of Lecco), is an Italian comedian, actor, director and writer.
Biography
Born in Lombardy to Sicilian parents, he studied at the Civic Drama School in Milan, then opted to pursue a ...
Gigio Alberti
Gigio Alberti (born 19 June 1956) is an Italian actor.
Background
Born in Milan as Luigi Alberti, he studied at the acting school of the Piccolo Teatro, graduating in 1981. His career is mainly associated to Gabriele Salvatores, with whom he ...
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Guido Alberti
Guido Alberti (20 April 1909 Birth name: Guido Renato Vittorio Alberti. – 3 August 1996) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1963 and 1993.
Selected filmography
* ''Wild Love'' (1956) – Sor Alberto (uncredited)
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Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo
Aldo, Giovanni e Giacomo are an Italian trio of comedians, actors, directors and screenwriters, comprising Cataldo "Aldo" Baglio (; born 28 September 1958), Giovanni Storti (; born 20 February 1957) and Giacomino "Giacomo" Poretti (; born 26 ...
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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 ...
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Ernesto Almirante
Ernesto Almirante (24 September 1877 – 13 December 1964) was an Italian film and stage actor.
Life and career
Born in Mistretta into a family of actors, Almirante worked several years on stage along his father Nunzio. He was also active as ...
Tullio Altamura
Tullio Altamura (born 18 July 1924) is an Italian actor, best known for his roles in spaghetti westerns and action films in the 1960s.
Life and career
Born in Bologna, the son of a career officer in the Italian army, Altamura grew up in Rome ...
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Gerardo Amato
Gerardo Amato (born 15 October 1948) is an Italian actor and voice actor.
Life and career
Born Gerardo Placido in Ascoli Satriano, the brother of the actor and director Michele Placido, Gerardo Amato at a young age moved to Milan where he trai ...
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Claudio Amendola
Claudio Amendola (born 16 February 1963) is an Italian actor, film director and television presenter. He starred in the 1993 film '' The Escort'', which was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival.
Biography
Born in Rome and the son of act ...
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Ferruccio Amendola
Ferruccio Amendola (22 July 1930 – 3 September 2001) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Turin to actors Federico Amendola and Amelia Ricci and the nephew of director and screenwriter Mario Amendola, he was among Italy's m ...
Giuseppe Anatrelli
Giuseppe Anatrelli (3 January 1925 – 29 November 1981), also known as Geppino Anatrelli, was an Italian film, stage and television actor.
Born in Naples, he was part of the Eduardo De Filippo
Eduardo De Filippo OMRI (; 26 May 1900 – ...
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Felice Andreasi
Felice Andreasi (8 January 1928, in Turin – 25 December 2005, in Cortazzone) was an Italian film, television, and stage actor. He appeared in over 50 films in Italy between 1972 and 2005.
Biography
He was considered one of the leading stage a ...
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Oscar Andriani
Oscar Andriani (28 December 1905 – 17 July 1987) was an Italian actor and playwright. He appeared in more than fifty films from 1937 to 1969.
Life and career
Born in Brescia, Andriani made his stage debut at 17 years old in the theatrical com ...
Nando Angelini
Nando Angelini (born 17 August 1933) is an Italian actor. He appeared in more than eighty films since 1957.
Life and career
Born in San Benedetto del Tronto, Angelini enrolled at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, graduating in 1955. Ve ...
Corrado Annicelli
Corrado Annicelli (1 September 1905 – 28 August 1984) was an Italian actor.
Life and career
Born in Naples, Annicelli made his stage debut in 1927, cast by Dora Menichelli to play a fascinating officer in the drama play ''Guerra in tempo ...
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Gabriele Antonini
Gabriele Antonini (born 16 April 1938, died October 2018) was an Italian film, stage and television actor.
Life and career
Born in Rome, the son of an army general, Antonini was chosen by Mario Monicelli for the role of Sandro in '' Fathers and ...
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Omero Antonutti
Omero Antonutti (3 August 1935 – 5 November 2019) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Basiliano, in the province of Udine (in the Northeastern Italian region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia), after having worked in shipyards, ...
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Renzo Arbore
Lorenzo Giovanni "Renzo" Arbore (; born 24 June 1937) is an Italian television host, singer, actor and film director.
Career
Arbore became nationally recognized as radio anchor man, together with Gianni Boncompagni, in the late 1960s, with ...
Maurizio Arena
Maurizio Arena (26 December 1933 – 21 November 1979) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1952 and 1978.
Life and career
Born in Rome as Maurizio Di Lorenzo, Arena made his film debut at nineteen years old, ...
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Henry Armetta
Henry Armetta (born Enrico Armetta; July 4, 1888 – October 21, 1945) was an American character actor who appeared in at least 150 American films, beginning in silent movies. His last film was released posthumously in 1946, the year after his d ...
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Andrea Aureli
Andrea Aureli (5 March 1923 – 5 November 2007) was an Italian actor.
Life and career
Born in Terni, Aureli graduated from the Liceo classico in his hometown, then he enrolled the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome, graduating i ...
Don Backy
Don Backy (born Aldo Caponi on 21 August 1939) is an Italian singer-songwriter and actor.
Life and career
Born in Santa Croce sull'Arno, Caponi spent his early years in Castellammare di Stabia before returning to his hometown in 1955.Bassignan ...
Carlo Bagno
Carlo Bagno (21 March 1920 – 19 January 1990) was an Italian actor.
Life and career
Born in Lendinara, Rovigo, Bagno studied acting at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, graduating in 1941.
Bagno was mainly active ...
Ennio Balbo
Ennio Balbo (18 April 1922 – 18 June 1989) was an Italian film, television and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Naples, Balbo made his debut on stage immediately after the Second World War alongside Paola Borboni and Lamberto Picasso in Lui ...
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Raf Baldassarre
Raffaele "Raf" Baldassarre (17 January 1932 - 11 January 1995) was an Italian film actor.
Life and career
Born Raffaele Baldassarre in Giurdignano, Lecce, Apulia, he started his career in the late 1950s, being cast in many peplum and advent ...
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Renato Baldini
Renato Baldini (18 December 1921 – 5 July 1995) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 87 films between 1950 and 1983. He was born in Rome, Italy.
Selected filmography
* ''It's Forever Springtime'' (1950) - Un carabiniere al processo
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Franco Balducci
Franco Balducci (23 November 1922 – 7 June 2001) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 75 films between 1947 and 1978. He was born in Umbria, Italy.
Selected filmography
* '' Bullet for Stefano'' (1947) - Giacomo
* ''Tempesta su Pari ...
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Gigi Ballista
Gigi Ballista (1 December 1918 – 2 August 1980) was an Italian film and television actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1961 and 1980.
Life and career
Born in Florence, Ballista graduated in law, then he started working as a PR consulta ...
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Ignazio Balsamo
Ignazio Balsamo (25 October 1912 – 7 August 1994) was an Italian film and stage actor.
Life and career
Born in Catania, Balsamo began his career on stage, being part of several Sicilian language theatrical companies. Discovered by Pietr ...
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Lino Banfi
Lino Banfi (born Pasquale Zagaria; 9 July 1936) is an Italian actor and screenwriter. Since 1960 he has appeared in more than 100 films.
Biography
Banfi was born in the Apulian city of Andria, and at the age of three he moved to Canosa di P ...
Guglielmo Barnabò
Guglielmo Barnabò (11 May 1888 – 31 May 1954) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1926 and 1954.
Life and career
Born in Ancona, Barnabò made his stage debut in 1921 at the Greek Theatre of S ...
Rick Battaglia
Rik Battaglia (byname of Caterino Bertaglia; 18 February 1927 – 27 March 2015) was an Italian film actor.
Career
Battaglia appeared in a number of historical and peplum films, such as '' The Mighty Crusaders'' (1958, Carlo Ludovico Bragagli ...
Memo Benassi
Domenico "Memo" Benassi (21 June 1886 – 24 February 1957) was an Italian stage and film actor who appeared in more than forty films in a mixture of leading and supporting roles.
Life and career
Born in Sorbolo, Benassi initially formed as a ...
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Carmelo Bene
Carmelo Pompilio Realino Antonio Bene (1 September 1937 – 16 March 2002) was an Italian actor, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was an important exponent of the Italian avant-garde theatre and cinema.
In 1968, his movie Our Lady ...
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Roberto Benigni
Roberto Remigio Benigni ( , ; born 27 October 1952) is an Italian actor, comedian, screenwriter, and film director. He gained international recognition for writing, directing, and starring in the Holocaust comedy drama film ''Life Is Beautifu ...
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Francesco Benigno
Francesco Benigno (born 4 October 1967), is an Italian actor, director, singer and television personality.
Early life
Benigno was born in Palermo, Sicily, the twelfth of thirteen children. He grew up in Via Cataldo Parisio located in the densel ...
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Galeazzo Benti
Galeazzo Benti (6 August 1923 – 21 April 1993) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1942 and 1991.
Life and career
Born Galeazzo Bentivoglio in Florence, Italy, a descendant of the Bentivoglio family, which ru ...
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Fabrizio Bentivoglio
Fabrizio Bentivoglio (born 4 January 1957) is an Italian film and stage actor and screenwriter.
Biography
Fabrizio Bentivoglio was born in Milan (his father is Venetian). After only one season in the juvenile team of Inter Milan, he left his ...
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Alessandro Benvenuti
Alessandro Benvenuti (born 31 January 1950) is an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter. He was co-founder, together with Francesco Nuti and Athina Cenci, of the comedy ensemble "GianCattivi" with whom he achieved his first successes on ...
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Nerio Bernardi
Nerino "Nerio" Bernardi (23 July 1899 – 12 January 1971) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in nearly 200 films between 1918 and 1970.
Life and career
Born in Bologna, Bernardi started his acting career in 1918 with a loc ...
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Toni Bertorelli
Toni Bertorelli (18 March 1948 – 26 May 2017) was an Italian actor. He performed in over sixty films.
Biography
Bertorelli was born in Barge, Piedmont, Italy.
Bertorelli began his acting career in 1969 working with his friend Carlo Cecchi. H ...
Nino Besozzi
Nino Besozzi (6 February 1901 – 2 February 1971) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1931 and 1970. He was born in and died in Milan, Italy.
Life and career
After graduating in accountancy, Besozzi made ...
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Cesare Bettarini
Cesare Bettarini (17 October 1901 – 19 October 1975) was an Italian film actor
An actor (masculine/gender-neutral), or actress (feminine), is a person who portrays a character in a production. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the tradit ...
Oreste Bilancia
Oreste Bilancia (24 September 1881 – 31 October 1945) was an Italian film actor.
Born in Catania, Sicily, he was a star of Italian films in the silent era. He worked during the 1920s in Weimar Germany, which had the largest European film ind ...
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Enzo Biliotti
Enzo Biliotti (28 June 1887 – 19 November 1976) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 80 films between 1916 and 1958.
Life and career
Born in Livorno, Biliotti started his career in 1918, in the stage company of and Olga Vittoria Gentil ...
Gildo Bocci
Gildo Bocci (1 September 1886 – 22 July 1964) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1913 and 1959. He was born and died in Rome, Italy.
Partial filmography
* '' Messalina'' (1924) - Apollonio
* '' Quo Vadis'' (1924) ...
Massimo Boldi
Massimo Antonio Boldi (born 23 July 1945) is an Italian stand-up comedian and actor.
Biography
Boldi was born in Luino on 23 July 1945. In 1955 his family moved to Milan, where he joined evening classes and began working as a window-dresser ...
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Ugo Bologna
Ugo Bologna (11 September 1917 – 29 January 1998) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Milan, the son of a municipal employee and a housewife, in 1936 Bologna started working as a primary school teacher, and in 1939 he atte ...
Paolo Bonacelli
Paolo Bonacelli (born 28 February 1937) is an Italian stage and film actor.
Bonacelli graduated from the National Academy of Dramatic Arts in Rome. After debuting on stage in Vittorio Gassman's ''Questa sera si recita a soggetto'', he had his fi ...
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Gianni Bonagura
Gianfelice "Gianni" Bonagura (27 October 1925 – 8 October 2017) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Life and career
Born in Milan, Bonagura was active on film, stage, television and radio. He appeared in 40 films between 1950 and 2001. ...
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Massimo Bonetti
Massimo Bonetti (born 28 March 1951) is an Italian actor and director.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Bonetti after several years as character actor debuted in a leading role in 1981, in Aurelio Chiesa's ''Bim Bum Bam''. Then, he obtained role ...
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Mike Bongiorno
Michael Nicholas Salvatore Bongiorno (; May 26, 1924 – September 8, 2009) was an American Italian television presenter. After a few experiences in the U.S., he started working on RAI in the 1950s and was considered to be the most popular host ...
Mario Bonnard
Mario Bonnard (24 December 1889 – 22 March 1965) was an Italian actor and film director.
Career
Bonnard was born and died in Rome. He began his cinematic career as an actor becoming a popular romantic lead in numerous silent films made befo ...
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Luigi Bonos
Luigi Bonos (1910–2000) was an Italian comedian and stage, television and film actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1945 and 1992.
Born in Berlin, Germany, the son of two Hungarian circus artists, along with his brothers Vitto ...
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Alberto Bonucci
Alberto Bonucci (; 19 May 1918 – 5 April 1969) was an Italian film actor and director. He appeared in 53 films between 1950 and 1967.
Partial filmography
* ''Variety Lights'' (1950) - Night Club Comic
* ''Fugitive in Trieste'' (1951)
* ''Tot ...
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Sal Borgese
Sal Borgese (born 5 March 1937) is an Italian film actor. He is sometimes credited as Salvatore Borghese or Mark Trevor. He is noted for extensive work in the Italian film industry from the 1960s to present day, and for his work as a stuntman an ...
Giulio Bosetti
Giulio Bosetti (26 December 1930 – 24 December 2009) was an Italian actor and director.
Career
Giulio Bosetti appeared in film, on television and on stage over 30 times. In 1972, he narrated the television special ''La vita di Leonardo da Vi ...
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Andrea Bosic
Andrea Bosic (15 August 1919 – 8 January 2012) was an Italian film actor of Slovene origin. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1951 and 1985, mainly in films called Spaghetti Westerns. He has appeared in films alongside John Phill ...
Giorgio Bracardi
Giorgio Bracardi (born 3 May 1933) is an Italian actor, composer and stand-up comedian.
Life and career
Born in Rome, the older brother of the actor, pianist and composer Franco, for many years Bracardi worked around the world as a piano pla ...
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Arturo Bragaglia
Arturo Bragaglia (7 January 1893 – 21 January 1962) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1938 to 1961.
Selected filmography
References
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1893 births
1962 deaths
Italian male f ...
Nando Bruno
Nando Bruno (6 October 1895 – 10 April 1963) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 84 films between 1938 and 1961. He was born in Rome, Italy and he died there.
Selected filmography
* '' A Lady Did It'' (1938) - Un collego di Pasqual ...
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Tino Buazzelli
Agostino "Tino" Buazzelli (13 September 1922 – 20 October 1980) was an Italian stage, television and film actor. He appeared in 46 films between 1948 and 1978.
After a diploma in education, Buazzelli enrolled at the in Rome, graduating i ...
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Flavio Bucci
Flavio Bucci (25 May 1947 – 18 February 2020) was an Italian actor, voice actor and film producer.
Biography
Born in Turin, Bucci began appearing in film and television in 1971, making his debut appearance in the film '' The Working Class ...
Aldo Bufi Landi
Aldo Bufi Landi (7 April 1923 – 2 February 2016) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1947 and 2013.
Selected filmography
* ''Malaspina (film), Malaspina'' (1947)
* ''Madunnella'' (1948)
* ''Assunta Spina ...
Fred Buscaglione
Ferdinando "Fred" Buscaglione (; 23 November 1921 – 3 February 1960) was an Italian singer and actor who became very popular in the late 1950s. His public persona – the character he played both in his songs and his movies – was of a humoro ...
Jerry Calà
Calogero Alessandro Augusto Calà, known by his stage name Jerry Calà (born 28 June 1951), is an Italian actor, filmmaker, comedian and singer who has written, directed, and acted in multiple film and television projects. He is considered one o ...
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Giulio Calì
Giulio Calì (26 March 1895 – 20 January 1967) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 60 films between 1927 and 1966.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Calì started his career on stage, being mainly active in Romanesco dialect ...
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Ernesto Calindri
Ernesto Calindri (5 February 1909 – 9 June 1999) was an Italian theater and film actor. He appeared in 40 films between 1938 and 1989. He is often remembered in Italy for a series of TV commercials for a well-known brand of Italian articho ...
Carlo Campanini
Carlo Campanini (5 October 1906 – 20 November 1984) was an Italian actor, singer and comedian. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1939 and 1969.
Life and career
Born in Turin, Campanini attended a technical school and a course of ...
Enzo Cannavale
Vincenzo "Enzo" Cannavale (5 April 1928 – 18 March 2011) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films since 1949, including ''Cinema Paradiso'', which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academ ...
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Antonio Cantafora
Antonio Cantafora (2 February 1944 – 20 April 2024), also known professionally as Michael Coby, was an Italian film and television actor.
Life and career
Born in Crotone, Cantafora studied acting with Alessandro Fersen, then he made his fi ...
Pier Paolo Capponi
Pier Paolo Capponi (9 June 1938 – 15 February 2018) was an Italian actor and screenwriter.
Life and career
Born in Subiaco, after his studies Capponi attended a theater school and later was chosen by director Vittorio De Seta for an import ...
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Vittorio Caprioli
Vittorio Caprioli (15 August 1921 – 2 October 1989) was an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter. He appeared in 109 films between 1946 and 1990, mostly in French productions.
Biography
Caprioli was born in Naples. Having graduated fr ...
Paolo Carlini
Paolo Carlini (6 January 1922 – 3 November 1979) was an Italian stage, television and film actor. He appeared in 45 films between 1940 and 1979. He is perhaps best-known to international audiences for his supporting role as the hairdresser ...
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Pietro Carloni
Pietro Carloni (28 October 1896 – 3 August 1968) was an Italian stage and film actor.
Life and career
Born in Taurisano, Lecce into a family of actors, Carloni debuted on stage at young age in the theatrical company held by Ernesto Murolo. ...
Tullio Carminati
Tullio Carminati (September 21, 1894 – February 26, 1971) was a Dalmatian Italian actor.
He rose to fame in Italy and the United States initially as a silent film actor, starring in such films as '' The Duchess of Buffalo'' (1926), '' Th ...
Primo Carnera
Primo Carnera (; 26 October 1906 – 29 June 1967) was an Italian professional boxer and wrestler who achieved international fame during the 1930s. He reigned as the boxing World Heavyweight Champion from 29 June 1933 to 14 June 1934. He won ...
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Mario Carotenuto
Mario Carotenuto (30 June 1916 – 14 April 1995) was an Italian actor of film and theatre.
Biography
Carotenuto is the son of Nello Carotenuto, a silent film actor, and younger brother of the actor Memmo Carotenuto.
After the 1943 Armistic ...
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Memmo Carotenuto
Memmo Carotenuto (23 August 1908 – 23 December 1980) was an Italian actor. He appeared in 125 films between 1941 and 1980.
Selected filmography
*'' The Wedding Trip'' (1969)
* '' Assassination in Rome'' (1965)
* '' Male Companion'' (196 ...
Maurizio Casagrande
Maurizio Casagrande (born 4 November 1961) is an Italian actor, comedian, cabaret performer, writer, screenwriter, TV conductor and film and stage director.
Life and career
Born in Naples, the son of the actor and director Antonio
Antonio ...
Tino Caspanello
Tino Caspanello is an Italian playwright, actor, set designer, and director.
Life
Tino Caspanello was born in Pagliara, Messina province, Italy. He graduated in Scenography at the Academy of Fine Arts Pietro Vannucci in Perugia
Perugia ( ...
Mario Castellani
Mario Castellani (24 November 190625 April 1978) was an Italian comic actor, best known as the sidekick of famous comic actor Antonio De Curtis (Totò). He appeared with the latter in all his major movies, as well as many of Totò's theatre prod ...
Nino Castelnuovo
Francesco "Nino" Castelnuovo (28 October 1936 – 6 September 2021) was an Italian actor of film, stage and television, best known for his starring role as Guy Foucher in the French musical film ''The Umbrellas of Cherbourg'' (1964).
Castelnu ...
Luciano Catenacci
Luciano Catenacci (13 April 1933 – 4 October 1990) was an Italian actor and Unit production manager, production manager who worked on mainly Italian produced films during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Catenac ...
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Gino Cavalieri
Gino Cavalieri (25 July 1895 – 15 October 1992) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 20 films between 1937 and 1983.
Filmography
External links
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1895 births
1992 deaths
Italian male film actors
20th-century Italian m ...
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Victor Cavallo
Victor Cavallo (birth name Vittorio Vitolo; 8 May 1947 in Rome – 22 January 2000 in Rome) was an Italian actor and underground writer.
He started his acting career on stage in 1974, in cinema worked for directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci ...
Massimo Ceccherini
Massimo Ceccherini (born 23 May 1965) is an Italian actor, film director, comedian and screenwriter.
Biography
Born in Florence, Ceccherini is the son of a plasterer, he seemed destined for the same profession, but his father was attracted to ...
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Carlo Cecchi
Carlo Cecchi (born 25 January 1939) is an Italian actor.
Born in Florence, Cecchi studied under the Living Theatre and with the Workshop of Eduardo De Filippo. In 1968, he made his debut for cinema in '' La sua giornata di gloria''. In 1971, he ...
Guido Celano
Guido Celano (19 April 1904 – 7 March 1988) was an Italian actor, voice actor and film director. He appeared in 120 films between 1931 and 1988. He also directed two spaghetti Westerns: '' Cold Killer'' and '' Gun Shy Piluk''.
Selected f ...
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Adriano Celentano
Adriano Celentano (; born 6 January 1938) is an Italian singer-songwriter, actor, showman, and filmmaker. He is dubbed ''Il Molleggiato'' ('the springy one') because of his energetic dancing.
Celentano's many albums frequently enjoyed both com ...
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Adolfo Celi
Adolfo Celi (; 27 July 1922 – 19 February 1986) was an Italian film actor and director. Born in Curcuraci, Messina, Sicily, Celi appeared in nearly 100 films, specialising in international villains. Although a prominent actor in Italian ...
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Antonio Centa
Antonio Centa (10 August 1907 – 19 April 1979) was an Italian film actor.
Career
Born in Maniago, Province of Pordenone, Centa was among the most active and popular actors between the mid-1930s and 1943 (when the Italian film industry almost ...
Gino Cervi
Luigi Cervi (3 May 1901 – 3 January 1974), better known as Gino Cervi (), was an Italian actor. He was best known for portraying Peppone in a series of comedies based on the character ''Don Camillo'' (1952–1965), and police detective Jul ...
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Ugo Ceseri
Ugo Ceseri (30 June 1893 – 3 December 1940) was an Italian stage actor, stage and film actor. He appeared in forty two films between 1931 and his death in 1940. In 1934 he appeared in the play ''18 BL'', an attempt to create a mass theatre by t ...
Andrea Checchi
Andrea Checchi (21 October 1916 – 29 March 1974) was a prolific Italian film actor.
Biography
Born in Florence, Checchi appeared in over 150 films in his lengthy career, which spanned from 1934 to his death in 1974. The son of a painter, he s ...
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Renato Chiantoni
Renato Chiantoni (19 April 1906 – 24 December 1979) was an Italian actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1937 and 1978.
Born in Brescia, the son of the stage actor Amedeo, Chiantoni debuted on stage entering several drama and revue comp ...
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Walter Chiari
Walter Annicchiarico (8 March 1924 – 20 December 1991), known as Walter Chiari , was an Italian stage and screen actor, mostly in comedy roles.
Biography
Walter Annicchiarico was born in Verona, Italy on 8 March 1924 to a family originall ...
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Renato Cialente
Renato Cialente (2 February 1897 – 25 November 1943) was an Italian stage and film actor. He appeared in 40 films between 1920 and 1943. His younger sister Fausta Cialente (1898–1994) was a novelist, journalist and political activist.
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Giovanni Cianfriglia
Giovanni Cianfriglia (5 April 1935 – 30 October 2024), also known as Ken Wood, was an Italian film actor and stuntman. He appeared in more than 100 films from 1958 to 2000.
Life and career
Born in Anzio, Cianfriglia debuted as the body doub ...
Eduardo Ciannelli
Eduardo Ciannelli (30 August 1888 – 8 October 1969) was an Italian baritone and character actor with a long career in American films, mostly playing gangsters and criminals. He was sometimes credited as Edward Ciannelli.
Early life
Ciannelli ...
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Nando Cicero
Fernando Cicero, better known as Nando Cicero (22 January 1931 – 30 July 1995), was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor.
Born in Asmara, Cicero debuted as an actor, working with directors such as Luchino Visconti (''Senso (film), ...
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Antonio Cifariello
Antonio Cifariello (19 May 1930 – 12 December 1968) was an Italian actor.
Life and career
Born in Naples, son of the sculptor Filippo Cifariello, Antonio started his career in 1950 as the main actor, credited as Fabio Montale, in ''La s ...
Luigi Cimara
Luigi Cimara (19 July 1891 – 26 January 1962) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 46 films between 1914 and 1960. He was born and died in Rome, Italy.
Partial filmography
* ''L'esplosione del forte B.2'' (1914)
* ''Cura di baci'' ( ...
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Tano Cimarosa
Tano Cimarosa, (real name Gaetano Cisco; 1 January 1922 – 24 May 2008) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director. He participated in more than fifty movies.
He played the "Blacksmith" in the Oscar-winning film ''Cinema Paradiso'' fr ...
Roberto Citran
Roberto Citran (born 26 January 1955) is an Italian actor.
Life and career
Born in Padua, Citran graduated in psychology and founded the university film club CinemaUno. After some sporadic stage works he founded a small theater company, "Punto ...
Giancarlo Cobelli
Giancarlo Cobelli (12 December 1929 – 16 March 2012) was an Italian actor and stage director. He was considered one of the most important directors of Italian theatre.
Life and career
Born in Milan, Cobelli studied acting at Giorgio Strehl ...
Franco Coop
Franco Coop (27 September 1891 – 27 March 1962), was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 65 films between 1931 and 1960. He was born in Naples, Italy and died in Rome, Italy.
Selected filmography
* '' Before the Jury'' (1931)
* '' Moth ...
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Bruno Corazzari
Bruno Corazzari (30 December 1940 – 29 July 2021) was an Italian film, television and stage actor.
Life and career
Born in Castellarano, Reggio Emilia, Corazzari started his career in the second half of the sixties, playing minor roles in a n ...
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Bruno Corelli
Bruno Corelli (20 August 1918 – 17 February 1983) was an Italian actor.
Life and career
Born in Bologna, after being part of a dramatic society of his hometown Corelli moved to Rome to attend the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. He ma ...
Erno Crisa
Erno Crisa (10 March 1914 – 4 April 1968) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1944 and 1968. His last film was the spaghetti western '' Sugar Colt''.
Partial filmography
* '' Sideral Cruises'' (1942) - L'h ...
Carlo Croccolo
Carlo Croccolo (9 April 1927 – 12 October 2019) was an Italian actor, voice artist, director and screenwriter.
Biography
Born in Naples, Croccolo began his acting career on the radio and appeared in more than 100 films since 1949. His debut ca ...
Riccardo Cucciolla
Riccardo Cucciolla (5 September 1924 – 17 September 1999) was an Italian actor and voice actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1953 and 1999. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for the film '' Sacco & Vanzetti' ...
Domiziano Arcangeli
Domiziano Arcangeli (June 10, 1968 – July 13, 2020) was an Italian actor, producer and writer best known for low-budget independent, and particularly exploitation, films.Daniel Reynolds"''Brides of Sodom'' Star Domiziano Arcangeli Brings Hom ...
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Diego Abatantuono
Diego Abatantuono (born 20 May 1955) is an Italian cinema and theatre actor, comedian and screenwriter, three-time winner of the Nastro d'Argento.
Biography and career
Abatantuono was born in Milan to a father of Apulian origin and a mother f ...
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Ugo D'Alessio
Ugo D'Alessio (26 August 1909 – 16 February 1979) was an Italian film actor.Goble p.113
Selected filmography
* '' Malaspina'' (1947) - Nicola
* '' Madunnella'' (1948) - Il ragionere, padre di Maria
* '' Assunta Spina'' (1948) - Epanimonda Pe ...
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Lucio Dalla
Lucio Dalla (; 4 March 1943 – 1 March 2012) was an Italian singer-songwriter, musician and actor. He also played clarinet and keyboards.
Dalla was the composer of "Caruso (song), Caruso" (1986), a song dedicated to Italian opera tenor Enri ...
Nino D'Angelo
Gaetano "Nino" D'Angelo (born 21 June 1957) is an Italian singer, songwriter, actor, television personality, film director, screenwriter and author.
He was born to a poor family in San Pietro a Patierno, a suburb of Naples, and dropped out o ...
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Cesare Danova
Cesare Danova (March 1, 1926 – March 19, 1992) was an Italian television and screen actor. He was best known for his roles in '' The Captain's Daughter'' (1947), ''Viva Las Vegas'' (1964), '' Chamber of Horrors'' (1966), ''Mean Streets'' (1973 ...
Luciano De Ambrosis
Luciano De Ambrosis (born 28 March 1937) is an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
De Ambrosis was born in Turin, the youngest of four siblings. His father worked for the Italian automobile manufacturer Fiat. He made his film debut at only f ...
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Renato De Carmine
Renato De Carmine (25 January 1923 – 18 July 2010) was an Italian stage, film and television actor. After graduating at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, De Carmine worked mainly on stage, notably at the Piccolo Teatr ...
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Eduardo De Filippo
Eduardo De Filippo OMRI (; 26 May 1900 – 31 October 1984), also known simply as ''Eduardo'', was an Italian actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright, best known for his Neapolitan language, Neapolitan works ''Filumena Marturano'' and ...
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Luca De Filippo
Luca De Filippo (3 June 1948 – 27 November 2015) was an Italian actor and director of theatre. De Filippo was born in Rome to Eduardo De Filippo and the singer and actress Thea Prandi. He married Carolina Rosi, the daughter of director Frances ...
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Luigi De Filippo
Luigi De Filippo (10 August 1930 – 31 March 2018) was an Italian actor, stage director and playwright.
Born in Naples, the son of actors Peppino De Filippo and Adele Carloni, he studied literature at the university, leaving the studies on the ...
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Peppino De Filippo
Giuseppe "Peppino" De Filippo (24 August 1903 – 27 January 1980) was an Italian actor.
De Filippo was born in Naples, brother of actor and dramatist Eduardo De Filippo and of Titina De Filippo. He made his stage debut at the age of six. ...
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Gianni Dei
Gianni Dei (21 December 1940 – 19 October 2020) was an Italian actor and singer.
Life and career
Born in Bologna, after completing his high school studies Dei moved to Rome to pursue an acting career. He made his film debut in 1960, in ...
Carlo Delle Piane
Carlo Delle Piane (2 February 1936 – 23 August 2019) was an Italian film actor. From 1948 until his death, he appeared in more than 100 films.Duilio Del Prete
Duilio Del Prete (25 June 1938 – 2 February 1998) was an Italian actor and singer-songwriter.
Del Prete was born in Cuneo, Piedmont. As a singer-songwriter, he wrote political songs and recorded an album of Jacques Brel's covers; he also wrote ...
Vittorio De Sica
Vittorio De Sica ( , ; 7 July 1901 – 13 November 1974) was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.
Widely considered one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, four of the fil ...
Arturo Dominici
Arturo Dominici (2 January 1916 – 7 September 1992) was an Italian film, television and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Palermo, Dominici became best known for his many villainous roles in horror and fantasy films. He is best remembered f ...
Giulio Donnini
Giulio Donnini (17 February 1923 – 22 May 2001) was an Italian film actor.
Life and career
Born in Milan, Donnini made his film debut in 1946, in Giacomo Gentilomo's ''Teheran''. He got his first mayor role two years later, playing the epile ...
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Johnny Dorelli
Giorgio Guidi (born 20 February 1937), known professionally as Johnny Dorelli, is an Italian actor, singer and television host.
Early life
Giorgio Guidi was born in Meda, Lombardy, Italy. In 1946, he moved with his family to New York City, ...
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Mino Doro
Mino Doro (6 May 1903 – 13 April 1992) was an Italian actor who appeared in more than a hundred films between 1932 and 1970. Doro generally played supporting and character roles. He appeared as a blackshirt in the 1934 Fascist propaganda f ...
Attilio Dottesio
Attilio Dottesio (16 July 1909 – 12 February 1989) was an Italian film character actor and singer. He appeared in 170 films between 1940 and 1985.
Born in Brescia, Dottesio began his career in France, where first he obtained some success ...
Checco Durante
Francesco "Checco" Durante (19 November 1893 – 5 January 1976) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 59 films between 1931 and 1973.
Selected filmography
* '' The Doctor in Spite of Himself'' (1931)
* '' The Amnesiac'' (1936) - L'all ...
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Carlo Duse
Carlo Duse (5 January 1898 – 9 September 1956) Birth name: Carlo Artemio e Vittorio Duse. With mention in margin of his date and place of death. was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 80 films between 1916 and 1956. He was bor ...
Vittorio Duse
Vittorio Duse (21 March 1916 – 2 June 2005) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and film director.
Biography
One of Duse's first roles was in Luchino Visconti's debut feature '' Ossessione'' (1942). Outside Italy, Duse is known for his role ...
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George Eastman
George Eastman (July 12, 1854March 14, 1932) was an American entrepreneur who founded the Kodak, Eastman Kodak Company and helped to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream. After a decade of experiments in photography, he ...
Antonino Faà Di Bruno
Antonino Faà di Bruno (15 December 1910 – 2 May 1981) was an Italian actor and former military officer.
Biography
A member of the aristocratic Faà di Bruno family, Antonino Faà di Bruno was born in London, the son of Marchese Alessandr ...
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Aldo Fabrizi
Aldo Fabrizi (; born Aldo Fabbrizi; 1 November 1905 – 2 April 1990) was an Italian actor, director, screenwriter and comedian, best known for the role of the heroic priest in Roberto Rossellini's ''Rome, Open City'' and as partner of Totò in ...
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Armando Falconi
Armando Falconi (1871–1954) was an Italian stage actor, stage and film actor who appeared in more than forty films during his career. He played the lead in the 1931 comedy ''The Charmer (1931 film), The Charmer''.Landy p.63-65
Life and caree ...
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Ugo Fangareggi
Ugo Fangareggi (30 January 1938 – 20 October 2017) was an Italian actor.
Life and career
Born in Genoa, Fangareggi worked as a dental technician when in 1961 he was noticed by Luigi Squarzina who chose him to act in the play ''Ciascuno a suo ...
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Franco Fantasia
Franco Fantasia (5 March 1924 – 10 November 2002) was an Italian film actor, stuntman and fencing master. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1951 to 2002. He was the brother of actor Andrea Fantasia.
Illness and death
Septem ...
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Ennio Fantastichini
Ennio Fantastichini (20 February 1955 – 1 December 2018) was an Italian actor.
Life and career
Born in Gallese, province of Viterbo, Fantastichini studied acting at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico. His breakout role ...
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Cesare Fantoni
Cesare Fantoni (1 January 1905 – 15 January 1963) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Bologna, Fantoni began his acting career in Luchino Visconti’s stage proses until making his first on-screen appearance in 1937. ...
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Franco Fabrizi
Franco Fabrizi (; 15 February 1916 – 18 October 1995) was an Italian actor.
Life and career
Son of a barber and a cinema cashier, Franco Fabrizi started his career as a model and an actor in fotoromanzi. Fabrizi also starred on several re ...
Sergio Fantoni
Sergio Fantoni (7 August 1930 – 17 April 2020) was an Italian actor, voice actor, playwright and director.
Biography
Fantoni was born in Rome to the actor Cesare Fantoni. He began his career appearing in films, radio dramas, television and t ...
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Alberto Farnese
Alberto Farnese (3 June 1926 – 2 June 1996) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than 80 films and television shows from 1951 to 1989. He starred in the film '' Whom God Forgives'', which won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize of the ...
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Antonello Fassari
Antonello Fassari (4 October 1952 – 5 April 2025) was an Italian actor and comedian.
Life and career
Antonello Fassari was born in Rome, where he practiced gymnastics at a competitive level until age 18. In the mid-1970s he attended the Silvi ...
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Mario Feliciani
Mario Feliciani (12 March 1918 – 11 August 2008) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Life and career
Born in Milan, after completing his classical education Feliciani attended the Accademia dei filodrammatici obtaining the diploma. He ...
Mario Ferrari
Mario Ferrari (September 3, 1894 – June 28, 1974) was an Italian film actor. After making his debut in 1920, Ferrari became a mainstay of Italian cinema during the Fascist era appearing in a mixture of leading and supporting roles. He pla ...
Turi Ferro
Salvatore "Turi" Ferro (10 January 1921 – 10 May 2001) was an Italian film, television and stage actor. He is considered the most important actor in the Sicilian theatre post-World War II era.
Life and career
Born in Catania, Ferro launc ...
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Gabriele Ferzetti
Gabriele Ferzetti (born Pasquale Ferzetti; 17 March 1925 – 2 December 2015) was an Italian actor with more than 160 credits across film, television, and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s.
Ferzetti's first leading rol ...
Enzo Fiermonte
Enzo Fiermonte (17 July 1908 – 22 March 1993), sometimes credited as William Bird, was an Italian actor and boxer.
Early life
Vincenzo "Enzo" Fiermonte was born on 17 July 1908 in Casamassima, a rural village near Bari, in southern Italy to D ...
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Aurelio Fierro
Aurelio Fierro (13 September 1923 – 11 March 2005) was an Italian actor and singer, specialising in songs in the Neapolitan dialect.
Career
He was born in Montella, in the Province of Avellino, Italy. His singing career began in 1951, a ...
Aldo Fiorelli
Aldo Fiorelli (1915–1983) was an Italian actor who appeared in around thirty films between 1938 and 1960. One of his final roles was Argos, the Shipbuilder in the 1958 film ''Hercules
Hercules (, ) is the Roman equivalent of the Greek divi ...
Rosario Fiorello
Rosario Tindaro Fiorello (born 16 May 1960), known just as Fiorello, is an Italian comedian, singer, radio and television presenter.
Career
Fiorello was born in Catania, Sicily, and raised in Augusta, Sicily. He began his career working in to ...
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Fiorenzo Fiorentini
Fiorenzo Fiorentini (10 April 1920 – 27 March 2003) was an Italian actor, author, composer, screenwriter and radio personality.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Fiorentini began his career as an author and radio actor, creating many successful ...
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Colin Firth
Colin Andrew Firth (born 10 September 1960) is an English actor and producer. He is the recipient of List of awards and nominations received by Colin Firth, several accolades, including an Academy Award, two British Academy Film Awards, BAFTA Aw ...
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Dario Fo
Dario Luigi Angelo Fo (; 24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature. ...
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Arnoldo Foà
Arnoldo Foà (24 January 1916 – 11 January 2014) was an Italian actor, voice actor, theatre director, singer and writer. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1938 and 2014.
Biography
Foà was born in Ferrara, Italy, to a Jewish f ...
Franco Franchi
Francesco Benenato (18 September 1928 – 9 December 1992), known as Franco Franchi, was an Italian actor, comedian and singer.
He was born in Palermo, Sicily and began his career in the 1950s, although his career only really took off in the ...
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Armando Francioli
Armando Francioli (21 October 1919 – 6 April 2020) was an Italian actor. He appeared in over 50 films since 1942.
Filmography
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2020 deaths
Male actors from Rome
Italian men centenarians
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Giacomo Furia
Giacomo Matteo Furia (2 January 1925 – 5 June 2015) was an Italian film, television and stage actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1948 and 1998.
Life and career
Born in Arienzo, near Caserta, Furia started his acting care ...
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Giorgio Gaber
Giorgio Gaberscik (25 January 1939 – 1 January 2003), known as Giorgio Gaber (), was an Italian singer-songwriter, composer, actor, playwright, and musician. He was also an accomplished guitar player and author of one of the first rock songs ...
Corrado Gaipa
Corrado Gaipa (13 March 1925 – 21 September 1989) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
A well known actor of Italian cinema, he was internationally known for his role as Don Tommasino in ''The Godfather'', while his popularity in Italy was al ...
Enzo Garinei
Enzo Garinei (4 May 1926 – 25 August 2022) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in nearly 80 films since 1949. He was also a professional voice artist, best remembered as the Italian voice of Sherman Hemsley in the American sitcom ''The Je ...
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Gabriel Garko
Dario Oliviero (born 12 July 1972), better known by his stage name Gabriel Garko, is an Italian actor and former fashion model. Actor in both film and television, he has appeared mainly on the small screen. He started his career at the end of th ...
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Gianni Garko
Gianni Garko (born Giovanni Garcovich; 15 July 1935) is a retired Croats of Italy, Croatian-Italian actor. He found fame as a leading man in 1960s Spaghetti Westerns, where he was often billed as John Garko and occasionally Gary Hudson. He is per ...
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Ivo Garrani
Ivo Garrani (6 February 1924 – 25 March 2015) was an Italian actor and voice actor. In films since 1952, Garrani is possibly best known for his role as Prince Vajda in Mario Bava's '' Black Sunday'' (1960).
Biography
Born in Introdacqua, ...
Alessandro Gassman
Alessandro Gassmann (; born 24 February 1965) is an Italian actor and film director.
Early life
Born in Rome, he is the son of Italian actor Vittorio Gassman and French actress Juliette Mayniel. He is of Italian, German, Jewish and French de ...
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Vittorio Gassman
Vittorio Gassman (; born Gassmann; 1 September 1922 – 29 June 2000), popularly known as , was an Italian actor, director, and screenwriter.
He is considered one of the greatest Italian actors, whose career includes both important producti ...
Giuliano Gemma
Giuliano Gemma (; 2 September 1938 – 1 October 2013) was an Italian actor. He is best known internationally for his work in Spaghetti Westerns, particularly for his performances as the title character in Duccio Tessari's '' A Pistol for Ringo'' ...
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Piero Gerlini
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Pietro Germi
Pietro Germi (; 14 September 1914 – 5 December 1974) was an Italian film director, screenwriter, and actor, noted for his development of the Italian neorealism, neorealist and genres.
His 1961 film ''Divorce Italian Style'' earned him a Ac ...
Fosco Giachetti
Fosco Giachetti (28 March 1900, in Sesto Fiorentino – 22 December 1974, in Rome) was an Italian actor.
Fosco Giachetti was the protagonist of ''Lo squadrone bianco'' (1936), directed by Augusto Genina. He became the leading man in Fascist ...
Franco Giacobini
Franco Giacobini (5 March 1926 – 27 December 2015) was an Italian actor.
Born in Rome as Francesco Giacobini, he graduated at Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico in 1948, then started a prolific stage career, working in come ...
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Adriano Giannini
Adriano Giannini (born 10 May 1971) is an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Adriano Giannini was born in Rome on 10 May 1971, to actors Giancarlo Giannini and Livia Giampalmo. He began his career when he was 18 years old. His earliest ...
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Giancarlo Giannini
Giancarlo Giannini (; born 1 August 1942) is an Italian actor and voice actor. He won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor for his performance in '' Love and Anarchy'' (1973) and received an Academy Award nomination for '' Seven Beaut ...
Beniamino Gigli
Beniamino Gigli ( , ; 20 March 1890 – 30 November 1957) was an Italian opera singer ( lyric tenor). He is widely regarded as one of the greatest tenors of his generation.
Early life
Gigli was born in Recanati, in the Marche, the son of a sho ...
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Andrea Giordana
Andrea Giordana (born 27 March 1946) is an Italian actor. He has appeared in more than 14 films, 29 television and 35 theater shows since the mostly late 1950s.
Early life
He was born in Rome, Italy to film director Claudio Gora and actress ...
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Renzo Giovampietro
Renzo Giovampietro (23 June 1924 – 10 March 2006) was an Italian actor, theatre director and playwright.
Life and career
Born in Velletri, Rome, the son of a carpenter and of a cook, in 1944 Giovampietro enrolled at the Silvio d’Ami ...
Remo Girone
Remo Girone (born 1 December 1948) is an Italian film and stage actor. He is best known for the role of Tano Cariddi in the epic TV mini-series '' La piovra'' (''The Octopus''). He appeared as an Italian-American mob boss in '' Live by Night'' a ...
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Massimo Girotti
Massimo Girotti (18 May 1918 – 5 January 2003) was an Italian film actor whose career spanned seven decades.
Biography
Born in Mogliano, in the province of Macerata, Girotti developed his athletic physique by swimming and playing polo. While ...
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Aldo Giuffrè
Aldo Giuffrè (10 April 1924 – 26 June 2010) was an Italian film actor and comedian who appeared in over 90 films between 1948 and 2001. He was the brother of actor Carlo Giuffrè.
He is known for his roles in '' The Four Days of Naples'', ...
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Carlo Giuffrè
Carlo Giuffrè ( 3 December 1928 – 1 November 2018) was an Italian stage, film and television actor and a stage director. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1942 and 2002.
Biography
Giuffrè was born in Naples, Italy and was the broth ...
Loris Gizzi
Loris Gizzi (16 August 1899 – 6 October 1986) was an Italian actor.
Life and career
Born in Rome, after his university studies Gizzi attended a school of dance and singing. He abandoned the courses when he became an employee of Ferrovie dell ...
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Enrico Glori
Enrico Musy, better known as Enrico Glori (3 August 1901 – 22 April 1966) was an Italian actor.
Biography
Born in Naples to a wealthy family of French origin, Glori became an actor in his thirties. He spent most of his time in France whe ...
Tito Gobbi
Tito Gobbi (24 October 19135 March 1984) was an Italian operatic baritone with an international reputation.
He made his operatic debut in Gubbio in 1935 as Count Rodolfo in Bellini's '' La sonnambula'' and quickly appeared in Italy's major oper ...
Claudio Gora
Claudio Gora, '' Emilio Giordana '' (27 July 1913 – 13 March 1998) was an Italian actor and film director.
He was particularly prolific, making some 155 appearances in film and television over nearly 60 years (from 1939 to 1997). In the 1950s ...
Ezio Greggio
Ezio Greggio (; born 7 April 1954) is an Italian comedian, actor, writer and film director.
In Italy he is mostly known for his long-lasting appearances in TV shows like '' Drive In'' and '' Striscia la notizia'', while abroad he is noted for ...
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Beppe Grillo
Giuseppe Piero "Beppe" Grillo (; born 21 July 1948) is an Italian comedian, actor, Blogger (person), blogger, and politician.
He has been involved in politics since 2009 as the co-founder (together with Gianroberto Casaleggio) of the Italian Fi ...
Marco Guglielmi
Marco Guglielmi (6 October 1926 – 28 December 2005) was an Italian actor, screenwriter and author.
Life and career
Born Augusto Guglielmi in Sanremo, he graduated from ragioneria, then he enrolled at the university in the faculty of econom ...
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Leo Gullotta
Salvatore Leopoldo "Leo" Gullotta (born 9 January 1946) is an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian and writer. He became known for his role in '' Café Express'' (1980), and has won several David di Donatello awards, the first one being for hi ...
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Alessandro Haber
Alessandro Haber (born 19 January 1947) is an Italian actor, film director and singer.
Haber was born in Bologna in a Jewish family of mixed ancestry (his father was a Romanian Jew and his mother Italian) and spent his childhood in Israel. His m ...
Roberto Herlitzka
Roberto Herlitzka (2 October 1937 – 31 July 2024) was an Italian theatre and film actor. He has appeared in 38 films since 1973. In 2004 he won the David di Donatello for Best Supporting Actor and Nastro d'Argento for Best Actor for his role i ...
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Terence Hill
Terence Hill (born Mario Girotti; 29 March 1939) is an Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer. He began his career as a child actor and gained international fame for starring roles in action and comedy films, many with hi ...
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Carlo Hintermann
Carlo Hintermann (2 April 1923 – 7 January 1988) was an Italian film, television and stage actor and voice actor. He was sometimes credited as Carlo Hinterman.
Life and career
Born in Milan into a family of ancient German origin, Hintermann ...
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Angelo Infanti
Angelo Infanti (; 16 February 1939 – 12 October 2010) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 90 films between 1961 and 2010. He was born on 16 February 1939 in Zagarolo, Italy. He died on 12 October 2010 in Tivoli, Italy due ...
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Ciccio Ingrassia
Francesco "Ciccio" Ingrassia (5 October 1922 – 28 April 2003) was an Italian actor, comedian and film director.
He was born in Palermo, Sicily, and began his career in the 1950s, although his career only really took off in the 1960s. He star ...
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Flavio Insinna
Flavio Insinna (born 3 July 1965) is an Italian actor and television presenter. He is a former host of ''L'eredità''. He is also known for having hosted ''Affari tuoi, Affari Tuoi'', the Italian version of ''Deal or No Deal'' between 2006 and 20 ...
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Franco Interlenghi
Franco Interlenghi (29 October 1931 – 10 September 2015) was an Italian actor.
He made his acting debut at 15 in Vittorio De Sica's 1946 Neorealist film '' Sciuscià''. He worked with great directors such as Alessandro Blasetti in '' Fabiola' ...
Marco Leonardi
Marco Leonardi (born 14 November 1971) is an Australian-born Italian film and television actor. He has been nominated twice for the Nastro d'Argento for Best Actor.
Leonardi was born in Australia to Italian parents. He moved to Italy at the ag ...
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Ignazio Leone
Ignazio Leone (19 April 1923 – 30 December 1976) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 105 films between 1952 and 1976.
Selected filmography
* '' The Walk'' (1953)
* '' I Chose Love'' (1953)
* '' Amici per la pelle'' (1955)
* '' A Wo ...
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Guido Leontini
Guido Leontini (21 March 1927 – 26 April 1996) was an Italian stage, film and television actor.
Life and career
Born in Catania into a family of actors, Leontini debuted on stage in the post-World War II era, specializing in the Luigi Pirande ...
Enzo Liberti
Vincenzo "Enzo" Liberti (20 April 1926 – 4 May 1986) was an Italian actor, voice actor, director and television personality.
Biography
Born in Rome, after having been a diplomatic courier for the Foreign Ministry,"Morto l'attore Enzo Liberti c ...
Giampiero Littera
Giampiero Littera (born 25 June 1938) is an Italian former film actor.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Littera, while still a teenager, made his film debut in Luciano Emmer's ''High School''. Four years later, after completing his high school stud ...
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Virna Lisi
Virna Lisa Pieralisi (; 8 November 1936 – 18 December 2014), known as just Virna Lisi, was an Italian actress. Her international film appearances included ''How to Murder Your Wife'' (1965), ''Not with My Wife, You Don't!'' (1966), ''The Secre ...
Gina Lollobrigida
Luigia "Gina" Lollobrigida (4 July 1927 – 16 January 2023) was an Italian actress, model, photojournalist, and sculptor. She was one of the highest-profile European actresses of the 1950s and 1960s, a period in which she was an international ...
Sophia Loren
Sofia Costanza Brigida Villani Scicolone (; born 20 September 1934), known professionally as Sophia Loren ( , ), is an Italian actress, active in her native country and the United States. With a career spanning over 70 years, she is one of the ...
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Livio Lorenzon
Livio Lorenzon (6 May 1923 – 23 December 1971) was an Italian actor who was mainly active during the 1950s and 1960s.
Biography
He played minor roles in some memorable commedia all'Italiana movies directed by the likes of Dino Risi and Mario ...
Folco Lulli
Folco Lulli (3 July 1912 – 23 May 1970) was an Italian partisan and film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1946 and 1970.
Life and career
Born in Florence, the son of the baritone Gino Lulli and the elder brother of actor ...
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Piero Lulli
Piero Lulli (1 February 1923 – 23 June 1991) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 111 films between 1942 and 1977. He was the younger brother of actor Folco Lulli.
Selected filmography
* '' A Pilot Returns'' (1942) - De Santis
* '' ...
Roldano Lupi
Roldano Squassoni, known professionally as Roldano Lupi (8 February 1909 – 14 August 1989) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1942 and 1967. He was born in Milan, Italy and died in Rome, Italy.
Selected filmography ...
Enrico Luzi
Enrico Luzi (27 September 1919 – 18 October 2011) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than sixty films from 1941 to 1980.
Selected filmography
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2011 deaths
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Erminio Macario
Erminio Macario (27 May 1902 – 25 March 1980), best known as Macario, was an Italian film actor and comedian. He appeared in 42 films between 1933 and 1975.
Life and career
Born in Turin, Macario made his debut at a young age in the amate ...
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Valentino Macchi
Valentino Macchi (4 August 1937 – 19 March 2013) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1962 to 2008. His last appearance was in 2008 and died on March 19, 2013, at his home in Rome.
Selected filmography
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Stefano Madia
Stefano Madia (31 December 1954 – 16 December 2004) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in twelve films between 1978 and 1993. At the 1979 Cannes Film Festival he won the award for Best Supporting Actor, for Vittorio Gassman's film '' D ...
Dante Maggio
Dante Maggio (2 March 1909 – 3 March 1992) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 115 films between 1940 and 1975.
Born in Naples into a family of actors, Maggio had a turbulent adolescence that led his father to send him in an institute f ...
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Enzo Maggio
Enzo Maggio (10 October 1902 – 13 July 1978) was an Italian actor. He was the oldest of the Maggio siblings.
Born Vincenzo Maggio in Naples into a family of actors, Maggio made a long apprenticeship in the avanspettacolo theaters before and ...
Achille Majeroni
Achille Majeroni (24 August 1881 – 12 October 1964) was an Italian film actor.
Born in Syracuse, Sicily, son of Achille Majeroni and his second wife Graziosa Bignetti, he made his stage debut at age twelve with the Marazzi-Diligenti c ...
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Michele Malaspina
Michele Malaspina (16 August 1908 – 13 January 1979) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Life and career
Born in Bolzaneto, Genoa, the son of two shopkeepers, since childhood Malaspina has a passion for theater and was an actor in a co ...
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Renato Malavasi
Renato Malavasi (8 August 1904 – 7 October 1998) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 135 films between 1921 and 1985.
Selected filmography
* '' The Golden Vein'' (1928)
* '' The Song of Love'' (1930)
* '' Lowered Sails'' (1931)
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Paolo Malco
Paolo Malco (born 10 April 1947) is an Italian film actor, best known for his roles in horror films, and later in many Italian TV mini-series
In the United States, a miniseries or mini-series is a television show or series that tells a story ...
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Nicola Maldacea
Nicola Maldacea (29 October 1870 – 5 March 1945) was an Italian actor, comedian and singer, well-known for his expertise in the theatrical genre of 'macchietta', where he was one of the pioneers. In the golden years of the café-chantant in Ita ...
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Nino Manfredi
Saturnino "Nino" Manfredi (22 March 1921 – 4 June 2004) was an Italian actor, voice actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, comedian, singer, author, radio personality and television presenter.
He was one of the most prominent Italian ac ...
Mario Maranzana
Mario Maranzana (14 July 1940 – 11 January 2012) was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Background
Born in Trieste, Maranzana began his career in the theater with Vittorio Gassman in ''Oedipus Rex'' by Sophocles, then worked with, among others, ...
Nino Marchetti
Nino Marchetti (21 February 1905 – 19 February 1981) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 66 films between 1934 and 1973.
Selected filmography
* ''Melodramma'' (1934) – Remo
* ''Le scarpe al sole'' (1935) – Alpino amico di Toni ...
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Saverio Marconi
Saverio Marconi (born 1 April 1948) is an Italian stage director and actor.
Life and career
Born in Rome, after his debut as a stage actor, Marconi had his breakout role in 1977 playing Gavino Ledda in the Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's drama f ...
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Renzo Marignano
Renzo Marignano (26 March 1923 – 25 November 1987), sometimes credited as Renzo Marignani, was an Italian actor and film director.
Born in Genoa, after World War II Marignano was one of the founders of ''Cimofilm'', a production company specia ...
Marino Masé Marino, Mariño or Maryino may refer to:
Places
* Marino, Lazio, a town in the province of Rome, Italy
* Marino, South Australia, a suburb of Adelaide
** Marino Conservation Park
** Marino Rocks Greenway, a cycling route
** Marino Rocks railwa ...
Marcello Mastroianni
Marcello Vincenzo Domenico Mastroianni (26 September 1924Come da lui stesso dichiarato a 1'10" dquesta intervista/ref> – 19 December 1996) was an Italian actor. He is generally regarded as one of Italy's most iconic male performers of the 20t ...
Roberto Mauri
Roberto Mauri (8 February 1924 – 18 February 2018) was an Italian actor, film director and screenwriter.
Life and career
Born Giuseppe Tagliavia in Castelvetrano, Trapani, Mauri began his career as a film actor in low-budget films, occasion ...
Umberto Melnati
Umberto Melnati (17 June 1897 – 30 March 1979) was an Italian film actor
He appeared in over 35 films between 1932 and 1962.
He starred in films such as the Mario Mattoli 1936 film ''L'uomo che sorride'' and ''Il signor Max'' (1937). He ...
Furio Meniconi
Furio Meniconi (22 February 1924 – 12 December 1981) was an Italian film and television actor.
Life and career
Meniconi was born in Rome into a family active in the cinema industry in the technical cast, or engaged in the general organizatio ...
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Adalberto Maria Merli
Adalberto Maria Merli (born 14 January 1938) is an Italian actor and voice actor.
Biography
Born in Rome, Merli is active on film and television and he has appeared in over 27 films since 1965. He had his breakout role in the 1968 RAI televisi ...
Maurizio Merli
Maurizio Merli (February 8, 1940 – March 10, 1989) was an Italian film actor and a star of many Italian police thrillers.
Career
After a decade of minor film roles, 1974 saw a breakthrough for Merli with his first starring role in a rema ...
Marco Messeri
Marco Messeri (born 15 December 1948) is an Italian actor, comedian, stage director, singer-songwriter and voice actor.
Life and career
Born in Livorno, Messeri studied painting at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Firenze and acting at the drama ...
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Geronimo Meynier
Geronimo Meynier (5 July 1941 – 23 January 2021) was an Italian film actor who starred in Italian cinema of the 1950s and 1960s. He debuted in '' Amici per la pelle'' in 1955 at age 14. His last film was in 1968.
The Italian actor Geronimo Me ...
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Vittorio Mezzogiorno
Vittorio Mezzogiorno (16 December 1941 – 7 January 1994) was an Italian actor.
Biography
Mezzogiorno was born in Cercola, the youngest of seven children. His older brother Vincenzo, who wanted to become a director, introduced him to the th ...
Carlo Micheluzzi
Carlo Micheluzzi (1886–1973) was an Italian stage and film actor.
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Son if an actor and brother of another actor (Leo Micheluzzi), he began his career in 1903 acting in the Venetian company Zago-Borisi. Over time he formed v ...
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Armando Migliari
Armando Migliari (29 April 1889 – 15 June 1976) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 103 films between 1914 and 1965.
Selected filmography
* ''Cura di baci'' (1916)
* ''I fioretti di San Francisco'' (1917)
* ''La moglie scacciata' ...
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Tomás Milián
Tomás Quintín Rodríguez-Varona Milián Salinas de la Fé y Álvarez de la Campa (3 March 1933 – 22 March 2017) was a Cuban-born actor with American and Italian citizenship, known for the emotional intensity and humor he brought to starring ...
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Camillo Milli
Camillo Migliori, best known as Camillo Milli (1 August 1929 – 20 January 2022) was an Italian stage, film and television actor.
Life and career
Born in Milan, Milli formed under Giorgio Strehler at the Piccolo Teatro di Milano, where he d ...
Tiberio Mitri
Tiberio Mitri (12 July 1926 in Trieste – 12 February 2001 in Rome), also known as "La tigre di Trieste" (The Trieste Tiger) was an Italian boxer who fought from 1946 to 1957. During his career, Mitri was Italian and European middleweight cham ...
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Domenico Modugno
Domenico Modugno (; 9 January 1928 – 6 August 1994) was an Italian singer, actor and, later in life, a member of the Italian Parliament. He is known for his 1958 international hit song " Nel blu dipinto di blu", for which he received the fir ...
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Massimo Mollica
Massimo Mollica (19 March 1929 – 1 May 2013) was an Italian actor and stage director.
Born in Pace del Mela, Messina, the son of an elementary school teacher, Mollica started acting at the university.Giancarlo Colombo. ''Who's Who in Ital ...
Enrico Montesano
Enrico Montesano (born 7 June 1945) is an Italian actor, comedian, television host, screenwriter and showman.
Career
Montesano comes from a family involved in theatre, and he made his debut in 1966 in a show named ''Humor nero'', alongside o ...
Gianni Morandi
Gian Luigi "Gianni" Morandi (; born 11 December 1944) is an Italian pop singer, actor and entertainer. It is estimated that Morandi has sold about 50 million recordings.
Early life
Born in Monghidoro, Emilia-Romagna, the son of a cobbler, Mor ...
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Michele Morrone
Michele Morrone (; born 3 October 1990) is an Italian actor and singer. He gained international recognition after portraying the lead role in the 2020 erotic thriller '' 365 Days'' and its sequels, '' 365 Days: This Day'' and '' The Next 365 Da ...
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Nanni Moretti
Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti (; born 19 August 1953) is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.
His films have won accolades, including a at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival for ''The Son's Room'', a Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize ...
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Gastone Moschin
Gastone Moschin (; 8 June 1929 – 4 September 2017) was an Italian stage, television and film actor.
Career
Born in San Giovanni Lupatoto (Veneto), Moschin graduated from the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico and then began ...
Tiberio Murgia
Tiberio Murgia (5 February 1929 – 20 August 2010) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1958 and 2009.
Biography
Born into a humble family, Murgia began working as a laborer from an early age. At the age of ...
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