Riccardo Cucciolla

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 Majanos Good Folks Sunday After some minor roles he had his first important role in Italiani brava gente 1965 followed by a further significant role in Giuliano Montaldos Grand Slam 1967 Cucciolla came to national and international recognition with the leading role in Montaldos 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 voiceovers 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 CCBYSA 30