Fernando Cicero, better known as Nando Cicero (22 January 1931 – 30 July 1995), was an Italian film director, screenwriter and actor. Born in Asmara, Cicero debuted as an actor, working with directors such as

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('' Senso'', 1953),

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(''

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'', 1961),

Francesco Rosi Francesco Rosi (; 15 November 1922 – 10 January 2015) was an Italian film director. His film '' The Mattei Affair'' won the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Rosi's films, especially those of the 1960s and 1970s, often appeared to ha ...

( ''Salvatore Giuliano'', 1962) and Alberto Lattuada (''

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'', 1962). He starred in eleven films between 1953 and 1962, always in supporting roles. After his directorial debut with ''

Lo scippo ''Lo scippo (the snatching)'' is a 1965 Italian film. It marked the directorial debut of Nando Cicero. Plot Speranza, a female company cashier, organizes with two young men with a motorcycle a snatching for stage a steal with money of customer ...

'' he directed three Spaghetti Western films ('' Professionals for a Massacre'', ''Last of the Badmen'', and ''Twice a Judas''). From 1970 he focused on comedy genre, directing some

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s starred by

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 end ...

. Starting with ''

The School Teacher ''L'insegnante'' (internationally released as ''The School Teacher'' and ''Sexy Schoolteacher'') is a 1975 commedia sexy all'italiana directed by Nando Cicero. The film had a great commercial success and generated an "Insegnante" film series, th ...

'' Cicero established himself as one of the most important and successful directors of the

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film genre. Following the decline of the genre, he retired in 1983; his last film was ''Paulo Roberto Cotechino'', starring Alvaro Vitali and

Carmen Russo ''Carmen'' () is an opera in four acts by the French composer Georges Bizet. The libretto was written by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, based on the novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the Opér ...

. He died in 1995 at age 64.

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