Enzo Cannavale

Actor

April 5, 1928 (82 years)

† March 18, 2011

Castellammare di Stabia, Campania, Italy

Biography

Vincenzo "Enzo" Cannavale (5 April 1928 – 18 March 2011) was an Italian film actor. He appeared in more than 100 films since 1949, including Cinema Paradiso, which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 62nd Academy Awards in 1990. He was awarded the Nastro d’Argento for Best Supporting Actor in 32 dicembre (December 32nd) by Luciano De Crescenzo. Source: Article "Enzo Cannavale" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

8.4

Cinema Paradiso

Spaccafico

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.

5.3

My Father's Private Secretary

Giuseppe

Ponziani Armando, the owner of a thriving chemical industry, lives in a beautiful villa on Lake Como with his wife and his son Franco Ersilia.

4.8

The Teasers

Osvaldo

Loredana is a schoolgirl who takes advantage of her fellow students and teachers by using her innocent schoolgirl beauty. After she loses her virginity to an older man she soon realizes there are more important things to life than teasing men.

7.3

The Adventures of Pinocchio

Oste

Mastro Geppetto is a poor carpenter with no wife and no children. The man is very lonely, and when trading a piece of wood with his colleague Mastero Cherry, he decides to build himself a puppet to make him company.

5.6

The School Teacher

Peppino

A rich Sicilian, Fefè Mottola, decides to call a wealthy girl graduate: Giovanna, who is about to become a teacher, because his son needs repetitions. The boy, named Franco, is shocked by the physical beauty of the teacher, and so to restrain himself decides to pose as gay. But the deception does not last long, because the sexual impulses of Alfredo explode.

6.4

My Friends Act III

Cav. Ferrini

This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.

N/A

Cinecittà Cinecittà

'Madame Bovary' Director

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7.1

I delitti del cuoco

Fortunato

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4.5

The Paramedic

avvocato Generoso Gallina

At work, Mario Millio is the only male nurse not on strike. At home, his wife is more interested in calling the hot-line of a local TV-doctor. When Mario wins 15 million Lire in the lottery, he buys himself a new car and starts to live out his dreams in secret. All goes well until a criminal steals the car and Mario is blamed for the car thief's crimes

6.5

The Knock Out Cop

Caputo

Inspector “Flatfoot” Rizzo investigates crime and corruption in Naples.

4.5

Chaste and Pure

Don Bottazzi

Antonio is married to a very wealthy woman but the sole heir of the family fortune is his daughter. He induce his dying wife to swear in the daughter of remaining "chaste and pure" ( so that she cannot marry ) until his own death.

7.4

The Treasure of San Gennaro

Gaetano

A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Gennaro, in Napoli.

6.2

Flatfoot in Egypt

Caputo

Inspector Rizzo and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing.

3.9

Il sommergibile più pazzo del mondo

Il Ladro

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6.0

Roma bene

agente Tognon

A parade of corrupt and sleazy characters in the high society of Rome.

N/A

Birth of the Republic

Luigi Angrisani

A 1971 three-part miniseries about the birth of the Italian Republic, directed by Sandro Bolchi, Vittorio De Sica, and Ermanno Olmi

6.8

Anni '50

Don Peppino

Year 1955 in Capri

6.2

Flatfoot in Africa

Caputo

Inspector Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediately before this meeting the South African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his young son Bodo. Rizzo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo.

6.2

Flatfoot in Hong Kong

Inspector Caputo

Inspector Rizzo is accused of drug trafficking. In order to clear his name he has to find out who is the person, from a Mafia ring, who has infiltrated his police department.

4.3

Poker in Bed

Peppino

A poker player on a losing streak meets a beautiful young woman. He's attracted to her, but she appears to be perfectly content with her boyfriend, a somewhat wussy writer. The gambler gets the idea that if he can get this woman into bed, it will change his luck at the gambling tables.