# Riccardo Billi

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Italian actor (1906–1982)

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Riccardo Billi Riccardo Billi (on the right) and Mario Riva in It Happened at the Police Station (1954) Born (1906-04-22)22 April 1906 Siena, Italy Died 15 April 1982(1982-04-15) (aged 75) Rome, Italy Occupation Actor Years active 1938—1982

**Riccardo Billi** (22 April 1906 – 15 April 1982) was an Italian [film actor](/source/Film_actor) and [comedian](/source/Comedian). With [Mario Riva](/source/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.[1]

## Filmography

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 Il barbiere 1947 Le avventure di Pinocchio 1949 Una Voce Nel Tuo Cuore Ciccillo 1949 Adam and Eve Abu Hassan, l'eunuco 1949 Se fossi deputato Il Regista 1950 Ho sognato il paradiso Raffaele 1950 Margaret of Cortona Menestrello 1950 The Cadets of Gascony Riccardo Bolletta 1950 Totò Tarzan Un capostazione 1950 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 Antonio 1952 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 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 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 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 Omino di burro 1977 Per amore di Poppea 1978 First Love Augustarello 1979 Belli e brutti ridono tutti Capocchia 1981 Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici Grandfather Domenico 'Er Chiavica' 1981 Desirable Teacher Pierino's Grandfather (disambiguation of Pierina and Riccardo Billi[2]) 1981 Chaste and Pure Father of Carletto 1981 Il Marchese del Grillo Aronne Piperno 1982 Desirable Teacher 2 Pierino's Grandfather ([2] Sequel) 1982 W la foca Grandfather (final film role)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** Lancia, Ernico (2003). "Billi, Riccardo". In Lancia, Ernico; Poppi, Roberto (eds.). [*Dizionario del cinema italiano. Le attrici dal 1930 ai giorni nostri*](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). Gremese Editore. pp. 74–75. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [9788884402141](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9788884402141).

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-riccardobilliproducer_2-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-riccardobilliproducer_2-1) [Disambiguation](/source/Word-sense_disambiguation): different is [the producer](/source/Malisa_Longo#Family) of the film *["Quella peste di Pierina"](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quella_peste_di_Pierina)* (*"That Pest of a [Pierina](/source/Little_Johnny#Female_version)"*, a new version of [Pierino](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierino) with a female lead) on *[divanotti.com, interview with Marina Marfoglia](https://www.davinotti.com/articoli/intervista-a-marina-marfoglia/356)*, 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](/source/Mario_Riva)*. *[Marina Marfoglia](https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marina_Marfoglia)*: Good job Giacomo, he's a [namesake](/source/Homonym). *Riccardo Billi*, the producer of the film, is the husband of *[Malisa Longo](/source/Malisa_Longo)*).

## External links

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