Riccardo Cucciolla
Riccardo Cucciolla | |
|---|---|
 Cucciolla in the movie Sacco & Vanzetti (1971) | |
| Born | 5 September 1924 Bari, Kingdom of Italy |
| Died | 17 September 1999 (aged 75) Rome, Italy |
| Occupations |
|
| Years active | 1953–1999 |
| Children | 3 |
Riccardo Cucciolla (5 September 1924 – 17 September 1999) was an Italian actor and voice actor.[1] He appeared in 60 films between 1953 and 1999. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for the film Sacco & Vanzetti.
Biography
[edit]Born in Bari, in southern Italy, Cucciolla gained a degree in law, then made his stage debut in an amateur production in his home city.[2][3] From 1946, he started working in radio as a voice actor and as the narrator of documentaries; at the same time, he started working in cinema, as a dubber and a voice actor.[4]
Cucciolla made his film debut in 1953, in Anton Giulio Majano's Good Folk's Sunday. After some minor roles, he had his first important role in Italiani brava gente (1965), followed by a further significant role in Giuliano Montaldo's Grand Slam (1967).[4]
Cucciolla came to national and international recognition with the leading role in Montaldo's Sacco e Vanzetti, for which he was awarded best actor at Cannes and won a Silver Ribbon. In the wake of that sudden popularity, he intensively worked throughout the decade, alternating notable films with others of more modest quality and ambition.[4] Starting from eighties he thinned out his appearances, mainly focusing on dubbing and television roles.[4] As a dubber, he provided voice-overs for Roger Moore, Claudio Villa, Erland Josephson, John Cazale, Jonathan Pryce, Richard Egan, James Caan, Robert Duvall and more.[5]
On 17 September 1999, Cucciolla died in Rome at the age of 75.[6] He is survived by his wife, the poet Alida Sessa; their son Riccardo; and two children by his first wife, Francesco and Lietta.
Selected filmography
[edit]
- Good Folk's Sunday (1953) - Cesco
- I Vitelloni (1953) - Narrator (voice, uncredited)
- Il seduttore (1954) - Racca
- Il piccolo vetraio (1955) - (voice)
- Rascel-Fifì (1957) - Undici
- Silver Spoon Set (1960) - Anselmo Foresi (voice, uncredited)
- Love in Rome (1960) - Narrator (uncredited)
- Primitive Love (1964) - Narrator (uncredited)
- Attack and Retreat (1964) - Sanna
- La bugiarda (1965)
- Grand Slam (1967)[7] - Agostino Rossi
- The Seven Cervi Brothers (1968) - Gelindo Cervi
- Bandits in Rome (1968) - Vice Commissioner Pascuttini
- La rivoluzione sessuale (1968) - Emilio Missiroli
- Una sull'altra (1969) - Benjamin Wormser
- Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969) - Narratore (voice, uncredited)
- Sacco e Vanzetti (1971) - Nicola Sacco
- The Case Is Closed, Forget It (1971) - Pesenti
- We Are All in Temporary Liberty (1971) - Mario De Rossi
- The Sicilian Checkmate (1972) - Professor Salemi
- Un apprezzato professionista di sicuro avvenire (1972) - Nicola Perella
- Un flic (1972) - Paul Weber
- Incensurato provata disonestà carriera assicurata cercasi (1972) - Commissario
- The Assassination of Matteotti (1973) - Antonio Gramsci
- No, The Case Is Happily Resolved (1973) - Professor Eduardo Ranieri
- Paolo il caldo (1973) - Paolo's Father
- 24 ore... non un minuto di più (1973) - Minister Handras
- The Sensual Man (1974) - Celio D'Altamura
- Le Hasard et la Violence (1974) - Dr. Puget (uncredited)
- The Visitor (1974)
- Borsalino & Co. (1974) - Volpone
- Rabid Dogs (1974) - Riccardo
- The Last Day of School Before Christmas (1975) - Ambro
- C.I.A. Secret Story (1975) - Giuseppe Pinelli
- Il pleut sur Santiago (1975) - Olivares
- Il fratello (1975)
- La linea del fiume (1976) - Dr. Roder
- Take All of Me (1976) - Padre di Stella
- Meet Him and Die (1976) - Commissioner Sacchi
- Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison (1977) - Antonio Gramsci
- Turi and the Paladins (1979) - Don Saverio
- Il ragazzo di Ebalus (1984) - Old farmer
- The Assisi Underground (1985) - Luigi Brizzi
- Una casa in bilico (1986) - Teodoro detto Teo
- Il coraggio di parlare (1987) - Don Carmelo Fiorillo
- Remake (1987) - Himself
- 32 dicembre (1988) - Anselmi, lo spasimante (segment "La gialla farfalla")
- Il segreto dell'uomo solitario (1988)
- Vanille fraise (1989) - Andreani
- Pizza Colonia (1991) - Massimo Serboli
- In Calabria (1993) - Narrator (voice)
- L'Affaire (1994) - Van Doude
- La voce del cuore (1995, TV Mini-Series) - Antonio
- Lucky Punch (1996) - Zipolino
- Our God's Brother (1997) - The Monk
Dubbing roles
[edit]Live action
[edit]- Fredo Corleone in The Godfather[8]
- Fredo Corleone in The Godfather Part II[9]
- Alexander in The Sacrifice
- Judge Cancedda in I Am Afraid[10]
- Elliot Carver in Tomorrow Never Dies[11]
- Lee Stegler in Countdown[12]
- Mr. Hillyer in Rambling Rose[13]
References
[edit]- ^ "Riccardo Cucciolla's dubbing contributions". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 26 March 2020.
- ^ "Riccardo Cucciola". MYmovies. Retrieved 17 April 2020.
- ^ Felice Cappa; Piero Gelli; Marco Mattarozzi (1998). Dizionario dello spettacolo del '900. Dalai editore, 1998. ISBN 8880892959.
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi. Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN 8884402131.
- ^ Cronologia fondamentale dell'epoca d'oro del doppiaggio italiano Dagli albori agli anni 1970 (in Italian)
- ^ "È morto l'attore che portò sullo schermo la vicenda degli anarchici italiani giustiziati in America Cucciolla, per tutti era Sacco Tanti film e tv, ma anche il lavoro come doppiatore" (in Italian). ricerca.gelocal.it. 18 September 1999. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
- ^ Adler, Renata; Thompson, Howard (21 February 1968). "Movie Review". The New York Times.
- ^ "The Godfather Italian voice cast". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
- ^ "The Godfather Part II Italian voice cast". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
- ^ "I Am Afraid Italian voice cast". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 16 April 2020.
- ^ "Tomorrow Never Dies Italian voice cast". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
- ^ "Countdown Italian voice cast". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
- ^ "Rambling Rose Italian voice cast". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 18 April 2020.
Further reading
[edit]- Vito Attolini, Alfonso Marrese. Riccardo Cucciolla. Ritratto di attore. Edizioni Dal Sud, 1990. ISBN 8875531528.
External links
[edit]
Media related to Riccardo Cucciolla at Wikimedia Commons
- 1924 births
- 1999 deaths
- Actors from Bari
- Male actors from Apulia
- Italian male film actors
- Italian male television actors
- Italian male voice actors
- Italian male stage actors
- Italian male radio actors
- Italian voice directors
- Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor winners
- Nastro d'Argento winners
- 20th-century Italian male actors