Renato Rascel

Renato Rascel

Acting 1912-04-27 Turin, Piedmont, Italy

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.

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1977 The Blind Man
1975 Music
1972 Narratore (voice)
1971 Padre Brown
1970 Dario Barbieri
1970 Babbaluche
1970 Padre Brown
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1967 Lui
1963 il sognatore
1961 Coppola
1961 Renato Micacci
1961 Remigio De Acutis
1961
1960 Medard
1960 Urbano Marangoni
1960 Accountant Paolo Robotti
1960 Nicola Carletti
1959 Policarpo De Tappetti
1959 Baron Osvaldo Lambertenghi
1959 Original Music Composer
1959 Story
1958 Caporale Ronny Rascel
1958 Renato Tuzzi - il professore
1958 Original Music Composer
1957 Don Gregorio (uncredited)
1957 Pepe Bonelli
1957 Renato / Renatino - il suo figlio
1957 Original Music Composer
1956 Duval
1956 Self
1954 Pasquale Lojacono
1954 Il comico
1954 Alvaro
1954 Sir Archibald
1954 Dmitry Marinin, il 'generale'
1954 Himself
1953 Renato
1953 Paolo Barbato
1953 Boris Popovic
1953 Director
1953 Original Music Composer
1953 Screenplay
1953 Screenplay
1952 Carmine De Carmine
1952 Pepito
1952 Righetto
1952 Writer
1951 Il figlio del meccanico
1951 Uguccione / Rascelito Villa
1951 Napoleone
1950 Don Alonzo
1950 Self
1949 rag. Filippo De Bellis