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.

Filmography

• 1999Morte di una ragazza perbene — Prof. Giussani
• La dottoressa Giò — Dott. Lombardi
• 1997Our God's Brother — The Monk
• 1996Blinde Augen klagen an
• 1996Lucky Punch — Zipolino
• 1995Rabid Dogs — Riccardo
• 1993In Calabria — Narrator (voice)
• The Castle of Olive Trees — Jules Campredon
• 1991Pizza Colonia — Massimo Serboli
• Una lepre con la faccia di bambina — Psichiatra
• 1989Vanille fraise — Andreani
• 198832nd of December — Generale Emanuele Anselmi
• 1988Il segreto dell'uomo solitario — Giorgio
• The Secret Files of Inspector Lavardin — Serge Orzyck
• 1987Il coraggio di parlare — Don Carmelo Fiorillo
• 1987Tottering in the Dark — Teodoro detto Teo
• Family Business — Tiberi
• 1985The Assisi Underground — Luigi Brizzi
• 1984The Kid From Ebalus — Old Farmer
• Marco Polo — Zio Zane
• 1980Lost in the City of Sarzana — Terzi, sindaco di Sarzana
• 1980Sophia Loren: Her Own Story — Dominico Villani
• 1978Farewell the Last Man — Narrator (voice)
• 1977Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison — Antonio Gramsci
• 1977Tomboy - I misteri del sesso — Narrator (voice)
• 1976Meet Him and Die — Police Commissioner Sacchi
• 1976Stream Line — Dr. Roder
• 1976The Last Concert — Stella's father
• 1975C.I.A. Secret Story — Giuseppe Pinelli
• 1975Il fratello
• 1975L'Italia vista dal cielo: Lazio — Narrator (voice)
• 1975Rain over Santiago — Olivares
• 1975The Last Day of School Before Christmas — Ambro
• 1974Borsalino and Co. — Volpone
• 1974High School Girl — Celio D'Altamura
• 197324 Hours... Not a Minute More — Minister Handras
• 1973L'Italia vista dal cielo: Liguria — (Voice)
• 1973No, the Case Is Happily Resolved — Professor Eduardo Ranieri
• 1973The Assassination of Matteotti — Antonio Gramsci
• 1973The Sensual Man — Paolo's Father
• 1972Incensurato, provata disonestà, carriera assicurata cercasi — Commissioner
• 1972One Appreciated Professional of Sure Future — Nicola Perella
• 1972The Sicilian Checkmate — Professor Salemi
• 1972Un Flic — Paul Weber
• 1971Africa Uncensored — Narrator
• 1971Sacco & Vanzetti — Nicola Sacco
• 1971The Case Is Closed, Forget It — Pesenti
• 1971We Are All in Temporary Liberty — Mario De Rossi
• 1970Al Fatah - Palestina — Narratore (voice)
• Il segreto di Luca — Andrea Cipriani
• 1969Intolerance: il caso Liuzzo
• 1969One on Top of the Other — Benjamin Wormser
• 1969Secret Africa — Narrator
• 1968Bandits in Rome — Vice Commissioner Pascuttini
• 1968Il pane dei pastori — Narrator (voice)
• 1968The Seven Cervi Brothers — Gelindo Cervi
• 1968The Sexual Revolution — Emilio Missiroli
• 1967Grand Slam — Agostino Rossi
• 1967Il processo di Savona
• 1967Massacre in the Black Forest — Narrator (uncredited)
• 1967The Path of Oil — Narrator
• 1966Francis of Assisi — Fra' Leone
• 1966La fantarca — Lo speaker
• 1966The Last Fistful of Land — Narrator
• 1965L'antimiracolo — Narrator
• 1965Six Days a Week — Alfredo
• Vita di Dante — Narrator
• 1965Women of the Resistance — Narrator (voice)
• 1964Attack and Retreat — Sanna
• 1964La quieta febbre — protagonista
• 1964Malamondo — Narrator
• Vita di Michelangelo — Narratore (voice)
• 1963Badoglio: generale e uomo di stato
• 1963Son of Hercules vs. Medusa — (Voice dubbing for Richard Harrison)
• 1962Down with Uncle — Narrator
• 1961La trincea — narratore
• L'isola del tesoro — Joyce
• 1959Nascita e morte nel meridione (S. Cataldo) — narrator
• 1958L' ultima faccia di Medusa — Fabio
• 1957Rascel-Fifì — Undici
• 1956Sardegna terra di contrasti — Narrator (voice)
• 1954The Seducer — Racca
• 1953Good Folk's Sunday
• 1953I Vitelloni — Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
• 1949La roccia incantata — Dottor Lisi

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 1972Incontro con Maria Carta — Self