{{short description|Italian actor and screenwriter}} {{Infobox person |name = Vincenzo Pulcrano |image = <!-- Enzo_pulcrano_padroni.jpg --> |caption = Pulcrano in Mister Scarface | birth_place = Acerra, Campania, Italy | birth_date = {{birth date|1943|5|31|df=y}} | death_date = {{death date and age |1992|2|28|1943|5|31|df=y}} |occupation = actor }}
'''Enzo Pulcrano''' (born 31 May 1943 in Acerra, Italy, near Naples; died 28 February 1992) was an Italian actor and writer active in the 1970s and known for Rulers of the City (1976), La Banda Vallanzasca (1977) and A Pugni Nudi (1974), in which he received a writing credit. He was born on 31 May 1943 in Acerra, Italy, near Naples.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0700302/ |title=Enzo Pulcrano IMDB page |website=IMDb.com |publisher= IMDb.com, Inc., an Amazon.com company |access-date=2017-12-01 }}</ref>
==Biography==
After his 1971 debut in director Demofilo Fidani’s A Fistful of Death, Pulcrano appeared in several mostly low-budget spaghetti Westerns and comedies. With the crime genre’s popularity, he was a recurring presence in poliziotteschi, including Fernando di Leo’s Rulers of the City (1976) and Mario Bianchi's La banda Vallanzasca (1977), in which he had the lead role.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8gb8cWK0jY |title=Enzo Pulcrano – Biografia |date=Nov 28, 2016 |website=YouTube |publisher=ai.pictures italiano |access-date=2017-12-01 }}</ref>
He played Salvatore Trapanese in the 1976 comedy Hit Squad.
==Death== Pulcrano died in 1992. According to Mario Bianchi, who directed him in La Banda Vallanzasca, Pulcrano had developed a serious drug addiction. <ref>{{cite book |last=Curti |first= Roberto|date=October 22, 2013 |title=Italian Crime Filmography, 1968–1980 |url=https://books.google.com/books?isbn=0786469765 |publisher=McFarland |page=105 |isbn=978-0786469765}}</ref>
== Filmography == *''Giù le mani... carogna! (Django Story)'', directed by Demofilo Fidani (1970) *''Il Magnifico West'', directed by Gianni Crea (1971) *''Giù la testa... hombre!'', directed by Demofilo Fidani (1971) *''Rimase uno solo e fu la morte per tutti!'' (1971) *''Black Killer'', directed by Carlo Croccolo (1971) *''I racconti di Canterbury N. 2'', directed by Lucio Dandolo (1972) *''Decameron n° 2 - Le altre novelle del Boccaccio'', directed by Mino Guerrini (1972) *''Decameron n° 4 - Le belle novelle del Boccaccio'', directed by Paolo Bianchini (1972) *''A.A.A. Massaggiatrice bella presenza offresi...'', directed by Demofilo Fidani (1972) *''Go Away! Trinity Has Arrived in Eldorado'', directed by Joe D'Amato (1972) *''Un Bounty killer a Trinità'' (1972) *''Le favolose notti d'oriente'' (1973) *''Mafia Killer'' (1973) *''Amico mio, frega tu... che frego io!'' (1973) *''Novelle licenziose di vergini vogliose'', directed by Joe D'Amato (1973) *''La Mafia mi fa un baffo'', directed by Riccardo Garrone (1974) *''A pugni nudi'', regia di Marcello Zeani (1974) *''Quant'è bella la Bernarda, tutta nera, tutta calda'', directed by Lucio Dandolo (1975) *''La commessa'' (1975) *''La Bolognese'', directed by Alfredo Rizzo (1975) *''Kidnap Syndicate'' (1975) *''Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man'' (1976) *''Hit Squad'' (1976) *''Mister Scarface'' (1976) *''La banda Vallanzasca'' (1977) *''Little Italy'' (1977) *''Assassinio sul Tevere'' (1979) *''Cameriera senza malizia'' (1980) *''Ricomincio da zero'' (1982)
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==External links== * {{IMDb name|id=0700302}}
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Pulcrano, Enzo}} Category:1943 births Category:1992 deaths Category:20th-century Italian male actors Category:Italian male film actors Category:Male actors from Campania