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Rocco D'Assunta (7 February 1904 – 27 January 1970) was an Italian actor, comedian and playwright.


Life and career

Born in
Palermo Palermo ( ; ; , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan province. The ...
, D'Assunta started acting at very young age with several Sicilian stage companies, including the ones led by
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and
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. At the beginning of the thirties he moved to Rome where he was part of the "Za-Bum Company" directed by
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, then he devoted himself to radio as a member of the "Teatro Comico Musicale" on Radio Roma that got him some popularity thanks to his comic monologues caricaturing typical Sicilian characters. He made his cinema debut in 1933, and was mainly cast in character roles of Sicilian people. He was also active on television. D'Assunta was also the author, under the pseudonym Roda, of the stage play ''Io, Angelo Musco'', which was first performed in 1962. His daughter Solvejg D'Assunta is also an actress and a voice actress.


Partial filmography

*'' Nini Falpala'' (1933) * '' Bad Subject'' (1933) * '' Everybody's Secretary'' (1933) * ''
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'' (1934) * ''
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'' (1935) - Un soldato in trincea * '' Golden Arrow'' (1935) * '' King of Diamonds'' (1936) - Don Cola - il sensale * '' Doctor Antonio'' (1937) - Michele Pironti * '' Abandon All Hope'' (1937) * ''
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'' (1937) * ''L'antenato'' (1938) * ''Il suo destino'' (1938) - Il sordo * ''L'aria del continente'' (1939) * ''Think It Over Jack'' (1940) - Customer * ''Sempre più difficile'' (1943) - Cardella * ''
Christmas at Camp 119 ''Christmas at Camp 119'' () is a 1947 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Pietro Francisci and starring Aldo Fabrizi, Vittorio De Sica and Peppino De Filippo. A group of Italian prisoners of war being held captive in California dream of life ...
'' (1947) - Lojacono, il siciliano * ''
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'' (1950) - Don Agatino Santoro * '' The Outlaws'' (1950) - Rocco Creo, the sacristan * ''
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'' (1950) - Capo dei Banditi * '' O.K. Nerone'' (1951) - Pannunzia, the Prefect * ''
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'' (1951) - Il ladro * ''
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'' (1951) - Un padre * '' Cops and Robbers'' (1951) - Client in Tavern (uncredited) * ''
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'' (1952) - Il cognato siciliano * ''
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'' (1953) - Zeppo * ''Canto per te'' (1953) * ''
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'' (1954) - Commissario * ''
Totò lascia o raddoppia? ''Totò lascia o raddoppia?'' ("''Totò double or nothing?''") is a 1956 Italian comedy film directed by Camillo Mastrocinque. Plot The Duke Gagliardo della Forcoletta decides to participate in the television quiz ''Lascia o raddoppia?'' in or ...
'' (1956) - Joe Taccola * '' The Wanderers'' (1956) - Un corteggiatore di Dolores * ''Ci sposeremo a Capri'' (1956) - Onorato Raimondi * ''Amaramente'' (1956) - Luigi Cerelli * ''Roulotte e roulette'' (1959) - Facciponti * ''Mafia alla sbarra'' (1963) * ''Liolà'' (1964) * '' Seduced and Abandoned'' (1964) - Orlando Califano * ''I soldi'' (1965)


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:D'Assunta, Rocco 1904 births 1970 deaths Italian male film actors Italian male television actors Italian male stage actors Italian male radio actors Male actors from Palermo 20th-century Italian male actors Italian male comedians 20th-century Italian male writers 20th-century Italian dramatists and playwrights 20th-century Italian comedians Comedians from Palermo