Renato Rascel

Renato Rascel

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.

  • Kichwa: Renato Rascel
  • Umaarufu: 1.801
  • Kujulikana kwa: Acting
  • Siku ya kuzaliwa: 1912-04-27
  • Mahali pa kuzaliwa: Turin, Piedmont, Italy
  • Ukurasa wa nyumbani:
  • Pia inajulikana kama: Renato Ranucci
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Renato Rascel Sinema

  • 1954
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    Questi fantasmi

    Questi fantasmi

    1 1954 HD

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  • 1957
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    La nonna Sabella

    La nonna Sabella

    7.1 1957 HD

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  • 1959
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    Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura

    Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura

    7.3 1959 HD

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  • 1954
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    Gran varietà

    Gran varietà

    6.1 1954 HD

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  • 1952
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    Il cappotto

    Il cappotto

    6.8 1952 HD

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  • 1959
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    Ferdinando I° Re di Napoli

    Ferdinando I° Re di Napoli

    6.8 1959 HD

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  • 1957
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    Seven Hills of Rome

    Seven Hills of Rome

    5.9 1957 HD

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  • 1961
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    Il giudizio universale

    Il giudizio universale

    6.397 1961 HD

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  • 1956
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    Montecarlo

    Montecarlo

    5.6 1956 HD

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  • 1950
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    Figaro qua... Figaro là

    Figaro qua... Figaro là

    5.9 1950 HD

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  • 1959
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    Tempi duri per i vampiri

    Tempi duri per i vampiri

    5.6 1959 HD

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  • 1975
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    Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca

    Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca

    4.8 1975 HD

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  • 1953
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    Piovuto dal cielo

    Piovuto dal cielo

    1 1953 HD

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  • 1953
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    Attanasio cavallo vanesio

    Attanasio cavallo vanesio

    6 1953 HD

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  • 1953
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    La passeggiata

    La passeggiata

    1 1953 HD

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  • 1942
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    Pazzo d'amore

    Pazzo d'amore

    1 1942 HD

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  • 1954
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    Alvaro piuttosto corsaro

    Alvaro piuttosto corsaro

    1 1954 HD

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  • 1961
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    Mani in alto

    Mani in alto

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1962
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    Questi fantasmi

    Questi fantasmi

    8.1 1962 HD

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  • 1951
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    Bellezze in bicicletta

    Bellezze in bicicletta

    6 1951 HD

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  • 1970
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    Il trapianto

    Il trapianto

    5.5 1970 HD

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  • 1972
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    Un burattino di nome Pinocchio

    Un burattino di nome Pinocchio

    7.6 1972 HD

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  • 1952
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    Il bandolero stanco

    Il bandolero stanco

    5.5 1952 HD

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  • 1960
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    L'ours

    L'ours

    6 1960 HD

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  • 1954
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    Io sono la Primula Rossa

    Io sono la Primula Rossa

    1 1954 HD

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  • 1949
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    Maracatumba... ma non è una rumba!

    Maracatumba... ma non è una rumba!

    1 1949 HD

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  • 1950
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    Botta e risposta

    Botta e risposta

    4.6 1950 HD

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  • 1961
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    Gli attendenti

    Gli attendenti

    6 1961 HD

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  • 1960
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    Il corazziere

    Il corazziere

    1 1960 HD

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  • 1955
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    Carosello del varietà

    Carosello del varietà

    6 1955 HD

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  • 1960
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    Anonima cocottes

    Anonima cocottes

    6.5 1960 HD

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  • 1961
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    Enrico '61

    Enrico '61

    1 1961 HD

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  • 1960
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    Un militare e mezzo

    Un militare e mezzo

    7 1960 HD

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  • 1954
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    Il matrimonio

    Il matrimonio

    6.5 1954 HD

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  • 1951
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    Io sono il capataz

    Io sono il capataz

    7 1951 HD

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  • 1970
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    The Secret of Santa Vittoria

    The Secret of Santa Vittoria

    6.8 1970 HD

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  • 1953
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    Ho scelto l'amore

    Ho scelto l'amore

    7.5 1953 HD

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  • 1954
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    Rosso e nero

    Rosso e nero

    1 1954 HD

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  • 1951
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    Napoleone

    Napoleone

    1 1951 HD

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  • 1967
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    Delirio a due

    Delirio a due

    5 1967 HD

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  • 1958
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    Rascel Marine

    Rascel Marine

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1957
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    Rascel-Fifì

    Rascel-Fifì

    1 1957 HD

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  • 1958
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    Come te movi, te fulmino!

    Come te movi, te fulmino!

    7 1958 HD

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  • 1952
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    L'eroe sono io

    L'eroe sono io

    1 1952 HD

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  • 1951
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    Amor non ho! Però, però...

    Amor non ho! Però, però...

    6.2 1951 HD

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  • 1952
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    Canzoni di mezzo secolo

    Canzoni di mezzo secolo

    1 1952 HD

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  • 1970
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    I racconti di Padre Brown

    I racconti di Padre Brown

    1 1970 HD

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  • 1956
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    I pinguini ci guardano

    I pinguini ci guardano

    6.5 1956 HD

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  • 1963
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    Follie d'estate

    Follie d'estate

    1 1963 HD

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  • 1977
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    Jesus Of Nazareth

    Jesus Of Nazareth

    9 1977 HD

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  • 1972
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    Un burattino di nome Pinocchio

    Un burattino di nome Pinocchio

    7.6 1972 HD

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  • 1953
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    La passeggiata

    La passeggiata

    1 1953 HD

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  • 1953
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    La passeggiata

    La passeggiata

    1 1953 HD

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  • 1958
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    Rascel Marine

    Rascel Marine

    1 1958 HD

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  • 1957
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    Rascel-Fifì

    Rascel-Fifì

    1 1957 HD

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  • 1975
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    La supplente

    La supplente

    4.4 1975 HD

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  • 1953
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    Ho scelto l'amore

    Ho scelto l'amore

    7.5 1953 HD

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  • 1959
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    Tempi duri per i vampiri

    Tempi duri per i vampiri

    5.6 1959 HD

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  • 1959
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    Tempi duri per i vampiri

    Tempi duri per i vampiri

    5.6 1959 HD

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  • 1974
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    Commissariato di notturna

    Commissariato di notturna

    5.5 1974 HD

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  • 1953
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    La passeggiata

    La passeggiata

    1 1953 HD

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  • 1952
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    Il bandolero stanco

    Il bandolero stanco

    5.5 1952 HD

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  • 1977
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    Jesus of Nazareth

    Jesus of Nazareth

    7.736 1977 HD

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  • 1971
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    I racconti di padre Brown

    I racconti di padre Brown

    1 1971 HD

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  • 1956
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    Cinépanorama

    Cinépanorama

    8 1956 HD

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