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Nino Terzo

Acting Born May 22, 1923 Palermo, Sicily, Italy 24 credits

Biography

Nino Terzo (22 May 1923 – 8 May 2005) was an Italian actor.

Born in Palermo as Antonino Terzo, he worked intensively in the avanspettacolo and revue theater, entering the stage companies of Totò, Peppino De Filippo, Franco Franchi and Ciccio Ingrassia, Domenico Modugno, among others. Terzo was also active as a singer, appearing in several operettas.

Terzo made his film debut in 1962, and he soon established himself as one of the most active character actors in the Italian comedy cinema, usually playing, with small variations, the character that made him famous in avanspettacolo, i.e. a man with extremely slow reflexes and a huge speech impediment, which does not allow him to speak before he loudly inhaled and exhaled. He retired in 1992 for health reasons.

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Known for

Film

Cinema Paradiso

as Peppino's Father
Film

Emanuelle in the Country

as Commissioner Cipolla

Taisho Era Contract Marriage ~ The Substitute Bride and a Soldier's Fierce Love

as Fefé

Full filmography

  • Cinema Paradiso (1988) as Peppino's Father
  • The Soldier with Great Maneuvers (1978) as Male nurse
  • The Nurse on a Military Tour (1977) as Caporale al deposito
  • Emanuelle in the Country (1982) as Commissioner Cipolla
  • The Lady Medic (1976) as Nurse Pezzullo
  • La figliastra - Storia di corna e di passioni (1976) as Fefé
  • The Shortest Day (1963) as Guardia del corpo dei mafiosi (uncredited)
  • The Country Doctor (1981) as Giuseppe, the commissioner
  • Lady Football (1983) as Bachisio
  • The Clowns (1970) as Clown
  • Two Idiots at Fort Alamo (1965) as Schultz
  • Who Gave You the License? (1970) as Bartolomeo
  • Totò vs the Four (1963) as Usciere Pappalardo
  • Better a Widow (1968) as Carmelo
  • Song That's Playing In My Head (Zum Zum Zum) (1969) as Filiberto Caputo
  • Story of Fear and a Knife (1972) as Zu' Nino
  • Two Sons of Ringo (1966) as Jimmy il Guercio
  • Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich (1982) as insegnante di ginnastica
  • Beautiful, Rich, Slight Physical Defect, Seeks Soulmate (1973) as il cameriere di Teresa
  • Lisa with the Blue Eyes (1969) as il cuoco Carmelino
  • Ku Fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore (1973) as Ki Kaka Mai
  • The Masseuses (1962) as Brigadiere Calascione
  • You Are Always In My Mind (1969) as noleggiatore di pedalò
  • Perdono (1966) as Nino, un custode