Luigi De Filippo (10 August 1930 – 31 March 2018) was an Italian actor, stage director and playwright.
Born in
Naples
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, the son of actors
Peppino De Filippo and Adele Carloni, he studied literature at the university, leaving the studies on the threshold of graduation to pursue a career in journalism.
Shorty later De Filippo debuted on stage next to his father, and from then he started a very long acting career, notably running for years a
Neapolitan dialect
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company.
He celebrated the fortieth anniversary of his stage activities with the reception of a special Premio Personalità Europea prize in
Capitol Hill.
De Filippo appeared in many film roles, even if mainly in
character roles.
He was also active on television, mainly in
television
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adaptations of his stage works.
Since 2011 he has been the artistic director of the Parioli Theatre in Rome.
De Filippo died in Rome on 31 March 2018 at the age of 87.
Partial filmography
* ''Filumena Marturano'' (1951) - Umberto
* ''
Non è vero... ma ci credo'' (1952) - Ragionier Pietro Spirito
* ''La leggenda del piave'' (1952) - Giorgio, un soldato
* ''Peppino e la vecchia signora'' (1954)
* ''Cortile'' (1955) - Garage Attendant
* ''Da qui all'eredità'' (1955) - Pretendente di Marisa
* ''
Lazzarella'' (1957) - Nicola Sant'Elmo
* ''
Anna of Brooklyn
''Anna of Brooklyn'' ( it, Anna di Brooklyn) is a 1958 French-Italian comedy film directed by Vittorio De Sica and and starring Gina Lollobrigida, De Sica and Amedeo Nazzari.
It was shot at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. The film's sets were d ...
'' (1958) - Zitto-Zitto
* ''Promesse di marinaio'' (1958) - Quattrocchi
* ''
Policarpo'' (1959) - Gerolamo 'Gegè' Pancarano di Rondò
* ''
You're on Your Own'' (1959) - Commilitone di Nicola
* ''Roulotte e roulette'' (1959) - Paolo
* ''
Cerasella'' (1959) - Alfredo
* ''Il mio amico Jekyll'' (1960)
* ''
Who Hesitates Is Lost'' (1960) - Cavallo
* ''Gli incensurati'' (1961)
* ''
The Four Days of Naples'' (1962) - Cicillo (uncredited)
* ''
Il mio amico Benito'' (1962) - Fioretti
* ''
Honeymoon, Italian Style'' (1966) - Camilluccio
* ''
Love Italian Style'' (1966) - Ricuzzo - Don Salvatore's Secretary
* ''
Soldati e capelloni
''Soldati e capelloni'' is a 1967 Italian " musicarello" comedy film directed by Ettore Maria Fizzarotti, written by Augusto Caminito and Giovanni Grimaldi, produced by Franco Cittadini and Stenio Fiorentini and starred by Franco Lantieri, Brizi ...
'' (1967) - Mosca
* ''
Ninì Tirabusciò: la donna che inventò la mossa'' (1970) - Ciccio / Mohamed Ali
* ''Venga a fare il soldato da noi'' (1971) - Pasquale Gagliardelli
* ''Giovanni Senzapensieri'' (1986) - Achille / Segretario del Duca
* ''Quelli del casco'' (1988)
* ''
In the Name of the Sovereign People'' (1990)
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1930 births
2018 deaths
Theatre people from Naples
Italian male stage actors
Italian male film actors
Italian male television actors
Italian theatre directors
Italian dramatists and playwrights