Checco Durante

{{Short description|Italian actor (1893–1976)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Infobox person | image = Checco Durante, 1953.jpg | name = Checco Durante | birth_date = {{Birth date|1893|11|19|df=yes}} | birth_place = Rome, Kingdom of Italy | death_date = {{Death date and age|1976|1|5|1893|11|19|df=yes}} | death_place = Rome, Italy | occupation = Actor | years_active = 1931–1973 | relatives = Francesco Prando (grandson) }}

'''Francesco "Checco" Durante''' (19 November 1893 – 5 January 1976) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 59 films between 1931 and 1973.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mymovies.it/biografia/?a=691 |title=Checco Durante |work=MyMovies |access-date=25 November 2019}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== {{Div col|colwidth=25em}} * ''The Doctor in Spite of Himself'' (1931) * ''The Amnesiac'' (1936) - L'allenatore Marinoni * ''The Ferocious Saladin'' (1937) - Direttore del Teatro Vittoria * ''The Castiglioni Brothers'' (1937) - L'oste * ''I due barbieri'' (1937) * ''The Black Corsair'' (1938) - Carmeau - Korsar * ''Duetto vagabondo'' (1939) * ''Il piccolo re'' (1939) * ''La scuola dei timidi'' (1941) * ''Perdizione'' (1942) - Il padrone dell'autorimessa * ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1942) - Il commendator Biondelli * ''Don Juan'' (1942) * ''Signorinette'' (1942) - Il padre di Iris * ''Il treno crociato'' (1943) - Il capo cuoco (uncredited) * ''L'innocente Casimiro'' (1945) * ''Down with Misery'' (1945) - Il fattorino del radiogrammofono * ''The Sun Still Rises'' (1946) * ''Peddlin' in Society'' (1946) - Un frutivendolo * ''Fury'' (1947) - Postman * ''The Opium Den'' (1947) - Antonio, il finto cieco * ''Il segreto di Don Giovanni'' (1947) * ''Lo sciopero dei milioni'' (1947) * ''L'isola di Montecristo'' (1948) - Faina * ''The Street Has Many Dreams'' (1948) - Il parroco * ''Twenty Years'' (1949) * ''Santo disonore'' (1950) - Checco * ''Variety Lights'' (1950) - Theater Owner * ''The Two Sisters'' (1950) - Padron Cosimo * ''Il nido di falasco'' (1950) * ''Song of Spring'' (1951) - Pippo * ''Verginità'' (1951) - Signor Corelli * ''Auguri e figli maschi!'' (1951) - Ticket Inspector Antonio * ''Rome-Paris-Rome'' (1951) - Meccanico * ''Black Fire'' (1951) * ''One Hundred Little Mothers'' (1952) - Il commissario * ''Viva il cinema!'' (1952) - Ex Camera Operator * ''Love and Poison'' (1952) * ''Rome 11:00'' (1952) - Padre di Adriana * ''I figli non si vendono'' (1952) - Paolo Dazzeni * ''Voice of Silence'' (1953) - Sacrestano * ''The Return of Don Camillo'' (1953) - Il droghiere (uncredited) * ''Easy Years'' (1953) - Usciere * ''Angels of Darkness'' (1954) - Another relative of Francesco's * ''Schiava del peccato'' (1954) - A Friend of Carlo * ''The Last Race'' (1954) * ''Il porto della speranza'' (1954) * ''The Courier of Moncenisio'' (1954) * ''If You Won a Hundred Million'' (1954) - Giovanni (segment "Il promesso... sposato") * ''Accadde tra le sbarre'' (1955) - Pallotta - The thief * ''La moglie è uguale per tutti'' (1955) - The Innkeeper * ''Processo all'amore'' (1955) - Checco Mariani * ''Motivo in maschera'' (1955) * ''I dritti'' (1957) - Sor Cesare, padre di Aldo * ''Love and Troubles'' (1958) - Virgilio Santucci * ''Policarpo'' (1959) - Mario Marchetti's Father * ''Adio Granada!'' (1967) - Sor Memmo * ''Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses'' (1968) - Direttore dell'agenzia camerieri * ''Nel giorno del signore'' (1970) - fornaio Bragone * ''In nome del popolo italiano'' (1971) - Archivista Pironti * ''Buona parte di Paolina'' (1973) {{Div col end}}

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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0243894|Checco Durante}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Durante, Checco}} Category:1893 births Category:1976 deaths Category:Italian male film actors Category:20th-century Italian male actors Category:Male actors from Rome Category:Burials at Campo Verano