Luca Sportelli

Luca Sportelli

Actor · died at 72

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Age at death72
Birth dateMarch 11, 1927
BirthplaceBari
DiedAugust 29, 1999
ProfessionActor, Screenwriter
Zodiac signPisces

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Luca Sportelli — Biography

Between 1964 and 1991 the Italian actor Luca Sportelli appeared in more than a hundred films, most of them from comedy cinema. Besides acting on screen, he also worked as a screenwriter. Born in Bari, he died in Rome on 29 August 1999.

His filmography comes into view in the late 1960s with productions such as Don Chisciotte and Sancio Panza (1968), I See Naked and Isabella, Duchess of the Devils (both 1969). Satiricosissimo followed in 1970, then in 1971 Armiamoci e partite!, Il clan dei due Borsalini and Scusi, ma lei le paga le tasse?, in which he played Sig. Ballarin. The same year he was Karl Brunner in The Mad Butcher. In 1972 he appeared in Boccaccio and played the character credited as “Director” in The Terror with Cross-Eyes.

He kept working in the following years: in Il brigadiere Pasquale Zagaria ama la mamma e la polizia (1973) he played a farmer, and in La bolognese (1975) Birocchi; Messalina, Messalina followed in 1977. In the 1980s he was seen in Prickly Pears, Sugar, La dottoressa preferisce i marinai and Odd Squad, and in Mi faccia causa he played Bruno Gargiulo.

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