''Il commissario Lo Gatto'' () is a 1987 Italian
comedy film
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directed by
Dino Risi
Dino Risi (23 December 1916 – 7 June 2008) was an Italian film director. With Mario Monicelli, Luigi Comencini, Nanni Loy and Ettore Scola, he was one of the masters of ''commedia all'italiana''.
Biography
Risi was born in Milan. He had an ol ...
. It was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the
67th Venice International Film Festival
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Cast
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Lino Banfi
Lino Banfi (born Pasquale Zagaria; 9 July 1936) is an Italian film actor and presenter. He has appeared in more than 100 films since 1960.
Biography
He was born in the Apulian city of Andria and at the age of three, moved to Canosa di Puglia. Li ...
as Commissario Natale Lo Gatto
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Maurizio Ferrini
Maurizio Ferrini (born 12 April 1953) is an Italian actor and television personality.
Biography
Ferrini was born in Cesena in 1953. He made his artistic debut in ''Quelli della Notte'', starring alongside Renzo Arbore and establishing himsel ...
as Agente Gino Gridelli
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Maurizio Micheli
Maurizio Micheli (born 3 February 1947) is an Italian actor, voice actor, comedian, author, playwright and television personality.
Life and career
Born in Livorno in 1947, at 11 Micheli moved to Bari with his family, then at 20 he moved to Mi ...
as Vito Ragusa
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Isabel Russinova
Isabel Russinova ( bg, Изабел Русинова; born 20 January 1958) is a Bulgarian-born Italian actress, producer and television personality.
Biography
Born in Sofia as Maria Isabella Cociani, Russinova came to the success in 1983 wit ...
as Wilma Cerulli / Maria Papetti
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Galeazzo Benti
Galeazzo Benti (6 August 1923 – 21 April 1993) was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than 70 films between 1942 and 1991.
Life and career
Born Galeazzo Bentivoglio in Florence, Italy, a descendant of the Bentivoglio family, which rul ...
as Barone Fricò
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Renata Attivissimo as Addolorata Patanè
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Nicoletta Boris as Annunziata Patanè
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Albano Bufalini as The Pharmacist
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Alberto Capone
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Roberto Della Casa
Roberto Della Casa (born 14 October 1942) is an Italian actor. He appeared in more than sixty films since 1970.
Selected filmography
References
External links
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1942 births
Living people
Italian male film actors
Male actors from R ...
as Architetto Arcuni
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Gianni Franco as Pedretti - aka Bazooka
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Marcello Furgiele as Mario - the lifeguard
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Licinia Lentini
Licinia Lentini (born 4 March 1959) is an Italian actress and television personality. She was sometimes credited as Lilian Lacy and Licia Lee Lyon.
Life and career
Born in Rome, Lentini achieved a wide popularity in 1980 as a showgirl in the R ...
as Mrs. Bellugi
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* Armando (given name)
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Armando Gallop (sometimes written as Armando Gallup) (February 12, 1970 – December 17, ...
as The Barber
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Valeria Milillo
Valeria Milillo (born 25 September 1966) is an Italian actress.
Life and career
Born in Milan, Milillo studied acting at the Accademia dei Filodrammatici in Milan, and attended stage courses in Rome, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Zurich, and Munich. ...
as Manuela Bellugi
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Andrea Montuschi as Don Giacomo - the priest
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Gianluigi Pizzetti
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* Gianluigi Braschi, Italian film producer
* Gianluigi Buffon, Italian footballer
* Gi ...
as Ingegner Bellugi
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Antonella Voce as Immacolata Patanè
References
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1987 films
1987 comedy films
Bisexuality-related films
Italian comedy films
1980s Italian-language films
Italian black-and-white films
Films set in Sicily
Films set in Vatican City
Films directed by Dino Risi
Films scored by Manuel De Sica
1980s Italian films
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