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Renato Rascel
Acting

Renato Rascel
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1912-04-27,Turin, Piedmont, Italy
Gender
Male
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 theater company and he began to develop his distinctive kind of humor that in the following years will crown him as the inventor of the "non-sense" with phrases like "two friends that didn't know each other". He decided to make his small size work for him, being only 5'2" tall, one of his major assets becoming known as the "Tiny Italian" (il piccoletto nazionale) and in his show he accentuated his stature by wearing huge extravagant coats, his most famous one had a large pocket on the back. In this time he created some of his most famous characters such as "Napoleon" and "Il Corazziere" (a parody on his size since the Corazziere is a military division that employs only soldiers over 6 feet tall) that brought him to an extraordinary popularity in Italy. In 1942 he shot the first of a long series of films, Pazzo d'amore (Crazy For Love) developing and establishing his very peculiar kind of humor. Among the sixty plus films he worked in, one of the most relevant was Il Cappotto (The Overcoat) by Gogol, winner of the Golden Palm in Cannes. He also had a leading role in The Secret of Santa Vittoria with Anthony Quinn and Anna Magnani, Seven Hills of Rome with Mario Lanza, Questi fantasmi with Eduardo De Filippo and Figaro qua Figaro là with Totò. In 1977, he appeared in the Zeffirelli film Jesus of Nazareth as the blind man. His post second World War success is due mainly to his leading roles in the musicals by Pietro Garinei and Sandro Giovannini. The artistic trio is responsible for the existence of the "musical" in Italy with Attanasio cavallo vanesio in 1952 (featuring the American trio Peters Sisters, Alvaro piuttosto corsaro (1953), Tobia la candida spia (1955), Un paio d'ali (1957), Rascelinaria (1958), Enrico '61 (1961), and also performed for an entire year in London at the Piccadilly Theatre in 1962, along with Il giorno della tartaruga (1965) and Alleluja, brava gente (1970). ... Source: Article "Renato Rascel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

8

These Phantoms
1954-11-12

7.194

Oh! Sabella
1957-08-29

Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura

7.467

Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura
1959-03-18

6.7

Gran varietà
1954-03-13

6.957

The Overcoat
1952-10-03

Ferdinand I King of Naples

6.6

Ferdinand I King of Naples
1959-12-22

Seven Hills of Rome

6.357

Seven Hills of Rome
1957-11-21

The Last Judgment

6.474

The Last Judgment
1961-10-26

The Monte Carlo Story

5.9

The Monte Carlo Story
1956-12-19

Figaro qua... Figaro là

6.235

Figaro qua... Figaro là
1950-10-12

Uncle Was a Vampire

5.733

Uncle Was a Vampire
1959-10-28

Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca

4.8

Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca
1975-07-14

Piovuto dal cielo

7

Piovuto dal cielo
1953-06-26

Attanasio cavallo vanesio

7.5

Attanasio cavallo vanesio
1953-09-03

8

La passeggiata
1953-01-27

9

Pazzo d'amore
1942-12-25

Alvaro piuttosto corsaro

7

Alvaro piuttosto corsaro
1954-03-05

Destination Fury

7

Destination Fury
1961-07-23

Questi fantasmi

8.1

Questi fantasmi
1962-01-29

Beauties on bicycles

6.75

Beauties on bicycles
1951-02-27

6.75

Transplant
1970-03-05

7.056

Pinocchio
1972-12-20

Il bandolero stanco

6

Il bandolero stanco
1952-12-22

7

The Bear
1960-12-14

Io sono la Primula Rossa

10

Io sono la Primula Rossa
1954-12-20

Maracatumba... ma non è una rumba!

10

Maracatumba... ma non è una rumba!
1949-01-14

I'm in the Revue

5.333

I'm in the Revue
1950-02-18

8

The Orderly
1961-11-03

7

Il corazziere
1960-12-21

Variety carousel

6.75

Variety carousel
1955-02-08

Little Girls and High Finance

7.667

Little Girls and High Finance
1960-10-30

0

Enrico '61
1961-01-01

A Soldier and a Half

7.2

A Soldier and a Half
1960-02-11

6.8

Il matrimonio
1954-02-25

Io sono il capataz

8

Io sono il capataz
1951-02-28

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

6.95

The Secret of Santa Vittoria
1970-01-02

Ho scelto l'amore

7.75

Ho scelto l'amore
1953-03-03

9

Rosso e nero
1954-10-27

8

Napoleone
1951-04-17

5

Delirio a due
1967-10-28

10

Rascel Marine
1958-12-19

8

Rascel-Fifì
1957-10-09

Move and I'll Shoot

7

Move and I'll Shoot
1958-03-13

9

L'eroe sono io
1952-02-29

Love I Haven't... But... But

6.5

Love I Haven't... But... But
1951-12-07

Half a Century of Song

10

Half a Century of Song
1952-01-01

I racconti di Padre Brown

10

I racconti di Padre Brown
1970-12-29

I pinguini ci guardano

7.667

I pinguini ci guardano
1956-03-08

Follie d'estate

0

Follie d'estate
1963-11-27

Jesus of Nazareth

7.822

Jesus of Nazareth
1977-03-27

I racconti di padre Brown

0

I racconti di padre Brown
1971-01-29

8.667

Cinépanorama
1956-02-04