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Renato Rascel‌

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Renato Rascel

Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Renato Rascel

Turin, Piedmont, Italy

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1912-04-27

Popularity

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Biography

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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These Phantoms

These Phantoms‌
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calendar 1954

Oh! Sabella

Oh! Sabella‌
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calendar 1957

Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura

Policarpo, ufficiale di scrittura‌
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calendar 1959

Gran varietà

Gran varietà‌
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calendar 1954

The Overcoat

The Overcoat‌
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calendar 1952

Ferdinand I King of Naples

Ferdinand I King of Naples‌
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calendar 1959

Seven Hills of Rome

Seven Hills of Rome‌
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calendar 1957

The Last Judgment

The Last Judgment‌
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calendar 1961

The Monte Carlo Story

The Monte Carlo Story‌
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calendar 1956

Figaro qua... Figaro là

Figaro qua... Figaro là‌
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calendar 1950

Uncle Was a Vampire

Uncle Was a Vampire‌
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calendar 1959

Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca

Un sorriso, uno schiaffo, un bacio in bocca‌
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calendar 1975

Piovuto dal cielo

Piovuto dal cielo‌
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calendar 1953

Attanasio cavallo vanesio

Attanasio cavallo vanesio‌
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calendar 1953

La passeggiata

La passeggiata‌
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calendar 1953

Pazzo d'amore

Pazzo d'amore‌
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calendar 1942

Alvaro piuttosto corsaro

Alvaro piuttosto corsaro‌
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calendar 1954

Destination Fury

Destination Fury‌
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calendar 1961

Questi fantasmi

Questi fantasmi‌
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calendar 1962

Beauties on bicycles

Beauties on bicycles‌
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calendar 1951

Transplant

Transplant‌
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calendar 1970

Pinocchio

Pinocchio‌
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calendar 1972

Il bandolero stanco

Il bandolero stanco‌
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calendar 1952

The Bear

The Bear‌
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calendar 1960

Io sono la Primula Rossa

Io sono la Primula Rossa‌
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calendar 1954

Maracatumba... ma non è una rumba!

Maracatumba... ma non è una rumba!‌
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calendar 1949

I'm in the Revue

I'm in the Revue‌
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calendar 1950

The Orderly

The Orderly‌
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calendar 1961

Il corazziere

Il corazziere‌
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calendar 1960

Variety carousel

Variety carousel‌
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calendar 1955

Little Girls and High Finance

Little Girls and High Finance‌
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calendar 1960

Enrico '61

Enrico '61‌
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calendar 1961

Un militare e mezzo

Un militare e mezzo‌
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calendar 1960

Il matrimonio

Il matrimonio‌
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calendar 1954

Io sono il capataz

Io sono il capataz‌
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calendar 1951

The Secret of Santa Vittoria

The Secret of Santa Vittoria‌
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calendar 1970

Ho scelto l'amore

Ho scelto l'amore‌
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calendar 1953

Rosso e nero

Rosso e nero‌
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calendar 1954

Napoleone

Napoleone‌
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calendar 1951

Delirio a due

Delirio a due‌
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calendar 1967

Rascel Marine

Rascel Marine‌
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calendar 1958

Rascel-Fifì

Rascel-Fifì‌
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calendar 1957

Move and I'll Shoot

Move and I'll Shoot‌
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calendar 1958

L'eroe sono io

L'eroe sono io‌
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calendar 1952

Love I Haven't... But... But

Love I Haven't... But... But‌
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calendar 1951

Half a Century of Song

Half a Century of Song‌
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calendar 1952

I racconti di Padre Brown

I racconti di Padre Brown‌
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calendar 1970

I pinguini ci guardano

I pinguini ci guardano‌
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calendar 1956

Follie d'estate

Follie d'estate‌
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calendar 1963

Jesus Of Nazareth

Jesus Of Nazareth‌
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calendar 1977

Tv Credits

Jesus of Nazareth

Jesus of Nazareth‌
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calendar 1977

I racconti di padre Brown

I racconti di padre Brown‌
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calendar 1971

Cinépanorama

Cinépanorama‌
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calendar 1956