Actores italianos
by miguelitro-36806 | created - 23 Jan 2019 | updated - 2 months ago | Public
1. Alvaro Vitali
Actor | L'antenati tua e de Pierino
Alvaro Vitali was born on February 3, 1950 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for L'antenati tua e de Pierino (1996), Amarcord (1973) and Pierino torna a scuola (1990). He has been married to Stefania Corona since 2006.
2. Tinto Brass
Writer | La vacanza
Giovanni Brass was born on 26 March 1933 into the family of a famous artist, Italico Brass, who was his grandfather. Italico gave his grandson a nickname "Tintoretto," which Giovanni later adapted into his cinematic name, Tinto Brass.
Tinto inherited his grandfather's artistic skills, but he applied...
3. Renzo Montagnani
Actor | Quando le donne avevano la coda
Renzo Montagnani was born on September 11, 1930 in Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy. He was an actor, known for When Women Had Tails (1970), When Women Lost Their Tails (1972) and The Betrothed (1989). He died on May 22, 1997 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
4. Terence Hill
Actor | ...altrimenti ci arrabbiamo!
Terence Hill was born as Mario Girotti on March 29, 1939 in Venice, Italy to a chemist. His mother was German, and as a child the family lived near Dresden, Saxony, Germany where they survived the Allied bombings of World War II. Italian film-maker Dino Risi discovered him at a swimming meet and he...
5. Bud Spencer
Actor | ...altrimenti ci arrabbiamo!
Bud Spencer, the popular Italian actor who starred in innumerable spaghetti Westerns and action-packed potboilers during the 1960s and 1970s, was born Carlo Pedersoli on October 31, 1929, in Naples. The first Italian to swim the 100-meter freestyle in less than a minute, Spencer competed as a ...
6. Mario Carotenuto
Actor | Lo scopone scientifico
Mario Carotenuto was born on June 30, 1916 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He was an actor and writer, known for The Scopone Game (1972), Satyricon (1969) and Scandal in Sorrento (1955). He was married to Luisa Poselli and Gabriella Cotignoli. He died on April 14, 1995 in Rome, Lazio, Italy.
7. Riccardo Pizzuti
Actor | Uno sceriffo extraterrestre... poco extra e molto terrestre
Riccardo Pizzuti was born on May 28, 1934 in Cetraro, Calabria, Italy. He is an actor and assistant director, known for Uno sceriffo extraterrestre... poco extra e molto terrestre (1979), Crime Busters (1977) and Lady Frankenstein (1971).
8. Massimo Boldi
Actor | A spasso nel tempo
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 and then as a door-to-door salesman for a pastry company. In 1968 he started performing in cabaret. In the 1970s he did not perform, but managed a ...
9. Nino Castelnuovo
Actor | Les parapluies de Cherbourg
Francesco 'Nino' Castelnuovo was born to humble beginnings in Lombardy, the second of four brothers. His working life began with a series of stints in various jobs, including house painting, as a mechanic and as a sales agent, after which he decided to take drama classes at the Piccolo Teatro in ...
10. Fabio De Luigi
Actor | La peggior settimana della mia vita
Fabio De Luigi is one of the most successful comic actors of the last years in Italy. His success began when he entered in the cast of the comic show of the Gialappa's Band. Then, he gave life to some funny and now famous characters such as the proud actor Orso Maria Wilson, the little detestable ...
11. Gian Maria Volontè
Actor | Per un pugno di dollari
Born in Milan in 1933, Gian Maria Volontè studied in Rome at the National Dramatic Arts Academy, where he obtained his degree in 1957. He began working in theatre and television, where he was soon noticed as one of the most promising actors of his generation. After several supporting appearances in...
12. Angelo Pellegrino
Actor | Malèna
Angelo Pellegrino was born on August 2, 1946 in Palermo, Sicily, Italy. He is an actor, known for Malena (2000), 1900 (1976) and Vacanze di Natale '95 (1995). He was previously married to Goliarda Sapienza.
13. Carlo Verdone
Actor | La grande bellezza
Carlo Verdone is considered by many the heir of Alberto Sordi, expecially when they acted together in Troppo forte and In viaggio con papa', in these films many similarities with Sordi were apparent, the popular language, the romanesco, and the embodiment of Italian middle man in the '80s that ...
14. Silvio Orlando
Actor | Il caimano
Silvio Orlando was born on June 30, 1957 in Naples, Campania, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for The Caiman (2006), Il posto dell'anima (2003) and The Inner Cage (2021). He has been married to Maria Laura Rondanini since October 7, 2008.
15. Lando Buzzanca
Actor | La parmigiana
Gerlando Buzzanca, best known as Lando Buzzanca, is an Italian theatrical, film and television actor, whose career spanned over 55 years. Born in Palermo the son of a cinema projectionist, at 16 years old Buzzanca left the high school and moved to Rome to pursue his dream of becoming an actor. In ...
16. Raf Vallone
Actor | The Italian Job
Raf Vallone was an internationally acclaimed Italian movie star known for his rugged good looks. The athletic Vallone, a former soccer player who often was compared to Burt Lancaster, was born Raffaele Vallone in 1916 in Tropea in Calabria, Italy, the son of a prominent lawyer and his aristocratic ...
17. Marcello Mastroianni
Actor | La dolce vita
Marcello Mastroianni was born in Fontana Liri, Italy in 1924, but soon his family moved to Turin and then Rome. During WW2 he was sent to a German prison camp, but he managed to escape and hide in Venice. He debuted in films as an extra in Marionette (1939), then started working for the Italian ...
18. Rhys Coiro
Actor | Entourage
As a teenager, Coiro, a talented visual artist, spent summers building sets and operating lights at the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival. Inspired by numerous productions, including Julie Taymor's "Titus Andronicus" at Theater For A New Audience, Coiro decided to study theater at Carnegie Mellon ...
19. Enzo Cannavale
Actor | Nuovo Cinema Paradiso
First of four brothers, he was discovered by Eduardo De Filippo when he was a post office clerk. In reality, according to the testimony of a former colleague still living, he was employed at the Military Hospital of Naples. Exponent of the Neapolitan theater, actor with ironic and comic verve, ...
20. Dylan Sprouse
Actor | Beautiful Disaster
Sprouse was born August 4, 1992, in Arezzo, Tuscany, Italy, to American parents, Melanie (Wright) and Matthew Sprouse. Dylan and his younger identical twin Cole Sprouse were raised in their parents' Long Beach, California. He has acted from the age of six months, initially with Cole, and continues ...
21. Lino Banfi
Actor | L'allenatore nel pallone
He was born in the Apulian city of Andria and at the age of three, moved to Canosa di Puglia. Lino Banfi became one of the most well-known actors in Italian "sexy comedies" in the 1970s. In the 1980s he reached the peak of his fame by appearing in movies such as "L'allenatore nel pallone", "Vieni ...
22. Roberto Benigni
Actor | La vita è bella
Roberto Benigni was born on October 27, 1952 in Manciano La Misericordia, Castiglion Fiorentino, Tuscany, Italy. He is an actor and writer, known for Life Is Beautiful (1997), The Tiger and the Snow (2005) and Down by Law (1986). He has been married to Nicoletta Braschi since December 26, 1991.
23. Pierfrancesco Favino
Actor | World War Z
Pierfrancesco Favino was born on August 24, 1969 in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is an actor and producer, known for World War Z (2013), Rush (2013) and Angels & Demons (2009).
24. Alberto Sordi
Actor | Io e Caterina
One of Italy's most captivating and talented cinematic comedy stars, Italian veteran Alberto Sordi was known for satirizing his country's social mores in pungent black comedies, farcical tales and grim drama. He, along with peers Vittorio Gassman, Ugo Tognazzi and Nino Manfredi, arguably represent ...
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