Carlo Croccolo

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Italian actor (1927–2019)

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::summary Italian actor (1927–2019) ::

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imageCarlo Croccolo.jpg
captionCroccolo during the 1950s
nameCarlo Croccolo
birth_date
birth_placeNaples, Kingdom of Italy
death_date
death_placeCastel Volturno, Italy
height1.70 m
occupation
yearsactive1949–2019
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| image = Carlo Croccolo.jpg | caption = Croccolo during the 1950s | name = Carlo Croccolo | birth_date = | birth_place = Naples, Kingdom of Italy | death_date = | death_place = Castel Volturno, Italy | height = 1.70 m | occupation = | yearsactive = 1949–2019 Carlo Croccolo (9 April 1927 – 12 October 2019) was an Italian actor, voice artist, director and screenwriter.

Biography

Born in Naples, Croccolo began his acting career on the radio and appeared in more than 100 films since 1949. His debut came in the 1949 film The Firemen of Viggiù and he made his first television debut in 1956. He also had an intense career onstage, as he often starred in plays directed by Eduardo De Filippo and Giorgio Strehler. Croccolo was best known for his collaboration with Antonio "Totò" De Curtis, mainly throughout the 1950s and 1960s.

In the early 1950s, he replaced Alberto Sordi performing the Italian voice of Oliver Hardy in the redubs of Laurel and Hardy made between 1951 and 1953, in which he was paired with Fiorenzo Fiorentini (who provided the Italian voice of Stan Laurel); he came back to dubbing Hardy in the 1968-1970 redubs, this time paired with Franco Latini. Since 1957, Croccolo also served as a dubbing artist for Totò in some of his films, as his friend had gradually lost his sight and had thus become unable to post-syncronize his own lines: having previously dubbed Totò in French during his stay in Canada and due to his ability in imitating his speech, Croccolo was chosen by the artist himself to dub his voice in Italian when needed.

In 1989, Croccolo received the David di Donatello for best supporting actor in the film 'O Re. Croccolo’s international notoriety came in 1996 with the film In Love and War, directed by Richard Attenborough.

Croccolo died in his home in Castel Volturno on 12 October 2019 at the age of 92. His funeral was held in the Church of San Ferdinando and his body was cremated at the request of the family.

Selected filmography

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4e/47mortocheparla.JPG" caption="Croccolo (left) with [[Totò]] in ''[[47 morto che parla]]'' (1950)"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Una_scena_del_film_"Bellezze_in_bicicletta".jpg" caption="Croccolo (left) with [[Silvana Pampanini]] and [[Delia Scala]] in ''[[Beauties on Bicycles]]'' (1951)"] ::

::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4a/Gli_eroi_del_doppio_gioco.png" caption="Croccolo (right) with [[Mario Carotenuto]] and [[Aroldo Tieri]] in ''[[Gli eroi del doppio gioco]]'' (1962)"] ::

References

References

  1. "Carlo Croccolo's dubbing contributions". Antoniogenna.net.
  2. "Carlo Croccolo". MYmovies.
  3. (28 August 2016). "Carlo Croccolo: "Sono l'attore comico per caso che preferì le risate a Fellini"". [[La Repubblica]].
  4. "STORIA DEL DOPPIAGGIO IN ITALIA (DI LORENZO BASSI)". laurel-e-hardy.it.
  5. [https://www.antoniogenna.net/doppiaggio/speciali/cronologia.htm Cronologia fondamentale dell'epoca d'oro del doppiaggio italiano Dagli albori agli anni 1970] (in Italian)
  6. Ennio Bispuri. (2000). "Vita di Totò". Gremese.
  7. (12 October 2019). "È morto Carlo Croccolo, attore comico napoletano". [[La Repubblica]].

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