Carlo Pisacane (actor)
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Carlo Pisacane was an Italian
actor who performed in over 70 films, including spaghetti Western
s like Death Rides a Horse
(1968) and parodies like For a Few Dollars Less (1966). He's best remembered for his appearances in comedic classics like Big Deal on Madonna Street
and its sequel Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti
where he played the elderly and gluttonous small-time crook "Capannelle" and for his role as the miserly Jewish merchant Abacuc in L'Armata Brancaleone
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Italy
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actor who performed in over 70 films, including spaghetti Western
Spaghetti Western
Spaghetti Western, also known as Italo-Western, is a nickname for a broad sub-genre of Western films that emerged in the mid-1960s in the wake of Sergio Leone's unique and much copied film-making style and international box-office success, so named by American critics because most were produced and...
s like Death Rides a Horse
Death Rides a Horse
Death Rides a Horse is a 1967 spaghetti western directed by Giulio Petroni, written by Luciano Vincenzoni, and starring Lee Van Cleef and John Phillip Law. Bill Meceita, a boy whose family was murdered in front of him by a gang, sets out 15 years later to exact revenge...
(1968) and parodies like For a Few Dollars Less (1966). He's best remembered for his appearances in comedic classics like Big Deal on Madonna Street
Big Deal on Madonna Street
Big Deal on Madonna Street is a 1958 Italian criminal-comedy film, directed by Mario Monicelli, and considered to be among the masterpieces of Italian cinema. Its original title translates as "the usual unknown persons", a journalistic and bureaucratic euphemism for "unidentified criminals" or...
and its sequel Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti
Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti
Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti is a 1960 Italian comedy crime film directed by Nanni Loy...
where he played the elderly and gluttonous small-time crook "Capannelle" and for his role as the miserly Jewish merchant Abacuc in L'Armata Brancaleone
L'armata Brancaleone
L'armata Brancaleone is an Italian comedy movie released in 1966, written by the famous duo Age & Scarpelli and directed by Mario Monicelli. It features Vittorio Gassman in the main role...
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