Antonio "Nino" Frassica (born December 11, 1950) is an Italian actor.

Born in Messina, he debuted for Italian television with Renzo Arbore

Renzo Arbore

Lorenzo Giovanni Arbore is an Italian TV host, showman, singer, musician, film actor and film director.-Career:...

's Quelli della notte (1985), in which he played a semi-illiterate friar. Later, again under Arbore, he was given a major role in the also surreal and successful Indietro tutta! of 1987.

Frassica has subsequently featured in numerous comic movies, Il Bi e il Ba (1986), and TV shows for Italian television. He plays Lt. Cecchini on the Italian TV series Don Matteo

Don Matteo

Don Matteo is an Italian television series that has been airing since 2000 on the premier channel of Italian national television, Rai 1. Protagonist of the series is Father Matteo , a Catholic priest in a parish of the town of Gubbio , who is also known for his unrivaled talent in investigating...

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