Ninetto Davoli

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Ninetto Davoli
Ninetto Davoli.jpg
Davoli in 2014 in Venice
Born (1948-10-11) 11 October 1948 (age 72)
San Pietro a Maida, Calabria, Italy
OccupationActor
Years active1964–present
Height1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)

Giovanni "Ninetto" Davoli (born 11 October 1948) is an Italian actor who became known through his roles 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, 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
  • Qui comincia l'avventura (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
  •  [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.
  1. ^ Ireland, Doug (4 August 2005). "Restoring Pasolini". LA Weekly. LA Weekly, LP. Retrieved 29 August 2010.
  2. ^ The Secret Humiliation of Chaucer documentary
  3. ^ 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.

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