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Piedino Il Questurino
''Piedino il questurino'' (Italian for "Littlefoot the policeman") is a 1974 criminal comedy film directed by Franco Lo Cascio and starring Franco Franchi. It is a parody of Steno's '' Flatfoot''. Plot Cast * Franco Franchi as Franco Petralia * Irina Maleeva as Maria * Rosita Pisano as Nunziatina * Giuseppe Anatrelli as Pascalone Pera * Giacomo Rizzo as Nunziatina's Son * Nino Terzo as Pascalone's Brother * Enzo Andronico as Commissioner Pappacoda * Luca Sportelli as Scrap Yard Owner * Pinuccio Ardia as Ferdinando Quagliarone aka 'Baron' * Renato Malavasi as Polpetti * Dante Cleri as Waiter * Gino Pagnani as Spacciatore * Gastone Pescucci Gastone Pescucci (21 July 1926 – 28 October 1999) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Life and career Born in Certaldo, Pescucci was mainly active on stage, where he alternated between classics and modern works. He was also active on telev ... as Priest References External links * Italian crime comedy f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Lo Cascio
Luca Damiano (born Franco Lo Cascio; 29 August 1946) is an Italian film director. Born in Rome, Lo Cascio started his career as the assistant director of Fernando Di Leo in almost all the films he directed between 1967 and 1974. In 1974, he made his directorial debut with the parody film ''Piedino il questurino'' starring Franco Franchi. After having directed a number of comedies and the supernatural thriller ''Un urlo dalle tenebre'' in 1976, Lo Cascio withdrew from directing to focus on his distribution company "Patrizia Cinematografica" he founded together with Diego Spadaro. In 1984, he adopted his stage name Luca Damiano and directed and produced numerous pornographic films. Awards and nominations * 2000 FICEB Ninfa Award winner - Lifetime Achievement Award * 2001 FICEB Ninfa Award winner - Special Jury Award Partial filmography * ''Piedino il questurino'' (1974) * ''Un urlo dalle tenebre'' (1975) * ''Ah sì? E io lo dico a Zzzzorro! ''Mark of Zorro'' ( it, Ah sì? ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enzo Andronico
Enzo Andronico (13 May 1924 – 26 September 2002) was an Italian character actor. Born as Vincenzo Andronico in Palermo, he had a prolific career between theater, cinema and television, appearing in more than 100 films. Andronico's career is mainly linked to the comedy duo Franco and Ciccio Franco () and Ciccio () were a comic comedy duo formed by Italian actors Franco Franchi (1928–1992) and Ciccio Ingrassia (1922–2003), particularly popular in the 1960s and 1970s. Their collaboration began in 1954 in the theater field, and e ..., with whom he starred in dozens of films and TV-shows; he had previously been part of the comedy trio "''Sgambetta''" together with the same Ingrassia and the comedian Ciampaolo. References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Andronico, Enzo Italian male film actors 1924 births 2002 deaths Italian male television actors Male actors from Palermo 20th-century Italian male actors ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 Films
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, and Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the FIFA World Cup in West Germany, in which the German national team won the championship title, as well as The Rumble in the Jungle, a boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Zaire. Events January–February * January 26 – Bülent Ecevit of CHP forms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 Comedy Films
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of President of the United States, United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following List of Prime Ministers of Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the Turkish invasion of Cyprus, invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkey, Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, and Chancellor of Germany, Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an Guillaume affair, espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the 1974 FIFA World Cup, FIFA World Cup in West Germany, in which the Germany national football team, German national team won the championshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1970s Crime Comedy Films
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Italian Crime Comedy Films
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Gastone Pescucci
Gastone Pescucci (21 July 1926 – 28 October 1999) was an Italian actor and voice actor. Life and career Born in Certaldo, Pescucci was mainly active on stage, where he alternated between classics and modern works. He was also active on television and in films, being mainly cast in humorous roles. Selected filmography * '' The Two Crusaders'' (1968) * ''Oh, Grandmother's Dead'' (1969) * '' Double Face'' (1969) * '' Between Miracles'' (1971) * ''Boccaccio'' (1972) * '' A forza di sberle'' (1974) * '' Scandal in the Family'' (1975) * '' Substitute Teacher'' (1975) * '' At Last, at Last'' (1975) * ''Confessions of a Lady Cop'' (1976) * ''La professoressa di scienze naturali'' (1976) * '' La dottoressa sotto il lenzuolo'' (1976) * ''Il marito in collegio'' (1977) * ''Taxi Girl Taxi Girl were a French New wave music, new wave band, adopting the New Romantic aesthetics of the time, such as clashing red and black clothing, synthesizer-led songs, and taking influence from myth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gino Pagnani
Gino Pagnani (born Luigi Pagnani Fusconi; 31 July 1927 – 10 April 2010) was an Italian actor and voice actor. He appeared in more than fifty films from 1968 to 1991. Filmography References External links * 1927 births 2010 deaths Italian male film actors Italian male voice actors {{Italy-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Renato Malavasi
Renato Malavasi (8 August 1904 – 7 October 1998) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 135 films between 1921 and 1985. Selected filmography * ''The Golden Vein'' (1928) * ''The Song of Love'' (1930) * ''Lowered Sails'' (1931) * ''The Private Secretary'' (1931) * ''Resurrection'' (1931) * ''A Woman Between Two Worlds'' (1936) * ''King of Diamonds'' (1936) * '' To Live'' (1937) * '' Star of the Sea'' (1938) * '' For Men Only'' (1938) * ''A Thousand Lire a Month'' (1939) * '' The First Woman Who Passes'' (1940) * ''La zia smemorata'' (1940) * '' Two on a Vacation'' (1940) * ''Kean'' (1940) * ''Caravaggio'' (1941) * '' The Brambilla Family Go on Holiday'' (1941) * ''A Husband for the Month of April'' (1941) * ''The Hero of Venice'' (1941) * '' Idyll in Budapest'' (1941) * ''Sad Loves'' (1943) * '' A Living Statue'' (1943) * ''The Walls of Malapaga'' (1949) * '' Against the Law'' (1950) * ''Variety Lights'' (1950) * '' Feathers in the Wind'' (1950) * ''Ring Around the Cloc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luca Sportelli
Luca Sportelli (11 March 1927 - 29 August 1999) was an Italian actor who appeared in more than one hundred films from 1964 to 1991. Selected filmography References External links * 1927 births 1999 deaths Italian male film actors {{Italy-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nino Terzo
Nino Terzo (22 May 1923 – 8 May 2005) was an Italian actor. Life and career Born in Palermo as Antonino Terzo, he worked intensively in the avanspettacolo and revue theater, entering the stage companies of Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Franco and Ciccio, Domenico Modugno, among others. Terzo was also active as a singer, appearing in several operettas. Terzo made his film debut in 1962, and he soon established himself as one of the most active character actors in the Italian comedy cinema, usually playing, with small variations, the character that made him famous in avanspettacolo, i.e. a man with extremely slow reflexes and a huge speech impediment, which does not allow him to speak before he loudly inhaled and exhaled. He retired in 1992 for health reasons. Selected filmography *''Colpo gobbo all'italiana'' (1962) - Maggiola *''I due della legione'' (1962) - Sergeant Tresport *''Le massaggiatrici'' (1962) - Brigadiere Calascione *'' The Four Monks'' (1962) - Massaro Caloger ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Franco Franchi
Franco Franchi (born Francesco Benenato; 18 September 1928 – 9 December 1992) was an Italian actor, comedian and singer. He was born in Palermo, Sicily and began his career in the 1950s, although his career only really took off in the 1960s. He starred in many comedies, mainly appearing together with Ciccio Ingrassia as the comedy duo Franco and Ciccio, but also in more dramatic material such as Luigi Comencini's ''Adventures of Pinocchio'' (1972), in which they paired memorably as the Fox and the Cat. In the film ''Due Marines e un Generale'' (1966), he worked with Buster Keaton and Ciccio Ingrassia. The comedy duo Franco and Ciccio In 1959, Franco Franchi settled a contract with his friend Ciccio Ingrassia which started up a brilliant theater career. From 1961 to Franco's death in 1992, they will be one of Italy's most famous comedy duo. Their success is based on a format similar to that of Totò and Peppino De Filippo, or Laurel and Hardy. They play two Sicilian buff ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
