Capannelle Alias Carlo Pisacane
(Naples, 2 February 1889 – 9 October 1974)
He began his career at the time of silent cinema beside Tina Pica, in the first film of the first woman filmmaker Elvira Notari. Subsequently he starred between the thirties and seventies in more than seventy films, playing roles of strong macchiettistico. Although he had already worked in several films, including Roberto Rossellini's Paisà of 1946, the film was only in 1958, arrives late, fame when Director Mario Monicelli entrusted him with the role of the mythical Capannelle, the ravenous old man, voiced by Nico Pepe in ramshackle gang de I Soliti Ignoti. The nickname the will remain throughout the period of his artistic career. In the immediate postwar years plays a large number of films. It is alongside Alberto Sordi in the film Il Vigile, alongside toto, and Aldo Fabrizi, Totò, Fabrizi e i giovani d'oggi. Back to work with Monicelli talking l'armata Brancaleone, the masterpiece of Roman Director of 1966, wearing the clothes of Habakkuk, the converted Jew, in spite, of the ramshackle medieval army. Building on the success achieved by the film is called by Pasolini to interpret Branbanzio, in reviving that Director friulano accomplishes the Othello in the episode What are clouds?, taken from the movie Capriccio all'italiana, 1968. Ends his career in 1972 with a brief appearance in brother Sun, sister moon by Franco Zeffirelli. 85-year dies in Rome.
Filmography
1932/ La tavola dei poveri, by Alessandro Blasetti
1946/ Paisà, directed by Roberto Rossellini
1949/ Campane a Martello, directed by Luigi Zampa
1952/ Processo alla città, directed by Luigi Zampa
1952/ a thief in Paradise, directed by Domenico Paolella
1953/ ... and Naples sings!, directed by Armando Grottini
1957/ Feeling, directed by Armando Fizzarotti
1957/ an Angel fell in Brooklyn, directed by Ladislao Vajda
1958/ I soliti ignoti, by Mario Monicelli
1959/ men and noblemen, directed by Giorgio Bianchi
1959/ arrogant and in love, directed by Giuseppe Vari
1959/ La sceriffa, directed by Roberto Bianci Montero
1959/ The recommended of iron, directed by Marcello Baldi
1959/ Prepotenti più di prima, directed by Mario Mattoli
1959/ piece of the sky, directed by Aglauco Casadio
1959/ The one hundred kilometers, directed by Giulio Petroni
1959/ the mobsters, directed by Roberto Mauri
1959/ El Lazarillo de Tormes, directed by César Fernández Ardavín
1960/ Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti, directed by Nanni Loy
1960/ The way of the Giants, directed by Guido Malatesta
1960/ Risate di gioia, directed by Mario Monicelli
1960/ the pleasures of Bachelor, directed by Giulio Petroni
1960/ La contessa azzurra, directed by Claudio Gora
1960/ the delights of Saturday night, directed by Daniele D'anza
1960/ Totò, Fabrizi e i giovani d'oggi, directed by Mario Mattoli
1961/ The joy of living, directed by René Clément
1961/ The sound of racing cars, directed by Leo War
1961/ the usual bank robbers in Milan, directed by Giulio Petroni
1961/ Husbands in danger, directed by Mauro Morassi
1961/ Io bacio ... tu baci, directed by Piero Vivarelli
1961/ Between meniscus mud ..., directed by Armando w. Tamburella
1961/ I briganti Italiani, directed by Mario Camerini
1962/ Tamara divided in Berlin, directed by Giorgio Bianchi
1962/ Nerone ' 71, directed by Filippo Walter Ratti
1962/ my friend Benito, directed by Giorgio Bianchi
1962/ Maciste, il gladiatore più forte del mondo, directed by Michele Lupo
1962/ Il giorno più corto, directed by Domenico Paolella
1962/ Colpo Gobbo all'italiana, directed by Lucio Fulci
1963/ Mr, directed by Sergio Corbucci
1963/ Le motorizzate, directed by Mario Garcia
1963/ the Tiger of the seven seas, directed by Luigi Capuana
1963/ Los dinamiteros, by Juan g. Atienza
1964/ the train on Saturday, directed by Vittorio Sala
1964/ The boys of the Hully Gully, directed by Marcello Giannini
1964/ Cougars, episode The Unscrewed, directed by Marino Girolami and Javier Setó
1964/ Napoleon in Florence, directed by Piero Pierotti
1964/ Songs, guys and dolls, directed by Carlo Infascelli
1964/ 1965: the last, by Juan García
1964/ Spuit Elf, directed by Paul Cammermans
1965/ Questo pazzo, pazzo mondo della canzone, directed by Bruno Corbucci and Giovanni Grimaldi
1965/ Made in Italy, directed by Nanni Loy
1966/ Veneri in collegio, directed by Marino Girolami
1966/ 7 the monaci d'Oro, directed by Moraldo Rossi
1966/ Glenda's husband, episode of our husbands, directed by Dino Risi
1966/ l'armata Brancaleone directed by Mario Monicelli
1966/ for a few dollars less, directed by Mario Mattoli
1966/ fox hunting, by Vittorio De Sica
1966/ the Saint takes aim (Le Saint prend l'affut), directed by Christian-Jaque
1966/ Operazione San Gennaro, directed by Dino Risi
1967/ Operazione San Pietro, directed by Lucio Fulc
1967/ danced by a billion, directed by Gianni Puccini
1967/ Wanted, directed by Giorgio Ferroni
1967/ once upon a time ..., directed by Francesco Rosi
1967/ man to man, directed by Giulio Petroni
1967/ Capriccio all'italiana, episode What are clouds?, directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini
1968/ Franco, Ciccio, and Merry widows, directed by Marino Girolami
1968 Donne, Botte e bersaglieri, directed by Ruggero Deodato
1969/ the Archangel, directed by Giorgio Capitan
1969/ Zenabel, directed by Ruggero Deodato
1970/ on the Lord's day, directed by Bruno Corbucci
1970/ Clowns, directed by Federico Fellini
1971/ 17 -17 Room, tax, tax office building, directed by Michele Lupo
1972/ brother Sun, sister moon, directed by Franco Zeffirelli
Voice actors
Lauro Gazzolo in La Sceriffa, the Tiger of the seven seas, Maciste, il gladiatore più forte del mondo
Nico Pepe in I soliti ignoti, Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti, Operazione San Pietro
Amilcare Pettinelli in my friend Benito, Between Manisco cerca guai ...
Mario Court in Campane a Martello
Pietro De Vico in the joy of living
Alighiero Noschere in Juliet of the spirits
Franco Latini in l'armata Brancaleone, Cougars
Fiorenzo Fiorentini in the watchful
