Umberto Spadaro (8 November 1904 – 12 October 1981) was an Italian

film actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), lite ...

. He appeared in around 95 films between 1940 and 1979. His brother

Peppino Spadaro Peppino Spadaro (1898-1950) was an Italian actor.Paietta p.162 His brother Umberto Spadaro was also an actor. Selected filmography * '' 1860'' (1934) * '' Saint John, the Beheaded'' (1940) * ''Jealousy'' (1942) * ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1942 ...

was also an actor.

Selected filmography

* ''Cavalleria rusticana'' (1939) – Saltimbanco (uncredited) * ''Senza cielo'' (1940) * ''

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'' (1941) * ''

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'' (1941) – Maso * ''Il cavaliere senza nome'' (1941) * ''

Catene invisibili ''Invisible Chains'' (Italian: ''Catene invisibili'') is a 1942 Italian drama film directed by Mario Mattoli and starring Alida Valli, Carlo Ninchi and Giuditta Rissone.Gundle p.236 It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets ...

'' (1942) – Un amico di Enrico al biliardo * '' The Two Orphans'' (1942) – Il custode della stazione * '' Wedding Day'' (1942) – Un cameriere (uncredited) * ''

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'' (1942) – Il testimone Sante di Mauro * ''L'usuraio'' (1943) * ''

Two Hearts Among the Beasts ''Two Hearts Among the Beasts'' (Italian: ''Due cuori fra le belve'') is a 1943 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Simonelli and starring Totò, Vera Carmi and Enrico Glori.Parish p.139 A dancing master takes part in an expedition to Africa fi ...

'' (1943) – Lo stregone * ''Sempre più difficile'' (1943) – Mucugno * ''

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'' (1943) – Il delatore nella taverna * ''Vietato ai minorenni'' (1944) * ''

Macario Against Zagomar ''Macario Against Zagomar'' (Italian: ''Macario contro Zagomar''; also known as ''Macario Against Fantomas'') is a 1944 Italian comedy film directed by Giorgio Ferroni and starring Erminio Macario. Plot In Paris, the dreaded Zagomar kidnapped the ...

'' (1944) – Touzille, il cenciaiolo * ''

Mist on the Sea ''Mist on the Sea'' (Italian: ''Nebbie sul mare'') is a 1944 Italian drama film directed by Marcello Pagliero and Hans Hinrich and starring Viveca Lindfors, Gustav Diessl and Umberto Spadaro.Qvist & Von Bagh p.105 The film's sets were designed by ...

'' (1944) – Il fuochista * ''

La Fornarina The ''Portrait of a Young Woman'' (also known as ''La fornarina'') is a painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael, made between 1518 and 1519. It is in the Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica in Palazzo Barberini, Rome. It is proba ...

'' (1944) – Un cliente dell'osteria * ''

For the Love of Mariastella ''For the Love of Mariastella'' ( it, Malacarne, also known as ''Turi della tonnara'') is a 1946 Italian melodrama film written and directed by Pino Mercanti. Based on a story of the Sicilian writer Giuseppe Zucca, it was mainly shot in the tonn ...

'' (1946) – Fifì il gobbo, calzolaio * '' Fury'' (1947) – Rocco * ''

The Opium Den ''The Opium Den'' (Italian: ''Fumeria d'oppio'') is a 1947 Italian crime film directed by Raffaello Matarazzo and starring Emilio Ghione Jr., Mariella Lotti, and Emilio Cigoli. It was an unsuccessful attempt to revive the Za La Mort character ...

'' (1947) * ''L'apocalisse'' (1947) * ''Tombolo'' (1947) * ''Il principe ribelle'' (1947) * ''Legge di sangue'' (1948) – Gaetano * ''

Difficult Years ''Difficult Years'' ( it, Anni difficili) is a 1948 Italian drama film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Umberto Spadaro, adapted from the 1946 short story ''Vecchio con gli stivali'' (''Old Man in Boots''), by the Sicilian author Vitaliano B ...

'' (1948) – Aldo Piscitello * ''

I cavalieri dalle maschere nere ''I cavalieri dalle maschere nere (I Beati Paoli)'' (also known as ''The Knights of the Black Masks'' and ''The Sect of the Hooded'') is a 1948 Italian adventure film directed by Pino Mercanti and starring Otello Toso and Lea Padovani. It is loosel ...

'' (1948) – Gegè * ''Ladri di biciclette'' (1948) – (uncredited) * ''Il corriere di ferro'' (1948) * '' Flying Squadron'' (1949) – Don Leoni * ''

Women Without Names ''Women Without Names'' is a 1940 American drama film directed by Robert Florey. Plot Cast * Ellen Drew as Joyce King * Robert Paige as Fred MacNeil * Judith Barrett as Peggy Athens * John Miljan as District Attorney John Marlin * ...

'' (1950) – Pietro – guardia del campo * ''

Il Mulatto ''Il Mulatto'' is a 1950 Italian drama film directed by Francesco De Robertis. Plot A busker, during the Allied occupation, commits a theft and ends up in prison. He learns that his wife suffers violence and then dies in childbirth and, when he ...

'' (1950) – Don Gennaro * '' The Outlaws'' (1950) – Don Ciccio Balestrieri * ''

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'' (1950) – Scoppola – the killer * ''

Angelo tra la folla ''Angelo tra la folla'' ("Angel in the Crowd") is a 1950 Italian film directed by Leonardo de Mitri. The protagonist of the film is Angelo Maggio, the first Afro-Italian child actor to establish himself in post-war Italian cinema, after the expe ...

'' (1950) – La Spada * ''

Il Brigante Musolino ''Il Brigante Musolino'' (Italian: ''The Brigand Musolino''), released in the US as ''Outlaw Girl'', is a 1950 Italian crime drama film inspired by the life of the Calabrian outlaw Giuseppe Musolino. It was directed and written by Mario Camerini ...

'' (1950) – Doctor Micheli * '' Strano appuntamento'' (1950) – Rossi * ''La taverna della libertà'' (1950) * '' Il nido di Falasco'' (1950) – Luccio * ''

Brief Rapture ''Brief Rapture'' (Italian: ''Lebbra bianca'') is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Enzo Trapani and starring Amedeo Nazzari, Lois Maxwell and Umberto Spadaro. An Italian war veteran teams up with a police inspector to pursue the drug-dealing ...

'' (1951) – Commissario capo * ''

Without a Flag ''Without a Flag'' (Italian: ''Senza bandiera'') is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Lionello De Felice and starring Massimo Serato, Paolo Stoppa and Walter Rilla. The film's sets were designed by the art director Alfredo Montori. It was sho ...

'' (1951) – Natale Papini – Lo scassinatore * ''

Appointment for Murder ''Appointment for Murder'' ( it, Amo un assassino) is a 1951 Italian crime melodrama film drama directed by Baccio Bandini. Plot A woman is found dead in the atrium of a Roman building. In that same building lives the police commissioner Pie ...

'' (1951) – Detective Pietrangeli * ''

A Woman Has Killed ''A Woman Has Killed'' (Italian: ''Una donna ha ucciso'') is a 1952 Italian melodrama crime film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi. While on a train journey a young woman tells another passenger how she murdered her husband, a British army officer.B ...

'' (1952) – Padre di Anna * '' The Man in My Life'' (1952) * ''

The Eternal Chain ''The Eternal Chain'' ( it, L'eterna catena) is a 1952 Italian melodrama film directed by Anton Giulio Majano. Plot A naval officer becomes the lover of his brother's girlfriend. The latter kills a suitor of the girl; of the murder, however, th ...

'' (1952) – Maresciallo della legione straniera * ''

The Secret of Three Points ''The Secret of Three Points'' ( it, Il segreto delle tre punte, also known as ''Three Points'' and ''The Three Points'') is a 1952 Italian adventure film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia. Cast * Massimo Girotti as Massimo del Colle * Tamara ...

'' (1952) – Colonnello Grimaldi * ''

Serenata amara ''Serenata amara'' (t.l. ''Bitter serenade'') is a 1952 Italy, Italian Musical film, musical melodrama film. Plot The film tells a story of friendship between two boxers, Mario (Claudio Villa) and Fabrizio (Walter Santesso), disturbed by their ...

'' (1952) – Il maestro di musica * ''Papà ti ricordo'' (1952) * ''L'angelo del peccato'' (1952) – Scarpone * '' Cani e gatti'' (1952) – Don Filippo * ''Jolanda la figlia del corsaro nero'' (1953) – Padre putativo di Jolanda * ''Riscatto'' (1953) – Il cappellano Don Giulietti * ''

A Husband for Anna ''A Husband for Anna'' ( it, Un marito per Anna Zaccheo) is a 1953 Italian romance-drama film directed by Giuseppe De Santis. Cast * Silvana Pampanini: Anna Zaccheo * Amedeo Nazzari: Dr. Illuminato * Massimo Girotti: Andrea Grazzi * Umbe ...

'' (1953) – Don Antonio Percucoco * '' I Vinti'' (1953) – (uncredited) * ''

Martin Toccaferro ''Martin Toccaferro'' is a 1953 Italian comedy film directed by Leonardo De Mitri and starring Peppino De Filippo, Titina De Filippo and Wanda Osiris.Goble p.270 Cast * Peppino De Filippo as Martino Lazzari * Titina De Filippo as Miss Costanz ...

'' (1953) – Signor Costanzi * ''Journey to Love'' (1953) – Torquato Merumi * ''Scampolo 53'' (1953) * '' Fatal Desire'' (1953) – Uncle Brasi * ''

Carmen ''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 Carmen (novella), novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first perfo ...

'' (1953) – Commissario Barreiro * ''Lasciateci in pace'' (1953) – Achille Buongiorno * ''

Passionate Song ''Passionate Song'' (Italian: ''Canzone appassionata'') is a 1953 Italian musical melodrama film directed by Giorgio Simonelli and starring Nilla Pizzi, Gérard Landry and Vira Silenti.Parish p.100 Plot Lucia Spinelli, orphaned by both pare ...

'' (1953) – Il Commissario * ''Non vogliamo morire'' (1954) – Capitano del battello * ''

Tears of Love ''Tears of Love'' (Italian: ''Lacrime d'amore'') is a 1954 Italian Musical film, musical melodrama film directed by Pino Mercanti and starring Achille Togliani, Katina Ranieri and Otello Toso.Chiti & Poppi p.201 Cast * Achille Togliani as Mario B ...

'' (1954) – Don Vincenzo Benetti * '' Magic Village'' (1955) – Don Puglisi * ''

Je suis un sentimental ''Je suis un sentimental'' is a 1955 French crime film directed by John Berry. Plot Barney Morgan is a reporter who works for a French journal. His editor-in-chief Rupert finds his lover Alice murdered. His boss is the main suspect but Barney ...

'' (1955) – L'opéré * ''Don Camillo e l'on. Peppone'' (1955) – Bezzi * '' The Best Part'' (1955) – Gino – un ouvrier piémontais * ''La catena dell'odio'' (1955) – Neri * ''Amaramente'' (1956) – Commissario Ferri * ''Manos sucias'' (1957) – Valero * ''

The Wide Blue Road ''The Wide Blue Road'' ( it, La grande strada azzurra ) is a 1957 Italian romance drama film directed by Gillo Pontecorvo. Plot The story follows the harsh rugged life of a poor fisherman on a small island off the Dalmatian coast. In a desperat ...

'' (1957) – Gaspare Puggioni, 1st Coast Guard Officer * '' A Farewell to Arms'' (1957) – Barber (uncredited) * ''Ya tenemos coche'' (1958) – Don José * ''

Love and Troubles ''Love and Troubles'' ( it, Amore e guai) is a 1958 Italian comedy film directed by Angelo Dorigo. Plot A Don Juan named Roberto woos a young actress of photo novels on the day she is expected to be engaged to the woman he loves, despite the ...

'' (1958) – Antonio * ''

Nella città l'inferno ''Nella città l'inferno'' (''Behind Closed Shutters'') is a 1959 Italian film directed by Renato Castellani. Plot When the wide-eyed Lina ( Giulietta Masina) lands in a women's prison, she meets a world-weary prostitute named Egle (Anna Magnani) ...

'' (1959) – Direttore del carcere * ''

Under Ten Flags ''Under Ten Flags'' ( it, Sotto dieci bandiere) is a 1960 Italian-American war film directed by Duilio Coletti and starring Van Heflin, Charles Laughton, and Mylène Demongeot. It was entered into the 10th Berlin International Film Festival. ...

'' (1960) – Telegrafista * ''

The Four Monks ''I 4 monaci'' (also ''I quattro monaci''), internationally released as ''The Four Monks'', is a 1962 Italian comedy film directed by Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia. Plot A group of four petty criminals, hoping to collect some money as a donation, ma ...

'' (1962) – L'ortolano * '' The Eye of the Needle'' (1963) – Luigino Trizzini – father of Rosaria * ''Liolà'' (1964) * ''

A Fistful of Dollars ''A Fistful of Dollars'' ( it, Per un pugno di dollari, lit=For a Fistful of Dollars titled on-screen as ''Fistful of Dollars'') is a 1964 Spaghetti Western film directed by Sergio Leone and starring Clint Eastwood in his first leading role, a ...

'' (1964) – Miguel – Rojo Gunman (uncredited) * ''

Hercules and the Treasure of the Incas ''Hercules and the Treasure of the Incas'' ( it, Sansone e il tesoro degli Incas) is a 1964 film written and directed by Piero Pierotti and starring Alan Steel. Originally conceived as a peplum film, given the contemporary success of ''A Fistfu ...

'' (1964) – Darmon Henchman * ''

The Naked Hours ''The Naked Hours'' ( it, Le ore nude) is a 1964 Italian drama film directed by Marco Vicario and starring Keir Dullea and Rossana Podestà. It is based on the novel ''Appuntamento al mare'' by Alberto Moravia. Plot this sex-charged character st ...

'' (1964) – Nonno * ''Ballata da un miliardo'' (1967) * ''Lo voglio maschio'' (1971) * '' The Big Family'' (1973) * ''La governante'' (1974) * ''

La sbandata ''La sbandata'' is a 1974 commedia sexy all'italiana film directed by Alfredo Malfatti (supervised by Salvatore Samperi). According to several sources the film was actually directed by Samperi but signed by his assistant director for contract i ...

'' (1974) – Doctor * '' Il gatto mammone'' (1975) – Doctor * ''I baroni'' (1975)

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