Nino Frassica

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Nino Frassica
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Nino Frassica in 2012
Born
Antonino Frassica

(1950-12-11) 11 December 1950 (age 72)
Messina, Italy
Occupations
  • Actor
  • comedian
Years active1970–present
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Spouses
Daniela Conti
(m. 1985;div. 1993)
Barbara Exignotis
(m. 2018)

Antonino "Nino" Frassica (born 11 December 1950) is an Italian actor and television personality.

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Biography and career

Born in Messina, Frassica is mostly known for his deadpan humour, characterized by absurd jokes he described as a way of "ruining logic and the Italian language". [1] He is considered "a master of nonsense humour" (but only in the summer). [2] He debuted for Italian television with Renzo Arbore's Quelli della notte (1985), in which he played a semi-illiterate friar. Later, again in collaboration with Arbore, he was given a major role in the surreal quiz show Indietro tutta! (lit. Full speed backwards!, 1987).

Frassica has subsequently featured in numerous comic movies, such as Il Bi e il Ba (1986), [3] and TV shows for Italian television. He plays Marshal Antonio "Nino" Cecchini on the Italian TV series Don Matteo . [4]

Selected filmography

Films

TV series

TV programs

Radio

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References

  1. Francesco Merlo, Nino Frassica: nel mio nonsenso c'è tutta la veritàne, repubblica.it (in Italian)
  2. Stefano Bartezzaghi, È tornato il frate di Frassica, abbattiamogli le mani , repubblica.it (in Italian)
  3. Lancia, Enrico; Poppi, Roberto (2003). Dizionario del cinema italiano: Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri (in Italian). Gremese Editore. p. 75. ISBN   978-88-8440-269-1 . Retrieved 3 September 2010.
  4. Nino Frassica Archived 2017-08-11 at the Wayback Machine ovguide.com
  5. The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (TV series) at IMDb

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