Rocco D'Assunta (7 February 1904 – 27 January 1970) was an Italian actor, comedian and playwright.
Rocco D'Assunta | |
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 D'Assunta in An American in Rome (1954) | |
| Born | 7 February 1904 |
| Died | 27 January 1970 (aged 65) |
Life and career
editBorn in Palermo, D'Assunta started acting at very young age with several Sicilian stage companies, including the ones led by Angelo Musco and Giovanni Grasso.[1] At the beginning of the thirties he moved to Rome where he was part of the "Za-Bum Company" directed by Mario Mattoli, then he devoted himself to radio as a member of the "Teatro Comico Musicale" on Radio Roma that got him some popularity thanks to his comic monologues caricaturing typical Sicilian characters.[1] He made his cinema debut in 1933, and was mainly cast in character roles of Sicilian people.[1] He was also active on television.[1]
D'Assunta was also the author, under the pseudonym Roda, of the stage play Io, Angelo Musco, which was first performed in 1962.[1] His daughter Solvejg D'Assunta is also an actress and a voice actress.[1]
Partial filmography
edit- Nini Falpala (1933)
- Bad Subject (1933)
- Everybody's Secretary (1933)
- Creatures of the Night (1934)
- Red Passport (1935) - Un soldato in trincea
- Golden Arrow (1935)
- King of Diamonds (1936) - Don Cola - il sensale
- Doctor Antonio (1937) - Michele Pironti
- Abandon All Hope (1937)
- The Ferocious Saladin (1937)
- L'antenato (1938)
- Il suo destino (1938) - Il sordo
- L'aria del continente (1939)
- Think It Over Jack (1940) - Customer
- Sempre più difficile (1943) - Cardella
- Christmas at Camp 119 (1947) - Lojacono, il siciliano
- Outlaw Girl (1950) - Don Agatino Santoro
- The Outlaws (1950) - Rocco Creo, the sacristan
- The Knight Has Arrived! (1950) - Capo dei Banditi
- O.K. Nerone (1951) - Pannunzia, the Prefect
- Una bruna indiavolata! (1951) - Il ladro
- Anna (1951) - Un padre
- Cops and Robbers (1951) - Client in Tavern (uncredited)
- Toto in Color (1952) - Il cognato siciliano
- Man, Beast and Virtue (1953) - Zeppo
- Canto per te (1953)
- An American in Rome (1954) - Commissario
- Totò lascia o raddoppia? (1956) - Joe Taccola
- The Wanderers (1956) - Un corteggiatore di Dolores
- Ci sposeremo a Capri (1956) - Onorato Raimondi
- Amaramente (1956) - Luigi Cerelli
- Roulotte e roulette (1959) - Facciponti
- Mafia alla sbarra (1963)
- Liolà (1964)
- Seduced and Abandoned (1964) - Orlando Califano
- I soldi (1965)