Riccardo Billi

{{Short description|Italian actor (1906–1982)}} {{More citations needed|date=June 2019}} {{Infobox person | name = Riccardo Billi | image = Accadde al commissariato 18.jpg | caption = Riccardo Billi (on the right) and [[Mario Riva]] in ''[[It Happened at the Police Station]]'' (1954) | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1906|04|22|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Siena]], Italy | death_date = {{death date and age|1982|04|15|1906|04|22|df=yes}} | death_place = [[Rome]], Italy | occupation = [[Actor]] | years_active = 1938—1982 }}

'''Riccardo Billi''' (22 April 1906 – 15 April 1982) was an Italian [[film actor]] and [[comedian]]. With [[Mario Riva]] he appeared as ''Billi & Riva'', one of the most popular Italian comic duos in the 1950s. He appeared in around 85 films between 1938 and his death in 1982.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/Dizionario_del_cinema_italiano_testi_e_s/WDKOut-MkCwC?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=Riccardo+Billi&pg=PA74&printsec=frontcover|pages=74–75|chapter=Billi, Riccardo|first=Ernico|last=Lancia|editor-first=Ernico|editor-last=Lancia|editor-first2=Roberto|editor-last2=Poppi|publisher=Gremese Editore|year=2003|title=Dizionario del cinema italiano. Le attrici dal 1930 ai giorni nostri.|isbn=9788884402141 }}</ref>

== Filmography == {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year !! Title !! Role !! Notes |- | 1938 || ''L'ha fatto una signora'' || || |- | 1940 || ''Fanfulla da Lodi'' || Rubagalline || |- | 1940 || ''Miseria e nobiltà'' || Luigino || |- | 1943 || ''Gian Burrasca'' || Il signor Capitani || |- | 1944 || ''[[The Priest's Hat (film)|The Priest's Hat]]'' || Il barbiere || |- | 1947 || ''Le avventure di Pinocchio'' || || |- | 1949 || ''Una Voce Nel Tuo Cuore'' || Ciccillo || |- | 1949 || ''[[Adam and Eve (1949 film)|Adam and Eve]]'' || Abu Hassan, l'eunuco || |- | 1949 || ''Se fossi deputato'' || Il Regista || |- | 1950 || ''Ho sognato il paradiso'' || Raffaele || |- | 1950 || ''[[Margaret of Cortona (film)|Margaret of Cortona]]'' || Menestrello || |- | 1950 || ''[[The Cadets of Gascony]]'' || Riccardo Bolletta || |- | 1950 || ''[[Totò Tarzan]]'' || Un capostazione || |- | 1950 || ''[[The Transporter (1950 film)|The Transporter]]'' || Noè || |- | 1950 || ''[[Toto the Sheik]]'' || L'arabo della cella bianca || |- | 1950 || ''[[47 morto che parla]]'' || || |- | 1951 || ''[[Arrivano i nostri]]'' || Daniele Raggi || |- | 1951 || ''[[Accidents to the Taxes!!]]'' || Gaetano Pellecchia || |- | 1951 || ''[[The Steamship Owner]]'' || Himself || |- | 1951 || ''Anema E Core'' || Himself || |- | 1951 || ''[[Ha fatto tredici]]'' || Himself || |- | 1952 || ''[[Porca miseria]]'' || The Man in the Prison Cell || |- | 1952 || ''[[Vendetta... sarda]]'' || Himself || |- | 1952 || ''[[Abracadabra (1952 film)|Abracadabra]]'' || Antonio || |- | 1952 || ''[[Giovinezza (film)|Giovinezza]]'' || Venditore ambulante || |- | 1952 || ''[[Beauties on Motor Scooters]]'' || || |- | 1953 || ''[[Easy Years]]'' || Giovanni Pellecchia || |- | 1953 || ''Siamo tutti Milanesi'' || || |- | 1954 || ''Il paese dei campanelli'' || || |- | 1954 || ''[[It Happened at the Police Station]]'' || Riccardo, 1st tram driver || |- | 1954 || ''[[Tripoli, Beautiful Land of Love]]'' || Marshal Carocci || |- | 1954 || ''[[Laugh! Laugh! Laugh!]]'' || Controllore || |- | 1954 || ''Scuola elementare'' || Dante Trilli - Teacher || |- | 1955 || ''Accadde al penitenziario'' || Detenuto siciliano || |- | 1955 || ''La moglie è uguale per tutti'' || Domenico aka Mimì || |- | 1955 || ''[[Io piaccio]]'' || The Husband of the Harassing Woman || |- | 1955 || ''Rosso e nero'' || || |- | 1955 || ''Motivo in maschera'' || || |- | 1955 || ''Il campanile d'oro'' || || |- | 1956 || ''[[I giorni più belli]]'' || Silvio Ceccarelli || |- | 1956 || ''[[Allow Me, Daddy!|Mi Permette, Babbo!]]'' || Romoletto - un giornalaio || |- | 1957 || ''[[Arrivano i dollari!]]'' || Michelino Pasti || |- | 1957 || ''Solo Dio mi fermerà'' || || |- | 1957 || ''[[Serenate per 16 bionde]]'' || Peppe || |- | 1957 || ''Ho amato una diva'' || Produttore Piazza || |- | 1957 || ''Gente felice'' || Vincenzo || |- | 1957 || ''A sud niente di nuovo'' || || |- | 1958 || ''Ricordati di Napoli'' || || |- | 1958 || ''[[Mia nonna poliziotto]]'' || Belletti || |- | 1958 || ''Marinai, donne e guai'' || Gilbert, il prestigiatore || |- | 1960 || ''Il terrore della maschera rossa'' || Fanello || |- | 1960 || ''[[Un mandarino per Teo]]'' || Ignazio Fumoni || |- | 1960 || ''Madri pericolose'' || Il maresciallo Maldino || |- | 1961 || ''Bellezze sulla spiaggia'' || || |- | 1961 || ''Le magnifiche 7'' || Osvaldo || |- | 1961 || ''Walter e i suoi cugini'' || Giuseppe || |- | 1961 || ''Pastasciutta nel deserto'' || Il Comico || |- | 1962 || ''Peccati d'estate'' || Il cacciatore || |- | 1962 || ''[[Lo smemorato di Collegno]]'' || Fernando Meniconi || |- | 1962 || ''2 samurai per 100 geishe'' || Samurai School Manager || |- | 1962 || ''Gli italiani e le donne'' || The Director || (segment "L'Abito non fa il Monaco") |- | 1962 || ''Twist, lolite e vitelloni'' || Barbiere || |- | 1962 || ''L'assassino si chiama Pompeo'' || || |- | 1962 || ''[[Il mio amico Benito]]'' || Renzi || |- | 1962 || ''Canzoni a tempo di twist'' || || |- | 1963 || ''Avventura al motel'' || Riccardo || |- | 1963 || ''[[Le motorizzate]]'' || Righetto || (segment "Un Investimento Sicuro") |- | 1963 || ''[[Gli onorevoli]]'' || Giulio || |- | 1963 || ''[[The Pink Panther (1963 film)|The Pink Panther]]'' || Aristotle Sarajos || |- | 1964 || ''I marziani hanno 12 mani'' || Il tifoso di calcio || |- | 1965 || ''La vedovella'' || Raffaele || |- | 1966 || ''7 monaci d'oro'' || Orazio, maggirdomo || |- | 1967 || ''[[The Climax (1967 film)|The Climax]]'' || Filiberto Malagugini || |- | 1968 || ''[[The Girl Who Couldn't Say No]]'' || Salesman || |- | 1972 || ''La cosa buffa'' || Ilario Borghetto - Maria's Father || |- | 1972 || ''[[The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972 miniseries)|The Adventures of Pinocchio]]'' || Omino di burro || |- | 1977 || ''Per amore di Poppea'' || || |- | 1978 || ''[[First Love (1978 film)|First Love]]'' || Augustarello || |- | 1979 || ''Belli e brutti ridono tutti'' || Capocchia || |- | 1981 || ''[[Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici]]'' || Grandfather Domenico 'Er Chiavica' || |- | 1981 || ''[[Pierino contro tutti|Desirable Teacher]]'' || [[Little Johnny|Pierino]]'s Grandfather ||(disambiguation of Pierina and Riccardo Billi<ref name=riccardobilliproducer>[[Word-sense disambiguation|Disambiguation]]: different is [[Malisa Longo#Family|the producer]] of the film ''[[:it:Quella peste di Pierina|"Quella peste di Pierina"]]'' (''"That Pest of a [[Little Johnny#Female version|Pierina]]"'', a new version of [[:it:Pierino|Pierino]] with a female lead) on ''[https://www.davinotti.com/articoli/intervista-a-marina-marfoglia/356 divanotti.com, interview with Marina Marfoglia]'', October 21, 2017 (extract from the interview: The producer of the film is ''Riccardo Billi'', who was not the actor who worked in pair with ''[[Mario Riva]]''. ''[[:it:Marina Marfoglia|Marina Marfoglia]]'': Good job Giacomo, he's a [[Homonym|namesake]]. ''Riccardo Billi'', the producer of the film, is the husband of ''[[Malisa Longo]]'').</ref>) |- | 1981 || ''[[Chaste and Pure]]'' || Father of Carletto || |- | 1981 || ''[[Il Marchese del Grillo]]'' || Aronne Piperno || |- | 1982 || ''[[Pierino colpisce ancora|Desirable Teacher 2]]'' || Pierino's Grandfather ||(''<ref name=riccardobilliproducer/> [[Sequel]]'') |- | 1982 || ''[[W la foca]]'' || Grandfather || (final film role) |}

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|id=0082419|name= Riccardo Billi}} *[http://www.fandango.com/riccardobilli/filmography/p81868 Riccardo Billi] at [[Fandango (ticket service)|Fandango]] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304001219/http://www.fandango.com/riccardobilli/filmography/p81868 |date=2016-03-04 }} *[http://www.blockbuster.com/browse/catalog/personDetails/72014 Riccardo Billi] at [[Blockbuster Inc.|Blockbuster]] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708014132/http://www.blockbuster.com/browse/catalog/personDetails/72014 |date=2011-07-08 }}

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