Mario Pisu

Mario Pisu in Julia and the Ghosts

Mario Pisu (born May 21, 1910 in Montecchio Emilia , Italy , † July 17, 1976 in Velletri , Italy) was an Italian stage, film and television actor .

Live and act

Pisu had started to act in the theater in the early 1930s, but due to his very good looks he was brought to film a little later, where from 1935 he was given supporting supporting roles as well as several leading roles for four decades. Pisu was a popular actor on screen in well-groomed conversational pieces, comedies and, above all, love melodramas of the Mussolini era when he worked with regime-loyal directors such as Enrico Guazzoni , Guido Brignone , Gennaro Righelli , Raffaello Matarazzo , Duilio Coletti , Goffredo Bonnard and Carmine , Mario Alessandrini Gal worked together.

After the Second World War, Luchino Visconti rediscovered the attractive mimes as a theater interpreter, and Pisu succeeded with character roles in modern plays such as Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman (1951) and Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya (1957). At times he also had his own small theater company. Nevertheless, Mario Pisu remained primarily connected to the film, where he worked intensively until immediately before his death in 1976. His most important patrons now included Mario Camerini , Luigi Zampa , Sergio Corbucci , Nanni Loy , Luciano Salce and above all Federico Fellini , who cast him in two of his most important works, Eight and Half and Julia and the Spirits .

In addition, Pisu was seen (especially in the 1960s) in international, often French-dominated co-productions - conventional entertainment films in which he had popular colleagues such as Louis de Funès , Michèle Mercier , John Mills and Horst Buchholz as partners. In 1954 he also tried his hand at being a film director. Pisu has also been seen in several television productions (including multi-part series and series) and, due to his sonorous voice, has also taken on an abundance of dubbing roles.

Private

Mario Pisu was married to the actress Lilli Trucchi. His son was the former child actor (during the Second World War) Silverio Pisu (1937-2004), his brother the comedian Raffaele Pisu (* 1925)

Filmography

• 1935: Re burlone
• 1935: Passaporto rosso
• 1936: Amazzoni bianche
• 1936: Re di denari
• 1937: È tornato carnivals
• 1938: L'ultima nemica
• 1938: Il suo destino
• 1938: La sposa dei Re
• 1940: Manovre d'amore
• 1941: Princess Cinderella (Cenerentola e il signor Bonaventura)
• 1942: Noi vivi
• 1942: Addio Kira!
• 1943: Il nostro prossimo
• 1943: Lettere al sottotenente
• 1944: La locandiera
• 1945: Il ratto delle Sabine
• 1945: Il canto della vita
• 1946: husband to order ( Il marito povero )
• 1946: My son, the professor (Mio figlio professore)
• 1949: Il vedovo allegro
• 1950: Margherita da Cortona
• 1950: Io sono il Capataz
• 1951: Il diavolo in convento
• 1951: angel or sinner? ( Le due verità )
• 1952: From country pastor to pope ( Gli uomini non guardano il cielo )
• 1952: A car doesn't make a millionaire ( 5 poveri in automobiles )
• 1953: Dieci canzoni d'amore da salvare
• 1954: La grande avventura (screenplay and direction)
• 1955: Totò all'inferno
• 1958: Young People of Today ( Primo amore )
• 1959: Hannibal (Annibale)
• 1960: Circassian uprising ( I cosacchi )
• 1961: Mariti a congresso
• 1962: Anni ruggenti
• 1962: The devil guys from Dorado ( I diavoli di Spartivento )
• 1963: Eight and a half (Otto e mezzo)
• 1963: Totò sexy
• 1963: Zorro and the three musketeers ( Zorro ei tre moschettieri)
• 1963: The whip on the neck (I compagni)
• 1964: Soldati e caporali
• 1964: The gendarme from Broadway ( Le Gendarme à New York )
• 1965: Julia and the Spirits ( Giulietta degli spiriti)
• 1965: Lust and violence ( La violenza e l'amore )
• 1965: Made in Italy
• 1965: I, I, I ... and the others (Io, io, io ... e gli altri)
• 1966: Affair in Italian (Adulterio all'italiana)
• 1966: Our husbands ( I nostri mariti)
• 1966: Jonny Banco - Beloved Good-for-nothing (Johnny Banco)
• 1967: OSS - Devil's Dance in Tokyo (Atout coeur à Tokyo pour OSS 117)
• 1967: Sharks ask for dinner (Estouffade à la Caraibe)
• 1968: Lady Hamilton - Between shame and love
• 1968: Temptation
• 1969: L'amore è come il sole
• 1969: Zingara
• 1971: Pretrial detention ( Detenuto in attesa di giudizio )
• 1972: The devil directs (Il boss)
• 1972: Without warning (Sans sommation)
• 1973: Io e lui
• 1973: Paolo the hot one (Paolo il caldo)
• 1974: Carnalità
• 1974: Ordine firmato in bianco
• 1975: teenagers love hot (blue jeans)
• 1975: The Sex Machine (Conviene far bene l'amore)
• 1975: Operation unsuccessful - patient is alive (L'infermiera)
• 1976: The shooting of the million dollar coup (Gli amici di Nick Hezard)
• 1976: Sorbole ... che romagnola

literature

• Catalogo Bolaffi del cinema italiano, no.3, 1975/76. Obituary page 81

Web links

Commons : Mario Pisu  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Mario Pisu in the Internet Movie Database (English)