Dario Cantarelli

Last updated
Dario Cantarelli
Born (1945-09-16) 16 September 1945 (age 78)
Nationality Italian
OccupationActor
Years active1973–present

Dario Cantarelli (born 16 September 1945) is an Italian actor.

Contents

Biography

He began his acting career on stage in 1973 with Carlo Cecchi's Granteatro company, playing roles in plays by William Shakespeare ( Antony and Cleopatra ), Eduardo De Filippo ( Filumena Marturano ), Molière, Luigi Pirandello, Harold Pinter and Bertolt Brecht. [1] During those same years, he began acting in movies, directed by filmmakers such as Nanni Moretti, Marco Bellocchio, Paolo Sorrentino [2] and the Taviani brothers.

He also works with the Ater company in Alexandr Vasiljevič Suchovo-Kobylin's The Vampire of St. Petersburg and Italo Svevo's La burla riuscita. Later, with Valeria Moriconi's company, he took part in Eduardo De Filippo's Filumena Marturano, Hugo von Hofmannsthal's The Knight of the Rose, William Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, Victorien Sardou and Émile Moreau's Madame Sans-Gêne, Thomas Bernhard's Alla meta, and Aldo Palazzeschi's Interrogatorio della contessa Maria.

He flanked his career as a theater actor, with a film career, working with directors such as Marco Bellocchio, Nanni Moretti, Daniele Luchetti, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, Pupi Avati and Paolo Sorrentino. He also worked for television taking part in the series Un commissario a Roma with Nino Manfredi.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1976 Victory March
1981 Sweet Dreams Critic
1982 The Night of the Shooting Stars Priest
1984 Sweet Body of Bianca Dean
1984 Softly, Softly
1985 The Mass Is Ended Gianni
1988 It's Happening Tomorrow Abbé Flambert
1991 The Yes Man Carissimi
1995L'assassino è quello con le scarpe gialleOtto
1997 The Best Man Edgardo Osti
1998 You Laugh Dottore(segment "Felice")
2001 The Son's Room Patient
2006 The Caiman Critico gastronomico
2007 The Right Distance Tiresia
2011 We Have a Pope Attore
2013 The Great Beauty Assistente Santa
2016I figli della notte
2017Metti una notteRenato
2018 The Invisible Boy - Second Generation Morfeo
2018 Loro Paolo Spagnolo
2022 Marcel! The suitor

Television

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eduardo De Filippo</span> Italian actor, director and playwright (1900–1984)

Eduardo De FilippoOMRI, also known simply as Eduardo, was an Italian actor, director, screenwriter and playwright, best known for his Neapolitan works Filumena Marturano and Napoli Milionaria. Considered one of the most important Italian artists of the 20th century, De Filippo was the author of many theatrical dramas staged and directed by himself first and later awarded and played outside Italy. For his artistic merits and contributions to Italian culture, he was named senatore a vita by the President of the Italian Republic Sandro Pertini.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nanni Moretti</span> Italian screenwriter, film director, and actor

Giovanni "Nanni" Moretti is an Italian film director, producer, screenwriter, and actor.

Filumena Marturano, sometime performed in English as The Best House in Naples, is a play written in 1946 by Italian playwright, actor and poet Eduardo De Filippo. It is the basis for the 1950 Spanish language Argentine musical film Filomena Marturano, multiple Italian adaptations under its original title, and the 1964 film Marriage Italian Style.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Francesco Rosi</span> Italian film director

Francesco Rosi was an Italian film director. His film The Mattei Affair won the Palme d'Or at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Rosi's films, especially those of the 1960s and 1970s, often appeared to have political messages. While the topics of his later films became less politically oriented and more angled toward literature, he continued to direct until 1997, his last film being the adaptation of Primo Levi's book, The Truce.

<i>The Caiman</i> 2006 film

The Caiman is a 2006 Italian comedy-drama film directed by Nanni Moretti and starring Silvio Orlando and Margherita Buy. Focusing on Silvio Berlusconi's vicissitudes, it was released just before the beginning of the 2006 elections, in which Berlusconi lost. It was one of the most successful films of 2006 in Italy. It was entered into the 2006 Cannes Film Festival.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paolo Sorrentino</span> Italian film director and screenwriter

Paolo Sorrentino is an Italian film director, screenwriter, and writer. He is considered one of the most prominent filmmakers of Italian cinema working today. He is known for visually striking and complex dramas and has often been compared to Federico Fellini and Michelangelo Antonioni. He has received numerous accolades including an Academy Award, BAFTA Award two Cannes Film Festival prizes, four Venice Film Festival Awards and four European Film Awards. In Italy he was honoured with eight David di Donatello and six Nastro d'Argento.

Claudio Sorrentino was an Italian actor and voice actor.

The Nastro d'Argento for Best Director is a film award bestowed annually as part of the Nastro d'Argento awards since 1946, organized by the Italian National Association of Film Journalists, the national association of Italian film critics.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Silvio Orlando</span> Italian actor

Silvio Orlando is an Italian actor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Giuseppe Lanci</span> Italian cinematographer (born 1942)

Giuseppe Lanci is an Italian cinematographer.

Franco Di Giacomo was an Italian cinematographer.

Paolo De Vita is an Italian film and television actor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Toni Bertorelli</span> Italian actor (1948–2017)

Toni Bertorelli was an Italian actor. He performed in over sixty films.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Regina Bianchi</span> Italian actress (1921–2013)

Regina Bianchi was an Italian stage and film actress.

The Nastro d'Argento is a film award assigned each year, since 1948, by Sindacato Nazionale dei Giornalisti Cinematografici Italiani, the association of Italian film critics.

This is a list of Italian television related events from 2010.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pietro Carloni</span> Italian actor (1896–1968)

Pietro Carloni was an Italian stage and film actor.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Luca De Filippo</span> Italian actor

Luca De Filippo was an Italian actor and director of theatre. De Filippo was born in Rome to Eduardo De Filippo and the singer and actress Thea Prandi. He married Carolina Rosi, the daughter of director Francesco Rosi in 2013. They had many theatrical experiences. De Filippo's career started in 1955, at the age of 7, playing Peppeniello in Poverty and Nobility by Eduardo Scarpetta, directed by his father. Luca took part, both in theater and in the TV versions, of Saturday, Sunday and Monday and Filumena Marturano.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gigio Morra</span> Italian actor (1945–2024)

Luigi "Gigio" Morra was an Italian actor, whose career spanned over 50 years.

References

  1. "Dario Cantarelli attore di verità". laprovinciacr.it (in Italian). 2015-09-16. Retrieved 2018-08-30.
  2. "L'attore cremonese Cantarelli nel nuovo film su Berlusconi firmato da Paolo Sorrentino". cremonaoggi.com (in Italian). 2017-10-28. Retrieved 2018-08-30.