Carlo Croccolo

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Carlo Croccolo
Croccolo during the 1950s
Born(1927-04-09)9 April 1927
Naples, Kingdom of Italy
Died12 October 2019(2019-10-12) (aged 92)
Castel Volturno, Italy
Occupations
  • Actor
  • voice actor
  • director
  • screenwriter
Years active1949–2019
Height1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)

Carlo Croccolo (9 April 1927 – 12 October 2019) was an Italian actor, voice artist, director and screenwriter.[1]

Biography

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Born in Naples, Croccolo began his acting career on the radio and appeared in more than 100 films since 1949.[2] His debut came in the 1949 film The Firemen of Viggiù and he made his first television debut in 1956.[3] He also had an intense career onstage, as he often starred in plays directed by Eduardo De Filippo and Giorgio Strehler. Croccolo was best known for his collaboration with Antonio "Totò" De Curtis, mainly throughout the 1950s and 1960s.[3]

In the early 1950s, he replaced Alberto Sordi performing the Italian voice of Oliver Hardy in the redubs of Laurel and Hardy made between 1951 and 1953, in which he was paired with Fiorenzo Fiorentini (who provided the Italian voice of Stan Laurel); he came back to dubbing Hardy in the 1968-1970 redubs, this time paired with Franco Latini.[4] Since 1957, Croccolo also served as a dubbing artist for Totò in some of his films,[5] as his friend had gradually lost his sight and had thus become unable to post-syncronize his own lines: having previously dubbed Totò in French during his stay in Canada and due to his ability in imitating his speech,[6] Croccolo was chosen by the artist himself to dub his voice in Italian when needed.[3]

In 1989, Croccolo received the David di Donatello for best supporting actor in the film 'O Re. Croccolo’s international notoriety came in 1996 with the film In Love and War, directed by Richard Attenborough.

Croccolo died in his home in Castel Volturno on 12 October 2019 at the age of 92.[7] His funeral was held in the Church of San Ferdinando and his body was cremated at the request of the family.

Selected filmography

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Croccolo (left) with Totò in 47 morto che parla (1950)
Croccolo (left) with Silvana Pampanini and Delia Scala in Beauties on Bicycles (1951)
Croccolo (right) with Mario Carotenuto and Aroldo Tieri in Gli eroi del doppio gioco (1962)

References

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  1. ^ "Carlo Croccolo's dubbing contributions". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 23 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Carlo Croccolo". MYmovies. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  3. ^ a b c "Carlo Croccolo: "Sono l'attore comico per caso che preferì le risate a Fellini"". La Repubblica (in Italian). 28 August 2016. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  4. ^ "STORIA DEL DOPPIAGGIO IN ITALIA (DI LORENZO BASSI)" (in Italian). laurel-e-hardy.it. Archived from the original on 8 August 2020. Retrieved 15 April 2020.
  5. ^ Cronologia fondamentale dell'epoca d'oro del doppiaggio italiano Dagli albori agli anni 1970 (in Italian)
  6. ^ Ennio Bispuri (2000). Vita di Totò (in Italian). Gremese. pp. 231–232.
  7. ^ "È morto Carlo Croccolo, attore comico napoletano". La Repubblica (in Italian). 12 October 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
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