Lino Capolicchio is an Italian actor, screenwriter, and film director. He won a special David di Donatello

David di Donatello

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 acting award for his role in Vittorio de Sica

Vittorio de Sica

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's 1970 film, The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

The Garden of the Finzi-Continis

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Capolicchio was a well known television actor before breaking into film with an uncredited role in Franco Zeffirelli

Franco Zeffirelli

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's The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew (1967 film)

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in 1967. He has appeared in over seventy films and television dramas. In 1995 he wrote and directed Pugili, an award winning film about the world of boxing.

For three seasons, Lino Capolicchio provided the voice for Bo Hazard in the Italian broadcasts of The Dukes of Hazard.

Selected filmography

• 2010 Una sconfinata giovinezza
• 2009 Aller-retour
• 2002 Il diario di Matilde Manzoni (writer & director)
• 2001 L'accertamento
• 2001 An Impossible Crime
• 1999 Il tempo dell'amore
• 1997 Traveling Companion
  Traveling Companion
  Traveling Companion is a 1996 Italian drama film directed by Peter Del Monte. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Asia Argento - Cora* Michel Piccoli - Cosimo* Lino Capolicchio - Pepe...
  
  
• 1997 Porzus
• 1995 Pugili (writer & director)
• 1993 Fiorile
  Fiorile
  Fiorile is a 1993 Italian drama film about a family curse caused by greed. The film was directed by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani, and stars Claudio Bigagli, Galatea Ranzi, and Michael Vartan. It was entered into the 1993 Cannes Film Festival....
  
  
• 1992 Fratelli e sorelle
• 1992 Il giardino dei ciliegi
• 1988 The Last Minute
• 1985 The Three of Us
• 1982 Canto d'amore
• 1981 Lion of the Desert
  Lion of the Desert
  Lion of the Desert is a 1981 Libyan historical action film starring Anthony Quinn as Libyan tribal leader Omar Mukhtar, a Bedouin leader fighting the Italian army in the years leading up to World War II and Oliver Reed as Italian General Rodolfo Graziani, who attempted to defeat Mukhtar. It was...
  
  
• 1979 Le strelle nel fosso
• 1978 The Bloodstained Shadow
• 1976 The House with Laughing Windows
  The House with Laughing Windows
  The House with Laughing Windows is a 1976 Italian mystery-horror film co-written and directed by Pupi Avati. The movie was filmed in Lido degli Scacchi, Ferrara, Emilia-Romagna, Italy...
  
  
• 1976 Càlamo
• 1976 La legge violenta della squadra anticrimine
• 1975 L'ultimo giorno di scuola prima delle vacanze di Natale
• 1974 Last Days of Mussolini
  Last Days of Mussolini
  Last Days of Mussolini is a 1975 Italian drama film directed by Carlo Lizzani and starring Rod Steiger, Franco Nero and Lisa Gastoni. The film depicts the down fall of the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.-Cast:...
  
  
• 1974 Di mamma non ce n'è una sola
• 1973 Amore e ginnastica
• 1972 Body of Love
• 1972 For Love One Dies
• 1971 Mio padre Monsignore
• 1971 Un apprezzato professionista di sicuro avvenire
• 1970 The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
  The Garden of the Finzi-Continis
  The Garden of the Finzi-Continis is a historical novel by Giorgio Bassani, published in 1962. It chronicles the relationships between the narrator and the children of the Finzi-Contini family from the rise of Benito Mussolini until the start of World War II.-Background:The Garden of the...
  
  
• 1970 Le tue mani sul mio corpo
• 1969 Il giovane normale
• 1969 Metti una sera a cena
  Metti una sera a cena
  Metti una sera a cena is a 1969 Italian drama film directed by Giuseppe Patroni Griffi. It was entered into the 1969 Cannes Film Festival.-Cast:* Jean-Louis Trintignant - Michele* Lino Capolicchio - Ric* Tony Musante - Max* Florinda Bolkan - Nina...
  
  
• 1969 Vergogna schifosi
• 1968 Escalation
  Escalation (film)
  Escalation is a 1968 Italian film written and directed by Roberto Faenza and starring actor Gabriele Ferzetti.- Cast :* Lino Capolicchio * Claudine Auger * Gabriele Ferzetti * Didi Perego * Leopoldo Trieste * Paola Corinti * Dada Gallotti...
  
  
• 1967 The Taming of the Shrew
  The Taming of the Shrew (1967 film)
  The Taming of the Shrew is a 1967 film based on the play of the same name by William Shakespeare about a courtship between two strong-willed people...
  
  

External links

• Lino Capolicchio at Allmovie
• Lino Capolicchio at Fandango
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