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Giuseppe "Pippo" Santonastaso (born 25 May 1936) is an Italian actor and comedian.


Life and career

Born in
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, to a
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family, Santonastaso created an original comic duo with his younger brother Mario (1937 – 8 January 2021),Tv. Addio al cabarettista Mario Santonastaso, celebre il duo con il fratello Pippo
performing successfully in their region and soon also on television, in several
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variety shows. Following his television success, in the second half of the 1970s he started a parallel career of
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in numerous comedy films, several of them as sidekick of
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 ...
. He was main actor just once, in the
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''Geometra Prinetti selvaggiamente Osvaldo''.


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* * 1936 births Living people People from the Province of Piacenza Male actors from Emilia-Romagna Italian male stage actors Italian male film actors Italian male television actors 20th-century Italian male actors Italian male comedians People of Campanian descent {{Italy-screen-actor-stub