Riccardo Cucciolla
| Riccardo Cucciolla | |
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| Born | 5 September 1924 Bari, Italy |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Rome, Italy |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1953-1999 |
Riccardo Cucciolla (5 September 1924 – 17 September 1999) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1953 and 1999. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for the film Sacco e Vanzetti.
Life and career
Born in Bari, in southern Italy, Cucciolla gained a degree in law, then made his stage debut in an amateur production in his home city.[1] From 1946 he started working in radio as a voice actor and as the narrator of documentaries; at the same time he started working in cinema, as a dubber and a voice actor.[2]
Cucciolla made his film debut in 1953, in Anton Giulio Majano's La domenica della buona gente. After some minor roles, he had his first important role in Italiani brava gente (1965), followed by a further significant role in Giuliano Montaldo's Grand Slam (1967).[2]
Cucciolla came to national and international recognition with the leading role in Montaldo's Sacco e Vanzetti, for which he was awarded best actor at Cannes and won a Silver Ribbon, and in the wake of that sudden popularity he intensively worked throughout the decade, alternating notable films with others of more modest quality and ambition.[2] Starting from eighties he thinned out his appearances, mainly focusing on dubbing and television roles.[2] At the age of 75 Ricardo Cucciolla died in Rome, Lazio, Italy. He is survived by his wife, the poet Alida Sessa, their son Riccardo and two children by his first wife.
Selected filmography
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- Il seduttore (1954)
- Rascel-Fifì (1957)
- La bugiarda (1965)
- Attack and Retreat (1965)
- Grand Slam (1967)[3]
- The Seven Cervi Brothers (1968)
- Una sull'altra (1969)
- Bandits in Rome (1969)
- Sacco e Vanzetti (1970)
- The Case Is Closed, Forget It (1971)
- We Are All in Temporary Liberty (1971)
- Un flic (1972)
- The Sicilian Checkmate (1972)
- Un apprezzato professionista di sicuro avvenire (1972)
- The Assassination of Matteotti (1973)
- No, The Case Is Happily Resolved (1973)
- Borsalino & Co. (1974)
- Rabid Dogs (1974)
- The Sensual Man (1974)
- The Last Day of School Before Christmas (1975)
- C.I.A. Secret Story (1975)
- fr (1975)
- Meet Him and Die (1976)
- Take All of Me (1976)
- Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison (1977)
- The Assisi Underground (1985)
- Il coraggio di parlare (1987)
- 32 dicembre (1989)
- La voce del cuore (TV, 1995)
References
Further reading
- Vito Attolini, Alfonso Marrese. Riccardo Cucciolla. Ritratto di attore. Edizioni Dal Sud, 1990. ISBN 8875531528.
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