Riccardo Cucciolla
Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Known Credits
84
Gender
Male
Birthday
1924-09-05
Day of death
1999-09-17 (75 years old)
Place of Birth
Bari, Puglia, Italy
Riccardo Cucciolla
Biography
Riccardo Cucciolla (5 September 1924 – 17 September 1999) was an Italian actor and voice actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1953 and 1999. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for the film Sacco & Vanzetti. Born in Bari, in southern Italy, Cucciolla gained a degree in law, then made his stage debut in an amateur production in his home city. From 1946, he started working in radio as a voice actor and as the narrator of documentaries; at the same time, he started working in cinema, as a dubber and a voice actor. Cucciolla made his film debut in 1953, in Anton Giulio Majano's Good Folk's Sunday. After some minor roles, he had his first important role in Italiani brava gente (1965), followed by a further significant role in Giuliano Montaldo's Grand Slam (1967). Cucciolla came to national and international recognition with the leading role in Montaldo's Sacco e Vanzetti, for which he was awarded best actor at Cannes and won a Silver Ribbon. In the wake of that sudden popularity, he intensively worked throughout the decade, alternating notable films with others of more modest quality and ambition. Starting from eighties he thinned out his appearances, mainly focusing on dubbing and television roles. As a dubber, he provided voice-overs for Roger Moore, Claudio Villa, Erland Josephson, John Cazale, Jonathan Pryce, Richard Egan, James Caan, Robert Duvall and more. On 17 September 1999, Cucciolla died in Rome at the age of 75. He is survived by his wife, the poet Alida Sessa; their son Riccardo; and two children by his first wife, Francesco and Lietta. Source: Article "Riccardo Cucciolla" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
Secret Africa
Il fratello
Vanille fraise
32nd of December
Francis of Assisi
Attack and Retreat
Sacco & Vanzetti
Son of Hercules vs. Medusa
Al Fatah - Palestina
I Vitelloni
Grand Slam
Incontro con Maria Carta
Marco Polo
Africa Uncensored
Tomboy - I misteri del sesso
La quieta febbre
Borsalino and Co.
Down With Uncle
The Assassination of Matteotti
The Castle of Olive Trees
A Cop
Rabid Dogs
La dottoressa Giò
One on Top of the Other
The Seducer
The secret files of Inspector Lavardin
Rain over Santiago
Women of the Resistance
The Sensual Man
L'isola del tesoro
Farewell the Last Man
High School Girl
Il segreto dell'uomo solitario
The Assisi Underground
The Last Concert
The Case Is Closed, Forget It
Vita di Michelangelo
The Sicilian Checkmate
Lucky Punch
Rascel-Fifì
Massacre in the Black Forest
The Seven Cervi Brothers
Badoglio: generale e uomo di stato
Stream Line
The Last Day of School Before Christmas
Bandits in Rome
Good Folk's Sunday
Six Days a Week
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story
Malamondo
C.I.A. Secret Story
We Are All in Temporary Liberty
The Sexual Revolution
Lost in the City of Sarzana
Family Business
Meet Him and Die
No, the Case Is Happily Resolved
Incensurato, provata disonestà, carriera assicurata cercasi
Blinde Augen klagen an
One Appreciated Professional of Sure Future
Life of Dante
Pizza Colonia
The Path of Oil
Our God's Brother
The Last Fistful of Land
Il coraggio di parlare
Intolerance: il caso Liuzzo
Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison
In Calabria
Morte di una ragazza perbene
La fantarca
Tottering in the Dark
24 Hours... Not a Minute More
L' ultima faccia di Medusa
Una lepre con la faccia di bambina
The Kid From Ebalus
Il segreto di Luca
L'Italia vista dal cielo: Liguria
Nascita e morte nel meridione (S. Cataldo)
Il processo di Savona
L'antimiracolo
Il pane dei pastori
Sardegna terra di contrasti
L'Italia vista dal cielo: Lazio
