Cesare Polacco
Italian actor and voice actor
- Actor
- voice actor
Cesare Polacco (14 May 1900 – 2 March 1986) was an Italian actor and voice actor.[1]
Life and career
Born in Venice, Polacco started his career in 1920 in the stage company of Emilio Zago, with whom he played most of the Goldoni's repertoire.[2] In 1928 he moved to Rome, where in addition to theatre he started appearing in films and working as a dubber.[2] Being of Jewish origin, he was temporarily forced to abandon acting because of the 1938 Fascist racial laws, resuming his activities at the end of the war, in 1945.[2] Also active on radio and television, he got a large popularity thanks to the Inspector Rock character he played in Carosello, in a series of giallo-comedy shorts aired between 1957 and 1968.[2][3]
Partial filmography
- Loyalty of Love (1934) - Il banditore al patibolo
- Golden Arrow (1935) - Casellante stazione ferroviaria
- Lo squadrone bianco (1936) - El Fennek
- Hands Off Me! (1937) - Il capomastro
- The Former Mattia Pascal (1937) - Un ospite della pensione
- Tonight at Eleven (1938) - Il benzinaio
- A Thousand Lire a Month (1939) - Carletto, l'altro padrino
- Mad Animals (1939) - Il creditore
- The Fornaretto of Venice (1939) - Barnaba
- Torna, caro ideal! (1939) - Il medico
- Manon Lescaut (1940) - Un dei tre creditori
- La última falla (1940)
- Il signore della taverna (1940)
- Kean (1940) - Il medico
- Il ponte dei sospiri (1940)
- Il Bazar delle idee (1940)
- The Siege of the Alcazar (1940) - Venegas
- Eternal Melodies (1940) - Haydn
- Pinocchio (1940) - The Coachman (Italian version)
- La forza bruta (1941) - Paolo Perego
- The Prisoner of Santa Cruz (1941) - Sandro, suo marito
- Marco Visconti (1941)
- Merchant of Slaves (1942) - Un mercante
- Fedora (1942) - L'usuraio Barnstein
- We the Living (1942) - Member of the Epuration Commission
- O sole mio (1946)
- The Adulteress (1946) - Il vecchio dei gioielli
- Black Eagle (1946) - Il segretario Sputing
- Fury (1947) - Lawyer
- L'ebreo errante (1948)
- Fear and Sand (1948) - Banderillero
- The Earth Cries Out (1949) - Jafrem
- Buried Alive (1949) - Ferdinando
- A Night of Fame (1949) - Israelian Delegate
- Toto Looks for a House (1949) - Vice custode
- Toto the Sheik (1950) - Mohamed
- Fugitive in Trieste (1951)
- La prigioniera di Amalfi (1954)
- La campana di San Giusto (1954)
- Rigoletto e la sua tragedia (1956) - Sparafucile
- Tipi da spiaggia (1959) - Prince Joakim
- The Employee (1960) - Police Inspector Rock
- I due della legione (1962) - Police Commissioner
- The Godfather (1972) - Don Carlo Tramonti (uncredited)
References
- ^ "Cesare Polacco's dubbing contributions". Antoniogenna.net. Retrieved 3 September 2024.
- ^ a b c d Roberto Poppi, Enrico Lancia. Dizionario del cinema italiano : Gli attori dal 1930 ai giorni nostri. Gremese Editore, 2003. pp. 125–126. ISBN 8884402697.
- ^ Laura Delli Colli (4 March 1986). "E' morto Polacco l'infallibile Ispettore Rock della brillantina". La Repubblica. p. 24. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
External links
- Cesare Polacco at IMDb