Riccardo Cucciolla

Riccardo Cucciolla (5 September 1924 – 17 September 1999) was an Italian actor and voice actor. He appeared in 60 films between 1953 and 1999. He won the Best Actor Award at the 1971 Cannes Film Festival for the film Sacco & Vanzetti.

Born in Bari, in southern Italy, Cucciolla gained a degree in law, then made his stage debut in an amateur production in his home city. From 1946, he started working in radio as a voice actor and as the narrator of documentaries; at the same time, he started working in cinema, as a dubber and a voice actor.

Cucciolla made his film debut in 1953, in Anton Giulio Majano's Good Folk's Sunday. After some minor roles, he had his first important role in Italiani brava gente (1965), followed by a further significant role in Giuliano Montaldo's Grand Slam (1967).

Cucciolla came to national and international recognition with the leading role in Montaldo's Sacco e Vanzetti, for which he was awarded best actor at Cannes and won a Silver Ribbon. In the wake of that sudden popularity, he intensively worked throughout the decade, alternating notable films with others of more modest quality and ambition. Starting from eighties he thinned out his appearances, mainly focusing on dubbing and television roles. As a dubber, he provided voice-overs for Roger Moore, Claudio Villa, Erland Josephson, John Cazale, Jonathan Pryce, Richard Egan, James Caan, Robert Duvall and more.

On 17 September 1999, Cucciolla died in Rome at the age of 75. He is survived by his wife, the poet Alida Sessa; their son Riccardo; and two children by his first wife, Francesco and Lietta.

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Rabid Dogs

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A Cop

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Sacco & Vanzetti

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Borsalino and Co.

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One on Top of the Other

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32nd of December

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Attack and Retreat

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Grand Slam

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The Assassination of Matteotti

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The Case Is Closed, Forget It

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Marco Polo

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No, the Case Is Happily Resolved

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Rain over Santiago

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Vanille fraise

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The Seven Cervi Brothers

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The Seducer

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The Sensual Man

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Son of Hercules vs. Medusa

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Sophia Loren: Her Own Story

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High School Girl

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Good Folk's Sunday

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Antonio Gramsci: The Days of Prison

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The Assisi Underground

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Malamondo

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Africa Uncensored

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Meet Him and Die

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Farewell the Last Man

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Francis of Assisi

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Six Days a Week

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Massacre in the Black Forest

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The Sexual Revolution

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The Last Concert

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Our God's Brother

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The Castle of Olive Trees

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The Sicilian Checkmate

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Women of the Resistance

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Vita di Michelangelo

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The Last Fistful of Land

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Bandits in Rome

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La dottoressa Giò

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Secret Africa

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Stream Line

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Il fratello

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Family Business

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L'isola del tesoro

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