Memmo Carotenuto
Memmo Carotenuto (actually Guglielmo Carotenuto ; born July 24, 1908 in Rome , † December 23, 1980 ibid) was an Italian actor .
Life
The son of the actors and actresses Nello Carotenuto and Angela Grasso and brother of Mario started as a theater actor at the age of 8 when he played in the theater company of Bacci / Gambini. After graduating as an accountant in 1925, he began his professional career as an actor in the revue "Achille Maresca 2" in the same year and continued it in 1927 as a member of the ensemble of Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's "Teatro futurista" , which played a short but important role in the theatrical landscape of that time. After engagements in secondary Romanesco dialect theaters, Carotenuto shifted his focus to film; however not as an actor, but as a make-up artist. As a result, until 1950 he only appeared in a few and small roles on the screen.
1951 began an extremely productive cinema phase in which Carotenuto interpreted angular or finicky, impulsive and generous, but always good-hearted Roman characters with an unmistakably hoarse and deep voice and a good portion of irony and in which he interpreted in 1956, during his most intense time, for his Representation in bigamy is no pleasure with a silver ribbon as best supporting actor. After a five-year break between 1966 and 1970, the rather tall actor continued his film career until his death.
His son Bruno also starred in a handful of films.
Filmography (selection)
- 1934: Vecchia guardia
- 1953: Bread, Love and Fantasy (Pane, amore e fantasia)
- 1953: crook with a heart (Piovuto dal cielo)
- 1953: A Sunday in Rome (La domenica della buona gente)
- 1954: Love, Bread and Jealousy (Pane, amore e gelosia)
- 1955: The great battle of Don Camillo (Don Camillo e l'onorevole Peppone)
- 1955: How wonderful to be a woman (La fortuna di essere donna)
- 1956: Bigamy is no pleasure (Il bigamo)
- 1956: I will not be seduced (Poveri ma belli)
- 1956: Nero's great nights (Mio figlio Nerone)
- 1956: With bowler hat and ice cream gloves (Parola di ladro)
- 1957: Husbands in the city (Mariti in città)
- 1957: In Another Land (A Farewell to Arms)
- 1957: Susanna sweet as cream (Susanna tutta panna)
- 1957: Fathers and Sons (Padri e figli)
- 1958: Thieves have a hard time (I soliti ignoti)
- 1958: The man in the shorts (L'uomo dei calzoni corti)
- 1958: Totò and Marcellino (Totò e Marcellino)
- 1959: My beautiful husband (Il nemico di mia moglie)
- 1959: The rogue of Salamanca (El Lazarillo de Tormes)
- 1960: Akiko (Akiko)
- 1960: The joys of bachelors (I piaceri dello scapolo)
- 1961: On a Friday at eleven thirty ...
- 1964: I was a male sex bomb (Le Monsieur de Compagnie)
- 1969: The honeymoon
- 1973: In a losing position (La polizia è al servizio del cittadino?)
- 1974: Thick air in Sacramento (Di Tresette ce n'è uno, tutti gli altri son nessuno)
- 1980: Un amore in prima class
Web links
- Memmo Carotenuto in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Carotenuto at mymovies
- Biography at Treccani
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Chiti, article Memmo Carotenuto , in: Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Rom, Gremese 1998, p. 102ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Carotenuto, Memmo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Carotenuto, Guglielmo (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 24, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 23, 1980 |
| Place of death | Rome |