Nino Manfredi

{{Short description|Italian actor (1921–2004)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Nino Manfredi | honorific_suffix = OMRI | image = File:Nino Manfredi, 1990.jpg | image_size = | caption = Manfredi in 1990 | birth_date = {{birth date|1921|3|22|df=y}} | birth_place = Castro dei Volsci, Italy | height = {{convert|1.75|m|ftin|abbr=on}} | death_date = {{death date and age|2004|6|4|1921|3|22|df=y}} | death_place = Rome, Italy | birth_name = Saturnino Manfredi | years_active = 1949–2004 | occupation = {{flatlist| * Actor * voice actor * director * screenwriter * comedian * singer }} | other_names = | spouse = {{marriage|Erminia Ferrari|1955}} | children = 4, including Luca and Roberta | website = }}

[[File:Manfredi Sordi.png|thumbnail|Alberto Sordi and Manfredi in ''Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?'' (1968)]]

'''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 actors in the commedia all'italiana genre. During his career he won several awards, including six David di Donatello awards, six Nastro d'Argento awards and the Prix de la première oeuvre (Best First Work Award) at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for ''Between Miracles''.<ref name=premi>{{cite book|last=Enrico Lancia|title=I premi del cinema|year=1998|publisher=Gremese Editore, 1998|isbn=8877422211}}</ref> Typically playing losers, marginalised, working-class characters yet "in possession of their dignity, morality, and underlying optimism",<ref name=deed>{{cite book|last1=Enrico Lancia, Roberto Poppi|title=Dizionario del Cinema Italiano: Gli Attori|date=2003 |publisher=Gremese Editore, 2003|isbn=8884402697}}</ref> he was referred to as "one of the few truly complete actors in Italian cinema".<ref name="deed"/>

== Life and career == === Early life === Manfredi was born in Castro dei Volsci, Frosinone into a humble family of farmers.<ref name=Bernardini>{{cite book|last1=Aldo Bernardini|title=Nino Manfredi|year=1999|publisher=Gremese Editore, 1999|isbn=8877423692}}</ref> His father recruited in Public Safety, where he reached the rank of Maresciallo, and in the early 1930s, he was transferred to Rome, where Nino and his younger brother Dante spent their childhood in the popular neighborhood of San Giovanni.<ref name="Bernardini"/> In 1937, he became seriously ill with bilateral pleurisy, and after a doctor gave him only three months to live,<ref name=Debenedetti>{{cite news|last1=Antonio Debenedetti, Alessandro Capponi|title=Addio Nino, antidivo ironico e sentimentale|url=http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/2004/giugno/05/Addio_Nino_antidivo_ironico_sentimentale_co_10_040605009.shtml|access-date=26 August 2014|newspaper=Corriere della Sera|date=5 June 2004}}</ref><ref name="Nudo d'attore">{{cite book|last1=Nino Manfredi, Antonio Cocchia|title=Nudo d'attore|year=1993|publisher=Mondadori, 1993|isbn=8804332077}}</ref> he remained several years hospitalized in a sanatorium; there he learned to play a banjo built by himself and he entered the musical band of the hospital.<ref name="Bernardini"/><ref name="Nudo d'attore"/> To please his family in October 1941, he enrolled at the university in the Faculty of Law, but already in the same year he showed an interest and a natural inclination for the stage, making his debut as a presenter and an actor in the theater of a parish in Rome.<ref name="Bernardini"/>

After 8 September 1943, in order to avoid conscription, he took refuge for a year with his brother in the mountains above Cassino;<ref name="Bernardini"/> returned to Rome in 1944, he resumed his university studies and, at the same time, he enrolled at the National Academy of Dramatic Art.<ref name="Bernardini"/> In October 1945, he graduated in law with a thesis in criminal law, without ever practicing the profession, and in June 1947, he graduated from the academy.<ref name="Bernardini"/>

=== Early career === [[File:Nino Manfredi Fulvia Franco.jpg|left|thumbnail|Manfredi and Fulvia Franco in ''Of Wayward Love'' (1962)]] [[File:Mina e Nino Manfredi.jpg|left|thumbnail|Manfredi and Mina on the TV show ''Studio Uno'' (1965)]] Manfredi made his official stage debut in 1947, working in plays directed by Luigi Squarzina and Vito Pandolfi. The same year, he entered the Maltagliati-Gassman stage company, mostly acting in dramatic roles.<ref name="Bernardini"/> In 1948, he entered the company of the Piccolo Teatro di Milano under Giorgio Strehler, playing in tragedies such as ''Romeo and Juliet'' and ''The Storm''.<ref name="Bernardini"/> The same year he started working on radio as a comedian and an impersonator.<ref name="Bernardini"/> In 1949, he made his film debut in the melodrama ''Monastero di Santa Chiara''.<ref name="Bernardini"/> In 1952, he worked with Eduardo De Filippo in ''Tre atti unici'', along with Tino Buazzelli, Paolo Panelli and Bice Valori.<ref name="Bernardini"/> The same year he entered the revue company of the Nava sisters, and started working as a voice actor and a dubber.<ref name="Bernardini"/> In 1955, he took part to his first high-profile films, ''The Bachelor'' by Antonio Pietrangeli and ''Wild Love'' by Mauro Bolognini.<ref name="Bernardini"/>

=== First successes === In 1958, Manfredi got his first film roles as main actor.<ref name="Bernardini"/> The same year he formed a revue company with Delia Scala and Paolo Panelli, getting some success with the musical ''Un trapezio per Lisistrata''.<ref name="Bernardini"/> In 1959, the trio was chosen by RAI to host ''Canzonissima''; the show marked the turning point of the career of Manfredi, who enjoyed a very large popularity, mainly thanks to the "macchietta" (i.e. comic caricature) of the "Barman from Ceccano".<ref name="Bernardini"/> The success immediately got him a contract with Dino De Laurentiis which he dropped after one year to be free to choose his favorite projects.<ref name="Bernardini"/>

In 1962, Manfredi enjoyed an even larger success playing the title role in the stage musical ''Rugantino'', with which he toured also in Canada, the US, and Argentina.<ref name="Bernardini"/> The same year he directed the critically appreciated segment "L'avventura di un soldato" in the anthology film ''Of Wayward Love''.<ref name="Bernardini"/> In 1963 he starred in Luis García Berlanga's masterpiece ''The Executioner''.<ref>{{cite news|title=The Executioner: By the Neck|date=2016-10-26|author=David Chairns|work=The Criterion Collection |url=https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/4271-the-executioner-by-the-neck|accessdate=23 November 2024}}</ref>

=== Commedia all'italiana icon === [[File:Manfredi nell'anno del Signore.jpg|right|thumbnail|Manfredi in ''Nell'anno del Signore'' (1969)]] [[File:Geppetto Manfredi.jpg|thumb|upright|Manfredi as Geppetto in the TV series ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1972)]] Starting from the second half of the 1960s, Manfredi became a top actor at the Italian box office, starring in some of the most successful and critically acclaimed films in the Commedia all'italiana genre, often directed by Dino Risi.<ref name="Bernardini"/><ref name=Giacovelli>{{cite book|last=Enrico Giacovelli|title=La commedia all'italiana|year=1995|publisher=Gremese Editore, 1995|isbn=8876058737}}</ref> In 1969, with ''Nell'anno del Signore'', he started a fruitful collaboration with the director Luigi Magni.<ref name="Bernardini"/><ref name="Giacovelli"/> In the same period he started collaborating, often uncredited, to the screenplays of his films.<ref name="Bernardini"/>

In 1970, he enjoyed a large musical success with the Ettore Petrolini's song "Tanto pe' cantà"; the song premiered, out of competition, at the Sanremo Music Festival and it peaked at third place on the Italian hit parade.<ref name="Bernardini"/><ref name=hitparade>{{cite book|last=Dario Salvatori|title=Storia dell'Hit Parade|year=1989|publisher=Gramese, 1989|isbn=8876054391}}</ref> In 1971, he made his feature film debut as director with the semi-autobiographical ''Between Miracles'', with which he got almost unanimous critical acclaim, winning the Best Film Work Award at the Cannes Film Festival, the Italian Golden Globe for Best First Feature, two Silver Ribbons (for best screenplay and best original story) and a special David di Donatello.<ref name="Bernardini"/> In 1972 he got a major television success playing Geppetto in the Luigi Comencini's adaptation ''The Adventures of Pinocchio''.<ref name="Bernardini"/><ref name=Grasso>Aldo Grasso, Massimo Scaglioni. ''Enciclopedia della Televisione''. Garzanti, Milano, 1996 – 2003. {{ISBN|881150466X}}.</ref> In the 1970s and early 1980s, he continued alternating high-profile works and less ambitious comedies; among the most successful performances of the time, the emarginated immigrant of ''Bread and Chocolate'' (1973), the idealist worker of ''We All Loved Each Other So Much'' (1974), the old shanty town patriarch of ''Down and Dirty'' (1976), the Vatican's magistrate of ''In the Name of the Pope King'' (1977), the abusive coffee-seller in ''Café Express'' (1980).<ref name="Bernardini"/><ref name="Giacovelli"/> [[File:C'eravamo tanto amati, film.jpg|left|thumbnail|Manfredi (centre) with Vittorio Gassman and Stefano Satta Flores in ''We All Loved Each Other So Much'' (1974)]]

=== Later career === Following his last film as director (''Portrait of a Woman, Nude'') and two commercial hit films starred alongside Renato Pozzetto (''Heads I Win, Tails You Lose'' and ''Questo e Quello''), in the 1980s, Manfredi significantly slowed his cinema activities.<ref name="Bernardini"/>

In 1983, he debuted as author with the book ''Proverbi e altre cose romanesche'', while in 1984, he signed his first work as playwright and stage director (''Viva gli sposi''), an activity in which he gradually focused.<ref name="Bernardini"/> In 1990 he received a David di Donatello career award.<ref name="Bernardini"/> In 1992, after having first accepted to be a candidate at the elections with the Pannella List, he withdrawn the candidature to not give up his artistic commitments.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Giuliano Gallo|title=Manfredi: meglio i film che Pannella|access-date=26 August 2014|newspaper=Corriere della Sera|url= http://archiviostorico.corriere.it/1992/marzo/04/Manfredi_meglio_film_che_Pannella_co_0_92030418990.shtml |date=4 March 1992|page=4}}</ref> In 1993, during the shooting of ''Un commissario a Roma'', he suffered a hypoxia which compromised his memory functions.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Silvia Fumarola|title=Nino Manfredi Story, viaggio tra vita artistica e privata|url=https://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2014/11/08/news/nino_manfredi_story-100032545/|access-date=29 December 2014|newspaper=La Repubblica|date=8 November 2014}}</ref> Starting from ''Un commissario a Roma'' his popularity revamped thanks to a series of successful RAI TV-series and miniseries, notably ''Linda e il brigadiere''.<ref name="Bernardini"/><ref name="Grasso"/>

=== Last role and death === Manfredi's last role was Galapago, an almost mute stranger with no memory in Miguel Hermoso's Spanish drama film ''The End of a Mystery''. On 7 July 2003, a few months after the release of the film, he was struck by a cerebral infarction in his home in Rome.<ref name=intensiva>{{cite news|last1=Redazione online|title=Ansia per Nino Manfredi ricoverato di nuovo in terapia intensiva|url=http://www.iltempo.it/cultura-spettacoli/2003/12/02/ansia-per-nino-manfredi-ricoverato-di-nuovo-in-terapia-intensiva-1.807822|access-date=26 August 2014|newspaper=Il Tempo|date=2 December 2003}}</ref> In August, he received a Career Bianchi Prize at the Venice Film Festival.<ref>{{cite news|title=Premio alla carriera a Nino Manfredi|url=http://trovacinema.repubblica.it/news/dettaglio/premio-alla-carriera-a-nino-manfredi/259358|access-date=26 August 2014|newspaper=La Repubblica|date=29 August 2003}}</ref> In September, an improvement allowed him to return home, but in December, he was hit by a new cerebral hemorrhage.<ref name="intensiva"/> After spending six months in a continuous alternation of improvements and deteriorations, he died on 4 June 2004, aged eighty-three years old.<ref>{{cite news|title=E' morto Nino Manfredi|url=http://archivio.panorama.it/E-morto-Nino-Manfredi|access-date=26 August 2014|newspaper=Panorama|date=4 June 2004}}</ref>

== Personal life == thumbnail|"Viale Nino Manfredi", a street named after him in Rome Manfredi was married to model Erminia Ferrari from 1955 till his death. The couple had a son, Luca (who is a film and television director), and two daughters, Roberta (an actress, television presenter and producer) and Giovanna.<ref name="Bernardini"/> He had another daughter, Tonina, from a Bulgarian woman.

From an early age, Manfredi suffered from a biliary disorder which forced him to a very strict diet, and his meals often consisted of just light tea or caffè d'orzo.<ref name="Tornabuoni">{{cite news|last1=Lietta Tornabuoni|title=Manfredi: l'avevamo tanto amato|work=La Stampa|issue=154|date=5 June 2004|page=33|author1-link=Lietta Tornabuoni}}</ref> He was an atheist.<ref name="Tornabuoni" /><ref>{{cite news|last1=Gloria Satta|title=Manfredi e Troisi, l'Italia della commedia ricorda due giganti|url=http://spettacoliecultura.ilmessaggero.it/blog/superstar/manfredi-e-troisi-l-italia-della-commedia-ricorda-due-giganti/3665.shtml|access-date=26 August 2014|newspaper=Il Messaggero|date=3 June 2014}}</ref> Active in volunteering, in 1991, he was nominated Goodwill Ambassador for UNICEF.<ref name="Bernardini"/>

== Legacy == In 2007, an asteroid (73453 Ninomanfredi) was named after him.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Igor Traboni|title=Una stella chiamata Nino: da oggi Manfredi sarà un asteroide|url=https://www.ilgiornale.it/news/stella-chiamata-nino-oggi-manfredi-sar-asteroide.html|access-date=26 August 2014|newspaper=Il Giornale|date=5 February 2007}}</ref> In 2009, a Nino Manfredi Prize was established at the Nastro d’Argento Awards.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Redazione|title=Premio Nino Manfredi ai Nastri d'Argento|url=http://www.bestmovie.it/news/premio-nino-manfredi-ai-nastri-dargento/9115/|access-date=26 August 2014|publisher=Best Movie|date=23 April 2009}}</ref> Manfredi also named a theatre in Ostia, Rome.

On the occasion of the tenth anniversary of his death, in 2014, Manfredi was remembered by "Nino!", a series of events, held in various places including Los Angeles, New York, Rome and Paris, which included retrospectives, exhibitions, and the staging of an unreleased play of Manfredi.<ref>{{cite news|title="Nino!", per ricordare Manfredi a dieci anni dalla morte|url=https://www.repubblica.it/spettacoli/cinema/2014/04/10/news/cinema_nino_per_ricordare_manfredi_a_dieci_anni_dalla_morte-83244072/|access-date=26 August 2014|newspaper=La Repubblica|date=10 April 2014}}</ref>

In 2017, his son Luca Manfredi directed a biographical film about Manfredi's early years, ''In arte Nino''; Manfredi was played by Elio Germano, while Miriam Leone played his wife Erminia.<ref>{{cite news |last1=De Marinis |first1=Angelo |title="In arte Nino": il film per la tv in onore di Nino Manfredi |url=https://www.sorrisi.com/tv/film/arte-nino-il-film-per-la-tv-onore-di-nino-manfredi/ |access-date=22 May 2023 |work=TV Sorrisi e Canzoni |date=19 March 2021 |language=it-IT}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Perazzolo |first1=Paolo |title=Tutto su 'In arte Nino', il film di Rai 1 su Nino Manfredi |url=https://www.famigliacristiana.it/articolo/in-arte-nino---tutto-sul-film-su-nino-manfredi-su-rai-1.aspx |access-date=22 May 2023 |work=Famiglia Cristiana |date=25 September 2017}}</ref> {{br}}

== Filmography == === Cinema === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''The Monastery of Santa Chiara'' (1949) as Enrico * ''Return to Naples'' (1949) as Francisco * ''My Heart Sings'' (1951) as Enrico * ''Viva il cinema!'' (1952) as Tonino's friend * ''Good Folk's Sunday'' (1953) as Lello * ''I Chose Love'' (1953) * ''Prisoner in the Tower of Fire'' (1953) as Stornello * ''Cavalcade of Song'' (1953) * ''Laugh! Laugh! Laugh!'' (1954) as Signore che non vuole pagare (segment "Al Night Club Bar Zellette") * ''Scandal in Sorrento'' (1955) as Sindaco di Sorrento (voice, uncredited) * ''Non scherzare con le donne'' (1955) as Tifoso ciclista * ''Revelation'' (1955) as Mario Giorgi * ''Lo scapolo'' (1955) as Peppino * ''Wild Love'' (1956) as Otello – il parrucchiere * ''Guardia, guardia scelta, brigadiere e maresciallo'' (1956) as Paolo * ''Toto, Peppino, and the Hussy'' (1956) as Raffaele, Gianni's friend * ''Time of Vacation'' (1956) as Carletto * ''Susanna Whipped Cream'' (1957) as Un ladro * ''Femmine tre volte'', (1957) as Nando Martinoni * ''Camping'' (1958) as Nino * ''{{Interlanguage link|Pezzo, capopezzo e capitano|it}}'' (1958) as Pilota * ''Adorabili e bugiarde'' (1958) as Mario * ''Venice, the Moon and You'' (1958) as Toni * ''Il bacio del sole (Don Vesuvio)'' (1958) * ''Caporale di giornata'' (1958) as Corporal Enea Serafini * ''Maid, Thief and Guard'' (1958) as Otello Cucchiaroni * ''Carmela è una bambola'' (1958) as Antonio 'Totò' Improta * ''I ragazzi dei Parioli'' (1959) as Giuseppe Spallotta * ''Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti'' (1959) as Ugo Nardi aka Piede Amaro * ''The Employee'' (1960) as Ferdinando 'Nando' Guida * ''Toto, Fabrizi and the Young People Today'' (1960) (voice, uncredited) * ''Le pillole di Ercole'' (1960) as dottor Pasqui * ''Crimen'' (1960) as Quirino Filonzi * ''Il carabiniere a cavallo'' (1961) as Franco Bartolucci * ''The Last Judgment'' (1961) as Waiter * ''On the Tiger's Back'' (1961) as Giacinto Rossi * ''Roaring Years'' (1962) as Omero Battifiori * ''I motorizzati'' (1962) as Nino Borsetti * ''Of Wayward Love'' (1962) as the soldier (segment "L'avventura di un soldato") * ''The Girl from Parma'' (1963) as Nino Meciotti * ''The Executioner'' (1963) as José Luis Rodríguez * ''I cuori infranti'' (1963) as Quirino (segment "E vissero felici") * ''High Infidelity'' (1964) as Francesco (segment "Scandaloso") * ''Il Gaucho'' (1964) as Stefano * ''Countersex'' (1964) as Sandro Cioffi (segment "Cocaina di domenica") / Spadini (segment "Una donna d'affari") * ''Le bambole'' (1965) as Giorgio (segment "La telefonata") * ''Questa volta parliamo di uomini'' (1965) as Federico (segment "Un uomo d'onore"), Morgas (segment "Il lanciatore di coltelli"), Raffaelle (segment "Un uomo superiore"), Salvatore (segment "Un brav'uomo") * ''I complessi'' (1965) as Quirino Raganelli (segment "Una Giornata decisiva") * ''Thrilling'' (1965) as Nanni Galassi (segment "Il vittimista") * ''I Knew Her Well'' (1965) as Cianfanna * ''Made in Italy'' (1965) as Attilio Lamborecchia (segment "4 'Cittadini, stato e chiesa', episode 1") * ''Me, Me, Me... and the Others'' (1966) as 'Millevache' * ''Adultery Italian Style'' (1966) as Franco Finali * ''Treasure of San Gennaro'' (1966) as Armandino Girasole / Dudu * ''A Rose for Everyone'' (1967) as The doctor * ''The Head of the Family'' (1967) as Marco * ''Italian Secret Service'' (1968) as Natale Tartufato aka Capellone * ''Torture Me But Kill Me with Kisses'' (1968) as Marino Balestrini * ''Will Our Heroes Be Able to Find Their Friend Who Has Mysteriously Disappeared in Africa?'' (1968) as Oreste Sabatini * ''I See Naked'' (1969) as Cacopardo / Angelo Perfili / Ercole / Voyeur / Phone-technician / Maurizio / Nanni * ''The Conspirators'' (1969) as Cornacchia * ''Operation Snafu'' (1970) as Rosolino Paternò * ''Let's Have a Riot'' (1970) as Beretta (segment "Concerto a tre pifferi") * ''Between Miracles'' (1971) as Benedetto Parisi * ''Roma Bene'' (1971) as Il Commissario Quintilio Tartamella * ''Trastevere'' (1971) as Carmelo Mazzullo * ''In Love, Every Pleasure Has Its Pain'' (1971) as Nale * ''The Assassin of Rome'' (1972) as Gino Girolimoni * ''Lo chiameremo Andrea'' (1972) as Paolo Antonazzi * ''Bread and Chocolate'' (1974) as Giovanni 'Nino' Garofoli * ''We All Loved Each Other So Much'' (1974) as Antonio * ''Eye of the Cat'' (1975) as Marcello Ferrari * ''Down and Dirty'' (1975) as Giacinto Mazzatella * ''Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen'' (1976) as Cardinale Caprettari (segment "Il Santo Soglio") * ''Basta che non si sappia in giro'' (1976) as Enzo Lucarelli (segment "Il superiore") / Paolo Gallizzi (segment "L'equivoco") * ''Strange Occasion'' (1976) as Antonio Pecoraro (segment "Cavalluccio Svedese, Il") * ''In the Name of the Pope King'' (1977) as Monsignor Colombo da Privano * ''The Payoff'' (1978) as Sasà Iovine * ''A Dangerous Toy'' (1979) as Vittorio Barletta * ''Gros-Câlin'' (1979) as Parisi * ''Café Express'' (1980) as Michele Abbagnano * ''Portrait of a Woman, Nude'' (1981) as Sandro * ''Spaghetti House'' (1982) as Domenico Ceccacci * ''Heads I Win, Tails You Lose'' (1982) as Beduino * ''Questo e Quello'' (1983) as Doctor (segment "Questo... amore impossibile") / Alessandro Cipollini (segment "Quello... col basco rosso") * ''Il tenente dei carabinieri'' (1986) as Colonnello Vinci * ''Grandi magazzini'' (1986) as Marco Salviati * ''Secondo Ponzio Pilato'' (1987) as Ponzio Pilato * ''Helsinki Napoli All Night Long'' (1987) as Grandpa * ''The Rogues'' (1987) as Il cieco * ''Alberto Express'' (1990) as Le père d'Alberto * ''In the Name of the Sovereign People'' (1991) as Angelo Brunetti, also known as Ciceruacchio * ''Mima'' (1991) as Grandpa * ''Colpo di luna'' (1995) as Salvatore * ''The Flying Dutchman'' (1995) as Campanelli * ''Grazie di tutto'' (1999) as Pietro * ''La Carbonara'' (1999) as Cardinale * ''Una milanese a Roma'' (2001) as Giordano * ''Apri gli occhi e... sogna'' (2002) as Il barbone * ''The End of a Mystery'' (2003) as Galapago * ''L'apetta Giulia e la signora Vita'' (2003) as Bobo (voice) (final film role) {{div col end}}

=== Television === {{div col|colwidth=30em}} * ''The Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1972) as Geppetto * ''La vita di Gesù'' (1975) * ''Julianus barát'' (1991) as Endre the Second * ''Un commissario a Roma'' (series, 1992) as Commissario Franco Amidei * ''Linda e il brigadiere'' (series, 1997) as Nino Fogliani * ''Linda e il brigadiere 2'' (series, 1998) as Nino Fogliani * ''Dio ci ha creato gratis'' (1998) as Cardinal Forseca * ''Linda, il brigadiere e...'' (series, 1999) as Nino Fogliani * ''Meglio tardi che mai'' (1999) as Antonio Di Carlo * ''Una storia qualunque'' (2000) as Michele * ''Le ragioni del cuore'' (2002) * ''Un difetto di famiglia'' (2002) as Francesco Gammarota * ''Chiaroscuro'' (2003) as Sor Peppe * ''La notte di Pasquino'' (2003) as Pasquino * ''Un posto tranquillo'' (2003) as Padre Roberto {{div col end}}

=== Director === * ''Of Wayward Love'' (segment "L'avventura di un soldato", 1962) * ''Between Miracles'' (''Per grazia ricevuta'', 1970) * ''Nudo di donna'' (1981)

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