Mario Frera
Acting
Biography
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Born: December 2, 1924
Place of Birth: Naples, Campania, Italy
Known For
The Great War
Italy, 1916. Oreste Jacovacci and Giovanni Busacca are called, as all the Italian youths, to serve the army in the WWI. They both try in every way to avoid serving the army.
Two Women
A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up with them.
Everybody Go Home!
When Italy surrenders to the Allies, part of the Italian army is dispersed and soldiers begin to return to their homes.
Side Street Story
A combination of a satire on war and a comedy with war as the background. It tells of the ordinary people living on a Naples sidestreet, from 1940 to 1950 under the dominance of the Fascists, the Nazis and then the Allies occupation forces. Primary among the citizens is Gennaro Iovine (Eduard De Filippo)who has a penchant for innocently getting into trouble, and his friend Pasquale (Toto.) The latter is a rail-sweeper who becomes a professional stand-in...a corpse used to conceal contraband...serving jail time for those who don't care to spend the time to do the time...a substitute at a political rally when violence threatens the scheduled speaker
The Traffic Policeman
An unemployed man gets a job as traffic policeman but the traffic in the big city creates innumerous problems for the poor guy.
The Monsters
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
Love and Larceny
Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.
The Professor
An imprisoned murderer carries out a violent bid for control of Naples' underworld crime syndicate.
Complexes
In the first episode, Quirino tries to conquer co-worker Gabriella. In the second episode, Prof. Beozi ends up in a raid of the police in a local for homosexuals when trying to avoid a scandal. In the third episode, Guglielmo passes all tests in order to become reader of the television news brilliantly, although the commission works with all subtleness's to exclude him.
La nipote Sabella
Donna Sabella accompanies her nephew Raffaele and Lucia on their honeymoon in Rome when he meets two Americans who want to go to Pollena because there seems to be oil in the soil "The bubbles".
Filmography
as Nunziata
as Marito di Bona
as Frate grasso
as ufficiale di polizia
as Alfred's Second Lawyer
as Abbot Gianni
as Avvocato dell'accusa
as Beniamino
as il brigadiere
as McPatara, UN delegate
as Caponi dell'Ultramarket (I)
as Il titolare della tintoria
as Il direttore di scena
as The Father's Colleague (segment "L'Educazione sentimentale") (uncredited)
as Policeman who arrests Petroni
as Frà Melito
as Don Ciccio
as Commissario Treta
as Peppuccio
as Cellettis' Neighbour
as Il secondo fascista
as Michele Testa
as (uncredited)
as il cameriere del bar di Percuoco
as Peppe
as Peppe "'o Cricco"