Luigi De Filippo

Luigi De Filippo (10 August 1930 – 31 March 2018) was an Italian actor, stage director and playwright.

Born in Naples, the son of actors Peppino De Filippo and Adele Carloni, he studied literature at the university, leaving the studies on the threshold of graduation to pursue a career in journalism. Shorty later De Filippo debuted on stage next to his father, and from then he started a very long acting career, notably running for years a Neapolitan dialect company. He celebrated the fortieth anniversary of his stage activities with the reception of a special Premio Personalità Europea prize in Capitol Hill.

De Filippo appeared in many film roles, even if mainly in character roles. He was also active on television, mainly in television adaptations of his stage works. Since 2011 he has been the artistic director of the Parioli Theatre in Rome. De Filippo died in Rome on 31 March 2018 at the age of 87.

Partial filmography

Filumena Marturano (1951) - Umberto Non è vero... ma ci credo (1952) - Ragionier Pietro Spirito The Legend of the Piave (1952) - Giorgio, un soldato Peppino e la vecchia signora (1954) Cortile (1955) - Garage Attendant Da qui all'eredità (1955) - Pretendente di Marisa Lazzarella (1957) - Nicola Sant'Elmo Anna of Brooklyn (1958) - Zitto-Zitto Promesse di marinaio (1958) - Quattrocchi Policarpo (1959) - Gerolamo 'Gegè' Pancarano di Rondò You're on Your Own (1959) - Commilitone di Nicola Roulotte e roulette (1959) - Paolo Cerasella (1959) - Alfredo Il mio amico Jekyll (1960) Who Hesitates Is Lost (1960) - Cavallo Gli incensurati (1961) The Four Days of Naples (1962) - Cicillo (uncredited) Il mio amico Benito (1962) - Fioretti Honeymoon, Italian Style (1966) - Camilluccio Love Italian Style (1966) - Ricuzzo - Don Salvatore's Secretary Soldati e capelloni (1967) - Mosca Ninì Tirabusciò: la donna che inventò la mossa (1970) - Ciccio / Mohamed Ali Venga a fare il soldato da noi (1971) - Pasquale Gagliardelli Giovanni Senzapensieri (1986) - Achille / Segretario del Duca Quelli del casco (1988) In the Name of the Sovereign People (1990)