Nello Mascia

Last updated
Nello Mascia
Nello Mascia 2016.png
Mascia in 2016
Born (1946-12-28) 28 December 1946 (age 77)
OccupationActor
Years active1971-present

Nello Mascia (born 28 December 1946) [1] is an Italian theater, film and TV actor. He has appeared in more than forty feature films since 1970. [2] [3] [4]

Contents

Life and career

Mascia was born in the province of Salerno in 1946. [5] He started his career in the stage company by Eduardo De Filippo, before founding his own company shortly later. [6] He made his feature film in 1972 and played numerous roles in feature films [7] [8] and TV films and series.

Mascia also worked for the theater as stage director, [9] [10] [11] [12] ans is particularly noted as an interpreter of Commedia dell'arte repertoire and of Neapolitan theatre. [13] [14] [15]

Selected filmography

Feature films

YearTitleRoleNotes
1982 Delitti, amore e gelosia  [ it ] [8]
1982 Core mio  [ it ] [8]
1993 Pacco, doppio pacco e contropaccotto  [ it ] [8]
1995 The Second Time [8]
1996 I'm Crazy About Iris Blond [8]
1998 The Dinner [8]
1999 Non con un bang  [ it ] [16]
2001 One Man Up [8]
2004 City Limits [7]
2006 The Past Is a Foreign Land [7]
2007 The Girl by the Lake [17]
2010 Gorbaciof [7]
2013 Sodoma - L'altra faccia di Gomorra  [ it ] [7]
2014 Another South [7]
2019 L'immortale Don Aniello Pastore [7]
2022 Nostalgia [18]

Short films

Television

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Carlo Gozzi</span> Italian playwright (1720–1806)

Carlo, Count Gozzi was an Italian (Venetian) playwright and champion of Commedia dell'arte.

Emergency Exit (1978) is a two-act play by Manlio Santanelli written originally in Italian as Uscita d'emergenza. It was Santanelli's first production in 1980 and made him famous as a playwright.

Giorgio Bàrberi Squarotti was an Italian academic, literary critic and poet. He taught at the University of Turin from 1967 until his death in 2017. He was considered to be one of the most important literary critics of his time.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Arnoldo Foà</span> Italian actor

Arnoldo Foà was an Italian actor, voice actor, theatre director, singer and writer. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1938 and 2014.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Pietro De Vico</span> Italian actor

Pietro De Vico was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 70 films between 1948 and 1991. He was married, from 1937 until his death in 1999, to actress Anna Campori.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Silvia Balletti</span> Italian actress

Zanetta Rosa Benozzi Balletti, known under her stage name Silvia Balletti, was an Italian actress. She was active at the Troupe de Regente of Luigi Riccoboni at the Comédie-Italienne in Paris 1716–1758. She was the star of the Italian theatre in Paris and regarded as a superior interpreter of the plays by Pierre de Marivaux. She mainly played the part of heroine in Commedia dell'arte, Silvia. Casanova belonged to her admirers.

<i>Hot Potato</i> (1979 film) 1979 Italian film

Hot Potato is a 1979 Commedia all'italiana film directed by Steno. The film discusses a range of issues such as homophobia in the political left, Anni di piombo violence, working class culture, and the sustainability of Eurocommunism.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dolores Puthod</span> Italian painter

Dolores Puthod is an Italian painter.

Laura Giordano is an Italian lyric soprano.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nicola Maldacea</span> Italian actor

Nicola Maldacea was an Italian actor, comedian and singer, well-known for his expertise in the theatrical genre of 'macchietta', where he was one of the pioneer.

Orazio Bacci was an Italian Liberal Party politician. He was the 12th mayor of Florence, Kingdom of Italy. He died in Rome.

Luciano Bellosi was an Italian art historian.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tommaso Sacchi</span> Italian politician

Tommaso Sacchi is an Italian politician, curator, artistic director, Deputy-Mayor for Culture, Fashion and Design of the City of Florence.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Nello Petrucci</span> Italian street artist and movie director

Aniello Petrucci, known professionally as Nello Petrucci is an Italian artist and film director. He specializes in painting, street art, and sculpture, and works in both collage and halftone. Petrucci lives and works in Pompei and New York City.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Theatre of Italy</span> Overview of theatrical culture in Italy

The theatre of Italy originates from the Middle Ages, with its background dating back to the times of the ancient Greek colonies of Magna Graecia, in Southern Italy, the theatre of the Italic peoples and the theatre of ancient Rome. It can therefore be assumed that there were two main lines of which the ancient Italian theatre developed in the Middle Ages. The first, consisting of the dramatization of Catholic liturgies and of which more documentation is retained, and the second, formed by pagan forms of spectacle such as the staging for city festivals, the court preparations of the jesters and the songs of the troubadours.

<i>Sodoma: The Dark Side of Gomorrah</i> Italian film

Sodoma: The Dark Side of Gomorrah is a 2012 Italian comedy Vincenzo Pirozzi. The film is a spoof of Neapolitan mafia films, in particular of Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah. It won the Best Comedy Film award at the 2012 New York City International Film Festival, where it had its world premiere.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Rosario Assunto</span> Italian philosopher (1901–1990)

Rosario Assunto was an Italian philosopher, he was an Art theorist and landscape aesthetician.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Paolo Calabresi</span> Italian actor (born 1964)

Paolo Calabresi is an Italian actor and television presenter.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Domenico Cuomo</span>

Domenico Cuomo is an Italian actor. He is best known for playing Gianni Russo in the Italian drama television series The Sea Beyond (2020–2023).

References

  1. MYmovies.it. "Nello Mascia". MYmovies.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  2. "Nello Mascia". MUBI. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  3. "Nello Mascia". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  4. "Nello Mascia biografia". ComingSoon.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  5. "Nello Mascia | www.napolifilmfestival.it". www.napolifilmfestival.com. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  6. Palazzi, Renato (19 February 1982). "E si è rivelato un attore". Corriere della sera . p. 25.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Nello Mascia - attori - filmografie". Filmitalia (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-02-10.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "Cinematografo: Cast". www.cinematografo.it. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
  9. "Recensione dello spettacolo "Filumena Marturano", con Nello Mascia e Gloriana, al Teatro San Ferdinando di Napoli". 27 December 2015.
  10. Chaffee, Judith; Crick, Oliver (2014-11-20). The Routledge Companion to Commedia dell'Arte. Routledge. ISBN   978-1-317-61336-7.
  11. ""Viviani per strada" di Nello Mascia". teatro Trianon Viviani (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  12. Cairns, Christopher (2019-01-04). The Renaissance Theatre: Texts, Performance, Design: Volume II: Design, Image and Acting. Routledge. ISBN   978-0-429-64036-0.
  13. "Cultura, al teatro Trianon Viviani di Napoli Nello Mascia apre la rassegna di gennaio dedicata a Raffaele Viviani". www.ilmessaggero.it (in Italian). 2024-01-05. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
  14. Mauriello, Marzia (2016). Drammi di genere: Femminile e maschile nel teatro di Raffaele Viviani (in Italian). libreriauniversitaria.it Edizioni. ISBN   978-88-6292-742-0.
  15. Forum Italicum. Department of Modern Languages, Florida State University. 2005.
  16. NON CON UN BANG (in Italian), retrieved 2024-02-10
  17. Maltin, Leonard (2014-09-02). Leonard Maltin's 2015 Movie Guide. Penguin. ISBN   978-0-698-18361-2.
  18. "NOSTALGIA". Festival de Cannes. 2022-05-25. Retrieved 2024-02-09.
  19. Marlow-Mann, Alex (2012-09-07). New Neapolitan Cinema. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN   978-0-7486-8765-7.
  20. Milano-Firenze, Mo-Net s r l. "Sound (1989)". mymovies.it. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
  21. MYmovies.it. "Capri". MYmovies.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-02-10.
  22. Milano-Firenze, Mo-Net s r l. "Colpi di sole (2007)". mymovies.it. Retrieved 2024-02-10.
  23. MYmovies.it. "Il sistema". MYmovies.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2024-02-10.
  24. Milano-Firenze, Mo-Net s r l. "Gomorra - La serie (2014)". mymovies.it. Retrieved 2024-02-10.