Pietro Ceccarelli (actor)
Pietro Ceccarelli (born January 26, 1934 in Rome ) is an Italian stuntman and actor .
Life
Ceccarelli, whose younger brother Lanfranco also worked as a stunt coordinator, production manager and small actor for the Italian film industry, belongs to the era of stunt men who, from the mid-1950s, were given the opportunity to combine their athletic skills with acting thanks to the boom in the Italian film industry Enrich parts. Like his colleagues, e.g. B. the brothers Cianfriglia , Sal Borgese , Nello Pazzafini or Rinaldo Zamperla , because of his physical presence (and his tall, bald, dark-looking appearance) he was used in villain roles in numerous genre films - mythological films, many spaghetti westerns and action films Getting an occasional lead role also revealed a talent for comedy. He was also led under numerous pseudonyms , often as Puccio Ceccarelli (his nickname) or Peter Jacob . In 1988 he made the last of his 100 films since 1960. At the beginning of the 1970s he also worked several times as a production manager.
Filmography (selection)
- 1960: The curse of the Pharaoh (Il sepolcro dei re)
- 1962: Maciste, the avenger of the damned (Maciste all'inferno)
- 1963: Ursus, the invincible (Ursus nella terra di fuoco)
- 1965: The stone forest (Il tesoro della foresta pietrificata)
- 1966: I was happy to kill women
- 1966: May they rest in peace (Requiescant)
- 1967: Il bello, il brutto, il cretino
- 1967: Rocco - the loner from the Alamo (Ballata per un pistolero)
- 1968: Django - A coffin full of blood (Il momento di uccidere)
- 1968: dynamite in green silk
- 1968: My life depends on a dollar (Dai nemici mi guardo io!)
- 1968: I nipoti di Zorro
- 1969: Drive to Hell, you scoundrels (Gli specialisti)
- 1971: Holy Water Joe (Acquasanta Joe)
- 1972: Lo chiamavano Verità
- 1972: Pizza, Father and Pistols (Posate le pistole reverendo)
- 1973: Do you know the country where blue beans bloom? (Lo chiamavano Tresette… giocava semper col morto)
- 1983: The Throne of Fire (Il trono di fuoco)
- 1986: Scalps (Scalps)
- 1988: Stradivari (Stradivari)
Web links
- Pietro Ceccarelli in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Roberto Poppi, Article Pietro Ceccarelli in the Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Rome, Gremese 1998, p. 112
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ceccarelli, Pietro |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ceccarelli, Puccio; Jacob, Peter; Caine, Peter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Italian stuntman and actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 26, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rome |