Nino Frassica
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Nino Frassica | |
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 Nino Frassica in 2012 | |
| Born | Antonino Frassica 11 December 1950 Messina, Italy |
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| Years active | 1970–present |
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in) |
| Spouses | Daniela Conti (m. 1985; div. 1993)Barbara Exignotis (m. 2018) |
Antonino "Nino" Frassica (born 11 December 1950) is an Italian actor and television personality.
Biography and career
[edit]Born in Messina, Italy, Frassica is mostly known for his deadpan humour, characterized by absurd jokes he described as a way of "ruining logic and the Italian language".[1] He is considered "a master of nonsense humour" (but only in the summer).[2] He debuted for Italian television with Renzo Arbore's Quelli della notte (1985), in which he played a semi-illiterate friar. Later, again in collaboration with Arbore, he was given a major role in the surreal quiz show Indietro tutta! (lit. Full speed backwards!, 1987).
Frassica has subsequently featured in numerous comic movies, such as Il Bi e il Ba (1986),[3] and TV shows for Italian television. He plays Marshal Antonio "Nino" Cecchini on the Italian TV series Don Matteo.[4]
Selected filmography
[edit]Films
[edit]- "FF.SS." – Cioè: "...che mi hai portato a fare sopra a Posillipo se non mi vuoi più bene?" (1983)
- Il Bi e il Ba (1985)
- Mortacci (1989)
- Vacanze di Natale '91 (1991)
- Sognando la California (1992)
- Anni 90 (1992)
- Anni 90: Parte II (1993)
- La fidanzata di papà (2008)
- Baarìa (2009)
- Somewhere (2010)
- The Tourist (2010)
- Natale a Londra – Dio salvi la regina (2016)
- Omicidio all'italiana (2017)
- No Country for Young Men (2017)
- Pare parecchio Parigi (2024)
TV series
[edit]- Don Matteo (Rai 1, 2000–present)
- L'ispettore Coliandro (Rai 2, 2009)
- Mario (MTV, 2013)
- The Mafia Kills Only in Summer[5] (Rai 1, 2016)
TV programs
[edit]- Quelli della notte (RAIDUE, 1985)
- Fantastico 7 (RAIUNO, 1986–1987)
- Indietro tutta! (RAIDUE, 1987–1988)
- XLIX Zecchino d'Oro (Rai 1, 2006)
- Che tempo che fa (Rai 1, 2017–19; Rai 2, since 2019)
- Indietro tutta! 30 e l'ode (Rai 2, 2017)
Radio
[edit]- Programmone (Radio 2, since 2015)
References
[edit]- ^ Francesco Merlo, Nino Frassica: nel mio nonsenso c'è tutta la veritàne, repubblica.it (in Italian)
- ^ Stefano Bartezzaghi, È tornato il frate di Frassica, abbattiamogli le mani, repubblica.it (in Italian)
- ^ Lancia, Enrico; Poppi, Roberto (2003). Dizionario del cinema italiano: Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri (in Italian). Gremese Editore. p. 75. ISBN 978-88-8440-269-1. Retrieved 3 September 2010.
- ^ Nino Frassica Archived 2017-08-11 at the Wayback Machine ovguide.com
- ^ The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (TV series) at IMDb
External links
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Media related to Nino Frassica at Wikimedia Commons
