Rocco Papaleo
Birthday: Born in 1958-08-16 in Lauria, PZ, Italy
Deathday: Alive
Rocco Papaleo was born on August 16, 1958 in Lauria, Potenza, Basilicata, Italy.
TV Credits
Zelig
Character: Host
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Festival di Sanremo
Character: Self - Host
The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest....
Emigratis
Character: Self
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Padre Pio - Tra cielo e terra
Character: Fra Nicola
The story of Padre Pio (1887-1968) from the onset of the stigmata during World War I, when he prayed that soldiers' suffering be his, until his death. The story is told by Emilia, Pio's friend, to a Vatican official reviewing Padre Pio's potential canonization. We watch local people venerate the humble Capuchin monk, we see petty jealousies within the Church almost bring him down, and we experience his decision to build a Home for the Relief of Suffering, a labor of love begun just after World W...
No Activity: Niente da Segnalare
Character: Toni Totaro
Three couples on very different duties -- 2 cops, 2 dispatch officers and 2 criminals -- are stuck together in their narrow workspace, be it a police car, a radio station or a container. As the wait prolongs, their personal stories unfold in comic dialogues and unusual bonds form....
Resto Umile World Show
Character: Self
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Festival di Sanremo
Character: Self - Special Guest
The Sanremo Music Festival is the most popular Italian song contest and awards, held annually in the town of Sanremo, Imperia, Italy, and consisting of a competition amongst previously unreleased songs. The Festival was the inspiration for the Eurovision Song Contest....
Classe Di ferro
Character: Rocco Melloni
Classe di ferro is an Italian action/adventure television series that aired from October 6, 1989 to December 26, 1991. The series focused on a diverse group of young adults who enroll in Italy's military service....
Le Cri
Character: Razza
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Movie Credits
Cado dalle nubi
Character: Vito
An aspiring singer from southern Italy who's just been dumped moves north to Milan, where he falls in love and enters a TV singing competition show....
Dark Illness
Character:
After his father's death, a middle-aged screenwriter struggles with his obsessions and neuroses....
Basilicata Coast to Coast
Character: Nicola Palmieri
A music group and a journalist cross the region of Basilicata by foot to attend a music festival....
Another Summer Holiday
Character: Pampiglione
Altiero Molino is a twenty-six-year-old digital entrepreneur who’s returning to Ventotene with his model husband in order to gather his old friends together around his ailing father so as to treat him to one last holiday in this place which is so special to him. He didn’t expect to find the island all abuzz with Sabry Mazzalupi’s marriage to her partner Cesare. This young woman, who’s the awkward daughter of Roman shopkeeper Ruggero, has become an online celebrity and her wedding is a global eve...
One Life, Maybe Two
Character: Bertano
You're 20 years old and life is full of endless possibilities. But, on a rainy evening, you bumps into another car and life hasn't been the same anymore. Even though you have everything something keeps on eating you up....
I Love You in Every Language in the World
Character: Prof. Anselmi
Divorced high school PE teacher Gilberto falls in love with Margherita, unaware she's the mother of Paolina, a student who's been sending him "I love you" notes written in all the languages of the world....
Intolerance
Character: Worker (voice) (segment "Roma Ovest 143")
A collective cinematic project to promote tolerance and the value of diversity....
What a Beautiful Day
Character: Nicola
Checco, an uneducated but self-satisfied fellow from Milan, who has always dreamed of becoming a police officer, fails his entrance exam for the third time. It must be said that at the oral examination Checco said that the reason why he wanted to join the police was benefits in kind and cronyism! But the young man has connections and he soon finds himself a security agent at the Milan Cathedral. Of course the bumbling idiot proves a living catastrophe! Spotted by Sufien, an Arab terrorist who is...
U.S. Palmese
Character: Don Vincenzo
The story of the Palmi soccer team...
The Graduates
Character: Rocco
Four thirtysomething college students share a flat in Florence: Leonardo pursues beautiful Letizia, Rocco moonlights as a night watchman, Bruno has to graduate in order to inherit his father-in-law's business, and Pino dreams of becoming a stand-up comedian....
Del perduto amore
Character: Cucchiaro
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August Vacation
Character: Brigadiere
Like every August, journalist Sandro, his family and acquaintances vacation on the island of Ventotene. This time, however, they find out the house next door has been rented to a lower middle class family, whose crass nature and values soon clash with their own intellectual and progressive background....
Viola Kisses Everyone
Character: Nicola 'Swing' Palmieri
Three deadbeat friends see their motorhome holiday trip hijacked by Viola, a beautiful girl on the run from the police after a robbery....
Il barbiere di Rio
Character: Ugo
Matteo is a Roman barber whose business is full of debts. He decides to escape from this depressing reality by accepting his sister's invitation to Brazil....
Escort in Love
Character: Lionello
35-year-old Alice has a husband and a son. Her life seems a beautiful dream, but it soon turns out to be a nightmare. Her husband dies in a car accident and her lawyer tells her that she is on her uppers. The only way she has to earn money in a short time is by resorting to the oldest job in history....
Happiness at Last
Character: Sandrino Terracciano
A middle-aged man finds out his late mother was sponsoring a Brazilian girl who has now become a beautiful model and tries his best not to fall for her....
È nata una star?
Character: Fausto
Marco, a shy teenager, learns that he has... what it takes to be a great porn star, but he doesn't know how to tell his parents. Hell breaks loose when a neighbor finds a porn video of him and leaves it in his parents' mailbox....
Il trasformista
Character: Orlando Lanzetta
The Turin area is devastated by floods: the Pô River has overflown and toxic waste from a local dump is now being carried by the stream. Which is why Augusto Vigano, the co-owner of a pub and a dedicated environmentalist, blocks, in the company of a group of friends, the train on which minister Antonelli is traveling. The politician, agrees to listen to the protesters'complaints and , filmed by television cameras, follows Vigano all the way to the dump. It is on this occasion that Vigano is noti...
Viva l'Italia
Character: Tony
The story of a leading political man, suddenly telling “all the truth” after a serious illness and therefore overwhelming lifes of anyone surrounding him…...
La bomba
Character: Gaetano
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L'amore non basta
Character: Nicola
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Pinocchio
Character: Mangiafuoco (voice)
Geppetto the carpenter carves the object of his hidden desires out of a log: a puppet that will keep him company and will be like a son to him. He will call him Pinocchio. Imagine his surprise when he discovers that the puppet moves, as if by magic, and is gifted with a life on its own....
Finalmente soli
Character: Alberto
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Cuore di donna
Character: Goffredo
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Non c'è più niente da fare
Character: Avv. Massimo Lupi
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A Small Southern Enterprise
Character: don Costantino
Mamma Stella is on edge. As if she hadn't got enough trouble already with her daughter Rosa Maria, who has left her husband now Costantino, her son, has disrobed. Afraid to be the talk of the village, relegates him to a distant lighthouse belonging to the family. But Costantino does not remain far from the madding crowd for long. It does not take long indeed before all the local (or even distant) outcasts flock together there: Magnolia, a retired escort girl; Arturo, Rosa Maria's estranged husba...
Cinque giorni di tempesta
Character: Michele
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A Boss in the Living Room
Character: Ciro Cimmaruta
Cristina lives a peaceful life until her older brother Ciro, who has to attend a trial, asks to spend house arrests at Cristina’s home....
Voglio stare sotto al letto
Character: Vincenzo
Leonardo is a young theater enthusiast who has written a comedy for a comedian at sunset, Giordani, and leaves for the Adriatic coast together with the producer Peppino and his assistant to reach the actor and convince him to stage the script. During the journey, which becomes longer and longer and with unusual and bizarre stops, he will soon realize that Peppino's attentions are not disinterested, while he will be attracted by a young and beautiful girl, Paola....
La brutta copia
Character: Paolo Vandini
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The Hole
Character: Armando La Bella
Ambulance-chasing lawyers takes on the case of a convicted murderer who, just being released after doing 27 years in jail, claims he was innocent....
Happily Mixed Up
Character: Michelangelo
A psychoanalyst learns to have an illness and as a consequence he decides to quit his job. All his patients get together to find a way to make him feel better....
An Italian Name
Character: Claudio
Paolo is an outgoing and handsome real estate broker married to Simona, a beautiful woman from the rough outskirts of Rome who has become an author of spicy bestsellers and is pregnant with their child. Betta, Paolo’s sister and her husband Sandro organise a dinner party with Paolo, Simona and their childhood friend, the eccentric musician Claudio. During the lively gathering Paolo reveals what he would like to name his son, causing reactions to steam up and a torrent of revelations to follow re...
Suddenly Heaven
Character: Giandomenico Bardella
Lorenzo is a confirmed bachelor whose beliefs about commitment are put to the test when a beautiful woman — deserted by her fiancée — forces him to take his place in the romantic trip she had planned....
Commediasexi
Character: Tony Muciaccia
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La scuola più bella del mondo
Character: Prof. Gerardo Gergale
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Volesse il cielo!
Character: Commissario
A police inspector has to help an eccentric stranger who seems to have lost his memory....
La voce - Il talento può uccidere
Character: Gianni, l'imitatore
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Scordato
Character: Orlando
The life of Orlando, a gentle piano tuner, tormented by back pain, changes when he meets Olga, a charming physiotherapist, who diagnoses him with an emotional contracture and asks him to bring her a photo of himself as a young man, so that she can help him resolve his problems. The unusual request will push Orlando to travel and to relive, almost like a spectator, the events of his life that made him the solitary and contracted man he has become....
I peggiori giorni
Character: Vittorio (segment "Halloween")
Four episodes – Christmas, May 1st (Labour Day), August 15th (Ferragosto), Halloween – to tell four stories that delve into the human soul....
Onda su onda
Character: Gegé
Two under-appreciated artists meet while traveling to Montevideo, where one will give a concert. They initially dislike each other but eventually build a relationship as a means of finding a way out of their existential loneliness....
Wordless
Character: Celestino
Celestino has communication problems because of his incomprehensible native dialect. When he falls madly in love with a deaf girl called Rosetta, he learns sign language and pretends to be deaf as well in order to court her....
Ears
Character: Padre Giancarlo
A man wakes up one morning with an annoying ringing sound in his ears. A note on the fridge says: "Your friend Luigi has died. P.S. I took the car". The problem is that he does not even remember who this guy Luigi is. This is just the beginning of a tragicomic day during which he will be plunged into the folly of the world. One of those days that changes your life forever....
What’s the Big Deal
Character: Franco
A young man challenges the web to offer money for a sex tape of him and his girlfriend to finance his work and finally be able to afford having a child. Is it really wrong to sell our own intimacy in order to be able to afford making our dreams come true?...
If I May - Chapter II
Character:
Over the course of a day, Fausto, invincible in his inertia, watches a paradoxical procession of visitors pass by: the mellifluous parish priest of the town; a mysterious man with his absurd ghost-themed business idea; the captain of the Carabinieri who proposes a shotgun wedding to his daughter, who has become pregnant by a stranger. Finally, late at night, a couple of thieves enter the house with Barbara's complicity. Fausto surprises them, impassive and bored as always, and reassures them: th...
A Beautiful Wife
Character: Pomodoro
Mariano has been married for 10 years with Miranda, a woman way out of his league. Their small-town life is disrupted by womanizing photographer Andrea, who — struck by her good looks — offers Miranda a one-time modelling job. Albeit hesitant, the couple eventually accepts his invitation to the Seychelles......
Bob & Marys
Character: Roberto
A married couple must get their hands dirty when a bunch of mobsters start using their new home as a deposit for illegal material....
With Closed Eyes
Character: Bracciante
In the Tuscan countryside at the end of the 19th century, Pietro, the shy son of a tyrannical landowner, falls in love with Ghisola, a peasant girl with no family. His father has her sent away. Years later, the two meet again: still in love with her, Pietro would like to marry her, but she has become the mistress of a married man....
Che ne sarà di noi
Character: Concierge
A coming-of-age tale about three 18-year-olds just out of high school who go to a Greek island following one of the boys' older girlfriend....
Non prendere impegni stasera
Character: Nicola
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Il premio
Character: Rinaldo
After winning the Nobel Prize, Giovanni Passamonte decides to drive to Stockholm with his sons and assistant rather than fly....
Il pranzo della domenica
Character: Nicola Lo Iacono
The life of Franca Malorni, exponent of the good bourgeoisie of the capital, suddenly changes when her husband dies suddenly. The woman begins to pour her attention on the three daughters, obliging them to have a Sunday lunch with their families....
Me & Marilyn
Character: Arnolfo Biagioli
During a séance with some friends, divorced carny Gualtiero successfully conjures the spirit of Marilyn Monroe, who'll help him win his family back....
Cresceranno i carciofi a Mimongo
Character: Examiner
Sergio has a degree in botanics, but cannot find a job. Then, he gets the announcement that his former girlfriend is getting married....
The Place
Character: Odoacre
The fates of an apparently random group of strangers who each come into contact with a mysterious figure who they believe possesses the power to grant any wish, in return for which they must carry out a task he assigns them....
Tu mi nascondi qualcosa
Character: Alberto
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Padre Pio: Between Heaven and Earth
Character:
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Moschettieri del Re - La penultima missione
Character: Athos
In 17th-century France, the Queen brings the Three Musketeers — Athos, Porthos, Aramis, and an aging d'Artagnan — back from retirement for one last job: saving her son Louis and the whole kingdom....
Pinocchio
Character: Gatto
In this live-action adaptation of the beloved fairytale, old woodcarver Geppetto fashions a wooden puppet, Pinocchio, who magically comes to life. Pinocchio longs for adventure and is easily led astray, encountering magical beasts, fantastical spectacles, while making friends and foes along his journey. However, his dream is to become a real boy, which can only come true if he finally changes his ways....
Il grande spirito
Character: Renato
In a neighbourhood on the outskirts of Taranto, high upon the rooftops framed by the Ilva steel factory, we meet Tonino a.k.a. “Barboncino” (poodle). Tonino has just committed a robbery and, in a moment of foolishness, fled from his accomplices, taking the entire loot for himself. He escapes upward, clambering from roof to roof, until he can go no further and must take refuge in an old water tank. Here he finds Renato, a strange and eccentric man who believes he is an American Indian from the Siou...
Si vive una volta sola
Character: l'anestesista Amedeo Lasalandra
Umberto, Lucia and Corrado discover that their co-worker and friend Umberto is terminally ill, but they can't bring themselves to tell him. They decide instead to organize him an unforgettable holiday trip to the South....
I virtuali
Character: L'alcolista
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All Human Rights for All
Character:
Collective film for the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, with 30 directors each helming a segment about one of the 30 articles of the Declaration....
Enrico Lucherini - Ne ho fatte di tutti i colori
Character: Self
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Cecchi Gori - Una famiglia italiana
Character: Self
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Tutti per 1 - 1 per tutti
Character: Athos
Now without Aramis, the Musketeers embark on a new mission....
CrazyMinded
Character: Valium
How much do we really know about ourselves when we make a decision? What if there are multiple versions of our I within us, each with something to say?...
Amalfi: Rewards of the Goddess
Character: Inspector Bartolini
A man arrives in the city upon news of a potential terrorist strike in Italy. He is Japanese foreign diplomat, Kosaku Kuroda, and he’s here under orders of his supervisor at the Foreign Ministry, Hiroshi Kataoka (Kiichi Nakai), to aid in the safeguarding of Japanese citizens. Kuroda’s main contacts at the Japanese embassy consist of Ambassador Kikuhara, Counselor Nishino, and fellow diplomatic envoys Haba and Tanimoto. All are busy preparing for the visit of Japanese Foreign Minister Kawagoe due...