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Nino Frank was born in Barletta, in the southern region of Apulia, a busy port town on Italy's Adriatic coast.. In the late 1920s, Frank was a supporter of the Irish writer James Joyce, along with a circle that also included Moune Gilbert, Stuart Gilbert (who helped to make the French translation of Ulysses in 1929), Paul and Lucie Léon, Louis Gillet, and Samuel Beckett.
Bread and Chocolate (Italian: Pane e cioccolata) is a 1974 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Franco Brusati.This film chronicles the misadventures of an Italian immigrant to Switzerland and is representative of the commedia all'italiana film genre.
Antonino "Nino" Frassica (born 11 December 1950) is an Italian actor, comedian and television personality. Biography and career. This section needs expansion.
In 1976, Franco Merli appeared on-screen as Fernando, the son of Nino Manfredi, who earns his money as a transvestite prostitute in Down and Dirty. This social satire by Italian director Ettore Scola was also (but for a small part in the 1979 film Il malato immaginario) [6] Franco Merli's swan song as an actor. It is probable that he secured ...
Antonio González Pacheco (10 October 1946 – 7 May 2020), known also as Billy the Kid (Billy el Niño [1] [2]), was a Spanish police inspector in Francoist Spain who was charged with 13 counts of torture and sought for extradition by an Argentine judge in 2014. [3]
Francesco Pippo (born 2 September 1940), known professionally as Pippo Franco, is an Italian actor, comedian, television presenter, and singer. He made his name first as a musician in the early 1960s, and in the late 1960s, began a career in film, starring in a great number of commedia sexy all'italiana , the "sexy comedy" subgenre of Italian ...
Rota at age 12. Giovanni Rota Rinaldi was born on 3 December 1911 into a musical family in Milan, Italy. [1] Rota was a renowned child prodigy – his first oratorio, L'infanzia di San Giovanni Battista, was written at age 11 [4] and performed in Milan and Paris as early as 1923; his three-act lyrical comedy after Hans Christian Andersen, Il Principe Porcaro, was composed when he was just 13 ...
In 1957, Castelnuovo debuted as a mime in the RAI children's television show Zurli il mago del giovedì. [1] [4]He landed a small part in Un maledetto imbroglio (The Facts of Murder, 1959), directed by Pietro Germi, and played supporting roles in films, including The Hunchback of Rome, directed by Carlo Lizzani, and Rocco and His Brothers, directed by Luchino Visconti; both were released in 1960.