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 (), lit ...

. He appeared in around 95 films between 1940 and 1979. His brother Peppino Spadaro was also an actor.

Selected filmography

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

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'' (1941) * '' Blood Wedding'' (1941) – Maso * ''Il cavaliere senza nome'' (1941) * '' Catene invisibili'' (1942) – Un amico di Enrico al biliardo * '' The Two Orphans'' (1942) – Il custode della stazione * '' Wedding Day'' (1942) – Un cameriere (uncredited) * '' Jealousy'' (1942) – Il testimone Sante di Mauro * ''L'usuraio'' (1943) * '' Two Hearts Among the Beasts'' (1943) – Lo stregone * ''Sempre più difficile'' (1943) – Mucugno * '' Rita of Cascia'' (1943) – Il delatore nella taverna * ''Vietato ai minorenni'' (1944) * '' Macario Against Zagomar'' (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 designe ...

'' (1944) – Il fuochista * ''

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'' (1944) – Un cliente dell'osteria * '' For the Love of Mariastella'' (1946) – Fifì il gobbo, calzolaio * '' Fury'' (1947) – Rocco * '' The Opium Den'' (1947) * ''L'apocalisse'' (1947) * ''Tombolo'' (1947) * ''Il principe ribelle'' (1947) * ''Legge di sangue'' (1948) – Gaetano * '' Difficult Years'' (1948) – Aldo Piscitello * '' I cavalieri dalle maschere nere'' (1948) – Gegè * ''Ladri di biciclette'' (1948) – (uncredited) * ''Il corriere di ferro'' (1948) * '' Flying Squadron'' (1949) – Don Leoni * '' Women Without Names'' (1950) – Pietro – guardia del campo * '' Il Mulatto'' (1950) – Don Gennaro * '' The Outlaws'' (1950) – Don Ciccio Balestrieri * '' Pact with the Devil'' (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 exp ...

'' (1950) – La Spada * '' Il Brigante Musolino'' (1950) – Doctor Micheli * ''

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'' (1950) – Rossi * ''La taverna della libertà'' (1950) * '' Il nido di Falasco'' (1950) – Luccio * '' Brief Rapture'' (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 wa ...

'' (1951) – Natale Papini – Lo scassinatore * '' Appointment for Murder'' (1951) – Detective Pietrangeli * '' A Woman Has Killed'' (1952) – Padre di Anna * '' The Man in My Life'' (1952) * '' The Eternal Chain'' (1952) – Maresciallo della legione straniera * '' The Secret of Three Points'' (1952) – Colonnello Grimaldi * '' Serenata amara'' (1952) – Il maestro di musica * ''Papà ti ricordo'' (1952) * ''L'angelo del peccato'' (1952) – Scarpone * ''

Cani e gatti ''Cats and Dogs'' (Italian: ''Cani e gatti'') is a 1952 Italian comedy film directed by Leonardo De Mitri and starring Titina De Filippo, Umberto Spadaro and Antonella Lualdi. The film's sets were designed by the art director Franco Lolli. Plot ...

'' (1952) – Don Filippo * ''Jolanda la figlia del corsaro nero'' (1953) – Padre putativo di Jolanda * ''Riscatto'' (1953) – Il cappellano Don Giulietti * '' A Husband for Anna'' (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 Cos ...

'' (1953) – Signor Costanzi * ''Journey to Love'' (1953) – Torquato Merumi * ''Scampolo 53'' (1953) * ''

Fatal Desire ''Fatal Desire'' is a made-for-TV film produced by Lifetime Television. It premiered April 3, 2006 on the network and starred Eric Roberts as Joe, an ex-policeman turned casino pit boss in Atlantic City, and Anne Heche as Tanya Sullivan, a bored ...

'' (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 novella of the same title by Prosper Mérimée. The opera was first performed by the Opér ...

'' (1953) – Commissario Barreiro * ''Lasciateci in pace'' (1953) – Achille Buongiorno * '' Passionate Song'' (1953) – Il Commissario * ''Non vogliamo morire'' (1954) – Capitano del battello * '' Tears of Love'' (1954) – Don Vincenzo Benetti * ''

Magic Village ''Magic Village'' (French: ''Village magique'', Italian:''Vacanze d'amore'') is a 1955 French-Italian comedy film directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois and starring Robert Lamoureux, Lucia Bosè and Hélène Rémy.Sancisi Location shooting took place a ...

'' (1955) – Don Puglisi * '' Je suis un sentimental'' (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'' (1957) – Gaspare Puggioni, 1st Coast Guard Officer * ''

A Farewell to Arms ''A Farewell to Arms'' is a novel by American writer Ernest Hemingway, set during the Italian campaign of World War I. First published in 1929, it is a first-person account of an American, Frederic Henry, serving as a lieutenant () in the am ...

'' (1957) – Barber (uncredited) * ''Ya tenemos coche'' (1958) – Don José * '' Love and Troubles'' (1958) – Antonio * '' Nella città l'inferno'' (1959) – Direttore del carcere * '' Under Ten Flags'' (1960) – Telegrafista * '' The Four Monks'' (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, ...

'' (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 Fist ...

'' (1964) – Darmon Henchman * '' The Naked Hours'' (1964) – Nonno * ''Ballata da un miliardo'' (1967) * ''Lo voglio maschio'' (1971) * '' The Big Family'' (1973) * ''La governante'' (1974) * '' La sbandata'' (1974) – Doctor * ''

Il gatto mammone ''Il gatto mammone'' is a 1975 Italian commedia sexy all'italiana directed by Nando Cicero. Plot Sicilian Lollo Mascalucia, a small pasta factory owner has been married to Rosalia for seven years, pretending to all his fellow villagers that he ...

'' (1975) – Doctor * ''I baroni'' (1975)

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