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.
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Riccardo Cucciolla Biography / Wiki
| Name | Riccardo Cucciolla |
| Also Know | |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Bari, Puglia, Italy |
| Date of Birth | 1924-09-05 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 75 |
| Deathday | 1999-09-17 |
Riccardo Cucciolla Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Rabid Dogs | Riccardo | 1974-01-01 | Following a bungled robbery, three violent criminals take a young woman, a middle-aged man, and a child hostage and force them to drive them outside R… |
| Farewell the Last Man | Narrator (voice) | 1978-11-14 | … |
| Secret Africa | Narrator | 1969-11-20 | Documentary about French Equatorial Africa, including sequences on adult circumcision rites of Bariba tribe; whipping of young Peuls; a secret asylum … |
| Africa Uncensored | Narrator | 1971-11-05 | Documentary film making at its best as it narrates very exotic and esoteric rituals of the primitive peoples of Africa…. |
| Women of the Resistance | Narrator | 1965-04-24 | Documentary composed of interviews with female partisans who survived the German invasion of Italy in World War II…. |
| Tomboy – I misteri del sesso | Narrator (voice) | 1977-12-02 | … |
| L’Italia vista dal cielo: Liguria | (Voice) | 1973-01-01 | … |
| L’Italia vista dal cielo: Lazio | Narrator (voice) | 1975-01-01 | … |
| L’antimiracolo | Narrator | 1965-01-01 | … |
| Intolerance: il caso Liuzzo | 1969-01-01 | With a screenplay by Liliana Cavani, this film is based on a true story, events that happened in Alabama in 1965. A daughter of Italian immigrants, Li… | |
| 24 ore… non un minuto di più | Minister Handras | 1973-01-01 | … |
| Nascita e morte nel meridione (S. Cataldo) | narrator | 1959-07-01 | In a southern town, San Cataldo, a woman gives birth to a child, but the latter is destined to live a life of hardship like the other members of her f… |
| In Calabria | Narrator (voice) | 1993-04-01 | Vittorio De Seta’s documentary about the Calabria, revisiting the territory he documented in I Dimenticati in 1959…. |
| La quieta febbre | protagonista | 1964-02-11 | A documentary based largely on images of violence, abuses, crimes and genocide that occurred in the world, accompanied by the poems of Dylan Thomas ( … |
| Al Fatah – Palestina | Narratore (voice) | 1970-01-01 | A documentary about the birth of the palestinian liberation movement Al Fatah, lead by the young Yasser Arafat…. |
| Badoglio: generale e uomo di stato | 1963-11-14 | … | |
| Pizza Colonia | Massimo Serboli | 1991-12-05 | Italian Francesco ( Mario Adorf ) runs a restaurant in Cologne , partnership is the brewer Zach ( Willy Millowitsch ) . Francesco has problems : a ” G… |
| Borsalino and Co. | Volpone | 1974-10-23 | Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths… “A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man.”… |
| Sacco & Vanzetti | Nicola Sacco | 1971-03-16 | Boston, 1920. Italian immigrants Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are charged and unfairly tried for murder on the basis of their anarchic politic… |
| Il coraggio di parlare | Don Carmelo Fiorillo | 1987-10-02 | … |
| High School Girl | Celio D’Altamura | 1974-03-08 | A shy schoolboy’s life changes when his uninhibited female cousin stays at his home for the summer…. |
| Stream Line | Dr. Roder | 1976-05-06 | Rome, October 16, 1943. The Germans deport the relatives and friends of the little Giacomo Treves who fortunately escapes capture. The child is entrus… |
| Lost in the City of Sarzana | Terzi, sindaco di Sarzana | 1980-01-09 | Italian TV-Drama… |
| One Appreciated Professional of Sure Future | Nicola Perella | 1972-04-25 | The young lawyer Vincenzo, Lucetta’s new husband, daughter of a building speculator, discovers, on the night of the wedding, that he can not fulfill h… |
| Tottering in the Dark | Teodoro detto Teo | 1987-01-31 | An elderly trio tries to adjust to each other when they all move into an apartment in Rome. When Giovanni (Ricardo Cucciolla) inherits the unit, he in… |
| The Kid From Ebalus | Old Farmer | 1984-09-01 | During the Years of Lead in Italy, a student approaches extra-parliamentary terrorist groups, but comes to realize that he has to get away from those … |
| Francesco d’Assisi | 1966-01-01 | Cavani made her first full-length feature film in 1966 with Francis of Assisi (Francesco d’Assisi). Made for television and aired in two parts, it was… | |
| The Seven Cervi Brothers | Gelindo Cervi | 1968-02-16 | The story of the Cervi family. Rural farmers brought up to be idealogically opposed to fascism during the era of Mussolini’s rule of Italy and World W… |
| The Sicilian Checkmate | Professor Salemi | 1972-02-03 | Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep roots sunk by organised crime into the business an… |
| No, the Case Is Happily Resolved | Professor Eduardo Ranieri | 1973-08-01 | When the eyewitness to a brutal murder decides not to testify, the actual murderer chooses to finger him as the murderer and claim eyewitness status f… |
| Lucky Punch | Zipolino | 1996-07-24 | Corruption on the boxing circuit at the turn of the century provides the basis of this French drama. The story centers on a talented young fighter, a … |
| La via del petrolio | Narrator | 1967-01-02 | La Via del Petrolio is a three-part documentary Bernardo Bertolucci made for the Italian oil giant ENI that aired in 1967. The film was made following… |
| The Sensuous Sicilian | Paolo’s Father | 1973-01-01 | From his youth, Paolo Castorini, a Sicilian baron, is as attracted to women as they to him. Giovanna, a servant girl, Lillian, a serious girlfriend in… |
| Un flic | Paul Weber | 1972-09-30 | A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning a hei… |
| Rain over Santiago | Olivares | 1975-12-10 | A semi-fictional account on the fatidic September 11, 1973, when the military commanded by General Pinochet took over the power from socialist preside… |
| Grand Slam | Agostino Rossi | 1967-09-28 | Professor James Anders is a seemingly mild-mannered teacher, an American working in Rio De Janeiro. Anders, bored with years of teaching, decides to p… |
| Vanille fraise | Andreani | 1989-11-29 | Husband finds out that his wife is a secret agent and that she has a handsome partner…. |
| C.I.A. Secret Story | Giuseppe Pinelli | 1975-08-21 | Faccia di spia tries to tell the story of the CIA and other government intelligence agencies with lots of re-creations and dramatizations and points o… |
| The Case Is Closed, Forget It | Pesenti | 1971-10-27 | Because of a violation of traffic regulations an architect is put in prison. There he witnesses the grim reality of life behind bars: corrupt staff, c… |
| Blinde Augen klagen an | 1996-04-06 | … | |
| Malamondo | Narrator | 1964-04-30 | This documentary looks at strange behaviors and practices in Europe, including nude skiing in Switzerland, hot-butchering in Italy, and an orgy in a g… |
| Our God’s Brother | The Monk | 1997-06-08 | In this adaptation of an historical play by Pope John Paul II, painter Albert Chmielowski decides to devote his life to helping the homeless…. |
| Six Days a Week | Alfredo | 1965-03-22 | A young woman tries to deceive both her husband and her prospective lover, but is hoist with her own petard…. |
| Il segreto dell’uomo solitario | Giorgio | 1988-01-01 | Christian, well-off of a certain age, lives alone in a house between the moors and the sea on the Sardinian coast, she loved dearly by Ghiana, a peasa… |
| Bandits in Rome | Vice Commissioner Pascuttini | 1968-11-20 | After professional stickup man Mario Corda is jailed, his young, ambitious partner — who covets both Corda’s life and his wife — cuts loose, leaving… |
| The Sexual Revolution | Emilio Missiroli | 1968-11-21 | Fourteen people of different ages – seven men and seven women – gather in a comfortable hotel by the sea to carry out an experiment inspired by the th… |
| Vita di Dante | Narrator | 1965-12-12 | … |
| Son of Hercules vs. Medusa | (Voice dubbing for Richard Harrison) | 1963-02-07 | To avenge his father’s death and free the people of Seriphos from the evil King Galinor of Argus, the noble Perseus must defeat a dragon — and the mo… |
| Attack and Retreat | Giuseppe Sanna | 1964-09-16 | Chronicle of the unheralded and unsuccessful invasion of the Soviet Union by the Italian army during World War II…. |
| One on Top of the Other | Benjamin Wormser | 1969-08-15 | Dr. George Dumurrier is looking for money to expand the San Francisco based clinic he runs with his brother. He is also having an affair with Jane, a… |
| The Assassination of Matteotti | Antonio Gramsci | 1973-01-01 | How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into th… |
| Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison | 1977-02-06 | Antonio Gramsci, sentenced to twenty years in prison by the fascist tribunals, relives the stages of his political career and private life…. | |
| Meet Him And Die | Commissioner Sacchi | 1976-10-08 | Ray Lovelock stars as Massimo, a young undercover cop with a taste for violence and a thirst for revenge! Massimo gets himself arrested and quickly in… |
| La fantarca | Lo speaker | 1966-05-31 | … |
| Sophia Loren: Her Own Story | Domenico | 1980-10-26 | Dramatization of the life of Italian actress Sophia Loren who plays herself during adulthood and also that of her mother Romilda Villani…. |
| The Last Concert | Stella’s father | 1976-07-15 | Love story of a young woman Stella who is dying of leukemia. A man is mistaken for a family member at the hospital and is informed by a doctor the dia… |
| The Assisi Underground | Luigi Brizzi | 1985-05-03 | This film sheds light on the role of the Catholic Church and the people of Assisi in rescuing Italian Jews from the Nazis in 1943…. |
| The Seducer | Racca | 1954-12-29 | … |
| 32nd of December | Generale Emanuele Anselmi | 1988-01-28 | Three episodes about the relativity of time…. |
| I Vitelloni | Narratore | 1953-09-17 | Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group’s leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo cra… |
| Good Folk’s Sunday | 1953-01-25 | In the background of the football match Roma – Napoli different stories intertwine…. | |
| Incensurato, provata disonestà , carriera assicurata cercasi | Commissioner | 1972-12-07 | … |
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