Aldo Vasco was a generico-actor who was active in Italian cinema from at least the late 1930s and until the mid 1970s.
Characterized by his intense, sunken eyes and slightly gorillaesque features, Aldo was frequently cast as policemen, but also as criminals or working class men. Although he was credited in a fair number of films (usually at the very bottom of the cast list), he mostly appeared in bit parts and usually - but not always - speaking a few lines.
Aldo landed a major role in the rare western Buffalo Bill a Roma (1950), but this appears to have made no impact on his career, and he was soon back to playing minor uncredited roles again. He did, however, appear in films for a number of prestigious directors such as Federico Fellini, René Clement, Alberto Lattuada, Christian-Jaque, Francesco Rosi and above all Luigi Zampa, whose films he was regularly cast in. He also appeared in four films in the Don Camillo film series - playing a different character in each one.
All online filmographies I've come across list L'onorevole Angelina (1947) as Aldo's earliest film, but the earliest appearance I've found from him is from ten years earlier, so there are no doubt many more 1940s and late 1930s roles just waiting to be discovered.
- Il feroce Saladino .... Man pretending to by hypnotized (uncredited)
1941 - Marco Visconti .... Conspirator (uncredited)
1947 - L'onorevole Angelina .... Policeman (uncredited)
1950 - Buffalo Bill a Roma .... Pietro ( poster credit - role unconfirmed)
- È più facile che un cammello .... Policeman (credited)
1951 - I sette nani alla riscossa .... Messenger (uncredited)
1952 - Altri tempi - segment "Il tamburino sardo" .... Soldier (credited)
1953 - Anni facili .... role? (credited)
- Riscatto .... Carabinieri officer (uncredited)
1954 - Appassionatamente .... A miner (credited)
- Ballata tragica .... Bar patron (uncredited)
- Disonorata senza colpa .... Contraband officer (credited)
- Il mostro dell'isola .... Don Gaetano henchman playing cards (uncredited)
- Il seduttore .... Restaurant security guard (uncredited)
- La romana .... Police inspector (credited)
- La schiava del peccato .... Reporter (uncredited)
- Peccato che sia una canaglia .... Traffic policeman (uncredited)
- Prima di sera .... Angry farmer (uncredited)
- Scuola elementare .... Member of the teaching staff (uncredited)
- Un americano a Roma .... Nazi guard (uncredited)
- Un giorno in pretura .... Court house usher (uncredited)
1955 - Bravissimo .... Farmer (uncredited)
- Don Camillo e l'onorevole Peppone .... Tasca, the sharecropper (uncredited)
- Il padrone sono me .... Protester at the gates (uncredited)
- Un giglio infranto .... Baron Zimmer's informant (uncredited)
1956 - Canzone proibita .... Alpino soldier (uncredited)
- Giovanni dalle Bande Nere .... One of Giovanni's men (credited)
- Il bigamo .... Policeman in the court room (uncredited)
- Il cavaliere dalla spada nera .... Tavern customer (uncredited)
- Le schiave di Cartagine .... Arguing man in the senate (uncredited)
- Peccato di castità .... Police officer at the accident scene (uncredited)
1957 - I vampiri .... Police agent (uncredited)
- Kean - Genio e sregolatezza .... Tavern customer (uncredited)
- Parola di ladro .... Man at the tavern (uncredited)
- Serenate per 16 bionde .... Audience member at music show (uncredited)
1958 - I soliti ignoti .... Police officer who arrests Cosimo (uncredited)
- La legge è legge .... The brigadier (credited)
- La zia d'America va a sciare .... Officer in the hotel nightclub (uncredited)
- Ladro lui, ladra lei .... Maresciallo (uncredited)
- Le dritte .... Journalist (uncredited)
- Mia nonna poliziotto .... Member of the criminal gang (uncredited)
- Totò nella luna .... Prison guard (uncredited)
1959 - Fantasmi e ladri .... Mario, one of the thieves (uncredited)
- Il magistrato .... Dock worker (credited)
- Il nemico di mia moglie .... Librarian (uncredited)
- Il terrore dei barbari .... Villager killed by barbarians (uncredited)
- Prepotenti più di prima .... Police officer at the train station (uncredited)
- Totò, Eva e il pennello proibito .... Domingo (uncredited)
1960 - A noi piace freddo...!! .... Partisan in funeral procession (uncredited)
- L'impiegato .... Office clerk (uncredited)
- L'ultimo zar .... Doctor (uncredited)
- La dolce vita .... Father of the miracle children (uncredited)
- Salambò .... Captain of the prison guards (uncredited)
1961 - Che gioia vivere .... Anarchist (uncredited)
- Costantino il grande .... Man helping to care for Hadrian (uncredited)
- Don Camillo monsignore... ma non troppo .... One of Peppone's men (uncredited)
- Il ladro di Bagdad .... Courtier (uncredited)
- Psycosissimo .... Security guard (uncredited)
1963 - Io Semiramide .... Arriba (credited)
- Le mani sulla città .... Spectator in parliament (uncredited)
- Maciste, l'eroe più grande del mondo .... Red guard (uncredited)
- Zorro e i tre moschettieri .... Nobleman at the ball (uncredited)
1964 - Gli invincibili fratelli Maciste .... Overseer of the temple construction (uncredited)
- Gli schiavi più forti del mondo .... Slave who falls from the aquaduct (uncredited)
- La rivolta dei pretoriani .... Calpurnio (uncredited)
- The Visit .... Villager (uncredited)
1965 - I grandi condottieri .... Father of Samson (uncredited)
- Il compagno Don Camillo .... A socialist comrade (credited)
1967 - Arriva Dorellik .... One of the Duponts (uncredited)
- L'uomo, l'orgoglio, la vendetta .... Porter at cigar factory (uncredited)
1970 - Ma chi t'ha dato la patente? .... Doctor (credited)
- Satiricosissimo .... Chariot cleaner (uncredited)
1972 - Don Camillo e i giovani d'oggi .... Ticket taker at dance hall (credited)
1973 - Bisturi la mafia bianca .... Hospital nurse (credited)
- Ludwig .... Priest (uncredited)
- Trois filles dans le vent (1981) .... seen in footage taken from Gli schiavi più forti del mondo (re-used footage)
- In amore si pecca in due (1953) - ANICA
- Gli uomini, che mascalzoni! (1953) - ANICA
- Vestire gli ignudi (1954) - ANICA
- Luna nova (1955) - ANICA
- Accadde di notte (1956) - ANICA