Enrico Montesano

Enrico Montesano (born 7 June 1945) is an Italian actor, comedian, television host, screenwriter and showman.

Career

Montesano comes from a family involved in theatre, and he made his debut in 1966 in a show named Humor nero, alongside of Vittorio Metz. Later he became a very popular actor both on theatre and on television, thanks to his burlesque and brilliant style, and so during seventies he took part in several Italian comedies. He is probably best known for the role of Armando "Er Pomata" Pellicci in the cult movie Febbre da cavallo (1976), directed by Steno, but also for the role of Caleb, the good thief from Il ladrone (1980), directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile. Montesano won a David di Donatello as best new director for the movie A me mi piace (1985), in which he is both actor and director. His career continued from 1967 to 2010.

From 2016 to 2017, he was a judge on the RAI programme Tale e quale show, the Italian adaptation of Your Face Sounds Familiar.

Personal life Since 2020, he has started a political battle against 5G, then attacking the "imposition" of vaccines and the restrictions due to measures to combat the COVID-19 pandemic through numerous videos on social networks. He has published numerous videos in which he takes critical positions towards the management of the COVID-19 pandemic and supports numerous conspiracy theories related to the pandemic and vaccines. In June 2021 he became the spokesperson for a false theory according to which the blood donated by vaccinated people is eliminated. The actor later apologized, saying he had been misinterpreted.

In late 2022 he was disqualified from RAI's Dancing with the Stars show after pictures posted from an audition showed him wearing a shirt with a symbol and motto of the Decima MAS unit that was active in the Nazi-Fascist Salò Republic puppet state under Nazi German occupation and committed some of the most serious crimes in wartime Italy by systematically carrying out public executions, massacres of civilian towns, torture, rapes and also favouring the Nazi genocide by assisting the SS in round-ups and "punishment operations" against civilians.

Filmography

1967: Stasera mi butto directed by Ettore Maria Fizzarotti 1967: Io non protesto, io amo directed by Ferdinando Baldi 1967: Nel sole directed by Aldo Grimaldi 1968: L'oro del mondo directed by Aldo Grimaldi 1968: Donne, botte e bersaglieri directed by Ruggero Deodato 1969: I quattro del pater noster directed by Ruggero Deodato 1969: Zum zum zum - La canzone che mi passa per la testa directed by Bruno Corbucci and Sergio Corbucci 1970: Io non scappo... fuggo directed by Franco Prosperi 1971: Io non vedo, tu non parli, lui non sente directed by Mario Camerini 1971: Io non spezzo... rompo directed by Bruno Corbucci 1971: Il furto è l'anima del commercio...?! directed by Bruno Corbucci 1972: Il terrore con gli occhi storti directed by Steno 1972: Cause of Divorce directed by Marcello Fondato 1972: Boccaccio directed by Bruno Corbucci 1972: The Mighty Anselmo and His Squire directed by Bruno Corbucci 1973: The Lady Has Been Raped directed by Vittorio Sindoni 1975: Amore vuol dir gelosia directed by Mauro Severino 1976: L'Italia s'è rotta directed by Steno 1976: Febbre da cavallo directed by Steno 1976: Remo e Romolo - Storia di due figli di una lupa directed by Castellacci and Pingitore 1976: Sex with a Smile directed by Sergio Martino 1976: Sex with a Smile II directed by Sergio Martino 1976: Tutti possono arricchire tranne i poveri directed by Mauro Severino 1977: Stato interessante directed by Sergio Nasca 1977: Il marito in collegio directed by Maurizio Lucidi 1977: Three Tigers Against Three Tigers directed by Sergio Corbucci and Steno 1977: Pane, burro e marmellata directed by Giorgio Capitani 1977: Melodrammore directed by Maurizio Costanzo 1977: Nerone directed by Castellacci and Pingitore 1978: Tutto suo padre directed by Maurizio Lucidi 1978: Le braghe del padrone directed by Flavio Mogherini 1978: Io tigro, tu tigri, egli tigra directed by Giorgio Capitani 1979: Love in First Class directed by Salvatore Samperi 1979: Lobster for Breakfast directed by Giorgio Capitani 1980: I Hate Blondes directed by Giorgio Capitani 1980: Qua la mano directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile 1980: Il ladrone directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile 1981: Quando la coppia scoppia (anche soggetto) directed by Steno 1981: Culo e camicia directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile 1981: Camera d'albergo directed by Mario Monicelli 1982: Il paramedico directed by Sergio Nasca 1982: Più bello di così si muore directed by Pasquale Festa Campanile 1982: Grand Hotel Excelsior directed by Castellano & Pipolo 1982: Count Tacchia directed by Sergio Corbucci 1983: Sing Sing directed by Sergio Corbucci 1984: Mi faccia causa directed by Steno 1984: Softly, Softly directed by Lina Wertmüller 1984: I due carabinieri directed by Carlo Verdone 1985: A me mi piace directed by Enrico Montesano 1986: Grandi magazzini directed by Castellano & Pipolo 1986: Il tenente dei carabinieri directed by Maurizio Ponzi 1987: Noi uomini duri directed by Maurizio Ponzi 1988: Il volpone directed by Maurizio Ponzi 1988: The Rogues directed by Mario Monicelli 1991: Piedipiatti (anche soggetto) directed by Carlo Vanzina 1993: Cain vs. Cain directed by Alessandro Benvenuti 1994: Anche i commercialisti hanno un'anima directed by Maurizio Ponzi 2002: Febbre da cavallo - La mandrakata directed by Carlo Vanzina 2007: Il lupo directed by Stefano Calvagna 2008: Bastardi directed by Federico Del Zoppo and Andres Alce Meldonado 2009: Many Kisses Later directed by Fausto Brizzi 2010: Tutto l'amore del mondo directed by Riccardo Grandi 2019: Vivere directed by Francesca Archibugi