Eduardo De Filippo
- Acting
- May 24, 1900 · Napoli, Campania, Italy
- October 31, 1984
Biography
Eduardo De Filippo (Naples, 24 May 1900 - Rome, 31 October 1984), was an Italian playwright, actor, director, screenwriter and poet. Considered one of the most important Italian theatrical authors of the twentieth century, he was the author of numerous theatrical works which he himself staged and interpreted and, later, translated and performed by others also abroad. A prolific author, he also worked in the cinema with the same roles covered in the theatrical activity. For his artistic merits and contributions to culture, in 1981, he was appointed senator for life by the President of the Republic Sandro Pertini and was awarded two honorary degrees in literature from the University of Birmingham in 1977 and from the University of Rome La "Sapienza" in 1980. It was also proposed for the Nobel Prize for literature [2]. Eduardo is still today, together with Luigi Pirandello, Dario Fo and Carlo Goldoni, one of the most appreciated and represented Italian theater authors abroad He was born in Naples on May 24, 1900. Natural son of the actor and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta and of the theater dressmaker Luisa De Filippo, Eduardo and his brothers were recognized as children by their mother whose surname they took De Filippo. Eduardo Scarpetta, married on March 16, 1876 to Rosa De Filippo, with whom he had three children (Domenico, Maria and Vincenzo), had an extra-marital relationship with his granddaughter Luisa De Filippo (daughter of Luca, brother of Rosa De Filippo) from which Titina, Eduardo and Peppino were born.
Known for
Filmography
- Questi fantasmi! · Theatre Play
- Natale in casa Cupiello · Writer
- Napoli milionaria! · Writer
- The Great Magic · Story
- Filumena Marturano · Theatre Play
- Non ti pago · Writer
- Sabato, domenica e lunedì · Writer
- Eduardo De Filippo, Lezioni Di Teatro All’università Sapienza Di Roma · Self
- Natale in casa Cupiello · Theatre Play
- The Mayor of Rione Sanità · Theatre Play
- The Stuff of Dreams · Theatre Play
- Sabato, domenica e lunedì · Writer
- Questi fantasmi · Writer
- Napoli milionaria! · Writer
- Filumena Marturano · Writer
- Saturday, Sunday & Monday · Author
- Italian Marriage · Writer
- The Mayor · Theatre Play
- Saturday, Sunday and Monday · Screenplay
- Muž a gavalier · Theatre Play
- Cuore · Vincenzo Crosetti
- Tazweer Fe Awraq Rasmia · Story
- Umenie komédie · Theatre Play
- I Won't Pay! · Author
- Il berretto a sonagli · Director, Writer
- Il contratto · Director, Writer
- My Name Is Anna Magnani · Self
- Sobota, nedeľa, pondelok · Theatre Play
- The Mayor of Rione Sanità · Antonio Barracano, Director
- Quei figuri di tanti anni fa · Peppino Fattibene, Director
- L'arte della commedia · Director, Writer
- Gennareniello · Gennaro, pensionato, Director
- Le voci di dentro · Alberto Saporito, Director
- Il cilindro · Agostino Muscariello, Writer
- Due atti unici a colori · Personaggio principale, Director
- Saturday, Sunday, Monday · Theatre Play
- Christmas at the Cupiello Household · Luca, Director
- Gli esami non finiscono mai · Guglielmo Speranza, Director
- De Pretore Vincenzo · Don Peppino, Writer
- Uomo e galantuomo · Don Gennaro, Writer
- Lu curaggio de nu pumpiero napulitano · Director, Writer
- 'Na santarella · Director
- 'O tuono 'e marzo · Director
- Li nepute de lu sinneco · Don Ciccio sciosciammocca, Director
- Pulcinella - Ieri e oggi · Self
- Ghosts, Italian Style · Theatre Play
- Shoot Loud, Louder... I Don't Understand · Zi' Nicola, Director
- Kiss the Other Sheik · Director, Writer
- Marriage Italian Style · Theatre Play
- Non ti pago · Ferdinando Quagliolo, Director
- Il sindaco del rione Sanità · Don Antonio Barracano, Director
- Bene mio e core mio · Personaggio principale, Director
- Mia famiglia · Personaggio principale, Director
- La paura numero uno · Matteo Generoso, Writer
- La grande magia · Personaggio principale, Director
- L'abito nuovo · Director, Writer
- Chi è cchiù felice 'e me · Director, Writer
- Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow · Screenplay
- Peppino Girella · Director
- The Shortest Day · mafioso
- Filumena Marturano · Domenico Soriano, Director
- Questi fantasmi · Personaggio principale, Director
- Christmas at the Cupiello House · Luca Cupiello, Director
- Ditegli sempre di sì · Personaggio principale, Director
- Napoli milionaria · Gennaro Jovine, Writer
- Ghosts of Rome · Don Annibale
- Everybody Go Home! · Signor Innocenzi
- Ferdinand I King of Naples · Pulcinella
- Sogno di una notte di mezza sbornia · Pasquale Grifone, Director
- Il medico dei pazzi · Director
- La fortuna con l'effe maiuscola · Director
- Tre calzoni fortunati · Director
- Raw Wind in Eden · Urbano Varno
- L'uomo dai calzoni corti · Gennaro Esposito
- Fortunella · Il capocomico, Director
- La canzone del destino
- Friendship
- Pericolosamente · Arturo
- Sei atti unici in bianco e nero · Personaggio principale
- Il dono di Natale · Director, Writer