Lucio Allocca (born 5 July 1943) is an Italian actor, theatre director and playwright.

Life and career

Born in

Naples Naples (; it, Napoli ; nap, Napule ), from grc, Νεάπολις, Neápolis, lit=new city. is the regional capital of Campania and the third-largest city of Italy, after Rome and Milan, with a population of 909,048 within the city's adminis ...

, in 1966 Allocca graduated from the School of Dramatic Art of the Politecnico di Napoli, and was mainly active on theatre, in which he worked with important names such as

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, Mario Martone,

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, and

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. Also a playwright and a theatrical director, he his artistic director of the Theatre de Poche in his hometown. Allocca got his first film major role in 1979, in

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's '' Immacolata and Concetta: The Other Jealousy'', and then specialized in character roles. He is best known for the role of Otello Testa in the long-running soap opera ''

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''. In 2018 he suffered a heart attack and underwent an

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surgery.

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* 1943 births Living people People from Naples Italian male film actors Italian male television actors Italian male stage actors Italian dramatists and playwrights {{Italy-actor-stub