Lello Arena

Actor

November 1, 1953 (72 years)

Napoli, Italy

Biography

Raffaele Arena, conosciuto come Lello (Napoli, 1º novembre 1953), è un cabarettista, attore teatrale e doppiatore italiano, esponente della nuova comicità napoletana (portata alla ribalta dal gruppo teatrale La Smorfia nella seconda metà degli anni settanta), assieme a Massimo Troisi ed Enzo Decaro. Nel 2006 si è sposato con Francesca Taviani, figlia del famoso regista Vittorio, da cui ha avuto un figlio (Leonardo) nel 2003 ed ha recitato in Persa, il persiano di Plauto.

Filmography

7.7

Ciao Darwin

Capitano Bassi

Ciao Darwin is a variety game show format from Italy sold under licence to several countries, including Romania, Hungary, Poland, Serbia, Canada, USA, China and Greece. There are two competing teams of about 50 people each, usually made up of people who fit certain opposing stereotypes. In each game two members of the audience are selected at random, one from each team, indicated by a light in front of them which remains illuminated when all the other team members' lights have gone off. The games involve contestants competing in acts of bravery, style and talent, some of which are designed to humiliate the contestants, especially an assault course which was introduced with the Italian version in 2010, and the Finale which is a water tank game.

7.6

Scherzi a Parte

Conduttore

No description available

N/A

TV Story Superstar

Self (archive footage)

No description available

8.5

Foodish

Food show con Joe Bastianich

7.7

Made in Sud

Conduttore

No description available

9.0

Quei due sopra il varano

Lello Cardello

Quei due sopra il varano is an Italian television series.

6.7

Totò Sapore and the Magical Story of Pizza

Pulcinella (voice)

Naples, 18th century. Salvatore "Totò" Sapore, an unemployed minstrel, always manages to cheer up the hungry with his songs about good food, always upsetting Vesuvia, a magma witch who lives inside the Vesuvius.

5.8

Wondrous Boccaccio

Duca Tancredi

It's 1348. The plague has brutally hit Florence. A group of then young people, seven women and three men, rebel against the feeling of death that is about to swallow them. They flee the city and find refuge in an abandoned villa in the Tuscan hills. Here, between moral doubts and the tasks needed to survive, they kill time by telling each other stories until they will decide to return. The stories are varied - tragic, bizarre, funny or erotic - but common and central to all of them is the female presence.

5.5

Cuori nella tormenta

Raffaele

Walter is a non-commissioned officer of the Navy, while Raf is a ship's cook. They become great friends but unfortunately they fall in love, without knowing it, with the same girl Sonia.

7.6

I'm Starting from Three

Raffaele 'Lello' Sodano

Gaetano, a young Neapolitan, decides to leave home, work and friends, to look for other moments of life and meet other people.

6.8

Morto Troisi, viva Troisi!

The guardian angel / Self

The fake report about Troisi's death, with the direction of Troisi himself with Lello Arena and Anna Pavignano. A long of list people greet the comediam, from Gianni Boncompagni to Maria Giovanna Elmi. There is also Benigni, hidden behind a window, and Arena, his guardian angel.

5.7

La scuola più bella del mondo

Preside Arturo Moscariello

No description available

6.9

Bertoldo, Bertoldino, and Cacasenno

Alboino

During the reign of King Alboin, the peasant Bertoldo, sly and smart, manages to always get away with pranks and pleasantires with great mastery, and, even if his clumsy wife Marcolfa and their foolish son Bertoldino always put him in trouble, his shrewdness and acumen save him from any unfortunate situation...

5.5

You Laugh

Rocco

Two segments: In the first one Felice, a baritone who has had to give up his career because of a heart condition and now works as an accountant at the Opera, inexplicably spends his nights laughing in his sleep. When his best friend, a cripple, takes his life and his wife abandons him Felice decides to die himself. In the second segment two kidnappings in Sicily, the second of which took place a century before the present one, are compared.

N/A

Baciati dall'Amore

Gaetano Gambardella; Don Tano Bambardella

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7.1

Il mio amico Massimo

Voce narrante

The life and artistic journey of Neapolitan actor Massimo Troisi.

6.5

Once I'll Be a Child

Six stories about childhood, set in six different decades, from the 50s to today, bound to each other by a mystery.

3.0

Veleni

Stars

No description available

5.7

Looking for Paradise

Calabrone

The life and times of Claudia Bertelli, born in Milan in 1949 from bourgeois parents, educated in England, rebel and single mother, then feminist and married woman and again doctor in the developing countries and mystical nun who dies peacefully in 2011.

7.6

Sorry for the Delay

Tonino

Vincenzo, a 30 years old apathetic and lazy man who still lives with his mother, has no job and no desire to improve. He meets Anna and fell in love with her but to keep the relationship alive he has to learn to accept more responsibility.