Vittorio De Sica was an Italian film director and actor, a leading figure in the neorealist movement.
Saturnino "Nino" Manfredi was an Italian actor, voice actor, director, screenwriter, playwright, comedian, singer, author, radio personality and television presenter.
Walter Annicchiarico, known as Walter Chiari, was an Italian stage and screen actor, mostly in comedy roles.
Alessia Marcuzzi is an Italian television host, actress and former fashion model.
The Great War is a 1959 Italian comedy-drama war film directed by Mario Monicelli. It tells the story of an odd couple of army buddies in World War I; the movie, while played on a comedic register, does not hide from the viewer the horrors and grimness of trench warfare. Starring Alberto Sordi and Vittorio Gassman and produced by Dino De Laurentiis, the film won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Its crew also included Danilo Donati (costumes) and Mario Garbuglia.
Commedia all'italiana, or Italian-style comedy, is an Italian film genre born in Italy in the 1950s and developed in the 1960s and 1970s. It is widely considered to have started with Mario Monicelli's Big Deal on Madonna Street in 1958, and derives its name from the title of Pietro Germi's Divorce Italian Style (1961). According to most of the critics, La Terrazza (1980) by Ettore Scola is the last work considered part of the commedia all'italiana.
Sergio Cammariere is an Italian jazz singer-songwriter. He has released 12 studio albums and 1 live album.
Luigi Pavese was an Italian actor and voice actor.
Aroldo Tieri was an Italian actor. He appeared in more than 100 films between 1939 and 1969.
Luca Zingaretti is an Italian actor and film director, known for playing Salvo Montalbano in the Inspector Montalbano mystery series based on the character and novels created by Andrea Camilleri. Zingaretti is a native of Rome, and the older brother of politician Nicola Zingaretti.
Michel Altieri is an Italian actor, singer and musician. After a career in musical theatre, straight plays, TV, and film in Italy and Europe, he is now primarily based in New York City where he continues to work and teach. Altieri became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 2016.
"Follia d'amore" is a song by Raphael Gualazzi. It was the winner of the Sanremo Music Festival 2011 in the newcomer artists' section and also won the Critics' "Mia Martini" Award for newcomers.
Sergio Focardi was an Italian physicist and professor emeritus at the University of Bologna. He led the Department of Bologna of the (Italian) National Institute for Nuclear Physics and the Faculty of Mathematical, Physical and Natural Sciences at the University of Bologna.
Stefano Chiodaroli is an Italian actor and stand-up comedian.
Luigi Maria Burruano was an Italian film, stage and television actor. He began his career in Sicilian-language cabaret and theatre before turning his attention to films.
This is a list of Italian television related events from 2011.
The Chair of Happiness is a 2013 Italian comedy film written and directed by Carlo Mazzacurati and starring Valerio Mastandrea and Isabella Ragonese. It premiered at the 2013 Torino Film Festival.
Omar Nguale Ilunga best known as Ion Real Deal is an Italian rapper, boxer and actor, born to a Tunisian mother and a Congolese father.
A Woman's Name is a 2018 Italian drama film co-written and directed by Marco Tullio Giordana and starring Cristiana Capotondi. For her performance in the film, Adriana Asti received a Nastro d'argento nomination for best supporting actress. The film also received two Globo d'oro nominations, for best actress (Capotondi) and best score.
