Ninetto Davoli

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.

Ninetto Davoli
Davoli in 2014 in Venice
Born (1948-10-11) 11 October 1948
OccupationActor
Years active1964–present
Height1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)

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).

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.[2]

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
  • Mary Ward (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. 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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