Enzo Cannavale
Vincenzo "Enzo" Cannavale (born April 5, 1928 in Naples ; † March 18, 2011 ibid) was an Italian actor mostly of comic roles.
Life
Cannavale came to film after extensive stage experience in the mid-1960s. In addition to Peppino and Eduardo De Filippo , he had played theater with Pietro Di Vico and Ugo D'Alessio and until then (first film in 1949) had gained experience in very few cinema roles. From 1970 he was seen in an enormous number of mainly comedies, most of which were almost always mass-produced. Occasional exceptions offered the chance to set figures shaped by human warmth against his usual hectic, overwhelmed, half-bald little men standing under the slippers of women or superiors. He played these more interesting parts for Pasquale Squitieri , Pasquale Festa Campanile , Salvatore Samperi and Giuseppe Tornatore . Steno occupied him several times as a commissioner in interaction and counterplay to "Flatfoot" Bud Spencer . For television, Cannevale starred alongside Gene Gnocchi in a series directed by Vittorio De Sisti , in which he was allowed to portray a compassionate police officer.
Filmography (selection)
- 1961: Leoni al sole
- 1972: Camorra (Camorra)
- 1972: Pinocchio ( Le avventure di Pinocchio , television miniseries)
- 1973: They called him Flatfoot (Piedone lo sbirro)
- 1975: Hot teens and hot jeans (La liceale)
- 1975: Flatfoot clears up (Piedone a Hong Kong)
- 1976: Hector, the knight without fear and blame (Il soldato di ventura)
- 1976: The Hot Teens Hotel (L'affitacamere)
- 1977: A Man Called Magnum (Napoli si ribella)
- 1978: Flat foot in Africa (Piedone l'africano)
- 1978: The super bull chases the godfather (Squadra antimafia)
- 1979: Flat foot on the Nile (Piedone d'Egitto)
- 1979: A great bull against America (Squadra antigangsters)
- 1979: teenage love (John travolto… da un insolito destino)
- 1980: A bare bottom in the snow (La settimana bianca)
- 1981: Men like it hot (L'amante tutta da scoprire)
- 1981: A rascal out of control (Delitto al ristorante cinese)
- 1982: The craziest submarine in the world (Il sommergibile più pazzo del mondo)
- 1988: German is spoken
- 1988: Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso)
- 1990: House of Delights (La casa del sorriso)
- 2009: I delitti del cuoco
Web links
- Enzo Cannavale in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.tgcom.mediaset.it/spettacolo/articoli/1003529/cinema-morto-enzo-cannavale.shtml
- ↑ Roberto Poppi, article Enzo Cannavale , in: Roberto Chiti, Enrico Lancia, Andrea Orbicciani, Roberto Poppi: Dizionario del cinama italiano. Gli attori. Rome, Gremese 1998. pp. 93/94
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cannavale, Enzo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cannavale, Vincenzo (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 5, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Naples |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 18, 2011 |
| Place of death | Naples |