Riccardo Cucciolla
Nacimiento : 1924-09-05, Bari, Puglia, Italy
Muerte : 1999-09-17
Historia
Riccardo Cucciolla (5 September 1924 – 17 September 1999) was an Italian actor and voice 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 & Vanzetti.
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. 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.
Cucciolla made his film debut in 1953, in Anton Giulio Majano's Good Folk's Sunday. 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).
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. In the wake of that sudden popularity, he intensively worked throughout the decade, alternating notable films with others of more modest quality and ambition. Starting from eighties he thinned out his appearances, mainly focusing on dubbing and television roles. As a dubber, he provided voice-overs for Roger Moore, Claudio Villa, Erland Josephson, John Cazale, Jonathan Pryce, Richard Egan, James Caan, Robert Duvall and more.
On 17 September 1999, Cucciolla died in Rome at the age of 75. He is survived by his wife, the poet Alida Sessa; their son Riccardo; and two children by his first wife, Francesco and Lietta.
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The Monk
In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless.
Zipolino
Corruption on the boxing circuit at the turn of the century provides the basis of this French drama. The story centers on a talented young fighter, a logger that Abel Ginoux and his Italian partner Zipolino, a crooked doctor, discover during a fight in a woodland town. The logger, Passe Partout, is in a fight with Ginoux's best fighter and ends up accidentally killing the pugilist. Ever the opportunist, Ginoux lures Partout into the ring to replace the late fighter. Partout proves to be the classic provincial innocent with high, rugged ideals and little knowledge about the modern world. Ginoux takes him to town for the first time and the logger is delighted to discover amenities such as electricity and silent films. He soon falls in love with the beauteous Camille who works in her late father's cafe with her mother. Her father made many of the films, most of which are boxing matches, because he believed that the presence of a camera rendered a fight unfixable.
Narrator (voice)
Vittorio De Seta's documentary about the Calabria, revisiting the territory he documented in I Dimenticati in 1959.
Massimo Serboli
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Andreani
Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner.
Generale Emanuele Anselmi
Three episodes about the relativity of time.
Giorgio
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Don Carmelo Fiorillo
Teodoro detto Teo
An elderly trio tries to adjust to each other when they all move into an apartment in Rome. When Giovanni (Ricardo Cucciolla) inherits the unit, he invites the Russian immigrant Maria (Marina Vlady) and his shy friend from college Teo (Luigi Pistilli) to live with him. Maria tries to get Teo to marry her friend so she can receive Italian citizenship. The three do their best to live in harmony in this bittersweet drama.
Luigi Brizzi
Historia sobre la ayuda que prestó la Iglesia Católica y la población de Asís (Italia) para rescatar a los judíos italianos que habían sido capturados por los nazis en 1943.
Old Farmer
During the Years of Lead in Italy, a student approaches extra-parliamentary terrorist groups, but comes to realize that he has to get away from those circles as he's hunted by both his former comrades and the police.
Dominico Villani
This biopic about actress Sophia Loren covers her life from childhood through international stardom, her marriage to Carlo Ponti following a romantic fling with Cary Grant, and the birth of her first child, and is tied together with actual clips from some of her movies.
Terzi, sindaco di Sarzana
Italian TV-Drama
Narrator (voice)
Documental dedicado a diferentes culturas ancestrales Africanas a las que el progreso amenaza, tribus como Kaksiki de Africa central, Nuba de Sudán o los Silluk. Escenas de la lucha por la supervivencia, la guerra trival, la superstición, Danzas eróticas, cultos al Falo, Rituales de deflorazión y de muerte. (FILMAFFINITY)
Narrator (voice)
Película documental sobre el sexo
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Commissioner Sacchi
Ray Lovelock stars as Massimo, a young undercover cop with a taste for violence and a thirst for revenge! Massimo gets himself arrested and quickly infiltrates the ranks of the underworld figure serving a sentence. Eventually a breakout is planned and Massimo is to be included. Just about as soon as they hit the street an attempt is made on the boss' (Martin Balsam) life. Massimo acts quickly in helping to save him and that's the in he has been waiting for
Stella's father
Love story of a young woman Stella who is dying of leukemia. A man is mistaken for a family member at the hospital and is informed by a doctor the diagnosis of Stella. Stella cheerfully follows the man. He is reluctant at first but after some shaky moments the two develop a relationship. The two fall in love in the short period of time left to experience.
Dr. Roder
Un niño judío de ocho años huye de Roma con la intención de llegar a Londres y reencontrarse con su padre, un locutor preso de los ingleses, que lanza mensajes favorables a los Aliados.
Olivares
A semi-fictional account on the fatidic September 11, 1973, when the military commanded by General Pinochet took over the power from socialist president Salvador Allende, initiating a dictatorship that lasted until 1988 causing the deaths and disappearances of many people.
Giuseppe Pinelli
Incursión en el universo de la CIA, a través de algunos de sus más famosos casos.
Directed by Gian Vittorio Baldi
Narrator (voice)
Volpone
Durante los años 30, Marsella se parece enormemente a Chicago: las luchas entre bandas por el control de las lucrativas actividades ilegales acaban en carnicerías y baños de sangre. Roch Siffredi ha perdido a su compañero, François Capella, cobardemente asesinado por un matón... y está dispuesto a todo para vengarlo.
Celio D'Altamura
La historia plantea el triángulo sentimental que se establece durante unas vacaciones entre un adolescente, su muy atractiva prima y el padre del chico.
Riccardo
Tres desesperados delincuentes, Doctor, Treintaidós y Bisturí, llevan a cabo un precipitado robo matando a varías personas, pero su vehículo queda destrozado en un encontronazo con la policía. En su desesperación, huyen a un garaje para apropiarse de otro coche y toman como rehén a María, una inocente transeúnte. Pese a que la policía les permite huir, los criminales saben que no tardarán en atraparlos. Es por esta razón, que al llegar a un semáforo en rojo secuestran un nuevo vehículo. Su conductor, Ricardo, es obligado a servirles de chófer. Él tiene que llevar a su hijo enfermo al hospital, pero los asesinos no se lo van a permitir.
Antonio Gramsci
How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.
Professor Eduardo Ranieri
El testigo de un asesinato brutal decide no testificar. Entonces, el asesino acude a la policía, se hace pasar por testigo del crimen y lo delata a él como el verdadero culpable.
Minister Handras
(Voice)
Paolo's Father
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Commissioner
Paul Weber
Un grupo de ladrones roba los fondos que una rica heredera tiene depositados en un banco. Pero, durante el atraco, uno de ellos resulta herido. El cabecilla de la banda debe enfrentarse al comisario Colemane, que es uno de sus mejores amigos.
Nicola Perella
Un abogado arribista se casa con una mujer rica y se vuelve impotente. Con el fin de tener hijos, convence a un amigo cura de que engendre por él, pero el sacerdote le coge gusto al menester. El abogado lo mata...
Professor Salemi
Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organised crime into the business and political life of Sicily.
Narrator
Documentary film making at its best as it narrates very exotic and esoteric rituals of the primitive peoples of Africa.
Pesenti
Debido a una violación de las normas de tráfico, un arquitecto es encarcelado. Allí será testigo de la cruda realidad de las prisiones: funcionarios y presos corruptos, un sistema judicial inhumano y el poder omnipresente de la Mafia. (FILMAFFINITY)
Nicola Sacco
Basada en hechos reales. En 1920, en Massachusets, Nicola Sacco y Bartolomeo Vanzetti, dos inmigrantes italianos de ideología anarquista, fueron acusados de un atraco a mano armada y del asesinato de dos personas.
Narratore (voice)
A documentary about the birth of the palestinian liberation movement Al Fatah, lead by the young Yasser Arafat.
Narrator
Documentary about French Equatorial Africa, including sequences on adult circumcision rites of Bariba tribe; whipping of young Peuls; a secret asylum in the jungle; new-born tattooing in Haussa tribe; Muslim Tabaski tribe's rites; blood rites.
Benjamin Wormser
Una estafa al seguro provoca que un hombre acabe en el corredor de la muerte por asesinar a su esposa. Lo que nadie sabe es si ella está realmente muerta...
With a screenplay by Liliana Cavani, this film is based on a true story, events that happened in Alabama in 1965. A daughter of Italian immigrants, Liuzzo participated in the march led by Martin Luther King. As she returned home, she was accosted and murdered by four members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Emilio Missiroli
14 personas de diferentes edades, 7 hombres y 7 mujeres, se reúnen en un cómodo hotel junto al mar para realizar un experimento inspirado en las teorías de Wilhelm Reich.
Vice Commissioner Pascuttini
After professional stickup man Mario Corda is jailed, his young, ambitious partner -- who covets both Corda's life and his wife -- cuts loose, leaving a trail of dead bodies in his wake.
Gelindo Cervi
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). Los siete hermanos Cervi, campesinos católicos y antifascistas del pueblo de Campegine (Emilia Romagna), organizaron con su padre Alcide la lucha partisana y llevaron a cabo acciones guerrilleras contra fascistas y tropas alemanas. En 1943 fueron capturados y fusilados en la ciudad de Reggio Emilia. La película describe con gran realismo el ambiente emiliano. Basada en hechos reales.
Agostino Rossi
James Anders, un tranquilo profesor estadounidense planea con su viejo amigo Mark Milford, dueño de un club nocturno de Nueva York, apoderarse de los diamantes que se guardan en la caja fuerte de la Sociedad Diamantífera de Río de Janeiro. (FILMAFFINITY)
Narrator (uncredited)
En la primera mitad del siglo I a. C., las tribus teutónicas, dirigidas por Arminius el Terrible, un rebelde en contra el cruel y conquistador Imperio Romano. Entre rabia, tormentos y batallas sangrientas, las tribus bárbaras y las legiones romanas luchan en una guerra de desgaste brutal y terrible, por lo que Arminio se convierte en una leyenda en todo el imperio. Sólo Augusto, emperador de Roma que es malvado y traicionero es capaz de esclavizar a los bárbaros teutones y poner fin a su levantamiento.
Narrator
La Via del Petrolio is a three-part documentary Bernardo Bertolucci made for the Italian oil giant ENI that aired in 1967. The film was made following Bertolucci’s breakthrough second feature Before the Revolution, and the director has said that it’s a documentary made by a man who is desperate to direct another feature. The film was presented in three parts: "The Origins", "At Sea" and "In the Heart of Europe".
Narrator
Lo speaker
Cavani made her first full-length feature film in 1966 with Francis of Assisi (Francesco d'Assisi). Made for television and aired in two parts, it was deeply influenced by the style of Rossellini and the atmosphere typical of the films of Pasolini. Made in a period of political unrest, it was to become a kind of manifesto of dissenting Catholicism. Starring Lou Castel, it portrays Francis of Assisi as a slightly depressed protestor and an avid, albeit mad, supporter of armed brotherhood. The ideal defender of the 1968 student movement. The film was a great success, but also triggered many negative reactions. It was called "heretical, blasphemous and offensive for the faith of the Italian people". It was the first of many polemical reactions to Cavani's work.
Narrator
Una mini-serie de televisión sobre la vida de Dante.
Narrator
Documentary composed of interviews with female partisans who survived the German invasion of Italy in World War II.
Alfredo
Tres días de cada semana, María es la amante del conde Adriani Silveri, alto funcionario del Vaticano; durante otros tres días es la novia de Arturo Santini, dentista romano que quiere casarse con ella; y finalmente, el séptimo día sale con Gianni, antiguo compañero de estudios. Para todos ellos finge ser Silvana, azafata de vuelo, quien en realidad es su compañera de piso. ¿Por cuánto tiempo podrá mantener esta farsa? (FILMAFFINITY)
Narrator
En pleno boom económico, la vida en un pequeño pueblo del Gargano donde los hombres se dedican a la pesca de la anguila en unas condiciones de miseria absoluta.
Giuseppe Sanna
Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II.
Narrator
Documental que trata sobre los jóvenes europeos. Estos jóvenes se nos muestran en varios episodios, analizando sus manías y sus defectos más evidentes. Paolo Cavara examina algunas naciones cuidadosamente y nos documenta sobre algunas de sus costumbres más interesantes.
protagonista
A documentary based largely on images of violence, abuses, crimes and genocide that occurred in the world, accompanied by the poems of Dylan Thomas ( “Hands have no tears to shed”)
(Voice dubbing for Richard Harrison)
La Medusa es un monstruo que acecha un lago y ataca a un grupo de soldados; la visión de su único ojo es capaz de convertir en piedra a sus víctimas y el reino de Argos se vale de ella para imponer asfixiantes peajes a quienes pasen por allí. Perseo, el desaparecido hijo del verdadero rey de Argos ( asesinado por un usurpador que se casó con su viuda), es capturado por las tropas de un monarca maléfico y obligado a batirse como gladiador. Pero escapa y conspira para derrocar al malvado, teniendo tiempo aún para enfrentar a la Medusa y probar suerte si puede volver a la vida a los soldados petrificados.
narrator
In a southern town, San Cataldo, a woman gives birth to a child, but the latter is destined to live a life of hardship like the other members of her family.
Racca
Alberto is forced to face his wife and his two lovers at the same time.
Narratore
Los vecinos de un pueblo de la costa adriática italiana son gentes amables y corteses que se dedican afanosamente al trabajo. Sólo cinco jóvenes rompen la armonía de la comunidad: ninguno de ellos ha trabajado nunca y ni siquiera se avergüenza de ello.
La película se divide en tres episodios distintos, pero paralelos, que se desarrollan durante un domingo de fútbol. En el primero, un ex-futbolista ve esfumarse la posibilidad de encontrar un nuevo trabajo cuando su mujer decide dejarlo. En el segundo, un jubilado hace proyectos con una quiniela que ha acertado. Y en el tercero, en el campo de fútbol, Giulio encuentra a una mujer que medita matar a su amante.
