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Cesare Polacco

Italian actor and voice actor

Actor
voice actor

Years active1928–1986

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.