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Renato Rascel

Renato Rascel

Actor · Born 1912-04-27 · Turin, Piedmont, Italy

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Biography

Renato Rascel (stage name of Renato Ranucci; 27 April 1912 – 2 January 1991), was an Italian film actor and singer. He appeared in 50 films between 1942 and 1972. He represented Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest in 1960 with the song "Romantica" which was placed equal eighth out of thirteen entries. He was born to Cesare and Paola Ranucci in Turin. It was in Turin where his parents, who were opera singers, were performing a show at the time Renato could really say that he was born in the back stage of the theater and that's where he spent all of his life. His father tried to make it up to him by having him baptized at Saint Peter's in Rome and apparently it worked because growing up in that neighborhood he ended up singing for the "white voices choir" of Saint Peter with the leadership of composer-conductor Lorenzo Perosi. At the age of 14 Renato started to play drums in ballrooms around Rome. Soon after, he joined the Di Fiorenza Sisters as an actor, dancer and clown and in 1934 he was hired for his first big role by the Schwarts Brothers in the operetta "Al Cavallino bianco". In 1935, he joined Elena Gray for his first foreign tour in Africa. In 1941 he created his own thea…

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Jesus of Nazareth (1977) — The Blind Man
  2. The Secret of Santa Vittoria (1970) — Babbaluche
  3. The Last Judgment (1961) — Coppola
  4. Oh! Sabella (1957) — Don Gregorio (uncredited)
  5. Ferdinand I King of Naples (1959) — Mimì
  6. The Overcoat (1952) — Carmine De Carmine
  7. Figaro qua... Figaro là (1950) — Don Alonzo
  8. Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura (1959) — Policarpo De Tappetti
  9. Uncle Was a Vampire (1959) — Baron Osvaldo Lambertenghi
  10. The Monte Carlo Story (1956) — Duval
  11. Pinocchio (1972) — Narratore (voice)
  12. I'm in the Revue (1950) — Self
  13. Seven Hills of Rome (1957) — Pepe Bonelli
  14. Questi fantasmi (1962)
  15. Gran varietà (1954) — Il comico
  16. Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca (1975) — (archive footage)
  17. A Soldier and a Half (1960) — Nicola Carletti
  18. Il matrimonio (1954) — Dmitry Marinin, il 'generale'
  19. Beauties on bicycles (1951) — Il figlio del meccanico
  20. Variety carousel (1955)
  21. Il bandolero stanco (1952) — Pepito
  22. The Bear (1960) — Medard
  23. Little Girls and High Finance (1960) — Accountant Paolo Robotti
  24. Move and I'll Shoot (1958) — Renato Tuzzi - il professore
  25. Love I Haven't... But... But (1951) — Teodoro
  26. I pinguini ci guardano (1956)
  27. Cinépanorama (1956) — Self
  28. Attanasio cavallo vanesio (1953)
  29. Transplant (1970) — Dario Barbieri
  30. The Orderly (1961) — Remigio De Acutis
  31. Io sono il capataz (1951) — Uguccione / Rascelito Villa
  32. Ho scelto l'amore (1953) — Boris Popovic
  33. These Phantoms (1954) — Pasquale Lojacono
  34. Piovuto dal cielo (1953) — Renato
  35. La passeggiata (1953) — Paolo Barbato
  36. Pazzo d'amore (1942)
  37. Alvaro piuttosto corsaro (1954) — Alvaro
  38. Destination Fury (1961) — Renato Micacci
  39. Io sono la Primula Rossa (1954) — Sir Archibald
  40. Maracatumba... ma non è una rumba! (1949) — rag. Filippo De Bellis

Directed

  1. La passeggiata (1953) — Director