He is well-known for being the founder of the Premio Strega, the most important literary award in Italian literature from the post-war period to today.
Gifted with a great and well composed acting and known to be a balding, clumsy man, introduced in the entertainment industry by Fellini, he promoted himself as a characteristic performer, since the fifties, the days of the brilliant comedies in black and white, and continuing throughout the Genre Cinema, imposing himself above all in the vein of Crime.
From the 70s and till the 90s, he was also a cornerstone of the RAI TV Series, making an unexpectedly long career.
- Gli innamorati .... Sor Alberto (uncredited)
1963 - 8½ …. Commander Quirino, movie producer (credited)
- El verdugo (La ballata del boia) .... Jail Director (credited) (1963)
- Le mani sulla città .... Honorable Maglione (credited)
1964 - Aimez-vous les femmes? .... Mr. Khouroulis (credited)
- Le grain de sable (Il triangolo circolare) .... Rudolf Kubler (credited)
1965 - Casanova '70 .... Priest (credited)
- Giulietta degli spiriti .... Player (uncredited)
- Il morbidone .... Marco, Giovanni's uncle (credited)
- La fabuleuse aventure de Marco Polo (Le meravigliose avventure di Marco Polo) .... Pope Gregory X (credited)
- La fuga .... Piera's father (credited)
- Le soldatesse .... Army Colonel Gambardella (credited)
- Resurrezione (TV mini-series) .... General Epancin - ep 6 (no credit info)
1966 - Luisa Sanfelice (TV mini-series) .... King Ferdinando of Borbone (credited)
- Présence du passé (Tv series, episode "La naissance de l'empire Romain") .... Tibère (no credit info)
- Spara forte, più forte... non capisco! .... Pasquale Cimmaruta (credited)
1967 - La prova generale .... unknown role (credited)
- Un choix d'assassins (Gli assassini non hanno scelta) .... Domenico (poster credit)
1968 - A qualsiasi prezzo .... Cardinal Masoli (credited)
- Cristoforo Colombo (TV mini-series) .... Barber (credited)
- Il circolo Pickwick (TV mini-series) .... Tracy Tupman (credited)
- Niente rose per OSS 117 .... Faruk Melik (poster credit)
- Ruba al prossimo tuo... .... Uncle Camillo Marini (credited)
1969 - Giovinezza giovinezza .... Lawyer Milazzo (credited)
1970 - La Califfa .... Bishop (credited)
- Il cappello del prete (TV mini-series) Ep. 2 .... The Vicar of the Bishop (no credit info)
- Il delitto del diavolo (Le regine) .... Priest (credited)
- Le terre del sacramento (TV series) Eps. 2, 3, 4, 5 …. Duke of Pietracatella (credited)
- Marcovaldo (TV mini-series) Ep. 6 .... President of the SBAV company (credited)
1971 - Giornata nera per l'ariete .... G. Traversi, chief redactor
- I racconti di padre Brown (TV mini-series) Ep 6: "Il re dei ladri" .... Barrow (credited)
- Il Decamerone .... Musciatto, a merchant (credited)
- La décade prodigieuse .... Ludovic Van Horn, brother of Théo (credited)
1972 - A come Andromeda (TV mini-series) Eps. 2, 4 .... Prime Minister (credited)
- Che? .... Priest (credited)
- Cool million (TV series) S. 1, Ep:1, "Mask of Marcella" ....Tomlin (role to be confirmed - no credit info)
- Ipotesi sulla scomparsa di un fisico atomico (TV) .... S.E. Arturo Bocchini (credited)
1973 - La mano spietata della legge .... Professor Palmieri (credited)
- La ragazza fuoristrada .... Monsignor Vittorio Baduano (credited)
- Tony Arzenta .... Don Mariano (credited)
1974 - Appassionata .... Passerby with a dog and Bar customer (uncredited)
- Il testimone deve tacere .... Commissioner (credited)
- Les violons du bal .... Guido, the Italian producer (credited)
- Milano odia: la polizia non può sparare .... Commendator Porrino (credited)
- Philadelphia Story (TV Movie) .... Uncle Willy (credited on Radiocorriere TV - still no pic)
- Spasmo .... Malcolm, the lighthouse keeper (credited)
1975 - Il giustiziere sfida la città .... Owner of the billiard room (credited)
- Roma drogata: la polizia non può intervenire .... Commissioner (credited)
- Signora Ava (TV miniseries) .... Don Beniamino De Risio (credited)
1976 - Il Corsaro Nero (1976) .... Don Pablo de Ribeira (credited)
- Napoli violenta .... Commissioner (credited)
1977 - Bobby Deerfield .... Priest in the garden (credited)
- Il cinico, l'infame, il violento .... Antiques dealer, uncle of Tanzi (credited)
- Luca il contrabbandiere .... Don Morrone (credited)
1981 - Colpo di grazia alla sezione III (TV mini-series) Ep. 1 .... Professor Gudden (credited)
- Napoli, Palermo, New York - Il triangolo della camorra .... Commissioner (credited)
1982 - Delitto di Stato (TV mini-series) Ep. 3 .... Porter monk (credited)
1985 - L'herbe rouge (TV movie) .... The Mayor (credited)
- Su e giù .... Commendator Persici (episode "Il colpo da leoni") (1965)
- Oliver Cromwell: ritratto di un dittatore .... Mollins (TV Movie, 1969)
- Le regine .... Priest (1970)
- Sans sommation (1973)
- Deux hommes dans la ville .... Owner of the printing house (1973)
- La sensualità è un attimo di vita (1975)
- Alle origini della mafia, Ep. "Gli sciacalli" (TV miniseries) .... The Maltese (1976)
- Storie della camorra (TV miniseries) .... The honorable Casale (1978)
- Die Schweizer Affäre .... Anione (1978)
- I problemi di Don Isidro (ep. 1-4) (TV series) .... Miochelino (1978)
- Profumo di classe (TV series) (1979)
- Lulù (TV movie) (1980)
- Il ritorno (TV movie) .... The rabbi (1980)
- Angelica (1964) - IMDb as The great Matthew - but he does not appear.