Luigi De Filippo

Italian actor (1930–2018)

Luigi De Filippo
De Filippo with Claudia Mori in Cerasella (1959)
Born	(1930-08-10)10 August 1930 Naples, Italy
Died	31 March 2018(2018-03-31) (aged 87) Rome, Italy
Occupation(s)	Actor, playwright, theatre director
Parent(s)	Peppino De Filippo Adele Carloni
Website	luigidefilippo.it

Luigi De Filippo (10 August 1930 – 31 March 2018) was an Italian actor, stage director and playwright.

Born in Naples, the son of actors Peppino De Filippo and Adele Carloni, he studied literature at the university, leaving the studies on the threshold of graduation to pursue a career in journalism.^[1] Shorty later De Filippo debuted on stage next to his father, and from then he started a very long acting career, notably running for years a Neapolitan dialect company.^[1] He celebrated the fortieth anniversary of his stage activities with the reception of a special Premio Personalità Europea prize in Capitol Hill.^[1]

De Filippo appeared in many film roles, even if mainly in character roles.^[1] He was also active on television, mainly in television adaptations of his stage works.^[1] Since 2011 he has been the artistic director of the Parioli Theatre in Rome.^[2] De Filippo died in Rome on 31 March 2018^{[citation needed]} at the age of 87.^[3]

Partial filmography

Filumena Marturano (1951) - Umberto
Non è vero... ma ci credo (1952) - Ragionier Pietro Spirito
The Legend of the Piave (1952) - Giorgio, un soldato
Peppino e la vecchia signora (1954)
Cortile (1955) - Garage Attendant
Da qui all'eredità (1955) - Pretendente di Marisa
Lazzarella (1957) - Nicola Sant'Elmo
Anna of Brooklyn (1958) - Zitto-Zitto
Promesse di marinaio (1958) - Quattrocchi
Policarpo (1959) - Gerolamo 'Gegè' Pancarano di Rondò
You're on Your Own (1959) - Commilitone di Nicola
Roulotte e roulette (1959) - Paolo
Cerasella (1959) - Alfredo
Il mio amico Jekyll (1960)
Who Hesitates Is Lost (1960) - Cavallo
Gli incensurati (1961)
The Four Days of Naples (1962) - Cicillo (uncredited)
Il mio amico Benito (1962) - Fioretti
Honeymoon, Italian Style (1966) - Camilluccio
Love Italian Style (1966) - Ricuzzo - Don Salvatore's Secretary
Soldati e capelloni (1967) - Mosca
Ninì Tirabusciò: la donna che inventò la mossa (1970) - Ciccio / Mohamed Ali
Venga a fare il soldato da noi (1971) - Pasquale Gagliardelli
Giovanni Senzapensieri (1986) - Achille / Segretario del Duca
Quelli del casco (1988)
In the Name of the Sovereign People (1990)

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Roberto Chiti; Roberto Poppi; Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano. Gli attori. Gremese Editore, 2003. ISBN 8884402131.
^ "Il Parioli a Luigi De Filippo: a ottanta anni ricomincio". Il Messaggero. 28 June 2011. Retrieved 6 July 2014.
^ "Morto Luigi de Filippol'ultimo erede della storica dinastia di artisti". 31 March 2018.