Mario Scaccia

Mario Scaccia (26 December 1919 – 26 January 2011) was an Italian actor and author. He was a prominent figure in the Italian theatre of '900.

Biography Born in Rome, the son of a painter, during the Second World War Scaccia was conscripted into the army as an officer in Sicily; made prisoner by the American army, he was taken in Morocco, where he remained three years. In 1945 Scaccia returned to Rome, where he abandoned his studies in pedagogy and enrolled at the Accademia Nazionale di Arte Drammatica Silvio D'Amico, attending only the first year; At the same time Scaccia was a prolific character actor in films, TV series and radio-dramas.

Selected filmography

The Flame (1952) - Mauret A Slice of Life (1954) - (segment "Scena all'aperto") Too Bad She's Bad (1955) - Carletto, l'uomo derubato della borsa Lucky to Be a Woman (1956) - Un cameriere Il Mattatore (1960) - Il gioielliere The Traffic Policeman (1960) - Mayor's lawyer (uncredited) Femmine di lusso (1960) - Edmondo, the butler Revenge of the Barbarians (1960) - Onorius, Emperor of the West Robin Hood and the Pirates (1960) - Jonathan Brooks Ursus (1961) - Kymos Behind Closed Doors (1961) - Manning, l'albergatore Day by Day, Desperately (1961) - Orderly The Seventh Sword (1962) - Il Cardinale / The Cardinal Musketeers of the Sea (1962) - Re di Francia Avventura al motel (1963) - Manfredi The Swindlers (1963) - Lawyer (segment "Medico e fidanzata") Shivers in Summer (1964) - The Manager of 'Carrousel' Show Amore facile (1964) - Cante Bardi-Stucchi (segment "Divorzio italo-americano") Oltraggio al pudore (1964) Me, Me, Me... and the Others (1966) - Guidarino, Journalist A Maiden for the Prince (1966) - Cardinal Gonzaga We Still Kill the Old Way (1967) - Prete Giacomo Casanova: Childhood and Adolescence (1969) - Doctor Zambelli Between Miracles (1971) - Priore Meo Patacca (1972) - Cardinale Il generale dorme in piedi (1972) - Gen. Arturo Pigna The Adventures of Pinocchio (1972) - 1° Dottore La calandria (1972) - Ruffo Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973) - Alessandro Marzo 'Albertone' The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1974) - Signor Rossetti I'll Take Her Like a Father (1974) - Don Amilcare De Loyola The Antichrist (1974) - Faith Healer The Sex Machine (1975) - Mons. Alberoni Eye of the Cat (1975) - Salomone Fioravanti Lezioni di violoncello con toccata e fuga (1976) - Leopoldo Soldier of Fortune (1976) - Don Pedro Gonzalo de Guadarrama Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976) - Cardinal Piazza-Colonna Un amore targato Forlì (1976) Black Journal (1977) - Rosario Double Murder (1977) - Marino Cianciarelli Break Up (1978) - Il dottore The Word (1978, TV Mini-Series) - Agusto Monti Occhio, malocchio, prezzemolo e finocchio (1983) - Corinto Marchialla Il mistero del morca (1984) Juke box (1985) L'ultima mazurka (1986) - Reiger Secondo Ponzio Pilato (1987) - Tiberio In camera mia (1992) Ferdinando and Carolina (1999) - Ferdinando I Borbone (old) Voglio stare sotto al letto (1999) - Giò Giordani Gabriel (2001)