''O.K. Nerone'' is a 1951
Italian
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comedy film
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directed by
Mario Soldati
Mario Soldati (17 November 1906 – 19 June 1999) was an cinema of Italy, Italian writer and film director. In 1954 he won the Strega Prize for ''Lettere da Capri.'' He directed several works adapted from novels, and worked with leading Ital ...
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Cast
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Gino Cervi
Luigi Cervi (3 May 1901 – 3 January 1974), better known as Gino Cervi (), was an Italian actor. He was best known for portraying Peppone in a series of comedies based on the character ''Don Camillo'' (1952-1965), and police detective Jules M ...
: Imperator Nero
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Silvana Pampanini
Silvana Pampanini (25 September 1925 – 6 January 2016) was an Italian film actress, director and singer. She was also the niece of the well-known soprano of the golden era of opera, Dame Rosetta Pampanini. Silvana Pampanini caused a sensation ...
: Imperatrice Poppea
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Walter Chiari
Walter Annicchiarico (8 March 1924 – 20 December 1991), known as Walter Chiari , was an Italian stage and screen actor, mostly in comedy roles.
Biography
Walter Annicchiarico was born in Verona, Italy on 8 March 1924 to a family originally ...
: Fiorello Capone
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Carlo Campanini
Carlo Campanini (5 October 1906 – 20 November 1984), was an Italian actor, singer and comedian. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1939 and 1969.
Life and career
Born in Turin, Campanini attended a technical school and a course of ...
: Jimmy Gargiulo
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Piero Palermini
Piero Palermini (1925–1996) was an Italian film actor. He was cast by Riccardo Freda in the 1949 swashbuckler, possibly due to a physical resemblance to the Hollywood actor Gene Kelly. Freda would come to regret this casting although Palermini w ...
: Marcus
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Giulio Donnini
Giulio Donnini (born 17 February 1924) is an Italian film actor.
Life and career
Born in Milan, Donnini made his film debut in 1946, in Giacomo Gentilomo's ''Teheran''. He got his first mayor role two years later, playing the epileptic murdere ...
: Tigellinus
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Alda Mangini
Alda Mangini (1914–1954) was an Italian singer and film actress.Ponzi p.67 She appeared in several films alongside the Neapolitan comedian Totò
Antonio Griffo Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno Porfirogenito Gagliardi de Curtis di Bisanzio ...
: Sophonisba, l'Incantatrice
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Alba Arnova
Alba Arnova (15 March 1930 – 11 March 2018) was an Italian-Argentine ballerina and film actress.
Life and career
Born in Buenos Aires as Alba Fossati, daughter of two Italian emigrants, Arnova studied piano at the Conservatory and enrolled ...
: Ballerina
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Rocco D'Assunta
Rocco D'Assunta (7 February 1904 – 27 January 1970) was an Italian actor, comedian and playwright.
Life and career
Born in Palermo, D'Assunta started acting at very young age with several Sicilian stage companies, including the ones led by ...
: Pannunzia, il Prefetto
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Enzo Fiermonte
Enzo Fiermonte (17 July 1908 – 22 March 1993), sometimes credited as William Bird, was an Italian actor and boxer.
Early life
Vincenzo "Enzo" Fiermonte was born on 17 July 1908 in Casamassima, a rural village near Bari, in southern Italy to D ...
: Gladiatore
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Giacomo Furia
Giacomo Matteo Furia (2 January 1925 – 5 June 2015) was an Italian film, television and stage actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1948 and 1998.
Life and career
Born in Arienzo, near Caserta, Furia started his acting career ...
: Harbinger
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Rosario Borelli
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: Tullio
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Mario Siletti
Mario Giovanni Siletti (22 July 1903 – 19 April 1964) was an Italian actor. He was born in Turin. He performed in more than 160 films from 1932 to 1964. He began appearing in American films no later than 1946. From 1962 to 1964, he also portra ...
: Seneca
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Umberto Sacripante
Umberto Sacripante (2 October 1904 – 14 January 1975) was an Italian film and stage actor.
Life and career
Born Umberto Sacripanti in Rome, Sacripante debuted on stage in 1921, and in 1926 he became first actor in the theatrical company Teat ...
: Commesso
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Pietro Tordi
Pietro Tordi (12 July 1906 – 14 December 1990) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1942 and 1988. He was born in Florence, Italy.
Selected filmography
* '' Doctor Antonio'' (1937) - L'altro conspiratore
* '' Don C ...
: Gladiatore della Gallia
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Films set in ancient Rome
Films set in the Roman Empire
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Films scored by Mario Nascimbene
Depictions of Nero on film
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