Lino Capolicchio

Lino Capolicchio (21 August 1943 – 3 May 2022) was an Italian actor, screenwriter, and director. He won a special David di Donatello acting award for his role in Vittorio de Sica's 1970 film, The Garden of the Finzi-Contini.

Capolicchio was a well-known television actor before breaking into film with an uncredited role in Franco Zeffirelli's The Taming of the Shrew in 1967. He 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, Capolicchio provided the voice for Bo Duke in the Italian broadcasts of The Dukes of Hazzard.

Partial filmography

1967: The Taming of the Shrew - Gregory (uncredited) 1968: Escalation - Luca Lambertinghi 1969: Metti una sera a cena - Rick / Nina's lover 1969: Il giovane normale - Giordano 1969: Vergogna schifosi - Carletto 1970: The Garden of the Finzi-Continis - Giorgio 1970: Le tue mani sul mio corpo - Andrea 1971: Mio padre Monsignore - Carlo Alberto Maggiolino 1971: Un apprezzato professionista di sicuro avvenire - Vincenzo Arduni 1972: For Love One Dies - Renato 1972: Body of Love - The Young Stranger 1973: Amore e ginnastica - Simone Censani 1974: Last Days of Mussolini - Pierluigi Bellini delle Stelle 'Pedro' 1974: Di mamma non ce n'è una sola - Marcello 1975: The Last Day of School Before Christmas - Erasmo 1976: Càlamo - Riccardo 1976: Cross Shot - Antonio Blasi 1976: The House with Laughing Windows - Stefano 1978: The Bloodstained Shadow - Stefano D'Archangelo 1979: Le strelle nel fosso - Silvano 1980: Lion of the Desert - Captain Bedendo 1980: Il mondo degli ultimi 1982: Canto d'amore - Giulio 1984: The Three of Us - Leopoldo Mozart 1988: The Last Minute - Renzo De Carlo 1992: Fratelli e sorelle - Aldo 1992: Il giardino dei ciliegi - Pietro 1993: Fiorile - Luigi 1995: Pugili (writer & director) 1996: Traveling Companion - Pepe 1997: Porzus - Galvano 1999: Il tempo dell'amore - Doctor 2001: L'accertamento - Giacomo Toschi 2001: An Impossible Crime - Valerio Garau 2002: Il diario di Matilde Manzoni (writer & director) 2004: L'eretico - Un gesto di coraggio - Cino da Pistoia 2009: Aller-retour - Giuseppe Amato 2010: A Second Childhood - Emilio 2014: L'altro Adamo 2014: Fuori Mira - Carlo Buzzi 2018: Respiri - Michele