Riccardo Cucciolla

Riccardo Cucciolla

Riccardo Cucciolla (5 September 1924 – 17 September 1999) was an Italian actor and voice actor. 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. 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. 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. 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). 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. Starting from eighties he thinned out his appearances, mainly focusing on dubbing and television roles. 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. On 17 September 1999, Cucciolla died in Rome at the age of 75. He is survived by his wife, the poet Alida Sessa; their son Riccardo; and two children by his first wife, Francesco and Lietta. Source: Article "Riccardo Cucciolla" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For: Acting

Born: Bari, Puglia, Italy, 1924-09-05

Died: 1999-09-17

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1953	Good Folk's Sunday		58
2	1953	I Vitelloni	Narrator (voice) (uncredited)	76
3	1954	The Seducer	Racca	65
4	1956	Sardegna terra di contrasti	Narrator (voice)	0
5	1957	Rascel-Fifì	Undici	0
6	1958	L' ultima faccia di Medusa	Fabio	0
7	1959	Nascita e morte nel meridione (S. Cataldo)	narrator	0
8	1962	Down With Uncle	Narrator	70
9	1962	Il pane dei pastori	Narrator (voice)	0
10	1963	Son of Hercules vs. Medusa	(Voice dubbing for Richard Harrison)	53
11	1963	Badoglio: generale e uomo di stato		0
12	1964	La quieta febbre	protagonista	0
13	1964	Malamondo	Narrator	42
14	1964	Attack and Retreat	Giuseppe Sanna	68
15	1965	L'antimiracolo	Narrator	60
16	1965	Six Days a Week	Alfredo	75
17	1965	Women of the Resistance	Narrator	70
18	1965	Life of Dante	Narrator	0
19	1966	La fantarca	Lo speaker	0
20	1966	Francis of Assisi	Fra' Leone	58
21	1966	The Last Fistful of Land	Narrator	90
22	1967	Il processo di Savona		0
23	1967	La via del petrolio	Narrator	80
24	1967	Massacre in the Black Forest	Narrator (uncredited)	64
25	1967	Grand Slam	Agostino Rossi	71
26	1968	The Seven Cervi Brothers	Gelindo Cervi	69
27	1968	Bandits in Rome	Vice Commissioner Pascuttini	50
28	1968	The Sexual Revolution	Emilio Missiroli	55
29	1969	Intolerance: il caso Liuzzo		0
30	1969	One on Top of the Other	Benjamin Wormser	65
31	1969	Secret Africa	Narrator	0
32	1970	Al Fatah - Palestina	Narratore (voice)	0
33	1971	Sacco & Vanzetti	Nicola Sacco	76
34	1971	The Case Is Closed, Forget It	Pesenti	68
35	1971	Africa Uncensored	Narrator	48
36	1971	We Are All in Temporary Liberty		0
37	1972	Incontro con Maria Carta	Self	0
38	1972	The Sicilian Checkmate	Professor Salemi	43
39	1972	One Appreciated Professional of Sure Future	Nicola Perella	0
40	1972	A Cop	Paul Weber	66
41	1972	Incensurato, provata disonestà, carriera assicurata cercasi	Commissioner	65
42	1973	L'Italia vista dal cielo: Liguria	(Voice)	0
43	1973	No, the Case Is Happily Resolved	Professor Eduardo Ranieri	57
44	1973	24 Hours... Not a Minute More	Minister Handras	0
45	1973	The Assassination of Matteotti	Antonio Gramsci	66
46	1973	The Sensual Man	Paolo's Father	62
47	1974	High School Girl	Celio D'Altamura	47
48	1974	Borsalino and Co.	Volpone	65
49	1975	L'Italia vista dal cielo: Lazio	Narrator (voice)	0
50	1975	Il fratello		0
51	1975	The Last Day of School Before Christmas		0
52	1975	C.I.A. Secret Story	Giuseppe Pinelli	58
53	1975	Rain over Santiago	Olivares	63
54	1976	Stream Line	Dr. Roder	0
55	1976	The Last Concert	Stella's father	66
56	1976	Meet Him and Die	Police Commissioner Sacchi	54
57	1977	Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison		66
58	1977	Tomboy - I misteri del sesso	Narrator (voice)	20
59	1978	Farewell the Last Man	Narrator (voice)	50
60	1980	Lost in the City of Sarzana	Terzi, sindaco di Sarzana	70
61	1980	Sophia Loren: Her Own Story	Dominico Villani	57
62	1984	The Kid From Ebalus	Old Farmer	0
63	1985	The Assisi Underground	Luigi Brizzi	52
64	1987	Tottering in the Dark	Teodoro detto Teo	0
65	1987	Il coraggio di parlare	Don Carmelo Fiorillo	0
66	1988	Il segreto dell'uomo solitario	Giorgio	0
67	1988	32nd of December	Generale Emanuele Anselmi	71
68	1989	Vanille fraise	Andreani	52
69	1991	Pizza Colonia	Massimo Serboli	30
70	1993	In Calabria	Narrator (voice)	80
71	1995	Rabid Dogs	Riccardo	75
72	1996	Blinde Augen klagen an		0
73	1996	Lucky Punch	Zipolino	60
74	1997	Our God's Brother	The Monk	53
75	1999	Morte di una ragazza perbene	Prof. Giussani	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	L'isola del tesoro	Joyce	0
2	1964	Vita di Michelangelo	Narratore (voice)	55
3	1982	Marco Polo	Zio Zane	68
4	1986	Family Business	Tiberi	0
5	1988	The secret files of Inspector Lavardin	Serge Orzyck	100
6	1993	The Castle of Olive Trees	Jules Campredon	60
7	1997	La dottoressa Giò	Dott. Lombardi	30

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