Class of 1941[1], of probable Sicilian origins considering the surname, he begin his film career alongside the comic duo Franco and Ciccio. Than he participated in several "poliziotteschi" and he continued to work in the cinema as "generico" even when the comic couple had only gone on television. He had a quite substantial credited role in the movie Puttana galera (1976).
His last news is dated 1997, that he, aged 56, was arrested for being a pickpocket in trams. In this newspaper article it is clearly mentioned he had played a cop in 1993's movie La scorta[1].
[1] Article from "La Repubblica" (march 27, 1997), discovered by our user FatmanDan on October 4, 2020.
FILMOGRAPHY
- I due evasi di Sing Sing (uncredited) .... Man on stage with the senator
- I due pericoli pubblici (uncredited) .... Male nurse
- Totò contro il Pirata Nero (uncredited) .... Pirate
1966 - I due sanculotti (uncredited) .... Revolutionary in tavern / Sans-culotte at tribunal
- Thompson 1880 (uncredited) .... Cowboy watching the dancers
1967 - Il lungo, il corto, il gatto (uncredited) .... Man in the billiard room
1968 - I due deputati (uncredited) .... Spectator at assembly
- I due pompieri (uncredited) .... Man at the award ceremony
- Joko invoca Dio... e muori (uncredited) .... Saloon customer
1969 - Don Chisciotte e Sancio Panza (uncredited) .... Criminal freed by Don Chisciotte
- Franco, Ciccio e il pirata Barbanera (uncredited) .... Sailor of Hispaniola
1970 - Amore formula 2 (uncredited) .... Mechanic at the pit stop
- Dramma della gelosia (tutti i particolari in cronaca) (uncredited) .... Protester
- I due maghi del pallone (uncredited) .... SCHIAPP supporter
- Il clan dei due borsalini (uncredited) .... Policeman at typewriter
- Indagine su un cittadino al di sopra di ogni sospetto (uncredited) .... Protester under arrest
- Indio Black, sai che ti dico: Sei un gran figlio di... (uncredited) .... Mexican prisoner / Austrian soldier
- La califfa (uncredited) .... Industrial worker on strike
- Riuscirà l'avvocato Franco Benenato a sconfiggere il suo acerrimo nemico il pretore Ciccio De Ingras? (uncredited) .... Lawyer
- Satiricosissimo (uncredited) .... Spectator at "Voci nuove festival"
1971 - Cose di Cosa Nostra (uncredited).... Bar customer
- È tornato Sabata... hai chiuso un'altra volta! (uncredited) .... Roulette spectator
- I due assi del guantone (uncredited) .... Policeman / Spectator at boxing match
- In nome del popolo italiano (uncredited) .... Jubilant football supporter
- La tarantola dal ventre nero (uncredited) .... Man in road of the furrier's murder
- Ma che musica maestro! (uncredited) .... Trainman
- Sacco e Vanzetti (uncredited) .... Man outside courtroom
- The Statue (La statua) (uncredited) .... Recruit
1972 - La violenza: Quinto potere (uncredited) .... Man at the ceremony
1973 - Anche gli angeli mangiano fagioli (uncredited) .... Man in mourning
- Continuavano a chiamarli... Er Più, Er Meno (uncredited) .... Prison guard
- Ku fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore (uncredited) .... Spectator at Karate competition
- Tutti figli di mammasantissima (uncredited) .... Man in the final fight
1974 - Commissariato di notturna (uncredited) .... Policeman
- Il cittadino si ribella (uncredited) .... Casino player
- L'eredità dello zio buonanima (uncredited) .... Painter
- Prigione di donne (uncredited) .... Policeman
- Quant'è bella la Bernarda, tutta nera, tutta calda - segment "Frate Fontanarosa" (uncredited) .... Monk
1975 - Carambola, filotto... tutti in buca (uncredited) .... Bandit
- Due cuori una cappella (uncredited) .... Man on the stairs
- Due Magnum 38 per una città di carogne (uncredited) .... Policeman
- La baby sitter (uncredited) .... Policeman
- Mahogany (uncredited) .... Worker in the dress studio
- Occhio alla vedova (uncredited) .... Thug
- Piedone a Hong Kong (uncredited) .... Policeman
- Roma violenta (uncredited) .... Policeman
1976 - A Matter of Time (uncredited) .... Hotel cook
- Amore grande amore libero (uncredited) .... Prison guard
- Caro Michele (uncredited) .... Train passenger
- Il comune senso del pudore (uncredited) .... Man at cinema
- Puttana galera! (credited) .... Prison guard
- Roma, l'altra faccia della violenza (uncredited) .... Policeman
1977 - Io ho paura (uncredited) .... Policeman
- Kakkientruppen (uncredited) .... Army nurse
- Napoli si ribella (uncredited) .... Policeman
- Per amore di Poppea (uncredited) .... Nerone's servant
1978 - Diamanti sporchi di sangue (uncredited) .... Cop in the prologue
- Dove vai in vacanza? - segment: "Le vacanze intelligenti" (uncredited) .... Greengrocer
- Il furto della Gioconda (TV mini series) (uncredited) .... Policeman
- Quel maledetto treno blindato (uncredited) .... Partisan
1979 - Caro papà (uncredited) .... Policeman
- Il giocattolo (uncredited) .... Policeman at the attorney
- L'importante è non farsi notare (uncredited) .... Hospital patient
- Letti selvaggi - segment "L'arabo" (uncredited) .... Policeman
- Martin Eden (TV mini series) (uncredited) .... Passerby on the street
- Un uomo in ginocchio (uncredited) .... Policeman
- Uno sceriffo extraterrestre poco extra e molto terrestre (uncredited) .... Fireman at the firemen's ball
1980 - Ciao marziano (uncredited) .... Policeman
- Fico d'India (uncredited) .... Policeman
- Fontamara (uncredited) .... Police agent checking documents
- L'avvertimento (uncredited) .... Policeman
- Il bandito dagli occhi azzurri (uncredited) .... Policeman
- Il casinista (uncredited) .... Henchman
- Zucchero, miele e peperoncino (uncredited) .... Policeman
1981 - I carabbimatti (uncredited) .... Nut
- L'aldilà... e tu vivrai nel terrore (uncredited) .... Zombie at hospital
- La poliziotta a New York (uncredited) .... Man of Turco
- Vita di Antonio Gramsci (TV mini series) - episode 2: "L'educazione sentimentale" (uncredited) .... Police agent who ransacks Gramsci's room
1984 - Mi faccia causa (uncredited) .... Football supporter at the stadium
1985 - È arrivato mio fratello (uncredited) .... Man in the holding cell
- I pompieri (uncredited) .... Cook
- Joan Lui - Ma un giorno nel paese arrivo io di lunedì (uncredited) .... Audience member in the TV studio
1986 - Attentato al Papa (TV mini series) (uncredited) .... Prison guard
- Il camorrista (uncredited) .... Prisoner
- Scuola di ladri (uncredited) .... Delinquent at the wedding that takes out the revolver
1990 - Pierino torna a scuola (uncredited) .... Man at greyhound track
1991 - Ultrà (uncredited) .... Prison guard
1993 - La scorta (uncredited) .... Policeman putting some gasoline
1996 - Fantozzi - Il ritorno (uncredited) .... Caretaker or Tenant