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Italian films of 1960
A list of films produced in Italy in 1960 :-External links:* at the Internet Movie Database...

 Italian
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

 Comedy film
Comedy film
Comedy film is a genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humour. They are designed to elicit laughter from the audience. Comedies are mostly light-hearted dramas and are made to amuse and entertain the audiences...

. It is a parody of the war movie The Longest Day
The Longest Day (film)
The Longest Day is a 1962 war film based on the 1959 history book The Longest Day by Cornelius Ryan, about "D-Day", the Normandy landings on 6 June 1944, during World War II....

and stars the popular duo Ciccio Ingrassia
Ciccio Ingrassia
Ciccio Ingrassia was an Italian comedian.He was born in Palermo, Sicily and began his career in the 1950s, although his career only really took off in the 1960s. He starred in many comedies, mainly as a duo with comedian Franco Franchi...

 and Franco Franchi
Franco Franchi
Franco Franchi was an Italian comedian.He was born in Palermo, Sicily and began his career in the 1950s, although his career only really took off in the 1960s...

 in the leading roles. Dozens of many other well-known actors accepted to appear in the movie in cameo roles for free, to avert the bankruptcy of the production company Titanus
Titanus
Titanus is an Italian film production company, founded in 1904 by Gustavo Lombardo . The company's headquarters are located at 28 Via Sommacampagna, Rome and its studios on the Via Tiburtina, 13 km from the centre of Rome....

.

Actors

  • Gino Cervi
    Gino Cervi
    Gino Cervi was an Italian actor of international fame.Cervi was born in Bologna. His father was the theatre critic Antonio Cervi.In 1928, he married Nini Gordini and they had a son, Tonino Cervi...

  • Totò
    Totò
    Prince Antonio Focas Flavio Angelo Ducas Comneno De Curtis di Bisanzio Gagliardi, best known by his stage name Totò and nicknamed il principe della risata was an Italian comedian, film and theatre actor, writer, singer and songwriter...

  • Annie Girardot
    Annie Girardot
    Annie Girardot was a French actress.She began performing in 1955, making her film debut in Treize à table. Girardot won the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti in 1956, and in 1977 won the César Award for Best Actress portraying the title character in Docteur Françoise Gailland...

  • Ugo Tognazzi
    Ugo Tognazzi
    Ugo Tognazzi was an Italian film, TV, and theatre actor, director, and screenwriter.-Early life:Tognazzi was born in Cremona, in northern Italy but spent his youth in various localities as his father was a traveller clerk for an insurance company.After his return in the native city in 1936, he...

  • Eduardo De Filippo
    Eduardo De Filippo
    Eduardo De Filippo was an Italian actor, playwright, screenwriter, author and poet, best known for his Neapolitan works Filumena Marturano and Napoli Milionaria.-Biography:...

  • Peppino De Filippo
    Peppino De Filippo
    Peppino De Filippo was an Italian actor.De Filippo was born in Naples, brother of actor and playwright Eduardo De Filippo and of Titina. He made his stage debut at the age of six. He played in several movies such as Rome-Paris-Rome, Variety Lights, A Day in Court, Ferdinand I, King of Naples and...

  • Aldo Fabrizi
    Aldo Fabrizi
    Aldo Fabrizi was an Italian actor and cinema and theatre director.-Actor Filmography:* Avanti, c'è posto... by Mario Bonnard...

  • Gabriele Ferzetti
    Gabriele Ferzetti
    Gabriele Ferzetti is an Italian actor. He has more than 160 credits to his name across film, television and stage. His career was at its peak in the 1950s and 1960s....

  • Philippe Leroy
    Philippe Leroy
    Philippe Leroy may refer to:*Philippe Leroy *Philippe Leroy...

  • Amedeo Nazzari
    Amedeo Nazzari
    Amedeo Nazzari was an Italian actor.Star of Italian cinema during the 40's and 50's. He made several melodramas with Raffaello Matarazzo, such as Catene in 1949...

  • Tomas Milian
    Tomas Milian
    Tomás Milián is a Cuban-American actor best known for having worked extensively in Italian films from the late 1950s to the 1980s.-Career in Italy:...

  • Romolo Valli
    Romolo Valli
    Romolo Valli was an Italian actor.Valli was born in Reggio Emilia. He was one of the best known Italian actors from the 1950s to his death. He worked both for the stage and the silver screen...

  • Renato Salvatori
    Renato Salvatori
    Renato Salvatori was an Italian multi-purpose character actor.-Biography:Salvatori was born in Seravezza, Province of Lucca....

  • Paolo Stoppa
    Paolo Stoppa
    Paolo Stoppa was an Italian actor and dubber.Born in Rome, he began as a stage actor in 1927 in the theater in Rome and began acting in films in 1932...

  • Walter Chiari
    Walter Chiari
    Walter Chiari, stage name of Walter Annichiarico , was a hugely successful Italian stage and screen actor, mostly in comedy roles....

  • Franca Valeri
    Franca Valeri
    Franca Valeri is an Italian actress.Valeri was born in Milan as Alma Franca Maria Norsa. She adopted her surname in the 1950s as an homage to the French critic and poet, Paul Valéry....

  • Anouk Aimée
    Anouk Aimée
    Anouk Aimée is a French film actress. Aimée has appeared in 70 films since 1947. She began her film career in 1947 at age 14. In 1958 she portrayed the tragic artist Jeanne Hébuterne in the film Les Amants de Montparnasse...

  • Franco Citti
    Franco Citti
    Franco Citti is an Italian actor. He came to fame at the age of 26, playing the title role in Pier Paolo Pasolini's film Accattone...

  • Sylva Koscina
    Sylva Koscina
    Sylva Koscina was an Italian actress.-Biography:...

  • Virna Lisi
    Virna Lisi
    Virna Lisi is a Cannes and César award-winning Italian film actress. She was born in Ancona, Marche, as Virna Lisa Pieralisi.-Early career:...

  • Carlo Pisacane
    Carlo Pisacane (actor)
    Carlo Pisacane was an Italian actor who performed in over 70 films, including spaghetti Westerns like Death Rides a Horse and parodies like For a Few Dollars Less...

  • Giuliano Gemma
    Giuliano Gemma
    -Biography:Born in Rome, Gemma first worked as a stuntman, then was offered real acting parts by director Duccio Tessari, starting with the film Arrivano i titani . He also made an appearance in Luchino Visconti's Il Gattopardo as Garibaldi's General...

  • Massimo Girotti
    Massimo Girotti
    Massimo Girotti was an Italian film actor whose career spanned seven decades.Born in Mogliano, in the province of Macerata, Girotti developed his athletic physique by swimming and polo...

  • Mario Girotti
  • Franco Fabrizi
    Franco Fabrizi
    Franco Fabrizi was an Italian actor.Son of a barber and a cinema cashier, he was a soap opera photo actor, for example, the fotoromanzo Arizona Kid, in the newspaper Avventuroso Film...

  • David Niven
    David Niven
    James David Graham Niven , known as David Niven, was a British actor and novelist, best known for his roles as Phileas Fogg in Around the World in 80 Days and Sir Charles Lytton, a.k.a. "the Phantom", in The Pink Panther...

  • Erminio Macario
    Erminio Macario
    Erminio Macario , was an Italian film actor and comedian. He appeared in 42 films between 1933 and 1975.He was born and died in Turin, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Imputato alzatevi! * Lo vedi come sei.....

  • Tiberio Murgia
    Tiberio Murgia
    Tiberio Murgia was an Italian film actor. He appeared in over 100 films between 1958 and 2009.-Selected filmography:* Big Deal on Madonna Street * Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti...

  • Raimondo Vianello
    Raimondo Vianello
    Raimondo Vianello was an Italian film actor, comedian, and television host. He was a well-known Italian television personality.- Biography :...

  • Memmo Carotenuto
    Memmo Carotenuto
    Memmo Carotenuto was an Italian actor. He appeared in 125 films between 1941 and 1979.-Selected filmography:* Assassination in Rome * Male Companion * Ten Ready Rifles...

  • Nino Castelnuovo
    Nino Castelnuovo
    Francesco "Nino" Castelnuovo is an Italian actor. His perhaps most prominent role was starring as Guy Foucher in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg...

  • Luciano Salce
    Luciano Salce
    Luciano Salce was an Italian film director and actor. His 1962 film Le pillole di Ercole was shown as part of a retrospective on Italian comedy at the 67th Venice International Film Festival....

  • Nino Taranto
    Nino Taranto
    Nino Taranto was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 83 films between 1924 and 1971.He was born and died in Naples, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Nonna Felicità * L'ha fatto una signora...

  • Aroldo Tieri
    Aroldo Tieri
    Aroldo Tieri was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 107 films between 1939 and 1969.He was born in Corigliano Calabro, Italy and died in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* C'è sempre un ma!...

  • Yvonne Sanson
    Yvonne Sanson
    Yvonne Sanson was a Greek film actress. She appeared in 46 films between 1946 and 1972 and she mainly worked in Italy.-Selected filmography:* Flesh Will Surrender * Campane a martello...

  • Simone Signoret
    Simone Signoret
    Simone Signoret was a French cinema actress often hailed as one of France's greatest movie stars. She became the first French person to win an Academy Award, for her role in Room at the Top...

  • Susan Strasberg
    Susan Strasberg
    Susan Elizabeth Strasberg was an American film and stage actress.-Background and career:Strasberg was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of theatre director and drama coach Lee Strasberg of the Actors Studio and former actress Paula Strasberg...

  • Valentina Cortese
  • Lorella De Luca
  • Sandra Mondaini
    Sandra Mondaini
    Alessandrina Mondaini was an Italian film actress and television host. She appeared in 30 films between 1953 and 2008.Born in Milan, Italy, she married actor Raimondo Vianello in 1962...

  • Ilaria Occhini
  • Antonio Acqua
    Antonio Acqua
    Antonio Acqua was an Italian actor of the 1940s , 1950s and 1960s.He made his first appearance in the 1941 film Giuliano de' Medici making some 26 appearances before retiring from cinema in 1966. In 1966 he appeared in Un angelo per Satana a film also starring Mario Brega.-External links:...

  • Ivo Garrani
    Ivo Garrani
    Ivo Garrani is an Italian actor. In films since 1952, Garrani is possibly best known for his role as Prince Vajda in Mario Bava's Black Sunday .-External links:...

  • Sergio Fantoni
    Sergio Fantoni
    Sergio Fantoni, is an Italian actor.He was born in Rome, the son of actor Cesare Fantoni . In films from the late 1940s, he has worked mainly in his own country but made several appearances in American films in the 1960s, most notably opposite Frank Sinatra in the war film Von Ryan's Express,...

  • Paolo Ferrari
    Paolo Ferrari (actor)
    Paolo Ferrari is an Italian actor. He has appeared in 45 films since 1938.-Selected filmography:* A Man for Emmanuelle * White Voices * I Don Giovanni della Costa Azzurra * Totò cerca pace...

  • Ángel Aranda
    Ángel Aranda
    Ángel Aranda is a Spanish film actor. He appeared in 48 films between 1955 and 1980. He was born in Andalucía, Spain.-Selected filmography:* The Arizona Kid * The Hellbenders * El Greco...

  • Fiorenzo Fiorentini
  • Paolo Panelli
    Paolo Panelli
    Paolo Panelli was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 55 films between 1948 and 1996. He was married to Bice Valori.-Selected filmography:* Hearts at Sea * Against the Law...

  • Teddy Reno
  • Alberto Lupo
    Alberto Lupo
    Alberto Lupo was an Italian film and television actor best known for his roles in swash-buckling and actions films of the 1960s....

  • Fausto Tozzi
    Fausto Tozzi
    Fausto Tozzi was an Italian film actor and screenwriter. He appeared in 70 films between 1951 and 1978...

  • Enrico Viarisio
    Enrico Viarisio
    Enrico Viarisio was an Italian theatre and cinema actor.Equipped of a fine and elegant humour, Viarisio began his professional theatrical career at the age of 20...

  • Pierre Brice
    Pierre Brice
    Pierre Brice is a French actor, mainly known for his role as fictional Apache-chief Winnetou in German Karl May films.- Life and films :...

  • Aldo Bufi Landi
    Aldo Bufi Landi
    Aldo Bufi Landi is an Italian film actor. He has appeared in 96 films since 1947.He was born in Naples, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Assunta Spina * Signorinella * 47 morto che parla...

  • Vittorio Caprioli
    Vittorio Caprioli
    Vittorio Caprioli was an Italian film actor, director and screenwriter. He appeared in 109 films between 1946 and 1990...

  • Franca Valeri
    Franca Valeri
    Franca Valeri is an Italian actress.Valeri was born in Milan as Alma Franca Maria Norsa. She adopted her surname in the 1950s as an homage to the French critic and poet, Paul Valéry....

  • Gordon Scott
    Gordon Scott
    Gordon Scott was an American film and television actor known for his portrayal of the fictional character Tarzan in five films of the Tarzan film series from 1955 to 1960.-Early life, education and military service:He was born Gordon Merrill Werschkul in Portland,...

  • Joe Sentieri
    Joe Sentieri
    Joe Sentieri was an Italian singer and actor.-Career:His first success was the winning of the competition "Canzonissima" in 1959 with his version of the number one hit "Piove " by Domenico Modugno...

  • Massimo Serato
    Massimo Serato
    Massimo Serato, born Giuseppe Segato, was an Italian film actor with a career spanning over 40 years.Serato was born in Oderzo, Veneto, Italy and started appearing in films in 1938. He played leading roles in several historical dramas and sword and sandal epics, mainly Italian, as well as roles in...

  • Gabriele Tinti
  • Jacques Sernas
    Jacques Sernas
    Jacques Sernas is a Lithuanian-born French actor with an international film career.-Early life and education:He was born in Kaunas, Lithuania, the son of Jokūbas Šernas, a signatory of the 1918 Act of Independence of Lithuania, who died when Sernas was a year old. His mother took him to Paris,...

  • Nino Terzo
  • Franco Sportelli
  • Luisella Boni
  • Lia Zoppelli
  • Lilla Brignone
    Lilla Brignone
    Lilla Brignone was an Italian film and theater actress. She appeared in 40 films between 1930 and 1982.-Selected filmography:* Abbiamo vinto! * Estate Violenta * Ghosts of Rome...

  • Rossella Como
  • Scilla Gabel
    Scilla Gabel
    Scilla Gabel is an Italian film actress. She appeared in 50 films between 1954 and 1982.She was born in Rimini, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Tarzan's Greatest Adventure * Mill of the Stone Women...

  • Cristina Gaioni
  • Mark Damon
    Mark Damon
    Mark Damon is an American film actor and producer. He started his career in his native country, appearing in such films as Young and Dangerous and Roger Corman's House of Usher...

  • Nora Ricci
  • Rina Morelli
    Rina Morelli
    Rina Morelli was an Italian film actress. She appeared in 34 films between 1939 and 1976.She was born in Naples, Italy and died in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* The Iron Crown...

  • Antonella Lualdi
    Antonella Lualdi
    Antonella Lualdi is an Italian film actress. Her luminescent beauty has graced many Italian and French films in the 1950s and 1960s, notably in Claude Autant-Lara's film Le rouge et le noir in 1954, opposite Gérard Philipe....

  • Frank Latimore
    Frank Latimore
    Franklin Latimore was an American actor best known for his character ‘Dr. Ed Coleridge’ on the television soap opera Ryan's Hope....

  • Franco Giacobini
  • Stewart Granger
    Stewart Granger
    Stewart Granger was an English-American film actor, mainly associated with heroic and romantic leading roles. He was a popular leading man from the 1940s to the early 1960s rising to fame through his appearances in the Gainsborough melodramas.-Early life:He was born James Lablache Stewart in Old...

  • Gérard Herter
    Gérard Herter
    Gérard Herter was a German actor of the fifties and sixties who played many villains especially Prussian types in spaghetti westerns. He made his impressive film debut in Caltiki - il mostro immortale in 1959...

  • Franco Balducci
    Franco Balducci
    Franco Balducci is an Italian film actor. He appeared in 75 films between 1947 and 1978. He was born in Umbria, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Les Misérables * Two Women * La bellezza di Ippolita...

  • Alberto Farnese
    Alberto Farnese
    Alberto Farnese was an Italian actor. He appeared in 89 films and television shows between 1951 and 1989. He starred in the film Whom God Forgives, which won the Silver Bear Extraordinary Prize of the Jury award at the 7th Berlin International Film Festival.-Selected filmography:* Rome 11:00 * The...

  • Gianni Garko
    Gianni Garko
    Gianni Garko is an Italian actor who found much fame as a leading man in Spaghetti Westerns...

  • Maurizio Arena
    Maurizio Arena
    Maurizio Arena was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 78 films between 1952 and 1978.-Selected filmography:* It Happened in the Park * Siamo tutti inquilini * The Sign of Venus...

  • Giacomo Furia
    Giacomo Furia
    Giacomo Furia is an Italian film actor. He appeared in over 130 films between 1948 and 1998.He was born in Naples, Italy.-Selected filmography:* Assunta Spina * Totò cerca casa * Variety Lights...

  • Stelvio Rosi
  • Umberto Orsini
  • Luigi Pavese
    Luigi Pavese
    Luigi Pavese was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 173 films between 1916 and 1970.He was born in Asti, Italy and died in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* La Damigella di Bard...

  • Emilio Pericoli
    Emilio Pericoli
    Emilio Pericoli is an Italian singer. He was born in Cesenatico, Romagna.Pericoli's success was closely tied to the Sanremo Festival. He recorded a cover version of the song, "Al di là", by festival winner Betty Curtis. The song was an international success, hitting the charts in the U.S. and #30...

  • Walter Pidgeon
    Walter Pidgeon
    Walter Davis Pidgeon was a Canadian actor, who starred in many motion pictures, including Mrs...

  • Steve Reeves
    Steve Reeves
    Stephen L. Reeves was an American bodybuilder and actor. At the peak of his career, he was the highest-paid actor in Europe.-Childhood:...

  • Roberto Risso
  • Mac Ronay
  • Folco Lulli
    Folco Lulli
    Folco Lulli was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 104 films between 1946 and 1970. He was the brother of actor Piero Lulli.-Selected filmography:* Flesh Will Surrender * Tragic Hunt...

  • Piero Lulli
    Piero Lulli
    Piero Lulli was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 111 films between 1942 and 1977. He was the brother of actor Folco Lulli.-Selected filmography:* Love Story * Vertigine d'amore...

  • Ettore Manni
    Ettore Manni
    Ettore Manni was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 107 films between 1952 and 1979. He was born and died in Rome, Italy after accidentally shooting himself.-Selected filmography:* Two Nights with Cleopatra...

  • Rik Battaglia
    Rik Battaglia
    Rik Battaglia is a retired Italian film actor. He was born at Corbola, near Rovigo, Veneto....

  • Francesco Mulé
    Francesco Mulé
    Francesco Mulé , was an Italian film actor. He appeared in 74 films between 1953 and 1979. He was the son of composer Giuseppe Mulè.He was born and died in Rome, Italy.-Selected filmography:* The Bachelor...

  • Jean-Paul Belmondo
    Jean-Paul Belmondo
    Jean-Paul Belmondo is a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s.-Career:Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, west of Paris, Belmondo did not perform well in school, but developed a passion for boxing and football."Did you box professionally very long?" "Not very long...

  • Vittorio Gassman
    Vittorio Gassman
    Vittorio Gassman Knight Grand Cross OMRI , popularly known as Il Mattatore, was an Italian theatre and film actor and director...

  • Aldo Giuffrè
    Aldo Giuffrè
    Aldo Giuffrè was an Italian film actor and comedian who appeared in over 90 films between 1948 and 2001. He was born in Naples....

  • Renata Mauro
    Renata Mauro
    Renata Mauro was a popular television presenter for RAI . She became known to international audiences for hosting Jeux Sans Frontieres and also the Eurovision Song Contest when it was staged in Naples in 1965.-Filmography:*Biblioteca di Studio Uno: Al Grand Hotel ......

  • Sandra Milo
    Sandra Milo
    Sandra Milo is an Italian actress. She is perhaps best known for her roles in Federico Fellini's 8½ and Juliet of the Spirits, winning a Silver Ribbon best supporting actress award for each film.-Career:...

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