Birthday:
05-22-1923
Deathday:
05-08-2005 (81 years)
Birthplace:
Palermo, Sicily, Italy
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.
Source: Article "Nino Terzo" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Source: Article "Nino Terzo" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Getting Away with It the Italian Way
Act like "Manciola"
event1962 star_border 6.5
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Orazio Menicotti is a night policeman in Rome. One night he is present at a quarrel between husband and wife and he volunteers to take the wife to the Police Station. While he goes around Rome with the blonde and beautiful woman, a bank is robbed.
Cinema Paradiso
Act like Peppino's Father
event1988 star_border 8.4
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A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and formed a deep friendship with the theater's projectionist.
The Nurse on a Military Tour
Act like Caporale al deposito
event1977 star_border 4.8
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Army Doctor Eva Marini wants to join a regiment to secure equal rights for women. So her commanding officer sends her off to a boot camp led by Renzo Montagnani, where only the most unruly soldiers end up.
Emanuelle in the Country
Act like Commissioner Cipolla
event1982 star_border 4.7
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When Selenia arrives in the small Italian village heads start turning and eyes start popping. All males in the town are falling all over themselves trying to get a look -- or a feel -- of the new doctor.
Pierino il fichissimo
Act like Maresciallo
event1981 star_border 4
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The innkeeper Carmelo subdues a good deal in the sale of his two-Arab tavern.
The Soldier with Great Maneuvers
Act like Male nurse
event1978 star_border 5.2
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Doctor Eva Marini takes up a position at an army base to investigate the sexual behavior of the Italian male soldier and soon finds out she's taken on more than she bargained for.
All the Gold in the World
Act like First Usher
event1968 star_border 3.7
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The son of a rich industrialist forces a woman to become his fiancée by threatening to bankrupt her parents — until an unlikely hero steps in.
Totò vs the Four
Act like Usciere Pappalardo
event1963 star_border 6.7
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The day of Chief Constable Saracino begins badly when his new car is stolen. Then, in his office, he meets Alfredo Fiori who believes that his wife and her lover, a veterinary, are trying to murder him.
Ku Fu? Dalla Sicilia con furore
Act like Ki Kaka Mai
event1973 star_border 5.5
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The Sicilian Franco is a sort of imitation of Bruce Lee that Don Vito, a Chinese expelled from his country because he smuggled rice from Palermo to Beijing, tries to train in the art of kung-fu with disastrous results.
You Are Always In My Mind
Act like noleggiatore di pedalò
event1969
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Carlo is a successful singer, married to Livia; the two also have a son, Maurizio. Carlo decides to accept a tour in the USA but, shortly before departure, together with his agent Puglisi has a sentimental adventure with two women. Livia, having discovered what had happened, leaves home with Maurizio.
I 2 pompieri
event1968 star_border 4
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The firefighter student Francesco Perricone and his cousin the brigadier Barrese fall in love both of the beautiful brunette Caramella and the barracks of Rome are transferred to the village of Sicily where the girl lives.
Littlefoot the Policeman
Act like Fratello di Pascalone
event1974 star_border 6
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Petralia, a Neapolitan policeman casually makes friends with Maria, a girl engaged in the smuggling of cigarettes and belonging to the family of Ferdinando Il Barone.
Song That's Playing In My Head (Zum Zum Zum)
Act like Filiberto Caputo
event1969 star_border 6
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The sons of a music-loving insurance broker take extreme measures to find happiness for themselves and others, with some help from the power of music.
How We Got Into Trouble with the Army
event1965 star_border 5.6
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A sergeant finds out that a GI hides a child in the military barracks. The boy is the son of another soldier who sings in a night club but due to series of misunderstandings the sergeant believes he is his own son, born from a former love story.
Zum Zum Zum 2
Act like Filiberto Caputo
event1969 star_border 4.6
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While happily engaged to Rosalia, Tony has the misfortune of falling for a vibrant pilot named Valeria — and that’s just the beginning of his problems.
La figliastra - Storia di corna e di passioni
Act like Fefé
event1976 star_border 4.5
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A long time ago in Sicilia, there was a common, unwritten law that linked the hereditary rights to unequivocal demonstrations of virility. Because of that traditional law, a middle-age widower whose wife died without begetting him a child, is about to lose an inheritance of a large sum of money. The man marries again, with Nadia, an attractive woman with a daughter from her first marriage, Daniela. But time passes, and Nadia is not getting pregnant, either. Eventually, his beautiful stepdaughter will help him solve his problem.
The Four Monks
Act like Massaro Calogero
event1962 star_border 6
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Four petty criminals pretend to be friars escaped from communist Hungary and go and live in a Sicilian convent
Two Escape from Sing Sing
event1964 star_border 5.4
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Two attendants in a public toilet in New York save the life of the Mafia boss Attanasia. Attanasia turns one of them into a successful boxer by setting up his matches and makes the other into his right hand. When a gang war starts the two are accused of the murders and are sentenced to death. When the execution day comes they refuse to leave their cell, even when they are proved innocent.
Two Idiots at Fort Alamo
Act like Schultz
event1965 star_border 5.6
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During the War of Succession, Franco and Ciccio are arrested for being accused of desertion from the Northern army. Rather than condemn them to death for his carelessness, they will be chosen for a special mission: to infiltrate as expert officers on a delicate espionage action.
Il sergente Rompiglioni
Act like caporale Baffo
event1973 star_border 5.7
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A satire of army life in which a tough army sergeant who loves opera clashes with his soldiers who love rock music and have formed a band.
Armiamoci e partite!
Act like passeggero A
event1971 star_border 6.1
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Franco and Ciccio work as waiters in an inn in France. The day Ciccio officially takes French citizenship, the First World War breaks out between Germany and France and all citizens are forced to enlist.
Perdono
Act like Nino, un custode
event1966 star_border 4.7
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Federico, his girlfriend Laura and her cousin, Caterina, are three young people full of hope, united by a great friendship that seems indissoluble. The three work in a department store but, when Caterina decides to attempt a musical career, given her vocal skills, everything changes. Caterina becomes a successful singer and Federico falls in love with her. Caterina, who however does not want to make her cousin Laura suffer, pretends not to reciprocate the young man by making him put his head in order. Meanwhile, the plots of various secondary characters evolve, in particular the fresh marriage between the security guard Antonio and the secretary of the department stores Adelina.
Che casino... con Pierino!
Act like Zio Nino
event1982 star_border 2.7
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After leaving school and failing various work experiences, Pierino decides to go to work as a helper at the bar run by his uncle Nino. He comes across different situations, sometimes involving his friend Pantera, who is able to imitate various sounds, or the girl Marisa, with whom Pierino is madly in love, until he decides to leave for a trip to Austria.
Those Two in the Legion
Act like Sergeant Tresport
event1962 star_border 6.2
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Ciccio and Franco flee Naples because they are wrongly accused of having murdered a local camorra boss and enlist in the Foreign Legion. They are inept but are mistaken for brave people by their commander and sent to break a weapon smuggling ring.
Cafè Express
Act like Stationmaster Zappacosta
event1980 star_border 7
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An Italian laborer foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples night train.
Better a Widow
Act like Carmelo
event1968
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Tom Proby is a representative from a British engineering firm sent to Sicily to convince the landowners (all in the Mafia) to allow his company to build an oil refinery on some waterfront real estate. Proby talks to the mob bosses about the project, but disagreements between different bosses complicate his efforts.
L'assistente sociale tutta pepe e tutta sale
Act like Lacrima
event1981 star_border 4.8
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Nadia is a social worker who is trying to keep the residents of a local slum in line. Unfortunately she keeps neglecting her work and fantasizing about a life as a pop-star. When she falls for one of the residents in question, a small time crook called Bel Ami, she ends up an accomplice in a convoluted heist involving a holy Catholic relic.
The Country Doctor
Act like Giuseppe, the commissioner
event1981 star_border 5.8
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A splendid doctor arrives in a small village: all the males compete to undergo repeated examinations in order to get to know the beautiful woman better. The mayor of the village, taking advantage of the beautiful "bait", would like to teach a lesson to the playboy Gustavo, who some time ago had caught all the husbands of the village.
Chiamate 6969: Taxi Per Signora
Act like Il gatto
event1981 star_border 5.3
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A taxi driver works as a freelance callboy and is passed around among the circle of acquaintances of his first customer.
Young, Beautiful... Probably Rich
Act like insegnante di ginnastica
event1982 star_border 4.5
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Claudia, Rita, and Caterina are three friends who live in a conservative Italian town and lead seemingly neat and respectable married lives. One day, they are summoned to the notary public's office and learn that Anna, one of their peers in high school who got a bad name as a "whore" in the town because of them and was forced to leave is now dead. Furthermore, she had amassed a great fortune abroad and decided to bequeath it to the three. However, she has a strange condition: Claudia, Rita, and Caterina should cheat on their husbands within three days and provide photographic evidence or else the inheritance will be donated to the retirement home.
Beautiful, Rich, Slight Physical Defect, Seeks Soulmate
Act like il cameriere di Teresa
event1973 star_border 4.4
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Michele, married to Rosaria, is a distinguished Neapolitan who "by profession" contacts only wealthy women, making her believe she wants to marry her to get money to disappear with. With this method he feeds his family.
The Lady Medic
Act like Nurse Pezzullo
event1976 star_border 4.2
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A man is desperately trying to avoid mandated military service, but a sexy medic proves to be his undoing.
La sai l'ultima sui matti?
Act like paziente del manicomio
event1982 star_border 4.7
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Jokes, rough jokes and spicy adventures set in a psychiatric clinic, naturally managed by an experienced doctor.
Don't Ever Leave Me
Act like La Bennola
event1965 star_border 5.5
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A young singer secretly gets married since he does not want to let his fans down. After a while the gutter press make up a love story which seriously worries his young bride.
I due toreri
Act like Jannot
event1964 star_border 5.8
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In Sicily Franco and Ciccio are empowered by a local mafia man to guard for a wide range of salad. In reality however this is not simple salad vegetables but marijuana; the two bungling fools and friends do not realize it at first.
Two Sons of Ringo
Act like Jimmy il Guercio
event1966 star_border 5.9
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Another spoof from the Franco and Ciccio team in which the boys, who are running a scam pretending to be bounty hunters, are 'persuaded' to help a real bounty hunter discover a treasure by claiming to be the heirs of a deceased lawman.
Farfallon
Act like Maresciallo Maggiore Carabinieri
event1974 star_border 6.6
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A man who has tried to kill his unfaithful wife goes to prison, escapes, ends up in a convent, teaches the nuns to make cookies, captured again and before going back to prison tries to take his long awaited revenge again. Does he eventually succeed in killing his wife?
Ma chi t'ha dato la patente?
Act like Bartolomeo
event1970 star_border 6.5
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Franco and Ciccio are the directors of a driving school. They suffer the theft of the only car they have, and their new car is prone to going completely out of his control.
I 4 moschettieri
Act like Rochefort
event1963 star_border 6.5
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4 con men take the place of the real musketeers and manage to steal the Queen's necklace but then give it back to her, moved by her tears.
Lisa with the Blue Eyes
Act like il cuoco Carmelino
event1969 star_border 5
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A university student, Mario Buongiovanni, tries to do various jobs to pay for his studies: selling encyclopedias, singing in night clubs, being a tour guide. He then became a science teacher in a female college, where he met Lisa, the daughter of a Lombard industrialist, whom he fell in love with. But Lisa's father, unfortunately, already has in mind for her a marriage with a very rich suitor ...
It's a Woman's War
Act like Cocuzza
event1971 star_border 5.7
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A girl is drafted due to a misunderstanding and this gives her the occasion to check on her boy-friend, whom she believes to be a womanizer.
The Masseuses
Act like Brigadiere Calascione
event1962 star_border 5.4
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Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in touch with a masseuses ring and one of the masseuses is introduced to the president of the catholic association as the wife of one of the managers. During a vice squad roundup, the president is about to be discovered with one of the girls when he dies of a stroke. How will the others try to hide his death?
Il suo nome è Donna Rosa
Act like Gaetano
event1969 star_border 5.5
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Andrea falls in love with the beautiful Rosetta, but the girl's father pushes her into the arms of the rich Giorgio. Al Bano and Romina in a musicarello of extraordinary success.
Oh! Those Most Secret Agents
Act like Russian agent
event1964 star_border 5.3
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Franco and Ciccio are two simple-minded Italian guys whom are mistaken by KGB spies by government agents from their government and other foreign governments.
The Amazing Doctor G
Act like A policeman (uncredited)
event1965 star_border 5.6
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Nefarious villain Goldginger is thwarted by bumbling secret agents Franco and Ciccio in his scheme to spark an international war by zombifying all government employees in this Italian spoof of the James Bond movies.
Two Colonels
Act like Soldato La Padula
event1963 star_border 7.5
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In WWII Greece, two enemy Colonels, one Italian and the other English, develop a grudging friendship which the war will test.
I'm Not Worthy of You
Act like Sergente balbuziente
event1965 star_border 6.2
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In the sequel of "In ginocchio da te", the engagement of Gianni and Carla is threatened by Giorgio.
The Swindlers
Act like Guard at the graveyard (segment "Siciliani")
event1963 star_border 5.9
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A day in a tribunal where the defendants are: the manager of a soccer team, charged with bribery, two Sicilians who have sold fake archaeological findings, two nuns who have offended a public servant and an industry manager.
Il Bi e il Ba
Act like Pippo Miallo
event1986 star_border 6.8
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A man goes to Rome because he wants a magician to solve his problem: dandruff.
Those Sweet Creatures
Act like Sergente
event1970 star_border 5.1
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An Italo-American singer and as he arrives at the airport he is accused of being a draft dodger and is drafted. He soon begins a love story with his commander's daughter.
Provaci anche tu Lionel
Act like Luigi Tredicesimo
event1973
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Anna Tredicesimo, wife of Luigi Tredicesimo of Santa Ninfa (Trapani), introduces herself to the private investigator Lionel Lionelli and instructs him to recover some red briefs, purchased by her jealous husband in Paris, and lost by her during a loving meeting with the heartthrob fetishist Gianni Agazzi. Lionel, recommended by his friend ten. Sheridan, begins the research and chases the panties from Agazzi to Lola Lola Bis, a stripper, and from this to Iolanda, Ennio's girlfriend, member of Hell's Angels. Lionelli, a bungler by nature, finds the path difficult and also dangerous because, as he will learn very late, a microfilm with a secret chemical formula is hidden in the briefs and, consequently, his steps are constantly followed by men of the boss Goran , master of Titan.
The Shortest Day
Act like Guardia del corpo dei mafiosi (uncredited)
event1963 star_border 6.2
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Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
Il ragazzo che sorride
Act like Male nurse
event1969 star_border 3.5
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Giorgio, a young mining engineer, moved to work in Africa. His wife does not want to follow him and he suspects a betrayal. In the cast also Rocky Roberts singing two songs.
Lady Football
Act like Bachisio
event1983 star_border 5.5
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It is the story of the brilliant football player Cotechiño, hired by the Napoli team as a centre-forward. Too bad that his professional career will be strongly influenced by the frequent absence of his fiancée, for which he feels an inexplicable, almost obsessive jealousy. That's why he hires a plumber very similar to him to keep an eye on his beloved, but that won't be enough when Cotechiño is kidnapped.
Story of Fear and a Knife
Act like Zu' Nino
event1972 star_border 6.3
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A funk is believed to be a tough guy because of a magic bowler hat which gives him courage and strength.
The Clowns
Act like Clown
event1970 star_border 7
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Fellini exposes his great attraction for the clowns and the world of the circus first recalling a childhood experience when the circus arrives nearby his home. Then he joins his crew and travel from Italy to Paris chasing the last greatest European clowns still live in these countries. He also meets Anita Ekberg trying to buy a panther in a circus.
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