Vincenzo Salemme

Vincenzo Salemme

Birth : 1957-07-24, Napoli, Italy

History

Vincenzo Salemme si è diplomato presso il Liceo Classico Umberto I di Napoli, per poi iscriversi alla Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia presso l'Università Federico II di Napoli. Nel 1976 venne scritturato dalla Compagnia Teatrale di Tato Russo e debuttò come attore nella commedia Ballata e morte di un capitano del popolo. Nel 1977 si trasferì a Roma ed entrò a far parte della compagnia di Eduardo De Filippo. Con la compagnia di De Filippo partecipò a "Quei figuri di tanti anni fa" (come comparsa), "Il cilindro" e "Il sindaco del rione Sanità" che furono poi trasmesse da Rai Uno tra il 1978 e il 1979. La collaborazione con la Compagnia di Eduardo De Filippo continuò fino al 1984 (anno della morte di Eduardo) e proseguì con il figlio, Luca De Filippo, fino al 1992. Vincenzo Salemme oltre ad essere un attore teatrale ha recitato anche in alcuni film. Il suo esordio come attore avviene negli anni Ottanta, quando il regista Nanni Moretti gli affida ruoli nei film "Sogni d'oro", "Bianca" e "La messa è finita". Nel 1989 partecipa al film "C'è posto per tutti", per la regia di Giancarlo Planta. Altri film in cui ha recitato sono "Isotta" di Maurizio Fiume, "Il tuffo" di Massimo Martella, "Baciami piccina" di Roberto Cimpanelli, "Olé" di Carlo Vanzina, "Ex" di Fausto Brizzi, "Baarìa" di Giuseppe Tornatore, La vita è una cosa meravigliosa di Carlo Vanzina ed A Natale mi sposo di Paolo Costella. Nel 1998 esce il primo film da lui diretto, "L'amico del cuore". La pellicola, uscita nelle sale cinematografiche nel dicembre 1998, ottiene molto successo, incassando dieci miliardi di lire. Altri film diretti da lui sono "Amore a prima vista" (1999), "A ruota libera" (2000), "Volesse il cielo!" (2002), "Ho visto le stelle!" (2003), Cose da pazzi (2005), SMS - Sotto mentite spoglie (2007) e No Problem (2008). Famose sono molte sue commedie teatrali: "...e fuori nevica", "Passerotti o pipistrelli?", "Premiata pasticceria Bellavista", "Faccio a pezzi il teatro", "Lo strano caso di Felice C.", "Bello di papà". Attualmente è in giro per l'Italia con il suo nuovo spettacolo "L'astice al veleno". È stato anche protagonista di due show televisivi, Famiglia Salemme Show (2006) e Da Nord a Sud... e ho detto tutto! (2009), entrambi andati in onda su Raiuno.

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Vincenzo Salemme

Movies

La guerra dei nonni
Gerri
Jerry and Tom are two grandparents who compete for the sympathy of their grandchildren.
Il sesso degli angeli
Antonello
A street priest struggling to save his church learns his late uncle left him a small business that could turn his fortune around: he'll soon realize that said business is in fact... a brothel!
I fratelli De Filippo
Riccardo Ruggiti
The story of the De Filippo brothers, children of Eduardo Scarpetta.
Con tutto il cuore
Screenplay
Con tutto il cuore
Story
Con tutto il cuore
Producer
Con tutto il cuore
Theatre Play
Con tutto il cuore
Director
Con tutto il cuore
‎7 Hours to Win Your Heart
Enrico Dell'Orefice
When his girlfriend Giorgia leaves him for his boss, journalist Giulio suddenly finds himself without a woman and with no job. Determined to win back his ex, he attends Valeria's classes, who teaches single men the art of seduction, convinced that relationships between people are motivated by simple biological stimuli.
Three Perfect Daughters
Antonio
Three families go into crisis when their daughters get engaged because they are convinced that their young daughters have all chosen a wrong partner.
Di mamma ce n’è una sola
Una festa esagerata
Sogni e bisogni
Compromessi sposi
Gaetano
A young fashion blogger and an aspiring songwriter seem to have not that much in common, but when Cupid’s arrow hits them, every difference fades away and overnight they decide to get married. Even their fathers do not have anything in common: Gaetano is a strict mayor from Southern Italy, while Diego is a rich entrepreneur from the North. Between the two forthcoming in-laws, instead, is hate at first sight. They seem to agree on one single common goal: prevent this marriage at any cost! After fighting by any means in a struggle that will also involve their two bizarre families, will they manage to say no to the wedding?
Se son rose...
signor Formisano
Leonardo is still single and immature as ever at 50. Tired to see him like that, his daughter texts all his exes "I'm a changed man: let's try again", setting in motion an unexpected trip down memory lane.
Una festa esagerata
Story
Mirea is about to be 18 years old, and her family is prepearing a big party for her. Teresa, Mirea's mother, wants to gain notoriety, so begins to spend recklessy for the celebration. When the day finally comes, an unexpected death puts it at risk.
Una festa esagerata
Theatre Play
Mirea is about to be 18 years old, and her family is prepearing a big party for her. Teresa, Mirea's mother, wants to gain notoriety, so begins to spend recklessy for the celebration. When the day finally comes, an unexpected death puts it at risk.
Una festa esagerata
Gennaro Parascandolo
Mirea is about to be 18 years old, and her family is prepearing a big party for her. Teresa, Mirea's mother, wants to gain notoriety, so begins to spend recklessy for the celebration. When the day finally comes, an unexpected death puts it at risk.
Una festa esagerata
Screenplay
Mirea is about to be 18 years old, and her family is prepearing a big party for her. Teresa, Mirea's mother, wants to gain notoriety, so begins to spend recklessy for the celebration. When the day finally comes, an unexpected death puts it at risk.
Una festa esagerata
Director
Mirea is about to be 18 years old, and her family is prepearing a big party for her. Teresa, Mirea's mother, wants to gain notoriety, so begins to spend recklessy for the celebration. When the day finally comes, an unexpected death puts it at risk.
Vengo anch'io
Michele
Caccia al tesoro
Domenico Greco
Tainted Souls
Walter
The lives of the tenants of a lower-class apartment building in the outskirts intersect on a backdrop of crime, drug dealing, confused feelings and tainted relationships, in a lucid portrait of contemporary Rome. Marcello, a bisexual former body builder married with Chiara, has an affair with the bourgeois professor Walter; the ambitious Mauro and cold-blooded dealer and his wife Simona get involved in the ambiguous business of the local boss Carmine to move up to the elegant and cruel circles of central Rome that profit from the public funds for the disadvantaged; Valeria and her son Attilio, Flaminia and her violent husband Bruno face the daily difficulties of their troubled lives. The corrupted powers of urban speculation invade a suspended corner of the suburbs, contaminating the lives of a group of lost souls,revealing the desperate world of the slum and the pitiless scene of the city center as the hidden face of the same coin.
Non si ruba a casa dei ladri
Antonio Russo
Prima di lunedì
Carlito
Se mi lasci non vale
Story
Two aging men bond over their respective heartbreaks, but it may not be over yet...
Se mi lasci non vale
Vincenzo
Two aging men bond over their respective heartbreaks, but it may not be over yet...
Se mi lasci non vale
Screenplay
Two aging men bond over their respective heartbreaks, but it may not be over yet...
Se mi lasci non vale
Director
Two aging men bond over their respective heartbreaks, but it may not be over yet...
Ma tu di che segno 6?
Maggiore Augusto Fioretti
Five searches for love unfold in interconnected stories in which fathers, daughters and male suitors try to perfect love matches based on astrology.
...It's Snowing Outside!
Vincenzo "Enzo" Righi in arte David Carradine
After their mother dies, three brothers must live together in order to get their inheritance — and soon start to uncover dark family secrets.
...It's Snowing Outside!
Screenplay
After their mother dies, three brothers must live together in order to get their inheritance — and soon start to uncover dark family secrets.
...It's Snowing Outside!
Director
After their mother dies, three brothers must live together in order to get their inheritance — and soon start to uncover dark family secrets.
Sapore di te
Onorevole Piero De Marco
It depicts the lives of several groups of characters interacting at the beach of Forte dei Marmi during the mid-1980s.
Us in the U.S.
Antonio
Five people who never met are convened by a notary for the reading of a will, and learn they are all brothers and sisters, children of the same father. They’ll share a large inheritance if they can deliver the ashes to their father’s favorite lake in Arizona.
Una donna per la vita
Agente Immobiliare
Buona giornata
Luigi Pinardi
10 Rules for Falling in Love
Renato
Womanizer father teaches clumsy son the decalogue of seduction: ten foolproof rules to make any woman fall in love. But the results will be not what expected.
Chocolate Kisses
Maestro Gaetano Conti
Ex 2: Still Friends
Antonio Schiavone
Marco encounters his ex-girlfriend Consueloand starts seeing her without telling that he has just married. Antonio is an MP and during his European trip he has a love affair with elegant Olga who has a big secret to hide. Recently-jilted Fabio is mistaken for psychiatrist by a beautiful girl Valentina with whom he falls in love. A divorce lawyer Sandra is romantically attracted to her client's husband Massimo.
Baciato dalla fortuna
Screenplay
Gaetano is a divorced traffic cop in a relationship with a beautiful and exuberant woman, for whom he happily provides standards of living well above his means. He plans to propose to her, but she is thinking to run away with his handsome superior. In the midst of debts, unpaid alimony and other serious financial issues, Gaetano unexpectedly wins the lottery, turning the fortune around.
Baciato dalla fortuna
Story
Gaetano is a divorced traffic cop in a relationship with a beautiful and exuberant woman, for whom he happily provides standards of living well above his means. He plans to propose to her, but she is thinking to run away with his handsome superior. In the midst of debts, unpaid alimony and other serious financial issues, Gaetano unexpectedly wins the lottery, turning the fortune around.
Baciato dalla fortuna
Gaetano
Gaetano is a divorced traffic cop in a relationship with a beautiful and exuberant woman, for whom he happily provides standards of living well above his means. He plans to propose to her, but she is thinking to run away with his handsome superior. In the midst of debts, unpaid alimony and other serious financial issues, Gaetano unexpectedly wins the lottery, turning the fortune around.
Make a Fake
Enzo
A Natale mi sposo
Tony
Life Is a Wonderful Thing
Antonio
A policeman who spies on the lives of others, an important banker married to a housewife who poses as a noblewoman. A precarious young masseuse and an electrician madly in love. Very different lives that end up intertwining. But also extremely complicated and troubled lives ... Even if, after all, life is a wonderful thing ...
Baaria
capo comico
Giuseppe Tornatore traces three generations of a Sicilian family in in the Sicilian town of Bagheria (known as Baarìa in the local Sicilian dialect), from the 1930s to the 1980s, to tell the story of the loves, dreams and delusions of an unusual community.
Ex
Filippo
Ex is a 2009 film directed and co-written by Fausto Brizzi and interpreted by a rich and large cast of characters. The film, produced by Italian International Film, in co-production with the French company and Mes Films in collaboration with RAI Cinema. It was released February 6, 2009 in Italian cinema and has been recognized as "national cultural interest" by the Directorate General for Cinema of the Ministry of Heritage and Culture.
No problem
Arturo Cremisi
No problem
Writer
No problem
Director
SMS - Sotto mentite spoglie
Writer
SMS - Sotto mentite spoglie
Director
SMS - Sotto mentite spoglie
Tommaso Lampedusa
Olé
Salvatore Rondinella
Two quarreling teachers vie for the same woman. In the same time the two will have to accompany a class on a trip in Spain.
Baciami piccina
Raoul Nuvolini
7th September 1943. The honest and reliable carabiniere Umberto is sent to escort the flamboyant con man Raoul Nuvolini from Terni to Venice. Umberto's fiancée Luisa follows him against his will.
Cose da pazzi
Story
Cose da pazzi
Screenplay
Cose da pazzi
Director
Cose da pazzi
Felice Ci'
Ho visto le stelle
Writer
The young Antonio wants to participate in a reality show and leaves Naples for Milan with his best friend Eugenio.
Ho visto le stelle
Antonio
The young Antonio wants to participate in a reality show and leaves Naples for Milan with his best friend Eugenio.
Ho visto le stelle
Director
The young Antonio wants to participate in a reality show and leaves Naples for Milan with his best friend Eugenio.
Opopomoz
Giuseppe (voice)
It's Christmas Eve in Naples. Little Rocco feels increasingly jealous due to the imminent birth of a baby brother. Three bungling devils sent by Satan promise him that if he'll stop Jesus from being born—entering the Nativity scene his father built by the magic word "opopomoz" and altering the past—his brother won't be born either.
Volesse il cielo!
Story
A police inspector has to help an eccentric stranger who seems to have lost his memory.
Volesse il cielo!
Lo Sconosciuto
A police inspector has to help an eccentric stranger who seems to have lost his memory.
Volesse il cielo!
Screenplay
A police inspector has to help an eccentric stranger who seems to have lost his memory.
Volesse il cielo!
Director
A police inspector has to help an eccentric stranger who seems to have lost his memory.
Faccio a pezzi il teatro!
Director
Faccio a pezzi il teatro!
Faccio a pezzi il teatro!
A ruota libera
Pericle Caruso
A ruota libera
Screenplay
A ruota libera
Director
Faccia di Picasso
se stesso
The usual story of the young director who tells the movie that fails to do. Zany gags, quotes, the eternal exasperation to get at all costs to laugh, to any.
Premiata Pasticceria Bellavista
Amore a prima vista
Screenplay
A man falls in love with a dude after a corneal transplantation.
Amore a prima vista
Story
A man falls in love with a dude after a corneal transplantation.
Amore a prima vista
Bruno
A man falls in love with a dude after a corneal transplantation.
Amore a prima vista
Director
A man falls in love with a dude after a corneal transplantation.
Muzungu
Screenplay
My Best Friend's Wife
Story
Roberto is a doctor in a small town near Naples. He suffers from a severe heart disease and he is heading toward an American hospital for a dangerous surgery with little or no hope of surviving. Therefore he talks to his best friend since childhood, Michele, a columnist at the local newspaper, explaining his last and long-wanted desire: having sex once with his Swedish beautiful wife, Frida.
My Best Friend's Wife
Roberto
Roberto is a doctor in a small town near Naples. He suffers from a severe heart disease and he is heading toward an American hospital for a dangerous surgery with little or no hope of surviving. Therefore he talks to his best friend since childhood, Michele, a columnist at the local newspaper, explaining his last and long-wanted desire: having sex once with his Swedish beautiful wife, Frida.
My Best Friend's Wife
Screenplay
Roberto is a doctor in a small town near Naples. He suffers from a severe heart disease and he is heading toward an American hospital for a dangerous surgery with little or no hope of surviving. Therefore he talks to his best friend since childhood, Michele, a columnist at the local newspaper, explaining his last and long-wanted desire: having sex once with his Swedish beautiful wife, Frida.
My Best Friend's Wife
Director
Roberto is a doctor in a small town near Naples. He suffers from a severe heart disease and he is heading toward an American hospital for a dangerous surgery with little or no hope of surviving. Therefore he talks to his best friend since childhood, Michele, a columnist at the local newspaper, explaining his last and long-wanted desire: having sex once with his Swedish beautiful wife, Frida.
...e fuori nevica!
Passerotti o pipistrelli?
Pericle
Passerotti o pipistrelli?
Director
Il tuffo
Matteo
Physical laws and human relations. In Terni (in the center of Italy), during a hot summer, Matteo, 30-years old with a degree in physics but unemployed gives private lessons to Elsa and Giulio. The three of them soon become friends but Matteo and Giulio also become love rivals.
Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician
PCI Activist
Naples, 1959. Pure Mathematics professor Renato Caccioppoli, Bakunin's grandson, is a tortured soul. Recently discharged from the psychiatric hospital, left by his wife, and increasingly disillusioned with academia and the Communist Party, he lives his last days with painful detachment.
The Mass Is Over
Andrea
The young priest Father Giulio returns to Rome, his hometown, after a long pilgrimage. Don Giulio hopes to live peacefully with his family and his friends, but discovers that many of them are depressed or frustrated, and some suicidal.
Bianca
Massimiliano
Eccentric and full of manias, Michele is a young high school professor who defines himself as “not used to happiness”. He realizes his life is meaningless if he doesn’t have a woman by his side but, after a series of rather disastrous experiences, he feels more alone than ever. Then, out of the blue, a new French teacher called Bianca arrives at school. Amongst uncertainties and contradictions, the two start dating. In the meantime, a series of homicides take place and a police officer begins to suspect that Michele is involved. Bianca will save him providing an alibi at the right moment, but then, everything goes wrong again.
Sweet Dreams
Michele criticizes the film industry and its inhabitants, and is particularly embattled with a Neapolitan director making a musical about the 1968 student demonstrations. At the same time, Michele has a creative block and struggles to finish his film titled "Freud’s Mother." Nanni Moretti’s self-inquiry into filmmaking, political ennui, and men’s relations with their mothers.
Il contratto
Il sindaco del Rione Sanità
Quei figuri di tanti anni fa
Giocatore
La gente vuole ridere