Ninetto Davoli
Ninetto Davoli | |
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![]() Davoli in 2014 in Venice | |
Born | (1948-10-11) 11 October 1948 (age 75) San Pietro a Maida, Calabria, Italy |
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1964–present |
Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) |
Giovanni "Ninetto" Davoli (born 11 October 1948) is an Italian actor who appeared in several of Pier Paolo Pasolini's films.
Biography
Davoli was born in San Pietro a Maida, Calabria. He was discovered by poet, novelist and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini, then 41, who had begun a relationship with Davoli, then a 15-year-old boy, in 1963. Pasolini considered him to be "the great love of his life," and he later cast him in his 1966 film Uccellacci e uccellini (literally Bad Birds and Little Birds but translated in English as The Hawks and the Sparrows), co-starred with celebrated comic Totò. Pasolini became the youth's mentor and friend. "Even though their sexual relations lasted only a few years, Ninetto continued to live with Pasolini and was his constant companion, as well as appearing in six more of his films."[1]
First cast in a non-speaking role in the film Il vangelo secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew, 1964), Davoli played mostly comical-naïve roles in several more of Pasolini's films, the last of which was Il fiore delle Mille e una Notte (A Thousand and One Nights/Arabian Nights, 1974).
The Trilogy of Life was made at a harsh junction in the lives of Davoli and Pasolini. It was during the filming of The Canterbury Tales that Davoli left Pasolini to marry a woman. Behind the scenes, this ruined Pasolini's mood and he began composing nihilistic and angry poetry.[2] For his next film, Arabian Nights, Pasolini did with Davoli what he had never done in a previous film: he showed Davoli's naked genitalia on screen. It is in this film that Davoli's character Aziz is a very selfish and unfeeling man whose rejection of a woman causes her death and which results in his own castration on screen. Pasolini's own hurt feelings are very evident here in what is for the most part a lighthearted fantasy film.
After Pasolini's death in 1975, Davoli turned increasingly to television productions.
In May 2015, Davoli was announced as recipient of a special Nastro d'Argento Career Award.[3]
Selected filmography
Film
- Il vangelo secondo Matteo (The Gospel According to St. Matthew, 1964, Pasolini) - Pastore con bambino (uncredited)
- Uccellacci e uccellini (The Hawks and the Sparrows, 1966, Pasolini) - Innocenti Ninetto / Brother Ninetto
- Le streghe (1967, Pasolini) - Baciu Miao (segment "La terra vista dalla luna")
- Requiescant (1967) - El Niño
- Edipo re (Oedipus Rex, 1967, Pasolini) - Angelo
- Caprice Italian Style (1968, Pasolini) - Othello (segment "Che cosa sono le nuvole?")
- Teorema (Theorem, 1968, Pasolini) - Angelino - the Messenger
- Partner (1968) - Student
- Amore e rabbia (1969, Pasolini) - Riccetto (segment "La sequenza del fiore di carta")
- Porcile (Pigsty, 1969, Pasolini) - Maracchione
- Ostia (1970) - Fiorino
- Il Decameron (The Decameron, 1971, Pasolini) - Andreuccio of Perugia
- Er Più – storia d'amore e di coltello (1971) - Antonio Cerino, aka 'Totarello'
- Shadows Unseen (1972) - Giorgio the Pusher
- I Racconti di Canterbury (The Canterbury Tales, 1972, Pasolini) - Perkin
- S.P.Q.R. (1972)
- Storia di fifa e di coltello - er seguito del più (1972) - 'Totarello' Meniconi
- Il maschio ruspante (1972) - Walter
- Anche se volessi lavorare, che faccio? (1972) - Riccetto
- Maria Rosa la guardona (1973) - Romolo
- La Tosca (1973) - Ussano Nero
- Storia de fratelli e de cortelli (1973) - Riccetto
- Storie scellerate (1973) - Bernardino
- La signora è stata violentata (1973) - Palla - il fattorino
- Unbelievable Adventures of Italians in Russia (1974) - Giuseppe
- Pasqualino Cammarata, Frigate Captain (1974) - Otello Meniconi
- Il fiore delle Mille e una Notte (A Thousand and One Nights/Arabian Nights, 1974, Pasolini) - Aziz
- Appassionata (1974) - Butcher's Boy
- Amore mio, non farmi male (1974) - Giovanni 'Ninetto' Procacci
- Il lumacone (1974) - Ginetto
- Blonde in Black Leather (1975) - Il saltimbanco / l'angelo / il diavolo
- Il vizio ha le calze nere (1975) - Sandro Lucetti
- Frankenstein all'italiana (1975) - Igor
- L'agnese va a morire (1976) - La disperata
- Spogliamoci, così senza pudor (1976) - Pietro, Thief (Segment "L'armadio Di Troia")
- Amore all'arrabbiata (1976) - Ninetto De Terenzi
- Death Hunt (1977) - Mario
- Casotto (1977) - Il fotografo
- Malabestia (1978) - Filippo Diotallevi
- La liceale seduce i professori (1979) - Arturo
- Maschio.. femmina... fiore... frutto (1979) - Donato - un militare
- Good News (1979) - Fattorino
- Il cappotto di Astrakan (1980)
- Il minestrone (1981) - Giovanni
- The Tyrant's Heart (1981) - Filippo
- Il conte Tacchia (1982) - Ninetto
- Occhei, occhei (1983) - Prete
- Mary Ward [de] (1985) - Bettler am Brunnen
- Momo (1986) - Nino
- A proposito di Roma (1987)
- Animali metropolitani (1987) - Spartaco Scorcelletti
- Le rose blu (1996)
- La ragazza del metrò (1989) - Donato
- Le rose blu (1989) - La guardia carceraria
- L'anno prossimo vado a letto alle dieci (1995) - Il Tenente
- I magi randagi (1996) - Amico di Giuseppe
- Cinématon #1824 (1997)
- Una vita non violenta (1999) - Franco
- Uno su due (2006) - Giovanni
- Concrete Romance (2007) - Pompo
- Scontro di civiltà per un ascensore a Piazza Vittorio (2010) - Il Tassinaro
- Tutti al mare (2011) - Alfredo
- Fiabeschi torna a casa (2013)
- Without Pity (2014) - Santili
- Pasolini (2014) - Epifanio
- Mio papà (2014) - Orso
- Uno anzi due (2015) - Nando Scaratti
- Natale a Londra – Dio salvi la regina (2016) - Er Duca
- The Executrix (2017) - Rudolfo
Television
- Le avventure di Calandrino e Buffalmaco (1975, TV Mini-Series)
- Addavenì quel giorno e quella notte (1979, TV Mini-Series) - Er Samurai
- Sogni e bisogni (1985, TV Mini-Series) - Er Caramella
- La romana (1988, TV Mini-Series)
- L'altro enigma (1988, TV Movie) - Il barbone
- Il vigile urbano (1989)
- L'avvocato porta (1997) - Remondino
- La banda (2000, TV Movie)
- Vite a prendere (2004, TV Movie) - Enrico Feroci
Sources
- Siciliano, Enzo (1982). Pasolini: A Biography. New York: Random House. p. 167.
- ^ Ireland, Doug (4 August 2005). "Restoring Pasolini". LA Weekly. LA Weekly, LP. Archived from the original on 27 December 2013. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
- ^ The Secret Humiliation of Chaucer documentary
- ^ Maria Pia Fusco (30 May 2015). "L'omaggio a Davoli con il premio alla carriera "Ma io non sono un attore"". La Repubblica. Retrieved 3 June 2015.
External links
- Ninetto Davoli at IMDb