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Eduardo Scarpetta is a Actor and Scriptwriter Italien born on 13 march 1853 at Naples (Italie)

Eduardo Scarpetta

Eduardo Scarpetta
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Nationality Italie
Birth 13 march 1853 at Naples (Italie)
Death 23 november 1925 (at 72 years) at Naples (Italie)

Eduardo Scarpetta (né le 13 mars 1853 à Naples et mort en 1925) est un acteur et metteur en scène italien de la seconde moitié du XIX et du début du XX siècle.

Biography

Eduardo Scarpetta, dès l'âge de 15 ans, monte sur les planches pour camper tous types de personnages, notamment comiques, du théâtre napolitain. Il signe son chef-d'œuvre Misère et Noblesse, connaît la gloire et abandonne définitivement le spectacle en 1909.

Il a donné naissance à une dynastie de comédiens parmi lesquels Eduardo De Filippo, Peppino De Filippo et Titina De Filippo, lesquels marqueront le théâtre et le cinéma napolitain du XX siècle. Il est également le grand-père des acteurs italiens Augusto Carloni, Luigi De Filippo et Luca De Filippo.

Usually with

Mario Mattoli
Mario Mattoli
(4 films)
Totò
Totò
(6 films)
Mario Castellani
Mario Castellani
(5 films)
Ruggero Maccari
Ruggero Maccari
(4 films)
Eduardo Passarelli
Eduardo Passarelli
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Eduardo Scarpetta (11 films)

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Actor

Capri-Revolution
Capri-Revolution (2018)
, 2h2
Directed by Mario Martone
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Marianna Fontana, Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Antonio Folletto, Jenna Thiam, Donatella Finocchiaro, Eduardo Scarpetta
Roles Vincenzo
Rating61% 3.0699253.0699253.0699253.0699253.069925
En 1914 à Capri, alors que l'Italie est sur le point de s'engager dans la Première Guerre mondiale, un groupe de jeunes artistes venus d'Europe du Nord s'installe sur l'île pour y pratiquer leurs talents. Ils y rencontrent bientôt une jeune gardienne de chèvres, Lucia, et le médecin de l'île, Carlo.
Pericle
Pericle (2016)
, 1h44
Directed by Stefano Mordini
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Comedy thriller
Actors Riccardo Scamarcio, Marina Foïs, Lucia Ragni, Eduardo Scarpetta
Rating58% 2.943272.943272.943272.943272.94327
Périclès (Riccardo Scamarcio) travaille pour la Mafia italienne. En mission à Liège, il commet une erreur et doit fuir.

Scriptwriter

Il medico dei pazzi
Il medico dei pazzi (1954)
, 1h31
Directed by Mario Mattoli
Genres Comedy
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Totò, Tecla Scarano, Maria-Pia Casilio, Aldo Giuffrè, Giacomo Furia, Nora Ricci
Roles Theatre Play
Rating67% 3.399443.399443.399443.399443.39944
Don Felice Sciosciammocca becomes mayor of the town of Roccasecca. The grandson Ciccillo is an idler that is in the distant Naples to spend unnecessary money that his uncle sends him to continue his studies in medicine and a friend supports him in pursuing this futile activity hilarious. However one day Don Felice choose to go with the whole family in town to see the new hospital that opened Ciccillo, as he had written falsely relative to the first day, and then to his grandson will be trouble. In fact Ciccillo wanted more money and come up with a good reason to justify the request he made up the story that he had opened a clinic for the mentally ill. Now to extricate himself from deception Ciccillo asks an acquaintance to give him a few hours to control a pension for old to make her visit to Don Felice. Man, being a simpleton, he sees a group of old men who are trying some scenes of a tragedy of William Shakespeare and then sees people coming and going to his bedroom at night. So Felice really believe to be in a clinic crazy, but sooner or later the chickens come home to roost and Don Felice discovers the truth.
Poverty and Nobility
Poverty and Nobility (1954)
, 1h35
Directed by Mario Mattoli
Origin Italie
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Totò, Dolores Palumbo, Enzo Turco, Sophia Loren, Carlo Croccolo, Giuseppe Porelli
Roles Theatre Play
Rating76% 3.8147353.8147353.8147353.8147353.814735
The story is taken from the Eduardo Scarpetta's play: Naples, 1800. The poor Felice Sciosciamocca tries to work being a scribe for ignorant people, while his friend Don Pasquale tries to make photographs for rich couples. Meanwhile in the house where the two live, their wives start to fight because the apartment is mortgaged, and the women don't have money to pay the rent. Luckily rich Count Luigino, in love with the beautiful dancer Gemma, asks Pasquale and Felice to stage a farce for him. In fact the parents of Gemma want to meet Luigino's family, but he knows that his real father does not approve his love affair with the dancer. So Luigino transforms Don Felice Sciosciamocca into his uncle: Prince of Casadores, and Don Pasquale has to play the true father of Luigino. The young count entrusts a false part to play to all members of the two families, except the second wife of Felice: Concetta. Unfortunately Count Luigino cannot find a role for her, and Concetta gets very angry. While Felice Sciosciammocca and Pasquale're argue in the beautiful villa of Don Gaetano, Gemma's father, Concetta bursts in the home, and tries to compromise the plan organized by Luigino. Fortunately Don Felice manages to fix the situation and in the end, all is happily resolved.
Neapolitan Turk
Neapolitan Turk (1953)
, 1h26
Directed by Mario Mattoli
Genres Comedy
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Totò, Carlo Campanini, Aldo Giuffrè, Ignazio Balsamo, Isa Barzizza, Vinicio Sofia
Roles Theatre Play
Rating69% 3.4634153.4634153.4634153.4634153.463415
The film is based on a play by the famous Neapolitan writer Eduardo Scarpetta, father of Eduardo and Peppino De Filippo. The story is set in Naples and Sorrento in the second half of 1800. The thief Felice Sciosciammocca (the surname in Naples means "one who is always with her mouth open in astonishment"; Felice means "Happy") together with the bandit Faina ("Weasel") escapes from prison and meets with a eunuch Turkish that he should go to Sorrento for a service. Don Felice kidnaps him and steals his letter of recommendation to get into the house of the rich man who had been sent the Turkish, so that gains a bit 'of money for him and for his accomplice. The man who had called the Turkish is the rich grocer Don Pasquale, being jealous of his wife and young daughter, betrothed to Don Carluccio holding a dowry, is to host the Don Felice robes Turkish and immediately test some suspicion. In fact, the Turkish rather than look like a eunuch protector proves to be a great womanizer and causes the sympathy of all the girls in the country and the wrath of the young. Don Felice, forgetting appears Faina, have fun in monitoring the wife and daughter of Pasquale and Don Carluccio appears more and more restless by the net waste of his betrothed. In the days to follow Don Felice will be met with the Honourable Cocchetelli who had recommended the real Turkish to Don Pasquale, but can not reveal the truth because Don Felice surprised him with a girl who was not his wife. Is coming the day of the wedding and don Carluccio after an engagement party gone wrong, stormed into the house of Don Pasquale to beat him, but Don Felice intervenes and gives the marching orders to the bully who runs away scared. All thanks Don Felice, who reveals his identity and claims to have done all this misunderstanding consists of funny situations to entertain the audience watching him from a theater.
Matrimonial Agency
Matrimonial Agency (1952)
, 1h49
Directed by Jean-Paul Le Chanois, Pierre Granier-Deferre
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Actors Bernard Blier, Louis de Funès, Michèle Alfa, Yvonne Gradelet, Julien Carette, Jean-Pierre Grenier
Roles Theatre Play
Rating68% 3.418233.418233.418233.418233.41823
An average man inherits a marriage agency. He isn't prepared in any way to deal with this situation but step by step he lives up to the expectations.
Sette ore di guai
Sette ore di guai (1951)
, 1h21
Directed by Marcello Marchesi, Vittorio Metz
Genres Comedy
Actors Totò, Carlo Campanini, Isa Barzizza, Giulietta Masina, Clelia Matania, Mario Castellani
Roles Theatre Play
Rating65% 3.250623.250623.250623.250623.25062
Toto De Pasquale (Toto) is the holder of a modest tailoring. The day of the baptism of his son, receives the visit of the Advocate Espinaci (Eduardo Passarelli), charge d'notice the seizure of his property because of a debt long overdue and unpaid. When the lawyer discovers that the wife of De Pasquale (Clelia Matania) is an old friend of his, he decides to postpone. Toto, to ingratiate himself further, he decides to do godfather, forgetting that he had already entrusted the task to brother Matthew (Nino Milano), incurable bully. A few minutes later Toto, the lawyer and Matthew discover that the nurse (Bice Valori) has lost the baby after a fight on the streets with her husband. Without saying anything to his wife, Toto goes to look for the child and, in order not to suspect anything to the new mother, the child does bring the Romolini, a family of distracted students living close to De Pasquale. Oblivious to the fact that the child is brought home by a friend of De Pasquale mercy, Toto, the lawyer and Matthew end up at the home of a prostitute (Isa Barzizza) and his crazy protector (Guido Celano). Later, they are led to believe that the child has been brought in the wrong country estate of Romolini. Once in the village on the estate, the three divide and Toto pulls what he believes to be his son (but it is actually the child of Romolini) to grandfather Arturo (Arturo Bragaglia), who called for help immediately denounced the kidnapping of the baby. A few minutes later, the entire town chasing the poor tailor, mistaken for a kidnapper. Toto may first lynching and then fall from the roof of a building. At the end of many vicissitudes, Toto joins lawyer and brother with the baby, but arrived at the church where the baptism was to take place, he discovers that his son was already baptized. The poor man must therefore suffer the insults of the lawyer (who threatens to sequestrargli the workshop on behalf of its customers) and the mother-in-law (who denies financial support), as well as Romolini. At the end of the film, Toto sits on the steps of the church, while everyone is running behind a tow truck on which was accidentally placed his son and the small Romolini.
Sette ore di guai
Sette ore di guai (1951)

Directed by Marcello Marchesi, Vittorio Metz
Genres Comedy
Actors Totò, Isa Barzizza, Carlo Campanini, Eduardo Passarelli, Mario Castellani, Galeazzo Benti
Roles Theatre Play
Rating65% 3.250623.250623.250623.250623.25062
Toto De Pasquale (Toto) est un modeste tailleur. Le jour du baptême de son fils, il reçoit la visite de l'avocat Espinaci (Eduardo Passarelli), chargé de la saisie de ses biens en raison d'une dette. Lorsque l'avocat découvre que la femme de De Pasquale (Clelia Matania) est une ancienne amie, il décide de reporter la saisie.